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Cold wave isn’t a novel about drugs and alcohol, nor is it a descent to the hell of substance abuse. It’s also not a novel about the economic crisis and how it changed Madrid forever. It’s not the story of individual or collective failure. It’s not only the devastating portrait of loneliness and desperation. It’s not a treaty on crude sexuality. In no case is it a moral tale, it doesn’t contain a message or ethical lesson. Everything mentioned above can be found in the pages of Cold wave, but it also contains the complete opposite. There is abstinence and redemption. There is a deep and urgent desire of finding peace and meaning to an empty life. There is a remote but growing whisper of hope. It’s the portrait of a regained vital impulse that fights to escape an inherited curse. The first trace of a sketch of the life that lays in front and, at the same time, the mourning of one wasted. A devastating change of skin that is born with the first frozen night of a Madrid winter. Ola de frío no es una novela sobre drogas y alcohol ni un descenso a los infiernos de la adicción. Tampoco es una novela sobre la crisis económica ni sobre cómo esta cambió la faz de la ciudad de Madrid para siempre. No es la historia de un fracaso individual o colectivo. No es únicamente un retrato devastador de soledad y desesperación. No es un tratado sobre una sexualidad descarnada. En ningún caso es un relato moral, no tiene mensaje ni moraleja.Ola de frío contiene en sus páginas todo lo citado anteriormente, pero también alberga todo lo contrario. Hay abstinencia y redención. Hay un profundo y urgente deseo de encontrar paz y sentido a una vida vacía. Hay un remoto pero creciente susurro de esperanza. Es el retrato de un recuperado impulso vital que lucha por zafarse de una maldición heredada. El primer trazo de un boceto de una vida por vivir y, al mismo tiempo, el duelo por una vida malgastada. Un desgarrador cambio de piel que nace con la primera noche helada del invierno madrileño.
¿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.
Laura y sus compañeros son parte de la toma de un colegio para alumnos expulsados, donde es imposible saber qué año es, en qué provincia están y por qué empezó todo. Cada día sigue al anterior sin razón ni destino. Así, estos incompetentes parecen haber escapado de la violencia del Estado y la familia, pero no de la catástrofe inminente. Con una cómica y sombría mirada, esta novela construye la situación de una juventud inmóvil en medio de un contexto que les exige su participación.
Kurzinformation ISBN 978-3-9520219-0-3 Titel „Jugamos como nunca“. Mario Salazar Montero. Novela La proverbial viveza latina, devaluada y desvirtuada en el transcurso de los últimos tiempos como recurso válido para sobrevivir y alcanzar una vida digna para sí mismo y seres cercanos en circunstancias económicas difíciles, resulta además inútil para enfrentar otro tipo de viveza, una abusiva, enquistada en la jerarquía de poder de un país en Suramérica. La audacia sigue siendo un privilegio de juventud, que sumada a la escasez de medios y al descaro, conforman los ingredientes suficientes para que los protagonistas de esta historia emprendan una aventura de desafio a esa jerarquía. Si el intermediario para poder llevarlo a cabo es un idealista convencido de poder manipular ese poder para darle una dimensión universal y futurista de generosidad, la aventura promete y cumple, así el final no corresponda el esperado.
"Alejandro Quecedo del Val points to the need for a reform of being and feeling that connects us again with nature." - foreword by Marina Garcés Gritar lo que está callado (Shout out what is silenced) is written by a 19-year-old who has attended climate summits representing Spain. It is not just another book about climate change, it is a book that reveals what is on the fringes of the climate summits, what prevents the fight against climate change from progressing. The invited and silenced young people are the example of the smoke screens that are created in the information of the disaster, for example with the Greta Thunberg phenomenon. Under the slogan Uniting the world to tackle climate change, the next United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) — held in Glasgow (United Kingdom) from November 1 to 12, 2021— brought together representatives of around 200 governments with the aim of accelerating climate action to comply with the Paris Agreement. In a recent article, Alejandro Quecedo pointed to the disappointment of a large part of the activist sector, after learning about the withdrawal of permits and funding for citizen and scientific initiatives, with the excuse of not "excessively politicizing the summit", a fact to which was added the leak to the media that certain lobbies had pressed to amend the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in order to deny the evidence of an increasingly imminent catastrophe and blind public opinion with half-truths, sweetened. The author has been interviewed by the most important media in Spain, all interested in his position: to ask for a change of sensitivity in order to stop the eco-social crisis.
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!
Mom came up with a method to make us forget any ugly things that happened to us and, at the same time, always remember a lesson from them all. She would rescue a fragment or piece of dialogue from a book that she considered appropriate for the occasion and then, with her perfect handwriting, she would write it on one of the white kitchen tiles. This way, when walking past them, we would read them and remember the reason behind it understanding that, despite how much something could hurt, there was always somebody that had felt the same way before. And it wasn’t just anybody: under every quote, she would write the author or character’s name, to give voice to the emotions and life experiences that we will all, with no exception, go through one day. This is how she persuaded us to believe that somebody had already felt that way and that, even in every darkness our imaginations would create, the most beautiful stories can be written down. Eventually, the kitchen wall became a canvas of our lives, a diary of our younger years written by other voices from other times. Mom found the most romantic and authentic way of making us feel important and unique. And she was never wrong. Mamá ideó un método para que olvidáramos las cosas feas que nos ocurrieran, y para que a su vez siempre recordáramos la lección aprendida. Rescataba la cita de un libro o el diálogo que considerara apropiado para la ocasión, y con su perfecta caligrafía lo escribía en uno de los azulejos blancos de la cocina de casa. Así, al leerlas cada vez que pasáramos por delante, recordaríamos la razón de lo escrito, y entenderíamos que por mucho que algo doliera, siempre había alguien que en algún momento se había sentido igual que nosotros. Y no se trataba de un alguien cualquiera: debajo de cada cita, firmaba con el nombre de un escritor o del personaje que aquel inventara, para darle voz a las emociones o a las vivencias que todos, sin excepción, tenemos a lo largo de nuestra vida. Era su manera de convencernos de que alguien ya vivió lo mismo antes de que nosotros lo hiciéramos, y que, incluso en los infiernos que nuestra imaginación inventa, se pueden escribir las más bellas historias.Con el paso de los años, la pared de la cocina se convirtió en el lienzo de nuestras vidas, el diario de nuestra juventud escrito por otras voces en otros tiempos. Mamá encontró la manera más romántica y auténtica de hacernos sentir importantes y únicos. Indestructibles.Y jamás se equivocó.
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.
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.
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.
Inspector Cesar Giralt enjoys a period of happiness previously denied to him since the brutal murder of his sister by the criminal known as the locker seven years before. However, when life shows him its nicer side, the shadow of his worst fears comes back to Barcelona together with the coldest winter that the city has experienced for several years. The body of another dead girl reaches the same beach where, years before, had appeared, in the same circumstances, one of the locker's victims. El inspector César Giralt disfruta de una felicidad que le había sido negada desde el cruel asesinato de su hermana a manos del encerrador siete años atrás. Pero cuando la vida por fin le muestra su lado más amable, la sombra de sus peores miedos regresa a Barcelona de la mano del invierno más frío de los últimos años. El cadáver de una chica llega a la misma playa en la que apareció, en idénticas circunstancias, una de las víctimas del Encerrador. ¿Es posible que se trate de un imitador? ¿O acaso el asesino de Eva ha vuelto de entre los muertos? Ayudado por su equipo, el inspector Giralt emprenderá una última travesía por los recovecos de su pasado para descubrir qué tipo de persona es en realidad antes de afrontar un último baile con el mismísimo diablo.
Health, lifestyle, healthy recipes, balance of body and soul. The book endocrinologist Juliana Garcia Dias gathers tips, technical information and his clinical experience. Praised by Peter Neville journalist and prefaced by doctor Cynthia Valerio, the text of the author of the idea that "everything is interconnected and our body listens to what our mind, our thoughts and our energy speech." Beauty from the inside out - provides us with essential alerts off, weightings and contributions so that you can live in the best way: with quality. Expert in their field of knowledge, Juliana Garcia Dias preaches a Medicine "integrated and increasingly modern technology and precise is the prevention, control, treatment and cure of diseases." The author focuses on the observation of individuals, shows us how some simple daily choices can "change the path of our healthy life," reveals myths and truths, presents issues of the feminine universe. According to the author: "in the ancient language, care of our emotions leading us to enlightenment. In contemporary language, care of our emotions means more well-being and quality of life."
In this book, the author leads us through a mirror of emotions, which shows us a path full of ups and downs, where the only option you have is to face the ghosts of the past and move on with life, that life which is filled with both pain and love. Four Seasons of Love is an inward journey that goes beyond the very limits we set ourselves. It is about getting to know your true self again. and be able to find the ability to love your scars. It is about accepting death as a part of life, and that love is not something that has to stay with us to be eternal.
This book presents an overview of Amazonian history and analyzes the novel Cycle of the Far North, by Dalcidio Jurandir, a work that represents the social inequality and exclusion inherent to Amazonian society. Willi Bolle rescues the work of this important, albeit unknown, author, emphasizing Dalcidio Jurandir’s contribution to our understanding of Amazonian culture. In his work, Jurandir describes the quotidian of those living in the periphery of society, and advocates, quite emphatically, quality education for the poor. He also registers the social dialect of the inhabitants of the Amazon, in a document of the cultural memory of the region.
In 1923, Helena Lennox is 17 years oldand has just one desire: to exchange thestreets of London for a life of adventuresand excavations in distant lands. As aresult, when her parents set off for Indiato investigate the Ghost City of Bhangarh,she decides to join them... a few days laterand in secret. Nonetheless, there, PrinceArshad of Jaipur (yes, the one who hatesthe British) will insist she does not followthem: Bhangarh is cursed and at twilight, when the royal palace is stained by dark-ness, all those who find themselves within its walls disappear without a trace.
Wake up, Ramón! What are you looking for? Why? After the partial loss of his memory, Ramón Mitra embarks on an introspective journey that takes him to a destination not imagined. In a delirious transition between reality and possibility, revisiting specific moments of his past, the protagonist of the novel will persist in his efforts to recover the pieces of himself that are missing. With the help of a young nurse, a philosophy student, a pharmacist reading Freud and a provincial secretary, Ramón struggles to achieve enlightenment through his personal odyssey, in which the fight against desire will be the mark of his itinerary. Set in mid-20th century Spain, nothing will be accidental in the history of Ramón Mitra: not his name, not the tests to which he will be subjected, neither the absences nor the presences of his journey.
El Salvador has one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the world and termination of pregnancy, both voluntary and spontaneous, is extremely harshly punished. In fact, the majority of convicted women are tried for homicide, after having suffered obstetric complications. They are accused of having killed their baby and face sentences of up to forty years in prison.
Football is a game, a passion, a form of social gathering, a business; and, therefore, also an effective tool for controlling the masses. Thanks to its unrivaled ability to create myths and to the intrinsic epic of the game, this sport has been exploited since its dawn as mean of ideological propaganda as well as, more recently, for commercial uses. The first ones to realize its immense power of suggestion were perhaps the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, who, in their eagerness to cut across all strata of society, used this popular discipline as a rudimentary but also powerful instrument of political marketing. These pages bring together the most meaningful episodes of this disturbing symbiosis between football and fascist dictatorships; anecdotes, feats —some tragic and others downright bizarre— in which football has been used as a blindfold to cover the eyes of the masses. It worked perfectly as a vehicle for indoctrination, fitting into the delirious propaganda designs conceived by the tyrants of those times. The book is divided into three parts: Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany, Franco's Spain and Salazar's Portugal, as well as some Latin American dictatorships.
“How would it be for a child to cross oceans and borders all alone? “ This is what this surprising book called “AMAL – and The Most Important Journey of Her Life” leads young readers to imagine. For some children, it’s an unthinkable possibility. For hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied refugee children, a harsh reality. The book, published in two formats – app-book and printed edition - has support from UNCHR, the UN Refugee Agency. Written by foreign correspondent Carolina Montenegro and with visual narrative by Renato Moriconi, “Amal” is a tribute to refugee children.
What does being a twin mean? What does being a twin mean to others and to yourself? Suburbian SMEs, old communist militants, cell-phone sales strategies, beer-flavored kisses, Tinder dates, phobias, millennial entrepreneurship, and the motherhood question: the characters in these stories inhabit these unstable and difficult territories where the challenge is not only to find their way in the world but to differentiate themselves with precision–in the chiaroscuro of contemporary times–where do one’s own story and desires begin and end?With flashes of humor that don’t shy away from irony or tenderness, a sharp and precise eye for emotion, and a disarming profoundness, these stories by Leticia Rivas impress with their extraordinary skill and move you from the first to the last page. Federico Falco
