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        September 1991

        Mexikanischer Tango

        Roman. Aus dem Spanischen von Monika López

        by Ángeles Mastretta

        Ángeles Mastretta wurde 1949 in Puebla, Mexiko, geboren. Sie studierte Kommunikationswissenschaften an der Fakultät für Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften der Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), u.a. bei Juan Rulfo. Nach ihrer Promotion war sie bis 1985 als Redakteurin und Mitarbeiterin im Rundfunk, Fernsehen und bei verschiedenen mexikanischen Zeitschriften tätig. Ángeles Mastretta widmete sich immer auch der schriftstellerischen Tätigkeit, deren Früchte sie nur zum Teil veröffentlichte, so 1975 ihren Gedichtband La pájara pinta. Den Titel für ihren ersten Roman, der 1985 in Mexiko erschien, fand sie in dem zeitgenössischen Tango Arráncame la vida (dt. Mexikanischer Tango, 1988) des mexikanischen Komponisten und Musikers Agustín Lara. Für diesen Roman erhielt sie im selben Jahr den hochangesehenen Literaturpreis Premio Mazatlán, der vor ihr u.a. an Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, Elena Poniatowska und Isabel Allende verliehen wurde. 1990 folgte die Veröffentlichung ihres dritten Buches Mujeres de ojos grandes (dt. Frauen mit großen Augen, 1992). Für ihren zweiten Roman, Mal de Amores (1996, dt. Emilia, 1998), für den sie 1997 als erste Frau mit dem bedeutendsten Literaturpreis Lateinamerikas, dem Rómulo-Gallegos-Preis, ausgezeichnet wurde. Angeles Mastretta lebt mit ihrem Mann, dem Schriftsteller und Journalisten Héctor Aguilar Camín, und ihren beiden Kindern in Mexiko-Stadt.

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        Medicine
        August 2018

        Lyme Disease

        An Evidence-based Approach

        by John J Halperin

        This new edition of Lyme Disease provides up-to-date evidence-based research and covers the significant advances in our understanding of the disorders referred to as Lyme disease or Lyme borreliosis. This book explores the causative organism, its requisite ecosystem, disease epidemiology, host-Borrelia interactions, diagnostic testing, clinical manifestations, therapeutic options, the role of host immunity on pathogenesis and long term prognosis. The authors provide balanced perspectives on all aspects of Lyme disease and explicitly review both the basic biology of the infection and practical clinical aspects. This new edition: Includes new borrelial pathogens that have been identified (B. miyamotoi, B. mayonii and B. bavariensis among others). Provides updated information on the molecular biology of the organism, neuroborreliosis, and the role of the C6 peptide in diagnosis. Discusses the controversies about 'chronic Lyme disease', post Lyme disease syndrome and other ongoing but non-specific symptoms that have been attributed to this infection. As the endemic footprint of Lyme disease continues to grow, this book provides a broad and detailed guide for clinicians and researchers involved with the diagnosis and treatment of the condition. Covering biology, epidemiology and therapeutics, it is also essential reading for students of global health and infectious disease.

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        Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's/YA)
        October 2021

        El año de la rata

        by Jorge Alderete

        Our forests are shrinking every year due to fires forestry. Trees and all life that inhabits them, from tiny microorganisms to families of birds and animals are destroyed by flames that in most cases, are caused by we, humans.

      • Children's & YA

        The Gnawed

        by Cadena, Agustín

        The putrid flesh beings and the black tar coming from open wounds, the ones that are not alive but are not dead either, those ones called the gnawed are the ones that are eating all the people at the town. That’s where Cristina, Esteban, and Arturo live, the ones who survived this pandemic after their parents died, since, due to some reason, it does not affect children nor teens. To make things worse, Natalia, Cristina’s sister, goes missing without a trace. Over time, the town’s isolation, the lack of food, and the increase of attacks from the gnawed force the three friends to make the difficult decision to either stay to resist at home or undertake the trip to “the island”, a place that is rumored could be a refuge to the survivors of the gnawing.

      • Hello, I´m still waiting for you

        Hola, te sigo esperando

        by Agustín Monsreal

        In Hola, te sigo esperando (Hello, I'm still waiting for you), we witness the ups and downs of destiny: a man waits at home for a woman who is late in arriving, but chance plays a dirty trick of not coinciding, of perhaps never meeting.

      • Religion: general
        July 2012

        EDUCAR EN EL SILENCIO Y EN LA INTERIORIDAD

        Una propuesta a partir de los diez años para Educación Primaria y Secundaria

        by Piera Gomar, Mario

        La propuesta de educación en el silencio y la interioridad que recoge el libro es una actividad realizada en el Colegio María Auxiliadora de Sueca (Valencia). Los objetivos han sido educar a los jóvenes en el silencio mediante el encuentro con su interior; posibilitar el descubrimiento de la dimensión espiritual y el deseo de trascendencia como una realidad universal de todas las personas; proponerles un proceso de educación en la interioridad, despertando en ellos el deseo de la quietud como medio para el encuentro con Dios, que habita en la propia intimidad, tal y como expresó san Agustín: «Intimor intimo meo».

      • Graphic novels

        Arde Cuba

        by Agustín Ferrer Casas

        Accompany Errol Flynn and Frank Spellman along to do the only interview that Fidel Castro allowed before he took La Habana. HISTORICAL ADVENTURE HUMOUR When photographer Frank Spellman travels to Cuba accompanied by Hollywood star Errol Flynn, he doesn’t expect that a simple shooting location for a movie will soon transform into a tropical nightmare. Mafia thugs, CIA agents, careless representatives of multinational companies and military intelligence officers all fight to save the remains of the corrupt and violent regime of Fulgencio Batista against the advancing Castro guerrillas. José Sanchis award winner for the Best Graphic Novel 2018 Award winner for the Best Script 2018 (Salón Internacional del Cómic de Donostia)

      • Children's & YA

        Pablo Penalti, football player

        by Jaquelina Romero, Agustín Paillet

        Pablo's school does not speak of anything else, the "Once FC" team was finalist of the Regional Championship. What good news! But although Pablo tries to concentrate on his favorite sport, there is something that distracts him: he discovered written on a desk, the initial of his name and that of the girl he likes. There is little chance that it is him, but ... what if? The illusion is almost as big as the illusion of winning the last game of the championship. Pablo tries to focus on his dream: he promises to leave everything on the court and even eat broccoli! He is fast, agile, runs like a hare and although he almost never touches it, sometimes the ball arrives, like a gift from heaven and there ... magic appears. Suggested for +8 years old. Includes OpenDyslexic (accesible typographie for people with dyslexia)

      • Graphic novels
        January 2019

        The Violet

        by Juan Sepúlveda, Antonio Mercero, Marina Cochet

        Valencia, 1955. Bruno falls into a trap set by the police at the Ruzafa cinema to arrest homosexuals under the law of social danger. His entry into prison at the age of eighteen, and the pressure of his family, will force him to make decisions that will mark the rest of his life. The violet is a graphic novel about the persecution suffered by homosexuals during Franco's regime in Spain, and the coexistence of the women who married them. A story that brings to light the concentration camps for homosexuals that the regime created and that historically are being forgotten. It is a unique and self-concluding work. Marina was nominated as the best Spanish cartoonist in the Heroes Comic Con Valencia 2019 for this work. Antonio Santos Mercero, one of the two writers of the graphic novel EL VIOLETA, has won on Friday, October 15, the Planeta 2021 Award for the novel LA BESTIA, co-written with two other writers (Jorge Díaz and Agustín Martínez) under the pseudonym Carmen Mola. The Planeta 2021 Prize was presented by King Felipe VI to the winners and is endowed with 1 million euros. It is currently the literary prize with the largest financial endowment in the world, above the Nobel Prize for Literature. Antonio Santos Mercero is the author of four other novels: El final del hombre, La cuarta muerte, La vida desatenta and El caso de las japonesas muertas. He is also the scriptwriter of television series such as Hospital Central, Lobos and MIR. This title is one of the few selected by the ICEX panel of experts for the U.S. and Brazilian markets. New Spanish Books is a project of the Spanish Foreign Trade Institute ICEX in cooperation with the Spanish publishers' association FGEE. It is intended to make it easier for publishers from the world to gain access to new books from Spain and to help them decide which titles are worth translating. See www.newspanishbooks.us and www.newspanishbooks.br.com

      • September 2019

        El niño que no quiso llorar

        by Jiménez-Barbero, José Antonio

        Again facing his reflection on the mirror, and again the same idea coming to his mind, putting an end to his life. Inside his clenched fist, mum's sleeping pills, his only hope for escaping the hell esecially designed for him by his schoolmates. His little sister's love being his only reason to endure  a life of hardship, Santiago has become, after years suffering the cruellest of bullyings at school, a mere shadow of himself.   Otra vez frente al espejo, y otra vez con la misma idea, quitarse la vida. En el interior de su mano cerrada, las pastillas de dormir de mamá, su única esperanza para escapar del infierno que han fabricado para él sus propios compañeros de colegio. Sin más aliciente para seguir viviendo que el amor por su hermanita Teresa, Santiago se ha convertido, tras años de estar sufriendo acoso en su colegio, en una sombra de sí mismo. La llegada de Lucía, una niña nueva, extraña y diferente, logrará rescatarlo del universo frío e inhóspito en el que vive, y hará renacer en él la esperanza de volver a sonreír. Pero en el colegio, la persecución continúa y Nacho, su principal acosador, no ceja en su empeño de doblegar su espíritu de un forma u otra. Y Santiago, decidido a no dejarse derrotar, acabará transformándose en aquello que más odia.   The arrival of Lucia, a new classmate, different and awkward, will strike some degree of balance in his life, successfully rescuing him from the cold and barren universe he inhabits and triggering a new desire to smile again. But nothing changes at school: the bullying goes on relentlessly and Nacho, the worst bully, won't give up on his whim to break Santiago's spirit one way or the other. But Santiago, firmly determined not to be defeated, will inevitably turn into the thing he hates the most.

      • Fiction
        June 2019

        El guardián de Omu

        by Díaz Latorre, José Ignacio

        Juan suffers a spectacular camouflaged traffic accident, since his real objective was suicide. Then he discovers that it was not Juan, but an experienced special agent of the Solar Police of this galaxy, with jurisdiction over the entire solar system and a life completely opposite to what he had. Recover the memory and assume his situation, sharing mission and adventures with Yura, his eternal partner and co-worker.Argos recovers and learns to live "out of the box" again, facing alien species of clear negative polarity in his new mission. The very existence of planet Earth is in your hands.Without a doubt, it is a current and action novel. For minds of the New Earth, awake beings, with intuition, and capable of recreating in their imaginations scenarios, concepts, and fictitious events that could be very close to becoming real potentials in the immediate future.Take back the pleasure of fiction ... Or not.

      • Un reino igual a ti

        by Mauricio Carrera

        “Let my exploits and failures be evidence of my efforts as a brave soldier, as an ardent lover. I have been fortunate, and before the shadow prevails, I decided to tell this story, which, like all others, is made of light and mud, on a fugitive course and at rest. You are always captive of knowing you are alive and of dying I don’t know when,” says the protagonist of this novel, Miguel Díaz de Aux. Miguelico, they call him, and very young he participates in the conquest of Mexico, in the company of his father, of the same name, and his brother, Fernando.Spanish and Indian at the same time, son of an Aragonese and a Taino mother, Miguelico made his destiny in the battles of war, life and love. He rides manatees in his native Haiti, participates as a soldier in the capture of Tenochtitlan, falls in love with Isabel Moctezuma, plants guava trees, travels with Cortés to the Hibueras and is in charge of burying Cuahtémoc in a place known only to him. Un reino igual a ti is a novel of adventure and love. Mauricio Carrera confirms, as he did in Fortuna, la mujer de la Conquista, that there are still stories to be told in that bloody and marvelous event that was the Conquest of Mexico. He does it with his usual style, where the real and the fantastic are united, where literature peeks into the great historical facts, where the characters persist in our memory and where there are many phrases to hold on to in order to better face the arduous and astonishing of existence. A novel that will undoubtedly find a place in your bookshelf, in your soul, in your heart.   Que mis hazañas y fracasos evidencien mis afanes de valiente soldado, de ardoroso enamorado. He sido afortunado, y antes que la sombra se imponga, decidí contar esta historia, que como todas, está hecha de luz y fango, en curso fugitivo y en sosiego. Se es cautivo siempre de saberse vivo y de morir no sé cuándo”, afirma el protagonista de esta novela, Miguel Díaz de Aux. Miguelico, lo llaman, y participa muy joven de la Conquista de México, en compañía de su padre, de igual nombre, y de su hermano, Fernando.Español e indio al mismo tiempo, hijo de aragonés y de madre taína, Miguelico se hace un destino en las batallas de la guerra, de la vida, del amor. Monta manatíes en su natal Haití, participa como soldado en la toma de Tenochtitlan, enamora a Isabel Moctezuma, planta árboles de guayaba, viaja con Cortés a las Hibueras y es el encargado de enterrar, en un sitio sólo por conocido él, a Cuahtémoc.Un reino igual a ti es una novela de aventuras y de amores. Mauricio Carrera refrenda, al igual que lo hizo en Fortuna, la mujer de la Conquista, que aún hay historias por contar en ese hecho cruento y maravilloso que fue la Conquista de México. Lo hace con su acostumbrado estilo, donde lo real y lo fantástico se unen, donde la literatura se asoma en los grandes hechos históricos, donde los personajes persisten en nuestra memoria y donde hay muchas frases dónde asirse para afrontar mejor lo arduo y asombroso de la existencia.Una novela que, sin duda, se hará de un lugar en su librero, en su alma, en su corazón. Mónica Lavín: “Mauricio Carrera puede hacer lo que se le pega la gana en su arte narrativo”.Agustín Monsreal: “Es un múltiple forjador de tramas y anécdotas, pero fundamentalmente un exacto y versátil hacedor de personajes”.Eduardo Antonio Parra: “Su voz resulta fundamental para la literatura mexicana actual”.

      • The Arts

        MIES

        by AGUSTÍN FERRER

        Mies VAN DER ROHE, lights and shadows of the father of the modern architecture.   HISTORICAL SOCIAL BIOGRAPHICAL   During a flight to West Berlin, on the way to the foundation stone ceremony of the National Gallery, famous architect Mies van der Rohe talks about and takes stock of his precarious life with his grandson, Dirk Lohan, also an architect. They reminisce periods of upheaval in the twentieth century, projects, clients, business partners, adversaries, friends and lovers… In short, a life marked by an ambition to build. But above all else, there are piercing memories of one thing that Mies has always kept a secret and cannot forget.     2019 is the 50th anniversary of Mies Van der Rohe death Considered the best architect of the XX century, his private life was far from exemplary Director of the Bauhaus school until its closure under pressure from the Nazi regime His career ambition took him to support Hitler and to abandon his friends and family

      • January 2020

        La transferencia de conocimiento en educación

        Un desafío estratégico

        by Miguel Ángel Santos Rego

        El progreso y bienestar de las sociedades que tenemos por desarrolladas se ha debido, en buena medida, a la sistemática transferencia de conocimiento desde los diversos ámbitos del saber a los sectores productivos, especialmente en la industria, la tecnología y los servicios.Curiosa y paradójicamente, el campo de las Ciencias de la Educación ha permanecido falto de análisis, cuando no bastante invisible, en tal dinámica histórica, pese a las cadenas de valor social, cultural y económico generadas en procesos de investigación, y también de innovación, dentro y fuera de las aulas, para beneficio cognitivo de personas y oportuna proyección de las comunidades.Lo que en este libro se pretende no es otra cosa que reivindicar, con razones de peso epistémico y de neto pragmatismo, la necesidad de entender la transferencia de conocimiento en educación como un asunto de acciones, que han de servir a la formación de profesionales capacitados para seguir aprendiendo y resolver problemas reales en sus entornos de vida.

      • Children's & YA
        April 2021

        Savages

        by Antonio Ramos Revillas

        Efraín’s life —complicated and with shortcomings— continues impassive, until one day his Mum is violently taken by the police. He and his brothers, Fredy and Marcos, will have to look for all the ways to release her from a cruel system that labels and discriminates them. To build a future for their family, they will have to be cautious of asking help from the wrong people, as any false step could entangle them with the cartels of his neighborhood.

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