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Maintz 1900. Johann Walbech has for years been searching for the cause of his misfortunes in his library. One day he meets a mathematician who is doing the same using formulae and arithmetic. Together they will give birth to something amazing, a book of books, which explains the meaning of everything.
This book offers the original text in Catalan with a Spanish translation of the manual of dyeing of Joanot Valero, an artisan dyer from Sarrión (in the south of Aragón, close to the border with the ancient realm of Valencia).
Tirant lo Blanch is one most interesting and representative novels in world literature. It was written by a Valencian, Joanot Martorell, at a time when our language was spoken and written on all the routes across the Mediterranean. Through its pages you will take part in the military and romantic adventures of a knight who wanted to achieve one dream: to liberate Constantinople from its enemies.
This is the story of a seductive and greedy carnivorous plant, who lures all kinds of insects with her charms and devours them incessantly. In the world of carnivorous plants there are many species. Tita belongs to a group called “Venus Flytraps” and her scientific name is Dionaea.
The necromancers of Idyll Tower are not as the stories tell. Nobody sacrifices maidens or dances with death, they just study books and spells. Clarence, who has always lived there, loves its peaceful atmosphere, but Hazan, who has travelled to the outside world, is beginning to get bored.
Intercultural education is the graat challenge of 21st-century society. This book is designed in a way that the theory and pracice of intercultural education are closely linked, so allowing reader to not only reflect upon the subject, but also, more importantly, to act.
Adrián Díaz appears to be living the dream. He is about to play Hamlet on stage and is going to give up his job in the hospitality industry to dedicate himself full-time to his true vocation, acting. What almost nobody knows is that Adrián is "touched" or, in other words, suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder.
This is the story of two siblings. Sixteen-year-old Lolo and his older sister Lena, who is addicted to crack and heroin. She left home a year ago. One day, Lolo runs into her at Barajas airport where she is making money through petty theft. In order to convince her to return home with him, Lolo decides to go with Lena to the ghetto where she buys drugs and appears to live.
The beginning of the 20th century: unfortunate itinerate poet Gabriel lives trapped within his passion for a woman who doesn’t exist, and this obsession will affect his love for Leonor, a woman of flesh and blood, whose destiny is tragically linked to that of tormented Spanish American Tomás Montaña.
It has happened to us all at some point: we hear a phrase, and the words, as if they were a powerful, silent laser, penetrate our veins, they get stuck in our blood, and with it they circulate incessantly around our body. Or perhaps, instead of a phrase it is a person who, although we have only just met them, finds a parking space in our heart.