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La vida de Callum está destrozada. No tiene a sus amigos cerca. El espía ha escapado. Su secreto se ha revelado. Tras las rejas, lejos de la magia, por lo que él es, por lo que podría llegar ser. Una promesa de libertad aparece… pero tendrá que pagar por ella. ¿Se mantendrá fuerte y fiel a sus amigos y profesores?

Se supone que los alumnos del Magisterium están en un lugar seguro. Bajo la mirada atenta de los profesores, aprenden a usar la magia para traer orden en un mundo caótico. Pero ahora el caos lucha por desatarse. Call, Tamara y Aaron deberían preocuparse de cosas como los exámenes sorpresa...

La mayoría de los niños harían cualquier cosa para superar La Prueba de Hierro y entrar en la escuela de magia Magisterium. Callum Hunt no. Quiere suspenderla. Durante toda su vida, su padre le ha advertido que ni se acerque a la magia. Si lo admiten en el Magisterium, está seguro de que nada...

Understanding Mental Disorders aims to help current and future psychiatrists, and those who work with them, to think critically about the ethical, conceptual, and methodological questions that are raised by the theory and practice of psychiatry. It considers questions that concern the mind’s relationship...

This book is about grieving and recovering from the loss of your baby. It covers:•breaking the news to the family•taking care of yourselves•dealing with self-blame and anger•coping strategies for bereaved mothers and fathers•how pregnancy loss affects relationships•resource and support...

This work discusses the association of women and nature, parallels the oppression of women and nature, shows how the subjugation of nature effects women, and discusses a few of the options for combating this oppression.

In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe shows how the Igbo people react to the transition from a culture rich with storytelling, folklore, and oral traditions to a culture heavily influenced by Western Christian values and the resulting loss of magic, logic, and identity.

Men's Fear of Women as Vampires in Dracula connects the themes in vampire novels, particularly Dracula, to men's fear of women's bodies and sexuality.

In Lessons in Taxidermy, Bee Lavender recounts a tale of a modern woman that was innately ill due to a series of cancers, diseases, infections, and injuries that cause her recurring pain and required countless surgeries, manifesting the old idea of the hysteric woman requiring constant medical attention...

While many critics and scholars consider the mistaken identity in gothic literature to be clichéd and, therefore, silly or ineffectual, I would like to argue that Horace Walpole’s use of false identity effectively serves his work in a number of ways. His utilization of this theme allowed him to...

There appear to be three ways in which people of one culture respond to immersion in another culture, a evidenced by the works of multicultural authors.

The main characters in James Joyce’s “The Dead,” Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta, react to death in very different ways. Gabriel Conroy’s death drive results from anxiety due to his low self-esteem and fear of rejection, and Gretta Conroy reacts to death through repression, regression, and a fear of intimacy.

“The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock” centers on the theme of the speaker’s desire for an act of lovemaking, a subject of discussion that was forbidden at the time when the poem was written. In the poem, Prufrock’s desire is undermined by his own self-consciousness and subsequent inaction and embracing of fantasy.

The first Trace and Boz adventure! Five years before the eerie events of THE CURSE OF JACOB TRACY, Jacob and his new trail partner, John Bosley, take a job leading a pack of paleontologists out to the Badlands near Hell Creek, Montana, to dig for the bones of extinct monsters. It's a dangerous job;...