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      • Amicus

        Since 2010, Amicus has published books for children that educate and inspire young readers. Our library imprints—Spot, Amicus High Interest, Amicus Illustrated, and Sequence—offer informational books in a variety of formats that make reading to learn fun and encourage life-long learning. Our retail imprint, Amicus Ink, features original picture books and board books, each sharing a child’s-eye view of the world.

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      • Religion: general
        October 2001

        NAVEGANTES 1. EL TESORO DEL CRISTIANO

        Talleres para tiempo de Postcomunión (9-11 Años)

        by Real Navarro, José

        Talleres para el tiempo de postcomunión (9 a 11 años). Talleres para el primer año de catequesis de postcomunión: Alegría, Autenticidad, Grupo, Dios, Esperanza, Libertad, Sencillez, Amistad, Humildad, Vocación.

      • Children's & YA
        October 2021

        Zebra's Umbrella

        by David Hernández Sevillano; Anuska Allepuz

        With the first drops of rain, Zebra opens his colorful umbrella. He invites Gazelle, Rhinoceros, Elephant and Hare under so they don't get wet. Lion doesn't want to get wet either. Will there be room for everyone under the Zebra umbrella? With gentle text and bright colours, Zebra's umbrella is a lovely story about friendship, kindness and sharing.

      • Business & management
        July 2020

        Liderazgo centrado en la persona

        La propuesta de Carlos Llano

        by Murcio Rodríguez, Ricardo

        La tarea de dirigir tiene un lugar preponderante en la empresa. Carlos Llano fue pionero en el estudio de la acción directiva, en un contexto que ya buscaba una renovación en las teorías del management. Para Llano, la dirección de empresas –y, por lo tanto, de las personas que en ellas laboran– no puede reducirse a un sistema, sino que debe respetar la naturaleza física, espiritual, racional y libre de todo ser humano. Con robustas bases antropológicas, Llano plantea un nuevo modelo de gestión basado en la flexibilidad y la participación, que hace de la empresa un lugar de desarrollo de la persona que contribuye a la construcción de una mejor sociedad. Llano vislumbró que este nuevo paradigma requiere un nuevo estilo de liderazgo, uno que –centrado en la persona– concibe la dirección como un servicio. Este libro rastrea los fundamentos teóricos de su propuesta. Carlos Llano ha sido el pensador que mejor ha sabido integrar filosofía y management. A través de los conceptos perennes de la filosofía, nos ofreció una perspectiva única y genuina de la dirección de empresas. En este libro, Ricardo Murcio nos desmenuza el pensamiento de su profesor y maestro, y nos vuelve a recordar que el centro de la actividad empresarial y de la toma de decisiones deben ser las personas (Joan Fontrodona, IESE Business School).

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2019

        Enseñemos paz, aprendamos paz: la pedagogía al servicio de la cohesión social

        by Juan David Enciso

        Peace is an idea, an abstract concept, which must be grounded in concrete realities. And building peace involves moving from an initial state, which may or may not be conflict, to a second moment in which people have learned to know, relate, meet, and live together.   This book tries to elaborate on the construction of peace from an educational process, in which individuals learn to recognize themselves as subjects of equal dignity and with the capacity to carry out projects oriented to the common good. Similarly, educational settings, the so-called learning environments, are not confined exclusively to the walls of the classroom or the boundaries of formal education institutions: peace education occurs in any environment in which two or more coincide. people with potential conflicts of interest or collective construction.

      • September 2019

        Como Hermanas

        by Francisca Luco Verdugo

        Un libro sobre amistad, empatía y migración. Retrata la llegada de un nuevo compañero de clase al aula. Pase lo que pase, un cambio de contexto siempre es relevante para alguien. Un compañero se identifica con ella y la recibe. Obra ganadora del concurso nacional de relatos ilustrados para la primera infancia del Ministerio de Desarrollo Social en conjunto con la CNCA 2016. Libro que habla acerca de la llegada de una compañera nueva a la escuela, ideal para hablar de empatía, migración, inclusión, amistad, diversidad.

      • Fiction
        July 2020

        El sonido de un tren en la noche

        by Laura Riñón Sirera

        Clementina had the story of her life written before she was even born and it seemed happy, fortunate and privileged. Born into a family of the Madrid nobility she was always a happy child. But her grandmother, the spiteful, had already warned those around her, when she heard them talk about how the little girl didn’t cry, that “if she wasn’t crying now, she would do so in the future”. She had just turned sixteen when everything her family had planned for her was frustrated by the quirks of fate and her only way out was to escape. The first chapter of her new life starts here, already changed into a new person. A story of acceptance of her new self, of reconciliation with a solitude that will accompany her around the maps where she chooses to get lost, Madrid, Valencia and the United States. This is then story of a never-ending journey of a woman that could’ve had it all and was forced to forget her past to become a different person, one she had to embrace. Life teaches her a valuable lesson: in the escape the coward shows his courage. Clementina tenía los renglones de su historia escritos antes de nacer, y su vida se auguraba feliz, afortunada y privilegiada. Nacida en el seno de una familia de la nobleza madrileña, fue una niña alegre desde su nacimiento. Pero su abuela, la Rencorosa, ya lo advirtió a su entorno cuando oía comentarios sobre lo poco que lloraba la pequeña, «lo que no llore ahora, lo llorará cuando sea mayor», gruñía entre dientes.Apenas había cumplido los dieciséis años, cuando la vida que su entorno había planeado para ella se vio truncada por los caprichos del destino, y su única salvación fue la huida. Comienza entonces a escribir el primer capítulo de su segunda vida, ya convertida en otra persona. Una historia de búsqueda y de aceptación de su nueva identidad y de reconciliación con la soledad junto a la que se desplazará por los mapas en los que elige perderse, Madrid, Valencia y Estados Unidos.Esta es la historia del viaje interminable de una mujer que pudo tenerlo todo y que se vio obligada a olvidar su pasado para convertirse en otra persona, con la que tuvo que aprender a convivir. Una mujer a la que la vida enseñó que en la huida el cobarde demuestra su valentía.

      • Fiction
        May 2019

        Gaoh

        En tierras de Urantia

        by Díaz Latorre, José Ignacio

        Are you ready to read the story of the second coming of Christ in full s. XXI? Do you want to know first-hand who he was, what he did and with whom? Do you know that this time she was a woman and that her mothers were lesbians?Get ready to explode your neurons with this groundbreaking, entertaining, and surprising novel, set in real settings in Spain (Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona) and Europe.Action, adventure, travel, sex, technology, chases, magical scenarios, extraterrestrial beings ...You have before you a new modern and daring thriller that will make you reflect on reality.

      • Fiction
        October 2019

        Los otros son más felices

        by Laura Freixas

        Áurea starts her journey on a summer day in 1971, in Chamartin train station, with a feeling that her soon to begin stay in Catalonia will change her life. She just doesn’t know how. At only fourteen this will be the first time she’s away from her parents and from everything she knows: Madrid, the city where she was born and her mother’s hometown in La Mancha, where her family spends their summer holidays. Years later, in a conversation with someone who was witness to it all, Áurea rememorates that summer with all its protagonists. With this reedition of los otros son mas felices (2011) Laura Freixas consolidates her upward trajectory in the current Spanish literary scene. Áurea inicia su viaje un día de verano de 1971, en la estación de Chamartín, e intuye que su estancia en Cataluña, a punto de comenzar, le va a cambiar la vida, pero aún no sabe cómo.A sus catorce años, será la primera vez que se aleje de sus padres, y de los que hasta entonces han sido los escenarios de su vida: Madrid, la ciudad en la que ha nacido, y el pueblo de su madre en La Mancha, donde su familia pasa los veranos.Años después, en conversación con quien fue testigo de los hechos, Áurea rememora aquel verano con todos sus protagonistas.Con esta reedición de Los otros son más felices (2011), se confirma la trayectoria de Laura Freixas, que a lo largo de los años ha ido ganando público y reconocimiento como escritora.

      • Fiction
        June 2020

        Drawings 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.

      • Una vida entre julios

        by Nuria Colomina Gomis

        ¿Quién dijo que enamorarse es algo exclusivo de la juventud?¿Por qué un adulto no puede disfrutar del amor?Julián, viudo, de sesenta y seis años y con ganas de vivir, piensa que la vida, en ocasiones, da una segunda oportunidad. Por ello, decide buscar a la mujer de la que realmente está enamorado, causando con ello un gran revuelo entre sus amigos y familiares, ya que no entienden su forma de proceder.Una historia de amor, amistad, valores familiares y morales que no te dejará indiferente.

      • Children's & YA

        The Guest and Other Sinister Stories

        by Dávila, Amparo

        Through a selection of thrilling and exciting illustrated stories, Mexican author, Amparo Dávila, and Argentinian illustrator, Santiago Caruso, create a fascinating reading spectrum for young audiences. This set combines classic tales of the author: “Petrified trees” and “Concrete music”, alongside with fantastic stories as “The guest”, the story of an ordinary woman hunted by an unknown creature; “High kitchen”, a short story where miniature beings confront their inevitable fate, among others.

      • Fiction

        Rewind

        by Juan Tallón

        SHORTLISTED FOR IV PREMIO BIENAL DE NOVELA MARIO VARGAS LLOSA 2021 -   One Friday in May, on what is shaping up to be a perfect day, there is a strange explosion in a building in Lyon. One of the flats in the now ruined building was occupied by a group of students from various countries who were having a party. Paul, student of Fine Art; Emma, tormented by the tortuous history of her Spanish family; Luca, fascinated both with mathematics and with the cyclist, Marco Pantani; and Ilka, a student who left Berlin with nothing more than a guitar on her back: these are the tenants of a house that was a popular meeting place for the city’s students. In the neighbouring flat, also hit by the explosion, lives a quiet Moroccan family, whose members are apparently well-integrated into French life. The novel explores events from various points of view. Through five narrators – victims and witnesses – we discover what happened that Friday night and the consequences that unfolded over the next three years, until their accounts have covered every hidden aspect of the explosion.   Rewind explores whether it is possible to rewind events. And examines our personal ghosts, the role of chance, the people who in the end we do not become, the secrets that must or must not be told, and our capacity to remake ourselves when we are broken. This novel is an espionage operation that investigates the mechanisms of life. How it changes without warning, turns, throws you into the air and destroys you when you are least prepared for it. And, just as mysteriously, how – if you survive everything life has to throw at you – it then allows you to remake yourself and keep moving forward.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2019

        Lugares, recorridos y sentidos de la memoria histórica: Acercamientos metodológicos

        by Laura Fonseca Durán, Diana Vernot, Tatiana Rojas Roa, Laura Giraldo Martínez, Edwin Corena Puentes, David J. Luquetta Cediel

        This book is an initiative of the Regional Groups of Historical Memory (GRMH), which, together with the National Center for Historical Memory since 2013, generated proposals for the construction of historical memory in Colombia. The objective of the consolidation of the GRMH has been to recognize local research processes carried out by university professors to build bridges between the country's institutions and communities victimized in the framework of the internal armed conflict in Colombia.   Although the participatory social research bets are nourished by multiple edges, disciplines, and schools of thought, there are methodological peculiarities in the investigations that are formulated in the key of historical memory that, on this occasion, are transversal and are deepened in each chapter.

      • November 2016

        Residuos de amor

        by Mario Salazar Montero

        Kurzinformation ISBN 978-3-9525331-4-7 Titel “Residuos de Amor”. Mario Salazar Montero. Cuentos Nueve cuentos, en apariencia algo crudos o desconsiderados, la mayoría de ellos en torno a personajes femeninos en una ciudad populosa en Suramérica: adolescentes, secretarias, amas de casa, solteronas. También un travesti y un tarado. Los cuentos intentan narrar en primera persona sus experiencias con el afecto, el amor, la amistad, el pasado y el futuro. No siempre hay un final feliz esperando al lector, pero si de pronto un remedo de esperanza. Son Residuos de Amor. Mario Salazar Montero. Geboren in Kolumbien, Südamerika. Lebt seit vielen Jahren in der Schweiz. Schriftsteller und Ingenieur. Hat mehrere Romane und Kurzgeschichten veröffentlicht. Spanisch und Deutsch. Mehr zum Autor und seinem literarischen Werk unter www.mariosalazar.ch

      • Fiction
        September 2019

        Heart Land

        by Luz Gabás

        A brilliant novel that brings together a beautiful story of autumn love, a crime investigation, the defense of the earth, and the countryside as a universal heritage. Alira, heiress of the mansion and lands her family has held onto for generations, must choose between staying true to her origins or adapting to the new times. When she thinks she found an answer to her questions, a mysterious disappearance upsets the apparent calm at her home—the only inhabited house in a small abandoned village. A twist of fate makes her face her past and question everything that had been solid for her. From that moment on, she will start to feel something she never knew she was ready for: love!

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        October 2019

        Nacida Libre

        by Minerva Piquero

        Primera novela de presentadora de televisión Minerva Piquero. Cora necesita reinventarse para salir del pozo en el que se ve inmersa tras la inesperada ruptura con el amor de su vida. El sexo se convertirá en el rito de iniciación hacia su nueva identidad, un mundo desconocido don¬de experimentar, reencontrarse y perdonar. Valentina llega a España huyendo de un oscuro secreto y un pasado traumático; necesita renacer para encontrar su sitio en el mundo. La vida no es fácil para una joven transexual extranjera. Las dos protagonistas de Nacida Libre, aun siendo de mundos tan distintos y alejados, coinciden en un momento crucial para ambas en el que deben recorrer un camino de autoconocimiento dejando atrás la traición y la venganza. Las circunstancias en las que se encuentran hacen que crezca entre ellas una profunda amistad y la fuerza necesaria para entender que, a pesar de todo, ellas nacieron libres.

      • LA LUZ

        by Jose Luis Victoria

        Pasan los siglos y las personas no son tan diferentes, al final buscamos lo mismo que antaño.   Una desaparición y una búsqueda lleva a Iltubeles a recorrer un camino que va más allá de los límites. Se verá inmerso en las mentiras que creamos para poder sobrevivir, un secreto que pretende mantener unido al poblado.   La luz va más allá de un género único; misterio, ciencia-ficción, historia… La amistad y el amor es un lazo de unión que ata a los personajes y los mantiene cuerdos.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2019

        Nosotros, Colombia… Comunicación, paz y (pos)conflicto

        by Sergio Roncallo-Dow, Juan David Cárdenas Ruiz, Juan Carlos Gómez Giraldo

        Peace seems to have been elusive in Colombian history. The ups and downs in the negotiation processes, the unfulfilled promises, and the political polarization have made Colombia a nation in a state of continuous crisis and that, in spite of itself - to take up the old Bushnell phrase - has managed to stay afloat and, above all, do not lose hope for a stable and lasting peace.   There have been numerous attempts to build it and they seem to have been unsuccessful, especially because a good part of the collective representation that we have of them has been built from the media apparatus that, in the case of our country, has been at the service of power and that it has resulted in skepticism that, especially since the 1990s, has tended to transform into a strong polarization. With this book, we want not only to think about peace and (post) conflict from communication but to remind (us), once again, that we can still be we.

      • March 2019

        Las lentejas de la guerra

        by da Casa de Cantos, Fernando

        This book pays tribute to a whole generation of people condemned to live through one of the most  difficult and turbulent historical periods, not only in Spain but also in the rest of the world.  War Lentils tells human stories of run-of-the-mill individuals who, as everybody, dreamt of a better world, conceived from very different points of view. Alternative solutions were proposed, but none of them was definitely legitimate, ending invariably in a collective failure from which the coming generations should learn.   Este libro supone un homenaje a toda una generación que le tocó vivir unos años convulsos, difíciles, no solo en España sino en todo el planeta.Relata historias de gentes sencillas que ansiaban –como todos– un mundo mejor, visto desde prismas diferentes, con soluciones muy distintas que desembocaron en un fracaso colectivo del que las generaciones siguientes deberíamos aprender.  Los personajes de esta novela son secundarios; podrían haber sido estos como podrían haber sido otros, escogidos entre cientos o miles de testimonios familiares que aún perviven en la memoria más secreta y callada de nuestros mayores. La verdadera protagonista es la Historia: esa, con mayúsculas, que debe ayudarnos a ser mejores personas.

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