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August 2009Zwergenweitwurf
und andere philosophische Übungen
by Armando Massarenti, Karin Krieger, Umberto Eco
Was geschähe, wenn man das sokratische »Ich weiß, daß ich nichts weiß« in letzter Konsequenz leben wollte? Darf man seinem Chef den Tod wünschen? Stimmt es wirklich, daß sich über Geschmack nicht streiten läßt? Kann man sich selbst belügen? Auf jeweils ein bis zwei Seiten werden Fragen, die jeden von uns in unserer geistigen und ethischen Existenz berühren, in der Anwendung auf konkrete Situationen ausgelotet. Wie soll man sich gegenüber einer in Australien beliebten Sportart verhalten, dem Zwergenweitwurf, bei dem Kleinwüchsige möglichst weit durch die Luft geschleudert werden? Könnte man als ein freiheitlich denkender Mensch diese Disziplin wirklich mit Hinweis auf die Menschenrechte ächten, da die »Zwerge« sich doch offenbar freiwillig zur Verfügung stellen? In zupackend erzählten Geschichten und Gedankenexperimenten, die Personen in Situationen zeigen, in denen sie eine, wie man es auch dreht, unmoralische Entscheidung treffen müssen, prüft Armando Massarenti die Philosophie auf ihre Alltagstauglichkeit. Insofern handelt es sich um »Übungen«, um eine philosophische Gymnastik, die für den philosophischen Alltag fit macht, müssen wir doch ständig politisch unkorrekt handeln, um größeren Schaden zu vermeiden.
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Animal stories (Children's/YA)October 2019Aullido
by Adolfo Córdova, Armando Fonseca
Do you hear the wolves howling underneath the ground? They are buried waiting to be invoked by mother wolf, grandmother wolf and sister wolf. Only then, from the deepest side of the earth, they will rise. From a great explosion they will then be acknowledged as what they are: wolves, corn, wolf opossum, human wolves.
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March 1999Barolo und Barbaresco - Geheimtips für Geniesser
Die Weinstrassen im Herzen Piemonts
by Gambera, Armando; Milano, Serena / Italienisch Mattes-Krissmayr, Pia; Italienisch Weber, Eva M
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Family & home stories (Children's/YA)October 2017Mexique
El nombre del barco
by María José Ferrada, Ana Penyas
On May of 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, 456 sons and daughters of republican fighters took the transatlantic boat Mexique, that set sail in Bordeau to arrive in Mexico. Previsions were that they would stay there three or four months, but the Republican defeat and the beginning of the Second World War changed that brief exile into a definitive one. This books tells the story not only of those children, but also about the ship, being aware that we do not know how many boats try to cross our oceans every day, moving human beings that have full rights to a proper way of living and not to stand over a land that tears apart below their feet.
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True stories (Children's/YA)August 2018Niños
by María Jose Ferrada, María Elena Valdez
Thirty-four poems, one for each of the young children (all under the age of 14) that were executed, arrested or disappeared during the Chilean dictatorship. A book dedicated to all those little Chilean victims, but also to all the children that each day suffer the consequences of violence.
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Poetry (Children's/YA)August 2018Animal
Poemas breves salvajes
by María José Ferrada, Ana Palmero
"Hidden in his horn he guards the secret of the jungle”. This might be as well the beginning of a novel, but it's an inspired riddle about wild animals. The illustrations in high varnish of this edition highlight the different skin textures of each animal and invites the reader to discover a new way of reading in a tactile and playful way.
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October 2019Keys to Creative and Innovative Religious Education
by Óscar Armando Pérez Sayago
Este libro brinda valiosas herramientas a padres y maestros sobre la nueva función cultural de la escuela en la enseñanza de la Educación Religiosa. Advierte respecto a la importancia de acompañar y orientar al estudiante para ayudar a comprender el hecho religioso, puesto que hoy más que nunca está expuesto a mucha información desestructurada e indiscriminada, a través de los medios de comunicación, que es importante discernir.
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Vita and the Book of the Dead
by Alessandra Cinardi
The novel is the first book of a successful trilogy.It has been published in Italy by a famous Publisher.Vita’s adoptive parents discover that her 13-year-old daughter has got magical powers, so theysend her to a hospital of child Neuropsychiatry.During the recovery, Vita finds out to bedesigned to find the Necronomicon, the SacredBook of the dead.Vita hence attends the Paranormal High School,buried in the Roman underground where she isgoing to learn how to control her talents.She is going to face her more deep-seated fearsand to pass different proofs to cross the threeinfernal circles of Duat – the Egyptian Hell –with the help of her new friends Gandolfo,Ercole, and the sweet Lilith. They have to arriveat Osiris’ sight to obtain the Necronomicon, theSacred Book of the Dead. At the same time, Seth- God of Hurricanes and God of Evils - wants toseize the Necronomicon to put humanity underhis rules. Vita is the main character’s name, andthe Necronomicon is the ancient Egyptian textthat contains the information necessary to thedead in the afterlife, as a guide for the threatening World of Duat.
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Literary FictionMay 2021Outside of time
by Silvia Bardelás
"Destiempo is a song to the fight for internal revolutions and the desire to free ourselves from the vital ropes that bind us." - Armando Requeixo. Diario cultural. Radio Galega Destiempo illuminates the we as the truly human space. An older woman asks her grandson to come back to Galicia from the United States to spend the summer with her. She wants him to attend a kind of social fight that she is carrying out with her friends. They look for action as the only thing that can give meaning to their lives. Silvia Bardelás mixes different generations that share the same problem: the weight of a standardized world, full of discourses, oblivious to vitality. The possibility of feeling alive and real again makes everything move in an unstoppable way. The story is a coming and going of past and present, of ideas and actions that reveal the silent social power and the inner need to feel free. Destiempo (Outside of time) is a community novel. Beyond individuality, beyond the group is the we, which can only emerge genuinely when individuals become singular beings, when they become aware of the myths, the ideology, the discourses that have dominated their lives and those of their ancestors. The narrator puts the focus on the interrelation. He lights up scenes where the characters discover themselves through others.
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Children's & YAApril 2021The Sea
by Micaela Chirif
A poetry book that leads us through a marine ride; with it, the reader will discover several beings who live under the sea waters: fishes, a whale, an octopus, and even a mermaid. At the same time, the story of two characters will be narrated: the fisherman and Raquel, who from start to finish, will explore the mysteries and secrets that are hidden in the water, simultaneously, they will observe the stars and the clouds until finding a tiger that does not know the sea.
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FantasyJanuary 2011The Branding
by Micaela Wendell
Morwen Aleacim, an elfin teen in the village of Aren, has always heard rumors of evil lurking in the great forests of the kingdom, where children vanish. Her own father disappeared into those forests, and Morwen is determined to find him. So she is secretly training to be a warrior-against the strict rules of decorum for girls-with the help of Armando, an aging human swordsman. When Brynn, Morwen's own baby sister, vanishes, Morwen tracks her to the horrifying lair of Tobias, an inhuman Dark Wizard. There she strikes a deal with him-her service in return for Brynn's freedom. He accepts. She'll go free along with Brynn for now, but is bound to him as his apprentice. To her horror, Tobias brands her-not with a fiery mark, but with a spell that will slowly transform her human body into a grotesque creature and her spirit into an obedient slave. When the transformation is complete she'll have no choice but to return to him forever. Aided by Alan, a handsome elfin boy, who will soon have a dark challenge of his own, Morwen sets out to find a wizard who can lift the spell. It's a race against time as she struggles to free her mind, body, spirit and heart from a horrible fate.
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May 2020Hermonos
by De la Vega, Kari; Alzamora, Armando
Mondi, Monalí and Monilú are three very naughty brothers. Papa Mono calls them "beautiful" with affection and advises them everything they have to do to survive in the wild forest.
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Children's & YAJanuary 2023Los Mil y un Dias
Cuentos Juveniles Cortos
by Ann A Guerra/Author,Daniel Guerra/Co-Author, Art of Winning Rock, Inc.
This book contains a compilation of 12 juvenile shorts stories. Is stories made from different parts of the world. Different races and culture. Moral, cultural, values and adventures.
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PIMPA FLIES TO CHINA
picture book
by Altan
Brand new picture book where the red-spotted dog, Pimpa flies to China to discover its traditions and culture. More Picture Books about Pimpa available in the catalogue
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)2022Damaged Deer. Anthology
by Rafael Rubio
This poetic anthology by Rafael Rubio, without a doubt one of the most relevant poetic voices nowadays in Chile, is of greatest relevance to invite teenagers to approach to poetry and helping them to face directly their pains and joys, with that which tears the apart and also with that which enlightens their path. This anthology includes a selection of poems made by the author himself. It includes poems published in Arbolando (1998), Luz rabiosa (2007), Mala siembra (2013) and Viernes santo (2019), as well as 17 unpublished poems.
