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We are proud to present the People of Color Take over FSI Special Issue! Edited by Nisi Shawl Fiction 'What Futures' by Su-Yee Lin 'Shadow Animals' by Stephen Graham Jones 'Darkout' by E. Lily Yu 'The Executioner' by Jennifer Marie Brissett 'I Understand' by Jermaine McGill 'Walking Round Money' by...

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning, and at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist and editor Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore...

Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power that comes with...

Esta es la adaptación a guión de la apasionante novela de terror, aventuras y viajes al pasado cuya protagonista es Claudia Vázquez, la parapsicologa más famosa de España

Una novela sobre uno de los grandes problemas de la sociedad actual, y el modo en que la tecnología puede servir de refugio a los criminales. Vuelve Aquiles Troyano, protagonista de Vivos y muertos. La internet más profunda sirve de refugio a una inescrupulosa red internacional de...

Dino -un dinosaurio- y su pequeña hija Laura -una humana- conversan sobre diversos temas, como la pizza, los monstruos, la muerte, el gobierno, los regalos..., y nos transmiten que donde hay ingenuidad, también puede haber sabiduría, y viceversa. Dino (un dinosaurio)...

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book.   Introducing Microsoft Power BI enables you to evaluate when and how to use Power BI. Get inspired to improve business processes...

This comprehensive and authoritative guide will teach you the DAX language for business intelligence, data modeling, and analytics. Leading Microsoft BI consultants Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari help you master everything from table functions through advanced code and model optimization. You’ll...

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic). In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest...

¿Quiénes fueron los primeros viajeros de la historia?, ¿cuál es el río más largo del mundo?, ¿qué leyendas esconden las siete maravillas del planeta?, ¿cuáles son los naufragios más célebres?, ¿existen los barcos fantasma?, ¿cuál es el origen de la ruta 66?... El periodista Alberto...

Il Tango richiede certamente perizia e interpretazione. Ma qui il fotografo non ha voluto prendere come base del proprio lavoro alcuni dei molti gesti tecnici che caratterizzano il Tango. L'osservazione si è invece rivolta all'atmosfera che avvolge i protagonisti, indipendentemente dal grado della...

«Il mondo in cui viviamo si trova in una grave situazione, le idee che chiamiamo neoliberiste rischiano di portarci alla catastrofe, ovunque». Così si esprimeva il regista inglese Ken Loach, con toni apocalittici, ritirando la Palma d’oro vinta a Cannes nel 2016. Anche lui, come altri personaggi...

In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew—or thought they knew—Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of Lying. But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies...

Según Alberto Savinio, la mayoría de biografías están escritas en lo que él llama un "estilo sepulcral", es decir, del modo eufemístico y laudatorio característico de las inscripciones de las tumbas, en las que se excluyen siempre vicios, pecados y bajezas: "El estilo sepulcral...