Este manual para estudiantes representa 25 años de enseñanza en los talleres de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, y es fruto de las prácticas profesionales y docentes de diversos profesores. Comenzó como una serie de recomendaciones empíricas que los profesores del taller de tercer año hacían a sus alumnos para facilitarles el proceso de diseño y permitirles concentrarse en cuestiones menos triviales y más abstractas de la disciplina. Luego, este co...

A dark speculative fiction anthology of ecological delights and nightmares. In each piece, Nature prevails, it triumphs, one way or another, with teeth, claws, vines, tentacles, or more over human exploitation. Prose and poetry are equals here, giving you decadent, violent, and elegant delights. Dark humor and dark tales for dreams of a better tomorrow. All speculative subgenres are included, from literary horror, extreme horror, psychological horror to dark science fiction and new weird. ...

'Excruciatingly powerful' ANTONY BEEVOR'A brilliant, harrowing, powerful novel' DAILY MAIL'Faulks is a prodigiously talented writer' NEW YORK TIMESIn the black of night, a woman lands on the fields of Occupied France. Charlotte Grey is on a mission for the British government to deliver a message and must shed her identity to blend into the small town of Lavaurette. But Charlotte has her own secret, h...

'A fascinating, timely and densely pleasurable novel, written with measured and impressive intelligence and tremendous narrative aplomb' WILLIAM BOYD‘Beautifully written and deceptively deep novel of moral choice set in the aftermath of the Second World War. The characters are as utterly convincing as the story’ **ANTONY BEEVORFarewell to Eden is a sweeping and profound novel about faith in all its forms, and a rich portrait of an embattled post-wa...

In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special oeprations group and to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks presents a microcosm of France and its agony in 'the black years'. Here is the full range of collaboration, from the tacit to the enthusistic, as well as examples of extraordinary courage and altruis...

The Anthropocene has arrived riding a wave of pollution. From "forever chemicals" to oceanic garbage patches, human-made chemical compounds are seemingly everywhere. Concerned about how these compounds disrupt multiple lives and ecologies, environmental scholars, activists, and affected communities have sought to curb the causes of pollution, focusing especially on the extractive industries. In Worlds of Gray and Green, authors Sebastián Ureta and Patricio Flores challenge us to r...

Brought to you by Penguin.Philip Deval, a soldier recently returned from the beaches of Normandy, arrives in Palestine on a peace-keeping mission in the final days of the British Mandate. The Sea of Galilee glitters in the distance as war-weary troops marvel at the novelty of oranges and sun – a paradise that belies a fierce new conflict about to erupt.Some years later, Philip begins work teaching at a school in the English countryside and meets the enigmat...

Life story work is an approach designed to enable traumatized children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future by strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing.This new edited volume documents innovative ways in which life story work has been developed. It draws on the work of nine life story centres based around the world and provides ...

La 'Colección Culpa y Conciencia – 5 Clásicas Novelas de Dilemas Morales' es un compendio excepcional que explora las profundidades del alma humana frente a cuestiones de moralidad y ética. Esta recopilación abarca un amplio espectro de estilos literarios, desde la introspección psicológica hasta la rica narrativa histórica, destacando piezas sobresalientes que invitan a la reflexión sin necesidad de atribuir cada una a un autor específico. Los relatos incluidos son vehículo de intensas lu...

Everything people think they know about the Zoric family is a sham. Even me.I thought I was trying out to be their newest model.Luka was auditioning wives.I just need the career boost. He needs good PR to salvage his playboy image. It's a win-win - on paper. But since when has real life been simple?His jealousy makes me crazy.The control he maintains over my body is unacceptable.I really shouldn't be so turned on by it.But there's mor...

On my 18th birthday, my father, the senator, gives me the gift he thinks every little girl dreams of.The man of my dreams, and the wedding to match.Stefan Zoric is heir to an elite worldwide modeling agency.Practically a prince.My arrangement is simple, as far as sham marriages go.I give him my virginity, behave as the perfect wife and he'll pay for the college degree my father found irrelevant.But I don't want to be the perfect wife....

he 20th century saw air power transformed from novelists' fantasy into stark reality. From string and canvas to precision weaponry and stealth, air power has progressed to become not only the weapon of first political choice, but often the only conceivable option. This rapid development has given rise to considerable debate and controversy with those holding entrenched views rarely slow to shout their case. Many myths have grown over the period, ranging from the once much vaunted ability o...