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“Aimed at 7, 8 & 9-year-olds, El Señor H is great fun, with some old-fashioned public service type information also cleverly, undidactically injected along the way. The illustrations are colourful, expressive, many of them full bleed on the page”. (Tom Bunstead)
We are in the politically inflamed Barcelona of the months previous to the outbreak of the Civil War. Pau Capdevila is a young lawyer who occasionally helps anarchist workers to ease their encounters with the law. He believes in nothing and neither is he particularly aware that his actions might have consequences beyond his immediate surroundings.
Cologne, the dawn of the 15th century. Winds of change and reform shake a Europe still ruled by deceit and old beliefs. The diffusion of knowledge is in the hands of a few. Nevertheless, a group of wise, erudite men who meet in secret are united by a common ambition: spreading culture among the people. How? Through books.
Nowadays, especially in sectors entering liberalised markets such as energy or telecommunications, strong competition means that clients flow from one business to another. In these circumstances businesses need to have their clients correctly classified, protecting the "key" ones who bring value and letting others go, who are not strategically worth it.
Ideaspropias Editorial presents Elaboración y exposición de comidas en el bar-cafetería [THE MAKING AND SHOWING OF MEALS IN THE BAR-CAFETERIA], an evaluative work on how to prepare food in the bar-cafeteria that includes some simple recipes used in catering establishments.
When night falls you should start to feel afraid, because then shadows will become more than just shadows, and demons may pursue you through the darkness. In different parts of the world, strange suicides are taking place, which seem to be related to the theft of an archeological artefact bearing inscriptions which no one has ever been able to translate.
A wonderful fairy tale in which the boys and girls at an orphanage in China find their parents, thanks to the intervention of some magic birds which live in their garden.
Celeste is twenty years old and lives alone. For some time, she has been overwhelmed by an inexplicable melancholy; although she does not have many friends, the ones she has share her dreams with her, and in a real sense rather than a metaphorical one.
Alexandra's grandmother is starting to forget everything. Alexandra's family thinks that she will not understand what is happening, as she is only twelve years old, so they begin to hide and disguise the truth. At first, Alexandra is amused when her grandmother contravenes the social norms, but she soon starts to ask herself if this behaviour is a way of resisting old age or illness.