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Esta obra es una novela de juventud de Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa. Quizá el conjunto de su producción no podría entenderse plenamente sin incluir parte de sus orígenes. Para su autor, el fondo del mar, la fantasía y la aventura lo significaban todo en el momento de escribir Bajo siete mares....

La historia de una vida rodeada de circunstancias dramáticas en la que el agua salada abunda por doquier... El agua ha sido siempre, para Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, una obsesión. Las difíciles circunstancias de su infancia y adolescencia le llevaron a padecer desde pequeño la escasez de...

«¿Puede una novela salvar vidas?» Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa rompe un nuevo tabú informativo al acusar a quienes atentan contra la salud de las personas solo para conseguir ingentes beneficios. Con su novela Coltan, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa fue el primero en denunciar que empresas...

El protagonista de Ícaro es un personaje real, héroe de la Primera Guerra Mundial, piloto personal de Lawrence de Arabia y compañero de escuadrilla del mítico Roland Garros. Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, uno de los escritores más vendidos en lengua castellana, es autor de best**sellers como...

1200 Chistes para partirse, de Berto PedrosaEste volumen incluye los títulos:1000 Chistes para partirse200 Chistes reducidos a la mínima expresión—¿Cómo es eso que se hace para que no te copien las fotos?—¿Una marca de agua?—Aquarel. Pero dime lo de las fotos.—El...

This book is for people involved in working with plastic material and plastic fabricating processes. The information and data in this book are provided as a comparative guide to help in understanding the performance of plastics and in making the decisions that must be made when developing a logical...

A collection of essays from my Knoxville Focus newspaper column, "The Doctor Is In." I write for joy rather than an assignment, because my real job is practicing internal medicine and geriatrics. These essays were often prompted by patients' stories shared with me over forty years of medical care. The...

New York Times bestsellers Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts offer a unique, personalized vision of the traditional Passover Haggadah, combining their own family traditions with favorites from other families in a fun, intimate guide written especially for couples of mixed faiths. A fresh and informative...

Bradley V. DeHaven’s first book, Defining Moments, A Suburban Father’s Journey Into His Son’s Oxy Addiction, is the story about how addiction defined him throughout his life and made him the person he is today. The second book, The Addict Among Us, contains the stories of some of the over 400...

The second book by father and prescription drug abuse activist Bradley V. DeHaven, written in response to the outpouring of questions he received in response to his first book, a memoir chronicling what brought him to go undercover to bust a drug dealer to enable his son to enter rehab rather than...

Two decades ago, V. Spike Peterson's Gendered States asked what difference gender makes in international relations and the construction of the sovereign state system. This book connects the earlier debates of Peterson's book with the gendered state today, one that exists within a globalized and increasingly...

"Thiru V.P. Kannan has brought out a nice manual covering all the aspects of grammar in a comprehensive manner with copious examples and adequate exercises. This book will be of immense help to the students … deliberately made very simple to enhance the grasping of rural students" Dr....

The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in the two countries at different stages of US–Russian relations. The focus of research interests...

The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...