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If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...

This classic collection of fun, amusing and heart warming stories is a must read for anybody who loves dogs. Sixteen short anecdotes full of courage, humour, danger and most of all love, proving there is only one animal that can be called 'man's best friend'. Written by Elizabeth Paschal O'Connor...

Las condiciones en que se desliza la vida actual hacen a la mayoría de la gente opaca y sin interés. Hoy, a casi nadie le ocurre algo digno de ser contado. La generalidad de los hombres nadamos en el océano de la vulgaridad. Ni nuestros amores, ni nuestras aventuras, ni nuestros pensamientos tienen...

Este libro ofrece una visión general del pensamiento feminista y muestra cómo esta forma de conocimiento obliga a repensar las Ciencias Sociales, particularmente la Sociología. Habida cuenta de la variedad de temas abordados desde el feminismo, así como de la existencia, dentro de éste, de diversos...

A blueprints book with 10 different projects built in 10 different chapters which demonstrate the various use cases of storm for both beginner and intermediate users, grounded in real-world example applications. Although the book focuses primarily on Java development with Storm, the patterns are more...

Special areas: Japanese language, festivals, Noh theatre.

A los cuarenta años de la muerte de Franco, Pío Moa ―como ya hiciera en Los mitos de la guerra civil, del que se han vendido más de 300.000 ejemplares― aborda una etapa crucial de la historia de España, la del franquismo, para desmontar los tópicos falsos, consagrados a lo largo de los años...

Segelt "hinaus über das Ende der Welt" und findet den Weg zu den Reichtümern Indiens. So lautet die Weisung, die der Infant Heinrich, genannt "der Seefahrer", seinen Kapitänen gab. Doch der Prinz war nicht nur der Auftraggeber und Initiator, sondern auch das logistische Zentrum einer Reihe der bedeutendsten...

A New York Times bestseller: “The funniest writer in America” takes on the global economy (The Wall Street Journal). In this book, renowned political humorist P. J. O’Rourke, author of Parliament of Whores and How the Hell Did This Happen? leads us on a hysterical whirlwind world tour...

An “extremely funny” take on the decline of civility, from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of How the Hell Did This Happen? (The Plain Dealer). In Modern Manners, cultural guru P. J. O’Rourke provides the essential accessory for the truly contemporary man or woman—a rulebook...

'The sky had gone: in its place was a wall of water, white horses on the top, readying itself to fall on me.' What kind of man throws himself out of a helicopter in a storm? Or dangles by a thread over mountainous waves? Or strikes a panicking sailor to save his life? Aircrewman Jay...