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My Soviet Youth
Putting on gas masks and learning how to shoot Kalashnikov rifles in grade school made Soviet children fear possible attack by Cold War enemies. But a more prosaic invasion of Colorado beetles in the 1980s turned out to be a far more real threat to Soviet families. Many had to master farming when the state, near its demise, no longer had the finances to pay salaries. One of the last generation of Soviet teenagers who tasted the political restrictions and propaganda, and the benefits and deficits of the communist state, the author recalls her early years in a Soviet school, a Young Pioneer inauguration ceremony, work on a collective farm, her family's plot of land and their fights against invasive insects, and her first breaths of post-Soviet freedom, which brought economic havoc and bitter disappointments, along with new hopes.
The Adventures of a Cello
A delightful biography of a celebrated Stradivarius cello and an inviting overview of cello music and its preeminent composers and performers by world-famous concert cellist Carlos Prieto.
The Inwardness of Things
The Inwardness of Things considers Joseph Conrad as a modern voice in an ancient and enduring quarrel between the poets and the philosophers. Beginning from the polemical poetics of his 1897 preface, Debra Romanick Baldwin focuses on Conrad’s distinctively poetic “inward” approach to truth – an inwardness that is found in lived experience, in language, and in the world beyond the individual. The book traces Conrad’s poetic voice from the rhetoric of his private letters to the narrative techniques of his fiction and finally to his explicit engagement with abstract approaches to truth. Baldwin applies narrative and rhetorical analysis to Conrad’s private correspondence, showing how...
El Iluminado
When young Rolando Pérez falls to his death from a cliff outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, the mysteries immediately begin to accumulate. Was he pushed or did he jump? What are the documents that Rolando was willing sacrifice himself to protect from his family, the police, and the Catholic Church? And what does a colorful concha pastry have to do with any of this? In the midst of the investigation, Professor Ilan Stavans arrives in Santa Fe to give a lecture about the area's long-buried Jewish history. He's looking forward to relaxing afterwards with an evening of opera, but his presentation on “crypto-Jews” attracts unexpected attention, and soon Ilan is drawn into a desperate race to find...
XIX Olympiad
The year 1968 is commonly remembered for the massive social and political upheaval occurring around the world at the time, but it was also the year of the Olympic Games of Mexico City. XIX Olympiad, the seventeenth volume in The American Century series, tells the story of one of the most exciting and controversial Olympics of the modern era. In addition to being the first Olympics held in Latin America, the Mexico Games were also held at high altitude, a factor that likely contributed to the many record-breaking performances. Among these was Bob Beamon's incredible gold-medal-winning 8.9-metre long jump, a record that would stand for 23 years, and Al Oerter's fourth consecutive gold medal in...
Amores sanos y de los otros
La autora realiza un recorrido por diferentes aristas del mundo vincular de parejas, intentando describir cómo se manifiestan las relaciones sanas y sus modos disfuncionales. El texto es nutrido por experiencias reales narradas por consultantes en el contexto psicoterapéutico, ayudando a comprender que detrás de las conceptualizaciones existen personas que aman, disfrutan, aprenden, sufren, se atascan en sus neurosis y buscan resolver sus necesidades existenciales con mayor o menor éxito. El lector es invitado a adentrarse en los modos de construcción de la pareja, su capacidad comunicacional, su intimidad física y emocional, el balance posible entre familia y pareja y algunos modos pa...
Olímpics tarragonins. La història dels 28 esportistes del Camp de Tarragona i de les Terres de l’Ebre que han participat en els Jocs
Diuen els qui l'han tastada que es tracta d'una experiència única, gairebé irrepetible. Prendre part en uns Jocs Olímpics és el somni de qualsevol esportista. La desfilada a l'estadi, l'encesa de la flama, el debut en la competició, els rivals, la convivència a la vila... són instants que perduraran sempre per als 28 representants del Camp de Tarragona i les Terres de l'Ebre que fi ns ara han tingut l'ocasió de ser olímpics. Els seus records i vivències són l'objectiu d'aquest llibre, que ret un homenatge a tots aquests grans atletes, que mai no haurien de caure en l'oblit.
Afrodescendances, cultures et citoyenneté
Être afrodescendant et jouir de la pleine citoyenneté s'avère une question sensible partout dans le monde. Les demandes sociales des afrodescendants sont partout et renvoient à la reconnaissance, ce qui veut dire devenir pleinement sujet de droit sans nier pour autant la mémoire du passé et le rapport identitaire aux références et aux récits qui construisent les riches cultures élaborées par les afrodescendants, cela tant sur le plan local que sur le plan transnational, en même temps qu'à une demande d'engagement politique de la part des Etats qui doivent trouver des solutions aux problèmes collectifs des afrodescendants le plus souvent aux prises avec la pauvreté et un faible...
Say Goodbye (The Sacramento Series Book 3)
Pre-order the brand new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose. The closer you get to the truth, the more dangerous it gets. FBI Agent Tom Hunter has been chasing down leads to find the brutal cult that damaged some of his closest friends. They managed to escape to tell their stories, but Eden's location has always remained a mystery. Liza Barkley is struggling with her feelings for Tom and wonders if their friendship can survive the secrets they've kept from one another. But they may be forced to confront the truth when a chance to help the investigation puts Liza directly in the line of fire. When the perpetrator of an attempted sniper attack on Liza and her friends is discovered to be one of the cult's leaders, DJ Belmont, it becomes clear that he is out to get revenge on the victims who escaped Eden's clutches. But there is one person who has always had control over DJ, and who no one outside of Eden has ever glimpsed: cult leader Pastor. When a serious injury forces Pastor to seek help outside the confines of the Eden, Tom and his team finally have a chance to bring the cult down. But DJ Belmont has his own plan, and is not going to stop until he gets what he wants...
Las mujeres salmón
«Nada como el salmón explica el transcurrir de las mujeres en el deporte. Siempre a contracorriente, aunque le cueste la vida; porque cuando desova no muere, sino que ya puede irse: su semilla está puesta». De Lilí Álvarez, la primera, en los Juegos Olímpicos de París 1924, al #SeAcabó que un siglo después entonó al unísono la selección femenina de fútbol que se acababa de coronar campeona del mundo: esta es una historia de muchas mujeres navegando río arriba para abrir puertas y derribar muros. Carmen Valero, Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Gemma Mengual, Mireia Belmonte, Edurne Pasaban, Teresa Perales, Carolina Marín, Virginia Torrecilla... Sus éxitos tienenuna lectura individual, pero la magnitud de la hazaña de Las mujeres salmón solo se entiende en conjunto. Suya es la mayor victoria en equipo de la historia del deporte español.
