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Can impossible wishes ever be granted? Christmas is, above any other time in the year, a time of wishes. Of sending them out into the world. Of making lists of them. Of granting them. We wish for the possible, but more often we wish for the impossible, because Christmas is that magical...

In The Little Book of Mormon, eleven experts explain the history, beliefs, and rituals of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which originated in the United States in the 1840s and has since faded in and out of public consciousnessand public controversy. Now, as a Mormon politician attempts...

Tales of legendary courtiers and jesters have delighted people for centuries through their wit, wisdom and humour. This book covers five such legendary characters: Birbal, Mullah Nasruddin, Tenali Rama, Appaji Rao and Maryada Raman.

While energy efficiency projects could partly meet new energy demand more cheaply than new supplies, weak economic institutions in developing and transitional economies impede developing and financing energy efficiency retrofits. This book analyzes these difficulties, suggests a 3-part model for projectizing...

The history of Cleveland-Cliffs, a company that played a key role in iron mining development in the Lake Superior region.

Over the last decade, significant global and regional forces including changes in technology, trade patterns, and business practices, with a steady shift in value added production and employment toward knowledge-intensive activities and services such as finance, the hospitality industry, and the retail...

Set in the sleepy sea side town of Gopalpur-on-Sea on the East Coast of India, this is the story of the mock-colonial world of the Coromandel Villa Hotel, whose owner, Arjun Roy tried to escape from the urban life of Calcutta, and his girl Friday Jennifer Da Costa. The story goes back in time and place...

Esquina de las Descalzas. Dos embozados, que entran en escena por opuesto lado, tropiezan uno con otro. Es de noche. Embozado primero.—¡Bruto! Embozado segundo.—El bruto será él. —¿No ve usted el camino? —¿Y usted no tiene ojos?... Por poco me tira al suelo

Entre 1889 y 1895 Galdós publicó las novelas 'Torquemada en la hoguera', 'Torquemada en la cruz', 'Torquemada en el Purgatorio' y 'Torquemada y San Pedro', todas ellas protagonizadas por Francisco Torquemada, un prestamista que ha logrado amasar un interesante capital a base de prestar dinero con usura, exprimiendo sin piedad a los desgraciados que por necesidad caían en sus manos.

Relato que narra la historia de cierta condesa mezclada con noticias de periódico, conversaciones de viajeros, imágenes del tranvía, etc., hasta componer un divertido disparate.

Publicada en 1895, esta novela tiene como protagonista a un sacerdote que, movido por sentimientos místicos, decide vivir en la pobreza, y da cuanto posee a los más necesitados.

Entre 1889 y 1895 Galdós publicó las novelas 'Torquemada en la hoguera', 'Torquemada en la cruz', 'Torquemada en el Purgatorio' y 'Torquemada y San Pedro', todas ellas protagonizadas por Francisco Torquemada, un prestamista que ha logrado amasar un interesante capital a base de prestar dinero con usura, exprimiendo sin piedad a los desgraciados que por necesidad caían en sus manos.

The very acute and lively Spanish critic who signs himself Clarin, and is known personally as Don Leopoldo Alas, says the present Spanish novel has no yesterday, but only a day-before-yesterday. It does not derive from the romantic novel which immediately preceded that: the novel, large or little, as it was with Cervantes, Hurtado de Mendoza, Quevedo, and the masters of picaresque fiction.