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Desde su cama de hospital en Cuernavaca, México, B, fundador de Médicos Sin Fronteras, agoniza, víctima del Síndrome de Korsakoff, una extraña encelopatía que lo arrastra al olvido, contra el que B lucha con desesperación tratando de llenar los vacíos de su mente con historias que está convencido sucedieron. Ha olvidado hasta su nombre, pero recuerda su participación, como médico, en conflictos que marcaron el siglo, desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en la que reconstruye la participación del conde sueco Karl von Rosen, a quien conoció, así como a su amigo K, durante sangrienta Guerra de Biafra. Con K, reconstruye, desde el bar Siva's Heaven, en la Phnom Penh de los meses previo...
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Arthur, director de una empresa proveedora de la industria perfumera, recibe en su departamento a Vanesa, una antigua amante que le había dejado cinco años atrás para casarse con un banquero francés, porque pese a lo sobado que parezca todavía hay mujeres que sueñan con uno. No se habían visto desde entonces, pero mientras le sirve una copa y le enciende un cigarrillo Arthur recuerda su aventura juntos. Él es un experto en perfumes, uno que puede detectar cualquier marca y su composición, al solo olerlo. Así que ambos juegan durante años a que él identifica el perfume que usa en cada cita. Él la ilustra sobre los perfumes y su composición, y ella se obsesiona en que alguien, de...
A.F. Moritz is the author of thirteen books of poetry, numerous chapbooks and limited edition volumes. He has received major honours including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His book Rest on the Flight into Egypt was nominated for the 2000 Governor General's Award. In the Blackwells Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry, Moritz is one of four major Canadian poets discussed as having emerged since Ondaatje and Atwood.
México vive desde hace muchos años una guerra civil. Una que ocurre a la luz del día en prácticamente todo el territorio nacional, de la que los medios dan cuenta todos los días y en la que el objetivo de los bandos enfrentados somos los ciudadanos. Solo no se le llama así; de hecho, no se le llama de ninguna manera. Se trata de este modo, no nombrándola, de conjurarla, evadirla, negarla. Pero está ahí, a la vista de todos, con sus cientos de miles de muertos, con sus centenas de miles de desaparecidos. El presente libro busca recuperar y dar sentido a la información que se publica en desorden cada día. La mirada es la de un periodista que sistematiza en un discurso coherente la v...
This book presents five interesting chapters dealing with the sustainability of toys. The concept of sustainability has reached all industrial sectors these days and being practiced in almost all the sectors. One of the main sectors where sustainability has to be embedded to the core is the toy sector. Needless to enumerate the importance of sustainability in this sector especially when it comes to usage of chemicals and so on. There are various elements associated with the sustainability of toys and there is a dearth of published literature on this subject.
Body of Insomnia is the moving testament of a poet confronting the passing years and yet confirming the value of poetry, love and freedom. Zellar combines eroticism and spirituality in poems where reality shines with the light of mystery and imagination.
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This book highlights the sustainability aspects of products and processes in forest science. The forest products sector supplies raw materials to several industrial sectors worldwide. These products can be classified as timber or non-timber products. Wood products are those that originate from the woody fraction and can include pulp, charcoal, firewood, and others. The non-timber products, on the other hand, have the products extracted from the different parts of the tree, such as bark, leaves, fruits, resins, oils, tannins, or even products extracted from non-woody biomass, such as palm heart or carnauba, among others. There are new studies and new products developed from forests worldwide ...
The book deepens understanding of biomass sources and technologies used for cooking worldwide. It contributes directly to the creation of policies aimed at the mitigation of climate change. Historically, wood is considered humanity's first source of energy. Even after decades of use and industrialization processes, it is still considered the most important single source of renewable energy. About a third of the world's population is energetically dependent on wood for cooking and/or heating. Recently, the Covid-19 pandemic made it impossible to purchase fuels such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), forcing families in financial difficulties to opt for cheaper and more accessible sources of en...