Winter Rules

Book offers a close philosophical look at José Enrique Rodó's ARIELISM, an important component of modernism in Latin American history. The images of Ariel and Caliban come to life as the author analyz-es Rodó's book, Ariel, in context of history and literature. In the face of general Latin American failure, the author looks for answers in cultural mechanisms which are inherent to Latin American history.

All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.

"What do the statues of the world have to offer? The Great Sphinx of Giza, the Caryatids in Athens or the dragon of the Forbidden City in Beijing... are statues that have witnessed... the course of history. But what if these witnesses could talk? What would they say? In this exciting collection of stories, statues have their say. Statues of the world meet fiction and information across seven stories that contain universal themes such as freedom, fantasy or love. Each of the stories takes as inspiration a representative of world culture in the form of a statue, and this is both a literary...

Sam Beaver y su padre pasan temporadas en una cabaña de Canadá. En una de sus excursiones, Sam descubre una familia de cisnes trompeteros. En seguida entabla amistad con ellos, sobre todo con el pequeño Louis, un polluelo con una característica muy particular: es mudo. ¿Conseguirán el afán de superación del cisne y la ayuda de Sam que logre comunicarse?