City of Clowns

This remarkably affecting story by daniel alarcón was included in his acclaimed first book, in collaboration with artist Sheila Alvarado, and now, it takes on a new, War by Candlelight, thrilling form. Oscar “chino” uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcón’s story City of Clowns.

With the city of lima as a character, menacing, City of Clowns is moving, and the bold visual language from the story, and brilliantly vivid. At the same time, and is drawn into their haunting, he begins to chronicle the life of street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent and corrupt city streets of Lima, fantastical world.

This graphic novel, truth and fiction, with its short punches of action and images, its stark contrasts between light and dark, perfectly corresponds to the tone of Chino’s story. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father’s other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father’s murky morals.

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Señales que precederán al fin del mundo Largo recorrido Spanish Edition

Con referencias míticas provenientes tanto de la tradición occidental como de la indígena, esta historia presenta una lucha familiar—la de los inmigrantes indocumentados—en una manera imaginativa y única, pero nunca comprometa la humanidad fundamental y conmovedora de su heroína. Throughout her journey, Makina is forced to rely on her ingenuity to survive nine legendary quests in a hostile and dangerous world.

Borrowing liberally from western and indigenous mythic traditions, the story reframes a familiar struggle—that of undocumented immigrants—in an imaginative and unique way, while never compromising the fundamental and moving humanity of its heroine. Una apasionante reflexión de la vida en la frontera de los Estados Unidos y México, esta novela combina sensibilidades modernas con la mitología precolombina mientras relata la historia de Makina, una joven temperamental y libre que busca a su hermano desaparecido.

A lo largo de su camino, makina tiene que depender de su ingenio para completar nueve etapas mitológicas en un mundo hostil y peligroso. A gripping reflection of life on the border between the United States and Mexico, temperamental, this novel combines contemporary sensibilities with pre-Colombian myth as it relates the story of Makina, a young, and free-spirited girl searching for her missing brother.

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Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology

The world presented is complex and current, some inhabitants routinely switching country and language, others trapped by global events that shape us all. Editorial Periferica. Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Coming of Age in America, this collection of twenty-four stories from around the world is a wonderful introduction to literature rarely available to American readers.

Editors faith adiele and mary frosch magnificently chart the global quest for identity, and make a strong case for the personal and political importance of sharing our stories as they consider whether coming of age is a Western—or universal—concept. Featuring an array of voices from every continent, as well as recent bestsellers Marjane Satrapi and Alexandra Fuller, this anthology includes luminaries like Ben Okri and Chang-rae Lee, in addition to a variety of authors renowned abroad but less well known to North American audiences.

. Detailed introductions provide historical and cultural context, particularly for Africa and the Muslim world. The diversity extends to form, encompassing fiction and memoir, lyric prose, graphics, and tales in pidgin and patois.


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Mama Day

A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense. On the island of willow springs, off the georgia coast, Cocoa, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces. Great product!

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Napoleonic Foot Soldiers and Civilians: A Brief History with Documents Bedford Series in History & Culture

By highlighting the experiences of common soldiers and civilians, this volume by Rafe Blaufarb and Claudia Liebeskind presents a broad view of the Napoleonic Wars not found in typical military histories. Editorial Periferica. The rich collection of memoirs, letters, and popular engravings -- from familiar sources such as German infantryman Jakob Walter to an account of a French woman canteen worker -- offers contrasting voices, some offered here in English for the first time.

These documents and images explore core civil-military interactions, sexuality, including foraging, eating, violence, religion, plunder, and commerce. Headnotes to the documents, questions for consideration, a chronology, and a selected bibliography provide pedagogical support. Great product! The introduction recounts the key events of the wars and how they marked a shift in the modern notion of “total war” and provides necessary political and military background on the issues of recruitment and evasion, the homefront, the military community, combat and its aftermath, and demobilization.

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The German Reformation and the Peasants' War: A Brief History with Documents Bedford Series in History & Culture

The protestant reformation, begun with martin Luther’s posting of The Ninety-Five Theses in 1517, rapidly escalated into an evangelical reform movement that transformed European Christianity. A collection of period documents — including letters, rebels, pamphlets and illustrations — offer firsthand accounts from the reformers, sermons, and the institutions they sought to topple.

Less than a decade later, a massive rebellion of German commoners challenged the social and political order in what would prove to be the greatest popular rebellion in European history until the French Revolution. Editorial Periferica. Great product! In this volume, michael baylor explores the relationship between these two momentous upheavals — one enduring, the other fleeting — and the centuries-long debate over whether and how they might be connected.

Document headnotes, a selected bibliography, maps, a chronology of events, questions to consider, and an index are provided to enrich student understanding. Used book in Good Condition.


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Experiencing the Thirty Years War: A Brief History with Documents Bedford Cultural Editions

Their introduction provides important insights into the roiling religious and political landscape from which the war emerged, as well as a thoughtful examination of the war's stages and enduring significance. An unprecedented collection of personal accounts, many of them translated for the first time into English, combine with visual sources to convey directly to students the experience of early modern warfare.

. Great product! Hans medick and benjamin Marschke reveal the Thirty Years War from the perspective of those who lived it. Editorial Periferica. One of the most momentous and destructive wars in European history, political, the Thirty Years War has long been studied for its diplomatic, and military consequences.

Used book in Good Condition. Incisive document headnotes, a chronology, questions to consider, maps and illustrations, and a bibliography enrich students' understanding of this fateful war. Yet the actual participants in this religiously motivated, seemingly endless conflict have largely been ignored.


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The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945, Revised Edition

Beginning at the end of the Weimar Republic, Allen examines the entire period of the Nazi Revolution within a single locality. Great product! Ships from Vermont. William sheridan allen’s research provides an intimate, comprehensive study of the mechanics of revolution and an analysis of the Nazi Party’s subversion of democracy.

There he conducted an exhaustive study of local newspapers, periodicals, budget information, crime statistics, reports, and court cases dating from 1922–1945. In this cogent analysis, allen argues that Hitler rose to power primarily through democratic tactics that incited localized support rather than through violent means.

Editorial Periferica. Allen also edited and translated the infancy of Nazism: The Memoirs of Ex-Gauleiter Albert Krebs, 19232–1933. Be sure you are buying the correct book. The isbn for the newest paperback edition of the nazi seizure of power is 978-1626548725. It is published by echo point books & media. Revised on the basis of newly discovered nazi documents, the nazi seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922–1945 continues to significantly contribute to the understanding of this prominent political and moral dispute of the 1900s.

Allen’s detailed, analysis has indisputably become a classic. Used book in Good Condition.


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The St. Martin's Guide to Writing

Martin's guide has achieved an unmatched record of success by providing practical innovations for the ever-changing composition course. The print text is now integrated with e-Pages for The St. The best-selling college rhetoric for over 25 years, The St. Martin's guide, designed to take advantage of what the Web can do.

Hardback cover. With more hands-on activities for critical reading and working with sources, greater emphasis on the rhetorical situation, and a greater variety of formats cloth, loose-leaf, a revamped design that helps students see what they need to do at a glance, and e-books, paper, the Guide is better than ever.

Great product! . The acclaimed step-by-step guides to writing offer sure-fire invention strategies to get students started, sentence strategies to get and keep students writing, and thoughtful revision strategies to help students make their writing their own. Ships from Vermont. Editorial Periferica. Used book in Good Condition.

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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889

Editorial Periferica. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo still. Frederic morton, in the span of only ten months, author of the bestselling Rothschilds, where, deftly tells the haunting story of the Prince and his city, "the Western dream started to go wrong. In rudolf's vienna moved other young men with striking intellectual and artistic talents—and all as frustrated as the Prince.

Used book in Good Condition. Ships from Vermont. Morton studies these and other gifted young men, interweaving their fates with that of the doomed Prince and the entire city through to the eve of Easter, just after Rudolf's body is lowered into its permanent sarcophagus and a son named Adolf Hitler is born to Frau Klara Hitler.

On january 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and then himself. Great product! Among them were: young sigmund freud, and the playwright Arthur Schnitzler, Theodor Herzl, Gustav Mahler, Gustav Klimt, whose La Ronde was the great erotic drama of the fin de siecle.

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We the Animals

Torres is a savage new talent. Benjamin percy, Esquire"A fiery ode to boyhood. A welterweight champ of a book. Npr, weekend edition"a tremendously gifted writer whose highly personal voice should excite us in much the same way that Raymond Carver’s or Jeffrey Eugenides’s voice did when we first heard it.

Washington post "a novel so honest, poetic, and tough that it makes you reexamine what it means to love and to hurt. O, the oprah magazine"the communal howl of three young brothers sustains this sprint of a novel. It’s heartbreaking. Hardback cover. Used book in Good Condition. A kind of incantation. The new yorker Editorial Periferica.

. Ships from Vermont. Mariner Books. In this groundbreaking debut, justin torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three brothers, and the mythic effects of this fierce love on the people we must become. We the animals is a dark jewel of a book.


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