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Berlin, 1955. Latvian theater director Asja Lacis, crushed by the experience of ten years in a labour camp in Kazakhstan, returns home and visits her old friend Bertolt Brecht. After a brief conversation in which they both try to conceal their misery, Bertolt tells Asja that Walter Benjamin, the love of her life has died.
What lies behind the mysterious hitchhiker, who disappears at the first stop? Xarloca doesn’t like it, and less when, the next day, she sees the boy on the cover of a fashion magazine. Be careful what you’re getting mixed up in, Xarloca!
A hero appears in Galician lands to seek revenge for Viking incursions on the peninsula. The first novel which reveals this episode to us through a story filled with adventures as well as rigorous historical documentation. At the height of the Reconquest, the Norsemen invaded Galicia to avail themselves of the treasures of Santiago de Compostela, the jewel of Christianity.
This is a bok about astrobiology, the science which attempts to understand if life as we know it is just an extraordinarily lucky accident or, in contrast, a species of cosmic imperative.
A look at the extensive industrial heritage of Asturias since the beginning of industrialisation. The book is organised in chapters under different sectors: mining, iron and steel industry, etc. and dedicates some pages to times before the industrial era with examples of mallets, windmills and other hydraulic devices.
Customer service is everything that the company does to increase the level of client satisfaction. It must not be seen just as a marketing tool, aimed at minimizing mistakes and loose the least number of clients as possible, but more as a system to constantly improve our company’s services.
The support provided by a domestic care worker offers the possibility for the dependent person to continue living in their own home, maintaining a connection with their surroundings as well as staying close to their friends, neighbours and family.
'Atico' opens with IT programmer Eduard feeling euphoric after he's fired from his job, because now at last he can shut himself up in his top-floor apartment in Barcelona's old city to programme an ambitious virtual game (which will be a world-wide success).
The clash between Israelis and Palestinians is one of the most problematic focus of tension in the world, a conflict that has produced tragedy and division for over seven decades and whose end is not in sight. Two peoples, two cultures, two religions live together, in discord, in one territory constantly threatened by war —even before the foundation of Israel in 1948.
The Bournonville Style, as we know it nowadays, is a compendium of aesthetics, technique and methodology which allow the Danish creative artist’s choreographies to be performed today with the same purity and rigour as in the 19th century.