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      • Editorial Leonard Levy

        Venezuelan gastronomic literature.

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      • Robert Lecker Agency

        Robert Lecker Agency is a dynamic literary management and consulting firm devoted to securing and advancing the careers of its client authors. The Agency draws on 30 years of publishing experience to obtain profitable and fair contracts with North America’s fastest growing publishers. Robert Lecker has worked extensively in trade publishing and has an established track record as an editor, coordinator, and subsidiary rights manager. RLA specializes in books about entertainment, music, popular culture, popular science, intellectual and cultural history, food, and travel. However, we are open to any idea that is original and well presented. We are also receptive to books written by academics that can attract a broad range of readers.

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        Medicine
        December 2016

        Mononegaviruses 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

      • Travel & Transport

        Journey to the Kingdom of Ava

        A Burmese chronicle

        by Leoncio Robles

        In Journey to the Kingdom of Ava, Leoncio Robles travels through Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, a country whose history records repeated frustrated struggles to gain access to freedom and democracy, and whose inhabitants have learned to live in constant instability. We know, for example, a descendant of the last Shan prince assassinated by the coup military, who discreetly divulges the legacy of his ancestor; and an old upper-class woman who altruistically teaches English to peasant children, convinced that educationis the tool to conquer freedom. All this in the middle of a war that involves approximately fifteen ethnic groups.Combining historical information and travel journals, Robles brings us closer to a reality as complex as it is fascinating. He shows us the consequences of more than fifty years of armed conflict. In these pages the image of the Myanmar of these times is condensed, through a story that represents horror and sadness, but also broken dreams and the promises of anenchanted land devoured by oblivion.

      • Fiction
        May 2019

        La red purpura / 2

        by Carmen Mola

        THE PURPLE NET/ The fight to finish off The Purple Net will push the Case Analysis Brigade to the limit and, in a way, it may even destroy the Brigade itself. A race during which Ángel Zárate will see Elena Blanco slowly breaking down because her son can be part of that horror. But what would not a mother do to save her child?   A small townhouse in a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of Madrid. The last days of a hot summer. Alberto Robles has to force  his daughter to get out of the pool while his wife, Soledad, is trying to get her teenage son, Daniel, to come down from his room and help her set the table for dinner. It could have been a night like so many others. But tonight, everything will fall into pieces. Inspector Elena Blanco, in charge of the Case Analysis Brigade (BAC), bursts into the house of Los Robles. Convinced of what she does, she goes straight to Daniel's room, followed by the rest of the agents. On the computer screen of the teenager there is the confirmation of what they feared: the boy is watching a live snuff show in which a girl is tortured by two hooded men. The efforts of the agents to try to locate the place from which it comes are unsuccessful. Helpless, they can only witness how the torture continues until the death of the girl whose name, in that moment, they are not even able to know. But she was not the first victim. How many have died at the hands of the Purple Web in similar shows? That is the conclusion reached by the Brigade agents after investigating the sinister organization with which they came into contact for the first time in the case of The Gypsy Bride. For months they have been collecting information about this group that traffics in videos of extreme violence on Deep Web, the hidden side of the Net. And during all this time, Elena Blanco has not told anybody what she has discovered: her son, Lucas, who disappeared when he was only a child, is perhaps a part of the Web. Perhaps he has become a monster. Could her son be one of the hooded men torturing that girl? Elena does not know if she will have the courage to face what she will discover. But, inevitably, the truth will be getting closer and closer. The video that they managed to intercept on Daniel's computer will serve the agents to gradually surround The Purple Web. However, the new findings will make them realize that this torture was only the tip of the iceberg. That the perversion of the human being can reacg the extremes never imagined.

      • General fiction (Children's/YA)
        2019

        From Sayings to Poems

        by Fran Nuño, Jan Barceló

        Our everyday proverbs are the main characters, they transform into poems full of humor, games of words, rhymes and double meaning. Each poem is accompanied by an illustration in a merger that creates a book full of color that is perfect for reading out loud and sharing with family and friends. A book-shaped journey to remember that poetry is necessary, playing with words as well, and humour as an smart option. A surprise full of vitality, drawings and verses to have always at hand, enjoy it often and live with joy!

      • Fiction
        March 2019

        And they say

        by Susana Sánchez Aríns

        Dicen (And they say) is a family story crossed by Franco's repression.   It tells what is not registered in notarial acts, or in newspapers, or in books, or in provincial archives. It tells a story of a day-to-day silence that became long, very long, and that has conditioned us until now.   Dicen tells real events in a network of voices silenced for generations, it is not written from the political reflection, but from the poetic justice, it is the contemporary account of the Spanish postwar period.   Dicen is an innovative book. It is not poetry, it is not an essay, it is not a short narrative and it is everything at the same time. Written in short sequences, it collects the intimate memory of a family and reconstructs their insignificant lives to show the terror of repression after the civil war. Conversations, poems, stories, essay references, fragmented sequences that the reader orders in a shocking story.   The narration drags the reader to the end by the rhythm, the different voices, the authenticity and the gradual understanding of why that time is silenced.   The author speaks of poetic justice as a way of giving life to those who did not want to be named after their death: the oppressors. This story recovers their names, their ways of acting, their personalities, their power. And it also brings back to life those who died in the ditches or lived marginalized: the victims.   It is very difficult to make historical memory from politics, however, literature is its natural space. An original work, with enormous expressive force and a unique point of view discovered by Susana Sánchez Aríns, an experienced, committed voice.   The book has received the Madrid Booksellers Award for Best Fiction Book 2019. (Premio de los Libreros de Madrid al Mejor Libro de Ficción)

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        December 2021

        Imago Mundi IV

        by José Kozer

        Lo autobiográfico: esa impronta que en toda la poesía, la escritura de José Kozer es lo metafísico, lo ético, lo filosófico. El cotidiano y sus aliados a través de los sentidos: alturas agorafóbicas, por menores, particularidades que son convertidas en redes y concatenaciones, fachadas de casas, espejos, sinagogas, té azabache. La irrupción, la dislocación, lo no lineal en sus versos son más que una estructura o forma, el ejercicio de una elección estética, palabra por palabra. Estrategias más que acrobacias: revelaciones, satoris. El lenguaje como la casa, el jardín, el monasterio, el árbol: laurel, roble, sicomoro. Los alfabetos y silabarios. El todo, la nada, como parte dialógica de este IMAGO MUNDI IV. Más allá de la riqueza lingüística, el ritmo, la oralidad, más allá del universo particular donde el poeta explora, queda entre las páginas el canto del jilguero, la pasarela de madera, el agua de escaramujo.

      • Children's & YA
        October 2020

        Las profecías de Alcania

        by M.F. Medrano

        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?

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        February 2022

        Away Days

        by Álvaro de Grado

        There is no better journalism than the one that is done on the ground, there is no better literature than the one that takes us far from home and there is no better passion than the one that is breathed in the stands during a football match in England. Álvaro de Grado made a decision in 2013 that changed his life: moving to Manchester. This book is the journey of someone who, from that day on, always plays as a visitor. It is the x-ray of a unique way of feeling football that emerges in the Premier League stadiums but also in the most modest fields. This book does not give news, it narrates the adventures and misadventures of a correspondent. It tells stories about a land and a people to whom the ball owes everything.

      • Fiction
        April 2018

        Valkirias

        Las hijas del Norte

        by I. Biggi

        THE CERROS DE ÚBEDA AWARD 2019 FOR BEST HISTORICAL NOVEL.  VIKINGS AT IBERIAN PENINSULA  859 A. C. Viking drakars are moving to Seville, one of the richest cities all around the world. Their objective: raze and loot it. However, expedition will be an outright failure - warriors of the north will be captured and the governor of the city will demand a large rescue for the. But, when that news reaches their village, women decide not to give up and, together with some children and slaves, they hire a small group of mercenaries to teach them how to fight. A year later, the rescue expedition will be ready. It seems an impossible mission, and, from the beginning, it will be fraught with setbacks. I. Biggi make us to fly back to past, to Vikings world, in a so fast narrative as well as his exhaustive knowledge of the period. In that way, Valkirias is an adventure novel that shows us the most human side of a civilization as dazzling as terrifying. NEXT AUTHOR’S PUBLICATION: OCTOBER 2020: MOISE’S PROJECT: In 1945 allied troops are about to invade European continente. In London, Military High Command receives the strange visit of an exiled Spanish professor, a man who has been fighting for the Republica during Spanish Civil War.

      • Biography & True Stories

        Geography of Venezuela: a culinary experience, Limited Edition, XXI Century

        XXI Century - Limited Edition

        by Ramón David León; Author / Daniel León; Julio León; Editors

        This new edition offers a particular version, which presents the first Volume, which contains thirty carefully selected biographies, and their recipes, from a total of ninety-three, that are included in the original book (published in 1954). In this special edition, our intention has been to take advantage of the chronicles, individualizing them for each state of Venezuela, the insular region and the Esequibo territory that is under claim, including the biographies of four national dishes: The Venezuelan Hallaca, Arepa Criolla, Pabellón from Caracas and Christmas Stuffed Turkey.

      • Geography
        May 2020

        Geografía Gastronómica Venezolana: Edición Especial Siglo XXI

        Con recetas de 49 excelentes chefs venezolanos en la diáspora.

        by Ramón David León Author: Ramón David León; Daniel León; Editor; Julio León, Editor

        This book first came out in 1954 and it’s considered one of the pioneers in trying to paint a picture of our cuisine. The second volume boasts the other 63, and 49 remaining recipes, prepared by several Venezuelan chefs that are in exile. It wasn’t possible to write down the recipes for all biographies, since some include entries about the tabaco del guácharo, coffee, white rum, and pollo cañero (a type of toad eaten in the Orinoco Delta), among others. The new edition of Geografía gastronómica venezolana also includes a photographic journey with panoramic images from emblematic Venezuelan locations.

      • Geography
        October 2020

        Geografía Gastronómica Venezolana; Edición Especial Siglo XXI

        Con recetas de 79 excelentes chefs venezolanos

        by Ramón David León, Author; Daniel León, Editor; Julio León, Editor

        New edition of the history classic and culinary book, which was written by Ramón David León in 1954, whose original title is: “Gastronomic Geography of Venezuela”, by adapting it to the twenty-first century. The third volume, which gathers the original work of the 93 biographies with their 79 illustrated recipes, is still under development and is expected to be published in July 2020. This volume will also include five Venezuelan songs on MP3 format, from several Venezuelan musicians, and 60 panoramic 360º photographs.

      • Children's & YA

        The House of Dragons

        by Pablo C. Reyna, Mónica Armiño

        Marcos is obsessed with the book series "Dragon Races". However, he can't find the final installment of the series anywhere. For some unknown reason, the author J. T. Lekunberri hasn't published the book. The boy will have to go in search of the writer in order to find out why he stopped writing and help him to pick up the story where he left off. An exciting story in which the limits of reality and fantasy become intertwined and give way to a friendship between a writer and a reader that will go beyond the pages of the books that bind them.   A novel that mixes adventures and fantasy with more deep and delicate topics, such as depression.

      • 2022

        Una balada del mar del norte

        by Raimon Portell

        THE ADVENTURE OF A BOY WHO SURVIVES BY INTUITION AS HE CAN’T REMEMBER WHO HE IS, WHAT HE KNOWS, WHERE HE HAS TO GO AND EVEN SO KEEPS GOING TO FIND THE TRUTH. "Stil looks out over the North Sea from the top of a dune. What is he doing there? He doesn’t know himself. In fact, his memory barely reaches back to the moment he woke up in a strange house, inside a body that refused to respond. He does not remember who he was before, what he had done, or even what his name was." An innovative literary venture that allows the reader to choose the path they wish to follow to discover the truth.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        Üñüm püllü. Bird spirit

        by Lorenzo Aillapán

        Lorenzo Aillapán, recognized as a Living Human Treasure in 2012 by UNESCO, is the Mapuche bird man - üñümche in Mapuzugun. A poet originally from the coast of the Araucanía Region, he is a great connoisseur of nature, of the mysteries hidden by living beings on land and in the sea. Part of this wisdom is shared with the readers in these 46 poems about diverse organisms that inhabit different environments: the water (fish and seafood), the mountainous universe (trees) and the winged universe (birds). Through hisverses, the poet describes various aspects of these living beings: what they are like, what the place is like where they live, how they behave, what use they can be put to and what importance they have for the Mapuche people. In the case of the birds, the poems also incorporate the onomatopoeia of their song. This complete anthological volume is bilingual Mapuzugun/Spanish.

      • Children's & YA

        A Long Journey

        by Diego Muñoz Valenzuela, Virginia Herrera

        Eri began his journey looking for something he didn't know what it was. He walked and walked and, on his path, found a sleeping colossus, a dangerous iridescent rooster, dogs fond of extravagant games and evil pygmies.  A gallery of mad, sad, ferocious and tender beings, eager to experience love and hate. Will Eri grow enough on his journey to fill the void that he feels? Diego Muñoz Valenzuela is one of the most important short storytellers in Latin America. On this trip with Eri, we are touched and surprised.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2019

        To the barricades. Culture, identity and political mobilization

        by José Álvarez Junco

        This book gathers some of the author’s many works, selected for their interest about recent historiographical debates. They analyze the main topics that have articulated his long research career: history and theory of social movements, especially of the workers; doctrines, ideologies, myths and rhetoric; the concept of populism and the evolution of nationalist phenomena. The monograph is a good example of the best academic analysis of culture, identity and political mobilization in contemporary Spain.

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