El general Simon Bolivar, \"El Libertador\" de los paises de America del Sur, da, por ultima vez, un nostalgico viaje por el rio Magdalena en el que vuelve a visitar ciudades en sus orillas donde revive sus triumfos, sus pasiones y las traiciones de toda una vida. Poseedor de un gran encanto personal, prodigiosamente afortunado en amores, en la guerra y en la politica, todavia baila con tanto entusiasmo

Open Circuits is a photographic exploration of the beautiful design inside everyday electronics. Its stunning cross-section photography unlocks a hidden world full of elegance, subtle complexity, and wonder. Our phones, computers, and appliances are made of hundreds of internal components, each precisely engineered to perform a certain function, but none intended to actually be seen. Through painstakingly

Love Songs (1917) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale. The poet\'s fourth collection, for which she was awarded the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric poems meditating on life, romance, and the natural world. Somber and celebratory, symbolic and grounded in experience, Love Songs revels in the mystery of existence itself. From despair to elation, confusion to security, Sara

A diamond-sharp, Italian classic about the mysterious relationships between two partisan couples in German-occupied Italy in the wintry mountains of Piemonte This hauntingly beautiful, sharply modern novel of WWII is perfect for fans of Tove Ditlevsen, Rachel Cusk, and Lucia Berlin Translated into English for the first time, A Silence Shared is a captivating classic novel that inhabits the silent spaces

Are you having a Grumpy, Bumpy, Gurgly, Whirly, Bad Gorilla Day? Have no fear! Grumps gorilla will show you how he conquers a bad gorilla day like a champ, not a chimp. So take a walk on the wild side, learn some new tricks and tips that are sure to turn even your whirliest of days into a Great Gorilla Day! \'A Bad Gorilla Day, But, A Great Gorilla

This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers\' gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the most dynamic and prosperous region of Scotland. Much criticised as weed-infested, badly cultivated and disfigured by the dung heap before the cottage door, eighteenth-century cottage gardens produced only the most basic food crops. But the paradox is that

A field manual on contextualizing cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and risks to connected cars through penetration testing and risk assessmentHacking Connected Cars deconstructs the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used to hack into connected cars and autonomous vehicles to help you identify and mitigate vulnerabilities affecting cyber-physical vehicles. Written by a veteran of risk management

Knowing that reliable information on the practice of insight meditation was much needed by practitioners in the West, the renowned Burmese master Ledi Sayadaw wrote the The Manual of Insight. He covers many topics, such as the distortions of perceptions, the Noble Truths, the higher knowledges, Nibbana, and others, fully expounded and furnished with brief descriptions, some of which are drawn from

An artist turns back to her roots and discovers they are not what she thought. Daughters of the Labyrinth is a contemporary story, for an era of instability, about love, loss and memory, parents and children, the fragility of life, and the forgotten Jews of

How a modern-day mine disaster turned a Pennsylvania community into a ghost

Psychopathy is a personality disorder that has long captured the public imagination. Newspaper column inches have been devoted to murderers with psychopathic features, and we also encounter psychopaths in films and books. Individuals with psychopathy are characterised in particular by lack of empathy and guilt, manipulation of other people and, in the case of criminal psychopathy, premeditated violent

The official tie-in book for the forthcoming, full-length feature

Stefano the Frog embarks on an epic forest adventure, leaving his siblings Kyoto and Milo back home in Lake Quasi.While on their mission to reach Strawberry Land, Stefano and his new forever friends, Squinty and Glory, come across enchanting characters and face mystical obstacles along the way. Join Stefano on his journey, exploring the forest and saving the day with kindness, courage -- and a little

Test your courage against the most infamous foes of myth and legend! Bestiary 3 presents hundreds of monsters for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Within this book you\'ll find demiliches and demodands, grave knights and goblin snakes, norns and nephilim, imperial dragons and unfettered eidolons, and so much more! Yet not every creature needs to be an enemy, as winged garudas, crafty tanukis,

Raise standards and improve learning for all students through equitable grading Grading-one of the most important responsibilities of teachers with major implications for students\' academic and life trajectories-is ironically also among the most enigmatic and frequently avoided topics in education. Although most teachers sense that common grading practices are often ineffective, there is limited understanding

Vathek (1786) is a novel by William Beckford. Inspired by his travels, Beckford wrote Vathek in French before supervising its translation into English by Reverend Samuel Henley. Recognized as an instrumental work in the popularization of Orientalist fiction, Vathek is an early Gothic novel that influenced such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron, Robert Southey, and H. P. Lovecraft. Born into a

The hilarious and magical adventures of everyone\'s favourite flat hero - Flat Stanley. With brilliant new illustrations by the award-winning author/illustrator Rob Biddulph. Amazing things always happen to Stanley Lambchop ... It\'s not every Christmas you get flown to the North Pole to meet