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Allan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman are back! Hold on tight for a funny and quirky new story set in the same world as their celebrated classics, The Pencil and The Runaway Dinner. One morning, Banjo is helping his dad to wash the car. His little sister Elsie comes running up. ''There's an egg in my egg cup!'' she yells. ''And a great big grey thing ... UNDER THE TABLE!'' Brimming over with Allan Ahlberg's idiosyncratic voice, charm and character, and perfectly matched with Bruce Ingman's bold and playful illustrations, Under the Table is an irresistible read-aloud full of surprises ... oh, does Elsie discover such wonderful (and unexpected!) new friends in her lively and happy home!
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Un estudio único de 350 obras de arte de artistas LGBTQ+ de todo el mundo, muchos de ellos poco reconocidos y olvidados, de los últimos 50 años.Aunque los disturbios de Stonewall sean ahora la abreviatura del inicio del movimiento por los derechos de los homosexuales, gran parte del arte y la cultura han sido ''queer'' desde el principio de los tiempos. En About Face, el historiador del arte y comisario Jonathan D. Katz explora este concepto de frente, comisariando un tapiz de obras que conectan hilos históricos y revelan cómo el género y la identidad sexual han sido entretejidos por artistas contemporáneos y posteriores a Stonewall.Con más de 350 obras de más de 40 artistas LGBTQ+ de distintas nacionalidades y generaciones, y textos originales de artistas y académicos, About Face es tan sorprendente como importante.Jonathan David Katz, PhD, es Profesor Asociado de Práctica en Historia del Arte y Estudios de Género, Sexualidad y Mujer en la Universidad de Pensilvania. En 2019, Katz comisarió About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art en la galería Wrightwood 659 de Chicago.Con textos de Julian Carter, Anthony Cianciolo, Amelia Jones, Ava L.H. Kim, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Christopher Reed, Jacolby Satterwhite y Dagmawi Woubshet.
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La Galería de las Colecciones Reales exhibe una selección del prodigioso compendio de colecciones artísticas reunidas por los sucesivos reyes de España a lo largo de los últimos cinco siglos y que, desde la Segunda República, pertenecen al Estado español.
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From her girl squad to the Swifties to the world at large, Taylor's the BFF of the pop music world. As the go-to shoulder to cry on and chronicler of heartbreak, she relates her personal life and experiences in a 'dear diary' style in her music, but the artist is even more popular than her hit songs. One of the most followed on social media, she is a defender of the underdog, open about her feminist and pro-choice views and frequently speaks up against sexism and LGBTQ discrimination.This collection of Taylor's relatable, inspiring and hugely optimistic quotes and lyrics reveals a caring, generous personality who is all about 'the feels' and following your dreams. Sparkling with positivity and feel-good vibes, Taylor is always there to give you the best advice and lift you up when you're down – she's your own personal cheerleader.
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Fascinante combinación de historia, arte y memorias personales, el libro ofrece una aproximación general a más de dos siglos de historia entremezclada con una mirada íntima a la vida de los artistas del tatuaje, a sus luchas y triunfos personales, a lo aventurado de su profesión y al coraje artístico que define gran parte de esta historia.Durante los últimos cuarenta años, Henk Schiffmacher se ha volcado en cuerpo y alma en su colección, que reúne dibujos de tatuajes, diseños, fotografías y artefactos procedentes de todo el mundo. Cada uno de los cinco capítulos del libro presenta numerosos elementos inéditos de su colección, e incluye litografías, grabados, instrumentos para tatuar, pinturas, fotografías, pósteres, carteles de tiendas, dibujos originales y diseños de tatuajes conocidos en el negocio como flash, entre ellos hojas flash de época extremadamente raras de los primeros y más importantes tatuadores occidentales. Con más de 700 imágenes, el libro aborda la inmensa variedad de tatuajes de todo el mundo: de los tatuajes indígenas de los maoríes y otros pueblos isleños del Pacífico Sur a las antiguas tradiciones de Asia y las viejas escuelas de Europa y Estados Unidos que dieron origen al tatuaje occidental. El libro también presenta una docena de ilustraciones originales en las que Schiffmacher hace gala de su estilo inimitable, así como una introducción personal en la que describe su trayectoria como artista y coleccionista y su visión de la historia del tatuaje desde el underground a la cultura de masas.Con sus reflexiones y el relato de sus más salvajes aventuras, Schiffmacher aporta un punto de vista fascinante a la historia del tatuaje. El libro nos abre las puertas a la historia del tatuaje y a las aventuras que hay detrás de la creación de una de las colecciones de tatuajes más grandes del mundo, obra de un tatuador autodidacta enamorado de este arte y de sus creadores.
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Lisbon might be one of the world’s oldest cities but the Portuguese capital shows no signs of ageing thanks to its wealth of sun-drenched beaches, world-class museums and buzzy cocktail bars.Make the most of your trip to this timeless city with DK Eyewitness Top 10. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Lisbon has to offer and ensuring that you don’t miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable, the perfect companion while out and about.
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This is a comprehensive history of Portugal that covers the whole span, from the Stone Age to today. An introduction provides an understanding of geographical and climatic issues, before an examination of Portugal's prehistory and classical Portugal, from the Stone Age to the end of the the Roman era.Portugal's history from ad420 to the thirteenth century takes in the Suevi, Visigoths and Moors. Then, a look at medieval Portugal, covers the development of Christian Portugal culminating with the expulsion of the Moors, with a focus on key sites.A subsequent section on Spanish rule, between 1580 and 1640, explains why Spain took over and why Spanish rule collapsed.There is a significant focus on Portugal's global role, particularly during the age of exploration, or expansion, in the fifteenth century to 1580: Manueline Portugal, Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama and Belém. Portugal was the first of the Atlantic empires, with territory in the Azores, Madeira, West Africa and Brazil, and it remained a major empire until the 1820s, retaining an African empire until the 1970s. It's empire in Asia - in Malacca, Macao, Goa and Timor - continued even longer, until the 1990s. Black shows how Portugal had a global impact, but the world, too, had an impact on Portugal.Baroque Portugal, between 1640 and 1800, is explored through palaces in Mafra, Pombal and elsewhere and the wealth of Brazil.The nineteenth century brought turmoil in the form of a French invasion, the Peninsular War, Brazilian independence, successive revolutions, economic issues and the end of the monarchy.Republican Portugal brought further chaos in the early years of the twentieth century, then the dictatorship of Salazar and its end in the Carnation Revolution of 1974. Portugal's role in both world wars is examined, also its wars in Africa.From the overthrow of autocracy to a new constitution and the leadership of Soares, contemporary, democratic Portugal is explored, including the fiscal crisis of recent years.Throughout Black introduces the history and character of the country's principal regions, including the Azores, Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands. He looks at key national sites, at Portuguese food and wine and the arts, with special sections devoted to port, Portugal's famous tiles and the university established at Coimbra in 1290.
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No longer an uncertain technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence is starting to shape every aspect of our daily lives, from how we think to who we love.In this urgent polemic, leading barrister Susie Alegre explores the ways in which artificial intelligence threatens our fundamental human rights - including the rights to life, liberty and fair trial, the right to private and family life, and the right to free expression - and how we protect those rights.Touching on the many profound ethical dilemmas posed by emerging technologies, and full of fascinating case studies, Human Rights, Robot Wrongs is a rallying cry for humanity in the age of AI.
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Since 1979, La Masia has represented a centre of training excellence for exemplary athletes around the world. While it began as a residence, it turned into a one-of-a-kind model that encompasses sport, personal growth and values: the essence and DNA of FC Barcelona.
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What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant, and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure, and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its listeners.
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Senhor Jose is a minor official in a registry office, with a passion for reconstructing people's lives from the data in archive documents. One woman's file is particularly intriguing. She is dead, and he decides to trace her life backwards, from death to birth. But can he bring her back to life?
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Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. This is the story of his absurd life, a life that is going well enough, until a chemical spill from a rail car releases an 'Airborne Toxic Event' and Jack is forced to confront his biggest fear – his own mortality.White Noise is an effortless combination of social satire and metaphysical dilemma in which Don DeLillo exposes our rampant consumerism, media saturation and novelty intellectualism. It captures the particular strangeness of life lived when the fear of death cannot be denied, repressed or obscured and ponders the role of the family in a time when the very meaning of our existence is under threat.
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En esta colección de nuevas recetas, Nancy Singleton Hachisu, la voz con más autoridad en la cocina casera japonesa actual, presenta platos vegetarianos japoneses, brindando los exquisitos sabores de la elegante cocina de la nación a quienes siguen una dieta basada en plantas o quieren reducir la cantidad. de pescado y carne que comen. Las recetas se dividen por estilo de cocina (aliñadas, en vinagre, fritas, a fuego lento, al vapor, salteadas, a la parrilla, en escabeche y dulces), junto con las cuales Hachisu comparte su conocimiento experto de los ingredientes, la cultura y las tradiciones de este estilo culinario único.lan, sin embargo, una inesperada vocación de universalidad, como corresponde a la poética sincera luminosa de un creador genuino.Juntos, estos escritos revelan la manera de pensar de Luis Moreno Mansilla sobre la arquitectura y sobre la vida, dos cosas que para él iban inevitablemente de la mano. El espacio inmóvil, acaso ajeno, y el tiempo imparable que desear¡amos atrapar y se nos derrama entre los dedos, como Luis advert¡a, se amalgaman, pues, en estos escritos precisos, delicados, agudos, lúcidos. En ellos su fina sensibilidad, su penetrante inteligencia, su sentido del humor y su infalible olfato para detectar los nudos del panorama arquitectónico perfilan un territorio propio que Luis quiso siempre compartir, en su elegante aspiración de transformación personal y colectiva, con sencilla generosidad que siempre agradeceremos aquellos que tuvimos la fortuna de conocerle como tú, lector, puedes hacer hoy.
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Una inspiradora colección de hoteles boutique de lujo yprivados, así como guías regionales especializadas en el volumen definitivo para viajar a los Alpes durante el añoEste atractivo libro, profusamente ilustrado, es la guía autorizada de los destinos alpinos más exclusivos de Europa. Sebastian Schoellgen, reputado experto hotelero y fundador de 84 Rooms, presenta una selección única de 84 hoteles boutique de lujo y familiares en los cinco países alpinos (Francia, Suiza, Italia, Austria y Alemania) con más de 180 magníficas fotografías, relatos animados e información práctica.A lo largo de todo el libro, el autor y otros expertos, como el hotelero Arnauld Zannier, ofrecen guías sobre los lugares más elegantes y pintorescos para ir de compras, cenar, pasear y relajarse después de un largo día en las pistas.
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A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love.
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Simon ''Woody'' Wood, fundador y editor jefe de la revista Sneaker Freaker, ha pasado las últimas dos décadas analizando el culto al calzado a escala global. Esa experiencia inspiró directamente World's Greatest Sneaker Collectors, un apasionante viaje de 752 páginas por piezas de valor incalculable y por las mentes obsesivas de los grandes coleccionistas.Desde Tokio hasta Nueva York, pasando por Londres, Filadelfia, Melbourne y Stjørdal, no queda suela gastada sin inspeccionar: más de 2.500 clásicos vintage, ediciones especiales de atletas irrepetibles, modelos imposibles de encontrar, prototipos únicos confeccionados a mano, colaboraciones de precios desorbitados y Jordans exclusivas usadas por jugadores con tasaciones estratosféricas que harán las delicias de los aficionados. Un catálogo sin parangón que exaltará la búsqueda interminable de ''santos griales'', una bendición y una maldición al mismo tiempo para los coleccionistas de zapatillas que enloquecen, conspiran y sueñan con ''el único'' zapato que aún no poseen.Las lujosas fotografías de las piezas se complementan con una serie de guías informativas repletas de inestimables consejos profesionales sobre fotografía de zapatillas, almacenamiento, seguros, limpieza y sobre cómo evitar la lacra de las falsificaciones. Las historias nos entretendrán durante días y nos ayudarán a comprender lo que significa y se necesita para poder considerarse un ''verdadero coleccionista''.
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She's addicted to sex. He's addicted to booze... the only way out is rock bottom.No one would suspect shy Lily Calloway's biggest secret. While everyone is dancing at college bars, Lily stays in the bathroom. To get laid. Her compulsion leads her to one-night stands, steamy hookups, and events she shamefully regrets. The only person who knows her secret happens to have one of his own.Loren Hale's best friend is his bottle of bourbon. Lily comes at a close second. For three years, they've pretended to be in a real relationship, hiding their addictions from their families. They've mastered the art of concealing flasks and random guys that filter in and out of their apartment.But as they sink beneath the weight of their addictions, they cling harder to their destructive relationship and wonder if a life together, for real, is better than a lie. Strangers and family begin to infiltrate their guarded lives, and with new challenges, they realize they may not just be addicted to alcohol and sex.Their real vice may be each other.
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Meet Kitty Collins.FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER.He was following me. That guy from the nightclub who wouldn’t leave me alone.I hadn’t intended to kill him of course. But I wasn’t displeased when I did and, despite the mess I made, I appeared to get away with it.That’s where my addiction started…I’ve got a taste for revenge and quite frankly, I’m killing it.A deliciously dark, hilariously twisted story about friendship, love, and murder. Fans of My Sister the Serial Killer, How to Kill Your Family and Killing Eve will love this wickedly clever novel!
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An action-packed comedy about a fake family that includes a spy, an assassin and a telepath! Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment—to get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head! As a child, [REDACTED] lived a peaceful life with his parents, playing war games with his friends and having minor quarrels with his father. It never even occurred to young [REDACTED] that the life he’d taken for granted might one day end…
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Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian Castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories of the past return, of his family, his beloved wife June and their two children. But when two former colleagues turn up at his door with questions about a decades-old case, one which Tom never quite came to terms with, he finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past. A beautiful, haunting novel, in which nothing is quite what it seems, Old God's Time is about what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive of us.
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Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms - what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings.Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.Exploring the natural world with the wonder and reverence we usually reserve for the stars, In Ascension is a compassionate, deeply inquisitive epic that reaches outward to confront the greatest questions of existence, looks inward to illuminate the smallest details of the human heart, and shows how - no matter how far away we might be and how much we have lost hope - we will always attempt to return to the people and places we call home.
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The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body, this classic horror story pits detective against dog, When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse, It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end,
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THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER & BOOKER PRIZE WINNER*One of Goodreads Most Popular Books of the Past Decade*This is Britain as you've never read it.This is Britain as it has never been told.From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope . . .
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Experience the internet's most talked-about book, now a major motion picture, from Anna Todd, the writer Cosmopolitan called “the biggest literary phenomenon of her generation.”Now a Major Motion Picture on Netflix!There was the time before Tessa met Hardin, and then there’s everything AFTER... Life will never be the same. #Hessa.Tessa is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. She’s got direction, ambition, and a mother who’s intent on keeping her that way. But she’s barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin. With his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, and tattoos, Hardin is cute and different from what she’s used to.But he’s also rude―to the point of cruelty, even. For all his attitude, Tessa should hate Hardin. And she does―until she finds herself alone with him in his room. Something about his dark mood grabs her, and when they kiss it ignites within her a passion she’s never known before. He'll call her beautiful, then insist he isn’t the one for her and disappear again and again. Despite the reckless way he treats her, Tessa is compelled to dig deeper and find the real Hardin beneath all his lies. He pushes her away again and again, yet every time she pushes back, he only pulls her in deeper.Tessa already has the perfect boyfriend. So why is she trying so hard to overcome her own hurt pride and Hardin's prejudice about nice girls like her? Unless...could this be love?
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Max Hastings nos trae uno de los capítulos más dramáticos olvidados de la segunda guerra mundial.En agosto de 1942, una asediada Malta estuvo a pocas semanas de rendirse porque sus 300.000 habitantes ya no podían ser alimentados. Churchill tomó la decisión personal de salvar a toda costa la ''isla fortaleza''. No se trataba simplemente de una cuestión de estrategia, sino de prestigio nacional, cuando la fortuna y la moral de Gran Bretaña habían caído a su punto más bajo. Por las páginas de este libro veremos desfilar catastróficos hundimientos de buques, junto con luchas por rescatar a los supervivientes y salvar los barcos siniestrados. Max Hastings describe esta historia como una de las más extraordinarias que jamás haya contado. Hasta las últimas horas, ningún participante de ninguno de los dos bandos pudo saber cuál sería el resultado de una epopeya de suspense y valor en tiempos de guerra.
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Norma and Belly really really REALLY want a donut.But things aren’t going their way! With a burned breakfast and a grumpy donut seller at the local food truck, they may be stuck with only nuts to eat… But these squirrels won’t give up that easily!They’re on a mission to get their paws on the biggest, most delicious donut of their tiny lives!
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Carl may be 72 years old, but he's young at heart. Every night he goes door-to-door delivering books by hand to his loyal customers. He knows their every desire and preference, carefully selecting the perfect story for each person.
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A bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club pick, The 6:20 Man is a heart-racing thriller with an incredible ending, set in the world of high finance in New York, from the number one bestselling author David Baldacci.It's time to catch a killer . . .Having survived combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq and been decorated with medals, Travis Devine leaves the army in mysterious circumstances, under a cloud of suspicion. And at thirty-two years old, he’s swapping fighting the Taliban and Al-Qaeda for a different kind of danger in the cut-throat world of high finance.His daily commute on the 6:20 a.m. train into New York’s financial district, to his new job as an analyst at the powerhouse investment bank Cowl and Comely, takes him into a world where greed, power, jealousy and ambition result in the financial abuse of the masses and the enrichment of an elite few.When a close friend of Devine’s is found dead, the mysterious circumstances surrounding her death at Cowl and Comely compel him to investigate further. As he digs deeper, he discovers strange coincidences and unnerving truths.As the deaths pile up, and the major players show their hands, he must question who he can trust – and who he must fight . . .The action continues in The Edge, the second Travis Devine thriller from David Baldacci.
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In this clever and swoonworthy new novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life's moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart. Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays, after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory's focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious 'Kingkiller' Nolan Sawyer: current world champion and reigning Bad Boy of chess. Nolan's loss to an unknown rookie shocks everyone. What's even more confusing? His desire to cross pawns again. What kind of gambit is Nolan playing? The smart move would be to walk away. Resign. Game over.
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Una rica y sugerente celebración visual de la Navidad, desde sus inicios religiosos hasta los hitos culturales mundiales.Este libro es una celebración visual única e innovadora de la Navidad, una alegre ocasión religiosa y cultural observada por miles de millones de personas en todo el mundo. Los orígenes de la Navidad se encuentran en la observancia cristiana del nacimiento de Cristo el 25 de diciembre y, desde principios del siglo XX, se ha convertido en una fiesta secular con innumerables decoraciones, rituales y temas.Los temas clave cubiertos incluyen el advenimiento y la natividad, el árbol de Navidad y adornos navideños, entrega de regalos y canto de villancicos, películas navideñas clásicas, y música festiva. Este extraordinario libro muestra un amplio espectro de tradiciones festivas globales de muchas culturas diferentes, como el pollo frito que se come en la cena de Navidad, los Santas surfistas y los zapatos rellenos de zanahorias.Con pinturas, libros, grabados, esculturas, textiles, cerámica y fotografías, la selección de obras incluidas presenta una amplia gama de artistas icónicos y menos conocidos, incluidos Sandro Botticelli, Grandma Moses, Beatrix Potter, Norman Rockwell, Malick Sidibé, Andy Warhol, y muchos más.En The Christmas Book, la importante influencia artística y cultural de la Navidad a lo largo de la historia se explora a través de una amplia gama de bellas y significativas obras de arte e imágenes de todas las épocas y seis continentes, creando el complemento cultural definitivo para la temporada festiva.
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Rogan Gregory’s work pushes boundaries across media and scale – from miniature bronze animal forms to towering sculptures and furniture in innovative aggregated materials. Gregory’s iterative process and life-long interests in abstract forms, geology, and evolutionary biology allow him to develop an organic aesthetic unlike that of any designer working today.
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Hasta la proliferación de los populismos de derechas, los regímenes que corrompían las reglas democráticas para anular a la oposición y perpetuarse en el poder tenían fundamentalmente signo marxista. Pero el nuevo antiliberalismo nacionalista y ultraconservador, bajo la bandera de la «batalla cultural», le ha arrebatado al chavismo y al socialismo el monopolio del despotismo. El conocido ensayista José Benegas, curtido en la lucha contra los populismos latinoamericanos, desarrolla en este libro la tesis de que el tradicional eje izquierda/derecha ya no permite comprender el actual momento político. Ambos bandos comparten el gusto por los caudillos que destruyen las instituciones, y que tras haber ganado el favor popular en las urnas acaban con los métodos de control a su corrupción, convierten a los poderes legislativos en amanuenses, colocan adeptos en la justicia para blindarse ante cualquier investigación y amordazan a la prensa. Benegas desmonta las trampas retóricas con las que los regímenes populistas, auténticas dictaduras del siglo xxi, instalan el reino de su propia arbitrariedad en nombre de la democracia. Y, al refutar sus presupuestos doctrinales, echa por tierra la legitimidad de los gobiernos que plantean la concentración del poder para mostrarse como salvadores del pueblo. Pero no basta simplemente con exponer estas trampas. Si las prácticas del despotismo populista están triunfando es porque las sociedades están afectadas por una anemia respecto de las ideas de la libertad, la propiedad y el gobierno limitado. Por eso, Un mundo contaminado se propone demostrar que la idea del gobierno como gran benefactor es un mantra a izquierda y derecha que contradice el principio democrático del verdadero autogobierno. Este libro es una contribución inestimable a la causa de la recuperación de la democracia liberal y la institucionalidad perdidas, y del restablecimiento de las bases jurídicas, políticas y éticas de una sociedad libre.
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La comida y el surrealismo son amantes perfectos: sexo y langostas, collage y canibalismo, el encuentro de un cisne y un cepillo de dientes en una pastelería. Las cenas opulentas que organizaban Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) y Gala (1894-1982), su mujer y musa, fueron legendarias. Afortunadamente para nosotros, Dalí publicó un libro de cocina en 1973, Les dîners de Gala, que desvela algunos de aquellos ingredientes sensuales, imaginativos y exóticos que confluían en tan célebres encuentros.Esta reedición abreviada agrupa 78 de sus recetas en 12 capítulos, ilustrados especialmente por Dalí y organizados en función de los distintos platos, así como una sección dedicada a los afrodisíacos. Las ilustraciones y las recetas se acompañan de las extravagantes reflexiones de Dalí cual asuntos tratados en las conversaciones durante las cenas: ''La mandíbula es nuestra mejor herramienta para aferrarnos al conocimiento filosófico''.Todas las valiosas recetas del libro pueden prepararse en casa, aunque en algunos casos se requiera buena mano en la cocina y una despensa bien surtida. Son platos de la vieja escuela, con especialidades de los mejores chefs franceses de restaurantes de París condecorados con estrellas Michelin. El buen gusto, por voluptuoso que sea, nunca pasa de moda. Y dando a conocer al gran público este libro excepcionalmente raro, TASCHEN aporta una obra de arte, un recetario práctico y una experiencia multisensorial a la cocina actual.
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Ever since he saw the legendary player known as “the Little Giant” compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else?
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Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment—to get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head!Twilight has overcome many challenges in putting together the Forger family, but now all his hard work might come undone when Yor’s younger brother Yuri pops in for a surprise visit! Can Twilight outsmart Yuri, who actually works for the Ostanian secret service?!
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From the author of One of Us Is Lying comes a brand new pulse-pounding thriller. Three former friends ditch school for old time's sake - with horrible and deadly consequences.
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