"NATURE has its laws. DOG has its mood and habits. MAN would create after his own measure. MEASURE OF FREEDOM is reflected in mutual respect." "NATURE has its laws. DOG has its mood and habits. MAN would create after his own measure. MEASURE OF FREEDOM is reflected in mutual respect."

Painting Shadows is a story's story, a writer's story - a story so stripped down many lines sound like quotes.The book challenges the reader to go somewhere deeper, to be submerged in the narrator's think tank of a journey.Painting Shadows is a stark read about ignorance and awareness, and the many questions and observations that fall between them.

Me llamo Julio Ejido y soy un alcohólico. Bebo y fumo desde que tenía doce años, ahora acabo de cumplir sesenta. Esta confesión no posee valor alguno ya que no se la hago a nadie, carece de destinatarios. Y aunque los tuviera, no por ello adquiriría la menor importancia, puesto que no contemplo el valor de la confesión como alivio, ni siquiera como ritual; tampoco valoro el perdón que se pide o se otorga, lo desprecio de igual modo. Solo creo...

Spanning Canada, the Czech Republic, and New Zealand, a novel about following signs, finding love, and losing your self. When Mája was seven, her mother disappeared. Now, at thirty, Mája has the same urge: to disappear, to vanish off the face of the earth. She leaves her fiancé in Canada to follow signs that lead her to the Czech Republic -- her mother's home country. In Prague, she falls in love with Kuba, a charismatic musician who is a minor...

Rod Usher's third collection, Convent Mermaid, is full of wit and sadness, love and loss. Many of the poems spring from his long experience as a journalist, novelist and from years of living and working in Europe. As Les Murray has written, Rod's poetry inspires both tears and laughter. He's equally at home in poetic conversation with Emily Dickinson, David Bowie and Federico Garcia Lorca, in revisiting Cro-Magnon Man, or portraying the to-and-fro...

A collection of short stories guaranteed to entertain you on the bus, during lunch or on the beach.Read a moden ghost story and treasure hunt with three randy actors, the clash between the sexes and founding cultures, the rub of true versus the popular and finally, a story of two brothers always in crisis - all Canadian, all good.

¿Cuál es la historia de los primeros diccionarios en Hispanoamérica y, en particular en Chile? ¿Cómo se relaciona con la construcción de los Estados nacionales a lo largo del siglo XIX? Este libro busca desentrañar esta y otras preguntas leyendo entre definiciones variopintas los discursos ideológicos, históricos y políticos y reflexionando sobre la naturaleza lingüística y normativa de los diccionarios. La profunda investigación y los...

REVOLUCIÓN EN JUEGO aborda el caminar de un grupo de jóvenes en los años 70's, el proceso formativo en el terreno socialista y la lucha de clases, su vinculación a los problemas sociales en la ciudad de Teapa, municipio del Estado de Tabasco, en México. Enfatiza al trabajo periodístico como una herramienta de utilidad invaluable para la concientización de los habitantes de un pueblo, pero también, para quienes lo ejercen con honestidad, responsabilidad...

Readers can get a thorough understanding of Gothic literature by reading the ebook "Birth of Gothic Literature: Guide to Understanding The Start of Gothic Era Writings," which explores the genre's beginnings and traits.Beginning in the 18th century, the guide delves into the historical and cultural circumstances that gave rise to Gothic literature. It looks at how the rise of Gothic themes in literature was influenced by changes in society, political...

"What makes shit such a universal joke is that it's an unmistakable reminder of our duality, of our soiled nature and of our will to glory. It is the ultimate lèse-majesté". John Berger's essay begins by describing the experience of burying a year's worth of his household's excrement. What follows is an extended reflection-at once philosophically detached and profoundly engaged with the inescapable stuff of life-on shit as an emblem of what it means...