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MedicineDecember 2016Mononegaviruses of Veterinary Importance, Volume 2
Molecular Epidemiology and Control
by Muhammad Munir, Muhammad Munir, Paula Kinnunen, Jonas Wensman, Bronwyn A Clayton, Ina Smith, Glenn Marsh, Somporn Techangamsuwan, Watanyoo Pratakpiriya, Muhammad Zubair Shabbir, Anke Brüning-Richardson, Satya Parida, Ashley C Banyard, Fernando Rosado Spilki, Mikael Berg, Sandra Cuevas-Romero, Jorge Moreno-Lopez, Marina Mozgovoj, María José Dus Santos, Mattia Cecchinato, Helena Lage Ferreira, Elena Catelli, Paulo Eduardo Brandão, Jens H Kuhn, Steven B Bradfute, Peter P Jahrling, Consuelo Rubio-Guerri, Jose Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno, Arun K Dhar, Refugio Robles-Sikisaka, Andrew Orry, F C Thomas Allnutt
The Mononegavirales is an order of viruses affecting large, small and marine animals and is responsible for diseases including Rinderpest, Rabies and Ebola. This book discusses the epidemiology and control of Mononegaviruses that pose a significant threat to animals in terms of severity and epidemiological risk. The book also addresses viruses with zoonotic potential, and many that can be used as models in the study of infectious disease. With its comprehensive coverage, each chapter is dedicated to a different disease and has been authored by renowned scientists who have made seminal contributions to the field. This prestige reference work is arranged over two volumes: volume 1 pathobiology and molecular diagnosis, and volume 2 molecular epidemiology and control. This broad ranging text covers mononegaviral diseases of livestock, horses, dogs and cats as well as rodents, primates, fish and marine mammals, and will be a valuable reference source for virologists, field veterinarians, infection and molecular biologists as well as immunologists and animal scientists. ; Mononegavirales are an order of viruses affecting large, small and marine animals and humans. This companion volume to "Mononegaviruses of Veterinary Importance: Pathobiology and Molecular Diagnosis" discusses viruses that cause a significant threat to animals, including PPR, Rhinderpest, Rabies, Ebola, Snakehead Rhabdovirus and more. ; Part I: Mononegaviruses of Livestock, Horses, Dogs and CatsChapter 1: BornavirusesChapter 2: Newcastle Disease VirusChapter 3: Hendra and NipahChapter 4: Canine Distemper VirusChapter 5: Peste des Petits RuminantsChapter 6: Contribution of Epidemiological Knowledge and Control Strategies in the Eradication of Rinderpest VirusChapter 7: Bovine Parainfluenza Virus Type 3Chapter 8: Porcine Rubulavirus (PorPV-LPMV)Chapter 9: Bovine Respiratory Syncytial VirusChapter 10: Avian MetapneumovirusChapter 11: Rabies VirusPart II: Mononegaviruses of Rodents, Primates, Fish and Sea MammalsChapter 12: Veterinary Importance of FilovirusesChapter 13: Sea Mammal MorbillivirusesChapter 14: Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus
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April 2019El baile de San Pascual
by Vieco, Camilo
El Baile de San Pascual is award-winning author Camilo Vieco's first YA Graphic Novel. It is a fantasy epic story set in the Páramos, an endangered enviromnent in Colombia. In times of scarcity, the community that lives around the páramo of Ocetá organizes a party to ask San Pascual for help. But beware of abusing their generosity because the cost can be very high! With this graphic adventure novel, the cartoonist Camilo Vieco inaugurates a world of characters and landscapes inspired by peasant life and the Colombian páramos. Cohete Cómics presents Camilo Vieco's first graphic novel as a complete author. This project was developed at the ÉESI in Anguleme while its author was finishing a master's degree in Sequential Art. El baile de San Pascual is an adventure graphic novel inspired by the life of the peasants and the Colombian páramos. Camilo Vieco starts from the syncretism that occurred in Boyacá during the 16th century between the figure of the saint San Pascual Bailón and the Chibcha god Memcatacaquien to create a story about the relationship between human ambition and the laws of nature. This is the story of an irresponsible man who abuses the generosity of the moor, and of Agustina and Ignacio, two brothers who are forced to resolve the chaos caused by their father. In the process, they learn to take care of themselves and encounter fantastic creatures hidden in the heart of the páramo of Ocetá.
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September 2021Where are you going, Iryna?
by Rosa Maria Pascual, Simon Berrill
I was a young journalist in the UK when the nuclear accidentat Chernobyl happened. At first it seemed like another of themany terrible things that happen in far-off countries andmake only brief headlines in our media before quickly disappearingfrom the front pages. Soon, though, a radioactivecloud began spreading across Europe and, perhaps for thefirst time, we were all forced to realise what a small, fragileworld we live in.Three decades on, Rosa Maria Pascual’s splendid noveltells the stories that weren’t heard at the time: what happened– and is still happening – to the people living aroundthe nuclear power station in what was then the Soviet Unionand is now Ukraine. From the first page it is a compellingread: a multi-stranded road movie of a book interweavingfirst-hand accounts of the explosion itself and its horrificconsequences; the journey of a woman from far-away Cataloniato discover the truth of the disaster as she helps childrenaffected by its consequences; and the odyssey of oneof those Chernobyl children who goes on the run with heryoung daughter to escape an unpleasant fate in her owncountry.There’s a lot more too. This is a book about nationalismand politics, about human nature, about little-known culturesand, most of all, about women and their defiant love forparents, children, husbands and lovers, set against a backgroundof disaster and tragedy. Because even in the darkestsituations, love offers a glimmer of hope for us all.Simon BerrillTranslator of the English edition “Someone once said that what makes a literarywork is what we might call “excellent use oflanguage”. Well, the novel “Where are you going,Iryna?” is undoubtedly a perfect example of this,packed with rare quality and sensitivity. Combininggreat narrative style and extreme delicacy,the author shows us the grim reality for thepeople of Ukraine of the tragedy that happenedat Chernobyl on 26 April 1986 during and afterthe accident at the nuclear power station.The story focuses on the character of Iryna,the people around her, and the experiences sheand her brother Vasyl have in Catalonia with ahost family when they are children. Flashingbackwards and forwards in time without everlosing clarity, the novel places us at differentperiods in Iryna’s exciting life as, despite theserious difficulties she often faces, she managesto maintain her enthusiasm and desire to get on.Iryna’s story is inspiring but also reminds us ofjust how far human beings can go wrong when wefail to calibrate certain technological applicationscorrectly. The Chernobyl disaster should certainlynot be forgotten considering that the price wenormally pay when we lose our collectivememory is repeating the same mistakes.All this makes Rosa Maria Pascual’s novel anexcellent, must-read book for remembering whatit means to contaminate land for centuries– something that should never, ever happen again. Ana Galisteo (English & Drama teacher)and Juan Méndez (Philosopher)
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The ArtsWritten wind
by Jorge Pascual
A book created during a year of several walks. During these walks, Jorge Pascual explores the wind, the water of a river or the rain. There are conversations with trees, stars, and self-reflections. This search through nature has been materialised in a collection of texts, annotations, drawings and photographs of picked-up objects. The book includes a QR code which gives access to audio and video recordings created specifically for this delicate work. A booktrailer is available here.
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Children's & YAThe Flower and the Death
by Iria G. Parente, Selene M. Pascual
Mars, 2628. Olympus is a great corporation that extendsacross the galaxy. Within Olympus, society is divided intothirteen Services based on the functions of the ancientOlympic gods.Asha is a hades whose life is constantly surrounded by death.Ianthe is a demeter whose life is entrenched in solitudeWhen both of them enter Akademeia, they know what awaitsthem: a three-year internship and the Odyssey, the grouptest where only the best candidates are chosen to be the nextService leaders. But competition is tough and the stakes arehigh.Only those who are willing to give everything for Olympuswill achieve power.
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FictionJuly 2019The Red Gene
by Barbara Lamplugh
When Rose, a young English nurse with humanitarian ideals, decides to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, she is little prepared for the experiences that await her. Working on one front after another, witness to all the horrors of war, she falls in love with a Republican fighter, Miguel. In 1939 as defeat becomes inevitable, Rose is faced with a decision that will change her life and leave her with lasting scars. Interspersed with Rose's story is that of Consuelo, a girl growing up in a staunchly Catholic family on the other side of the ideological divide. Never quite belonging, treated unkindly, she discovers at a young age that she was adopted but her attempts to learn more about her origins are largely thwarted. It falls to the third generation, to Consuelo's daughter Marisol, born in the year of Franco's death and growing up in a rapidly changing Spain, to investigate the dark secrets of her family and find the answers that have until now eluded her mother.
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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesAntiheros
by Iria G. Parente, Selene M. Pascual
After being trapped by an organization who wants to recondition themat their headquaters in Madrid (hidden in a ghost metro station), the fiveprotagonists manage to escape and use their powers for goals that aren’texactly saving the world. Because, who would want to be a hero... when theycould be an antihero?
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Religion: generalFebruary 2014HORA SANTA
Propuestas para orar y adorar
by Jáuregui Castelo, Juan
El libro nos ofrece varias “horas santas” nacidas en contexto del triduo pascual, pero que pueden ser muy bien usadas en otros momentos de oración y exposición ya que, sin duda, la Iglesia está recuperando la oración y adoración al Santísimo. Bastarán pequeños retoques de referencia a los días del Triduo Pascual. Hora Santa es el espacio de oración que la comunidad (o algunas personas de la comunidad cristiana) dedican a rezar delante del Santísimo.
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Women's Fiction2012Days of love and harvest
by María Consuelo Altable (Ángela Blenda)
A terrorist attack shocks Madrid. An injured woman in the attack is physically identical to Ana, director of the Madrid Scientific Police. In another part of the city, María, a librarian, is deeply shocked by the event. At the end of the day, Alejandra drives home and the glare of another car causes her to crash into a lamppost. A story of women friendship who support each other to overcome the challenges and difficulties they face every day.
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FantasyJune 2017The Mute’s tango
by Luis Benítez
Severiano Cárdenas is a failed journalist who, by chance, discovers the way to reach the beginning of the 20th century, where he meets the author of the first tango-song, Pascual Contursi. In the company of Contursi he will share hardships and adventures and will be introduced to the world of tango, until he becomes Carlos Gardel's driver, handyman and confidant. A true period painting through which the tribulations of Severiano Cárdenas slide, a man from the late 20th century who knows everything that will happen before the death of the idol in Medellín in 1935, without being able to avoid it. The author and his work
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October 2020Soul Child On your knees! It is Christmas.
by P. Mauricio Uribe Duque, O.C.D.
Este libro es el testimonio de la fe del autor, que confiesa que Jesús es el Hijo de Dios. Aquí está él, con toda la erudición del teólogo, invitándonos para que, de su mano, miremos al cielo y veamos las señales y oigamos el canto de los ángeles y juntos vayamos presurosos a “adorar al Niño, adorar al Niño, que ha nacido ya… ”. Este es un libro único, que conjuga la estética de la imagen y de la edición, con la profundidad del mensaje; que teje, en un lenguaje bello pero compresible para todos, el misterio central del cristianismo: Dios hecho hombre. Dios con nosotros. Es un libro que nos lleva al encuentro con Dios encarnado en el más profundo centro del alma.
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Biography: historical, political & militaryMarch 2020Mujeres de novela
Quince vidas extraordinarias del siglo XX
by Echavarren Roselló, Sonsoles
¿Crees que tu madre, tu abuela o tu vecina no podrían protagonizar una novela? Pues estás equivocado. A nuestro alrededor hay muchas mujeres extraordinarias que, aunque no hayan ganado un Premio Nobel de Medicina, como Marie Curie, ni escrito un diccionario mientras criaban a sus hijos, como María Moliner, son igualmente excepcionales. Haz la prueba. Observa a tu familia, a las de tus amigos, a esa camarera que te atiende detrás de la barra de un bar o a la mujer, fuerte y decidida que ha cuidado de tus hijos o de tus padres, para que tú puedas seguir tu camino profesional en el hospital, el colegio, la oficina o la fábrica. Tienes entre manos un libro muy especial, casi tanto como estas quince vidas que son un tratado de historia contemporánea. Y que nos muestran cómo ha sido la otra historia, no la de las guerras y los tratados, sino la del día a día, los amores, los hijos, las enfermedades y las muertes. Por estas páginas transitan modistas que cosieron para la burguesía en la España de la posguerra, emigran-tes intrépidas que no dudaron en subirse a un barco o un avión para encontrar el amor en Londres o en Melbourne (Australia) o alemanas que transitaron por la Segunda Guerra Mundial y desafiaron a los soldados de la RDA en esas fron-teras de alambradas. A todas las conozco. Algunas forman parte de mi familia de mi vida, que viene a ser lo mismo. A otras no tuve la fortuna de conocerlas porque ya murieron. Pero sus hijos o nietos se han prestado a compartir su historia conmigo. ¿Aún sigues creyendo que tu madre, tu abuela o tu vecina no merecerían protagonizar una historia de novela de las de antes?
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October 2019Lord, you are my refuge Psalms for different moments
by Hna. Mariluz Arboleda, f.s.p.
Nuestra vida está llamada a ser un canto de alabanza a Dios por las maravillas que Él a diario obra en cada uno de nosotros. Los salmos, como cantos o himnos poéticos, también nos enseñan a orar a Dios desde las diferentes realidades que vivimos. A través de ellos expresamos a Dios nuestra necesidad de confianza, consuelo, fortaleza, sabiduría, discernimiento, justicia, rectitud, bendición; así mismo, nuestra alegría, esperanza, gratitud y búsqueda de sentido. Este libro de Salmos nos ayudará, además, a profundizar y meditar todos los días; es un itinerario de encuentro con el Señor para hablar con Él y decirle lo que sentimos.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)May 2019El retratista de los niños muertos (En los tiempos del porvenir)
by Manuel Aparicio Villalba
En 1923, las autoridades primorriveristas deciden esconder el cinturón de miseria que rodea la ciudad a los futuros visitantes de la Exposición Iberoamericana del 29. Más de treinta asentamientos chabolistas son desalo¬jados y sus pobladores enviados a Villalatas, la zona más alejada de cualquier ruta de paso. En aquel lugar, un arrabal sin iglesias donde los niños mueren de miseria y el único consuelo de sus madres es poder disponer del recuerdo foto¬gráfico de un cuerpo inerte, se encuentra desde hace años una fonda que resulta ser el burdel más grande, maloliente y barato de la provincia. El relato es una historia de dos grandes mujeres, Davinia y Che, que comienza en 1882, cuando Cristina Salazar Expósito cumple trece años y las monjas del Hospicio de la Santísima Trinidad le buscan un oficio de sirvienta en aquella fonda. Esa misma noche, Doña Paquita la sentará en una silla de enea en mitad del salón donde se espera, le bajará las bragas hasta los tobillos y la rifará al mejor postor entre la selecta clientela. Años después, será capaz de reinventar el pasado y desvelar el futuro. Bajo la más pura tradición del realismo mágico, El retratista de los niños muertos nos sumerge en un tiempo que trans¬curre entre la luz decimonónica de las lámparas de queroseno y la modernidad de un mundo recién estrenado por el hada electricidad, trasladándonos a un territorio que el lector sentirá mítico: Villalatas.
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September 2016Mursiyya
El talismán del yemení
by Reyes Puerta, Sergio
In the year 825 A.C., Abderraman II, the Emir of Cordoba, ordered the construction of Madina Mursiyya, the actual city of Murcia. Not many years before, a little boy called Omar, witness to one of the turning points that would spark off a bloody civil war in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, finds and secretly hides a pendant that will later disclose its power and significance. Always in the company of the aforementioned talisman, which belonged to the Yemeni man murdered next to the river Sangonera, Omar will be forced to act as a spy amid the fratricidal conflict if he wants to save his father from the unfair fate that abides him, shake off the yoke of his stepbrothers and recover his beloved from the grip of the emir and his favourite eunuch. For those purposes, he will have to get involved in the foundation of the city and at the same time confront, with the help of those who should have been his natural enemies, a number of intriguing characters who should have been his allies all through an extraordinary plot full of magic, innocence and adventures. En el 825 d.C. el emir de Córdoba, Abderramán II, ordenó la fundación de la ciudad de Mursiyya, la actual Murcia. Pocos años antes el pequeño Omar, testigo de uno de los decisivos sucesos que incitarían una cruenta guerra civil en el sureste de la península ibérica, encuentra y esconde un colgante que más tarde revelaría su poder e importancia. Acompañado de dicho talismán, propiedad del Yemení asesinado junto al río Sangonera, Omar deberá actuar como espía en el fraticida conflicto si quiere salvar a su padre de su injusto destino, liberarse del yugo de sus hermanastros y recuperar a su amada de las garras del emir y de su eunuco predilecto. Para ello deberá colaborar en la fundación de la ciudad sin dejar de enfrentarse, con la ayuda de los que deberían haber sido sus enemigos naturales, a intrigantes personajes de su propia facción en una insólita historia llena de magia, inocencia y aventuras. La sorprendente novela en la que la vida de nuestro entrañable protagonista Omar se entreteje con la de cerca de un centenar de personajes reales de los siglos IX y anteriores, y con la Historia de Murcia, su huerta y el resto de la antigua cora de Tudmir (Región de Murcia, Alicante, y parte de Almería y Albacete), y la del resto de al Andalus.
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ArchaeologyFebruary 2020THE HOLY GRIAL
by ANA MAFÉ
Immerse yourself in a journey into the historical past of the most sought-after relic of the Western Middle Ages. In your hands you have the path that will reveal one of the great mysteries of humanity. Questions like: Why this cup and not another? Where did Jesus celebrate his last Passover? Who sent it to Hispania? How did Chrétien de Troyes write his novel "graal" inspired by the court of Aragon? What is and what does the Holy Grail mean? These questions and many more are explained and documented one by one. The search for the Holy Grail comes to an end in this book. The key to Knowledge is in your hand. The interior will surprise you by discovering completely new information that will not leave you indifferent.
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June 2019Mesopotamia y el Antiguo Testamento ("Mesopotamia and the Old Testament")
by Francesc Ramis Darder
El conocimiento de la historia y la literatura de Mesopotamia constituye el entramado necesario para la buena comprensión de la Biblia, especialmente del Antiguo Testamento. La narración del Diluvio se entrelaza con la epopeya de Gilgamesh; el Código de Hammurabi asoma entre la legislación bíblica; el zigurat de Babilonia deja entrever su silueta en la mención de la Torre de Babel; mientras la leyenda de Sargón orienta la mirada hacia la figura de Moisés. El lector inquieto por conocer la relación entre la Biblia y el mundo oriental encontrará en este libro una guía para escuchar el eco de Mesopotamia entre las líneas de la Sagrada Escritura. A knowledge of the history and literature of Mesopotamia constitutes the necessary framework for a proper understanding of the Bible, especially the Old Testament. The narration of the Flood is interwoven with the epic of Gilgamesh; the Code of Hammurabi looms among the biblical legislation; the Ziggurat of Babylon reveals its silhouette at the mention of the Tower of Babel; while the legend of Sargon focuses its gaze towards the figure of Moses. The reader, eager to know the relationship between the Bible and the Oriental world, will find in this book a guide for listening to the echo of Mesopotamia between the lines of the Holy Scripture.
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Christian theologyThe Practice of Theology
An Introduction to Theological Reflection and Its Main Figures
by Ángel Cordovilla
What is theology? Anyone who tries to answer this question is invited, first of all, to practice such singular science. In order to do so, she or he will have to visit the loci where theology is made, to understand the essential forms it has adopted throughout history, and to deepen into the topics its inner configuration calls for: God’s revelation, human faith, Church, Scripture, Tradition, and Magisterium. This introduction to theological reflection is written from the conviction that theology owns a unique word that only theology can say and propose as a service both to the Church and to society.
