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Delve into a Cornucopia of Color: Your Guide to Fall Gardening Brilliance
Imagine stepping outside to a crisp, autumn breeze whispering through a lush canvas of ochre, ruby, and gold. "The First-Time Gardener: Autumn Edition" is your personal compass to transforming your garden into a fall paradise blooming with possibility.
As the leaves begin to turn, allow us to guide your journey through the season's unique gifts to gardeners. With our comprehensive...
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El Gran Gatsby de F. Scott Fitzgerald es una poderosa exploración del sueño americano, la decadencia de la élite y la ilusión de la riqueza como sinónimo de felicidad. Ambientada en los años 20, la novela sigue la vida del enigmático Jay Gatsby, cuya obsesión por el amor perdido de Daisy Buchanan lo lleva a construir una existencia rodeada de lujo y fiestas deslumbrantes. A través de la mirada de Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald retrata un mundo...
3) El proceso
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Nueva traducción de El proceso que respeta el peculiar estilo de Kafka, con reordenación de capítulos y un fragmento inédito en español.
Josef K., un ciudadano corriente, se despierta una mañana en presencia de unos misteriosos funcionarios que han ido a detenerlo a la pensión en la que reside. Le interrogan y le comunican que se le permite seguir con su vida diaria a pesar de estar detenido. A partir de ahí, se ve envuelto en un proceso judicial...
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Read the story. Then sing the story! It isn't a secret that using songs to teach children pre-reading skills is fun and successful. This original song is featured as a read-along and a sing-along. Count along as the playful little ducks swim around the pond and find their friends! How many will they find? 'How many ducks are swimming in the pond? How many ducks are swimming in the pond? How many ducks are swimming in the pond? One, two, three, four,...
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La opinión de Baudelaire sobre Madame Bovary es, sin duda, la que sigue manteniéndose hoy. Para él, como para nosotros ahora, Madame Bovary es una obra de arte. El artículo, que publica en la revista L'Artiste, en aquel, año de 1857, es un modelo de inteligencia crítica: "Una novela, ¡y qué novela! La más imparcial, la más leal". Él es el primero, y durante bastante tiempo el único, en afirmar que la dimensión moral del texto es secundaria,...
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Read the story. Then sing the story! It isn't a secret that using songs to teach children pre-reading skills is fun and successful. This classic song is featured as a read-along and a sing-along. Join the farmer in the dell as he takes his wife, and his wife takes the child and so on… until the cheese stands alone! Young readers will enjoy this classic rhyme, complete with repetitive text and adorable illustrations. The fun Sing A Story series includes:...
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Originally published in the First Folio of 1623, "Measure for Measure" is William Shakespeare's play which was likely written sometime in 1603 or 1604. The play begins with Vincentio, the Duke of Vienna, who leaves the government in charge of the authoritarian justice, Angelo, when he departs the city on a diplomatic mission. Lord Angelo believes that there is too much debauchery in the city and seeks to more strictly enforce laws against certain...
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The Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Omnibus Edition is Comprised of 5 Volumes
The Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Volume 1
[Introduction to (and History of) Literary Picture Postcards]
Volume One of Authorized Images is a comprehensive history of how the picture postcard came into existence. The Introduction then offers an overview of printed paper...
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Un joven científico, para asombro e incredulidad de sus colegas y otros expertos, ha desarrollado una máquina que le permite hacer realidad uno de los sueños más antiguos de la humanidad: vivir en una época distinta a la suya.
H. G. Wells logra con su libro La máquina del tiempo, el primer relato, y el más acabado, de viajes en el tiempo. En los momentos fundacionales de la ciencia ficción aborda con maestría uno de los temas más recurrentes...
10) Jane Eyre
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A fine exclusive edition of one of literature's most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping.
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is now available in an affordable softcover edition, featuring striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for classic fiction lovers, readers in high-school or college literature courses, and fans of annual reading challenges...
11) Down By the Bay
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Read the story. Then sing the story! It isn't a secret that using songs to teach children pre-reading skills is fun and successful. This classic song is featured as a read-along and a sing-along. And learning rhyming words has never been more fun! 'Have you ever seen a snake baking a cake down by the bay?' 'Have you ever seen a mouse painting his house down by the bay?' 'Have you ever seen a pig doing a jig down by the bay?' Fun illustrations, rhyming...
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Villancicos clásicos son perfectos para reflexionar sobre el verdadero significado de la temporada Navideña. Enséñale a los niños sobre los regalos que los tres reyes magos trajeron a Jesús. La estrella brillante era su guía al viajar sobre las montañas para ver el Salvador del mundo. "Nosotros somos los tres reyes magos de Oriente Atravesamos desde lejos con regalos. Campo y fuente, páramo y montaña, siguiendo a la estrella de allá. Belén,...
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Kids will love this sweet story/song combination as they listen to "Mary Had A Little Lamb," and follow along word-for-word in the adorably illustrated eBook. What will happen when Mary takes her little lamb to school? Will the teacher let the lamb stay and play with the other children? This adorable story/song encourages learning through music and introduces children to important early literacy skills they will need for the school years ahead. With...
14) Moby Dick
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El narrador, Ismael, es un joven estadounidense con experiencia en la marina mercante, decide que su siguiente viaje será en un ballenero. De igual forma se convence de que su travesía debe comenzar en Nantucket, Massachusetts, isla prestigiosa durante el siglo xix por su industria ballenera. Antes de alcanzar su destino, o el origen de su aventura, Ismael entabla amistad con el experimentado arponero polinesio Queequeg, con quien acuerda compartir...
15) Tom Jones
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When Squire Allworthy returns from London to discover a sleeping baby of unknown parentage in his bed, Tom Jones makes its rollicking start toward a picaresque journey across eighteenth-century England. Its foundling hero, having grown to young manhood and developed a passion for the girl next door, finds himself banished from the squire's country estate by the contrivance of a romantic rival. Lusty, good-hearted Tom is thus compelled to seek his...
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Learn How to Grow Flowers
In the mountains of Asheville, NC, Niki Irving's boutique flower farm grows specially cut, mountain-fresh flowers with sustainable, natural practices. Now, she brings her organic gardening techniques to your home, helping you grow, harvest, and arrange lush, seasonally inspired flowers.
Revel in flowers in bloom. Unlike old-school gardening books, Irving's beautifully photographed book features simple, and engaging know-how...
17) Michelangelo
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Michelangelo war, genau wie Leonardo, ein "universeller" Künstler: Maler, Baumeister, Bildhauer und Dichter. Er war der Hauptmeister der italienischen Hochrenaissance und Wegbereiter des Manierismus. Seine Vorliebe galt der als Ausdruck der Leidenschaft angesehenen Skulptur. Nach Landschaften sucht man bei ihm vergeblich. Alles, was den Menschen ausmacht, seine Gefühle, Leidenschaften, seinen Intellekt, wollte Michelangelo durch den nackten Körper...
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The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton-revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces.
"Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."-I Love Typography
The bestselling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded third edition: This is the definitive guide to using typography...
19) Hokusai
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) ist mit seinen eleganten Gemälden und meisterhaften Holzschnitten der international renommierteste Künstler Japans. Als ein Meister der Ukiyo-e-Kunst transferierte er alleine diese Kunstform von einem einfachen, auf Abbildungen von Kurtisanen und berühmten Schauspielern fokussierten Stil zu einem gehobeneren Stil, der die Schönheit der Natur durch Landschaften und Tierwelten darstellt. Der Stil und die Gegenstände...
20) Oliver Twist
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En una época llena de moralismos y reglas, con prejuicios exagerados, prohibiciones severas y valores «puritanos», donde los formalismos religiosos eran deberes incuestionables, surge una obra que cae como balde de agua fría sobre el orgulloso Imperio británico. En forma de sátira y crítica frontal a las instituciones que operaban como una industria del hambre, de la mortandad, del suplicio y del abuso descarado envuelto en la hipocresía,...
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