Arturo: 279 books

Gear up for swashbuckling adventure in the second “riveting”* historical thriller in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series. The fearless Alatriste is hired to infiltrate a convent and rescue a young girl forced to serve as a powerful priest’s concubine. The girl’s...

L’11 febbraio 2013 Joseph Ratzinger, papa Benedetto XVI, cambia la storia della Chiesa comunicando durante il concistoro la sua decisione di “rinunciare al ministero di Vescovo di Roma”. La decisione coglie di sorpresa anche i suoi più stretti collaboratori e sconvolge il mondo intero: dopo...

Localization and tracking are key functionalities in ubiquitous computing systems and techniques. In recent years a very high variety of approaches, sensors and techniques for indoor and GPS-denied environments have been developed. This book briefly summarizes the current state of the art in localization...

Enojo social, violencia, falta de confianza en las autoridades, crisis económica, corrupción generalizada ...  Estos son algunos de los elementos que configuran el contexto en el que se desarrolla la ultima etapa del proceso electoral 2018, el más grande en la historia del país y que culminara...

A fearless Spanish crew embarks on a search for a lost ship, swallowed by the Indian Ocean centuries ago, in a novel by “a master of the literary thriller” (Booklist, starred review). Manuel Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime...

The sixth novel in the international bestselling adventures of Captain Alatriste, set in a time when the only thing needed to summon hell on earth—or sea—was a Spaniard and his sword. Accompanied by his faithful foster son, Íñigo, Captain Alatriste accepts a job as a mercenary aboard...

The third swashbuckling adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series. Fifteen-year-old Iñigo Balboa enlists to serve as his master’s aide, and narrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, mutiny and wartime honor, as Captain Alatriste rejoins his...

A fifteenth-century painting by a Flemish master is about to be auctioned when Julia, a young art restorer, discovers a peculiar inscription hidden in a corner: Who killed the knight? In the painting, the Duke of Flanders and his knight are locked in a game of chess, and a dark lady lurks mysteriously...

Los jóvenes pilotos que por razones generacionales no participaron en esta historia tienden a olvidar —bajo el manto protector de ASPA— las condiciones en que se gestó la bonanza que ahora disfrutan. Para conservar la prosperidad, se hace imperativo conocer su origen para valorarla en su justa...

El mundo no se acaba del mismo modo para todos. En este libro se presentan 19 versiones del anuncio milenarista que se cumplirá, o no, un día de diciembre de 2012... o cualquier otro. Estas historias abarcan un amplio registro, desde la fantasía hasta el realismo crudo, de la historia íntima a...

An “intricate literary mystery [of] wrenching effect” by the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Club Dumas (The New Yorker).   Someone has hacked into the pope’s personal computer—not to spy on the Vatican or to spread a virus, but to send an urgent plea for help: SAVE OUR...

A concise Packt Beginners Guide to get you started with administering a Linux Mint system. This book is for those users who want to become Linux Mint system administrators and need to start learning quickly. Its assumed that you have a basic knowledge of GNU/Linux operating systems, as well as being familiar with concepts, such as kernel, filesystems, users, accounts, groups, and disk partitions.

This book is written with an easy-to-understand approach with the intention of giving small but concrete examples that will help you to quickly understand each component of Marionette. Follow along as we work together to build a practical application using Backbone Marionette.If you are a web application...