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      • American Academy of Pediatrics

        Leading global publisher in the field and practice of Pediatrics. AAP Publications are among the most respected and frequently referenced in the world, including journals, clinical and consumer books and eBooks, and continuing medical education.  Top title include Red Book, NRP, Pediatrics, PREP Self-Assessment, Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines, Caring for Your Baby and Building Resilience in Children.

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        February 2010

        Pedro Páramo

        Roman

        by Juan Rulfo, Dagmar Ploetz

        Der übermächtige Großgrundbesitzer Pedro Páramo hat in dem heruntergekommenen Dorf Comala »Ordnung«, Friedhofsruhe geschaffen. Doch die Toten reden sehr lebendig in ihren Gräbern weiter, erzählen seufzend von seinen Untaten, und die Lebenden scheinen schon lange tot zu sein. Die ferne Regierung kümmert sich nicht um Armut und Leid in dieser wüsten Einöde. Der junge Juan Preciado erzählt diese Geschichte – als postumen Monolog und im Dialog mit einer Bettlerin, neben der er im Grab liegt. Die Kraft dieses Romans liegt in seiner Prosa von strenger Schönheit, es bewegt und verzaubert. Der einzige Roman des Mexikaners Juan Rulfo (1917 - 1986) beeinflußte die moderne lateinamerikanische Literatur wie sonst nur die Werke von Borges, García Márquez oder Onetti.

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        Escritores Peligrosos (Dangerous Writers)

        by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

        Pedro Juan Gutiérrez an important cuban story teller, reveals through this book a group of interviews made to important writers and intelectuals from Cuba and the World as Gunter Grass or Mario Benedetti where they give intersting points of view concerning literature and society.

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        December 2003

        Träume aus Plüsch

        Roman

        by Pedro Lemebel, Matthias Strobel

        Pedro Lemebel wurde irgendwann in den fünfziger Jahren in Chile geboren und zählt in seinem Land, nicht nur wegen seiner offen gelebten Homosexualität, zu den schillerndsten Figuren der Kulturszene. 1987, noch zu Zeiten der Pinochet-Diktatur, gründete er die Performancegruppe "Stuten der Apokalypse". Er ist Mitautor des in Chile sehr erfolgreichen Satiremagazins The Clinic (der Titel spielt auf die Londoner Klinik an, in der sich Pinochet aufhielt, als ihm die Auslieferung nach Spanien drohte). Träume aus Plüsch ist nach drei Chronikbänden sein erster Roman.

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        May 2018

        The Pinochet Plot

        by David Myles Robinson

        Successful San Francisco attorney Will Muñoz has heard of the brutal former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, of course, but it's not until he receives his mother's suicide letter that he has any inkling Pinochet may have had his father, Chilean writer Ricardo Muñoz, assassinated thirty years earlier.Her suspicions spur Will on to a quest to discover the truth about his father's death–and about the psychological forces that have driven his mother to her fatal decision. His journey takes him deep into unexpected darkness linking his current step-father, the CIA, drug-experimentation programs, and a conspiracy of domestic terrorism. The Pinochet Plot is not just a story of a man seeking inner peace; it is also a story of sinister history doomed to repeat itself.

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        Personal & social issues: body & health (Children's/YA)
        October 2020

        Enciclopedia de anatomía fantástica

        by Pedro Mañas, Mariana Alcántara

        For centuries, illustrious doctors have tried to find the ultimate weapon against disease: from hot stew to injections, trying even injections of hot stew. As tasty as they are useless. But not everything is lost. In this fantastic and incredible encyclopedia, if you read carefully, you will be able to find cures and remedies against new and unsuspected diseases. We prescribe you to read it carefully, preferably with a scarf on and with a bowl of stew broth. Just in case, get a scarf for the chicken as well, before you cook it.

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        August 2015

        Bittersüße Schokolade

        Mexikanischer Roman um Liebe, Kochrezepte und bewährte Hausmittel in monatlichen Fortsetzungen

        by Laura Esquivel, Petra Strien

        "Bittersüße Schokolade", der erfolgreich verfilmte Roman, ist Liebesroman und Kochbuch in einem: Mexiko, im vorigen Jahrhundert. Pedro liebt Tita und sie ihn, doch die Konventionen bestimmen, daß die 16-Jährige unverheiratet bleiben muß, um später einmal ihre Mutter zu versorgen. Also heiratet Pedro die ältere Schwester Rosaura, um in Titas Nähe bleiben zu können. Doch die Familie hat nicht mit Titas magischen Kochkünsten gerechnet. All ihre Liebe und Emotionen fließen in die Zubereitung der traditionellen Gerichte ein. Und nicht nur Pedro ist betört ... So führt ihr Weg in die Emanzipation ausgerechnet über den Ort, an den ihre Mutter sie hatte verbannen wollen: die Küche.

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        Molecular biology
        April 2015

        Bt Resistance

        Characterization and Strategies for GM Crops Producing Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins

        by Edited by Mario Soberón, Yulin Gao, Alejandra Bravo.

        Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacteria use Cry proteins to kill their insect larval hosts. The expression of certain Cry toxins in transgenic crops has been widely used to achieve efficient control of insect pests. This book describes the use of Bt crops and the emerging problem of resistance, recent progress in understanding the mechanism of action of Bt toxins, different resistance mechanisms and strategies to cope with resistance in the field. It describes resistant insects found in the field in different countries, particularly in the developing world, and ways to counter resistance such as gene stalking, refuges, modified toxins and gene discovery of novel toxins with different mode of action.

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        The Wrecking Crew

        by Hugo N. Gerst

        g on for a wild ride! The craziest “coalition” in history is out to destroy ISIS!Forty years ago, Don Tommy Aiello was the most feared mafia leader in the United States. Each week, he counted the number of bodies he was responsible for killing. Each week, he counted the number of women he had slept with. But that was forty years ago. Today, he counts the number of pills he takes and the pennies left over from his small Social Security check so he might buy a cheap set of dentures – not covered by Medicare. Life is pretty awful. Twenty miles away, Pedro Sanchez, twenty, has already done two of his three strikes in prison. He can’t find a job. His seventeen-year-old girlfriend has just told him she’s pregnant. Life is pretty awful.Sister Maureen Richards is about to be dumped from her position as head of a prestigious private girls’ school. And FBI middle-manager Dennis O’Brien, 63, knows he’s on the way out the door. But he’s got an idea, which he shares with Ezra Caen, the hero of Gerstl’s Assassin. Five thousand miles away, a group of malcontents calling themselves the Islamic State (ISIS) is stirring up a worldwide bag of problems. Boots on the ground can’t stop them, aircraft in the air have no effect. The U.S. is spending $14 million a day and going nowhere.What if 15 “retired” Mafia Dons under the leadership of Sister Maureen are tasked with destroying ISIS? In exchange, their criminal records will be erased, and each will get $75,000 tax free a year for the rest of their lives. Their “army” will consist of young Hispanics who aren’t going anywhere except to the bottom … they’ll be given a four-year free college education and guaranteed government employment. Of course, the good, moral U.S. of A. can’t be seen to have a hand in this, so it will all be funded through La Società di Religione – the Vatican Bank.Hugo N. Gerstl, international bestselling author, steps into a wacky world that only his imagination could devise. Beneath the outrageous hilarity lies a much more serious message – how seniors we’ve put out to pasture, and those who are socially disadvantaged, become “invisible” in our world. As this splendidly entertaining novel makes clear, “Old age and treachery will defeat youth and vigor every time.” Published By Pangæa Publishing Group, 2019. 252 pages – 23 cm x 15 cm

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