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BILINGUAL ENGLISH/SPANISH EDITION This charming, gift-worthy 6 x 6-inch paperback presents a wide selection of beautifully tinted photographic postcards of and by Argentine cowboys, or gauchos, in the early 1900s. Often reproduced with stamps, postmarks and handwriting perfectly preserved, these fascinating relics depict life on the Argentine prairie with documentary candor as well as romantic aplomb. Here we find many photographs of the gauchos with their horses, at their ranches, playing their guitars and courting their wives. Cows are quartered, houses are raised, rivers forged and duels...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary...

El Noticiario Cinematográfico Español, popularmente conocido como NO-DO, vio las pantallas cinematográficas por vez primera en enero de 1943. Creado como instrumento audiovisual del nuevo Estado, gozó durante décadas del privilegio de su exclusividad y su proyección fue obligatoria en todos los cines de España. A pesar de los numerosos cambios que experimentó la sociedad española, el Noticiario permanece hasta bien entrada la democracia, en 1981. Pero NO-DO no fue sólo un instrumento de propaganda política. Su condición de noticiario cinematográfico hace de él un dispositivo...

Teenaged criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must save the underwater fairy metropolis of Atlantis from danger, while battling a psychological affliction known as the Atlantis Complex.