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After Luisilla and Benjamin arrive in Saint-Malo, a pirate reveals amazing things about their identity.

An astonishing monographic of the work of internationally acclaimed artist Sergio Mora. Sergio Mora (Barcelona, 1975), also known as MAGICOMORA, is an internationally acclaimed painter, illustrator and draftsman. Among many other amazing achievements, he has received a Grammy award, collaborated with designer Philippe Starck, or designed for Gucci. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited all around the world, from Barcelona to New York, passing through Dubai or China. Moraland is the biggest monographic of his works ever published.

"A selection of highlights of Mexico's artistic heritage from the 16th-20th century is illustrated by beautiful color plates in this alphabetically arranged catalog of Mexican painters, architects, photographers, and decorative arts. Personal statements or erudite observations about the artists precede biographical summaries. With a prologue by Octavio Paz and texts by accomplished academics, this survey, the first in a set of three volumes, is a visual and intellectual celebration of Mexico's continuing artistic achievements"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

English summary: This volume publishes and analyzes a corpus of documents on arbitration and conciliation, extrajudicial forms of conflict resolution that have become more popular in recent decades. This is one of the first works to offer linguistic analysis of this relatively new discursive genre. Spanish description: Con este libro seguimos la linea investigadora de hacer publicos corpus relacionados con las resoluciones de conflictos. Si tradicionalmente se ha recurrido a los tribunales como medio para solventar las disputas surgidas entre los ciudadanos, en las ultimas decadas se estan...

En este libro se pretende dar un paso más en la historia del coleccionismo, pasando de una reconstrucción del poseer a una arqueología del mirar, con el convencimiento de que a través del estudio de los hábitos visuales y de las convenciones culturales -distintos en cada uno de los niveles de público a que iban destinadas estas obras- que entraban en juego a la hora de apreciar la pintura del Siglo de Oro, se enriquecen las perspectivas actuales para lograr un conocimiento -y un disfrute- más profundo de ella.