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Tras descubrirse el cadáver de un joven, con indicios de haber sido brutalmente violado, Robert, pareja de la víctima, decide contratar los servicios de la detective privada Felisa Karr. Se inicia así una trepidante investigación que llevará a la detective a sumergirse en los ambientes más sórdidos del sexo duro, donde entrará en contacto con una extraña organización sexual denominada «La Serpiente Arco Iris». Bajo la coartada de la libertad sexual, la jerarquía de este misterioso grupo impone un estricto código de comportamiento a sus miembros. Descubrirlo será la clave para resolver el caso pero ¿cómo conseguirá la detective adentrase en una organización exclusivamente m...
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El libro analiza la relación entre vanguardia y humorismo gráfico en dos periodos históricos críticos: la Guerra Civil Española (1936-1939) y los primeros años de la Revolución Cubana (1959-1961). The book studielation between the avant-garde and graphic humour in two critical historical periods: the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the early years of the Cuban Revolution (1959-1961).
In her first illustrated book for children, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Toni Morrison introduces three feisty children who show grown-ups what it really means to be a kid.
When Echo's human friend, Rebecca Silver, is kidnapped by a witch who wants her for an assistant, Echo and the Bat Pack must risk their lives to rescue her.
Architecture as Experience investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empirical research and animate it through contact with theoretical sophistication, without overwhelming the material. The chapters establish the continuity of a particular physical object and show it in at least two alternative historical perspectives, in which recognisable features are shown in different lights. The results are often surprising, inverting the common idea of a historic place as having an enduring meaning. This book shows the insight that can be gained from learning about earlier constructions of meaning which have been derived from the same buildings that stand before us today.
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This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade. After the catastrophic decline of Amerindian populations on the islands, two major African provenance zones, first Upper Guinea and then Angola, contributed forced migrant populations with distinct experiences to the Caribbean. They played a dynamic role in the social formation of early Spanish colonial society in the fortified port cities of Cartagena de Indias, Havana, Santo Domingo, and Panama City and their semirural hinterlands. David ...