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The advent of laser cooling of atoms led to the discovery of ultra-cold matter, with temperatures below liquid Helium, which displays a variety of new physical phenomena. Physics of Ultra-Cold Matter gives an overview of this recent area of science, with a discussion of its main results and a description...

A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid. Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel....

Un historiador todos los días, o casi todos, tiene el compromiso permanente con el oficio de analizar el pasado; tales son las impresiones que debe producir la lectura de este libro sobre la sensibilidad y el pensamiento de los venezolanos a través del tiempo. Sus páginas reúnen la mayoría de...

Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Marías's masterpiece, A Heart So White is a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to...

Esta obra aborda los procesos de cambio institucional en España e Hispanoamérica durante los años que fueron desde la guerra de los Siete Años hasta la formación de los estados nacionales. Para mantener el hilo de esta historia global, dichos procesos se analizan a través del prisma de la historia...

De Spanjaard Jaime Deza, voormalig docent aan de Universiteit van Oxford, werkt in Engeland als agent voor een geheime organisatie die gelieerd is aan de mi6, de Britse geheime dienst. Het is Deza’s taak om te onderzoeken wat mensen in de toekomst zullen doen, te achterhalen hoe hun gezichten morgen...

Terwijl zijn slapen verzamelt alle korte verhalen van Javier Marías en vormt een perfecte poort tot het literaire universum van deze auteur. Niet alleen bekende verhalen als `Toen ik sterfelijk was en het titelverhaal `Terwijl zij slapen , maar ook verhalen die nooit eerder in het Nederlands vertaald...

Many Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The story told in this book is woven out of the threads of those texts and pictures. A New World of Animals shows...

Al-Ghadir is the place where the Muslims had stopped was at Ghadir Khumm. The Prophet then delivered a sermon and appointed Imam Ali, peace be upon him, as his successor. This text provides a brief study on the origins of Shi’ism and how the ideology of Wilayah came to existence, and the theological-juridical...

New York Times Bestselling Author and Agatha Award Nominee! Warning: This is not a standard Tim Myers cozy mystery novel. It has graphic language and adult situations that my regular readers may find offensive, so be aware! When a group takes part in a wilderness survival course, no...

International best-selling author SAFFINA DESFORGES (writing as STEVIE JORDAN) & the creator of the wonderfully dark and disturbing, 'Birdy' KAREN OSBORNE bring you...INDIGO KIDS: Seven special children - one mission. Through time and space, seven uniquely talented children are called together. Connected...

Cuando era pequeño, su padre recorría los mares del mundo durante largos meses. Un día apareció en la puerta de la casa de Bilbao. El niño no lo conocía. «¿Quién es ese hombre?», preguntó. A mitad de camino entre la memoria y la fantasía, este libro surge a la muerte de Leonardo Marías,...

Whispering Shadows Abigail Carter feels stifled as companion to Emilia Goodenough, and the responsibility of her wayward sister Polly. Then Emilia’s nephew, Carl Montegne, sweeps the ladies off to Italy to help him search for the long lost family fortune. But even a romantic castello doesn’t stem...

Una mujer fuera de época, un espíritu libre como las olas que rebasan las rocas del cabo. Una novela encantadora enmarcada en la década que marcó el rumbo del país y unos personajes entrañables que viven el vértigo que convirtió a Buenos Aires y a Mar del Plata en escenario privilegiado de...