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This new translation of the best stories by Ichiyo Higuchi showcases the pioneering authors profound sensitivity and lyrical eye. The crystalline beauty of falling snow is a painful reminder of lost innocence; three children growing up on the fringes of Tokyos red-light district enjoy a last summer of freedom before adulthood and its compromises overtake them; a discontented serving maid and a prodigal son find their transgressions can be mutually beneficial; and a mans passion for an indifferent teahouse courtesan becomes so consuming that he is willing to sacrifice everything to it - his job, his family, perhaps even his life. Rarely translated into English, but revered in Japan for the purity of her classical language and her status as the countrys first professional woman writer, Ichiyo Higuchi drew on her own short life in a poor Tokyo neighbourhood to inspire her work. With immense delicacy of phrase and feeling, and vivid evocations of the colourful festivals and salty street banter that mask unspoken yearning and disappointed hopes, she transmits both the beauty and the struggle of working-class womens lives in turn-of-the-century Japan. In her clear-eyed vision of the world, longing and memory may be the only solace.

A hot summer, a charming Brazilian au pair, and a forbidden passion: In Tropical Temptation, Rosa Star delves into a thrilling love story full of humor and heart. When Hanna, a mother of two, is abandoned by her husband, the charismatic Paulo from Brazil brings a breath of fresh air into her life. He not only wins the hearts of her children, but also herswith samba-hot moments that get under her skin. But can this affair last, or will Hannas path lead her back to her old love? A romantic, cheeky novel for anyone who dreams of tropical longing and second chances. Spicy romance, ages 18 and up.

In 2019, it looked like the electoral map of Britain had been changed for ever, with once solidly Labour constituencies voting Conservative for the first time. An epochal realignment seemed to be in train that saw the Conservative electoral coalition become much more northern and working class and Labour depending more on middle-class voters in the south. Only a few years later, the realignment lies in ruins.The Red Wall has returned to Labour, and its clear 2019 was a blip. Tories are now jostling amongst themselves to be seen as the heirs to Thatcher. Its almost like the promise of change and levelling up was a fever dream as political parties and voters revert to type.What happened? And what can be done? The Conservatives made a big promise to Red Wall voters in 2019, speaking openly about first-time Conservative voters lending their support and promising that this trust wouldnt be forgotten. They swept the Red Wall with a promise of big economic change.In reality, that was quickly forgotten and the realignment was put in the too-difficult box, in favour of Thatcherite cosplaying that appealed to a tiny core of Tory members but didnt address the real problems the country faced. But the politics behind it cannot be ignored.This book will address what went wrong with the so-called realignment and what needs to be done to revive it.

Tristrás y la aventura en el Páramo Tenebroso es una historia en la que el pelirrojo músico se pierde en un nebuloso territorio donde acaba convertido en un cordero…Regresa la locura y diversión del

Un retrato esencial de la figura que cambió el arte para siempre.«Quiero ser tan famoso como la reina de Inglaterra», comenta Warhol. Esta frase, banal en apariencia, podría estar cargada de signific

The only true account of the trial and punishment of the good doctor, Gustavus Katterfelto, the greatest natural philosopher who ever lived or ever will live by his confederate and friend Roger Gossage."My name is Roger Gossage. I pray my handwriting be legible to you, but as I am a-ship, I risk the swells playing havoc upon my scrawl. Whichever lenses or magnifiers you may require to read on, I beg you fetch them now..."

Três personagens, três identidades, três pontos. O que pode haver em comum entre um estudante universitário que sai de São Paulo para um intercâmbio, um homem de 30 e poucos anos que odeia seu trabal

¿Sabías que muchos animales realizan viajes tan largos y peligrosos que parecen imposibles? Ballenas, aves, insectos y mamíferos migran miles de kilómetros cada año para alimentarse, reproducirse o sobrevivir. Este libro revela las hazañas mas asombrosas del mundo natural: desde tortugas que regresan a la playa donde nacieron hasta aves que cruzan oceanos sin detenerse. Con datos curiosos, mapas y sorprendentes habilidades como seguir el Sol, usar el olfato o sentir el campo magnetico de la Tierra, conoceras a verdaderos superviajeros del reino animal. Un homenaje a la migracion como uno de los mayores logros de la naturaleza.

Trauma transgeracional, isolamento social e solidão analisa como dores, traumas e padrões emocionais não elaborados ecoam entre gerações e moldam relações, emoções e saúde mental. Antonio Máspoli exp

Una guía transformadora para devolverte el respeto y la compasión que nunca deberías haberte negado.En un mundo que nos exige estar siempre disponibles, productivas y perfectas, hemos olvidado algo esencial: el cuidado hacia una misma. Este libro es una invitacion calida, empatica y profundamente transformadora a revisar como te hablas, como te sientes y como te cuidas.La psicologa Marta Panizo te acompaña en un viaje hacia el autoconocimiento, el autocuidado y la autoestima real, esa que no depende de la validacion externa ni de tenerlo todo bajo control. Aqui no encontraras formulas magicas ni teorias inalcanzables, sino herramientas practicas, ejemplos reales y ejercicios que te ayudaran a identificar lo que te duele, a sostener lo que sientes y, sobre todo, a empezar a tratarte con la amabilidad que mereces. Estas paginas son tu espacio seguro: un lugar donde entender que no tienes que poder con todo, que cuidarte no es egoista y que sanar empieza por darte permiso para ser quien eres, con tus luces y tus sombras.

¿ESTÁ CAPACITADO EL SISTEMA LEGAL PARA HACER JUSTICIA?Reno, Nevada. Santi Elcano es un abogado penalista que ha pasado de ser un entusiasta del sistema legal a un descreído de la justicia. En particular, por el caso de Anna Weston, una joven madre cuyo cuerpo fue hallado en el desierto.Junto con su mentora C. J. asumieron la defensa de Michael Atwood, el acusado. A pesar de haber escasas pruebas tanto fisicas como testificales en su contra, fue condenado a muerte.Santi y, sobre todo, C. J. estaban convencidos de la inocencia de Atwood y, debido a esto, Santi lleva años cargando el peso de no haber podido hacer nada para evitar su destino.Hasta que, pocos meses antes de que llegue la ejecucion, Santi recibe una carta de Atwood pidiendole que lo visite en la carcel. Ese encuentro sera revelador y dara un giro inesperado a los acontecimientos.

Josef Mengele, el médico del horror de Auschwitz, murió en libertad. Tras la guerra huyó a Sudamérica y pasó sus últimos 18 años en Brasil, oculto bajo una identidad falsa y protegido por una red de simpatizantes nazis. Con un estilo vibrante y riguroso, Betina Anton reconstruye esta historia real con acceso a archivos secretos de la Mossad, entrevistas a quienes le dieron cobijo y documentos nunca antes publicados.Tras la pista de Mengele es una obra imprescindible para entender los vacios de justicia en la historia reciente, la persistencia del odio y la fragilidad de la memoria. Un reportaje que se lee como una novela, que indigna y fascina a partes iguales.

In chess, a transposition is a known position reached by a different move order than usual a less obvious way of getting to somewhere you want to go, leading to confusion for your opponent. Every chess player has a number of them in his arsenal, and they are used most often in openings. There are transpositional tricks in all openings, but this is the first book devoted to them. As the book covers all the key openings variations it can be used by most chess players. The introduction explains what transpositions are and why theyre invaluable, followed by 8 chapters discussing transpositions, illustrated by some notorious examples from top-flight matches. Chapters are divided by opening group Double e-pawn openings; Sicilian Defense; Other Semi-Open openings; Double e-pawn openings; Indian openings; Other 1 d4 openings; Reti, English, 1 g3. The benefits and drawbacks of each set of move orders are discussed throughout. This is an ideal book for all club players and is written by one of the best chess writers in the world today.

Los relatos clásicos de TRANSFORMERS desde Reino Unido continúan aquí, presentados en orden y muchos publicados por primera vez.El guionista y aficionado empedernido a TF, James Roberts, proporciona ensayos historicos en profundidad y nuevas entrevistas con destacados creadores; Lloyd Young proporciona coleccionables imposibles de encontrar; y el artista de TF UK, Andrew Wildman, proporciona una nueva portada. Incluye historias de los numeros 113 a 145, del Transformers Annual de 1987 y de Action Force numeros 24 a 2Editorial original: IDW.

Tracks: A Journey Through Metroland tells the story of Metroland and the development of suburbia that grew alongside the Metropolitan Railway. Originally the brainchild of eminent Victorians, the Metropolitan grew to become the queen of underground lines, eventually expanding to a point some fifty miles outside London. Author Kevin J. Last describes how the concept of Metroland was an aspiration for several levels of society, promising a better lifestyle well away from the deprivations of wartime. The idea that the working man could live comfortably outside the smoke in individually designed houses would mean that he could also thrive at work, largely due to the regular service offered by the new railway. This was quite exceptional in that, while nominally an underground line, most of the Mets route was above ground and, in length, went far beyond other similar lines, far out into the Buckinghamshire countryside. Not marked on any map, Metroland is as much a concept of the mind as a real place.

In volume 1, Professor Verdon sought to identify what crippled social anthropologys original project, that of understanding sociocultural variability. He found its cause in a universal, Aristotelian cosmology that renders groups ontologically variable to their principles of social organization, by defining them in terms of behaviour regulation. In this second volume, he develops a cure to that cosmological malaise: to define groups outside all behaviour regulation, and to define a separate group for every type of activity (unifunctional groups). From these two new cosmological requirements he sets out to define all the main concepts of social anthropology in what he calls an operational language (defined with respect to anthropologys aims, not as entities with intrinsic anthropological attributes): groups, corporations, descent, territoriality, lineages, segmentation, sovereignty and so on.He then applies this language to translate classical ethnographies operationally. He first chose the most famous ethnographies of so-called segmentary lineage societies, the Nuer (Sudan), Tallensi (Ghana) and Tiv (Nigeria), and then added the Berbers from the Rif (Morocco), the Yao (Malawi) and Australian Aborigines. All those societies were described as having descent groups. Translated operationally, ONLY ONE of them retains descent groups (the Tallensi). This leads him radically to transform the ethnographic landscape of social anthropology. Where all ethnographers saw descent groups almost everywhere, he finds them to be rare occurrences, now replaced with clientelistic social formations.Overall, setting out to define a set of etic (objective) concepts, he discovers that this language actually yields much better emic approaches to social organization (an approach closer to the actors subjective experience).

¡Sigue la batalla entre demonios y cazademonios en el segundo tomo de Tougen Anki: La leyenda de la sangre maldita!Shiki consigue dominar la sangre del Oni gracias al desafío al que lo somete Mudano. Sin embargo, cuando esta a punto de superar la prueba, un mensaje de auxilio lo alerta de que la subdivision Oni de Kioto ha recibido un ataque del clan Momotaro.¡En este nuevo tomo, la sangre Oni causara estragos en Kioto!

Davids best mate died falling off a cliff and he was the last to see him alive. Fifteen years later, he returns to Arbroath, where another death forces him to face the past. A darkly funny, gripping debut from one of Scotlands finest writers newly reissued.ANNIVERSARY EDITIONINTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYREYour best mate just fell off a cliff in mysterious circumstances. You were the last person to see him alive. What do you do?If youre David Lindsay from Arbroath, you leg it and dont go back. Not for fifteen years.Then Nicola Cruickshank yes, that Nicola, the girl you always fancied but never had the guts to speak to gets in touch. She wants you back for a school reunion. At the very place it happened. Of course you say yes. Not to lay ghosts to rest, but because you still fancy Nicola.The thing is, if you are David Lindsay, then returning to Arbroath isnt going to bring closure. Because when someone else tumbles off the cliffs an act the locals now call tombstoning David has a choice: run away again, or finally find out why people around him keep dying_____

¿Hasta qué punto conoces a las personas que más quieres?¿Hasta qué punto conoces a tu propia familia?La mujer: Eve desea con todas sus fuerzas que su vida sea perfecta. Vivir en una casa preciosa, con unas vistas increibles al campo, es todo lo que siempre ha soñado. Y esta dispuesta a hacer lo que haga falta para no perder ese sueño de vida ideal.El hijo: Joe es el hijo perfecto, un estudiante ejemplar que nunca se mete en lios. Sabe que su madre no permitiria otra cosa. Pero la noche despues de haber celebrado su decimosexto cumpleaños, todo se tuerce de forma dramatica. Con las luces de la policia y la ambulancia iluminando el exterior de la casa, de repente todas las miradas se centran en su familia.El marido: Noah no siempre es sincero con su mujer. Sabe lo exigente que puede llegar a ser. Pero las mentiras que ha ido acumulando empiezan a descontrolarse. Y cuando un accidente impactante sacude su propio hogar ¿podra mantener unida a su familia o esta a punto de perderlo todo?---Un drama familiar trepidante con un ritmo excelente y giros inesperados: es muy dificil saber en quien confiar. Una trama fascinante y una gran variedad de personajes interesantes, aunque no necesariamente simpaticos.Lyndas Bookreviews Empiezo a creer que A. J. McDine no es capaz de escribir un libro que no me guste.My Book Review Freedom La historia me engancho desde el primer momento Los giros inesperados me tuvieron mordiendome las uñas ¡A. J. McDine nunca decepciona con sus novelas de suspense domestico!.Books by the Bottle Una historia absorbente y llena de sorpresas, y todos los personajes esconden mas de lo que parece ¡Me lei el libro en menos de un dia, con muchas ganas de descubrir la verdad y ver como terminaba todo!.Locky Loves Books Una de mis autoras favoritas de thrillers psicologicos. ¡Este libro despertara emociones que no sabias que tenias o que habias olvidado! ¡Uno de mis favoritos de 2024!.Life, Love and Books

¿Cómo es posible escribir la vida entera de uno a través de su currículum? Con ironía y originalidad, Violeta Niebla apunta al corazón del siglo XXI: el trabajo precario. En permanente búsqueda de trabajo, la escritora Violeta Niebla se sienta a repasar su vida laboral y se da cuenta de que esa lista de ocupaciones relata su vida entera. Una narracion desde el yo que recuerda a la novela picaresca y engarza recuerdos reales e inventados organizandolos bajo los epigrafes de un curriculum al uso que miente todo el rato para decir la verdad. Ecos de David Sedaris fundidos con el humor y la ternura de Alison Bechdel.