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Yechezkel Damjanich is a young Jewish violinist who lives with his mother in the devastated Budapest of 1947. One day, he receives a letter from Jerusalem from his uncle Yosef, whom he hasn't heard from for 12 years, and who his mother loathes for no apparent reason. Fleeing poverty, the two arrive in Palestine at a turbulent political moment, just before the English leave the region.
This work offers images of the least well-known spots of the Canary Islands - places inaccessible by land, concealed marine inlets and small unexplored caves - but also the famous beaches and coastal areas of the archipelago, now seen from a new angle.
Paula is almost seventeen, and has a date with Ángel, a young man of twenty two whom she has met while chatting online. She is nervous and excited. The minutes go by and the boy does not appear, so she decides to go into a nearby café. There she has an amusing encounter with a stranger called Alex, who by chance is reading the same book as her.
Using few or no words, Pedro Perles has chosen to reinterpret Little Red Riding Hood by telling us this classic story through images full of life, mystery and colour.
Emil M. Cioran (1911-1995) is one of the most unusal thinkers of the 20th century. A transgressor of every frontier and guided by a pessimism which at times seemed to point towards suicide, the Romanian author is, nevertheless, spine-chillingly lucid and appealing.
Pregnancy is a unique experience full of hope, happiness and joy, but it also carries a certain degree of uncertainty and has effects on the body we are unable to control. At this special time a guide to the right food, quantities and recipes we can trust is indisensable for us to feel safe.
This is a story of people and dogs which begins thousands of years ago, an almost unique relationship within the animal kingdom. It is also a story of friendship and cooperation.
Organisations frequently carry out audits to evaluate their occupational health and safety performance. This book examines the application of regulation UNE-EN-ISO 19011 to occupational health and safety management systems based on OHSAS 18001.
The Sicilian and Italian-American mafia, the Napolitan Camorra, the Japanese Yakuza, Chinese triads, Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, Russian mafia… From the north to the south of the planet, organized crime is one of the most characteristic criminal forms of our time, with profound and disquieting repercussions for security, the economy and politics.