En el año 285 a.C Irene tiene quince años y vive con su padre en Atenas. Su educación, que Kleón ha cuidado con un esmero nada habitual para una mujer, la ha convertido en una joven curiosa y culta. Sin embargo, todo su mundo se (More) derrumba cuando él es encarcelado. Irene queda bajo la tutela de Herófilo, un familiar médico con el que huirá de Atenas. Durante una larga estancia en Creta, donde se ven obligados a recalar, Irene acabará por adquirir conocimientos básicos de medicina, suficientes para despertar su interés por continuar aprendiendo y practicando. Así empieza su periplo por el Mediterráneo, que es a la vez un viaje hacia el descubrimiento de sí misma.

Historia de la Literatura (2) – Enigmas y libros de la literatura universal .Asesinatos, suicidios, duelos, condenas a muerte, guerras, eclipses, vampiros, misterios, juicios… Detrás de los grandes libros se esconde mucha más (More) sangre de lo que uno podría imaginar. ¿Por qué Pushkin murió en un duelo? ¿Es cierto que se han hallado pruebas de la reencarnación de Shakespeare? ¿Sabías que Pessoa tuvo dificultades para encontrar editor o que La Divina Comedia estuvo a punto de no publicarse?Santiago Posteguillo, referente de narrativa histórica, nos guía en un magnífico viaje desde los discursos de Cicerón hasta las obras de ciencia ficción de Asimov por la historia más enigmática y sorprendente de la literatura universal.

La educación nunca es aséptica. Siempre se educa según unos principios, sean del signo que sean. Esos principios o valores, también los religiosos, expresan lo que cada uno considera bueno, aquello que hay que preservar y promover (More) en la sociedad, más allá de destrezas y competencias. Pero ¿cuáles son esos principios que deben guiar la tarea de padres y profesores?

Hans Christian Andersen (Odense, 2 aprile 1805 – Copenaghen, 4 agosto 1875) è stato un noto scrittore e poeta danese, celebre soprattutto per le sue fiabe.
Molte delle fiabe di Andersen hanno messo profonde radici nella nostra (More) cultura. Tutti conoscono Il brutto anatroccolo, Il soldatino di stagno, I vestiti nuovi dell’imperatore, La piccola fiammiferaia, La principessa sul pisello, sebbene non sempre se ne ricordi l’autore.

H.G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction novella The Invisible Man tells the story of a scientist named Griffin who theory is this: if the refractive index of a person’s body is adjusted to exactly that of air, then his body will not (More) absorb or reflect light and he will become invisible. Griffin subjects himself to a procedure to do this, becoming an invisible man. But he cannot manage to reverse it and become visible once more, resulting in his mental unhinging.

Wonder is a children’s novel by Raquel Jaramillo Palacio, under the pen name of R. J. Palacio, published on February 14, 2012.Palacio was compelled to write Wonder after fearing that her younger son (who at the time was three (More) years old) would react badly after noticing a girl with facial birth defects was sitting beside him as they were waiting in line to buy ice cream. Palacio attempted to remove her son from the situation so as not to upset her or the girl’s family but ended up only intensifying the situation. Natalie Merchant’s song “Wonder” had her realize that the incident could teach a valuable lesson. Palacio was inspired by Merchant’s lyrics and she began writing. The book has a released spin-off, 365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Brown’s Book of Precepts. In August 2015, the book Auggie and Me was published. A film adaptation is set for release in 2017.

Se volete sapere come avere successo nel crowdfunding siete nel posto giusto. Dal momento dell’impatto della crisi finanziaria globale, il crowdfunding è passato dall’essere un fenomeno di nicchia del Web 2.0 a un business che fa (More) girare 5 miliardi di dollari all’anno. Con le proiezioni che mostrano somme di raccolta in piena crescita per i prossimi anni fino a totali una volta impensabili, possiamo affermare che non si tratta più di un fuoco di paglia, o di un fenomeno di oggi che domani già non sarà più. Il crowdfunding sta emergendo come metodo di finanziamento preferito da molti imprenditori e creativi, un veicolo d’investimento sofisticato con rendimenti reali per una serie di investitori, e un’espressione di impegno diretto e supporto per una generazione di cittadini iperconnessi e digitali.
Ma quali sono le sue origini? Cosa lo rende diverso? Come si fa e, soprattutto, cosa fare perché la vostra campagna di crowdfunding abbia successo?

Dickens’ great friend and fellow novelist deserves a place in the digital library of all lovers of fine literature. This is the COMPLETE WORKS of Wilkie Collins.This is the only eBook available with every novel, every short story (More) – even the very rare ones – published play, non-fiction text and much, much more! Now you can truly own all of Collins’ works on your eReader, and all in ONE well-organised file.

El hilo conductor de este recorrido por la historia contemporánea es el proceso de secularización, característico de nuestra cultura, tratado desde una visión cristiana del hombre y de la historia. Tras exponer las claves de la (More) época moderna (siglos XVI-XVII), el autor analiza las principales ideologías contemporáneas -liberalismo, nacionalismo, marxismo, cientificismo- y subraya su papel de religiones sustitutivas. Una tercera parte trata la crisis de la cultura de la Modernidad en el siglo XX, y examina con detalle el nihilismo, la sociedad permisiva y los movimientos culturales de mayor actualidad: feminismo, ecologismo y los nuevos movimientos religiosos. Concluye con un profundo análisis de la relación entre la Iglesia Católica y el mundo contemporáneo.

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (of York, Mariner Who lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having (More) been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where in all the Men perished but Himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. This device, presenting an account of supposedly factual events, is known as a “false document” and gives a realistic frame story.