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Calixta Editores
Calixta Editores is a Colombian publishing house, creative and avant-garde, whose main objective is to support and promote literary culture and to generate cultural spaces, where opportunities are created to share new projects and opinions.We are a company that has been consolidating itself in the market for six years as a proper publisher, well-known for the publication of new authors, especially Colombians. Our purpose is to spread and encourage the culture of reading and writing to generate active participation from authors in the cultural and artistic movement of the country.Divided into five thematic lines, we have more than 100 titles and 70 authors, what makes us one of the most active independent publishing on the market.
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Children's & YAFootball: the game that changed the world
by Laurent Nicolet and Lev Virovets
Is it true that the first football players in Russia entertained the public between bicycle races? Why did bachelors and married men have to play against each other? Is it possible to cheat, to deceive the referee and win the world championship? What teams did the Little Mozart, Black Spider and Black Panther play for? Most people never ask such questions, while the authors of this book have not only asked them, but also found the answers. This is an exciting history of football from the very beginning till present day, for both children and adults, either long-standing fans or those trying to understand what inspires their friends and family.
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Unico grande amore
A trip through Italy thanks to football
by Toni Padilla
This trip through Italy is not intended to arrive as soon as possible. The guide is Toni Padilla, who, accompanied by a ball, and based on themes such as death, music, cheese or stickers, is impregnated with the country's double soul. Here are the majestic Italy and the Italy massacred by prejudices, lying on this journey from north to south and from east to west. The raw material of the stories, which are only on the author's radar, are the walks through the homeland of Benito Mussolini, Rafaella Carrà or Francesco Totti. Its pages are a map where memories are celebrated and goals are savored. Written with detailed prose and a leisurely gaze, they seem from another era, now that we don't have time for everything. But calcium is in no rush to get off this train.
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FictionSeptember 2020Il Benefattore di Emozioni
by Luca Platini
Una coppia di ladruncoli in tour per le periferie di mezzo continente. Un imprenditore cui è stato rapito l'unico erede. Un investigatore alle prese con una precoce arteriosclerosi. Un oste incapace di credere all'anima gemella. Un pittore sulla via dell'ispirazione perduta. Due sposini in viaggio di nozze. Una vedova in cerca di un nuovo legame con il figlio. Un commissario cui la fortuna volta improvvisamente le spalle. Quattro universitari in trasferta per un addio al celibato. Tante storie normali dentro una grande storia, piccole strade destinate a incrociarsi. Nelle "notti magiche" dei Mondiali di calcio di Italia '90 , un piccolo centro all'estremo sud della Spagna diventa il teatro di un bestiario di vite sospese, che si interseca pagina dopo pagina.Nel frattempo giornali, radio e televisioni si interrogano su un crescendo di azioni eclatanti che avvengono in tutta Europa, rivendicate da un gruppo capeggiato da un individuo che si firma “Il Benefattore di Emozioni”. Una follia oscura che sembra lontana anni luce. Ma in un lampo le distanze possono azzerarsi e solo allora, troppo tardi, si realizza di essere tutti in pericolo.
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Poor rich Brazil. Stories from a big country that fails to become a great country
Storie di un paese grande che non riesce a diventare un grande paese
by Franco Vaselli
Tre ‘c’ a magnificarne le eccellenze: caffè, calcio, carnevale.E tre ‘p’ a marcarne le realtà scomode: pobres, pretos, prostitutas. Terra di inebrianti mulatte, di musiche dall'allegria contagiosa, di risorse naturali senza pari e di inimitabili campioni del calcio – da Pelé a Garrincha, da Zico a Sócrates.Ma anche terra delle favelas e degli squadroni della morte, delle mamme-bambine e delle enormi disparità sociali, del genocidio degli indi e della distruzione dell’Amazzonia. Un paese grande, il quinto al mondo, che da sempre aspira a diventare un grande paese e che, dai militari a Dilma Rousseff, questo ha sempre promesso ai suoi pazienti abitanti. Un paese in cui calcio, carnevale e sesso sono stati usati come narcotici per evitare la rivolta e le telenovelas come il circo dei romani, per divertire e distrarre la gente. In questo reportage ‘vissuto da dentro’, Franco Vaselli racconta i molti volti di un paese a lui caro e squarcia il velo sulle ipocrisie e gli stereotipi della più grande democrazia sudamericana, raccontando storie e personaggi che vi faranno conoscere meglio il Brasile, nel bene e nel male. Con l’obiettivo dichiarato di contribuire ad abbattere i troppi luoghi comuni che lo circondano.
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Sports governing bodiesOctober 2020Football and Fascism
by Cristóbal Villalobos Salas
Football is a game, a passion, a form of social gathering, a business; and, therefore, also an effective tool for controlling the masses. Thanks to its unrivaled ability to create myths and to the intrinsic epic of the game, this sport has been exploited since its dawn as mean of ideological propaganda as well as, more recently, for commercial uses. The first ones to realize its immense power of suggestion were perhaps the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, who, in their eagerness to cut across all strata of society, used this popular discipline as a rudimentary but also powerful instrument of political marketing. These pages bring together the most meaningful episodes of this disturbing symbiosis between football and fascist dictatorships; anecdotes, feats —some tragic and others downright bizarre— in which football has been used as a blindfold to cover the eyes of the masses. It worked perfectly as a vehicle for indoctrination, fitting into the delirious propaganda designs conceived by the tyrants of those times. The book is divided into three parts: Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany, Franco's Spain and Salazar's Portugal, as well as some Latin American dictatorships.
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BOTTECCHIA
THE FORCED OF THE ROAD
by PAOLO FACCHINETTI
The extraordinary story of Ottavio Bottecchia, a Venetian carter from San Martino di Colle Umberto, a war hero, a starving racer in his early thirties, an immediate champion, rich and celebrated, who died suddenly and mysteriously. A book that departs from the many biographies published on the Venetian cyclist that have mainly recounted the Bottecchia-man, investigating the causes of his tragic end, without putting the Bottecchia-athlete at the centre of the story. This biography has been reconstructed with wide-ranging research, introducing elements that have hitherto been ignored or neglected, such as the chronicles in Venetian dialect that Bottecchia provided in 1923 to the Guerin Sportivo or the detailed account of Bottecchia's trip to Buenos Aires in 1925, where he was invited by the Italians of the Club Atletico Huracan.
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FictionOctober 2020Il Caso Sindelar
Le inchieste del Commissario Baroni
by Carlo Bazan, Carlo Rispoli
Milan, 1939. Commissioner Andrea Baroni, of the Porta Vittoria Police Station, is engaged in a special investigation. Twelve-year-old Matthias Sindelar spent his days, with his peers, kicking an old leather ball in the middle of the street. Soccer was his passion, he was noticed by the team selector Herta ASV in Vienna and from there he took off towards a well-deserved career and the number ten jersey of the Austrian national team. So far it would seem a story like that of many sports champions. But it is not so. Sindelar, who was called by the fans the Mozart of soccer, for his drunken dribbling, has actually become a symbol of the struggle against all dictatorships and regimes and at the same time a mystery, a mystery, which is still debated today.
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Drop the belly
Lose weight and be fit with the new Mediterranean diet
by Francesca Beretta
The Italian nutritionist Francesca Beretta is presenting a new diet that, if combined with hydration and physical activity, is perfect to get back in shape. The new measure unit is the belt: for every month of this diet, the belt will be fasten one less hole. Five holes in five months. The volume explains how to set the diet and to continue on the path to reach the goals and keeping the results. In the book, there are many focuses and in-depth curiosities on how to pick the ingredients, the weekly diet schemes and many tasty andhealthy recipes.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureApril 2021Sueños de la Euro
El torneo que reconcilió a un continente
by Miguel L. Pereira
As Paul Auster once said, football is the miracle that allowed Europe to hate itself without destroying itself. The ball has done more than any other political project for brotherhood in a land too used to fighting with itself. After each conflict, it was necessary for the ball to be there to make the continent a space of union and not a perpetual trench. For this reason, every time the European Championship is held, there is a part of the world that looks into each other's eyes and shakes hands. For this reason, when we write about the 60 years of history of this emblematic tournament, we are really drawing our memories, our fears and our desires as Europeans. Because the dreams of Delaunay, Panenka, Charisteas, Aragonés or Éder are also our dreams.
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2020Higher and Higher
by Guia Risari, Daniela Iride Murgia
In the garden, up against the tree, there are two tall, tall poles. They’re so tall that you can’t even see the top. I think about it for a little while and then start to climb. The view from up here is wonderful! I can see the fields, the lake, and the mountain. From up here, the trees look like bushes and the sky seems so close. “That’s dangerous! Get down from there!” Mom stamps her foot. So begins an extraordinary adventure, as the child keeps climbing higher and higher and higher….
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Children's & YAA war against profs!
Leonardo Damiani and Sister Bernardina’s Miracle
by Maggi Andrea
GUERRA AI PROF! Leonardo Damiani e il miracolo di suor Bernardina (A war against profs! Leonardo Damiani and Sister Bernardina’s Miracle) 3 reprints, 3000 copies sold Genre: fiction middle-grade/YA Age: 11+ Pages: 156 Leonardo goes to secondary school, and enjoys inventing pranks, such as throwing a dog at the postman and adding laxative to the teachers’ coffee. He doesn’t like studying, and he is always playing videogames. But one day Leonardo becomes himself the target of a prank, and in trying to fix the damage he meets the almost centenary nun Bernardina, a distant relative. The old lady will prove extremely funny and, against all odds, the two will became close friends. Bernardina will eventually help Leonardo to solve his problems once and for all.
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Children's & YAOctober 2020Wrong
by Matilde Piran, Andrea Falcone
Wrong is the story of a journey: Davide and Elisa, both 15, are on the run, looking for a place to be themselves. It’s also the story of a friendship and the search for a common language to express all those emotions that the two just can’t deal with.Davide is the invisible boy. He doesn’t like or dislike anything specific, girls and boys frighten him equally, he doesn’t fit in with any particular group, and he doesn’t know how to approach his own desires.Elisa’s family has just moved to the city from a small town so that her kid brother can get the therapy he needs. She doesn’t know anyone yet. What she knows is that her half-wit brother, will not help her make new friends.Through text and images, the story snowballs towards the meeting between Davide and Elisa, and between two different ways to go wrong and be wrong - and to do it together.
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Children's & YAFuture Atlas
by Enrico Passoni
How will our future look like? This volume recounts, through clear and funny illustrations, the life of a typical family of 2050. The main themes are represented with two large boards: an introductive scene to contextualize the subject, focusing on items and everyday situations, and the following spread zooming in with realistic examples of the various innovations which will characterize our daily life. Every item represented in the book is actually going to exist, based on scientific records and discove so that children of today will learn about the actual future they are going to live in.
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Football (Soccer, Association football)February 2020Rivalidades crónicas
10 ciudades europeas a través de sus derbis
by Jordi Brescó and Pau Riera
Football shapes cities, and derbies turn them upside down. Two friends travel to ten European cities (Istanbul, Belfast, Belgrade, Sheffield...) to narrate and photograph them, and use football as their gateway and common thread. Because the king of sports is an instrument as effective as any other to delve into the political, social, economic and cultural reality of a place.
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FictionI am Nirvana. The story of Kurt Cobain
by Andrea Biscaro
Kurt è la rock star più famosa del pianeta. Ha appena ventisette anni, ma ha già vissuto tutto. Adesso è solo, lontano dai riflettori e dai palchi, senza amici, senza più voglia di scrivere e di suonare, blindato tra le pareti dorate della sua reggia di Seattle. Nella detonazione dello sparo Kurt rivive tutta la sua vita: l'infanzia ad Aberdeen, i locali, la nascita dei Nirvana, il primo contratto con la Sub Pop, la droga, il successo planetario e improvviso di Nevermind, il grunge, l'amore disperato per Courtney Love, la dipendenza dall'eroina, le tournée mondiali, la nascita di Frances Bean, In Utero, il policlinico di Roma, le disintossicazioni, Unplugged in New York. Fino a quel maledetto fucile Remington... A fargli immancabile compagnia è la voce di quell’amico misterioso al cui abbraccio mortale non saprà sfuggire.
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Children's & YADiscovering Food
Find out how it's made
by Andrea Minoglio
Where does the food we eat come from? The book, through splendid illustrations, explains to children and adults how the good things we find on our table are made: chocolate, honey, salt, rice, popcorn will have no more secrets. A first double shows the main raw material from which the product derives, with many curiosities about the varieties and the production area. A part dedicated to the supply chain follows, with clear and immediate texts that recount the long journey that each food takes before arriving to us.
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MedicineMedicina en tu cocina
Cómo los alimentos benefician al sistema inmune
by Susan Bueno y Claudia Riedel
El sistema inmune está compuesto por células y tejidos cuya principal función es defendernos de elementos potencialmente dañinos para nuestra salud, protegiendo y respetando nuestros propios tejidos. Lo que comemos tiene un efecto directo en el funcionamiento de nuestras defensas, por lo que la correcta elección de los alimentos es fundamental para la salud del sistema inmune. Medicina en tu cocina: cómo los alimentos benefician al sistema inmune entrega información sobre cómo algunos alimentos benefician o perjudican el funcionamiento del sistema inmune. Conocer aquellos alimentos que son más beneficiosos y aquellos que pueden perjudicar nuestras defensas nos ayuda a elegir una dieta que mejore nuestra calidad de vida y la de nuestros seres queridos. Los alimentos que más benefician al sistema inmune nos ayudan a vivir de manera más saludable y… ¡son deliciosos! "El buen funcionamiento de nuestro sistema inmune no es infalible y esto queda evidenciado por el creciente número, a nivel mundial, de enfermedades asociadas al sistema inmune. Entre estas afecciones se encuentran las enfermedades autoinmunes, inflamatorias, los tumores y las alergias. Por este motivo, en este libro aprenderemos sobre el efecto de la alimentación en el correcto funcionamiento del sistema inmune".
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Children's & YA2019Animal Love
A Crazy Flirt
by Ángeles Quinteros, Ángeles Vargas
We hug, kiss and cuddle when we are in love. We want to always be close to that special person and even surprise them with gifts. All these actions also take part in the animal kingdom, but not only that! Animals also present a range of endless strange behaviors that will leave you speechless: chases, choreographies and tricks are only some of the things animals do to flirt their mating partners in order to stay together. A book with a sense of humour, but with a scientific and theoretical basis, full of unusual and amusing facts that aim to arouse your curiosity through simple texts, but incorporating the terms used in this specific field, what will broaden the reader's lexicon.
