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El heterodoxo psiquiatra Zack Busner llega en 1971 al Friern Hospital, un gigantesco manicomio victoriano situado en el norte de Londres, en medio de una tormenta profesional y matrimonial. Pretende evitar las polémicas, pero allí conoce a Audrey Dearth, una mujer de clase trabajadora que lleva decenios encerrada en Friern en estado de coma profundo, y decide intentar despertarla a la vida con un revolucionario tratamiento. Los recuerdos que conserva Audrey de un Londres anterior a 1918, el año en que cayó enferma, de sus amantes, su participación en tempranos movimientos socialistas y...

He can solve any problem... In serving the wealthy power brokers of New York society, Frank Tripp has finally gained the respectability and security his own upbringing lacked. There's no issue he cannot fix... except for one: the beautiful and reckless daughter of an important client who doesn't seem to understand the word danger. She's not looking for a hero... Excitement lies just below Forty-Second Street and Mamie Greene is determined to explore all of it--while playing a modern-day Robin Hood along the way. What she doesn't need is her father's lawyer dogging her every step and...

Historia de la teoria de la informacion tal como ha evolucionado desde los tiempos antiguos hasta el siglo XX. Campbell relaciona los mensajes de las naves espaciales con los genes del ADN, la segunda Ley de la termodinamica con las grafias musicales, asi como la semejanza entre la evolucion animal y el habla cotidiana. Esta tesis renueva el discurso biologico: el hombre, ser gramatical, habita un universo gramatical.

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...