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Could legendary composer Chopin have been part of a secret conspiracy to save the free world from the greatest threat in its millenary history? In 1913, Barcelona was a city in social and cultural turmoil. A few months after the unexplainable disappearance of Subinspector Morillo in a mysterious Casino hidden in the mountains, Inés will be hunted by a sinister secret organization that has spent centuries searching for a mysterious object that can forever alter the balance of power in the world. Given the lack of any official explanation, and determined to find out what happened to Morillo, she will enlist the help of some unlikely allies in a dangerous quest that will take her from the Barc...
Vibrant and soulful love stories featuring African-American heroes and heroines in compelling emotional conflicts. She meets him at a sizzling hot spot in Acapulco. . . and spends the night swaying in his arms.
Can we communicate with those waiting for us into the light at the end of the tunnel? Marc, a recently divorced art restoration expert cannot believe his son when the kid tells him he is having phone conversations with his grandfather, who has been dead for years. 1140 AD: a young friar on a secret mission will risk his life to protect a mysterious box that he hides within the walls of the Benedictine Monastery of Sant Pere de Rodes, where it will remain hidden for centuries. When a mysterious stranger hires Marc to decode the symbols carved on a millenary clay tablet, he will soon be on the trail of one of mankind’s best-kept secrets, the potential existence of a portal to communicate dir...
When a proposition sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Elsa’s life is falling apart, abandoned by her partner, homeless, jobless, a young single mother of a 1-year-old baby. When she receives a mysterious and unexpected proposition to leave Barcelona and move to France, all expenses paid, to live and work in a magnificent castle, surrounded by horses, forests, and beautiful lakes, she jumps at the opportunity, eager to start a new life. But Lacroix Castle has been hiding a dark secret since World War II, when it had become the summer residence of Marshall Pétain, head of the French collaborationist government with Nazi Germany. Elsa has awoken a terrifying enemy. Will she find the inner strength to face it and save her family?
This edited volume explores the different ways in which members of the European Union have interacted with Kosovo since it declared independence in 2008. While there is a tendency to think of EU states in terms of two distinct groups – those that have recognised Kosovo and those that have not – the picture is more complex. Taking into account also the quality and scope of their engagement with Kosovo, there are four broad categories of member states that can be distinguished: the strong and weak recognisers and the soft and hard non-recognisers. In addition to casting valuable light on the relations between various EU members and Kosovo, this book also makes an important contribution to the way in which the concepts of recognition and engagement, and their relationship to each other, are understood in academic circles and by policy makers.
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The three-volume set LNCS 8149, 8150, and 8151 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2013, held in Nagoya, Japan, in September 2013. Based on rigorous peer reviews, the program committee carefully selected 262 revised papers from 789 submissions for presentation in three volumes. The 86 papers included in the second volume have been organized in the following topical sections: registration and atlas construction; microscopy, histology, and computer-aided diagnosis; motion modeling and compensation; segmentation; machine learning, statistical modeling, and atlases; computer-aided diagnosis and imaging biomarkers; physiological modeling, simulation, and planning; microscope, optical imaging, and histology; cardiology; vasculatures and tubular structures; brain segmentation and atlases; and functional MRI and neuroscience applications.
Analyses with rare impartiality what sets the Catalans apart from Spain, and how the separatist debate is playing out.
A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movements A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland. This first sustained comparative study uncovers the similarities and the contrasts between the Scottish and Catalan experiences across a five-hundred-year period, beginning with the royal marriages that brought about union with their more powerful neighbors, England and Castile respectively, and following the story through the centuries from the end of the Middle Ages until today’s dramatic events. J. H. ...
Hispanic Studies; Literature; Latin American Studies.