Pines are among the most important timber producing trees with more than 100 species distributed in the northern hemisphere, 47 of which are found in Mexico and Central America. Published in English and Spanish, this easy to use field guide, contains a full page illustration and distribution map to [...]
Archer & Armstrong venture into the mystery of the Far, Faraway, the birthplace of The Boon!
Living it up at the hotel California! His whole life, Obadiah Archer has been lied to about his true heritage - but when he and his pal Armstrong arrive in L.A. to meet his real parents, they find them in the clutches of the Church of Retrology! What insidious plans does The Lizard King, the head of[...]
Spanish description: En Espana, en tiempos de oscuridad, siempre hubo hombres buenos que, orientados por la Razon, lucharon por traer a sus compatriotas las luces y el progreso. Y no faltaron quienes intentaban impedirlo.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
A finales del siglo XVIII, cuando dos miembros de [...]
A workshop was held in February 2012 in Madrid to stimulate a debate on textual criticism centred on the analysis of Byzantine texts and their modes of publication, rewriting and diffusion. The main aim was to provide future editors or scholars of the history of texts with a rich typology of concept[...]
This title includes Havana homes. Interiors in the Caribbean capital city. Celebrating the relics of Cuba's revolutionary glory days, this book explores everything from the kinds of interiors seen in Buena Vista Social Club to top-notch luxury hotels and cultural heritage sites. Via a diverse select[...]
"Flamandskaja doska" - intellektualnyj detektiv, paradoksalnyj i mnogoplanovyj. Roman zavorazhivaet peremescheniem dejstvija iz odnogo vremennogo i kulturnogo plasta v drugoj, golovokruzhitelno zakruchennym sjuzhetom. V mire antikvarov i kollektsionerov starinnaja kartina - kljuch k razgadke zhestok[...]
El asedio
Chto takoe tango? Pary, elegantno skolzjaschie po parketu dorogikh otelej? Vyzov, derzko broshennyj v dymnom kabake Buenos-Ajresa? Ili priznanie, s kotorogo nachinaetsja istorija dlinoj v sorok let? Kazhdyj geroj novogo romana Arturo Peresa-Reverte otvechaet na etot vopros po-svoemu i v svoe vremja.[...]
Chto mozhet skryvatsja pod oblozhkoj starinnogo folianta? Zakhvatyvajuschie prikljuchenija, zaputannye intrigi ili zapreschennye uchenija srednevekovykh chernoknizhnikov? Pod nej zhivet tselyj mir, ne podvlastnyj ni ognju, ni vremeni, ni vole svoikh sozdatelej. Brositsja v nego s golovoj - opasno, n[...]
Follow Arturo Perez-Reverte's audacious characters in a new and exciting adventure. Cross the Assassin's Bridge and become a part of the quest to assassinate the Doge of Venice. Naples, Rome, and Milan are some of the backdrops in Captain Alatriste's latest exploit. Accompanied by young Inigo Balboa[...]
A hacker breaks into the Vatican's system. A baroque church in Seville kills to protect itself. A beautiful Andalusian aristocrat, a handsome priest/agent who handles the Church's dirty work, a jealous banker and his gambling secretary, a seventy-year-old woman who only drinks coke, a postcard from [...]
To illuminate the mysteries that can be found in the most diverse islands, Luis Bernardo Perez offers a blend of lightning-fast stories. "Papeles de itaca y otros destinos," winner of the Juan Jose Arrela Story Prize in 2013, presents a collection of short stories with the intensity of a thunderstor[...]
"This long awaited fifth installment of the famous adventures of Capitan Alatriste chronicles an aristocratic love affair between Alatriste and Mara de Castro, the most beautiful and famous actress of the Golden Era, who is also being courted by Felipe IV, in an action-packed historical novel of adv[...]