Compendio general e innecesario de cosas que nunca pensó que le fueran a importar

What would you do if you found out you only had months to live? In Jenny Downham's debut novel, Tessa must grapple with this situation. This book will make all readers reflect upon the true value of things.

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...

Vaun Adams es una de las pintoras mas cotizadas y admiradas de su tiempo. Sus cuadros son celebres. Pero de ella solo se conoce el nombre. Nadie ha visto nunca su rostro. Ahora, en la tranquila comunidad en la que Vaun Adams ha instalado su refugio, se han cometido unos crimenes terribles a los que nadie encuentra explicacion. La detective del departamento de homicidios de San Francisco, Kate Martinelli, se he encargado del caso. La investigacion de los asesinatos le llevara muy cerca de Vaun Adams y de su oscuro pasado. Tan cerca que las consecuencias podrian acabar con todo aquello por lo...

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology ...