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En EL AJEDREZ VIVIENTE DE MARTE, quinto título de la serie de John Carter de Marte, Tara de Helium, hija de John Carter, hace aparición en la serie. Arrastrada por una violenta tormenta, la princesa sufrirá cautiverio entre los kaldanes que, constituidos en su mayor parte por cabeza, dominan a los rykors, raza de cuerpos sin cabeza. Tras huir de su dominio, Tara es capturada por la ciudad de Manacor, donde participará en el Jetan, el ajedrez marciano que se juega con seres vivos, como premio.

This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.

Lawrence Blakely, attorney-at-law, sets off by train to deliver valuable documents in a criminal case. His ride will be eventful. Along the way he'll encounter romance, treachery, a train wreck, even a murder in which he'll be implicated. Who's after Blakely and his papers -- why? The first detective novel to appear on national bestseller lists, THE MAN IN LOWER TEN is still a great read almost ninety years after its publication. It has all the thrills of a contemporary whodunit and a satiric edge that gently mocks the conventions of male detective fiction.

Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Detective, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn.

Charlotte Anna Perkins, fue una intelectual norteamericana multidisciplinar, muy activa en defensa de los derechos civiles de las mujeres entre finales de 1890 y mediados de 1920. Su obra más conocida es El Tapiz Amarillo publicada en 1892, un relato breve con tintes autobiográficos escrito tras una profunda depresión postparto. Su utopía Herland (1915), es considerada la precursora de la ciencia-ficción feminista moderna. Su figura servirá de modelo para futuras generaciones de mujeres debido a sus ideas y su estilo de vida poco ortodoxo para la época.

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes.

Autoproponerse como jóvenes aventureros dispuestos a hacer lo que sea demuestra ser una jugada inteligente por parte de Tommy y Tuppence Beresford. El primer trabajo parece un sueño. Todo lo que Tuppence debe hacer es emprender un viaje con gastos pagados a París y hacerse pasar por una americana llamada Jane Finn. Pero el trabajo se convierte en una amenaza silenciosa y en un riesgo para sus vidas tras la desaparición de la persona que los ha contratado. Ahora, el nuevo trabajo de Tuppence será el de detective, ya que, si en algún lado hay una Jane Finn que existe realmente, esta posee un secreto que pone la vida de ambas en peligro...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and enemies), and to the lessons that British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the most characteristic examples of the genre of literary nonsense, and its narrative course and structure has been enormously influential, mainly in the fantasy genre.

The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him serving as a sled dog in the treacherous, frigid Yukon during the days of the 19th century Klondike Gold Rushes. Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is one of London's most-read books, and it is generally considered one of his best. Because the protagonist is a dog, it is sometimes classified as a juvenile novel, suitable for children, but it is dark in tone and contains numerous scenes of cruelty and violence. London followed the book in 1906 with White Fang, a companion novel with many similar plot elements and themes as The Call of the Wild, although following a mirror image plot in which a wild wolf becomes civilized by a mining expert from San Francisco named Weedon Scott.

The story of a small, angelic boy from New York who is told he is the heir to an English earldom and is whisked away to the English countryside where he begins to win over his bad-tempered old grandfather. When the boy's identity is challenged, his old friends from New York come to his rescue.

The Turn of the Screw is a short novel or a novella written by American writer Henry James. Originally published in 1898, it is ostensibly a ghost story that has lent itself well to operatic and film adaptation. Due to its ambiguous content and narrative skill, The Turn of the Screw became a favorite text of New Criticism. The account has lent itself to dozens of different interpretations, often mutually exclusive, including those of a Freudian nature. Many critics have tried to determine what exactly is the nature of evil within the story.

Austen's "most wicked tale," Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. Lady Susan is a selfish, attractive woman, who tries to trap the best possible husband while maintaining a relationship with a married man. She subverts all the standards of the romantic novel; she has an active role, she's not only beautiful but intelligent and witty, and her suitors are significantly younger than she is.

Séneca dijo que la ira es el precipicio del alma, la peor de las pasiones. En ello siguió a Heráclito, a Sócrates, a Platón y a tantos otros. Pero aunque estuvo de acuerdo en mucho con Aristóteles, discrepó de que la ira pudiera ser beneficiosa

Nietzsche y 'El anticristo' Ciento treinta años atrás Federico Nietzsche escribió El anticristo, una de sus obras más polémicas. Se publicó en 1895, gracias a la persistencia de sus amigos Franz Overbeck y Heinrich Köselitz,

Whether it is true or not that not more than twelve persons in all the world are able to understand Einstein's Theory, it is nevertheless a fact that there is a constant demand for information about this much-debated topic of relativity. The books published on the subject are so technical that only a person trained in pure physics and higher mathematics is able to fully understand them. In order to make a popular explanation of this far-reaching theory available, the present book is published.

Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Antichrist" might be more aptly named "The Antichristian," for it is an unmitigated attack on Christianity that Nietzsche makes within the text instead of an exposition on evil or Satan as the title might suggest. In "The Antichrist," Nietzsche presents a highly controversial view of Christianity as a damaging influence upon western civilization that must come to an end. Regardless of ones religious or philosophical point of view, "The Antichrist" makes for an engaging philosophical discourse.

My narrative is at an end. I have no comments to make upon the subject of Slavery. Those who read this book may form their own opinions of the "peculiar institution." What it may be in other States, I do not profess to know; what it is in the region of Red River, is truly and faithfully delineated in these pages. This is no fiction, no exaggeration. If I have failed in anything, it has been in presenting to the reader too prominently the bright side of the picture. I doubt not hundreds have been as unfortunate as myself; that hundreds of free citizens have been kidnapped and sold into slavery, and are at this moment wearing out their lives on plantations in Texas and Louisiana. But I forbear. Chastened and subdued in spirit by the sufferings I have borne, and thankful to that good Being through whose mercy I have been restored to happiness and liberty, I hope henceforward to lead an upright though lowly life, and rest at last in the church yard where my father sleeps.

he Interpretation of Dreams is a book by Sigmund Freud. The first edition was first published in German in November 1899 as Die Traumdeutung The publication inaugurated the theory of Freudian dream analysis, which activity Freud famously described as "the royal road to the understanding of unconscious mental processes".

En su libro La Ciencia de Hacerse Rico, WALLACE WATTLES propone un camino de desarrollo personal en la búsqueda de la riqueza: si uno persigue la riqueza a través del método creativo, nos convertimos en excelentes personas y además desarrollamos al máximo nuestras capacidades en el proceso de adquisición de riquezas.Según Wattles, Para lograr una máxima expresión de nuestra vida, es necesario que nos hagamos ricos a través del método científico. Wattles, señala principios universales con una efectividad demostrada a lo largo de los años.

René Descartes (31 mars 1596 - 11 février 1650) était un philosophe, mathématicien, scientifique et écrivain français très influent. Surnommé le fondateur de la philosophie moderne, et le père des mathématiques modernes, une grande partie de la philosophie occidentale ultérieure est une réaction à ses écrits, qui ont été étudiés de près depuis son temps jusqu'à nos jours.

Civilization and Its Discontents is a book by Sigmund Freud. It was written in 1929 and first published in German in 1930 as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur ("The Uneasiness in Civilization"). Exploring what Freud sees as the important clash between the desire for individuality and the expectations of society, the book is considered one of Freud's most important and widely read works, and one of the most influential and studied books in the field of modern psychology.

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 - April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

(Rosa Luxemburg o, por castellanización del apellido, Rosa Luxemburgo; Zamosc, Rutenia, 1870 - Berlín, 1919) Revolucionaria y teórica del socialismo alemán, de origen judío polaco. Hija de un comerciante de Varsovia, su brillante inteligencia le permitió estudiar a pesar de los prejuicios de la época y de la discriminación que las autoridades zaristas imponían en Polonia contra los judíos, lanzó junto con Karl Liebknecht la Revolución espartaquista de 1919, y, al igual que Liebknecht, murió a manos de los militares encargados de su represión.

The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting "the positively good and beautiful man." The novel examines the consequences of placing such a unique individual at the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions and egoism of worldly society, both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved.

Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1898. It is considered by many to be her single greatest work, and as with much of Gilman's writing, the book touched a few dominant themes: the transformation of marriage, the family, and the home, with her central argument: "the economic independence and specialization of women as essential to the improvement of marriage, motherhood, domestic industry, and racial improvement."

Bakunin desarrolló una teoría política que se adecuaba dúctilmente a las energías populares que eran desencadenadas en las revoluciones. 1789 era para él una cifra tan renombrada como subvalorada: el emblema del "pecado original" de la política moderna, el inicio del moderno linaje de la autoorganización, correspondencia material para las capacidades autocreativas del ser humano. En este sentido, Bakunin nunca dejó de ser un ilustrado radical convencido de que los hombres y sus sociedades debían inventarse a sí mismos, y que para ello solo era necesaria una dosis máxima de libertad.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche fue un filósofo, poeta, músico y filólogo alemán, considerado uno de los pensadores contemporáneos más influyentes del siglo XIX. Realizó una crítica exhaustiva de la cultura, la religión y la filosofía occidental, mediante la genealogía de los conceptos que las integran, basada en el análisis de las actitudes morales (positivas y negativas) hacia la vida. Este trabajo afectó profundamente a generaciones posteriores de teólogos, antropólogos, filósofos, sociólogos, psicólogos, politólogos, historiadores, poetas, novelistas y dramaturgos.