Yuri

"Con un lenguaje que mezcla la violencia y la poesía, esta novela negra narra la vida de los mafiosos y los narcos mexicanos y su relación con el mundo exterior en medio de una epidemia. La acción acontece durante una sola jornada, en la que una mujer deseada, La Tres Veces Rubia, se encuentra con El Alfaqueque, un hombre quien encarna todos los miedos y contradicciones y cuyas palabras parecen sanar todo. Los temas de la tragedia, la redención,...

In the court of the "King," everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts and egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core. Part surreal fable and part narco-lit romance, this prize-winning novel from Yuri Herrera questions the price of keeping your integrity in a world ruled by patronage and power.

Cryptocurrency can feel like an incomprehensible world, especially when you're just getting started. We've both been through the whole process of learning how to buy, send, spend and invest in cryptocurrency so we know how frustrating and confusing it can be. By the end of this book, you are going to be feeling a whole lot more confident than you do right now; in fact, we're sure you are going to want to get more involved. Back when we were getting...

Learn Japanese and enjoy folktales at the same time with this whimsically illustrated multicultural children's book! This bilingual edition of A Treasury of Japanese Folktales-presented in both English and Japanese-contains 12 of the best Japanese legends and fairy tales, told to generation after generation of Japanese children. Originally written in English by Yuri Yasuda, based on her interpretations of traditional Japanese tales, these charming...

"Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers" "Honorable Mention for the 2019 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame" "Winner of the 2018 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical Association" "Winner of the 2018 Norris and Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association" "Shortlisted for the 2018 Pushkin House Russian...

"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012" Yuri Pines holds the Michael W. Lipson Chair in Chinese Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a visiting professor at Nankai University in Tianjin, China. He is the author of Foundations of Confucian Thought and Envisioning Eternal Empire. Established in 221 BCE, the Chinese empire lasted for 2,132 years before being replaced by the Republic of China in 1912. During its two millennia,...

Do you want to have sex and make a baby whenever and with whomever you want? Do you give a lot of thought to choosing a partner and the moment of conception, taking the natural order of things into consideration including the cosmic and astronomic laws, and be part of the 'symmetric organization of human reproduction'? Yuri Romashev is the first author to tackle this topic and discover the truth about multifarious modern conventions and myths. What...

A las siete de la mañana del 10 de marzo de 1920 se declaró un incendio en la mina El Bordo, en el estado mexicano de Hidalgo. Unas horas más tarde se dio por terminada la evacuación y se cerró el tiro de la mina para favorecer la extinción del incendio, previa declaración por parte de autoridades, médicos y representantes de la compañía minera. Seis días después se accedió de nuevo al interior para retirar los cadáveres: se calculaba...

Here, beautifully illustrated and presented in both English and Japanese, are 12 of the best Japanese folktales-shared with generation after generation of Japanese children. These charming tales engage your imagination as you're carried on turtle-back rides, brought to the underwater palace of the dragon princess, and discover a temple with a "tea kettle" that is really a cunning badger in disguise. Stories include: The Tongue-Cut Sparrow The Strong...

Learn how to really listen to, and cultivate, your body's health without a special budget or training, letting you enter and maintain a higher cognitive state regularly and do your life's best work. In our age of chaos, inattention, truthiness and failed leadership, it's time for all of us to step out of the shadows and become our own Commander in Chief. Any one of us can use timeless wisdom and focus to exercise control over ourselves and our future,...