Heart of ice

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Evelyn Goldsmith

An easy to use dictionary presented in large format and clear typography, it both illustrates and uses full sentences to explain many words.

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Juan García Ponce

Like waves ebbing and flowing, love surges and subsides among four friends who share a vacation at the house on the beach. As they navigate the seas of love and friendship, jealousy and unfaithfulness, Elena, Marta, Eduardo, and Rafael are swept up in the opposing currents that flow between security and personal freedom, marriage and sexual liberation, family and work, provincial and city life, and traditional and unconventional gender roles. This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin America's, major writers of the twentieth century. Juan Garc̕a Ponce helped Mexican arts and letters break out of the ossified styles and themes of the post-Revolutionary "Mexican School" with works that explore the conflict between individual desire and the demands of family and work. Written at a turning point in his career, The House on the Beach foreshadows his embrace of the erotic encounter as a means of undermining rigid, socially constructed personal identity. It supports feminist views and probes deeply into the contradictions, backwardness, and progress of modern Mexican society. --Publisher description.

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Laurent Herz

Ce dictionnaire regroupe quelques 120 entrées de noms d'animaux assez courtes, où l'aspect linguistique et symbolique est mis en avant dans un esprit de comparaison et où l'on a souhaité approfondir un peu les langues et cultures asiatiques et africaines. Des personnages historiques dont le nom se rattache de près ou de loin à un nom d'animal et dont certains méritent d'être mieux connus sont évoqués et la plupart des entrées sont illustrées dans divers systèmes d'écriture.

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Stephen Mark Holmes

"Provides rich reflections on every Sunday gospel reading in the three-year Lectionary from Augustine, Bede, Ambrose, Gregory the Great, Aelred, John Scotus Erigena, Origen, Cyril of Alexandria, and many more"--P. [4] of cover.