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Colmadas de datos y análisis históricos, estas páginas transparentan el contexto del conflicto árabe-israelí, el rol del fundamentalismo islámico promovido por Irán y Qatar, y la violencia de quienes, con desconocimiento o mala fe, se manifiestan contra Israel y los judíos con un antisemitismo permisivo y mordaz, desatado con virulencia a partir del 7 de octubre. Hoy, advierte la autora, están en juego las libertades y los valores democráticos de Occidente.

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region.

1950s Hollywood: Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary woman whose story has inspired artists since ancient times. So when the film’s mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an unknown Mexican ingenue, in the lead role, she quickly becomes the talk of the town. Vera also becomes an object of envy for Nancy Hartley, a bit player whose career has stalled, and who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves.

Deja de elegir a hombres que no te convienen ¿Tienes la sensación de que eres un imán para hombres que no te valoran, no se comprometen o no están preparados para una relación, pero no sabes cómo dejar de atraerlos? Este libro te brindará las herramientas para comprender qué errores has cometido.

ORIENTAMENTO è il podcast dedicato ai ragazzi e alle ragazze che si trovano di fronte alla scelta della scuola superiore. Episodio dopo episodio, ti guiderò attraverso riflessioni, consigli pratici e strumenti utili per aiutarti a scoprire le tue passioni e a fare la scelta giusta per il tuo futuro. Che tu sia indecis* o solo curios* di esplorare le tue opzioni, questo podcast ti accompagnerà passo dopo passo in uno dei momenti più importanti del tuo percorso scolastico. Preparati a conoscere meglio te stess* e a tracciare la strada che ti farà sentire realizzat* e soddisfatt*!Io sono ...

All academics need to write, but many struggle to finish their dissertations, articles, books, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. How can we write it all while still having a life? In this second edition of his popular guidebook, Paul Silvia offers fresh advice to help you overcome barriers to writing and use your time more productively.

A wrong turns leads Ainsley to a remote cabin owned by a grumpy mountain man. The gorgeous former Army Ranger demands a steep price for a night’s lodging. Ainsley is willing to pay...and pay again the next day. The real question is, will he ever want to leave?

En un segundo la vida se fractura y todo se desgarra: crónicas sobre una mujer que sobrevivióa un tsunami; el infierno del atentado a las Torres Gemelas; la cuadriplejia tras un accidentemortal inverosímil; dar a luz con sida; la desaparición de una hija, y tres muertes y una resurrección por covid-19.

The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own. Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather’s room. She opens it - and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan god of death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother.

Mexico City, 1988. Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said "I love you" with a mixtape. Meche, awkward and fifteen, discovers how to cast spells using music, and with her friends Sebastian and Daniela will piece together their broken families, and even find love.

Everyone envies me. I have it all: money, power, a perfect body. For years I’ve spent my days chasing pleasure, but now I want something else. I don’t know what that is until I end up in bed with Laurie, my little brother’s best friend. The one man I’ve been forbidden to touch. He’s hurting. He needs me. We try to keep our hands off each other, but we’re alone in Aruba. The sun and the water beckon, and I can’t stay away. Then danger threatens Laurie and my brother. No matter what I have to do, I won’t let them be taken from me. I will fight to keep everyone safe and to make Laurie mine.

I have a billion-dollar inheritance waiting for me, but instead of working for my family, I joined the navy, became a SEAL, and devoted myself to my career. Then I met Matteo. From the moment he joined my platoon, I couldn’t take my eyes off him. Once I let him touch me, I was lost. He tormented me—in bed and out—and all I did was ask for more. Our illicit fling endangered everything I’d worked for, but I couldn’t stop, not until he joined our enemies and betrayed me.

"Cuando esta historia empezó, decidí que, para no sufrir, tenía que vivir el momento. Desde un principio supe que, si me hacía ilusiones, me iban a romper el corazón. Contra todo pronóstico, esta historia tiene un final feliz. Pero eso no quiere decir que en el camino no haya habido lágrimas. Esta es la historia de cómo un día me di cuenta de que tenía que dejar de vivir el momento y pensar en el día siguiente. Estoy segura de que en el camino cometí algunos errores y en este libro no los voy a ocultar, pues creo haber aprendido de ellos.

When nature gets up close and personal, it isn’t always pretty. A fallen tree sparks a poisonous feud between neighbors. A child searches the darkness for the gleam of a tiger’s teeth. A woman holds off a colony of oddly relentless prairie dogs. In unsettling stories that range from horror to magical realism, award-winning authors lay bare the secrets hidden in the land.

Cuando fue secuestrado, a plena luz del día, en mitad de una de las ciudades más pobladas de México, la vida del empresario Alberto de la Fuente cambió para siempre. Esta es la crónica de nueve meses de infame cautiverio dentro de una diminuta celda prefabricada. Los 290 días para elegir, una y otra vez y a pesar de todo, continuar viviendo para volver a abrazar a su familia.

The one expert millions of readers have learned to trust, one of the few psychics instantly recognizable to television viewers, Sylvia Browne is back. She has proven herself, in her fifty years of working as a medium, to be the reigning queen of psychic phenomena. Here is an insightful look at how much of one's present life is informed by one's past lives, and how many health and relationship problems have their roots in unresolved past lives.

Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, is smart, beautiful, and dangerous. Domingo is mesmerized.

She is the adventurer of the family. Her brother, the gentle dreamer. Even as they bond over folktales and hold each other close, their world has never felt so dangerous. Revolutionaries and pelones are in conflict, soldiers have turned into scavengers, and an escaped tiger has slipped up the mountain, looking for easy prey. As the darkest of legends becomes real, a young girl will do anything to save her brother’s life.

The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair's oval backrest—all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how—and how many times—human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond.

Discover if you have latent psychic abilities and whether you’re ready to use them. Understand the concepts of clairvoyance and clairaudience and what it takes to unlock these skills. Discover the truth about how many bodies you have. Get acquainted with your multidimensional self.