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La realidad

Autor: Robert Juan Cantavella

Número de Páginas: 253

Lo que más importa de un escritor es su diferencia. La obra de Robert Juan-Cantavella no se parece a la de ningún otro escritor contemporáneo. Este libro inclasificable lo demuestra una vez más: "La Realidad" es un catálogo de retos. Juan-Cantavella se dedica a poner en jaque lo que entendemos por yo, por política, por literatura, por realidad. "La Realidad" comienza con un retrato del escritor Bret Easton Ellis como adicto al videojuego Angry Birds y termina con el regreso de Juan-Cantavella a los diarios de su viaje a la Chiapas zapatista cuando tenía 20 años. Entre ambas crónicas canallas nos encontramos con perfiles personalísimos de mitos como Curtis Garland o Javier Krahe; un acercamiento al mítico grupo de rock Barricada; avistamientos de marcianos, hackers, mequetrefes y navajeros; fenómenos como el Cine Quinqui, Mariano Rajoy o Carlos Boyero; o las sombras de monstruos literarios como Hunter S. Thompson y David Foster Wallace. Una escritura que no se parece a ninguna otra. Pura dinamita. Pura diferencia.

¡Bang, bang, estás muerto! Vol.III

Autor: Moncho Alpuente , Luis Conde Martín

Número de Páginas: 422

La novela policiaca de quiosco ocupó toda una época de la cultura popular de la larga posguerra española, al menos entre los años cuarenta y sesenta del siglo xx. Revisar algo de lo mucho que se publicó en esas décadas permite comprender la sensibilidad de esos años y por dónde iba el imaginario popular, su desiderátum y sus fantasías. En esta antología se han reunido dieciséis títulos con la pretensión de abarcar las diversas tendencias y generaciones de escritores que fueron muy populares y que mantuvieron la afición de millones de lectores. En este volumen: Pistola de alquiler, Mark Halloran Flores en tu funeral, Donald Curtis ¡Señores del jurado!, Clark Carrados Un crimen y... mucha imaginación, Vic Logan

Biblioteca Studio Ghibli: Porco Rosso

Autor: Manu Robles

Número de Páginas: 273

Porco Rosso es una de las películas más personales e introspectivas de la filmografía de Hayao Miyazaki. Su éxito confirmó la dinámica positiva que logró Studio Ghibli a principios de los noventa, cuyos puntos culminantes fueron La princesa Mononoke(1997) y El viaje de Chihiro (2001). La historia, situada en 1929 durante la Italia fascista gobernada por Benito Mussolini, tiene como protagonista a un solitario piloto de hidroaviones que, tras vivir el horror de la Primera Guerra Mundial, regresa milagrosamente transformado en un cerdo antropomorfo. Convertido en cazarrecompensas, vive apartado de todo y de todos, a excepción de su amiga de la adolescencia Gina. Miyazaki insufla en esta atípica película sus más grandes aficiones y confiere a su protagonista algunos de sus demonios internos. Con un tono en ocasiones cómico y en otras crítico, en Porco Rosso tenemos la ocasión de ver a un Miyazaki diferente. En este tercer volumen de la colección Biblioteca Studio Ghibli, Manu Robles explora el universo de Porco Rosso a través de su contexto, sus personajes, sus temas, sus influencias, su música y sus referencias, sin olvidarse de su trasfondo histórico.

The Law in Graphic Narratives

Autor: Giuseppe Martinico , Gianpaolo Maria Ruotolo

Número de Páginas: 224

Comics, manga and anime can offer an interesting perspective from which to explore representations of the law in popular culture. This book offers a better understanding of the juridical subtexts of such cultural artefacts by bringing together scholars in legal theory and comparative and international law. While the contributions in the first part of the volume unpack the relationships between normative systems (law and morality above all) in graphic narratives by Marvel (Daredevil) and DC heroes (Batman), the second part of the volume looks at the role played by law and lawyers in different legal systems through case studies such as She Hulk. Finally, the last part focusses on the role of international law in the comic (multi)universe and in Japanese animation movies such as Porco rosso). This collection extends research into comics beyond Anglo-American culture, which is still hegemonic in this literature, and makes it possible to read the legal phenomena dealt with in the pop culture products analysed through a lens other than that of Anglo-American law.

The Viking Battalion

Autor: Olaf Minge , Kyle Ward

Número de Páginas: 420

"What is engaging about this book is that you get to hear the authentic voices of the soldiers through their memoirs, journal entries, and letters. Some are long, some are short, but all are worth reading for the insights you get into the minds of the ordinary soldier and what catches his eye." — The Norwegian American Hidden in the crevasses of World War II history is the story of the 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate). A small unit that rarely gets any attention, it is part of a fascinating story. Alongside battalions of Austrian, Greek, Filipino and Japanese Americans, the Army decided to create an all Norwegian American battalion, originally trained at Camp Hale, Colorado, along with the 10th Mountain Division, with the original mission of liberating Norway. Their exploits during training brought them enough notoriety that members of the 99th were recruited to start the First Special Service Force and a branch of the OSS. Although they were not initially sent to Norway, they would fight in Normandy, across France and Belgium, helped entrap the Germans at Aachen, protected the city of Malmedy during the Battle of the Bulge (where they stopped an attack by Skorzeny and a SS...

Written in Stone

Autor: Katherine Orrison

Número de Páginas: 259

From concept stage through production in Egypt to release of the film: Katherine Orrison carefully recreates the behind-the-scenes story of Cecil B. DeMille's beloved epic.

Cine de zombis y fantasmas

Autor: P. Agustí

Número de Páginas: 201

¡Ban, Bang, Estás muerto III !

Autor: Vv. Aa.

Número de Páginas: 369

La novela policiaca de quiosco ocupó toda una época de la cultura popular de la larga posguerra española, al menos entre los años cuarenta y sesenta del siglo xx. Revisar algo de lo mucho que se publicó en esas décadas permite comprender la sensibilidad de esos años y por dónde iba el imaginario popular, su desiderátum y sus fantasías. En esta antología se han reunido dieciséis títulos con la pretensión de abarcar las diversas tendencias y generaciones de escritores que fueron muy populares y que mantuvieron la afición de millones de lectores. En este volumen: Pistola de alquiler, Mark Halloran Flores en tu funeral, Donald Curtis ¡Señores del jurado!, Clark Carrados Un crimen y mucha imaginación, Vic Logan

Gestión de servicios

Autor: John C. Shaw

Número de Páginas: 284

Un texto dedicado a la descripción de procesos que funcionan con eficacia. La parte primera empieza su recorrido por los diversos procesos, presentando un conjunto básico de instrumentos que se emplearán en el texto como marco coherente de análisis. Los instrumentos y las técnicas que se utilizan, excepción hecha del espectro de servicios cliente/consumidor, han sido abordados por otros autores, profesores y consultores de estrategia. INDICE: La gran diferencia: empresas de servicios vs. empresas industriales. Los instrumentos: el marco para un análisis estratégico. Falta un rumbo estratégico a seguir. Evaluación estratégica: mercados y clientes, recursos humanos, etc. Conclusiones estratégicas y rumbo a seguir. Cómo conseguir una ventaja competitiva, continuada, cliente/mercados, recursos humanos, innovación. Cómo evaluar un rendimiento superior: resultados. Gestión del cambio: estrategia para su puesta en práctica, etc.

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Número de Páginas: 1366

Live Television Drama, 1946-1951

Autor: William Hawes

Número de Páginas: 401

The "live era" or "golden age"of television drama originating from New York, 1946 through 1951, was an exciting time of creative and commercial accomplishment. This is a complete history and reference guide to the live dramas that aired during those six years. Extensive coverage is given to the NBC anthologies Kraft Television Theatre and Philco Television Playhouse, and the CBS anthologies Ford Theater and Studio One, as well as to "he competitors"--the 28 new anthologies that appeared in the prime time schedule during 1950 and 1951. Appendices comprehensively list the day-by-day program logs for BBC, CBS and NBC dramas from 1946 through 1951.

Science Fiction Television Series

Autor: Mark Phillips , Frank Garcia

Número de Páginas: 1475

Whether rocketing to other worlds or galloping through time, science fiction television has often featured the best of the medium. The genre's broad appeal allows youngsters to enjoy fantastic premises and far out stories, while offering adults a sublime way to view the human experience in a dramatic perspective. From Alien Nation to World of Giants, this reference work provides comprehensive episode guides and cast and production credits for 62 science fiction series that were aired from 1959 through 1989. For each episode, a brief synopsis is given, along with the writer and director of the show and the guest cast. Using extensive research and interviews with writers, directors, actors, stuntmen and many of the show's creators, an essay about each of the shows is also provided, covering such issues as its genesis and its network and syndication histories.

Congressional Record

Autor: United States. Congress

Número de Páginas: 1452

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

The Ernest Holmes Papers

Autor: Ernest Holmes , George P. Bendall

Número de Páginas: 514

A one-of-a-kind collection of rare writings from one of the world’s foremost spiritual leaders and thinkers. For the first time, the three hard-to-get volumes known as The Ernest Holmes Papers will be published in one volume. Transcripts of talks that Ernest Holmes gave over his career, The Ernest Holmes Papers contains Holmes’s wisdom on prayer, life, prosperity, and God. Used by thousands of spiritual students around the world in previous editions, this first-ever omnibus edition will contain a new introduction from Dr. Kenn Gordon, spiritual leader of the Centers for Spiritual Living. The three volumes that are being included in this one volume are The Philosophy of Ernest Holmes, Anatomy of Healing Prayer, and Ideas of Power.

Columbia Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1982

Autor: Michael R. Pitts

Número de Páginas: 389

From 1928 through 1982, when Columbia Pictures Corporation was a traded stock company, the studio released some of the most famous and popular films dealing with horror, science fiction and fantasy. This volume covers more than 200 Columbia feature films within these genres, among them Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and The Revenge of Frankenstein. Also discussed in depth are the vehicles of such horror icons as Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and John Carradine. Additionally highlighted are several of Columbia's lesser known genre efforts, including the Boston Blackie and Crime Doctor series, such individual features as By Whose Hand?, Cry of the Werewolf, Devil Goddess, Terror of the Tongs and The Creeping Flesh, and dozens of the studio's short subjects, serials and made-for-television movies.

Pay of Enlisted Personnel, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, Haring ..., on S. 3505 ..., May 5, 1938

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On Military Affairs

Número de Páginas: 38

A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul

Autor: Jack Canfield , Mark Victor Hansen

Número de Páginas: 244

The fourth installment in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series promises to be even more popular than its predecessors. The perfect gift for friends, family and business associates is now available in A 4th Course.

Heritage Vintage Movie Poster Signature Auction 2005 Catalog #617

Autor: Ivy Press

Número de Páginas: 244

Pay of Enlisted Personnel, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On Military Affairs

Número de Páginas: 38

The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki

Autor: Dani Cavallaro

Número de Páginas: 213

The thought-provoking, aesthetically pleasing animated films of Hayao Miyazaki attract audiences well beyond the director's native Japan. Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away were critically acclaimed upon U.S. release, and the earlier My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service have found popularity with Americans on DVD. This critical study of Miyazaki's work begins with an analysis of the visual conventions of manga, Japanese comic books, and anime; an overview of Japanese animated films; and a consideration of the techniques deployed by both traditional cel and computer animation. This section also details Miyazaki's early forays into comic books and animation, and his output prior to his founding of Studio Ghibli. Part Two concentrates on the Studio Ghibli era, outlining the company's development and analyzing the director's productions between 1984 and 2004, including Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro and his newest film, Howl's Moving Castle. The second section also discusses other productions involving Studio Ghibli, including Grave of the Fireflies and The Cat Returns. Appendices supply additional information about Studio Ghibli's merchandise production, Miyazaki's...

Videographic Cinema

Autor: Jonathan Rozenkrantz

Número de Páginas: 229

In 1957, A Face in the Crowd incorporated live video images to warn about the future of broadcast TV. In 2015, Kung Fury was infused with analogue noise to evoke the nostalgic feeling of watching an old VHS tape. Between the two films, numerous ones would incorporate video images to imagine the implications of video practices. Drawing on media archaeology, Videographic Cinema shows how such images and imaginaries have emerged, changed and remained over time according to their shifting technical, historical and institutional conditions. Rediscovering forgotten films like Anti-Clock (1979) and reassessing ones like Lost Highway (1997), Jonathan Rozenkrantz charts neglected chapters of video history, including self-confrontation techniques in psychiatry, their complex relation with surveillance, and the invention/discovery of the “videographic psyche” by artists, therapists and filmmakers. Spanning six decades, Videographic Cinema discovers an epistemic shift from prospective imaginaries of surveillance and control conditioned on video as a medium for live transmission, to retrospective ones concerned with videotape as a recording memory. It ends by considering videographic...

Directory of Graduates of the FBI National Academy and Officers of the FBI National Academy Associates

Autor: Fbi National Academy

Número de Páginas: 412

Register of the Commission and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States, Including Officers of the Marine Corps

Número de Páginas: 1180

You Can If You Think You Can

Autor: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

Número de Páginas: 340

Norman Vincent Peale, the author of the international bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking—which has had an unprecedented influence on millions of people throughout the world—shares his inspirational classic that shows you how to develop the vital knowledge of inner power to carry you over every obstacle. When you have a problem—no matter how baffling, difficult, or discouraging it may be, there is one basic principle to remember and apply, according to Dr. Peale: persistence through perception. He shows how you too, can make the impossible possible by learning how to: —Motivate yourself —Believe in yourself and have confidence —Forget your fears —Make miracles happen —Avoid thoughts of failure —Draw on the resources in your mind —Ease up and have a sense of humor —Get on top of things and stay there These dramatic, heartwarming stories in You Can If You Think You Can show how men and women—of all ages and all walks of life—transformed their lives and careers by following Dr. Peale’s philosophy of positive thinking. Don’t miss his other timeless, bestselling classics: The Power of Positive Thinking: The greatest inspirational bestseller of the...

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Autor: Library Of Congress. Copyright Office

Número de Páginas: 1830

Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

Autor: United States. Patent Office

Número de Páginas: 1196

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Autor: Library Of Congress. Copyright Office

Número de Páginas: 1186

A Charmed Life, Amid Order and Disorder

Autor: Bennett Lear Fairorth

Número de Páginas: 456

The author, 83 and a widower, drives from a northern suburb of Philadelphia, Pa. to take his oldest daughter Jane to a lunch for Mother's Day 2010. Her two grown children live in other states. Jane, 61, is a recent grandmother. The author is a recent great-grandfather. A former teacher of high school English, the author retired in 1991 and for about 10 years traveled extensively throughout Europe but now tutors 8 adults, 6 Korean women and 2 African-Americans, for the Abington Library adult literacy program. Each of his 8 students gets an individual one-hour session one day a week. The tutors are not compensated for their gas or their time spent helping students. During the Mother's Day lunch, father and daughter talk about the upcoming primary election for U.S. Senator and the movies of Clint Eastwood. The next week the author gets a call from his twin sister, who lives in Portland, Oregon, postponing a planned visit to the east because of a fall. During a tutoring session at the Library, the author finds an unclaimed paperback edition of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." He decides to keep it to read. When not tutoring, the author enjoys listening to music, watching movies. His ...

Register of Retired Commissioned and Warrant Officers, Regular and Reserve, of the United States Navy

Número de Páginas: 76

Application of a State Sales and Use Taxes to Transactions in Federal Areas

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On Finance

Número de Páginas: 66

Programmatic Supplemental EIS for Alaska Groundfish Fisheries Implemented Under the Authority of the Fishery Management Plans for the Groundfish Fishery of the Gulf of Alaska and the Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area

Número de Páginas: 894

Murders on Halloween

Autor: Corey Wagner

Número de Páginas: 339

The way I wrote this story was using my own type of style, which was to make a horror story unpredictable. We all know that one doesn’t even have to read or watch a horror story because you already know what’s going to happen. That’s why I decided to write a story in a way that you won’t know what happens until it happens. Therefore, I felt writing a horror story in this style would keep you interested. I hope that horror fans will enjoy this unpredictable story. There are some people I wish to thank for getting my book to horror fans. I want to thank Xlibris Publishing and everyone there. I want to thank Ace Bros Printing LTD and everyone there for their help and in the ways they helped me but didnt have to. I want to thank a handful of people who encouraged me to pursue my dream. Most importantly, I want to thank the three people in my life who inspired me to fulfill my dream of becoming a writer. Thank you to my mom, my ex wife, and my son.

Hearings

Autor: United States. Congress Senate

Número de Páginas: 1850

¡Bang Bang, Estás muerto IV !

Autor: Vv. Aa.

Número de Páginas: 423

La novela policiaca de quiosco ocupó toda una época de la cultura popular de la larga posguerra española, principalmente entre los años cuarenta y sesenta del siglo XX. Para quien desee comprender la sensibilidad de esos años y las preferencias del imaginario colectivo, es imprescindible revisar algo de lo mucho que se publicó en esas décadas. En esta antología se han reunido dieciséis títulos de los miles publicados, con la idea de abarcar las diversas tendencias y generaciones de escritores que fueron muy populares y mantuvieron la afición de millones de lectores. No están todos los que fueron, per sí son algunos de los más estimados y que perduran en el imaginario colectivo. De su calidad y atractivo literario hablan sus textos y así lo podrán comprobar quienes vuelvan a leerlos. En este volumen: Han linchado a un negro, Fel Marty Doce horas para morir, Eddie Thorny Las rubias son peligrosas, Keith Luger In memoriam, Alexis Barclay

Military Comedy Films

Autor: Hal Erickson

Número de Páginas: 425

Beginning with Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms, released in America near the end of World War I, the military comedy film has been one of Hollywood's most durable genres. This generously illustrated history examines over 225 Army, Navy and Marine-related comedies produced between 1918 and 2009, including the abundance of laughspinners released during World War II in the wake of Abbott and Costello's phenomenally successful Buck Privates (1941), and the many lighthearted service films of the immediate postwar era, among them Mister Roberts (1955) and No Time for Sergeants (1958). Also included are discussions of such subgenres as silent films (The General), military-academy farces (Brother Rat), women in uniform (Private Benjamin), misfits making good (Stripes), anti-war comedies (MASH), and fact-based films (The Men Who Stare at Goats). A closing filmography is included in this richly detailed volume.

The Christmas Eve Murders

Autor: Noelle Albright

Número de Páginas: 256

An hilarious and gripping festive whodunnit, perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Agatha Christie It's Christmas Eve at the Merry Monarch. Nestled amongst the Yorkshire Dales, the pub is preparing to host its annual scavenger hunt for its rabble of regulars. There's the landlord, Mickey, his wife Sofia and their wayward son, James; local policeman Alex and his supernaturally minded deputy Don; as well as Sita, Mrs Fazarkaley, the Kapoors and Curtis, who's never far from his beloved dog Barkley. Quite the crowd. And this year, they are interrupted by a knock at the door from Maddie Marlowe, a journalist who was homeward bound to Edinburgh for Christmas - only to be stranded by car failure, and by the snow storm that's closing in on the village. But Maddie's arrival won't be the only surprise of the night. When the power is cut off and darkness descends, the hunt turns deadly. Maddie and her unexpected Christmas companions must try to find the murderer amongst them, as it seems one of the group would kill to win . . .

Three Bad Men

Autor: Scott Allen Nollen

Número de Páginas: 407

These were unique, complex, personal and professional relationships between master director John Ford and his two favorite actors, John Wayne and Ward Bond. The book provides a biography of each and a detailed exploration of Ford's work as it was intertwined with the lives and work of both Wayne and Bond (whose biography here is the first ever published). The book reveals fascinating accounts of ingenuity, creativity, toil, perseverance, bravery, debauchery, futility, abuse, masochism, mayhem, violence, warfare, open- and closed-mindedness, control and chaos, brilliance and stupidity, rationality and insanity, friendship and a testing of its limits, love and hate--all committed by a "half-genius, half-Irish" cinematic visionary and his two surrogate sons: Three Bad Men.

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office

Autor: United States. Patent Office

Número de Páginas: 2220

The Secret Political Adviser

Autor: Michael Spicer

Número de Páginas: 239

The hilarious collection of 'leaked' correspondence between Michael Spicer’s genius comic creation - AKA The Man in the Room Next Door - and political figures, ranging from Boris Johnson to Donald Trump and Jared Kushner. Just who is the secret political adviser calling himself The Man in the Room Next Door? No one knows. We don’t even know his name. But now the lid is about to be blown clean off, because the secret files of the world’s most influential* political media adviser are published in this book. Packed with letters, memos, texts, tweets, emails, journal entries, leaked documents and crude doodles, these pages will reveal who The Man in the Room Next Door is and, more importantly, his thoughts on those who employ his services, including Donald ‘dangerous puffin’ Trump, Boris ‘posh motorboat’ Johnson and some of their least competent colleagues. This book is the evidence that anyone can be a world leader. Just as long as they’re wearing the right earpiece. *fictional

Lineal List of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Marine Corps Reserve

Autor: United States. Marine Corps

Número de Páginas: 468