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August 2022Altopía
1. La traición
by Barrientos, Alejandro; Cuevas, Joaquín
It is the year 2053 and El Alto celebrates its tenth anniversary as the capital of the New Kollasuyo. Metropolis of the Andes, continental scrap metal market, second-hand industrial engine, robotic garbage supply, recipient of Chinese colonies, host of technosophical cyber-religions, world headquarters of the cholet and the highest popular fair on the planet, the city of the future is the mirror of our dreams. Don't let them talk you out of it: the future is now!
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August 2023Klaus Babie
La ruta de la rata
by Bauer, Jean-Claude; Brremaud, Frédéric
Responsible for the death of hundreds of Jews and members of the resistance, including Jean Moulin, SS Klaus Barbie escaped justice and a double death sentence at the end of World War II. He exchanged his native Germany for South America, where he applied the same methods and even organized the coup d'état of the dictator Hugo Banzer. A true mercenary, nicknamed the Butcher of Lyon, he was finally identified and hunted down until 1987, the fateful year of his trial and conviction, unprecedented in France: life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.
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April 2022Doble vida
by Magnus, Ariel
Can anyone deceive the loved one in order to protect him or her from the cruel truth of love? Like broken magnets that first repel and then attract each other, the characters of this comical tragedy of entanglements swing between love and lovelessness, between fantasy and reality, between dream and wakefulness. In the confusion of these parallel lives, they stray into a diffuse reality that becomes clear when they all accept that they have deceived and been deceived. In his extensive and brilliant literary career, Ariel Magnus usually approaches from a marginal sector the crucial issues that are being debated in society. As if he had an antenna capable of capturing the sign of the times, but with a certain lag that makes him decode reality from the eccentric -in the sense of being out of the center- and, therefore, paradoxically, in a sharper, more forceful and notably more uncomfortable way. His style is recognizable in the marks of humor, absurdity, polysemy, logical contradictions.
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March 2016Bell Tower and Drum Tower
by Liu Xinwu
A story within one day – from 5 a. m. to 5 p. m. A vivid picture of secular life in Beijing. Winner of Mao Dun Literature Prize. Everything begins in an archaic quadrangle dwelling in Beijing, where Xue Jiyue’s mother gets up early to prepare for the son’s wedding banquet.Other characters show up one after another. After narrating their behaviors during the day, the author goes back and tells about their past, with a special concern about the influences from vicissitudes of time, especially how the Cultural Revolution changed those individuals’ courses of life.The Bell Tower and Drum Tower stand there still, witnessing all of those earthshaking changes.
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Feng's Family Pediatric Spine Tuina
by Zheng Jun
This book introduces the origin, inheritance, and development of Feng's family spine tuina therapy, its treatment methods for common pediatric diseases, and the spine tuina and its manipulation techniques. It is equipped with high definition pictures and rich operation videos, which enable readers to conveniently learn and practice the methods.
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September 2020Looking Back at Yinshan
by Gao Quan
The long reportage "Looking back at Yinshan" tells the story of the passionate story of the old artist Mr. Wu Guowei leading his team to create the "China Yinshan". The author closely blends the ingenuity dream of a people’s artist with the 5,000-year splendid historical civilization and modern civilization spirit of the Chinese nation at the tip of the pen, thus, a panoramic view of the "China Seal" from creativity, planning, demonstration to project implementation. The bumpy journey of more than 10 years shows a magnificent and magnificent picture. The protagonist of this book, Wu Guowei, cleverly used a local mountainous area with many pinnacles to carve various seals of various Chinese styles on the stone walls, and permanently collect the bright red seals containing Chinese culture, Chinese history and Chinese style. , Displayed on the land of their hometown, adding a wonderful cultural landscape to their hometown.
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FictionTrinity High: Back to School
by CNN Lokko
Back to School, the sequel to Trinity High; Students-in-Crime, is equally full of adventure, mischief and fun as its prequel. It captures the last two terms of the Form One experience of Naa Atswei and her friends. Together, the girls figure out how to beat the system and survive the jungle.Whether they willingly chase some adventures or are drawn in unintentionally, the girls do what they alone do best: they keep readers at the edge of their seats!
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May 2023The Yueyang Tower
by Yang Yu
With the little silver fish in Dongting Lake as the narrator and time as the clue, this book uses a childlike approach to tell readers the short stories and the famous pieces they written in the past of Qu Yuan, Li Bai, Du Fu, Teng Zijing and other celebrities of all generations that took place in Yueyang Tower. This book explains the importance and symbolic significance of Yueyang Tower in Chinese culture, and shows how the spirit of “care for the fate of nation” has been passed down from generation to generation. The tears of Ehuang and Nvying fell on a little silver fish in the Dongting Lake, giving it an ageless body. The little silver fish swims freely in the Dongting Lake, and it witnessed the construction and rebirth of Yueyang Tower in history, witnessed the scene of celebrities climbing up the tower and looking far away in the past generations.
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December 2018The Complete Collection of Modern Chinese Prints by Lu Xun
by Editorial Board of the Complete Works of Modern Chinese Prints Collected by Lu Xun
This series contains about 1,800 modern prints collected by Lu Xun at that time, which authored by nearly 200 domestic printmakers and currently in the Lu Xun Memorial Hall in Shanghai and the Lu Xun Museum in Beijing. It is showcasing the glorious history of modern Chinese woodcut art: In the 1920s and 1930s, in order to guide the artistic direction of Chinese literary youth, smashed the KMT’s counter-revolutionary cultural " encirclement and suppression", Mr. Lu Xun held a "woodcut workshop" in Shanghai, and cultivated a group of emerging woodcut backbone. These backbones led young artists in various regions of the country to create a large number of realistic works reflecting the suffering and tragic fate of the people at the bottom of the society at that time. They cruelly lashed the dark reality of society and called for national salvation and survival. These young woodcutters sent their woodcut works to Lu Xun, who not only guided their creation personally, but also spared no effort to collect, publicize and promote them to the public. With the active advocacy and support of Mr. Lu Xun, the emerging woodcut movement in China has developed vigorously, driving the modernization of Chinese art and leaving an indelible glorious footprint in the history of Chinese modern culture and art. This complete collection is a companion to the The Complete Collection of Foreign Prints by Lu Xun published in 2014.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2021The Irish tower house
Society, economy and environment, c. 1300–1650
by Victoria L. McAlister
The Irish tower house examines the social role of castles in late-medieval and early modern Ireland. It uses a multidisciplinary methodology to uncover the lived experience of this historic culture, demonstrating the interconnectedness of society, economics and the environment. Of particular interest is the revelation of how concerned pre-modern people were with participation in the economy and the exploitation of the natural environment for economic gain. Material culture can shed light on how individuals shaped spaces around themselves, and tower houses, thanks to their pervasiveness in medieval and modern landscapes, represent a unique resource. Castles are the definitive building of the European Middle Ages, meaning that this book will be of great interest to scholars of both history and archaeology.
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FictionSeptember 2023Perlas de araña (Spider pearls)
by Valentina Winocur
Nona and Catalina, grandmother and granddaughter, have to flee to Mexico because of the Argentine dictatorship. The two land in a new place where they will have to reconfigure themselves in many ways. To begin with, as happens in exile, families are reorganized in unique sizes and structures. Catalina is just a child, she understands it at her own pace. Her seemingly innocent gaze observes a Chilean city that opens into a country with a life of its own. La Nona, who wields a singular wisdom, is an identity star. Questions about history and the present, arrive in time. Mexico and Argentina are distant countries on the map, but space-time merges them in a notion made of pain but also a lot of love, the argenmex, which throbs and has taken root in the south and north of the continent. This book does not stop there, but develops, reaching other geographies as well. As if it were a spider's web, it is carefully woven, captures and, above all, crosses threads of multiple meanings, from the historical, political and national, to those of childhood, the family and the individual.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2023Nombres propios (Proper nouns)
by Mercedes Alvarado
In the face of uncertainty, we have lost the right to mourn; in the face of this, perhaps all that remains is to search, to ask, to name. This is a book that puts memory in the foreground, a recognition of the collective mourning that runs through us. Nombres propios is an approach to the legitimate and loving resistance that sustains the living victims of violence in Mexico. As Natalia Mendoza notes in the prologue: Alvarado's verses point to the concrete mechanism that could inaugurate a new time.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2023Prueba olímpica (Olympic Trial)
by Lorena Huitrón
"Prueba olímpica" test demystifies what is in front of him. Here prose poems are explored, there are verses that become epigraphs of a following poem, obsessions that open a process that can be endless, wounds that discover, themselves, that it makes sense to mock their existence. Lorena has a natural force that disturbs those who read her, like that bird that murmurs near our ear. This book is inserted in the tradition to modify it.
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January 20202019-nCov Prevention and Control Manual
by Editorial board
In response to the recent coronavirus epidemic, this book introduces possible causes, clinical manifestations, self-protection methods, precautions in public places, etc., and provides relevant knowledge for scientific prevention and control of the epidemic and popularization of new coronavirus infections, especially for the new semester How to avoid infection on campus after school starts is of great significance.
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The Painting Series of Chinese Folk Tales: Fight of the Crane and the Mother-of-pearl
by The Editorial Board
This series contains 31 titles of picture books. It is a collection of traditional Chinese classic tales, including fables, myths, idioms and folk legends. It’s playful and readable with attractive illustrations and concise text.
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The Painting Series of Chinese Folk Tales: Kua Fu Chases after the Sun
by The Editorial Board
This series contains 31 titles of picture books. It is a collection of traditional Chinese classic tales, including fables, myths, idioms and folk legends. It’s playful and readable with attractive illustrations and concise text.
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The Painting Series of Chinese Folk Tales: The Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon
by The Editorial Board
This series contains 31 titles of picture books. It is a collection of traditional Chinese classic tales, including fables, myths, idioms and folk legends. It’s playful and readable with attractive illustrations and concise text.
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The Painting Series of Chinese Folk Tales: Lord's Ye's Love of Dragons
by The Editorial Board
This series contains 31 titles of picture books. It is a collection of traditional Chinese classic tales, including fables, myths, idioms and folk legends. It’s playful and readable with attractive illustrations and concise text.
