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Literature & Literary StudiesEl faro
by Felipe González A.
La desaparición de su primo Rodrigo a los pies del faro de Playa Ancha guía los recuerdos fragmentados de un estudiante universitario de Valparaíso: sus amores inciertos y relaciones ambiguas siguen la hebra de la memoria de un suicidio sospechoso o un asesinato que nunca se pudo probar. Años más tarde, el pasado revela un lado luminoso y conocido, pero también uno oscuro y misterioso, como la intermitencia de un faro con el que se intenta alumbrar los hechos ocurridos. Esta novela, escrita con una prosa limpia y emotiva, ganó el primer premio de los Juegos Literarios Gabriela Mistral el año 2019.
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FictionJune 2020Drawings of Hiroshima
by Marcelo Simonetti
“The sky was covered with grey clouds. The drizzle was lighter than normal, almost pious. The Japanese were advancing through the streets with short, fast steps. Satoru was ahead of them. He pedaled at a good pace. From his bicycle seat, the city revealed itself to his eyes as a sequence of frames. It was strange to be there, in his grandfather's city, and to ride through it as he had probably never done before: on two wheels. Even so, the possibility that the route he was taking would intersect with the routes that his grandfather had taken when he was a child, provoked an intimate emotion in him. Those landscapes were over eighty years old, including an atomic bomb, but it was the land where Ryu Nakata had learned to walk, to speak, to read”. The death of his grandfather, awakens in the young Yasuhiro Nakata the desire to know the family history, especially after finding a letter in which he discovers another side of the old man whose last words were: 'Hiroshima, Hiroshima', warning of the existence of a secret. As a result, Yasuhiro embarks on a journey that will take him from Valparaiso to Hiroshima, where his grandfather emigrated ten years before the atomic disaster. This is the beginning of Drawings of Hiroshima— a charming story that allows readers to follow the protagonist on a journey in which he not only reconnects with his Japanese origins, but also questions his present, his interpersonal relationships and his interest in writing, deepening the unconscious desire to understand the role that he plays in a story that is not his own but yet challenges him directly. With this new release, Marcelo Simonetti addresses issues such as migration and identity, connecting the historic Chilean port of Valparaiso with the memory of the tragedy occured in the Japanese city.
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BoxingJuly 2015Dempsey and the Wild Bull
The Four Minute Fight of the Century
by John Jarrett
They still call it the most sensational fight ever for the world heavyweight championship, between champion Jack Dempsey and his hammer-fisted Argentine challenger, Luis Angel Firpo. Back in the Roaring Twenties, 85,000 packed into New York's Polo Grounds to see all three minutes fifty-seven seconds of it. Nobody asked for their money back. In the first round Firpo was floored seven times, but got up to deck the champion, then knocked him clean into the press section. Pushed back into the ring as the count reached nine, the champion survived the round, thinking he had been knocked out. In round two, Dempsey knocked Firpo out in fifty-seven seconds. The four-minute Fight of the Century was over! 'The Wild Bull of the Pampas' became Argentina's most famous citizen, after the infamous Perons. Dempsey, half a million dollars richer, rested and rusted for three years before losing his title to Gene Tunney.
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June 2010Picturing Victorian America
Prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, Connecticut, 1830-1880
by Edited by Nancy Finlay, other Kate Steinway
A landmark reference on 19th-century American lithographic production
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Children's & YA2019ALTAIR
"Y LA LUZ DEL PODER"
by LUIS SAAVEDRA
“En un futuro cercano, los últimos humanos sobreviven refugiándose en la Antártica. La ciudad fue sellada con fuertes vidrios y metales para mantenerla libre de cualquier peligro, pero en estos momentos, los recursos han comenzado a escasear. Altair, un joven que está a punto de cumplir la mayoría de edad, se ve enfrentado a grandes desafíos: descubrir el origen de sus extrañas capacidades, luchar por la libertad, y encontrar el camino hacia la restauración natural del planeta en un lugar llamado Sawken Kreen”“Altair y la luz del poder” es una Novela Gráfica infantil de ciencia ficción y fantasía para niños jóvenes lectores que toma la mitología de los Selknam y la Patagonia para presentarla de una forma entretenida y dinámica a través del dibujo, Cómic digital y un juego promocional para smart phones.
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May 2022VERMOUTH DI TORINO
dai liquorosi del Settecento il vino profumato che inebria il mondo
by GIUSI MAINARDI
Il Vermouth di Torino è per eccellenza un simbolo dell’aperitivo in tutto il mondo. Nasce nel 1700 dalla maestria dei liquoristi torinesi, poi diventa un prodotto esportato ovunque. Immagini indimenticabili sono state create da importanti artisti per la sua réclame. Stupende etichette con la loro speciale grafica ne hanno portato e ne portano il nome in mille Paesi. Questo vino sta vivendo un’epoca di grande apprezzamento, tanto da aver ottenuto dall’Unione Europea il riconoscimento dell’Indicazione Geografica che identifica e sancisce il legame con una terra, una tradizione, un “saper fare” unico. Bevuto puro o in celeberrimi cocktail, il Vermouth di Torino è protagonista di un racconto avvincente che parte dalla mondana “ora del Vermouth” tipica di Torino, per giungere al moderno rito sociale dell’“happy hour".
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History of engineering & technologyDecember 2013The Contractors
The Story of British Civil Engineering Contractors
by Hugh Ferguson , Mike Chimes (Author)
Fully illustrated in colour, The Contractors, is the first history of the challenges and adventures faced by British civil engineering contractors from their emergence with canal construction in the late-eighteenth century to the present day. Extraordinarily ambitious, largely unrecognised men who built the world’s infrastructure – its roads and railways, canals and bridges, docks and harbours, lighthouses and breakwaters, sea works and flood defences, water supply and irrigation, urban drainage and sewerage, gas works and power stations, and buildings of all shapes and sizes – these contractors took considerable risks, many failed in the process but others thrived and developed into some of the most powerful and influential industrialists of their day. Including profiles of many of the key figures and organisations in the industry through the ages, The Contractors explains what the business is about and where it comes from, sharing with a wider audience the exploits of these adventurers, haracterised by their inspiring leadership, sheer hard work, a strong constitution and perseverance in the face of adversity. Over time, the contractor has changed: from the great Victorian contractors, towering men whose business was their personal affair, through the twentieth century which has seen the rise of the corporate contractor, specialist contractors and the blurring of the distinction between consulting engineers and contractors, to the larger firms of recent years becoming larger through merger and acquisition but, as the examples in this book demonstrate, there is still room for the entrepreneur with vision, leadership and drive to become a highly successful contractor. The Contractors is a compulsory read for all those working in the industry, including civil engineers, those interested in the industry and its impact on the world, and the wider public. Readers will experience the boom of the canal and railway eras, working at home and abroad, the difficulties and opportunities brought by wars, the equipment used and the specialists and sub-contractors of today, fully illustrated with unique material from ICE and the firms themselves. Following the success of The Civil Engineers, Hugh Ferguson BSc(Eng) CEng FICE MCIHT and Mike Chrimes MBE BA MLS MCLIP bring their extensive experience and unique insight and passion to civil engineering contractors.
