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Book cover of Historia de la ciencia en México (versión abreviada)
by Elías Trabulse
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 7, 2017

Este libro es un intento de rescatar una de las dimensiones del pasado de nuestro país: la que atañe a su desenvolvimiento científico y su desarrollo tecnológico de los siglos XVI al XIX. La tentativa de reconstruir este mundo está llena del sabor arqueológico, vetusto y añejo, que dan las pesquisas eruditas.
Book cover of El jardín japonés
by Menene Gras Balaguer, Menene Gras Balaguer, David Almazán Tomás
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 23, 2015

El jardín japonés como construcción cultural del paisaje natural no es un fenómeno aislado, pese a tratarse de un hecho de cultura que ha conservado su individualidad en el transcurso de los siglos desde su implantación en Japón procedente de China. Más bien al contrario, la necesidad de comprenderlo...
Book cover of De verliefden
by Javier Marías
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 14, 2012

María Dolz, een jonge redacteur, is gefascineerd door het echtpaar dat ze elke ochtend tegenkomt in het café waar ze ontbijt. Dan komen ze van de ene op de andere dag niet meer en blijkt dat Miguel op straat is doodgestoken. Als Luisa maanden later weer opduikt leert María ook Luisa’s huisvriend...
Book cover of Een hart zo blank
by Javier Marías
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 11, 2016

Juan Ranz, vertaler van beroep, is gewend te luisteren, te interpreteren en door de schijn van woorden heen te prikken. Maar luisteren is ook gevaarlijk, weet hij, want als een geheim eenmaal is gehoord, wordt het vergeten ervan onmogelijk. Op zijn huwelijksreis wordt Juan bevangen door een onheilspellend...
Book cover of Jouw gezicht morgen
by Javier Marías
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 30, 2014

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 zullen zijn. Koorts en Lans is het eerste deel van de trilogie Jouw gezicht morgen. 
Book cover of Le Voyage de Grèce
by Jean Moréas, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: February 17, 2015

Extrait : "Je monte vers la place de la Constitution ; elle est déserte. Mais le fond de la rue d'Hermès, un peu avant Kapnikaréa, la jolie église byzantine, est noir de monde. Tous les magasins, sauf les bureaux de tabac, sont fermés."
Book cover of Legal Traditions, Legal Reforms and Economic Performance
by Daniel Oto-Peralías, Diego Romero-Ávila
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017

This book investigates whether legal reforms intended to create a market-friendly regulatory business environment have a positive impact on economic and financial outcomes. After conducting a critical review of the legal origins literature, the authors first analyze the evolution of legal rules and...
Book cover of Retruécanos De Los Tiempos Idos
by Eduardo Roé Farías
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 8, 2016

Retrucanos de los tiempos idos es una obra nacida de evocaciones y recuerdos del autor, y de pasajes histricos y crnicas surgidas de las prolficas plumas de personajes por cuyas venas corrieron y corren, como filn inagotable, el amor por el terruo enmarcado en la otrora villa de San Miguel de Culiacn,...
Book cover of Principles of Seismology
by Agustín Udías, Elisa Buforn
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017

The second edition of Principles of Seismology has been extensively revised and updated to present a modern approach to observation seismology and the theory behind digital seismograms. It includes: a new chapter on Earthquakes, Earth's structure and dynamics; a considerably revised chapter on instrumentation,...
Book cover of The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in the South Iberian Palaeomargin
by Matías Reolid, José Miguel Molina, Luis Miguel Nieto
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

This book presents the first overview of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in the southern Iberian paleomargin, in the western Tethys. The study of catastrophic events that affected the ecosystems in the past is of great interest, because it offers the possibility of establishing models that can be...
Book cover of The Sermon on the Mount
by Jesus of Nazareth as Quoted by Matthew the Evangelist
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you. Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have...
Book cover of Different Strokes

Different Strokes

John Warren Wells on Human Behavior

by Lawrence Block, as John Warren Wells
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2018

In the early 1970s, with Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones rewriting film history, John Warren Wells hired on to write the script for a high-quality pornographic movie. Originally published by Dell, Different Strokes includes the remarkable script he delivered, the production diary he kept,...
Book cover of Defining Sport

Defining Sport

Conceptions and Borderlines

by Shawn E. Klein, Chad Carlson, Francisco Javier López Frías
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016

Defining Sport: Conceptions and Borderlines is not about the variations of usage of the term “sport.” It is about the concept, the range of activities in the world that we unite into one idea—sport. It is through the project of defining sport that we can come to understand these activities better,...
Book cover of Colonial Theories of Institutional Development

Colonial Theories of Institutional Development

Toward a Model of Styles of Imperialism

by Daniel Oto-Peralías, Diego Romero-Ávila
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017

This book analyzes the role played by initial endowments and colonizer identity in seeking to explain institutional development in former colonies. It presents a model of two styles of imperialism that integrates the colonial origin and endowment views explaining current institutions. The authors...
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