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Cuando cinco estudiantes de preparatoria se unen para competir por las vacantes para una prestigiosa escuela de Bermuda, lejos están de imaginar la aventura espeluznante que les espera. Entre extrañas pesadillas, acechadores enigmáticos y un imperioso deseo de abandonar Oklahoma, Sam, Jake, Becky, Marion y Maximus deberán someterse a una competencia que pondrá a prueba el intelecto, la destreza física y el trabajo en equipo. Un logro imposible. Una oportunidad inesperada. Y a bordo de un crucero, un sueño se convertirá en una pesadilla sin precedentes. Perdidos en una tierra desolada y sombría, los cinco estudiantes tendrán que protegerse de criaturas que no descansarán hasta hacerlos parte de ese tenebroso mundo. La amistad, el romance y el humor acompañarán a sus protagonistas a través de esta historia cargada de suspenso y terror, en la que juntos deberán superar sus diferencias y buscar una forma de regresar a casa.
About Trees considers our relationship with language, landscape, perception, and memory in the Anthropocene. The book includes texts and artwork by a stellar line up of contributors including Jorge Luis Borges, Andrea Bowers, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Lovelace and dozens of others. Holten was artist in residence at Buro BDP. While working on the book she created an alphabet and used it to make a new typeface called Trees. She also made a series of limited edition offset prints based on her Tree Drawings.
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In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the “City of Eternal Spring” is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad ...
A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese feminist literature originally published in 1978, Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and underappreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzburg, Ingeborg Bachmann, Silvina Ocampo, and Armonia Somers. Empty Wardrobes is a tightly plotted, highly entertaining read, that, thanks to an ingenious detached narrative technique (one that makes the plot all the more fun to revisit and rethink), is both darkly humorous and devastatingly true.
From a young Palestinian writer comes this compelling look at the Israel/Palestine conflict, from both the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1949 as well as that of a young Palestinian woman.
The 2019 Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights provides an extract of the principal jurisprudence of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Part One contains the Decisions on the Merits of the Commission, and Part Two the Judgments and Decisions of the Court. The Yearbook is partly published as an English-Spanish bilingual edition. Some parts are in English or Spanish only. Two volume set.
Documents the emergence of a pattern of political instability in Latin America. Traditional military coups have receded in the region, but elected presidents are still ousted from power as a result of recurrent crises. Aníbal Pérez-Liñán shows that presidential impeachment has become the main constitutional instrument employed by civilian elites to depose unpopular rulers. Based on detailed comparative research in five countries and extensive historical information, the book explains why crises without breakdown have become the dominant form of instability in recent years and why some presidents are removed from office while others survive in power. The analysis emphasizes the erosion of presidential approval resulting from corruption and unpopular policies, the formation of hostile coalitions in Congress, and the role of investigative journalism. This book challenges classic assumptions in studies of presidentialism and provides important insights for the fields of political communication, democratization, political behaviour, and institutional analysis.
La muestra presenta el Cuaderno n{486} 7 de "Les demoiselles d'Avignon" junto a una veintena de piezas de arte africano próximas por semejanza formal y procedencia a las que tuvo el propio Picasso en su colección. En las "Demoiselles", Picasso desordena o deconstruye los principios estéticos occidentales de imitación y equilibrio para proponer una visión más compleja: la confluencia de puntos de vista distintos, una nueva concepción del equilibrio, una belleza sorprendente por su rigor geométrico y su contundencia matérica, la réplica a la perspectiva tradicional, etc. Un universo personalísimo que abre brechas en los cánones heredados de la representación artística tradicional, valiéndose muchas veces del influjo de otras culturas.