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Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell

Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell

Autor: Susanna Clarke

Número de Páginas: 1041

Una de las novelas más brillantes y originales que han aparecido en el panorama anglosajón en los últimos tiempos. Una mezcla prodigiosa de fantasía e historia, en la que los magos conviven con personajes reales y que plantea una historia alternativa de Inglaterra. A principios del siglo XIX, las hazañas del Rey Cuervo, el más grande de todos los magos de la Edad Media, perviven en la memoria y la leyenda, pero la práctica de la magia ha sido completamente olvidada en Inglaterra. Hasta el día en que el esquivo señor Norrell, de Hurtfew Abbey, logra que las piedras de la catedral de York hablen. La noticia del retorno de la magia se extiende como la pólvora y el señor Norrell, convencido de que debe poner sus artes al servicio del gobierno en la guerra contra Napoleón, se traslada a Londres. Allí conoce al joven Jonathan Strange, un brillante y voluntarioso mago, y tras superar algunos recelos, consiente en acogerlo como discípulo. En una época en la que sólo los charlatanes se hacían llamar magos, Norrell y Strange se proponen limpiar el buen nombre de su oficio, al que consideran una ciencia con mayúsculas. Bajo las órdenes de Wellington, realizarán decenas de ...

Piranesi

Piranesi

Autor: Susanna Clarke

Número de Páginas: 214

Vuelve la autora de Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell con una novela hipnótica ambientada en una realidad onírica. La casa de Piranesi no es un edificio cualquiera: sus habitaciones son monumentales, con paredes llenas de miles de estatuas, y sus pasillos, interminables. Dentro del dédalo de corredores hay un océano aprisionado en el que las olas retumban y las mareas inundan los aposentos. Pero Piranesi no tiene miedo: comprende las embestidas del mar igual que el patrón del laberinto, mientras explora los límites de su mundo y avanza, con la ayuda de un hombre llamado El Otro, en una investigación científica para alcanzar El Gran Conocimiento Secreto. La crítica ha dicho... «Diecisiete años después de la maravillosa Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell, Susanna Clarke regresa a la novela con una personalísima reinterpretación del mito del laberinto. Piranesi, el joven protagonista de esta novela, es una especie de náufrago que, en lugar de una isla, explora la casa fantástica y llena de significados en la que parece atrapado. La casa es descomunal, fastuosa y complicada. Está atiborrada de estatuas y parece contener un océano en uno de sus pasillos. Con la...

Stardust

Stardust

Autor: Neil Gaiman

Número de Páginas: 213

La novela en la que se basa la aclamada y encantadora película protagonizada por Robert de Niro, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett, Michelle Pfeiffer y muchos más. Un encantador cuento de hadas del gran maestro Neil Gaiman, llena de aventuras ineseperadas, amor verdadero en un mundo repleto de magia. El joven Tristan Thorn está dispuesto a hacer cualquier cosa para conquistar el frío corazón de su amada Victoría, incluso a prometerle que le conseguirá la estrella que ambos ven caer una noche. Para cumplir su palabra, Tristán deberá cruzar el muro que separa su pueblo del País de las Hadas, un vasto territorio donde nada se parece a lo que él ha conocido, donde ni siquiera las estrellas tienen forma de estrella y donde los duendes y los espectros campan a sus anchas. En ese mágico lugar, el joven no sólo hará cambiar su futuro, sino que también descubrirá cosas de su pasado que no podía imaginar. Con la ayuda de un unicornio, un barco pirata que surca el cielo, un árbol muy sabio y una florecita de cristal... ¿conseguirá Tristan el amor de su dama? Reseñas: «Más allá de todas las fronteras que nos dividen, existe un lugar de infinitas posibilidades y pura magia....

Recuerdos

Recuerdos

Autor: Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

Número de Páginas: 1139

A generation after the U.S. conquest of California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo set out to write the story of the land he knew so well—a history to dispel the romantic vision quickly overtaking the state’s recent past. The five-volume history he produced, published here for the first time in English translation, is the most complete account of California before the gold rush by someone who resided in California at the time. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California, such as the Monterey Constitutional Convention and the first legislature. With his project, undertaken for historian and publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, Vallejo sought to correct misrepresentations of California’s past, which dismissed as insignificant the pre–gold rush Spanish and Mexican periods—conflated into one “Mission era.” Instead, Vallejo’s history emphasized the role of the military in the Spanish colonization of California and argued that the missionaries after Junípero Serra, with their medieval ideas, had actually retarded the...

Remote Sensing for Geophysicists

Remote Sensing for Geophysicists

Autor: Mukesh Gupta

Número de Páginas: 527

Geophysical exploration methods are very expensive and invasive methods for surveys. Remote sensing methods are non-invasive and much cheaper for investigating the Earth’s surface. This book bridges this gap and aims to integrate exploration geophysics with remote sensing as a cost-effective method which is easy to implement for prospecting in different areas. It provides exploration geophysicists with the necessary information to use advanced remote sensing technology in the exploration of oil and gas, minerals, and groundwater. It describes the integration of remote sensing in each of the nine exploration methods based on over 11 case studies from different countries across the globe. Features: Describes the geophysical exploration methods that geophysicists frequently use, along with suitable remote sensing techniques Offers a well-structured one-stop guide for finding a suitable remote sensing technique for a specific geophysical exploration method Provides case studies on the exploration of oil, gas, and groundwater with step-by-step instructions using remote sensing technology Serves as a practical field book for exploration geophysicists who never used or rarely use...

Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads

Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads

Autor: Sarah E. Braddock Clarke , Ryoko Yamanaka Kondo

Número de Páginas: 401

With over 200 color illustrations, Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads examines in detail the eclectic iconography of the Byzantine period and its impact on design and creativity today. Through an examination of the extraordinary variety of designs in these captivating silks, an international team of experts reveal that Byzantine culture was ever-moving and open to diverse influences across the length of the Silk Road. Commentaries from curators at key collections – including the Museum of Arts, Boston, the Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt), the V&A and the Vatican – reveal the spread of silk embroidery and designs from East to West, and from West to East, from China to Rome, and from Constantinople to Korea. Drawing on exclusive imagery from worldwide collections within museums, churches and archives as case studies, their analysis of these unique woven silks explores the relationship between color and power, material culture and status, and offers broader insight into Byzantine culture, trade, society and ceremony. Byzantine Silk ... takes us on a journey from the past to the present, too, where Byzantine story-telling and image-making is revisited, through color, imagery and...

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

Autor: Rose Marie Beebe , Robert M. Senkewicz

Número de Páginas: 393

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California. In 1874–75, Vallejo, working with historian and publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, composed a five-volume history of Alta California—a monumental work that would be the most complete eyewitness account of California before the gold rush. But Bancroft shelved the work, and it has lain in the archives until its recent publication as Recuerdos: Historical and Personal Remembrances Relating to Alta California, 1769–1849, translated and edited by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. In Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California, Beebe and Senkewicz not only illuminate Vallejo’s life and history but also examine the broader experience of the nineteenth-century Californio community. In eight essays, the authors consider Spanish and Mexican rule in California, mission secularization, the rise of rancho culture, and the conflicts between settlers and Indigenous Californians, especially in the post-mission era. Vallejo was uniquely positioned...

New York Magazine

New York Magazine

Número de Páginas: 144

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

The British Library general catalogue of printed books to 1975

The British Library general catalogue of printed books to 1975

Autor: British Library

Número de Páginas: 472
German Books in Print 1998/99

German Books in Print 1998/99

Autor: Verlag Der Buchhandler-vereinigung , Verlag Der Buchhhandler-vereinigung Staff

Número de Páginas: 2356

"A standard work...an essential purchase for all larger German collections."--AMERICAN REFERENCE BOOKS ANNUAL. The only comprehensive guide to German-language publishing around the world, GERMAN BOOKS IN PRINT 1998/99 provides quick access to 706,327 titles - books, videos & audiocassettes, software, & bibles - from over 13,500 publishers in Germany (including materials, since 1988, from the former East Germany), Austria, Switzerland, & other countries. Thoroughly revised & updated, the new 27th edition contains some 100,000 entries added in the last year alone. As always, full ordering information is included for each title. The main Author-Title-Catchword set interfiles authors & titles in one convenient listing, & titles containing a subject keyword are reentered alphabetically to create a built-in subject guide. This is an invaluable resource for area studies bibliographers, government document librarians, & reference & acquisitions librarians both here & abroad. From K.G. Saur.

Deutsche Nationalbibliographie und Bibliographie der im Ausland erschienenen deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen

Deutsche Nationalbibliographie und Bibliographie der im Ausland erschienenen deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen

Número de Páginas: 1030

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