'Upward, yet not Northward.' How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful 'romance of many dimensions' explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissary Sphere bringing the gospel of the third dimension on the eve of the new millennium. Part geometry lesson, part social satire, this classic work of science fiction brilliantly succeeds in enlarging all readers' imaginations beyond the limits of our 'respective dimensional prejudices'. In a world where class is determined by how many sides you possess, and women are straight lines, the prospects for enlightenment are boundless, and Abbott's hypotheses about a fourth and higher dimensions seem startlingly relevant today. This new edition of Flatland illuminates the social and intellectual context that produced the work as well as the timeless questions that it raises about the limits of our perception and knowledge.
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• Psychiatry by the dumpster
• H2O under the bridge
• A Greek tragedy
• With any luck
• Eternity drive
• Onychophagia.

Between 1917 and 1941, Hollywood film studios, gossip columnists, and novelists featured an unprecedented number of homosexuals, cross-dressers, and adulterers in their depictions of the glamorous Hollywood lifestyle. During this era, actress Greta Garbo defined herself as the ultimate serial bachelorette, screenwriter Mercedes De Acosta wore mannish attire and began numerous lesbian relationships with Hollywood elite (including Greta Garbo herself), and countless homosexual designers brazenly picked up men in the hottest Hollywood nightclubs. These personalities, along with many others, played an important role in establishing Hollywood's image as a place of sexual abandon, enhancing the movie capital's mystique and selling Hollywood as a "must-see" destination.This significant contribution to gay, lesbian, and film studies demonstrates that the Hollywood studios and mass media used images of these sexually adventurous characters to promote the movie industry and appeal to the prurient interests of a more conservative audience. Each chapter examines the happenings in one segment of important Hollywood locales, ranging from the stars' private homes to the hippest restaurants and public nightclubs. Focusing on the media coverage of each location in nationally distributed newspapers and local publications, tabloids or fan magazines, this book reveals how such media images indelibly altered the world's fascination with old Hollywood.
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• Beating the System: Notes from an Antibureaucrat. Rubbish Heaps Grow, but They Don't Develop: Understanding the Differences Between Growth and Development. Never Let Your Schooling Interfere with Your Education: Becoming an Antibureaucrat. A Great Many People Think They Are Thinking When They Are Merely Rearranging Their Prejudices: The Costs of Discrimination. Wisdom Is the Power to Put Our Time and Our Knowledge to the Proper Use: People, Practice and Professions. Ask for Anything You Like Except Time: Culture, Language, and Customs. Notes. Bibliography.
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The author summarizes his experience as a management consultant in a series of fables designed to expose narrow thinking, muddle-headedness and complacency in business. He has previously written Management in Small Doses and The Art of Problem Solving.
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Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press' portrait of himself, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. In this quick-witted portrait, Ackroyd reveals something more: a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances, just as Hitch did in his own films. Grace Kelly, Carey Grant and James Stewart despair of his detached directing style, and, perhaps most famously of all, Tippi Hedren endures cuts and bruises from a real-life fearsome flock of birds. Alfred Hitchcock wrests the director's chair back from the master of control and discovers what lurks just out of sight, in the corner of the shot.
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• The child who never cried
• I'll do it
• Sound, please
• I was grey
• At home
• Fake it
• Oh dear
• I am typed
• Good evening
• Birds and beasts
• Back to basics.

"Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of him, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. In this quick-witted portrait, Ackroyd reveals something more: a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances, just as Hitch did in his own films: Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, and James Stewart despair of his detached directing style and, perhaps most famously of all, Tippi Hedren endures cuts and bruises from a real-life fearsome flock of birds. In [this book], Peter Ackroyd wrests the director's chair back from the master of control and discovers what lurks just out of sight, in the corner of the shot,"--Amazon.com.
Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition-- Hitchcock's childhood was an isolated one. As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of him, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. Ackroyd reveals a jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. The result is a gripping biography of one of the most respected directors of the twentieth century.

A warm and witty memoir of motherhood (or what you meant to say but were too busy parenting ...) Every middle-aged woman wants to say in a firm, clear, loving voice to every young woman: 'I have been you. But you haven't been me, yet ...You should listen.' Liberated from the daily minutiae when her daughter left home, Michele A'Court suddenly found the time she'd never had as a parent - to think about being a parent. Mostly, she spent the time wondering if she'd told her daughter everything she needed to know - such as how to store ginger, get rid of bloodstains, calculate GST, stop your tights snagging, the meaning of feminism ...that sort of thing. So she began to make a list. The list became a hit solo comedy show. And then the list kept getting longer. So now it has become a book. A funny, wise, honest and maybe even useful book. Turns out I raised a determined young woman with her own very clear ideas about how to live her life. Who saw that coming? I blame the mother.
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• Ḥeleḳ
• 1. Śiḥatan shel avot, ʻavodatam u-ḳedushatam, halikhot darkhehem ṿe-hanhagatam, ubi-feraṭ mi-rabotenu le-vet Ḳosov Ṿiznits.

• חלק א. שיחתן של אבות, עבודתם וקדושתם, הליכות דרכיהם והנהגתם , ובפרט מרבותינו לבית קאסוב וויזניץ.

King Adz is a grown-up kid whose focus is youth culture. He's a Brit by birth whose heart beats Africa - more particularly Mzansi. In his latest book, a memoir or "non-fiction novel" (according to Adz) the reader is swept along two equally entertaining narrative strands, one set in the present day, the other in the past, which mashed together form the story of King Adz's life - the man also known as "Adam Stone" to the authorities. In the present-day we read of Adz's quest to make some sense of modern South Africa. Adz spends as much time as he can hanging out with a selection of interesting, unusual and creative locals, from Jack Parow to Roger Ballen. He also visits the most interesting places - Portuguese restaurants that are well past their sell-by dates, street culture festivals, and small dorps that are off the map (and "off the hook"!). And through all this is the palpable sense that when Adz is in South Africa, he always feels at home. The backbone of the book tells how Adz came to South Africa, with wife and children, and worked in the world of brands, advertising and digital media. We learn how he "accidentally" became a film director, and might also have fallen into bad company. This is a fascinating, funny chance for South Africans to consider ourselves anew through the eyes of an outsider who has forced himself inside.
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• Ḥeleḳ
• 1. Halakhot u-maʼamarim
• Ḥeleḳ
• 2. Maʻaśe tsadiḳim, Tefilot.

• חלק א. הלכות ומאמרים
• חלק ב. מעשי צדיקים, תפילות.

The Chilean coup d'A(c)tat of 1973 was a watershed event in the history of Chile. It was also a defining moment in the life of writer Marjorie AgosA-n. This collection of prose vignettes and free verse draws upon her experiences as a child in Chile, an expatriate abroad, and a minority Jewaeven in the land she calls homeato create a striking portrait of a life of exile. The tone of the book varies as it lyrically explores the geography of Chile and weaves into it the themes of exile and oppression. At times the words become hymns to the physical beauty of her country, evoking the grandeur of this land extending to the southernmost tip of the world. At times they are intimate and melancholy, exploring personal and familial history through miniature portraits that reveal the pain of being different. Finally the tone becomes angry as she denounces the injustices committed against her friends and against the families of the disappeared during the seventeen-year dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Combining themes of memory, childhood, minority issues, Judaism, and political oppression, this collection contains some of AgosA-nas strongest work. Of Earth and Sea is a poetic autobiography that explores the world of Chile with eyes that see both despair and hope.
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$a 本书以清末主战派王公贵族端郡王家族为中心, 生动而具体地展现了100多年前的中国历史之沧桑.

• v. 1., bk.
• 1. Downpatrick is the butterfly capital of the universe; bk.
• 2. Kings of the wild frontiers?
• v. 2., bk.
• 3. Half the globe's our home; bk.
• 4. America's century.

'Some of these stories are accurate; all of them are true...' In his "An Irish History of Civilization", Don Akenson, the world's leading scholar of the Irish Dispora, fuses history and fiction into a remarkable narrative of the people and their influence around the globe. "An Irish History of Civilization" is about the Irish at home and abroad, the great and the small, the noble and the depraved, the saints and he sinners, adventures and idealists. As Akenson follows his chosen people on their odyssey around the globe, the lines between history and fiction become irretrievably, beguilingly lost in the mists of time. Volume Two begins with the Great Famine and goes on to show the Irish adapting, improvising and innovating in Ireland and overseas - in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia and South Africa. The book ends by demonstrating the centrality of both Catholic and Protestant Irish culture to the United States.
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St Patrick catching sight of Ireland for the first time as he is taken there as a prisoner...Joyce and Yeats eating sticky buns in a Dublin cafe...There has never before been an Irish history book remotely like this one, composed as a vast mosaic of incidents, encounters and vignettes. It is not so much a 'history of Irish civilization' as an 'Irish history of civilization'. In telling a wide range of stories about the Irish everywhere this historical-fictional account of the Irish peoples around the globe from the time of Christ to 1969 opens up the really big issues - the relationship between the minute particulars and the larger patterns which gradually become apparent. The stories themselves are by turns funny, acerbic, ironic, score-settling - never quite what they seem at face value. They are also deeply informed by the author's vast knowledge of Ireland, its history and its diaspora. For once the hyperbole is true - after this book, Irish history will never be the same again.
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• Zanimatelʹnoe tiranovedenie
• Anglii͡a--shchedrai͡a dusha
• Zabytye geroi.

• Занимательное тирановедение
• Англия--щедрая душа
• Забытые герои.

"Korotkie-to oni korotkie, no za kazhdoĭ--udivitelʹnai͡a sudʹba, poluzabytyĭ istoricheskiĭ fakt, dneĭ starinnykh anekdot ili kakai͡a-nibudʹ "vechnai͡a" problema. Avtor perenosit chitateli͡a iz ėpokhi v ėpokhu, iz odnoĭ tochki planety v drugui͡u, i vsi͡udu interesno, i vsi͡udu estʹ, nad chem zadumatʹsi͡a."--Page 4 of cover.
"Короткие-то они короткие, но за каждой--удивительная судьба, полузабытый исторический факт, дней старинных анекдот или какая-нибудь "вечная" проблема. Автор переносит читателя из эпохи в эпоху, из одной точки планеты в другую, и всюду интересно, и всюду есть, над чем задуматься."--Page 4 of cover.

"'The most feared villain and other stories' is a collection of historical miniatures written by Boris Akunin (Grigori Chkhartishvili) for his author's blog 'The love of history'. In this book you will learn who our fellow citizens considered the ideal man and woman; who is the best protagonist; what we expect after death and whether we want to live forever."--Translated from title page verso.

A collection of anecdotes and accounts of remarkable people and events in history.

• What we have always known
• To market
• School me
• Growing our own
• Feast or famine?
• What we can do together
• Otaku
• Last song.

As friends began "going back to the land" at the same time that a health issue emerged, Kathleen Alcala set out to reexamine her relationship with food at the most local level. Remembering her parents, Mexican immigrants who grew up during the Depression, and the memory of planting, growing, and harvesting fresh food with them as a child, she decided to explore the history of the Pacific Northwest island she calls home. In The Deepest Roots, Alcala walks, wades, picks, pokes, digs, cooks, and cans, getting to know her neighbors on a much deeper level. Wanting to better understand how we once fed ourselves, and acknowledging that there may be a future in which we could need to do so again, she meets those who experienced the Japanese American internment during World War II, and learns the unique histories of the blended Filipino and Native American community, the fishing practices of the descendants of Croatian immigrants, and the Suquamish elder who shares with her the food legacy of the island itself. Combining memoir, historical records, and a blueprint for sustainability, The Deepest Roots shows us how an island population can mature into responsible food stewards and reminds us that innovation, adaptation, diversity, and common sense will help us make wise decisions about our future. And along the way, we learn how food is intertwined with our present but offers a path to a better understanding of the future. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFG8MpTo_ZU&feature=youtu.be.
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"KasiNomics attempts to cast a light on the invisible matrix at the heart of South Africa's informal economies and the people who live in them. Living and doing business in African marketplaces requires an ethos uniquely suited to the informal, to the invisible, to the intangible. KasiNomics will take you down those rural pathways, weave between claustrophobic mazes of shacks, browse a muti market, visit a spirit returning ceremony and save money with gogo in a stokvel, among many more people and places. After almost 20 years of focusing on marketing to the informal sector, GG Alcock, CEO of specialist marketing company Minanawe, showcases a number of groundbreaking and very successful case studies in this invisible informal world. His vivid anecdotes and life experiences and how they link to understanding and inspiration for business ideas will make you gasp, laugh and shake your head in wonder."--Back cover.

Journalist and author Luke Alfred, spent one year traveling around South Africa by foot, with an aim to discover the 'real' South Africa. It is a book of stories, not a historical account.

A collection of anecdotes, facts, figures, folklore and literature, The Nature Magpie is a veritable treasure trove of humanity's thoughts and feelings about nature. With acclaimed nature writer Daniel Allen as your guide, join naturalists, novelists and poets as they explore the most isolated parts of the planet, choose your side - pineapple or durian - in the great 'king of fruits' debate and discover which plants can be used to predict the weather. Meet the roadkill connoisseurs, learn to dance the Hippopotamus Polka, find out the likelihood of sharing your name with a hurricane - and much more.
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• I'm awake
• Seconds
• Ask the answer lady
• Canonize me
• Me, flirting
• How to tie-dye
• Dream on, you motherfucking mother
• Would everybody please stop?
• An affair to remember
• When I meditate
• My gathas
• Nothing left to lose
• Tawk therapy
• I can't get that penis out of my mind
• It's about time
• Take my horse, please
• Faking it
• Can I borrow that?
• My gratitudes
• My new feminist cop show
• Scary stories for grown-ups
• L.L. Bean and me
• Hair today, gone tomorrow
• I have to go now
• The trouble with nature
• Speak, memory
• Can I have your errands?
• How to take Dad to the doctor
• What I saw at the movies
• What I've learned
• Salt and pepper
• Roger Ailes's new, enlightened code of sexual conduct
• Falling
• Please don't invite me.

"A collection of first-person essays and humor pieces about one woman's attempt to make sense of the baffling, humiliating, and extremely annoying world around her"-- Provided by publisher.

This is a true story of the struggle, survival, and ultimate success of a large black family in south Alabama who, in the middle decades of the 20th century, lifted themselves out of poverty to achieve the American dream of property ownership. Descended from slaves and sharecroppers in the Black Belt region, this family of hard-working parents and their thirteen children is mentored by its matriarch, Moa, the author's great grandmother, who passes on to the family, along with other cultural wealth, her recipe for moonshine. Without rancor or blame, and even with occasional humor, ""The Pecan Orchard"" offers a window into the inequities between blacks and whites in a small southern town still emerging from Jim Crow attitudes. Told in straightforward prose, the story radiates the suffocating midday heat of summertime cotton fields and the biting winter wind sifting through porous shanty walls. It conveys the implicit shame in 'Colored Only' restrooms, drinking fountains, and eating areas; the satisfaction of a job well done recognized by others; the manners required of southern society; and the joyful moments, shared memories, and bonds that sustain a proud family.
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• List of Illustrations
• 1. The Melon Capital of the World
• 2. TJ Is a Wonderful Boy
• 3. I Met a Traveler from an Antique Land
• 4. Bad Day for a Black Brother
• 5. Remember Me
• 6. A Bump in the Road
• 7. The Diary.
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In this psychologically gripping memoir, Blake Allmendinger returns to his childhood home after a forty-year absence. His homecoming to the struggling farming community of Rocky Ford, Colorado, formerly known as the Melon Capital of the World, forces the author to confront his own sad and disturbing history, one that parallels his hometown's decline. Allmendinger's family was dominated by his emotionally and mentally unstable mother, who became depressed while living in Rocky Ford as a young woman. For the rest of her life she abused the members of her family, creating tensions that remained unresolved until the end of the author's visit, when his mother died suddenly, a family member committed suicide, and a secret diary was discovered. The Melon Capital of the World is a remarkable blend of personal narrative, memoir, and Allmendinger's interviews with people who knew his mother and her family. His story is a gritty but compassionate, and at times humorous, portrait of a family trying to survive in the rapidly disappearing rural American West.
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• Towering figures
• Marie Taglioni
• Anna Pavlova
• Vaslav Nijinsky
• Isadora Duncan
• Martha Graham
• Margot Fonteyn
• Sir Frederick Ashton
• George Balanchine
• Of steps and their authorship
• Music makes me
• The rehearsal room
• Coaches and teachers
• Hands and things that can fill them
• Balletomania and other thrills
• Inspiration
• Seductions attempted, surmised, and completed
• Critical lines
• Turning points
• From stage to page
• Fauna
• Scandals
• Touring
• The theaters
• Costumes, footgear, and hair do's and don'ts
• Make-up
• Conductors
• Dancing and related theatrical professions
• Dancing and the movies
• Injuries, maladies, misfortunes, and cures
• On partnering and partnerships
• A mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound
• Stagecraft
• Big pictures.

Mindy Aloff, a leading dance critic who has written for "The Nation", "The New Republic", and "The New Yorker", has brought together here a marvelous book of stories by and about dancers - entertaining and informative anecdotes that capture the boundless variety and richness of dance as an art, a tradition, a profession, a pastime, an obsession, a reality, and, for the dancer, an ideal. George Balanchine is here, and so are Fred Astaire, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Savion Glover, Martha Graham, and Lola Montez, and also stars from other arts - such as Akira Kurosawa and Bob Dylan - who have spoken about dancing with wit or illumination. There are stories about Irene and Vernon Castle, Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly, Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, Paul Taylor and Mark Morris. We read about the charisma and spontaneity of Anna Pavlova, about the secret to Vaslav Nijinsky's success ("I worked like an ox and I lived like a martyr"), about George Balanchine racing to a union dispute with a bag of dimes. Many of the stories are amusing, but some are rueful, even sad, and a few are dark. Aloff concludes the volume with an essay about how dancing has been able to record its past, sometimes over centuries, and about how the art of the dancer, apparently as ephemeral in performance as cloud patterns, turns out, when conditions are hospitable, to be much more hardy and resilient than many people suppose. A glorious promenade of stories that stretch as far back as classical times and as far afield as Japan, India, and Java, this superb collection will be treasured by everyone who loves dance, whether young or old.
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• Beginning
• The year 1905
• Roof life
• Sightings
• Stalking food
• Self seen
• After words.

This is not a memoir. It does not take the form of a story. It is instead a kind of self-portrait, or perhaps several self-portraits. Svetlana Alpers had been keeping files: records of what she saw out the windows of her loft in New York; records of art sold, bought, or seen on her walls; records of foods found in markets and prepared in places where she lived; and records of herself seen in photographs, drawings, and paintings made by others. In solving the question of her father's place and date of birth, she reconstructs the life of her Russian grandfather in a distant and tumultuous Europe of a century ago. It was Roof Life that made it all come together. The title refers to what one discovers looking out from high windows with distant and distinctive views. In addition, it refers to the way one's attention is heightened and sharpened by confronting things that are unfamiliar, or that are made to appear unfamiliar by circumstances. It describes the immediacy of distance. Renowned art historian Svetlana Alpers assembles in these pages descriptions of things that mattered in a life that began in Cambridge, Massachusetts, continued in Berkeley, California, and is now lived in New York City. The experience of Europe informs it all.
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A book called "Sefer Shel Benonim" ("Book of Middlemen" or "The Spiritual Middle Class") was published by Shneur Zalman of Liozno 200 years ago, expounding the doctrines of HaBaD Hasidism. This study examines this worldwide movement which blends mysticism and politics, and its mystical rabbis.
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• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (interlude)
• Délire de style à Libreville
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (2)
• Causerie à Nicosie
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (3)
• Rumba pour baccarat à Rabat
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (4)
• Pas d'agape à Prague
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (5)
• Conflit de ladies à New Delhi
• Silence du soir à Dakar
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (6)
• Les pieds dans le plat à Essaouira
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (7)
• Intrigant événement à Téhéran
• On materne à Berne
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (8)
• Faute de comedor à San Salvador
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (9)
• Périls à Brazzaville
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (10)
• Coup de mou à Moscou
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (11)
• Pas de requin à Pékin
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (12)
• En cabane à Copacabana
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (13)
• Alarme à Amman
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (14)
• Avoir les foies à Garoua
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (15)
• Ça bloque à Auckland
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (16)
• Grand bide à Abidjan.

"Il s'en passe de belles sous les dorures des ambassades de France ! Les plafonds s'écroulent, les invités volent l'argenterie, et tandis qu'à Pékin les Chinois essaient de nous rouler sur la propriété de nos propres murs, Monsieur l'ambassadeur demande au colonel, en plein dîner officiel, s'il aime les sculptures d'éphèbes nus... 40 histoires vraies vécues par un jeune diplomate au service de la France. Gabriel Alphand a sillonné les continents pendant quinze ans pour régler les problèmes les plus invraisemblables de nos ambassades. Nommé au Quai d'Orsay, il a nagé dans le milieu feutré de la diplomatie française avec l'agilité de l'anguille, tout en gardant un oeil rieur et distancié sur ce monde parfois étrange..."--P. [4] of cover.

• Camellos en matanzas. Un capítulo inusual en la historia local
• Manuel Santos Parga. Descubridor de la Cueva de Bellamar
• Palenque El Espinal
• El Morrillo. Apuntes para la historia de una fortaleza
• Cuartel Santa Cristina. Una historia centenaria
• La Exposición Canaria de
• 1872. Una evidencia centenaria
• Farmacia San Jorge.