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Amap, Pablo y Pedro son tres inusuales personajes e investigadores que comparten sus historias, descubrimientos, raras predilecciones e intereses con sus amigos. Ya sea embarcados en grandes navíos desde oriente y escondidos en bodegas obscuras, enalteciendo a grandes senderistas o ensalzando sus trayectorias familiares, narran sus recorridos descubriendo no sólo nuevos materiales de investigación sino amigos de hazañas. Entre lagartijas, insectos, libros y plantas, conviven para engrandecer su amistad y desarrollar la gentileza, el respeto, el orgullo y la aventura. En estos breves y amenos relatos, conoceremos las razones que los llevaron a decidir decir hasta luego a los amigos, arriesgarse a tener nuevos retos, atreverse a buscar sus sueños y emprender nuevas aventuras para conquistar sus miedos.
Seventeen-year-old Miguel Angel spends every minute after school at the Packing Shed, working out with the Alisal Boxing Club. He dreams of becoming a champion so he can get his mother and five siblings out of their cramped one-bedroom apartment in one of Salinas' poorest barrios. But suddenly his life gets more complicated. The city is threatening to take the Packing Shed away from Coach, and without a place to train he won't be able to avoid the gangbangers in his neighborhood. His childhood friend, Beto, has succumbed to the wiles of easy money and expensive cars, and Miguel Angel wonders if he'll be able to resist his friend. Meanwhile, beautiful blonde Britney from Pebble Beach has ente...
In December 2003 the painter Jack Vettriano, a coalminer’s son, met his parents off the train from Scotland on his way to collect an OBE. Over the last few years Vettriano has had a meteoric rise to fame – emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields, unknown and untutored, he has become Scotland’s most successful and controversial contemporary artist. Appearing on posters and cards, mugs and umbrellas, prints of his work outsell Van Gogh, Dali and Monet and his paintings have been acquired by celebrities around the world. 'The Singing Butler', Britain's most reproduced painting, fetched a record £744,800 at auction in April 2004. Vettriano’s images have an often...
An exhibition of drawings by the Italian late-Renaissance and Mannerist artist.
No statesman shaped the twentieth century more than Winston Churchill. To know the full Churchill is to understand the combination of boldness and caution, of assertiveness and humility, that defines statesmanship at its best. With fresh perspective and insights based on decades of studying and teaching Churchill, Larry P. Arnn explores the greatest challenges faced by Churchill over the course of his extraordinary career, both in war and peace—and always in the context of Churchill’s abiding dedication to constitutionalism. Churchill’s Trial is organized around the three great challenges to liberty that Churchill faced: Nazism, Soviet communism, and his own nation’s slide toward soc...