Un solo homicidio debiera ser indignante por si mismo, pero los mas de cuatrocientos asesinatos de mujeres en Ciudad Juarez y en el estado de Chihuahua... en una decada conforman uno de los mas graves episodios criminales del pais, una verdadera cosecha sangrienta de mujeres. Agredidas sexualmente, mutiladas y asesinadas, sus cadaveres aparecen dias, semanas o meses despues de su desaparicion en terrenos baldios o lugares poco frecuentados, y las victimas son en su mayoria de extraccion social baja, trabajadoras, inmigrantes y, con frecuencia, recien llegadas. Las mujeres asesinadas parecen no importarle a nadie, solo asi se explica la indiferencia gubernamental y la constante ineficiencia policiaca para esclarecer estos crimenes. Aunque las teorias y las lineas de investigacion abundan (muchas de ellas con hipotesis absurdas, ridiculas y mostrando un evidente sexismo), ni las autoridades locales ni las federales han podido o querido hacer nada.

Accurate, scholarly edition, first published by C. F. Peters, is reprinted here in complete score. One of Mozart's greatest operas, largely neglected... in the 19th century, it will be welcomed by musicians, students and all opera lovers. Da Ponte Libretto. Critical Commentary. Preface. Translated frontmatter.

Short description: "Cosima" tells the story of an aspiring writer growing up in Nuoro, Sardinia during the last decades of the nineteenth century when... formal education for women was rare and literary careers unheard-of. Based on Deledda’s own life, the work describes a young woman’s struggle against the dismay and disapproval of her family and friends at her creative ambitions. Yet it also reads like a charming fable with details of family life, rural traditions and wild bandits, and it is as much a novel of memory as of character or action. Deledda’s characters are poor country folk driven by some predetermined force. Their loves are tragic, their lives as hard and as rigidly controlled as nature itself in the hills of Sardinia. Deledda creates memorable figures who play out their lives against this backdrop of mountains and bare plains, sheepfolds and vineyards. Shimmering in the distance is the sea and escape — for a few — to the Continent or America. In 1926 Grazia Deledda became the second woman and the second Italian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. She wrote thirty-three novels, including "Reeds in the Wind," and many books of short stories, almost all set on Sardinia. Her work has become well known to English-speaking readers through Martha King’s translations for Italica Press.

After an accident in a brilliant young physicist's most ambitious experiment, it appears: a wondrous sphere the size of a basketball, made of nothing... known to science. Before long, it will be clear that this object has opened a vista on an entirely different universe, a newborn cosmos whose existence will rock this world and test one woman to the limit: the physicist who has ignited this thrilling adventure.Only the author of the landmark novel Timescape could so plausibly take the reader behind the scenes of major scientific research, so boldly speculate about the consequences of paradigm-shifting discovery, and so vividly capture the intense human drama as the forces of academia, government, theology, and the mass media battle for control of a mysterious new reality. COSM is Gregory Benford at his provocative best, exploring ideas at the frontier of mankind's understanding, and posing profound questions about Creation, human destiny, and the riddle of godhood.

« Sans le vouloir, j'avais commis le crime parfait : personne ne m'avait vu venir, à part la victime. La preuve, c'est que je suis toujours en... liberté.C'est dans le hall d'un aéroport que tout a commencé.Il savait que ce serait lui. La victime parfaite. Le coupable désigné d'avance.Il lui a suffi de parler. Et d'attendre que le piège se referme.C'est dans le hall d'un aéroport que tout s'est terminé.De toutes façons, le hasard n'existe pas. »

From supernovae and gamma-ray bursts to the accelerating Universe, this is an exploration of the intellectual threads that lead to some of the most... exciting ideas in modern astrophysics and cosmology. This fully updated second edition incorporates new material on binary stars, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, worm-holes, quantum gravity and string theory. It covers the origins of stars and their evolution, the mechanisms responsible for supernovae, and their progeny, neutron stars and black holes. It examines the theoretical ideas behind black holes and their manifestation in observational astronomy and presents neutron stars in all their variety known today. This book also covers the physics of the twentieth century, discussing quantum theory and Einstein's gravity, how these two theories collide, and the prospects for their reconciliation in the twenty-first century. This will be essential reading for undergraduate students in astronomy and astrophysics, and an excellent, accessible introduction for a wider audience.