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Space operas novels volume 1
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Max is cheery xeno-archeologist from Earth, stranded and trying to find a way home.Lahra is a stern warrior of a nearly extinct race searching for her people's heir.Wheel is the couple's cybernetic pilot running from her past and toward an unknown future.On Wheel's ship, the Kettle, the trio traverses the galaxy, dodging Imperial patrols and searching ancient temples and ruins for anything they can sell. Back on the Wreck, their home and base of operations,...
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Preparing for their wedding, the valet Figaro learns from the maid Susanna that their philandering employer, Count Almaviva, has designs on her. In her boudoir, the Countess laments her husband's waning love but plots to chasten him, encouraged by Figaro and Susanna. Susanna leads the Count on with promises of a rendezvous in the garden. Alone later that day, Susanna rhapsodizes on her love for Figaro, but he, overhearing, thinks she means the Count....
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The stars of the Metropolitan Opera search for a crazed killer who plans to bring the company down They find the tenor dangling from a water pipe, hanging by his own suspenders. His corpse is still warm. Naturally, the opera's manager doesn't stop the production. A dead chorus tenor isn't enough to close them down, and the show must go on. But there are 139 singers left in the chorus-and someone intends to kill them all. Poisoning, strangling, and...
7) Don Giovanni
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Opera guide volume 18
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Perhaps the greatest opera ever written, Don Giovanni is presented here in the C. F. Peters edition, that contains everything from the original version, along with later arias, recitatives, and duets added for the Vienna performance. Text in both Italian and German.
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A new space opera series from S. H. Miah. Fast action and tense moments wrap over a narrative spanning a galactic war for the ages. Khaled Malik heads the line for The Hunters, New Earth's most elite task force. His mission: to end the decades long war plaguing New Earth and her worst enemies. But the mission transforms in ways Khaled could have never foreseen. A routine infiltration uncovers hidden truths that shake the very foundations of the war....
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A headstrong young soprano must solve a murder to save her friend The Metropolitan Opera has no time for illness. So when its principal baritone succumbs to a head cold on the eve of Carmen, house diva Geraldine Farrar doesn't hesitate to recommend a replacement: the hungry young American Jimmy Freeman. He's raw, talented, and desperately in love with her-something she doesn't mind at all. But when Freeman is passed over in favor of Philippe Duchon,...
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History's greatest tenor searches for a killer at the Metropolitan Opera Giacomo Puccini has always been a flirt. When he isn't writing the most popular operas the world has ever known, he has an eye for the ladies, and he doesn't care if his wife, Elvira, knows it. But after the composer participates in a harmless bit of chitchat with a servant girl, Elvira explodes with jealousy, driving the girl from the house and spreading lies so terrible that...
11) Starcrasher
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A flat-broke captain. A deadly cosmic device. It's his time to save the universe. Tredd Bounty's life hasn't been the same since he was kicked out of the Navy. And bouncing between shady jobs and risky missions barely keeps a roof over his head. So when he picks up a rich gig to capture a deadly device that could tear the stars apart, he keeps his incredible power at the ready: the ability to stop time itself… With his eccentric team of misfits...
13) La gente del sancocho nacional: experiencias de la militancia barrial del M-19 en Bogotá, 1974-1990
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La historiografía sobre los movimientos armados en Colombia se ha enfocado, principalmente, en analizar las guerrillas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX desde una perspectiva macro y ofreciendo explicaciones estructurales. En este trabajo, la reducción en la escala de observación, las entrevistas, la historia oral y el análisis de trayectorias biográficas son herramientas que permiten dar cuenta de una organización guerrillera compleja, diversa,...
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Numerical Oracle II OS is a multilayered space opera novel blending fragments from life in outspoken when Humanity has become a multi-player in Interplanetary travel and spatial conquest, and in that vein is sci fi opus and work that needs to be seen from the creative and dynamic unfolding of AD 2222 as sine qua non ground. A Sequel of sorts despite both works could be read separately as in continuance to each other. A deep dive in the cryogenic landscapes...
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Esta obra presenta el problema del desconocimiento de la naturaleza jurídica del fenómeno denominado "cláusulas abusivas", partiendo de la existencia de la gran diversidad de planteamientos y tratamientos jurídicos dados a dicho fenómeno a nivel internacional, con principal énfasis en el ordenamiento jurídico colombiano, donde se encuentran distintas concepciones y consecuencias para el mismo fenómeno. Ante dicha situación se pretende determinar...
16) Las incomodidades de vivir en riesgo: Yopal, un barrio al sur de Bogotá que se niega a desaparecer
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Este libro responde a la pregunta ¿cuáles son los efectos que ha generado laimplementación de la política de reasentamiento, tras la declaratoria de riesgo no mitigable, teniendo en cuenta las múltiples condiciones por las cuales pueden ser considerados "vulnerables" los habitantes del barrio Yopal en Usme? Luego se busca dejar en evidencia que la política de reasentamiento vigente en la ciudad de Bogotá reduce la situación de vulnerabilidad...
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Al finalizar el siglo XIX, la clase alta de Bogotá se divertía con conciertos de ópera, corridas de toros en la forma moderna, carreras de caballos al estilo inglés y carreras de bicicletas. Si bien los teatros, el hipódromo y el circo de toros fueron los lugares de recreo predilectos de ese grupo social, al igual que los parques y jardines, esto no siempre fue así. Durante los primeros años de la república y parte de la segunda mitad del...
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Al entrar a los predios de la Reserva Biológica Encenillo (rbe), ubicada en la vereda Trinidad del municipio de Guasca (Cundinamarca), pocos se imaginan que allí operó una mina de piedra caliza por más de sesenta años. El cambio de mina a área protegida ha conllevado transformaciones y negociaciones entre las formas locales de uso y representación de los recursos naturales y los usos y discursos de la conservación ambiental. Por su parte,...
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En el año 1492, la embarcación de Cristóbal Colón llegó a costas americanas y la antigua y legendaria comunidad judía fue expulsada de España. Estos hechos constituyeron el inicio de dos procesos fundamentales en la historia de la Edad Moderna temprana: por un lado, la conquista y la colonización europeas en América y, por el otro, el comienzo de la diáspora judeoespañola.
El presente libro recoge las huellas de un nuevo punto de encuentro...
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Tras la Primera Guerra Mundial, Zweig se traslada a Salzburgo, mientras se forjaba la destrucción del sueño humanista en Europa. Allí escribe este libro, donde reúne catorce momentos vivos y ejemplares que marcaron la vida de la cultura y del ser humano.
Como un cronista ejemplar y con el estilo clásico de la literatura de aventuras, Zweig parece asistir a los acontecimientos que narra, sufre con ellos y participa de sus éxtasis: la mirada...
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