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Plongez dans l'univers mystique de l'hermétisme et découvrez une tradition ancienne et fascinante qui a captivé l'imagination des penseurs, des philosophes et des mystiques depuis des siècles. Dans ce livre, vous découvrirez les principes hermétiques fondamentaux tels que l'unité, la correspondance, la polarité, le genre, le rythme, la cause et l'effet, ainsi que les pratiques hermétiques telles que la méditation, la prière, la magie et...
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Der Nordosten Indiens hat die Reisebuchautorin Margarete Franz in seinen Bann geschlagen. Drei Jahre in Folge hat sie Assam und Meghalaya bereist und ist dem Brahmaputra gefolgt.Aus dem Inhalt:Hinduklöster, Tee, Seide und Öl, vor allem aber die Menschen, denen Margarete Franz während ihrer Reise durch Assam und den Nordosten Indiens begegnet und die Eindrücke, die sie sammelt, prägen ihren Erlebnisbericht. Entlang des Brahmaputra, an seinen Ufern...
63) The Life of Ancient Romans Leisure, Family, Relationships, and Military Life During the Great Rom
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In 27 BC, when Augustus turned into the first sovereign of the Roman Empire, introducing the supreme period, the country he governed was more than 700 years of age. For quite a long time, Rome's rulers had controlled an immense region that stretched out into northern Europe, parts of Africa, and Asia. The city of Rome was the most delightful and refined on the planet. It was filled with parks and gardens, marble curves and sculptures, lavish royal...
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Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.
Although the seasons have been a perennial theme in literature and art, their significance for philosophy and environmental theory has remained largely unexplored. This pioneering book demonstrates the ways in which inquiry into the seasons reveals new and illuminating...
65) Derribando muros
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La artista de performance Marina Abramovic, ha pasado toda su vida derribando barreras, dolor, resistencia, miedo, en una exhaustiva búsqueda de transformación emocional y espiritual tanto en la vida como en el arte. En estas extraordinarias memorias relata su conmovedora y épica historia, desde su difícil y abusiva infancia en la Yugoslavia de la posguerra, pasando por la convulsa relación artística y amorosa con el fotógrafo y artista Ulay,...
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A travelogue and historical exploration of Mexico from one of the twentieth century's greatest travel writers. Dame Rebecca West travels through Mexico and explores its people, history, religion, and culture in her unfinished work Survivors in Mexico, carefully stitched together by Bernard Schweizer in this posthumously published edition. West tackles the country's broad historical legacy - the Spanish conquest and Mexican revolution, the muralist...
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The snow is falling, the holidays are approaching and…It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies! This delightfully depraved book of classic Zombie Christmas carols by Michael P. Spradlin is guaranteed to spread Yuletide cheer to all those good boys and ghouls who devoured the monster New York Times bestsellers Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and World War Z, as well as fans of 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead. With an introduction by the inimitable...
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Venice for Lovers is a memorable collaboration by two fine stylists who have fashioned their own personal homages to Venice, one with a novella, the other with a personal essay. Every year for all the thirty they have been married, Begley and Muhlstein have escaped to Venice to write. In her contribution to the book, Muhlstein charmingly describes how she and her husband dine at the same restaurant every night for years on end, and how becoming friends...
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Das Leben im WindReiner Effinger bricht auf nach Südamerika. Sein Fahrrad im Gepäck lernt er in Cusco Spanisch und akklimatisiert sich an die Höhen der Anden, bevor er seinem Traum folgt und Südamerika auf zwei Rädern entdeckt.Aus dem Inhalt:Wie soll es anders sein? Nicht jeden Tag scheint die Sonne, schon gar nicht, wenn man 7.800 Kilometer mit dem Rad durch Südamerika unterwegs ist. Auf dem Rad ist der Regen kälter, die Sonne ist erbarmungsloser,...
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The turmoil of uncertainty and regret that we human people so often feel within ourselves is intensified by the violent conflict we witness raging throughout the world. Who could not feel shaky when so many governments are disintegrating and so many institutions are crumbling and the earth itself is threatening catastrophe?Does our inner turbulence, conversely, contribute to the instability of the world around us? Surely it does. Whether borne in...
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« Médecin de famille » L'expression en dit beaucoup plus qu'on ne l'imagine. Cette figure est chargée de symboles, de souvenirs d'enfance, d'émotions intenses et d'expériences de vie marquantes. Elle véhicule son poids d'histoire et de réalité contemporaine. Et, parce que l'expression est riche, il est difficile d'en faire le tour en quelques mots ou quelques pages.
Marc Zaffran raconte ici comment la médecine générale est devenue,...
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"In another country or another era, Dennis Cooper's books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe." -New York Times Book Review
"His work belongs to that of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire, and Georges Bataille, other writers who argued with mortality." - San Francisco Chronicle
"There's a stainless steel sheen to Cooper's sentences that is...
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Edición actualizada del indispensable libro de Peter Cossins sobre la historia de las grandes clásicas de un día.
El Tour de Francia se lleva la fama, pero son las pruebas de ciclismo de un día las que muchos ciclistas profesionales realmente valoran. Las más duras, largas y sucias de todas son las conocidas como Monumentos, las cinco carreras legendarias que son el equivalente ciclista de los majors de golf o los Grand Slams de tenis. La Milán-Sanremo,...
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Hablemos sobre nuestros adorables amigos, la relación entre los seres humanos y sus queridas mascotas, en particular los perros, ha evolucionado a lo largo de los años. En la actualidad, muchos consideran a sus perros como miembros de la familia, compartiendo con ellos un vínculo profundo y afectuoso. Como resultado, la salud y el bienestar de nuestros fieles compañeros de cuatro patas se han convertido en una prioridad en nuestros hogares. Una...
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Filósofo, historiador, profesor, controvertido, reservado, gay. Ícono asociado con la izquierda que, sin embargo, criticó duramente al freudomarxismo y al feminismo de su tiempo. Mucho se dijo sobre Michel Foucault, y sus ideas todavía resuenan con fuerza en la actualidad, tanto dentro como fuera de la academia. En La creación del placer, Luis Diego Fernández traza un recorrido de tres partes para: explicar la forma en que Foucault piensa los...
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A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning is an inviting conversation with a learned scholar about the content of an authentic liberal arts education. It surveys ideas and books central to the tradition of humanistic education that has fundamentally shaped our country and our civilization. This accessible volume argues for an order and integration of knowledge so that meaning might be restored to the haphazard approach to study currently dominating higher...
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His plays are known for containing hilarity at every turn and revealing social commentary in every corner. Now collected in Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them and Other Political Plays are Durang's most revealing political and social satires. Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them tells the story of a young woman in crisis: Is her new husband, whom she married when drunk, a terrorist? Or just crazy? Or both? Is her father's...
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When it comes to education matters, especially writing, the problem may not be so much what we know but how to present it to those who need to read it to prove that we know what we are required to know. More often than not, students will have a lot of facts but fail to present them in a way that they will easily be understood. In some cases, especially in high school and colllege, the problem gets even bigger. We do not only need to present what is...
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Este libro es una revisión histórica sobre los orígenes del diseño moderno en Chile, situado a fines de la década del veinte del siglo pasado. Se observa y releva el rol que cumplió el Estado como impulsor de reformas modernizadoras que fueron la base del desarrollo del diseño a nivel nacional. El autor destaca lineamientos clave para el diseño, como la estandarización para el mejor uso de los recursos, promovidos por la Dirección de Abastecimiento...
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