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42261) Robustiano Patrón Costas
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Robustiano Patrón Costas fue uno de los más lúcidos y creativos empresarios del país al frente del Ingenio San Martín del Tabacal, empresa que lideró en su tiempo la producción industrial de la Provincia. Llegó a ser candidato a presidente, camino político que se vio frustrado por el golpe de Estado de 1943. En el ámbito de la educación, en la década del sesenta, fue el promotor, junto al Arzobispo, Mons. Roberto Tavella, de la creación...
42263) The Battered Generation
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Physical punishment at schools in Iran continued until being banned by the Ministry of Education in September 1960.
The author spent four years at "Safa" school in the north area of Tehran, in Iran from 1953 to 1957. In this book he recalls the social and educational conditions of those years, the morale and status of students and the teachers' way of thinking. He also discusses the prevailing culture of physical punishments and the hardships the...
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George Nichols was an artillery officer serving with the 82nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. He was wounded in 1917, and returned to the guns in March 1918, just in time to experience the fury of the Kaiserschlacht, the great German offensive designed to knock the British army out of the war.Nichols wrote a powerful account of the Kaiser's last great offensive battle from inside the eye of the storm, and it is one of the few primary source accounts...
42265) VCs Passchendaele 1917
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Of all the costly campaigns fought across the Western Front during the First World War, none strikes a more chilling chord than Passchendaele. Even now, more than ninety years on, the very mention of the name is enough to conjure up apocalyptic images of desolation and misery on a quite bewildering scale – humanity drowning in a sea of mud. Passchendaele has come to serve as a symbol of the folly and futility of war, chiefly remembered for its carnage...
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After three deadly years of fighting, President Abraham Lincoln had seen a little progress in the West against the Confederacy, but in the main theater of operations, Virginia, the lines were almost exactly where they had been when the American Civil War started. The war was at a stalemate with northern public support rapidly fading. Then, Lincoln summoned General Ulysses S. Grant, victor of the Vicksburg campaign, to come East. In little over a year,...
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L'autobiographie d'une chanteuse d'opéra qui défraya la chronique en raison de ses mœurs dissolues.
POUR UN PUBLIC AVERTI. De la découverte de la sexualité en surprenant ses parents pas le trou de la serrure à une scène finale qui pourra laisser rêveur plus d'un libertin, la chanteuse allemande conte en détails ses aventures les plus libertines et les plus osées, au gré des parties fines à travers l'Europe.
Lors d'un voyage à Strasbourg,...
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Many lovers of literature are familiar, through Dostoyevsky's works, with the concept of the Russian "Staretz," or spiritual elder, and this biography offers a vivid portrayal of an authentic Staretz, Father Ilarion-a monk of the renowned Glinsk hermitage in modern-day Ukraine. Offering unique insights into the Orthodox Church in Russia during communism and in the immediate postcommunist period, this account not only chronicles Father Ilarion's journey,...
42269) Richard III
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King Richard III remains one of the most infamous and recognizable monarchs in English or British history, despite only sitting on the throne for two years and fifty-eight days. His hold on the popular imagination is largely due to the fictional portrayal of him by William Shakespeare which, combined with the workings of five centuries of rumor and gossip, has created two opposing versions of Richard. In fiction he is the evil, scheming murderer who...
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En 1983, el ciclismo español se encontraba en un coma profundo: la secreta línea de continuidad que llevaba de Trueba a Fuente y Ocaña, pasando por Berrendero, Ruiz, Loroño, Bahamontes o Jiménez, se había roto. Con la retirada del conquense y del asturiano, con la decadencia del legendario Kas, con la ausencia cada vez más notable de ciclistas hispanos en las carreteras del Tour, una de las tradiciones más ricas de este deporte se había quebrado....
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"The Making of a Missionary" by Loreen Ittermann is her account of God's miraculous hand upon an everyday woman. The stories within these pages are factual accounts of how God Almighty moved through the impossible. You will read stories of Moldavian and Russian mafia encounters, miraculous healings, atheists becoming born-again and preachers, the hungry being fed, God fulfilling major and minor needs and wants, God's love poured into orphans, widows,...
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett began her career at sixteen as a teacher and went on to become a lecturer, investigative journalist, and advocate for social justice. As the first journalist to research and document lynching, she battled racial injustice through her writing and public speaking. She was also a women's rights activist who helped organize women's clubs to work toward suffrage and urban reform. Through historical photographs, educational sidebars,...
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An account from the frontline of fertility treatment, giving a unique insight into not only the medical and scientific advances involved but the human cost and rewards behind this life-changing technology. Simon Fishel worked with Robert Edwards during his pioneering early IVF research and was part of the team in the world's first IVF clinic, with all the trials and tribulations that involved at the time, including a writ for murder! As the science...
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In a moving and bittersweet story, M.J. Andersen chronicles her childhood and adolescence in South Dakota, her departure to forge her own life, and her persistent longing for the landscape she left behind. Her hometown, given the fictional name of Plainville, is so quiet that one local family regularly parks by the tracks to watch the train pass through. Yet small-town life and, especially, the prairie prove to be fertile ground for Andersen's imagination....
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«Comment Mae West a-t-elle influencé un hit de la Motown? Quelle chanson thème a rapporté des millions et des millions à l'auteur? Pourquoi en apprenant l'histoire d'Eartha Kitt fait que vous n'entendrez plus jamais sa musique de la même façon. Les lecteurs trouveront plein de surprises et d'informations dans ces pages..."The Saturday Morning Song Chronicles: Memoires, Motown, et Musique" Est plus qu'un livre. Paul Allen III a écrit une encyclopédie...
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Uno de los retratos más delicados que jamás se hayan escrito sobre el desposeimiento.
En este libro, Susana Moreira Marques se rebela contra una máxima que repetía su abuelo: que solo los ricos parecen ostentar el derecho a dejar historia. La periodista portuguesa acompaña durante meses a un equipo de cuidados paliativos en una zona rural del norte de Portugal para rescatar los últimos rescoldos de unas vidas que se apagan. Ahora y en la hora...
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Musically, culturally and even in terms of sheer attitude, the Jesus and Mary Chain stand alone. Their seminal debut album Psychocandy changed the course of popular music, and their iconic blend of psychotic white noise and darkly surreal lyrics that presaged the shoegaze movement continues to enchant and confound.
Zoë Howe's biography is the fierce, frank and funny tale of the Jesus and Mary Chain, told by the band members and their associates...
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Every year millions of people celebrate St Patrick. He is Ireland's most famous ambassador. Yet, what do we really know about him, about his spirituality, his mission, his vocation? Can we really only say that he was no friend to snakes?
Few people know that Patrick's own writings have survived to the present day. Fewer still understand the connection between Patrick and the Church Fathers. Ironically, it is perhaps his universal popularity and...
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From stocking supermarket shelves and playing in two Super Bowls with the Rams to being consigned to the NFL scrap heap and then starring in a third Super Bowl with the Arizona Cardinals, Kurt Warner's story is a saga of dreams realized and opportunities rewarded against all odds. This biography also stands as a vivid testimony to the faith of a man and his wife to whom tragedy is no stranger and whose commitment to family and community is an inspiration...
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Lionel Messi and the Art of Living is a bold and insightful examination of a world-famous sporting hero's career from an entirely new perspective, providing a context extending far beyond the football field. The idea that sports stars are role models is a clichà©, but it is also true in a way that is rarely appreciated. Although the details of Messi's story are already well known, The Art of Living examines afresh and anew his highs and lows, his...
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