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Letter 44 - Tome 04
Le temps des sauveurs
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Un rendez-vous imprévu…
Le Major Gabriel Drum est arrivé sur Terre, émergeant de l’astéroïde où il avait été laissé un an auparavant. Il a l’air quelque peu… différent. Bien déterminé à parler avec le président, il ne laissera personne entraver son chemin, et il semble...
by Oscar Wilde, Alberto Mira
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Con "El abanico de Lady Windermere" obtuvo Wilde su primer éxito teatral de público. La crítica fue más distante. Reconocía el ingenio de los diálogos, pero insistía en la poca originalidad de los motivos (el chantaje, el abanico comprometedor, la infidelidad conyugal). "La importancia...
by Fundación Heberto Castillo Martínez AC, Pedro Miguel, Ramón Alberto Garza
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 11, 2002
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 11, 2002
En esta publicación objetividad, verdad, democratización, ética, responsabilidad son conceptos recurrentes en estas voces publicadas que, independientemente de su posición política, ubican en el centro de la discusión a una sociedad cada vez más participativa y demandante.
by Melissa Scott, Steve Berman, Redfern Jon Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2014
A book such as this spins not only words but also whole worlds: eighteen of them, representing the best lesbian-themed stories of the fantastic or futuristic published the prior year: An artisan who tests the skills and wares of her friends in the hope of finding the ideal housing for an idealized...
L'isola del nuovo. Cinquant'anni da Palermo.
Interviste, riflessioni, giudizi sul Gruppo 63
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 9, 2014
Per conoscere in modo ampio e circostanziato un determinato evento uno dei modi più efficaci è, sempre che sia possibile, interpellarne i testimoni. Se ne ha allora una conoscenza che, quanto più le testimonianze sono varie e a volte contrastanti, è molteplice e complessa. In una parola, vivace...
Así en Los Pinos como en la Tierra
Historias incómodas de siete familias presidenciales en México
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Desde su fundación, la revista Quién se ha dedicado a investigar la vida y las contradicciones de figuras públicas: no sólo de la farándula, sino también de nuestra clase política. Tras la bandera del llamado "periodismo del corazón", sus editores y autores han construido una premiada...
Cien años de sueño
Antologíade cuentos mexicanos del siglo XIX
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Aquí se reúnen diecinueve cuentos mexicanos del siglo XIX. La recopilación presenta un panorama de la literatura que empezó a escribirse en México mientras el país se conformaba como república. Los escritores incluidos en este libro reflejan un ánimo literario enfocado en relatar hechos sobrenaturales...
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 22, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 22, 2018
" La casa de los ángeles rotos " es una saga familiar épica, encabezada por el patriarca Angelote, que transcurre durante la última fiesta de cumpleaños que este celebra en su casa de San Diego con ocasión de su inminente muerte a manos de un cáncer letal.
Pero cuando la madre...
19 Gates of Hell
A Horror Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
From the darkest places imaginable, both outside and inside the mind, comes 19 tales that will drag you into places you never dreamed of seeing, not even in your worst nightmares.
Come along as these tales open up 19 gates into hell and experience the supernatural, the darkness of night, and...
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
From the author of Pulitzer-nominated The Devil’s Highway and national bestseller The Hummingbird’s Daughter comes an exquisitely composed collection of poetry on life at the border. Weaving English and Spanish languages as fluidly as he blends cultures of the southwest, Luis Urrea offers a tour...
Web Application Obfuscation
'-/WAFs..Evasion..Filters//alert(/Obfuscation/)-'
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Web applications are used every day by millions of users, which is why they are one of the most popular vectors for attackers. Obfuscation of code has allowed hackers to take one attack and create hundreds-if not millions-of variants that can evade your security measures. Web Application Obfuscation...
Blood Barrios
Dispatches from the World's Deadliest Streets
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Winner of the 2018 PEN Translates Award for Non-Fiction
Author is an award winning journalist, and was the only foreign correspondent reporting from 'the world's most dangerous country' for several years
An exposé of gang crime, police corruption and state violence in what is...
by Alberto Fuguet
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Fuguet's own bicultural upbringing has provided him with the sensitivity to delve into the impact of America's pop culture in Latin America as well as the influence of all things "Latin" in the USA. He explores the cultural contradictions, the similarities, and how this cultural friction has influenced...
The Emergence of Pre-Cinema
Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
The book investigates the dispersed emergence of the new visual regime associated with nineteenth-century pre-cinematic spectacles in the literary imagination of the previous centuries. Its comparative angle ranges from the Medieval and Baroque period to the visual and stylistic experimentations of...