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Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the 20th century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent - more than 1,000,000 people. A century later, the Armenian genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian versions of events.

On the trail of a mind-melting futuristic drug, the Captain stumbles upon an ancient cult dead-set on raising The Beast from his slumber and feeding him a few thousand civilizations for breakfast. The devil’s back in town and there’s only one man and four solid knuckles in his way.

Ganadora en dos ocasiones del Premio Booker -en el año 2000 con El asesino ciego y en 2019 con Los testamentos-, un hecho insólito en la historia del máximo galardón literario de las letras anglosajonas, la aclamada autora de El cuento de la criada nos sorprende con una valiente reelaboración del mito de Penélope, esposa de Odiseo y símbolo por excelencia de la fidelidad conyugal a lo largo de los siglos.

Si hay algo que tiene claro, es que no es su tipo. Para nada. Knox prefiere vivir su vida tal y como se toma el café: solo. Pero todo cambia cuando llega a su pueblecito un terremoto llamado Naomi, una novia a la fuga en busca de su gemela, de la que lleva años sin saber nada. Lástima que su hermana le robe el coche y el dinero y la deje a cargo de una sobrina que no sabía que existía. Al ver cómo la vida de Naomi se va al traste, Knox decide hacer lo que mejor se le da: sacar a la gente de apuros. Después, volverá a su rutina solitaria… O ese es el plan.

Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.

"If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do," write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combines an accessible account of some of the discipline's guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work.

Through the stories of gaming's greatest innovations and most-beloved creations, journalist Harold Goldberg captures the creativity, controversy - and passion - behind the videogame's meteoric rise to the top of the pop-culture pantheon. Over the last 50 years, video games have grown from curiosities to fads to trends to one of the world's most popular forms of mass entertainment.

Un virus letal se desata accidentalmente en el Cáucaso, extendiéndose velozmente por todo el planeta. En Galicia, un joven abogado observa impotente cómo su apacible vida se desmorona cuando la plaga alcanza su ciudad. Ahora, debe enfrentarse a una lucha desesperada por la supervivencia en un territorio familiar que se ha transformado en un infierno terrenal.

This specialized vocabulary set, meticulously designed for medical professionals, bridges the language gap between English and French, focusing on terminology frequently encountered in medical settings.

Classic Speeches: 1940-1987 is a collection of the most famous speeches of all time from political figures, such as Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr and John F Kennedy.

The Code of the Woosters is one of the best known of Wodehouse's Bertie and Jeeves series. Bertie's beloved Aunt Dahlia pressures him into stealing a cow-shaped silver creamer much coveted by his uncle from his arch rival in silver collecting, Sir Watkyn Bassett. At the same time, Bertie attempts to patch up the shaky romance between Guisse Fink-Nottle, the newt expert, and Madeline Bassett, a four star drip. The results of Bertie's efforts are, as always, a financial disaster.

Little has been written about the strangely obscured figure of Meiji himself, the first Japanese emperor ever to meet a European. But now, Donald Keene sifts the available evidence to present a rich portrait not only of Meiji but also of rapid and sometimes violent change during this pivotal period in Japan's history. Emperor of Japan conveys in sparkling prose the complexity of the man and offers an unrivaled portrait of Japan in a period of unique interest.

Danni a disparu, elle se droguait, ses grands-parents font appel à Konrad, un policier à la retraite. Une fillette retrouvée noyée dans le lac du centre de Reykjavik en 1947 hante les rêves d'une des amies de l'ex-policier. Comment la police a-t-elle mené ces enquêtes ? À des années de distance les mêmes erreurs semblent se répéter. Konrad, solide, têtu, coléreux et rompu par son enfance auprès de son père à toutes les ruses des voyous, n'hésite pas à bousculer les conformismes. Il sait aussi écouter les fantômes.

Le corps enfoui d'une enfant, découvert dans la steppe par des nomades mongols, réveille chez le commissaire Yeruldelgger le cauchemar de l'assassinat jamais élucidé de sa propre fille. Peu à peu, ce qui pourrait lier ces deux crimes avec d'autres plus atroces encore, va le forcer à affronter la terrible vérité.

A collection of the most famous comedy sketches of all time from actors and comedians, such as Peter Cook, Groucho Marx and Bob Hope.

You want more. You want to belong to a community that looks out for each other. You believe in your bones we don't have to live detached, distracted, and divided. The question is, How? Shannan Martin invites you into deeper connection through simple resets.

If you are a woman with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you've probably known—all your life—that you're different. As girls, we learn which behaviors, thinking, learning, and working styles are preferred, accepted, tolerated, and frowned upon. These preferences are communicated in innumerable ways-from media and books to our first-grade classroom to conversations with our classmates and parents.

The Forty-Day Word Fast focuses on several biblically sound mechanisms to help you change your words and your life. Not only will your vocabulary change, your heart also will be transformed in just forty days.

Mrs. Lee, the mature reverend's wife, is coming over for dinner, and she's brought her world-famous apple pie. The gorgeous reverend's wife is in for a shock when the other naughty married women are so interested in her. And what is this itch inside of her that the gorgeous women are stirring in her? She quickly realizes that the married beauties are all secret lesbians. And they're hungry for Mrs. Lee's delicious pie. Before the reverend's hot wife knows it, she's being tempted by the lesbian beauties.

The energy body and vital forces are critical to learning how to enhance your health and vitality, develop spiritual abilities, and focus your spiritual development. This audiobook provides history, in-depth explanations, theories on the energy body, and exercises to learn how to take full advantage of these capabilities yourself.