Besos a un tirano (Besos y más besos 1)

This book explores some of the risks associated with sustainable peace in Colombia. The book intentionally steers away from the emphasis on the drug trade as the main resource fueling Colombian conflicts and violence, a topic that has dominated scholarly attention. Instead, it focuses on the links that have been configured over decades of armed conflict between legal resources (such as bananas, coffee, coal, flowers, gold, ferronickel, emeralds, and oil), conflict dynamics, and crime in several regions of Colombia. The book thus contributes to a growing trend in the academic literature...

Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel when he gets a call: his father's had a stroke, so it's back to Bush Falls for the town's most famous pariah. His brother avoids him, his former classmates beat him up, and the members of the book club just hurl their copies of Bush Falls at his house. But with the help of some old friends, Joe...

Son relatos que tienen como fondo social y físico la ciudad de San Petersburgo, entoces capital del imperio ruso.

El mito griego atribuye al a diosa de la belleza un cinturón que posee la virtud de otorgar gracia a quien lo lleva, y procurarle amor. Esta misma deidad va acompañada de las Gracias. Los griegos distinguían de la belleza, pues, la gracia y las Gracias, puesto que representaban a éstas por atributos que podían ser separados de la diosa de la belleza. Toda gracia es bella, ya que el cinturón de los encantos es propiedad de la diosa de Cnido; pero no todo lo bello es gracia: aun sin ese cinturón sigue siendo Venus lo que es.