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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.
An old friends’ reunion in a mountain lodge gathers a dozen men and women with nothing in common, except an obscure episode in the past in which they were all involved. It left a lasting mark on them all, and it’s perhaps the true and unspeakable reason behind this nostalgic anniversary that nobody seems to be keen on celebrating.
A day seemingly just like any other brings together the last living hours of four poets: Cesare Pavese, Alejandra Pizarnik, Anne Sexton and Gabriel Ferrater. Like a black box, Poem’s End records the subtle moments leading up to their deaths. Little by little, silence and the loss of words fills everything, and each poet falls apart in their own way.
In 1998 the writer Miguel Anxo Murado was sent to Palestine by the United Nations. He would remain there for five years, during which he lived all sorts of dramatic and comical situations: from representing Palestine at an international tourism fair to witnessing attacks and bombings or being the official spokesman during the Pope's visit.