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      • Fiction
        October 2019

        I'm not asking for much

        by Megan Maxwell

        Carol works as a showgirl, but her dream is to be a stewardess, and the opportunity presents itself in the form of the company High Drogo. Daryl is the captain and he travels all over the world as a pilot for the same company. The two of them meet through Lola, who is Daryl’s sister and Carol’s friend. They are attracted to each other, and both are open to sex with no strings attaches, but they try not to get too close, because this could cause problems for Lola. And yet, everything will change when the heart wins out over logic and work lands them on the same flights and in the same cities. Unable to resist the attraction they feel for each other, they decide to take advantage of the moment, to live, to enjoy it.

      • Religious & spiritual fiction
        January 2020

        Ciento once mil

        by Díaz Latorre, José Ignacio

        This novel narrates part of the life of Naraka Patel, but it could also have narrated that of anyone else, a path always riddled with evidence that we must learn to interpret.The young Naraka escapes from his family at a very young age. He lived in a small village near Delhi, and was fleeing from an abusive father who was about to kill him. On his way he grows, and crosses the north of India until he reaches Kathmandu (Nepal), where he enters as a Buddhist monk in a monastery, being recognized as the incarnation of Lama Savitri Parvati Rinpoche.Throughout his exciting life experience he achieves enlightenment, becoming the lama of the well-known Kopan monastery. He ends his days in an isolated retreat in a cave in the Mustang region of northern Nepal, where using the "Phowa" technique he achieves a lucid and conscious death.Naraka, during his retirement, writes multiple texts, this book being a small part specially dedicated to western culture, where some of his valuable and fully valid teachings are shown.

      • Religion & beliefs
        April 2018

        28 cosas que debes saber sobre los ángeles

        by Díaz Latorre, José Ignacio

        In the spring of 2018 I was writing my second novel, "The Guardian of Omu", which by now and doing an exercise in temporal mysticism, I hope and wish that it has become a recognized "best seller". I was about a third of concluding the aforementioned novel, when one morning I dream, and I say exactly dream, with a rather vague scene in which the idea of ​​writing about the essence of angels materializes in my mind. It is at that moment when I regain consciousness and awake, but I decide to continue thinking about that dream, more than anything else because of the curiosity and exceptional nature of the event. I sing a sweet dream again, more than a dream, sleep it, I would say. In that diffuse period of space-time, I see clearly, as if it were a data transfer, a script of content that appears to my knowledge. A succession of clear and unequivocal ideas that I had never thought to ask myself before, and all of them, referring to the subject at hand here.At that moment I decide to get out of bed and sit in front of my computer. Approximately 60 minutes later I have written that dream or received script, or what do I know. After writing it all in a row, I decide to read it carefully and immediately afterwards I see that it really is the script of ideas that I must develop without wasting any more time. At that moment I decide to slice it and use it as an index.It is exactly the index of this book.

      • 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.

      • October 1997

        Cara o Sello

        by Mario Salazar Montero

        Kurzinformation ISBN 978-3-9525331-3-0 Titel “Cara o Sello”. Mario Salazar Montero. Cuentos Cualquiera que sea la forma permitida, obligada o seleccionada por hombres y mujeres como el recurso personal válido disponible para dejar atrás el estigma de una pobreza, heredada o impuesta, esta implica una interacción con una realidad en tiempo presente. En esa realidad suramericana, con sus circunstancias inherentes, existe sin embargo una gama bien diversa, tanto de víctimas como de abusadores. El afán de algunos por equilibrar un déficit de bienestar económico recurriendo al crimen no siempre encuentra la mansedumbre de los abusados. Existe la ley tácita del desquite, a falta de una justicia que merezca su nombre. Estos cuentos intentan desentrañar la esencia de algunos desquites y despojos, sin ánimo de definir estereotipos. De eso ya hay bastante, es difícil quitarselos de encima y no sirven más. 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

      • October 2019

        Rocanrol

        by Marcial Gala

        En uno de sus mejores poemas, Borges refiere que el lenguaje es tiempo sucesivo y emblema. Rocanrol trata de ese tiempo condensado que es el de la revolución, casi un agujero negro donde el cielo es tomado por asalto. Los personajes inmersos en la vorágine de la Cuba de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, sienten que la historia es una piel que se sobrepone a la propia epidermis. ¿El rock será un medio eficaz para no perder la propia esencia? ¿Cómo encontrarse a sí mismo? La muerte de un soldado en pleno entrenamiento, cartas del Che que salvan a una joven de volver a la prisión, un discurso de despedida de Fidel Castro comunicando el final del guerrillero argentino en Bolivia Rocanrol cuenta también el discurrir de los que no son nadie, empujados por los vientos de cambio. El rock es a la vez iniciación y promesa de un paraíso ilusorio que te hace creer que todo transcurre al ritmo de esa música prohibida y deseada. En un mundo loco solo los locos están cuerdos, dijo cierto artista japonés, y esa frase podría servirle de emblema a estos personajes que se atreven a decir no, cuando todos dicen sí. Alejandro, Ismael, Crazy Horse y el resto de esas dos familias cubanas, construyen su propio relato dentro del relato inmenso de la historia. In one of his best poems, Borges refers that language is successive time and emblem. Rocanrol is about that condensed time that is the revolution, almost a black hole where the sky is taken by storm. The characters immersed in the vortex of Cuba in the second half of the 20th century, they feel that history is a skin that overlaps the epidermis itself. Will rock be an effective way not to lose one's essence? How to find yourself? The death of a soldier in training, letters from Che saving a young woman from returning to prison, a farewell speech by Fidel Castro communicating the end of the Argentine guerrilla in Bolivia Rocanrol also tells of the passage of those who are nobody, driven by the winds of change. Rock is both initiation and promise of an illusory paradise that makes you believe that everything happens to the rhythm of that forbidden and desired music. In a crazy world, only crazy people are sane, said a certain Japanese artist, and that phrase could serve as an emblem for these characters who dare to say no, when everyone says yes. Alejandro, Ismael, Crazy Horse and the rest of those two Cuban families, build their own story within the immense account of history.

      • 2018

        Matrimonio y causas de nulidad en el Derecho de la Iglesia

        by Peña García, Carmen

        This work will be very useful for members of ecclesiastical tribunals and canon lawyers, as well as for teachers and university students of canonical marriage law and, in general, for all those who wish to know about a subject as exciting -and often so controversial- as marriage and canonical nullities and dissolutions.

      • Gender studies: women
        November 2015

        TIEMPO DE MUJERES. LITERATURA, EDAD Y ESCRITURA FEMENINA.

        by ALMELA BOIX, Margarita; GUZMÁN GARCÍA, Helena; SANFILIPPO, Marina; ZAMORANO RUEDA, Ana Isabel

        Dado el momento demográfico que vivimos, la colección de volúmenes sobre literatura y mujer, de la UNED, no podía dejar pasar la oportunidad de reflexionar sobre ese gran componente identitario que es la edad. Ésta, aunque fenómeno biológico, se interpreta socialmente y se articula en las estructuras de poder que gobiernan y definen las vidas tanto de hombres como de mujeres (y no solo en ese último tramo de la vida que tanto interés despierta últimamente). Como locus político donde se asienta lo que una mujer "debe" ser, es decir su "valor" social y cultural asociado a sus papeles de género, la edad presenta un fructífero campo de investigación para los estudios de la mujer.Los distintos capítulos del presente volumen constituyen un novedoso y original estudio y una reflexión sobre la representación literaria de las mujeres y sus edades.

      • Mind, body, spirit: meditation & visualisation

        Mandalas for the Soul Kids

        by Andrea Agudelo

        This book was created so that adults can meet their inner child through color and kids can have a different experience with each mandala while they enjoy coloring.

      • Philosophy

        Anthropology of Christian Vocation

        From Person to Person

        by Juan Manuel Cabiedas

        The question regarding how to guide one’s own life is among the most pressing and serious questions. Both in its sacred understanding, as referring to a trascendent call, and in its lay conception, that connects the feeling of happiness to one’s self-fulfillment, the word vocation expresses the right way that a person follows to succesfully lead his or her own life. This may be the reason why, when talking about vocation, the word echoes all the elements that make up the identity of the human being: corporeity and spirituality, intelligence and sensitivity, conscience and freedom, personal biography and collective history. Without vocation, the personal being is doomed to treat oneself and to be treated with indifference.

      • April 2020

        Reificación mediática

        by German Duarte

        En los años 60 del siglo pasado, las posiciones existencialistas y fenomenológicas plantearon un problema importante y controvertido, que produjo divisiones en el seno del mismísimo campo del pensamiento marxista. ¿Está el efecto de reificación sujeto inextricablemente al modo de producción capitalista? ¿Está por ello destinado a desaparecer con la liberación de la esfera social del dominio del capital, o bien tenemos que pensar que el carácter de reificación es más profundo que el mismo capitalismo y que está arraigado en la dimensión antropológica fundacional, anterior a la relación capitalista social ?.

      • Children's & YA
        May 2020

        O pintor cego

        by Xabier P. DoCampo; Xosé Cobas

        His paintings captured all of the true essence of the people they portrayed, beyond their physical appearance. A story of impossible love, in the style of tales of old, with a dreamlike atmosphere suffusing every page.

      • October 2019

        Our Father Spiritual Itinerary

        by Pedro Antonio Ortiz Cárdenas

        Este libro nos adentra en la riqueza formativa que contiene la oración del Padre Nuestro cuando hacemos una lectura desde la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia. Descubriremos que el Padre Nuestro no es solo una oración de fe, sino un camino para ayudar a las personas a vivir de una manera más humana y fraterna a la luz del Evangelio de Cristo. Su contenido permite convertirlo en un curso sobre el Padre Nuestro o sobre la Doctrina Social; contiene iluminación bíblica, reflexión pastoral, fundamentación doctrinal y talleres de aplicación para la vida diaria.

      • Poetry
        June 2019

        Newspaperbirds of march 2011

        by Amaranta Caballero Prado

        Este libro está lleno de poemas que desmontan, sabotean, vuelven a armar las cosas de otro modo y hacen algunas más con las piezas sobrantes. Los “contextos” donde asoman las aves por las páginas de los diarios, volviendo gorupos las palabras, son mucho más, me parece, que una ilustración; o más bien lo son en sentido profundo: la escenificación del modus operandi de esos pájaros de cuenta que asoman por detrás de las ventanas del crucigrama. Yo, que le temo a todos los animales, luego de este libro me siento como el Espantapájaros del Mago de Oz: tengo los alfileres que llamaré “cerebro”.  Ángel Ortuño

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        November 2018

        Cuentos XMAS

        by Seb Doubinsky, Matilda Braxton-Bali, Martín Lombardo, Marina López Planella, Ángel Loureiro, Ana Jaka, Rafael Sáenz de Cabezón

        How to read XMAS in Spanish? X more? Ksmas? Chmas? And what do we understand when we actually read it? XMAS Stories groups seven Christmas-themed stories with X themes: an unknown, a prohibition, something with pornographic content, an indeterminacy, a substitution, a Roman numeral ... All those "X" themes in a "mas" "más" version. Some of the inhabitants of this space are: an individual who flees from the cold in search of healing human warmth; a sixty-year-old in love with the Magi; a friar who finds peace lecturing a community of settlers and indigenous people; an “it” girl housewife on the boil before her Christmas party preparations; a Santa Claus by accident, the protagonist of an untraditional tale; a young woman thirsty for a good love story; and a resident of the Big Apple hungry for Christmas revenge. The characters and voices in these stories, framed in a festive and celebratory atmosphere, and sheltered by everything that Christmas supposedly entails, propose heterodox realities as the only way to a new birth.

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

        Cuentos META

        by Enrique Patiño, Hadley Pennington Keefe, Federico Palomera, Lautaro Vincon, Belén Palos, Thais Díaz Montalvo, María Toca, Dixon Acosta Medellín

        Is the goal the beginning or the end? Is the goal sequel or consequence? META Stories brings together eight narrative voices that transform realities, invert solutions and reconcile results with objectives, so that the purpose of their actions exceeds their own expectations. Some of the inhabitants of this playing field are: an ambitious journalist and an anti-establishment revolutionary planning known theories on outdated models; a perfect couple who decides their own path of perdition; a Russian teacher determined to beat the winter cold in postwar Spain; a young woman who finds a peculiar way of transmuting her family reality; a dressmaker's apprentice who in World War II Paris amends wrappings and fabrics; a mother who is reborn in a story already written; a woman who prefers to live to imagine, and for whom an outcome is reconstructed; and a man who learns the true meaning of not scoring a goal. The characters and voices in these stories pose new challenges in the extremes of a biographical journey in which the beginning and the end are part of a process of knowledge.

      • Food & Drink
        October 2016

        Técnicas profesionales de cocina colombiana

        by Carlos Gaviria Arbeláez

        This book is a special academic contribution of its kind. It shows a meticulous analysis of national culinary techniques (Colombian), which make it a permanent reference text for students, teachers, professionals, and for anyone who wants to immerse themselves and understand our gastronomy in a clear and orderly way.

      • Children's & YA

        THE CHILEAN FOREST

        by Written by: Pablo Neruda /Illustrations: Antonia Lara /Original script and editing: Juan Francisco Bascuñán

        “Whoever does not know the Chilean forest, does not know this planet”. This profound and radical message by Neruda regards the wonderful forests of southern Chile, home to countless living beings: some who come out to meet those who enter it, others that always remain hidden. “A rotten log: what a treasure!”: the poet finds the point where life and death are one, the forest soil, where the cyclical becomes a reality, what dies will return in time to be part of the living again. “It is a vertical world: a nation of birds, a crowd of leaves”. Neruda does not say directly that we have to take care of the forests, but he helps us to know them, to discover them, to love them. And in this path what naturally follows is to protect them... This text is part of the memories of Neruda, I confess I have lived (Memoirs).

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