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In "Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia," acclaimed author Jose Manuel Prieto has masterfully crafted a kaleidoscopic portrait of post-Communist Russia. Strikingly poetic and cleverly humorous, it's the story of two misfits caught between old world traditions and the lure of contemporary Western influences as they set off on an adventure to immerse themselves in the beauty of the world.
Thelonius Monk (not his real name) and Linda Evangelista (not her real name) meet in Saint Petersburg after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. They journey to Yalta, where Thelonius promises to make Linda...

Behind the hardly one hundred pages, Canarias Diario stated, is the work of a tireless fabulist, a writer who delights in language, extracting verbs and adjectives which are powerful enough to stop the reader in his tracks. "

Miguel Barnet's A True Story is based on the life of Julian Mesa, a Cuban living in New York City. The novel spans the years between the 1930s to the 1980s as the protagonist moves from Cuba to the US. Throughout the novel Julian, a building supervisor in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, recounts his life beginning with his early childhood years in the Cuban countryside and ending on the brink of tears as he dreams about an island which he dreams of seeing again. His account tells of the brutal work of the Cuban peasant in the sugarcane fields as well as the oppressive unemployment...

Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as a thrilling discovery . . . a reversal of the letters of] Saul Bellow's Herzog . . . with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts. J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to trap an endangered Russian butterfly and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her homeland. In the port of Odessa, she disappears, and J. continues alone to a small...

Como puede ayudar el entrenamiento individualizado con cargas al futbol? Tienen beneficios el entrenamiento con cargas en jugadores juveniles? Que utilidad tienen las cargas asociadas a la potencia muscular? Que relacion hay entre la 1RM y la potencia en futbolistas juveniles? En este libro el lector se encontrara con una extensa revision de la literatura cientifica, relacionada con la utilidad de los trabajos con pesas en el futbol. Adicionalmente podra incursionar en un completo trabajo de investigacion que estudia los efectos del entrenamiento de potencia con cargas individualizadas; sobre...