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The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1888–1918

The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1888–1918

Isabel V. Hull

Cambridge University Press
2004
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Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859–1941) is one of the most fascinating figures in modern European history. Inheriting ‘the mightiest throne on earth’ in 1888, he played a central part in fashioning the policies which culminated in the catastrophe of 1914–18, the collapse of the Reich, and his own abdication. To an extraordinary degree he was also representative of his epoch: brilliant, bizarre, aggressive, insecure. Yet German historians have virtually ignored him. In September 1979 a dozen historians met in the Kaiser’s palace in Corfu to discuss the character and role of Wilhelm II. This book contains their findings. The early chapters examine the Kaiser’s psychological disturbance which, hidden from the public, often caused those who closely worked with him to doubt his sanity. Next, it is revealed how by virtue of the Bismarckian constitution, and with the aid of a small circle of friends, he was able to translate private neurosis into public policy. The later chapters analyse the ideology and image of Kaiserism, discovering mentalities and attitudes which were to survive the collapse of the monarchy in 1918 and play an incalculable part in the undermining of Weimar democracy and the rise of Nazism. The views in this book are fresh and exciting, suggesting new ways in which the interrelationship between individuals and society, between personalities and structures, might be interpreted.
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Perfecting Pregnancy

Perfecting Pregnancy

Isabel Karpin; Kristin Savell

Cambridge University Press
2014
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Prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies have offered unprecedented access to information about the genetic and congenital makeup of our prospective progeny. Future developments such as preconception testing, non-intrusive prenatal testing and more extensive preimplantation testing promise to increase that access further still. The result may be greater reproductive choice, but it also increases the burden on women and men to avail themselves of these technologies in order to avoid having a child with a disability. The overwhelming question for legislators has been whether and, if so, how to regulate the use of these technologies in the face of compelling but seemingly contradictory claims about the advancement of reproductive choice and the dangers of eugenic or discriminatory effects. This book examines the evolution of this legislative oversight across a number of jurisdictions and explores the tensions and ambiguities that inform these laws.
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Perfecting Pregnancy

Perfecting Pregnancy

Isabel Karpin; Kristin Savell

Cambridge University Press
2012
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Prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies have offered unprecedented access to information about the genetic and congenital makeup of our prospective progeny. Future developments such as preconception testing, non-intrusive prenatal testing and more extensive preimplantation testing promise to increase that access further still. The result may be greater reproductive choice, but it also increases the burden on women and men to avail themselves of these technologies in order to avoid having a child with a disability. The overwhelming question for legislators has been whether and, if so, how to regulate the use of these technologies in the face of compelling but seemingly contradictory claims about the advancement of reproductive choice and the dangers of eugenic or discriminatory effects. This book examines the evolution of this legislative oversight across a number of jurisdictions and explores the tensions and ambiguities that inform these laws.
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Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages

Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages

Isabel Davis

Cambridge University Press
2007
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Medieval discourses of masculinity and male sexuality were closely linked to the idea and representation of work as a male responsibility. Isabel Davis identifies a discourse of masculine selfhood which is preoccupied with the ethics of labour and domestic living. She analyses how five major London writers of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries constructed the male self: William Langland, Thomas Usk, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Hoccleve. These literary texts, while they have often been considered for what they say about the feminine role and identity, have rarely been thought of as evidence for masculinity; this study seeks to redress that imbalance. Looking again at the texts themselves, and their cultural contexts, Davis presents a genuinely fresh perspective on ideas about gender, labour and domestic life in medieval Britain.
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La Casa de Los Espiritus / The House of the Spirits

La Casa de Los Espiritus / The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende

Vintage Espanol
2017
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Pronto una serie de Amazon Prime La primera novela de Isabel Allende, La casa de los esp ritus narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes latinoamericanos.El desp tico patriarca Esteban Trueba ha construido con mano de hierro un imperio privado que empieza a tambalearse con el paso del tiempo y un entorno social explosivo. Finalmente, la decadencia personal del patriarca arrastrar a los Trueba a una dolorosa desintegraci n. Atrapados en unas dram ticas relaciones familiares, los personajes de esta poderosa novela encarnan las tensiones sociales y espirituales de una poca que abarca gran parte del siglo XX.Con impecable pulso narrativo y gran lucidez hist rica, Isabel Allende ha creado un fresco en el que conviven lo cotidiano con lo maravilloso, el amor con la revoluci n y los ideales personales con la dura realidad pol tica. La cr tica ha dicho: «Un logro nico, a la vez testimonio personal y posible alegor a del pasado, el presente y el futuro de Am rica Latina. The New York Times Book Review«Una cr nica fuerte y absorbente de una familia chilena, con detalles opulentos y con un trasfondo m stico... Un refinada combinaci n de escenarios. Kirkus Review«Hay muy pocos viajes m s emocionantes que los realizados en la imaginaci n de una novelista genial. Esa experiencia est disponible en La Casa de los Esp ritus de Isabel Allende... Cosmopolitan ENGLISH DESCRIPTION .Soon-to-be streaming on Amazon Prime "Spectacular...An absorbing and distinguished work...The House of the Spirits with its all-informing, generous, and humane sensibility, is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America." --The New York Times Book Review The House of the Spirits, the unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted storytellers, brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their daughter Blanca embarks on a forbidden love affair in defiance of her implacable father, the result is an unexpected gift to Esteban: his adored granddaughter Alba, a beautiful and strong-willed child who will lead her family and her country into a revolutionary future.One of the most important novels of the twentieth century, The House of the Spirits is an enthralling epic that spans decades and lives, weaving the personal and the political into a universal story of love, magic, and fate.
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Eva Luna (Spanish Edition)

Eva Luna (Spanish Edition)

Isabel Allende

Vintage Espanol
2017
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En Eva Luna, su tercera novela, Isabel Allende recupera su pa s a trav s de la memoria y la imaginaci n.La cautivadora protagonista de esta historia constituye un nost lgico lter ego de la autora, que se llama a s misma «ladrona de historias precisamente porque en las historias radica el secreto de la vida y el mundo.Novela de hondo perfil humano, Eva Luna funde el destino individual con el colectivo mediante una fulgurante prosa de car cter pico. Sin duda, una de las mejores obras de la literatura latinoamericana de los ltimos a os. Rese a: «Cuando Isabel Allende puso el punto final de Eva Luna, logr tatuarse un s mbolo que honra su epidermis: dej de ser chilena, peruana o venezolana, y pas a ser intensamente latinoamericana. Luis Sep lveda ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "A remarkable novel" (The Washington Post) from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende's introducing her most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller. Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor's assistant and a snake-bitten gardener--born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working as a servant. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all stations and walks of life. Though she has no wealth, she trades her stories like currency with people who are kind to her. In this novel, she shares the story of her own life and introduces readers to a diverse and eccentric cast of characters including the Lebanese migr who befriends her and takes her in; her unfortunate godmother, whose brain is addled by rum and who believes in all the Catholic saints and a few of her own invention; a street urchin who grows into a petty criminal and, later, a leader in the guerrilla struggle; a celebrated transsexual entertainer who instructs her in the ways of the adult world; and a young refugee whose flight from postwar Europe will prove crucial to Eva's fate. As Eva tells her story, Isabel Allende conjures up a whole complex South American nation--the rich, the poor, the simple, and the sophisticated--in a novel replete with character and incident, with drama and comedy and history, with battles and passions, rebellions and reunions, a novel that celebrates the power of imagination to create a better world.
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Paula(spanish Edition)

Paula(spanish Edition)

Isabel Allende

Vintage Espanol
2017
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Un autorretrato de ins lita emotividad al tiempo que exquisita recreaci n de la sensibilidad de las mujeres de nuestra poca.«Aqu est todo lo que debe tener un libro: o do, perspectiva, cabeza, coraz n y una humanidad sin l mites. - The New York TimesCualquier libro de Isabel Allende es un acontecimiento. Paula lo es especialmente porque se trata del m s conmovedor, m s personal y m s ntimo de todos los que ha publicado hasta la fecha. Cuando la gran autora chilena se encontraba en Espa a con ocasi n de la presentaci n de El plan infinito, su hija entr en estado de coma. Junto al lecho de Paula, mientras segu a con angustia la evoluci n de su enfermedad, Isabel Allende comenz a redactar en un cuaderno una historia de su familia y de s misma con el prop sito de regal rsela a su hija una vez superara el dram tico trance. Sin embargo, ste se prolong durante meses y los apuntes de la autora acabaron convirti ndose en este libro apasionante y revelador. Isabel Allende ejerce aqu su prodigioso talento narrativo para recuperar y asumir sus propias vivencias como mujer y como escritora, as como las de su familia y las de la historia reciente de su pa s. Autorretrato de ins lita emotividad al tiempo que exquisita recreaci n de la sensibilidad de las mujeres de nuestra poca, Paula perdura en el nimo del lector con la intensidad de una experiencia indeleble. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION New York Times Bestselling Author"Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful." --Los Angeles TimesWhen Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes; we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of youthful years, the most intimate secrets passed along in whispers. With Paula, Allende has written a powerful autobiography whose straightforward acceptance of the magical and spiritual worlds will remind readers of her first book, The House of the Spirits.
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Hija de la Fortuna / Daughter of Fortune: Daughter of Fortune - Spanish-Language Edition

Hija de la Fortuna / Daughter of Fortune: Daughter of Fortune - Spanish-Language Edition

Isabel Allende

Vintage Espanol
2017
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Un retrato palpitante de una poca marcada por la violencia y la codicia, con entra ables personajes.Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valpara so en 1849, el a o en que se descubre oro en California. Su amante, Joaqu n Andieta, parte hacia el norte decidido a encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo. El viaje infernal, escondida en la cala de un velero, y la b squeda de su amante en una tierra de hombres solos y prostitutas atra dos por la fiebre del oro, transforman a la joven inocente en una mujer fuera de lo com n. Eliza recibe ayuda y afecto de Tao Chi'en, un m dico chino, quien la conducir de la mano en un itinerario memorable por los misterios y contradicciones de la condici n humana.Hija de la fortuna es un retrato palpitante de una poca marcada por la violencia y la codicia en la cual los protagonistas rescatan el amor, la amistad, la compasi n y el valor. En esta su m s ambiciosa novela, Isabel Allende presenta un universo fascinante, poblado de entra ables personajes que, como tantos otros de la autora, se quedan para siempre en la memoria y el coraz n de los lectores.Rese a: «Isabel Allende se caracteriza por su precisa y po tica adjetivaci n, y el estilo aqu ha sido especialmente cuidado. Deleitar a un p blico mayoritario. Joaqu n Marco, El Cultural ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Allende has created a masterpiece of historical fiction that is passionate, adventurous, and brilliantly insightful. . . . suspenseful and surprising."--Denver PostFrom the revered New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover, set against the chaos, greed, and promise of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Raised in the British colony of Valpara so, Chile, English orphan Eliza Sommers meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqu n Andieta, a lowly clerk with ambitious dreams. When gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. Chileans, including Joaqu n, head north to seek their fortune. Eliza, pregnant with Joaqu n's child, leaves behind everything she knows to follow her lover. In the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco, Eliza must navigate a society dominated by greedy men. But with the help of her natural spirit and a good friend, Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en, Eliza soon comes to discover that her search for love has become a quest of personal freedom.
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Retrato En Sepia / Portrait in Sepia: Portrait in Sepia - Spanish-Language Edition

Retrato En Sepia / Portrait in Sepia: Portrait in Sepia - Spanish-Language Edition

Isabel Allende

Vintage Espanol
2017
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Narrada en la voz de una joven mujer, sta es una magn fica novela hist rica, y una portentosa saga familiar en la que reencontramos algunos personajes de Hija de la fortuna y de La casa de los esp ritus, novelas cumbres en la obra de Isabel Allende. En el Chile del siglo XIX, Aurora del Valle sufre un trauma brutal que borra de su mente los primeros cinco a os de su vida. Criada por su ambiciosa abuela, Paulina del Valle, crece en un ambiente privilegiado, libre de muchas de las limitaciones que oprimen a las mujeres de su poca, pero atormentada por horribles pesadillas. Cuando debe afrontar la traici n del hombre al que ama y la soledad, Aurora decide explorar el misterio de su pasado.ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A sequel to Daughter of Fortune, New York Times bestselling author, Isabel Allende, continues her magic with this spellbinding family saga set against war and economic hardship.Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal at the hands of the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she decides to explore the mystery of her past. Portrait in Sepia is an extraordinary achievement: richly detailed, epic in scope, intimate in its probing of human character, and thrilling in the way it illuminates the complexity of family ties. "Portrait in Sepia is the best book Allende has published in the United States since her first novel of nearly two decades ago, The House of the Spirits." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World"Portrait in Sepia tightens the weave of a multigenerational fantasy as complete and inspiring as the real world it parallels ... Allende's enchanting historical universe keeps expanding and Portrait in Sepia is a new galactic jewel." --Chicago Tribune
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Inés del Alma Mía / Inés of My Soul: Spanish-Language Edition of Inés of My Soul

Inés del Alma Mía / Inés of My Soul: Spanish-Language Edition of Inés of My Soul

Isabel Allende

Vintage Espanol
2017
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Una bella historia de amor, lucha, traici n y pasi n. El libro en que se basa la serie. In s Su rez es una joven y humilde costurera extreme a que se embarca hacia el Nuevo Mundo para buscar a su marido, extraviado con sus sue os de gloria al otro lado del Atl ntico. Anhela tambi n una vida de aventuras, vetada a las mujeres en la pacata sociedad del siglo XVI. En Am rica, In s no encuentra a su marido, pero s un amor apasionado: Pedro de Valdivia, maestre de campo de Francisco Pizarro, junto a quien In s se enfrenta a los riesgos y las incertidumbres de la conquista y la fundaci n del reino de Chile. En esta novela pica el aliento del amor concede una tregua a la rudeza, la violencia y la crueldad de un momento hist rico inolvidable. A trav s de la pluma de Isabel Allende se confirma que la realidad puede ser tan sorprendente o m s que la mejor ficci n, e igualmente cautivadora. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Powerfully evocative. . . . Allende is at her best here; spinning words like spells, enthralling the reader with surreal visions of the New World."-- Newsweek A passionate epic of love, freedom, and conquest, based on historical events, from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea. Though she was born into poverty, In s Su rez, a seamstress in sixteenth-century Spain, embodies the same restless hope and opportunism that fuels her nation's conquest of the Americas. Learning that her shiftless husband has vanished, In s uses his disappearance to embark on her own adventure. It is a journey will lead her to Pedro de Valdivia--a conquistador who becomes the first royal governor of Chile--and to a love that not only changes her life but the course of history.
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de Amor Y de Sombra / Of Love and Shadows: Spanish-Language Edition of of Love and Shadows

de Amor Y de Sombra / Of Love and Shadows: Spanish-Language Edition of of Love and Shadows

Isabel Allende

Vintage Espanol
2017
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sta es la historia de una mujer y de un hombre que se amaron en plenitud, salv ndose as de una existencia vulgar.Segunda novela de Isabel Allende, De amor y de sombra es un agudo testimonio de las dram ticas situaciones que se viven en ciertas regiones de Am rica Latina, al tiempo que un canto de amor y de esperanza. Con ternura e impecable factura literaria, Isabel Allende perfila el destino de sus personajes como parte indisoluble del destino colectivo de un continente marcado por el mestizaje, las injusticias sociales y la b squeda de la propia identidad. La cr tica ha dicho...«La gente que aparece en el libro es tan real, sus triunfos y derrotas son tan fieles a la verdad de la existencia humana, que vemos el mundo en miniatura. Es precisamente esa la tarea de la ficci n. The Washington Post ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThis profoundly moving tale of love, bravery, and tragedy by New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende brings to life a country ruled with an iron fist--and the men and women who dare to challenge it.Irene Beltr n is a force to be reckoned with. As a magazine journalist, an unusual profession for a woman with her privileged upbringing, she is constantly challenging the oppressive regime. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist migr s. Together, they are an inseparable team and--despite Irene's engagement to an army captain--form a passionate connection. When an assignment leads them to uncover an unspeakable crime, they are determined to reveal the truth in a nation overrun by terror and violence. Together, they will risk everything for justice--and, ultimately, to embrace the passion that binds them.
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La Suma de Los Días / The Sum of Our Days: Spanish-Language Edition of the Sum of Our Days

La Suma de Los Días / The Sum of Our Days: Spanish-Language Edition of the Sum of Our Days

Isabel Allende

Vintage Espanol
2017
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En La suma de los d as, Isabel Allende narra con franqueza la historia de su vida y la de su peculiar familia en California, en una casa abierta, llena de gente y de personajes literarios, y protegida por un esp ritu; hijas perdidas, nietos y libros que nacen, xitos y dolores, un viaje al mundo de las adicciones y otros a lugares remotos del mundo en busca de inspiraci n, junto a divorcios, encuentros, amores, separaciones, crisis de pareja y reconciliaciones. Tambi n es una historia de amor entre un hombre y una mujer maduros, que han salvado muchos escollos sin perder ni la pasi n ni el humor, y de una familia moderna, desgarrada por conflictos y unida, a pesar de todo, por el cari o y la decisi n de salir adelante. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, tied together by the love, strong will, and stubborn determination of a beloved matriarch, the indomitable New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende. "An inspiring and thought-provoking work." -Denver Post Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and as full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul while sharing her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory--and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.
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Cuentos de Eva Luna / The Stories of Eva Luna: Spanish-Language Edition of the Stories of Eva Luna

Cuentos de Eva Luna / The Stories of Eva Luna: Spanish-Language Edition of the Stories of Eva Luna

Isabel Allende

Vintage Espanol
2017
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Eva Luna era una cascada de cuentos contados a trav s de otros cuentos. Pero el caudal estaba lejos de haberse agotado. En la cama con su amante, Eva Luna es requerida por ste para que le cuente un cuento "que jam s haya contado antes". Y la improvisada Sh h rezade no cuenta una sino veintitr s vidas en las que el amor, el odio, la venganza, lo grotesco y lo sublime se superponen y empujan unos a otros en su af n por completar todo el registro de sentimientos posibles en el alma humana. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Told in the voice of Isabel Allende's beloved character Eva Luna, a "distinctive, powerful, and haunting" (Los Angeles Times) collection of short fiction by one of the most iconic and acclaimed writers of our time. Eva Luna is a young woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love. Lying in bed with her European lover, refugee and journalist Rolf Carl , Eva answers his request for a story "you have never told anyone before" with these twenty-three samples of her vibrant artistry. Interweaving the real and the magical, she explores love, vengeance, compassion, and the strengths of women, creating a world that is at once poignantly familiar and intriguingly new. Rendered in her sumptuously imagined, uniquely magical style, The Stories of Eva Luna is the cornerstone of Allende's work. This treasure trove of brilliantly crafted stories is a superb example of a writer working at the height of her powers.
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Memorias del Águila Y El Jaguar / Memoir of the Eagle and the Jaguar: La Ciudad de Las Bestias, El Reino del Dragon de Oro, Y El Bosque de Los Pigmeos

Memorias del Águila Y El Jaguar / Memoir of the Eagle and the Jaguar: La Ciudad de Las Bestias, El Reino del Dragon de Oro, Y El Bosque de Los Pigmeos

Isabel Allende

Vintage Espanol
2017
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La pluma m gica de Allende nos invita a conocer, en esta preciosa trilog a de aventuras, realismo m gico y naturaleza, a Alexander Cold, un muchacho americano de quince a os; a su abuela Kate, una reportera de viajes; y a Nadia Santos, una compa era de aventuras muy especial. En La Ciudad de Las Bestias partir n en busca de una bestia gigantesca que se halla en la vasta selva del Amazonas, donde conocer n a un cham n ind gena que les mostrara las maravillas de su tierra. En El Reino del Drag n de Oro conocer n las ense anzas budistas cuando visiten el Himalaya, donde se esconde la estatua del Drag n de Oro, un objeto magnifico de piedras preciosas cuyo descubrimiento puede provocar da os irreparables en estas tierras. En El Bosque de los Pigmeos viajaran al coraz n de frica para ayudar a liberar de la esclavitud a los pigmeos y favorecer la paz entre las tribus. Un mundo sorprendente del que nunca querr s salir. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A search for the Beast, a Yeti-like creature within the heart of the Amazon, becomes a quest for self-discovery in this young adult coming-of-age story filled with international adventure, rich mythology, and magical realism from globally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende. Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. Parting from his family and ill mother, Alexander joins his fearless grandmother, a magazine reporter for International Geographic, on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon. Their mission, along with the others on their team--including a celebrated anthropologist, a local guide and his young daughter Nadia, and a doctor--is to document the legendary Yeti of the Amazon known as the Beast. Under the dense canopy of the jungle, Alexander is amazed to discover much more than he could have imagined about the hidden worlds of the rain forest. Drawing on the strength of the jaguar, the totemic animal Alexander finds within himself, and the eagle, Nadia's spirit guide, both young people are led by the invisible People of the Mist on a thrilling and unforgettable journey to the ultimate discovery.
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Afrodita: Cuentos, Recetas Y Otros Afrodisíacos / Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses: Cuentos, Recetas Y Otros Afrodisíacos

Afrodita: Cuentos, Recetas Y Otros Afrodisíacos / Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses: Cuentos, Recetas Y Otros Afrodisíacos

Isabel Allende

Vintage Espanol
2019
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"Me arrepiento de los platos deliciosos rechazados por vanidad, tanto como lamento las ocasiones de hacer el amor que he dejado pasar por ocuparme de tareas pendientes o por virtud puritana, ya que la sexualidad es un componente de la buena salud, inspira la creaci n y es parte del camino del alma... Por desgracia, me demor treinta a os en descubrirlo". --Isabel Allende Isabel Allende despliega aqu sus poderes m gicos como cuentista y, con un encanto peculiar, entrelaza las sensuales artes de la comida y el amor, combinando recuerdos personales, folklore de todo el mundo, leyendas hist ricas y momentos memorables de la literatura (incluyendo la literatura er tica), con porciones similares de humor y perspicacia. El lector es el invitado privilegiado a un banquete de hechos fascinantes sobre los poderes afrodis acos de los alimentos y las bebidas que Isabel Allende sirve con convincente admiraci n y debida irreverencia. Ofrece sugerencias, tanto antiguas como modernas, para atraer a un amante, encender el ardor sexual, prolongar el acto sexual y reactivar la decadente virilidad. Y revolviendo en el caldero de la historia, nos informa sobre los apetitos lascivos de personajes memorables como el emperador Ner n, Catalina la Grande y hasta la notoria Madame du Barry de Francia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende celebrates the pleasures of the sensual life in this rich, joyful and slyly humorous book, a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore. Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly in Aphrodite to evoke the delights of food and sex. After considerable research and study, she has become an authority on aphrodisiacs, which include everything from food and drink to stories and, of course, love. Readers will find here recipes from Allende's mother, poems, stories from ancient and foreign literatures, paintings, personal anecdotes, fascinating tidbits on the sensual art of foodand its effects on amorous performance, tips on how to attract your mate and revive flagging virility, passages on the effect of smell on libido, a history of alcoholic beverages, and much more.An ode to sensuality that is an irresistible blend of memory, imagination and the senses, Aphrodite is familiar territory for readers who know her fiction.
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Mi País Inventado / My Invented Country: A Memoir: Spanish-Language Edition of My Invented Country: A Memoir

Mi País Inventado / My Invented Country: A Memoir: Spanish-Language Edition of My Invented Country: A Memoir

Isabel Allende

Vintage Espanol
2017
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Un libro lleno de amor y de humor que reconstruye, desde la evocaci n, la vida, la felicidad a orada y los espacios m s queridos de Isabel Allende. "Un libro que capta mi entera atenci n al exponer la relaci n de la autora con ese pa s suyo, inventado, imaginario, ficcional, con la historia de su familia, que a su vez es memoria in-ventada, con su vocaci n de escritora". --Jorge Edwards Amor por Chile y una gran nostalgia son el origen de este libro: la presencia continuada del pasado, el sentimiento de verse ausente de la patria, la conciencia de haber sido peregrina y forastera... todo ello lo transmite Isabel Allende con inteligencia y humor. Aqu Chile deviene un pa s real y fant stico a la vez; una tierra estoica y hospitalaria, de hombres machistas y mujeres fuertes y apegadas a la tierra. Pero, sobre todo, es el escenario de su ni ez. Evocados con gracia, cobran vida de nuevo su original familia, la casa de los abuelos, el ceremonial de las comidas, las historias de infidelidades... y los esp ritus que siempre la han acompa ado. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "A stunningly intimate memoir. . . . Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language."--Entertainment WeeklyThe revered New York Times bestselling author of House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea ponders the elements that led to her becoming a writer, including the homeland she lost and the one she found, and the family spirits, both living and dead, who haunt her life and work.In this wondrous and intimate book, Isabel Allende explores the role of memory and nostalgia in shaping her life, her books, and that most intimate connection to her place of origin. My Invented Country brings her homeland of Chile to life in her unique voice, evoking the magnificent landscapes of her land, the almost mythic people of her family; the tragedy and hope of her people; and the politics, religion, and magic that infuse them all. My Invented Country orbits two life-changing moments: the 1973 assassination of her uncle Salvador Allende Gossens which sent her into exile and inspired her literary career; and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on her adopted homeland, the United States. Ping-ponging across distance and time, between past and present lives, it is a monumental tribute to history and the immigrant experience and a wise and personal consideration of what it means to pursue a reflective life in a cacophonous, contradictory world.
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Más Allá del Invierno / In the Midst of Winter

Más Allá del Invierno / In the Midst of Winter

Isabel Allende

Vintage Espanol
2018
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Isabel Allende parte de la c lebre cita de Albert Camus -"en medio del invierno aprend por fin que hab a en m un verano invencible"- para urdir una trama que presenta la geograf a humana de unos personajes propios de la Am rica de hoy que se hallan "en el m s profundo invierno de sus vidas" una chilena, una joven guatemalteca indocumentada y un maduro norteamericano. Los tres sobreviven a un terrible temporal de nieve que cae en pleno invierno sobre Nueva York y acaban aprendiendo que m s all del invierno hay sitio para el amor inesperado y para el verano invencible que siempre ofrece la vida cuando menos se espera. M s all del invierno es una de las historias m s personales de Isabel Allende: una obra absolutamente actual que aborda la realidad de la emigraci n y la identidad de la Am rica de hoy a trav s de unos personajes que encuentran la esperanza en el amor y en las segundas oportunidades. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION New York Times and worldwide bestselling author Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil that offers "a timely message about immigration and the meaning of home" (People). During the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his sixties, hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, and what at first seems an inconvenience takes a more serious turn when Evelyn comes to his house, seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant, Lucia Maraz, a fellow academic from Chile, for her advice. As these three lives intertwine, each will discover truths about how they have been shaped by the tragedies they witnessed, and Richard and Lucia will find unexpected, long overdue love. Allende returns here to themes that have propelled some of her finest work: political injustice, the art of survival, and the essential nature of--and our need for--love.
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My Papi Has a Motorcycle

My Papi Has a Motorcycle

Isabel Quintero

Kokila
2019
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A celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, by an award-winning author and illustrator duo.A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of the Century When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking dad and to memories of home that we hold close in the midst of change.
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Mi Papi Tiene Una Moto

Mi Papi Tiene Una Moto

Isabel Quintero

Kokila
2019
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Un homenaje al amor entre un padre y su hija, y a un din mico barrio de inmigrantes, del galardonado d o de Isabel Quintero y Zeke Pe a. Cuando Daisy Ramona recorre su barrio en motocicleta con su papi, ve a la gente y los lugares que siempre ha conocido. Tambi n ve a una comunidad que est cambiando r pidamente a su alrededor. Pero mientras el sol azul p rpura y dorado se va poniendo a sus espaldas, Daisy Ramona comprende que el amor que siente por su ciudad nunca cambiar . Con brillantes ilustraciones y un texto lleno de sentimiento, Mi papi tiene una motocicleta es un mensaje lleno de amor de una ni a a su padre, esforzado trabajador, y a los recuerdos que todos guardamos de nuestro hogar a pesar de los cambios o la distancia. A celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, by an award-winning author and illustrator duo. When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking dad and to memories of home that we hold close in the midst of change.
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Ugly Cat & Pablo

Ugly Cat & Pablo

Isabel Quintero

Scholastic Press
2017
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From the 2015 winner of the ALA William C. Morris Award comes a humorous chapter book series about a not-so-attractive cat and his well-dressed mouse friend.Ugly Cat is dying for a paleta, or ice pop, and his friend Pablo is determined to help him get one by scaring a little girl who is enjoying a coconut paleta in the park. Things go horribly wrong when, instead of being scared, the little girl picks Pablo up and declares that he would make a great snack for her pet snake. Oh and there's also the small problem that Ugly Cat may have inadvertently swallowed Pablo in all of the commotion Ugly Cat and his impeccably dressed mouse friend, Pablo, are an unlikely and dynamic duo who will win young readers over with their ridiculously silly antics and their search for tasty treats.
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