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In the early twentieth century, an interconnected web of men and women led by Dr. V.E. Vivian fought for and won a better future in Whitesbog Vi ...
Una clase magistral sobre la actualidad y el oficio de novelista por el Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa.Universidad de Princeton, Nueva Jersey, 2015. Durante un semestre, Mario Vargas...
Set in an isolated, rundown community in the Peruvian Andes, Vargas Llosa's novel tells the story of a series of mysterious disappearances involving the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple...
A New York Times Notable Book of 2007From Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa comes The Bad Girl, a "...splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible [novel]. . . A contemporary love story that...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA landmark collection of essays on the Nobel laureate’s conception of Latin America, past, present, and futureThroughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREDeep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAt a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the...
In the tradition of Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet," Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers, revealing in the process...
Oil spills, radioactive waste disposal, ocean dumping, and coastal reclamation and engineering, among other factors, contribute to the destruction of the marine environment, a process which evokes...
Environmental pollution stirs much public debate, and there is presently great concern that sealife in particular is endangered by pollutants. Supertanker disasters, radioactive waste disposal, ocean...
The processes occurring in surface marine sediments have a profound effect on the local and global cycling of many elements. This graduate text presents the fundamentals of marine sediment...
Foreword; Preface; Part I. Summary of the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment; Part II. The Context of the Assessment: 1. Introduction: planet, oceans and life; 2. Mandate, information sources...
Despite strong public interest in marine mammals and the incredible popularity of whale watching, particularly in the North Atlantic, many marine mammal populations remain little known. This fully...
Adventure into the garden, with its beauty and danger, as two peas discover the world and their place in it.The story of Three Little Peas is playful and surprising and provides a tender description...
This remarkable book brings you face-to-face with an incredible selection of pioneering women who have reshaped the creative industries. From legendary visual artists Yoko Ono and Tracey Emin, to...
How can we best protect the polar marine environment against pollution? Leading scholars on environmental law, the law of the sea, and Arctic and Antarctic affairs here examine this important...
Gustave Dore's magnificent engravings for "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" are among the later works of the great French illustrator. The intensely evocative poem provided Dore with the long-awaited...
Against the starkly beautiful backdrop of Anchorage, Alaska, where she grew up, Marin Sardy weaves an extraordinarily affecting, fiercely intelligent account of the shapeless thief—the...
Why do people choose the life of an artist, and what happens when they find themselves barely scraping by? Why does New York City, even in an era of hypergentrification, still beckon to aspiring...
The cool temperate waters around Britain and Ireland are at a crossroads between warmer waters to the south and Arctic ones to the north. Consequently they contain a huge variety of marine animals...