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Laievski, que acaba de escaparse con una mujer casada, es uno de esos hombres superfluos que tanto abundan en la literatura rusa; por su parte, el zoólogo Von Koren, tipo envarado, rígido y trabajador, cree acérrimamente en la idea darwinista de que en la vida solo triunfan los más fuertes. Un caluroso verano en el sur de Rusia y una tensión que desemboca en un duelo.

«Nadie ha comprendido tan clara y sutilmente como Chejov la tragedia de las pequeñeces de la vida, nadie hasta él ha sabido dibujar a los hombres con tan impecable veracidad.» Maksim Gorki El viaje de un niño de nueve años a través de la estepa ucraniana, rumbo al instituto en que habrá...

Compendio de la sabiduría y de las estrategias de la antigua y misteriosa civilización china. China ya es una superpotencia: conviene saber cómo piensan en "el imperio del centro".  Estas estrategias fueron escritas en China a lo largo del tiempo por personas muy diferentes:...

¿Qué termina y qué comienza en diciembre de 2001? ¿Qué actores se anuncian en los pliegues del acontecimiento? ¿Cuáles languidecen o se transforman? ¿Qué huellas institucionales, estructurales, funcionales, etc., se fraguan en el orden recobrado y reenvían a sus marcas de origen? Más de...

This book contains Bruce Frederick Cummings' (pseudonym: W. N. P. Barbellion) 1919 work, “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”. Hailed by Ronald Blythe as "among the most moving diaries ever created", it is full of astute and frank observations, interesting personal philosophy, and profound...

Drinking in a dingy bar by the sea, crumpled postcard from Her and World’s Biggest Ray Zero for company; then the son of a starts saying I’m cursed. Praise Be to lighting-up another smoke. Inhale, taste a foul brand: the Hex She put on me. Promised Heaven, delivered a dive nightclub Hell. Thank...

The collected memoirs and documents in this book, penned or preserved by the author with such belief and ideological conviction over so very many years of effort, can be described as a masterwork. Without euphemism or any other sort of circumlocution, they bluntly set out facts that will come as a...

Wanted a quick bit of business and gone. Bath had other ideas. First, battered and left for dead after a hundred heart-breaking truths. Then a Police Chief with a saggy old treasure chest of secrets to keep needs a scapegoat. Dumps me in the middle of corruption so deep it eases through bone to suck...

Kannur, a sleepy coastal district in the scenic south Indian state of Kerala, has metamorphosed into a hotbed of political bloodshed in the past few decades. Even as India heaves into the age of technology and economic growth, the town has been making it to the national news for horrific crimes and...

In the last two decades, there has been a major increase in the actual numbers of women diagnosed with breast cancer (from 65000 new cases 20 years ago in the United States to 183000 in 1993). Concomitant with this has been a shift toward making the diagnosis earlier and toward diagnosing an earlier...

Rest Easy with Test Easy! You're excited about your decision to pursue a career in nursing. And regardless of what type of nurse you plan to become--RN, LPN or LVN, CNS, nurse practitioner, or other specialization--you know that to get into the nursing program of your choice you'll have to...

Imagine a world where everyone believed that death was truly only the slightest of separations … a process of stepping behind a curtain that only blocked your physical view of your loved one … yet with a promise of continued communication and shared experience. Think how that might change your...

In developing countries, squatter developments that house more than one-third of the urban population are without infrastructure and built from materials at hand. Analyzing Urban Poverty: GIS in the Developing World demonstrates how geographic information systems (GIS) can be used to improve quality...

Continuous delivery adds enormous value to the business and the entire software delivery lifecycle, but adopting this practice means mastering new skills typically outside of a developer’s comfort zone. In this practical book, Daniel Bryant and Abraham Marín-Pérez provide guidance to help experienced...