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Millions of people have elevated blood levels of cholesterol, a major risk factor for coronary heart disease. Yet many supplements and foods can effectively - and safely - reduce cholesterol levels. This User's Guide to Polycosanol and Other Cholesterol-Lowering Nutrients explains what you have to do to reduce your risk of heart disease.

Cuenca, un pequeño pueblo del norte del Chile muere lentamente a causa de la contaminación que provoca una empresa minera. Los pobladores son obligados a dejar sus tierras, y unos pocos deciden resistir, para lo cual contratan a un abogado, que es asesinado al poco tiempo de iniciar su trabajo....

Edmond Cato has dreamed his whole life of becoming an engineer. But it is the dawn of WWII, and his domineering father, the affluent Admiral Guy Cato and patriarch of the Cato family, demands his son honor family tradition, and become an officer in the U.S. Navy. Edmond reluctantly agrees to follow...

Lt. Kenneth Hellman is an American fighter pilot escorting B-24 bombers on a mission over Germany in WWII. After his plane is hit by enemy flak, he is captured and interrogated by one of the most ruthless men in the Waffen SS, Colonel Wolfgang Farber. When two of Farber's men make sexual advances,...

Book Three in the series. The chosen one, Amase, must bear the cursed blade, a power greater that the young man expected. With the young man's whereabouts in question and the whereabouts of the cursed blade unknown, some wonder if he too has betrayed them. The Circle of Riders now must ride to...

"Tolkien meets C.S. Lewis somewhere between Mordor and the wardrobe"-Steve Trinward. When a cursed sword turns up in Shalahem, the fulfillment of a stream of ancient prophecies is set in order. A motley crew of riders is formed. Their mission is to take the sword to the Immortal King that...

REVISED AND UPDATED 2014 EDITION   Magnesium is an essential nutrient, indispensable to your health and well-being. By adding this mineral to your diet, you are guarding against—and helping to alleviate—such threats as heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, diabetes, depression, arthritis, and...

Roberto, un joven periodista de Valparaíso, se encuentra de pronto con el encargo de escribir la biografía de un anciano hacendado de Magallanes, Maximiliano Meléndez, que vive en un pueblo armado por él, a unos 200 kilómetros de Punta Arenas. La historia de Magallanes, tan desconocida y aparentemente...

Between 1946 and 1966a surge of violence in Colombia left 200,000 dead in one of the worst conflicts the western hemisphere has ever experienced. the first seven years of this little-studied period of terror, known as la Violencia, is the subject of Blood and Fire. Scholars have traditionally assumed...

This volume presents the results of the largest ever language attitude/motivation survey in second language studies. The research team gathered data from over 13,000 Hungarian language learners on three successive occasions: in 1993, 1999 and 2004. The examined period covers a particularly prominent...

A comienzos de la Primera Guerra Mundial, 1914, a la ciudad más austral del mundo, Punta Arenas, llega un croata cuya misión es espiar para los alemanes. La ciudad, que conserva parte de su carácter pionero para los que se internan a los vastos territorios de la Patagonia, es un hervidero de agentes...

La historia de la filosofía se nos presenta, a menudo, como una sucesión confusa de teoría y autores. Este libro aporta un esquema expositivo muy claro, que hace comprensibles a los filósofos y a sus épocas respectivas. Sus capítulos abarcan los programas oficiales de la Historia de la Filosofía...

Ángeles y solitarios trata de la corrupción del poder y el tráfico de armas, en ella subyace una visión de mundo desencantada, apócrifa y triste. En su trama se plantea una profunda y aguda crítica a los poderes que actúan desde la sombra y que erosionan el sistema sociopolítico.

Thirty years' close assocIatIOn with the Oil Industry has been a fascinating and stimulating experience; fascinating because the Oil Industry itself is so full of interest and stimulating because of the challenges which changes in technology have brought about. No longer is oil easily obtainable and...