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Felipe has a cold and he can’t stop sneezing, but he doesn’t want the medicine that will make him better. The remedies his friends come up with are a bit crazy, and don’t seem to cure him at all. Poor Felipe, he just can’t get rid of his cold!
Félix Fantoba is fascinated by magic. So much so, that he sets up a club and organises a rally to practise escapism in Valdemar, an abandoned village where paranormal activity is said to have occurred. During one of the tricks, Félix disappears without trace.
This novel reconstructs a great love - beginning with its end. It is the story of a couple who, like so many, fell in love, lived an illusion, had children and fought against everything - against themselves and against the elements: uncertainty, precariousness, jealousy. They fought not to give up, and came a cropper several times.
The phenomenon of low cost includes several aspects, where the main one is the variation in the historic concept of price. This ceases to be a key factor in the positioning of the product or service and in itself serves as a decisive element in the decision-making of many consumers.
Last in the series “Garden Animals”. In this new offering, the friends of Antoñita the butterfly are preparing for the garden’s Festival. Everything is ready for the big night. There will even be dancing with a band! But at the last minute there is a hitch. The singer is ill. What will happen to the Festival?
ON THE FRONTIER, THE ONLY LAW IS IRON They called him Fierro. He lived in a secluded and lonely place on the border, that cursed place where Moors and Christians sowed death at will. His only comfort was the beehives, which he loved so much. His memories of the battle of Alarcos haunted and tormented him, because there he lost her, lost his future son, and almost died.
Tochtli likes hats, dictionaries, samurais, guillotines and the French. But Tochtli is a child, and what he wants now is a new animal for his private zoo: a dwarf Liberian hippopotamus. His father, Yolcaut, a drugs trafficker at the peak of his power, is willing to satisfy his every whim. Because Yolcaut always can.
Do you know about the Pagan origins of Christian festivals? What they used to mean, and how exactly they were absorbed by Christianity? Do you know which heretic ceremonies are now Saints' days? Why the Day of the Dead is celebrated? What symbology bullfighting carries? Do you know what class of rites are really being celebrated on the magical night of Saint John?
Noah's mother has decided to stop breast-feeding her daughter. In order to explain the decision to her, she uses the allegory of a cloud of well-being. She explains to Noah that she has been accompanied by a cloud since the day she was born, and, over time, it has grown up, just like her. This cloud is very soft and colourful and is wrapped around Noah and will stay with her always.
The principal am of the UNESCO degree course in the philosophy of peace at the Universitat Jaume I is perfectly reflected in this book, which brings together the conclusions of 11 theses from the International Masters in Peace, Conflict and Development Studies, convened by Vicent Martínez Guzmán and Eloisa Nos Aldás.