No se trata sólo de declarar la guerra, sino de montar una guerra. Es decir, de contratar al mejor talendo de Hollywood para que escriba el guión de una guerra que pueda entusiasmar al pueblo y luego la dirija. Se trataría de una guerra en la que Estados Unidos luchara legítimamente contra un agresivo...
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At the far end of the probability curve, a titanic turtle swims through the interstellar void, his meteor-pocked shell supporting four gargantuan elephants upon whose shoulders the disc of the World spins. Its athmosfere crackling with magic, this is the setting that introduced the most hilarius misadventure series since Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker trilogy… and...
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The novel is about several teenagers in San Francisco who, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge and BART system, defend themselves against what they see as the Department of Homeland Security’s attacks on the Bill of Rights. The novel is also available free on the author’s website under a Creative Commons license. Doctorow’s novel...
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The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by philologist and Oxford University professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien’s earlier, less complex children’s fantasy novel The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949, much of it...
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The book is a popular history of Spain and the Spanish Empire from prehistoric times to the present day. It provides description and analysis of political, social, economic and cultural events over the centuries, which together shaped the history of this distinctive country. The book offers 60 illustrations and maps, including 16 pages of...
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This volume contains the proceedings of the international workshop on the “Evolution of Interstellar Matter and Dynamics of Galaxies” held at the Centre for Theoretical Study in Prague in May 1991. All of the invited lectures are included, covering a broad area embracing star formation inside molecular clouds. HI supershells in interstellar space, and...
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What would it be like to visit Mars—to explore the distinctive, untouched terrain that inspired astronomers and stirred so many sci-fi writers’ imaginations? Two highly capable robotic geologists—Spirit and Opportunity—made that amazing voyage, and spent the last four years roaming the Red Planet’s unique landscape. Thanks to 120 stunning 3-D and color images shot...
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For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who’s forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series catapults into action when the young wizard “accidentally” causes the Dursleys’ dreadful visitor Aunt...
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The Ashioi-the Lost Ones-have come home in the prophesied cataclysmic event that has reunited their lands, long lost in the aether, with their homeland on Earth. In this, the sixth book (after The Gathering Storm) of the Crown of Stars series, Elliott nearly brings readers the conclusion of this massive and engrossing series about...
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THE GATHERING STORM is the fifth volume of the Elliott’s wrist-bending Crown of Stars fantasy series. It is not a stand-alone read; new readers will definitely want to start at the beginning with the first book, KING’S DRAGON. This is a fascinatingly complex world, complete with religions, magic systems, and several different races of...
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In the fine conclusion to Elliott’s seven-volume fantasy epic based in part on the European medieval period, Earth is beginning to recover from the cataclysmic events—tidal waves, volcanic eruptions, vast dust clouds that obscure the sky—unleashed in book six, In the Ruins (2005). Prince Sanglant, the bastard son of King Henry of Wendar, seeks to...
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The war between the United States and Mexico, often passed over lightly as a sort of rehearsal for the American Civil War, is dealt with by Eisenhower  as an event of major significance in the nation’s history. It was certainly major from the loser’s point of view: Mexico gave up more than half its...
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This Battlestar Galactica is the reboot of the original TV series Battlestar Galactica. For forty years, the Twelve Colonies of Man were at peace, united since the war against the robotic Cylons. These mechanical beings, created by mankind to perform the manual labor civilization required, were gone forever… or so humanity thought. But in...
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This history of the United States’s meddling in Mexican affairs features a cast of characters who don’t make either side look very good. President Woodrow Wilson regularly misapprehends the situation to his south, prompting two violations of Mexican sovereignty: a naval occupation of Veracruz and an aggressive search by the American military for the...
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The fourth of a seven-volume epic series, this exceedingly stout high fantasy novel stands comparatively independent of the three preceding it. Continuing their deadly rivalry for the throne, King Henry of Wendar and his bastard son, Sanglant, enlist the aid of their siblings as they conjure spells and clash swords. Meanwhile, Sanglant has an...
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The first volume of Crown of Stars, another complex fantasy saga of political and magical intrigue, bodes extremely well. The Kingdom of Wendar is beset by civil war between brother and sister for the throne, by two hostile nonhuman races, by ghosts roaming the streets, and by enough other plots and counterplots to fuel...
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Believed slain in the doomed battle for the city of Gent, Sanglant, the bastard son of King Henry, hovers on the edge of madness as a prisoner of the barbarian Eika conquerors. While Sanglant’s lover Liath struggles to unlock her hidden magic powers, Alain (lowborn son of Count Lavastine) wages a private battle to...
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Readers are in for a delightful romp with this award-winning debut from a British author who dances in the footsteps of P.L. Travers and Roald Dahl. As the story opens, mysterious goings-on ruffle the self-satisfied suburban world of the Dursleys, culminating in a trio of strangers depositing the Dursleys’ infant nephew Harry in a...
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There is nothing more tragic than legitimate ambition comprehensively thwarted. Kate Elliott’s fantasy sequence has a bleak sadness even in its moments of triumph, simply because her heroes and heroines seem as if they are never going to get the chance to be all they could be. Alan, suddenly adopted heir to the local...
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Since the dawn of history we, the humans, have resolved our grievances in two possible ways: first, we could use some sort of peaceful debate were each side expose its own point of view and, in the best-case scenario, the parties involved will reach a peaceful agreement; in the second way both sides arm...
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As 1998 drew near, citizens north of the U.S.-Mexican border became more knowledgeable about the significance of the war of 1846-1848 by which that border was established. Events such as the symposium on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in Las Cruces, New Mexico, February 28, 1998, helped in this process. With some background provided...
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