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“On summer nights I swim in the star flecked tank, I wash my face first with one paw, then with the other, then with both together, and this brings me great joy.” A bear who lives in the pipes of a building gradually discovers the strange and solitary life of human beings. A charming story from the great Julio Cortázar.
To enter the fascinating world of video games you need a good gaming guide and a few extra games.
The industry has expanded astonishingly in the past few years, reaching millions of people and creating new platforms and revolutionary games systems.
Design is an amazing platform for improvement, at the service of companies and, therefore, of society, which is already a requisite for entering a great number of markets. This work is directed at organisations for which design is still in the in-tray. From a mangement viewpoint, it proposes ten topics for consideration in reducing the risks associated with taking design-related decisions.
The ability to listen to (and be in) the clouds, bob on the waves of the sea, make the most of every glimmer of light and colour each day offers or play with the moon is an ability that not everybody enjoys. But the protagonist of this book is 'Distinta'.
In a beautiful, desolate place, the death of a grandfather brings together all the members of a family. Beside the reservoir that swamped their home almost fifty years before, and where Domingo's ashes will lie for eternity, each member of the family silently reflects on their relationship with him and the others, and on how exile marked all their lives.
This double question and answer game will test your knowledge on everything from history and literature to science and sport, video games and cinema. Two books in one: separate them at the spine, get two teams together and…let's play!
Queharé is a special postman in a very special, fun world. He has one shoe, two pairs of glasses, three pocket watches and four leather sacks where he carries five bundles of postcards, six folders of letters, seven telegrams and eight urgent parcels. A very special picture book where numbers and anything unreal are all in a day’s work. From six years up.
Don Quijote de la Mancha is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. First published under the title El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Honorable Don Quijote de la Mancha) at the beginning of 1605, it is one of the most outstanding works of Spanish and world literature, and one of the most widely translated.
-General, non-specialist audiences
-Spanish/foreign language (from B2-C1 upper intermediate/advanced level. The cultural information part can be used from intermediate level B1-B2)
-Spanish/Mother tongue in Secondary and Higher Education (as an introduction to Don Quixote and the time of Cervantes)
-School children (aged approximately 12 and above) and adults
This work brings together 10 studies by contemporary literature scholars, who analyse current novels and theories in relation to Cervantes' Quixote. The book opens with an essay by Antonio Muñoz Molina, who reflects on man's conduct in the face of his circumstances, taking the Cervantine protagonist as his model.