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A comprehensive guide in a compact format on doing business in Russia. This book contains everything business-minded individuals need to know, using practical information and numerous tips to succeed in Russia.
'Russia Business' discusses the economy, highlights the challenges Russia would face after the Coronavirus crisis, and covers key societal topics. In addition, it gives a greater insight into the work culture, business regulation and provides...
22) Una odisea de amor y guerra: La lucha de una joven pareja croata por la conquista de su libertad
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Kotor (hoy República de Montenegro), 1941. Europa se desangra por el conflicto bélico.
Las tropas de Mussolini ocupan la zona y arrestan a Luka Brajnovic, un joven y valioso periodista croata. Con ese episodio se inicia un largo y doloroso itinerario hacia la libertad.
Luka logra casarse con Ana, pero muy pronto, con ella ya embarazada, la guerra les obliga a separarse. Los años transcurren sin que puedan reencontrarse, pero la dictadura de Tito...
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Statism, Its Recurring Cycles in Mexico and Romania is focused on governance and its pitfalls. This exhilarating book provides a political and economic analysis of the historical "recurring cycles" of Statism in Mexico and Romania. The cycle is starting with the Aztec Empire. The author focuses on these countries as prime examples of states that have "been experimenting with statism and state corporatism." Ms. Lazin identifies the cycles of Statism...
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Una conexión inspiradora entre personajes y eventos históricos con grandes artistas y canciones del rock
¿Qué sorprendente vínculo existe entre determinadas historias y algunas canciones y artistas muy populares como "Losing my Religion" de R.E.M. y el Nobel Gabriel García Márquez? ¿Y entre "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" de Bob Dylan y la crisis de los misiles de Cuba en 1962 o entre el tema "Lover, Lover, Lover" de Leonard Cohen y la guerra...
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Never underestimate a librarian. Readers learned that lesson with the Prefect's first adventure (Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar: "marvelous" and "a laugh-out-loud farce" -Publishers Weekly, starred review). Now a certain Count from Transylvania is about to learn it as well, when the intrepid Shona McMonagle (comfortably padded, in her middle years, and a whiz at obscure martial arts) time-travels to 19th-century France to help a village...
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Tal como indica su título, este libro nos acerca al yoga. Su estilo sencillo y concreto es ideal para todas aquellas personas que nunca han tenido contacto con esta disciplina y también para quienes practican posturas (asanas) desde hace poco o mucho tiempo, pero desconocen la filosofía del yoga y la gran cantidad de beneficios que puede aportarnos.
28) Finding Myself
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Although former archeology student Rebecca O'Conner-Smith is somewhat content, she secretly longs for a more fascinating life. Her dead-end office job bores her, and her husband Jason, while sweet, is more interested in settling down in Toronto than going on adventures with her. So, when an opportunity to be a part of an archeological dig in Kyriat Adar in Israel arises, she takes it. Despite the current hostilities of the country, Rebecca is passionate...
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Olga Greenlaw kept the War Diary of the American Volunteer Group-the Flying Tigers, while those gallant mercenaries defended Burma and China from the Imperial Japanese Army during the opening months of the Pacific War. Returning to the United States in 1942, she wrote The Lady and the Tigers, which Leland Stowe hailed as "an authoritative, gutsy and true to life story of the AVG." Out of print for more than half a century, the book has now been brought...
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Documents the surprising role pharmaceutical science and technology has played in Russia's search for national identity over a century of political turbulence.
Over the last one hundred years, the Russian pharmaceutical industry has undergone multiple dramatic transformations, which have taken place alongside tectonic political shifts in society associated with the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a post-Soviet order. Pharmapolitics...
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Hace años sucedieron cosas en el interior de un orfanato, de las que no solo sus paredes fueron testigo. Manu corrió y corrió, hasta dejar atrás su infancia entre aquellos muros y el recuerdo de lo que un niño jamás debiera haber visto.
Con una prosa exquisita en la que cobran vida los ambientes, olores, sabores y texturas de una India a caballo entre la realidad y la ficción, Olga Casado nos ofrece una historia trepidante, que dejará una...
32) Harbinger
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"I am Uriel: The Harbinger of Chaos, The Keeper of the Gates, The Begetter of Life, The Dam of The Ends, and I'm coming to take what is mine!“ The clash with Baza and his angels had demonstrated to Ariel that Earth (Apkallu) is not the safe heaven she hoped it would be, and it is only a matter of time before she is hunted and dead.
The only way to survive is to accept her destiny and to fight back.
But upon her return to Uras, Ariel is rejected...
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Russia, 19th century. A retired lieutenant Alexei Polyansky receives an invitation to serve in the newly formed Corps of Gendarmes. He is immediately given his first assignment; investigating the "Knaves of Hearts," a Moscow gang engaged in affairs with real estates and selling fake paintings. To the lieutenant's great surprise, the threads of these seemingly banal crimes lead to the disclosure of an ancient mystery connected to the disappearance...
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Cincuenta poemas divididos en nueve partes, con ilustraciones de plásticos mendocinos y algunos caligramas.
Todavía hay personas que a lo largo de toda su vida insisten en la reflexión, el hacer y la lucha en función del altruismo, los Derechos Humanos, la Paz en este mundo complicado que vivimos. Y si, además, esas mismas personas, transforman el dolor por el dolor humano en poesía y en arte, al decir de Bertolt Brecht "(...) esos son los imprescindibles"....
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Discover how simple changes can make any room-and its inhabitants-feel more inspired, clear, and energetic. Designer and Stanford instructor Olga Trusova's practical and inspiring guide offers easy-to-follow tips for cultivating a calming environment at home or at work.
Using the principles of design thinking, Trusova distills essential design wisdom, revealing how to use light, color, sound, furniture, and more to make simple, intentional changes...
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Resumen: De: El Padre A: los padres es una simplificacin de las instrucciones que Dios a dejado a los padres, para criar, formar e instruir a los hijos, para formarlos como hijos de El, para ensearles y fundamentar el camino de Dios en sus vida, aqu encontraran la forma que Dios quiere que lo transmitan, la forma que Dios quiere que lo expresen. Este escrito aclara: cual es la verdadera responsabilidad de un padre y da las instrucciones para cumplir...
39) Fuego ardiente
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"Para Emma Alexander es escribir o morir en el intento. Su primer artículo tiene que convertirse en una gran primicia, sino perderá su trabajo. Entonces, el dueño de la casa en la que vive Emma, que también posee el restaurante italiano del piso de abajo, le hace una propuesta que parece un sueño hecho realidad. No sólo le proporcionaría a Emma la primicia que necesita, sino que también la haría gozar de unas vacaciones en la preciosa Toscana....
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Olga Ilyin (Lita) recounts her experiences as a young girl being brought up frugally in the midst of family plenty. After her mother died, she was cared for by her fathers sister, the idealistic Aunt Katya. Aunt Anna, her mothers sister, a career lady-in-waiting at the Russian Imperial Court in St. Petersburg, loved to invite Lita for longish summer visits. To Lita, the court was a brilliant, elegant, delightful world. Yet even she felt this world...