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There have been rapid advances in the field of plant biotechnology in recent years, increasing the potential for medical application. Covering the latest advances in the use of plants to produce medicinal drugs and vaccines, this volume examines topics including plant tissue culture, secondary metabolite production, metabolomics and metabolic engineering, bioinformatics, molecular farming and future biotechnological directions, with contributors from key researchers in the field. Medicinal Plant Biotechnology is an essential text for researchers in plant biology and biotechnology, medical sciences and pharmacology.
Operation Enduring Freedom on 7 October 2001 marked the beginning of the “War on Terror” in Af-ghanistan, which to date has become the longest war fought by the USA and its allies, with thousands of deaths and injuries. This neo-colonial crusade has left wounds that may never heal. On the 20th anni-versary of the attack, Emran Feroz describes this war from an Afghan perspective for the first time. He spoke with many people on the ground: from Hamid Karzai to Taliban officials to affected citizens who suffered above all from this war.
Cris imagines, has fun, and explores the world hand by hand with a very special friend, who unconditionally accompanies her. He is giant, but this does not stop them from playing hide and seek, dancing, or drawing.The problem is that he gets bigger and bigger, so much, that one day he no longer fits in the house, so they decide to go out for a walk in the city; however, the giant keeps growing, and soon, he will have to transform into something else...
En 1861, tras un año en una academia militar, Ambrose Bierce se alistó en el Noveno Regimiento de Voluntarios de Indiana. Participó en algunas de las batallas más sangrientas de la Guerra Civil norteamericana, incluyendo la de Chickamauga, donde 34.000 hombres perdieron la vida. Arriesgó su pellejo en dos ocasiones para rescatar a compañeros caídos y, en 1864, resultó gravemente herido en la batalla de Kennesaw. Los cuentos de esta selección constituyen algunos de los mejores ejemplos de la obra de Bierce. Apoyándose sólidamente en su propia experiencia bélica, describe el lado oscuro de la naturaleza humana. Con un estilo sombrío y resuelto, da vida a personajes esculpidos por una época feroz y que reflejan su propia personalidad: alienación, agudeza irónica y fatalismo.
Winner of the 2020 Biblioteca Breve Prize.Bea Silva is shocked when she comes across an article in the newspaper that says someone has stolen the embalmed skull of the legendary silent film director F.W. Murnau. What’s most surprising is that Bea is convinced she knows who the thief is: Quirós, an underemployed filmmaker who one day showed up at her enormous ramshackle house.At almost thirty-two, Beatriz is a somewhat aloof college professor, weary of life and almost pathologically erudite. The arrival of Quirós brings out her lucid, hyperactive side and sets her up for a wildly unhinged fall.
What we now know as classic tales are oral stories that have been passed down from generation to generation. It is not known exactly when they appeared, what we do know is that in 1600 Charles Perrault gave them a literary form, tempering, in many cases, the harshness of the oral versions to adapt them to the times. 200 years later, Hans Christian Andersen and the Grimm brothers (among others), would do the same by creating new stories and transforming those of Perrault to their time. Now, 200 years later, they are revised and updated again. This time, without princes or princesses, without stepmothers or witches. This time, they are the heroines and they don't need anyone to save them.
La ciencia a menudo se puede explicar con hechos de la vida cotidiana y, en otras ocasiones, se puede "contar" a través de personajes populares. En este libro, las características particulares de cinco monstruos que se hicieron famosos a través de la literatura, las leyendas o el cine, sirven de “excusa” para introducirnos en diversas áreas de la biología y la medicina. Con Frankenstein aprenderemos cómo funciona nuestro sistema nervioso y entenderemos por qué nuestro sistema inmunológico no acepta ningún órgano que le sea trasplantado. Drácula nos enseñará que no siempre el gusto por la sangre tiene que ver con los malos hábitos, y cuántos de los males que afectan nuestro torrente sanguíneo se pueden heredar de padres a hijos. El crecimiento incontrolable del cabello del hombre lobo nos ayudará a comprender cómo se multiplican nuestras células, y su feroz mordida nos servirá de ejemplo para descubrir quién tiene la culpa de que nuestras heridas se infecten. La esquiva criatura de la Laguna Negra nos mostrará cómo nuestras células producen sus propias proteínas a partir de la información almacenada en nuestros genes, y desterrará una teoría antigua de que en algún momento de su desarrollo, los bebés se parecerían a los peces. Finalmente, la famosa momia intentará ayudarnos a decidir si nuestro cerebro es tan importante o más importante que nuestro corazón, y si nuevas técnicas de conservación podrán hacernos inmortales. Cinco monstruos y mucha ciencia. No tener miedo por ninguna de las dos cosas. La ciencia puede ser divertida y placentera. Y los monstruos ... Los monstruos no existen, excepto en nuestra imaginación. La escurridiza criatura de la Laguna Negra nos mostrará cómo nuestras células producen sus propias proteínas a partir de la información almacenada en nuestros genes, y desterrará una antigua teoría de que en algún momento de su desarrollo, los bebés se parecerían a los peces. Finalmente, la famosa momia intentará ayudarnos a decidir si nuestro cerebro es tan importante o más importante que nuestro corazón, y si nuevas técnicas de conservación podrán hacernos inmortales. Cinco monstruos y mucha ciencia. No tener miedo por ninguna de las dos cosas. La ciencia puede ser divertida y placentera. Y los monstruos ... Los monstruos no existen, excepto en nuestra imaginación. La escurridiza criatura de la Laguna Negra nos mostrará cómo nuestras células producen sus propias proteínas a partir de la información almacenada en nuestros genes, y desterrará una antigua teoría de que en algún momento de su desarrollo, los bebés se parecerían a los peces. Finalmente, la famosa momia intentará ayudarnos a decidir si nuestro cerebro es tan importante o más importante que nuestro corazón, y si nuevas técnicas de conservación podrán hacernos inmortales. Cinco monstruos y mucha ciencia. No tener miedo por ninguna de las dos cosas. La ciencia puede ser divertida y placentera. Y los monstruos ... Los monstruos no existen, excepto en nuestra imaginación. y si nuevas técnicas de conservación podrán hacernos inmortales. Cinco monstruos y mucha ciencia. No tener miedo por ninguna de las dos cosas. La ciencia puede ser divertida y placentera. Y los monstruos ... Los monstruos no existen, excepto en nuestra imaginación. y si nuevas técnicas de conservación podrán hacernos inmortales. Cinco monstruos y mucha ciencia. No tener miedo por ninguna de las dos cosas. La ciencia puede ser divertida y placentera. Y los monstruos ... Los monstruos no existen, excepto en nuestra imaginación.
This poetic anthology by Rafael Rubio, without a doubt one of the most relevant poetic voices nowadays in Chile, is of greatest relevance to invite teenagers to approach to poetry and helping them to face directly their pains and joys, with that which tears the apart and also with that which enlightens their path. This anthology includes a selection of poems made by the author himself. It includes poems published in Arbolando (1998), Luz rabiosa (2007), Mala siembra (2013) and Viernes santo (2019), as well as 17 unpublished poems.
For a croquette thief it’s never enough! “I’ll never forget the day we found out there was a croquette thief among us. The thing with croquette thiefs is that they’re not as easy to spot as, say, vampires or mummies. And by the time you find who they are, it’s too late. Your croquettes are doomed! For a croquette thief it’s never enough to just steal your croquettes. They’ll even eat them right in front of you, much to your dismay!”
The book is a new and important addition to Quranic Literature. It gives comprehensive information about the plant and animal species cited in the verses of Holy Quran with respect to their biological status, specific characteristics, economic importance and their roles played in evolution and development of human cultures. All the respective verses citing the names of plants and animals or their products have been mentioned in the book and commented upon. The assigning of the proper biological status to them and their specific description have in a better way clarified the events associated with them and the messages and lessons conveyed through them. The book shall prove very useful to the scholars of the Quran and other religious scriptures who integrate science and religion.
A catalog of misdeeds, absurd situations or violent, using sites and contexts perfectly locatable in reality, with characters from fiction in regards to feminism. In this book the resource of facing what is called objective with fiction, to show that its boundaries are much blurrier than we like to suppose.Edgar Krauss
This indescribable book, Ways of Doing Nothing - the first in prose after eleven in poetry and intense work as a specialised journalist - is nothing more than the reflection of her pleasant readings, her animated conversations with friends and daily observation of the dog spirit: happy and indolent but tenacious in her loves. The countryside, where the author lives and has lived for long periods, is another of her favourite prisons, because as she says: "the countryside does not know who you are". Misanthropy? Black humour? Perhaps, because her strange fantasy places her among the few writers who have given this serious country a smoke.
ESPARTACUS PRIZE 2020 - "I am Don Pedro Blanco. Slave trader. Madman. Giant or monster. Mongo Blanco. The Great Wizard, the Mirror, the Sun. The King of Gallinas. Pirate. Father. Brother. From the slums of Malaga to an African throne, from the wonders of Havana to a madhouse in Barcelona. A pistol. If I had a pistol, I’d spatter the walls with my brains. This is the story of my guilt and my penitence." Following his father’s death, Pedro Blanco leaves Malaga and goes to sea in search of a better future. Both cunning and determined, he gradually makes his way in the world and becomes Mongo Blanco, one of the greatest slave traffickers of the 19th century. But when he is betrayed by somebody close to him, his fall into disgrace begins. He recounts his story to the doctor in the asylum to which he has been confined, little suspecting that his story has not yet finished and that a figure from his past has returned to collect an outstanding debt. In his final years, Mongo Blanco will have the opportunity to redeem himself or finally fall victim to his own excesses. Carlos Bardem’s latest novel is the thrilling epic of a real historical character, the powerful and legendary Mongo Blanco. Spain, Cuba and Africa provide the settings for this engrossing story, carefully documented and written with great attention to detail and astonishing emotion that will leave lovers of historical fiction, adventure novels and literature in general gasping for breath. Jonathan Littell meets Quentin Tarantino.
After several years of peace, darkness returns to raze with the five kingdoms and only the four Crystals of Hope, prophesied in Alcania, will be able to save Aucaseem from its destruction. The gene of evil has been passed from generation to generation, a powerful force has awakened and is pulling the strings to carry out its plan. Four young warriors, Seglan, Cafflan, Andria and Trehia, must overcome their own fears and face trials they never imagined to fulfill the prophecy and, thus, defeat the eternal enemy of the Empire. Can they do it? Will they find the strength to stop the war?
«Dear Bianca, receiving this message is not good news neither for me nor for you. It means that they have found me and that things have really gone wrong. You need to act immediately, without delay. Collect the last updated hard drives I gave you and take them to Axel Green. You will find him at 22 Planella Street in Barcelona. Memorize this name and the address. Then delete the message, turn off the mobile and destroy it so they can’t trace you. Don’t talk to anyone, especially not the police. You will put anyone you talk to in danger. In fact, you can’t even imagine what you could endanger by talking to anyone». The power of the big hydrocarbon business to control the discovery of new alternative green energies is in the center of this thriller plot as well as the commitment of new generations to stop climate change.
When the space shuttle Sila V takes off for the far reaches of the Solar System, it does so with the wrong crew: twelve children. The boys and girls, selected by WASA (the future NASA) to promote the Lunae 2 mission, come from twelve different countries and have very different social backgrounds. Faced with the impossibility of turning around, and during the two years of the trip, they will have to live in a framework of isolation and multiple difficulties, such as the demands of a hard training, the low gravity or the unknowns regarding their unexpected take-off.
Ísis Rossetti is a witch. Her job is to monitor crimes involving supernatural activity in the city of São Paulo. And only those crimes. The rules are clear: if there is no magic involved, she is not allowed to intervene. But in the midst of the city’s suffocating chaos , the lives of common people are in constant danger. She can’t just sit there and watch. Everything escalates when, caught between two extraofficial investigations, Ísis receives a mission from a deity. She must then relive personal issues she would much rather leave buried in the past, kept under lock and key by her friends, all while trying to handle the Magistrate and his watchful gaze.
Los relatos que componen este libro poseen esa particular forma de impureza de la que puede surgir la comprensión hacia los otros: ninguno de los personajes maltrechos que habitan estas once historias tiene toda la razón o está totalmente equivocado; ninguna bondad es total aquí, ninguna mezquindad es absoluta. El talento de McLaughlin para hacer surgir los detalles que expresan la ambigua complejidad de la conducta humana convierte estos relatos en poderosas piezas literarias de singular lucidez. «La escritura de McLaughlin es tan atrapante y visual que el lector se mete de lleno en la historia desde el primer párrafo.» Sophie Gorman, Irish Independent «Este libro no es un debut en el sentido usual, es decir, una promesa de grandes cosas por venir. No es necesario preguntar qué hará Danielle McLaughlin luego: ya lo ha hecho. Este libro llegó para quedarse con nosotros por mucho tiempo.» Anne Enright
Pol doesn’t want to leave A., but his father has found a good job in L. so they have to go. They’ll have a better life there, he says, but Pol doesn’t want that: he just wants to go back to A. Far from home, a voice from the past tells him a story of exile, pain, and a treasure that brings him hope he will return to his home. An exquisite story, full of humour and feelings, that makes us reflect on what is ours, our identity, love, and history.
A new visual approach to well-known fairy tales by the artist Rosinha Campos. Rosinha’s strong and expressive illustrations capture each story’s atmosphere: You can feel Hansel and Gretel’s fear when they get lost in the forest, and the malicious joy of the third little pig when it manages to fool the wolf. Rosinha narrates each fairy tale through her images alone, allowing parents and children to tell each other the story in their own words. The reader can find the original texts at the end of each volume.
