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Invasión

Autor: Robin Cook

Número de Páginas: 304

La ciencia médica se ve desbordada por una enfermedad desconocida, una enfermedad cuyos orígenes no son de este planeta... El estudiante universitario Beau Stark fue el primero en recoger uno de los extraños discos negros que había por toda la ciudad. Al principio dolía como la picadura de una abeja. Más tarde tomó los síntomas de un resfriado común. Poco a poco fue convirtiéndose en una virulenta infección. Todo comenzó hace millones de años, mucho antes de la aparición del ser humano, con la visita de unos misteriosos extraterrestres. Ahora solo unos pocos hombres y mujeres serán capaces de investigar y comprender en toda su magnitud la pavorosa pesadilla que se cierne sobre el planeta. ¿Serán capaces de evitar sus nefastas consecuencias?

Robin

Autor: Dave Itzkoff

Número de Páginas: 712

'This well-written page-turner is the definitive biography of the genius of Robin Williams, whose life redefines the highs and lows of the American dream' - Steve Martin 'Tenderly written . . . frequently hilarious' - Sunday Times From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning performance in Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams was a singularly innovative and beloved entertainer. He often came across as a man possessed, holding forth on culture and politics while mixing in personal revelations – all with mercurial, tongue-twisting intensity as he inhabited and shed one character after another with lightning speed. But as Dave Itzkoff shows in this revelatory biography, Williams’s comic brilliance masked a deep well of conflicting emotions and self-doubt, which he drew upon in his comedy and in celebrated films like Dead Poets Society; Good Morning, Vietnam; The Fisher King; Aladdin; and Mrs Doubtfire, where he showcased his limitless gift for improvisation to bring to life a wide range of characters. And in Good Will Hunting he gave an intense and controlled performance that revealed the true range of his talent. Robin ...

Tratado elemental de histología

Autor: Joseph Auguste Fort

Número de Páginas: 710

Robin and The Rubicelle Fusiliers

Autor: William Forde

Número de Páginas: 180

When countries wage war on each other, there are no winners. The price of all war is paid for with the blood of people, soldiers and civilians, adult, child and creatures alike. In times of struggle, a war-torn country, which is being heavily bombed by a more powerful invader often finds itself bonded in greater unity of purpose and with a greater instinct for survival than one might imagine. England experienced such during the Second World War years of 1939 - 1945. This story is set in the period of The Second World War. It is written from a traditional English and British perspective. Its purpose is not to glorify war, but to offer the reader, both young and older, an opportunity to feel what it was like for a man, woman or child to live through and to provide a flavour of the English Nationalism that prevailed then and since.

La Invasión O El Loco Yégof de Erckmann-Chatrian

Autor: Erckmann-chatrian

Número de Páginas: 212

Bienvenido al intrigante mundo de "La invasión o El loco Yégof" de Erckmann-Chatrian, donde la historia se entrelaza con lo sobrenatural en una narrativa fascinante. Embárcate en esta novela que te transporta a los turbulentos tiempos de la invasión napoleónica, donde la guerra y el misterio se combinan para crear una atmósfera intensamente dramática. Erckmann-Chatrian, maestros del relato histórico y lo fantástico, tejen una historia que atrapa desde el principio. Acompaña al personaje principal mientras enfrenta los horrores de la guerra y los enigmas de su propia mente en medio de un conflicto que cambiará el curso de la historia. Desde los campos de batalla devastados hasta los bosques oscuros y misteriosos, cada página está impregnada de suspense y una narrativa absorbente. Análisis los temas universales que Erckmann-Chatrian exploran con maestría, desde la locura y la redención hasta la resistencia y la valentía en tiempos de adversidad. A través de sus personajes complejos y su prosa envolvente, la novela ofrece una perspectiva profunda sobre los dilemas morales y los desafíos de la vida en tiempos de guerra. Con un tono épico y una ambientación...

Tratado de anatomía general que comprende el estudio de los principios inmediatos, elementos anatómicos, líquidos del organismo, tejidos, sistemas y aparatos orgánicos...

Autor: Aureliano Maestre De San Juan , Aureliano Maestre De San Juan Y Muñoz

Número de Páginas: 1078

La lectora de Fontevraud

Autor: Enrique San Miguel Pérez

Número de Páginas: 260

Leonor de Aquitania, en su magnífico sepulcro, cuya vistosidad parece querer adivinar la belleza, la inteligencia y la brillantez de uno de los más grandes talentos de la historia y, como todos los grandes talentos, excepcional en todos los ámbitos, el político, el artístico, y el vital, se entrega con verdadero deleite, con serena intensidad, al supremo disfrute de la lectura... Su figura lleva más de ocho siglos incitando a la lectura, a la investigación y a la creación. Al examen de las instituciones, el derecho, las ideas y las formas políticas de un tiempo que fue, por tantos conceptos, el suyo. Un tiempo que disfruta de una historia, una política y un derecho de cine y en el cine. Por eso este libro se ocupa de las películas que tienen la Edad Media como objeto o pretexto, y hacerlo de la forma más coherente y sistemática posible. Seleccionando ochenta y dos obras ambientadas en la Edad Media; es decir, con un amplio afán representativo, aunque no exhaustivo, aportando una película por año de vida de la lectora de Fontevraud (1122-1204). En forma de ideas, de renglones monográficos para la reflexión; es decir, con la finalidad de dar forma a materias que,...

La invasión o El loco Yégof

Autor: Erckmann-chatrian

Número de Páginas: 213

Bienvenido al intrigante mundo de "La invasión o El loco Yégof" de Erckmann-Chatrian, donde la historia se entrelaza con lo sobrenatural en una narrativa fascinante. Embárcate en esta novela que te transporta a los turbulentos tiempos de la invasión napoleónica, donde la guerra y el misterio se combinan para crear una atmósfera intensamente dramática. Erckmann-Chatrian, maestros del relato histórico y lo fantástico, tejen una historia que atrapa desde el principio. Acompaña al personaje principal mientras enfrenta los horrores de la guerra y los enigmas de su propia mente en medio de un conflicto que cambiará el curso de la historia. Desde los campos de batalla devastados hasta los bosques oscuros y misteriosos, cada página está impregnada de suspense y una narrativa absorbente. Análisis los temas universales que Erckmann-Chatrian exploran con maestría, desde la locura y la redención hasta la resistencia y la valentía en tiempos de adversidad. A través de sus personajes complejos y su prosa envolvente, la novela ofrece una perspectiva profunda sobre los dilemas morales y los desafíos de la vida en tiempos de guerra. Con un tono épico y una ambientación...

The Life and Letters of John Brown

Autor: Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

Número de Páginas: 688

King's Province

Autor: Craig Anthony

Número de Páginas: 466

A Brief History of Robin Hood

Autor: Nigel Cawthorne

Número de Páginas: 101

Who was Robin Hood? Throughout history the figures of the hooded man of Sherwood forest and his band of outlaws have transfixed readers and viewers; but where does the myth come from? The story appeared out of the legend of the Green man but found its location during the reign of Richard II, the Lionheart, who was away from England fighting in the crusades. In his absence his brother John lay waste to the country. But does this tell the full story? Was Robin a bandit prince ahead of a troop of brigands? Who was the Sherrif and was he in fact the legitimate law in the land fighting vigilantes?

Robin Unhooded

Autor: Peter Staveley

Número de Páginas: 449

Two great mysteries of English history – who was the real Robin Hood and who killed William II, ‘Rufus’, in the New Forest, in 1100? ROBIN unHOODed presents new evidence in solving these unanswered questions of our history. Perhaps the most in-depth, innovative study of these mysteries for decades, Peter Staveley’s ground breaking book provides totally fresh and startling hypotheses - once the hood is off. The search for Robin’s true identity has led to a plethora of books over many years and the dust-covers of these volumes might lead one to believe that the mystery was indeed solved. However, not one of the various suggestions put forward have ever seemed truly convincing as fitting the life and character of the man depicted in the original ballads...until now. ROBIN UnHOODed uncovers not only a totally fresh candidate for the man behind the myth but also the identity of many of the other well-known protagonists. This detailed study reveals a man whose life and times would have mirrored precisely those depicted in the original ballads. Placing Robin in an era a full century prior to that timeline of Prince John and King Richard I, so loved by Hollywood directors, Robin ...

The Robin Hood Handbook

Autor: Mike Dixon-kennedy

Número de Páginas: 499

Robin Hood, whether riding through the glen, robbing the rich to pay the poor or giving the Sheriff of Nottingham his come-uppance, is one of the most captivating and controversial legendary figures. Was there a historical figure behind the legends? Did Robin and his Merry Men rampage through Sherwood Forest? Or did he spend most of his time in Barnsdale Wood in Yorkshire? And is the story of the freedom-loving Saxons refusing to be put under the Norman yoke, as portrayed in the Errol Flynn films, true?

The Death of Robin Hood

Autor: Angus Donald

Número de Páginas: 266

'I charge you, Sir Alan Dale, with administering my death. At the end of the game, I would rather die by your hand than any other' England rebels War rages across the land. In the wake of Magna Carta, King John's treachery is revealed and the barons have risen against him once more. Fighting with them is the Earl of Locksley - the former outlaw Robin Hood - and his right-hand man Sir Alan Dale. France invades When the French enter the fray, with the cruel White Count leading the charge, Robin and Alan must decide where their loyalties lie: with those who would destroy the king and seize his realm or with the beloved land of their birth. A hero who will live for ever Fate is inexorable and Death waits for us all. Or does it? Can Robin Hood pull off his greatest ever trick and cheat the Grim Reaper one last time just as England needs him most?

The Ruse of Repair

Autor: Patricia Stuelke

Número de Páginas: 187

Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled far beyond the academy, influencing how people imagine justice, solidarity, and social change. In The Ruse of Repair, Patricia Stuelke locates the reparative turn's hidden history in the failed struggle against US empire and neoliberal capitalism in the 1970s and 1980s. She shows how feminist, antiracist, and anti-imperialist liberation movements' visions of connection across difference, practices of self care, and other reparative modes of artistic and cultural production have unintentionally reinforced forms of neoliberal governance. At the same time, the US government and military, universities, and other institutions have appropriated and depoliticized these same techniques to sidestep addressing structural racism and imperialism in more substantive ways. In tracing the reparative turn's complicated and fraught genealogy, Stuelke questions reparative criticism's efficacy in ways that will prompt critics to reevaluate their own...

The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film

Autor: Alan Goble

Número de Páginas: 1044

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Robin

Autor: Brenda Marshall

Número de Páginas: 482

Robert Hode, son of a forester in Earl Warrens park, lives a comfortable life in Wakefield in the north of England where his mother is active in the Craft, a religion focusing on healing, friendships and exotic ceremonies. But, at the age of seven, Roberts pleasant life changes when he is humiliated after a beating by his cruel schoolmaster. Afraid to return to school, he plays truant, exploring the town and forests and learning about the miserable and sometimes fascinating lives of his neighbors. As a teenager working with his father in the forest, Robert becomes known for his philandering ways but his behavior changes when, on a visit to wealthy relatives, he meets Matilda. Determined to marry this powerful, beautiful woman, Robert builds a fine house in the center of Wakefield. Matilda accepts his proposal but their happy lives are disrupted when the Earl of Lancaster seizes all of Warrens lands and Robert is summoned to fight for the Earl of Lancaster against the army of King Edward II. Robert flees the disastrous battle and searches Barnsdale forest for a mysterious hermit he once met as a child. Matilda and others from nearby conquered towns join him in the forest. A skilled ...

The Fiction of Robin Jenkins

Número de Páginas: 273

The Fiction of Robin Jenkins is the first ever volume of essays dedicated to Robin Jenkins (1912-2005), hailed by Andrew Marr as ‘the best-kept secret in Modern British Literature’, and by the Scotsman in 2000 as ‘the greatest living fiction-writer in Scotland [...] the Scottish Thomas Hardy’. This new study of Jenkins includes essays across his entire, astonishingly varied body of work. It includes provocative new readings of a range of thematic issues by established experts on Jenkins and on Scottish Literature more broadly. This volume also includes chapters dedicated to individual novels in Jenkins’s corpus, including his best-known work, The Cone-Gatherers, as well as The Changeling, Fergus Lamont, and his posthumous novel, The Pearl Fishers. Contributors: Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir, Timothy C. Baker, Linden Bicket, Gerard Carruthers, Cairns Craig, Douglas Gifford, Michael Lamont, Margery Palmer McCulloch, Isobel Murray, Glenda Norquay, Alan Riach, David Robb, Bernard Sellin, Gavin Wallace.

Robin Wood on the Horror Film

Autor: Robin Wood

Número de Páginas: 399

Robin Wood’s writing on the horror film, published over five decades, collected in one volume. Robin Wood—one of the foremost critics of cinema—has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-century. Wood's interest in horror spanned his entire career and was a form of popular cinema to which he devoted unwavering attention. Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews compiles over fifty years of his groundbreaking critiques. In September 1979, Wood and Richard Lippe programmed an extensive series of horror films for the Toronto International Film Festival and edited a companion piece: The American Nightmare: Essays on the Horror Film — the first serious collection of critical writing on the horror genre. Robin Wood on the Horror Film now contains all of Wood's writings from The American Nightmare and nearly everything else he wrote over the years on horror—published in a range of journals and magazines—gathered together for the first time. It begins with the first essay Wood ever published, "Psychoanalysis of Psycho," which appeared in 1960 and already anticipated many of the ideas explored later in his touchstone...

Metastasis / Dissemination

Autor: Elizier L. Gorelik

Número de Páginas: 318

This volume emphasizes metastasis/dissemination as im nective tissues, muscle, tumours of neuronal origins and portant processes in cancer growth and progression. teratomas. Previous volumes in this series have emphasized aspects of The broad array of neoplastic diseases, multiple target cancer progression, tumor invasion and tumor metastasis sites, and patterns of metastasis and dissemination underlie and the importance of these processes to the pathophysiol the importance of achieving crucial insights into particular ogy and morbidity of malignant disease. This volume builds neoplasms. An understanding of metastasis and dissemina on these earlier themes and emphasizes metastasis/disse tion in man remains an essential objective for the design of mination in man. Following a review of general patterns of new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for the therapy of metastatic spread in man, metastasis to, or progression of established metastatic disease and spread accompanying neoplasms in several organ systems are highlighted, includ site-specific tumor progression. ing: the central nervous system, esophageal cancer, the lung, the large intestine, the liver, bone, epithelial...

King Arthur and Robin Hood on the Radio

Autor: Katherine Barnes Echols

Número de Páginas: 216

Before stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood were adapted and readapted for film, television and theater, radio scriptwriters looking for material turned to Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur (1485) and Howard Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883). Throughout the 1930s to the mid-1950s, their legends inspired storylines for Abbott and Costello, Popeye, Let's Pretend, Escape, Gunsmoke, The Adventures of Superman and others. Many of these adaptations reflect the moral and ethical questions of the day, as characters' faced issues of gender relations, divorce, citizenship, fascism, crime and communism in a medieval setting.

Burford Cottage, and Its Robin-red-breast

Autor: Burford Cottage , Edward A. Kendal

Número de Páginas: 494

Tumores del sistema nervioso central

Autor: Julio Escalona-zapata

Número de Páginas: 816

Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests (N.F.), Robin Redbreast Unpatented Lode Claim Mining Plan of Operations, Hinsdale County

Número de Páginas: 328

Russell & Rubinstein's Pathology of Tumors of the Nervous System 7Ed

Autor: Roger Mclendon , Marc Rosenblum , Darell Bigner

Número de Páginas: 1157

This is the leading international professional reference text that also serves as a bench book, describing all aspects of the pathology of brain tumours - genetics, molecular biology, epidemiology, morphology, immunohistochemistry, diagnostic criteria and prognosis. Beautifully illustrated in colour throughout and comprehensively referenc

Bibliografía española

Número de Páginas: 1636

Magic Line

Autor: Elizabeth Gunn

Número de Páginas: 146

“Fans of Muller’s Sharon McCone, Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, and Paretsky’s V. I. Warshawski will want to add Gunn’s Sarah Burke to their list” (Booklist). Detective Sarah Burke is called to a mass shooting in a quiet residential street in Arizna. It looks like a home invasion gone very wrong. There are several dead bodies, but the crime scene just doesn’t make sense—until one of the “dead” victims suddenly escapes and another man is seen running from the house . . . Once again, in between juggling her complicated personal life, Sarah Burke is faced with a ballistics mystery as she tries to find out exactly what went down—and why.

Is Remote Warfare Moral?

Autor: Joseph O Chapa

Número de Páginas: 251

America is at an important turning point. Remote warfare is not just a mainstay of post–9/11 wars, it is a harbinger of what lies ahead—a future of high-tech, artificial intelligence–enabled, and autonomous weapons systems that raise a host of new ethical questions. Most fundamentally, is remote warfare moral? And if so, why? Joseph O. Chapa, with unique credentials as Air Force officer, Predator pilot, and doctorate in moral philosophy, serves as our guide to understanding this future, able to engage in both the language of military operations and the language of moral philosophy. Through gripping accounts of remote pilots making life-and-death decisions and analysis of high-profile cases such as the killing of Iranian high government official General Qasem Soleimani, Chapa examines remote warfare within the context of the just war tradition, virtue, moral psychology, and moral responsibility. He develops the principles we should use to evaluate its morality, especially as pilots apply human judgment in morally complex combat situations. Moving on to the bigger picture, he examines how the morality of human decisions in remote war is situated within the broader moral...

Blair's Just War

Autor: P. Lee

Número de Páginas: 194

Bringing together both contemporary and historical just war concepts, Peter Lee shows that Blair's illusion of morality evaporated quickly and irretrievably after the 2003 Iraqinvasion because the ideas Blair relied upon were taken out of their historical context and applied in a global political system where they no longer hold sway.

Fuck Happiness

Autor: Ariel Gore

Número de Páginas: 137

Happiness is big business. Books, consultants, psychologists, organizations, and even governments tout happiness secrets that are backed by scientific findings. The problem is that all of this science is done by and for cis white men. And some of the most vocal of these happiness experts were announcing that women could become happier by espousing "traditional" values and eschewing feminism. Skeptical of this hypothesis, Ariel Gore took a deep dive into the optimism industrial complex, reading the history, combing the research, attending the conferences, interviewing the thought leaders, and exploring her own and her friends' personal experiences and desires. Fuck Happiness is a nuanced, thoughtful examination of what happiness means and to whom, how it's played a role in defining modern gender roles and power structures, and how we can all have a more empowered relationship with the pursuit of joy in our lives.

Return of the Epic Film

Autor: Andrew Elliot

Número de Páginas: 241

With the success of Gladiator, both critics and scholars enthusiastically announced the return of a genre which had lain dormant for thirty years. However, this return raises important new questions which remain unanswered. Why did the epic come back, and why did it fall out of fashion? Are these the same kinds of epics as the 1950s and 60s, or are there aesthetic differences? Can we treat Kingdom of Heaven, 300 and Thor indiscriminately as one genre? Are non-Western histories like Hero and Mongol epics, too? Finally, what precisely do we mean when we talk about the return of the epic film, and why are they back? The Return of the Epic Film offers a fresh way of thinking about a body of films which has dominated our screens for a decade. With contributions from top scholars in the field, the collection adopts a range of interdisciplinary perspectives to explore the epic film in the twenty-first century.

The Coursing calendar, ed. by 'Stonehenge'.

Autor: John Henry Walsh

Número de Páginas: 418

Robin Hood

Autor: Stephen Basdeo

Número de Páginas: 202

Robin Hood is a national English icon. He is portrayed as a noble robber, who, along with his band of merry men, is said to have stolen from the rich and given to the poor. His story has been reimagined many times throughout the centuries. Readers will be introduced to some of the candidates who are thought to have been the real Robin Hood, before journeying into the fifteenth century and learning about the various ‘rymes of Robyn Hode’ that were in existence. This book then shows how Robin Hood was first cast as an earl in the sixteenth century, before discussing his portrayals as a brutish criminal in the eighteenth century. Then learn how Robin Hood became the epitome of an English gentleman in the Victorian era, before examining how he became an Americanized, populist hero fit for the silver screen during the twentieth century. Thus, this book will take readers on a journey through 800 years of English cultural and literary history by examining how the legend of Robin Hood has developed over time

British Future Fiction, 1700-1914, Volume 7

Autor: I F Clarke

Número de Páginas: 384

This set of eight volumes presents the reader with selected primary texts in the genre now generally known as future fiction. The chosen texts are designed to explore the dominant characteristics of the genre and examine how it changed over the 18th and 19th centuries. This is Volume 7. Disasters-to-Come.

Robin Hood

Autor: Scott Allen Nollen

Número de Páginas: 271

From Errol Flynn to Kevin Costner to Daffy Duck, the bandit of Sherwood Forest has gone through a variety of incarnations on the way to becoming a cinematic staple. The historic Robin Hood--actually an amalgam of several outlaws of medieval England--was eventually transformed into the romantic and deadly archer-swordsman who "robbed from the rich to give to the poor." This image was reinforced by popular literature, song--and film. This volume provides in-depth information on each film based on the immortal hero. In addition, other historical figures such as Scottish rebel-outlaws Rob Roy MacGregor and William Wallace are examined. Nollen also explores nontraditional representations of the legend, such as Frank Sinatra's Robin and the Seven Hoods and Westerns featuring the Robin Hood motif. A filmography is provided, including production information. The text is highlighted by rare photographs, advertisements, and illustrations.

Children's Jukebox

Autor: Rob Reid

Número de Páginas: 308

A listing of 547 songs contained on 308 recordings for children, organized alphabetically under 170 subject headings. Includes a core list of forty-six recommendations.

Anatomía descriptiva y disección que contiene un resúmen de embriología, estructura microscópica de los órganos y de los tejidos

Autor: Joseph Auguste Fort

Número de Páginas: 622

The Auk

Número de Páginas: 642

A Question of Honour

Autor: Lord Levy

Número de Páginas: 281

Lord Michael Levy hit the headlines with his involvement in the alleged 'cash for peerages' scandal that rocked Tony Blair's government. He was cleared of all the allegations made but on the way, his name and reputation were dragged through the media. Now, he tells his side of the story for the first time. Michael Levy has had a remarkable life. Born in the East End of London to Jewish parents, his childhood was impoverished but happy.He was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School and married Gilda in 1967.He qualified as a chartered accountant and later became a hugely successful pop music mogul, looking after such acts as Alvin Stardust, Darts, Guys and Dolls, Bad Manners and Chris Rea. Following his beloved mother's death, he decided to sell his record company to Warner Brothers and use his time to pursue charity matters. Michael Levy became one the most important and influential leaders in the Jewish world, raising enormous amounts of money for charities and educational foundations. In 1994, Levy and his wife attended a dinner party in London and met Tony Blair, then Shadow Home Affairs Spokesman. They became good friends and Levy endeavoured to help Labour back into power....

Las aventuras de Robin Hood

Autor: Anónimo

Número de Páginas: 80

Robin Hood es el único que puede ayudar a los perseguidos de la maldad de un gobierno rival que quiere apropiarse de sus bienes y de sus vidas.