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Un emocionante y extraordinario relato sobre la historia de una mujer sudafricana a punto de morir de cáncer durante el régimen del apartheid. Una mujer madura, enferma de muerte por un cáncer de huesos, escribe una larga carta a su hija. Esta vive en Estados Unidos, alejada del infierno...

Una historia conmovedora sobre la soledad de una mujer en Suráfrica y una dura reflexión sobre la colonización en África. «Un impresionante, original y hermosísimo modelo de rigor artístico y moral.» Ignacio Echevarría, El País «Coetzee es una de las voces más poderosas de...

Welcome to Brawlers Bar… Life wasn’t easy when you were certifiable, Gerald “Psycho” Clemons lived on the fringes of society. Five years he hadn’t thought twice about riding with a group who saw most laws as flexible. When the leader of the group turned crazier than Psycho he stepped...

The Handbook of Stress and the Brain focuses on the impact of stressful events on the functioning of the central nervous system; how stress affects molecular and cellular processes in the brain, and in turn, how these brain processes determine our perception of and reactivity to, stressful challenges...

Welcome to Brawlers Bar… If there was a way to destroy his life, Hunter Black could do it. He was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Survival was his only priority and having to leave his old life behind that meant a job of the legal variety. He’d found one as a bartender at Brawlers Bar...

Another day, another pile of junk littering the workshop; that's my life aboard the Destiny. I'm Emily, the designated fix-it chick. Wouldn't be such a bad job if the crew would stop ogling me. Especially Commander Black, who just can't get it through his head that we're no longer together. That's...

This advanced text explores a category of mathematical problems that occur frequently in physics and other sciences. Five preliminary chapters make the book accessible to students without extensive background in this area. Topics include Hamiltonian systems, symplecticness, numerical methods, order...

Simón heeft zijn hele leven ingericht rond zijn rol als pleegvader van de eigenzinnige jongen Davíd. Toch is er méér nodig om het kind te begrijpen, te kunnen liefhebben. Hij zal zich open moeten stellen voor een wereld die hem onbekend was; de ratio en het denken loslaten, en toetreden tot een...

The silver bird straightened up and sank lower, lower, until it met the sea with a sleek spray that rushed past the windows in its fuselage. M’beriali – the imperial mail bird, as it became known in Swahili – had arrived! Imperial Airways’ man at Lindi, East Africa, was Geoffrey Pett,...

This book aims to provide a rigorous yet pragmatic approach to the valuation and management of investments in the energy sector. Time and uncertainty pervade most if not all issues relevant to energy assets. They run from the early stage of prototype and demonstration to the ultimate abandonment...

Protein engineering endeavors to design new peptides and proteins or to change the structural and/or functional characteristics of existing ones for specific purposes, opening the way for the development of new drugs. This work develops in a comprehensive way the theoretical formulation for the methods...

In the last few years, the development of sonographic contrast agents - or "microbubbles" - has stimulated increasingly intensive studies on the rela­ tionships between ultrasound and contrast media. As a result, "contrast -spe­ cific" hardware and software systems have been...

The Handbook of Stress and the Brain focuses on the impact of stressful events on the functioning of the central nervous system; how stress affects molecular and cellular processes in the brain, and in turn, how these brain processes determine our perception of and reactivity to, stressful challenges...

This book critically examines the Confucian political imagination and its influence on the contemporary Chinese dream of a powerful China.  It views Confucianism as the ideological supplement to a powerful state that is challenging Western hegemony, and not as a political philosophy that need not...