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The Museum of Useless Efforts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

The Museum of Useless Efforts

In The Museum of Useless Efforts Cristina Peri Rossi renders familiar, everyday situations uncanny through lyrical reinterpretations; at the same time, she somehow makes the uncanny appear quite ordinary. Crafting peculiar?and sometimes claustrophobically small?worlds, Peri Rossi explores the universal themes of desire, violence, and truth and the simultaneous and contradictory human capacities to repress and resist, speak and silence, desire and ignore. In these tales an insomniac is tormented by a stubborn lamb that refuses to jump over the fence; the momentary hesitation of a man on a crowded subway staircase who forgets whether he was going up or down unleashes pandemonium; and a patient receives a frantic call from his psychoanalyst, distraught that his wife has taken a new lover.

Panic Signs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 126

Panic Signs

Cristina Peri Rossi is one of the most acclaimed and personal voices in Hispanic letters. This volume of short stories, Panic Signs, first published in 1970 in Montevideo, Uruguay, presages the atrocities that would come with dictatorship in 1972. The premonitory dimension is one of the striking characteristics in all the stories — a sense of impending catastrophe, sometimes hallucinatory and often graphic, leads us to undetermined places where the horrors of censorship, torture, and human bondage take place. At the same time, the stories expose the shackles that incapacitate us and deny us the acceptance of ourselves. This elegy for freedom mourns the loss of liberty and justice while sed...

Solitaire of Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 124

Solitaire of Love

Experimental, erotic novel by a renowned Latin American fiction writer and political activist.

The Ship of Fools
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

The Ship of Fools

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Queen's gambit and other stories
  • Language: en

Queen's gambit and other stories

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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State of Exile
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

State of Exile

A tender, moving, and multi-layered portrait of the pain, loneliness and permanent nostalgia of exile.

Ageing in Europe - Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Ageing in Europe - Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society

SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do we Europeans age? How will we do economically, socially and healthwise? How are these domains interrelated? The authors of this multidisciplinary book have taken a further big step towards answering these questions based on the recent SHARE data in order to support policies for an inclusive society.

Desastres íntimos
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 188

Desastres íntimos

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Fascinante mundo interior de unos personajes atrapados en sus particulares delirios: un club de fetichistas que intercambian sus manias sexuales, un hombre enamorado de una mujer-ballena, o una bella y eficiente secretaria-modelo-mama asfixiada por la familia nuclear."

Proceedings of SIE 2023
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 469

Proceedings of SIE 2023

This book showcases the state of the art in the field of electronics, as presented by researchers and engineers at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Italian Electronics Society (SIE), held in Noto (SR), Italy, on September 6–8, 2023. It covers a broad range of aspects, including: integrated circuits and systems, micro- and nano-electronic devices, microwave electronics, sensors and microsystems, optoelectronics and photonics, power electronics, electronic systems and applications.

Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-08-10
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  • Publisher: Springer

Open source software has emerged as a major field of scientific inquiry across a number of disciplines. When the concept of open source began to gain mindshare in the global business community, decision makers faced a challenge: to convert hype and potential into sustainable profit and viable business models. This volume addresses this challenge through presenting some of the newest, extensively peer-reviewed research in the area.