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Tercer episodio de la serie documental Mujeres en pie de guerra. En los momentos donde más falta hacían las mujeres, hubo también segregación. Costó aceptar que todas eran válidas y que podían sacar adelante los mismos trabajos.

Humanity and their new allies, the Qash'vo'tar and the Zhal Confederation, embark on a mission to find the home system of their enemy-the Val'ayash. Both the Qash'vo'tar and the Zhal have been attacked by the Val'ayash and their allies, and were barely holding the line. Meanwhile, Earth is developing its magi-tech with the help from their Ethorrian allies, while also trying to build more ships.

First Love by Ivan Turgenev - a story about real feelings and play. Main character works are passionately in love with the princess, who older than him, but for her a careless young man - just an object of ridicule. Other famous works, such as "Asya", "Fathers and Sons", "A Nest of Noblemen", "Biryuk", "On the Eve", "Mumu", "Fire at Sea", "The Wayside Inn", "The Watch", "Three Portraits", "A Strange Story", "The Meeting", etc.

Half-Cuban, half-Puerto Rican, Luis "DJ Disco Wiz" Cedeño is 100 percent Boogie Down Bronx. Born in the 60s, Wiz struggled in a turbulent and violent relationship with his alcoholic father while trying to protect his mother who was suffering from breast cancer. Raised in the 70s, Wiz learned the code of the streets while hustling with his crew, the East Side Boys.

This book may be the most important book that you will hear this year. I had such a divinely inspired sense of urgency to write it that I know God was trying to get it out as soon as possible to the audience that I was purposed to touch. What you will hear in this book may alter the course of your life. At best, it will help give you greater clarity than ever on God's vision and purpose for your life. At worst, it will give you a great sense of confirmation that you're going about discovering your life's purpose in the right way.

Tasked with locating a missing government witness, FBI agent Antonio Boudreau jumps at the chance to work closer to his home town of Shiloh Springs, Texas.

The Gentleman from San Francisco is a short story by Ivan Bunin, a Nobel Prize-winning but often overlooked Russian author. It was translated into English by D. H. Lawrence (with Samuil Koteliansky). The story is often hailed as a classic of the genre. A 58-year-old American from San Francisco, now in possession of a vast fortune, sets off with his wife and daughter on a world tour. A series of events causes laughter, embarrassment, and revolt as he and his family travel through Italy and remarkable changes begin to take effect.

Faces of Hardship is an anthology of short stories and novellas by Ukrainian writer, translator, and political activist Ivan Franko, showing the unpopular, uncomfortable, and unattractive sides of life in late 19th - early 20th century Ukraine and Russia in vivid color.

Poetry; a unique and beautiful way to express feelings and ideas. Weaving words into perfect poetic prose, these thirty authors remind you of your childhood, bring comfort from the hardships of life, fiercely spur emotions, and tell tales of old. All lovers of poetry will find a favorite here! Featured authors include Jonathan Pratt, Douglas Allen Gohl, J.E. Feldman, Rebecca A. Demarest, E.L. Summers, Austin Worley, Jose Joel Robles, Dana Trick, Neethu Krishnan, Alize Atif, Stephen Schwei, Vanessa Bane, and Matthew Ivan Bennett.

This book will make an outlandish promise: the wealth of God, regarding wisdom and the grace to increase in any skill, ability, or knowledge needed to do any God-ordained task is available to anyone who has the faith to receive it. This book is a mix of biblical examples and my examples. I'm hoping that these examples inspire everyone who reads them to believe God for an increase in their skills, abilities and knowledge to do whatever it is they are called to do.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new while traveling? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this audiobook is just for you. Greater Than a Tourist by Ivan Cadiz offers the inside scope on Isla Holbox. As a part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination.

This is the story of a generation, shaped by the 60s, that has reached its time of reckoning, and of a man who must uncover the secrets of his father's past before he can live and love in the present. Mitch Rozier has spent half of his 50 years writing an environmental column for an alternative West coast paper. Now he finds himself back under his father's roof. Sisters Lexa and Mariah McCaskill wrestle with the past that has driven them away from domesticity:

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

An intriguing confession of doctor’s romantic involvement with a beautiful, 20-year-old patient. Followed by Turgenev’s exquisite, often meditative descriptions of the Russian countryside and mysterious herbalist Kassyan, infatuated with Gamayane, a prophetic bird of Russian folklore, a symbol of wisdom and knowledge. Read in English.

Ivan Jenson’s The Tigress is a tour de force of psychological suspense that will take the listener deep within the inner workings of Wendy’s fragile mind, as she finally discovers that for her, love and death might be irrevocably intertwined. When Wendy’s sister sets her up on a blind date with a local home contractor, she wonders if she can ever allow herself to love again. Is Wendy’s love life forever tainted and cursed? This traumatic shift reveals the dangers of being a fatally passionate woman like Wendy.

Arguably Turgenev's greatest work and certainly one of the most controversial Russian novels ever written, Fathers and Sons incited protests from all branches of Russian society. Turgenev dramatized the volcanic issues that divided a Russia torn by social unrest and conflict: peasants against masters, generations against generations, and fathers against sons.

The Air Force's Black Ceiling is a view of diversity in the air force from one man's over 28 years in the US Air Force. This view begins with his perspectives and insights as an air force academy cadet and continues with his progression through company and field grade ranks. The title might imply that the "Black ceiling" has been put in place on purpose by senior air force leaders.... the listener will find out that isn't the case.

Liu Zhenyun nos propone en "El pequeño gran salto de Liu" un juego: atrapar al ladrón. Se trata de una frenética narración tragicómica en la que los robos y la violencia se suceden movidos por la avaricia. Liu Yuejin es un cocinero. Un día, tras perder su bolso y mientras lo buscaba, encuentra otro lleno de secretos que involucran a personalidades de la alta esfera social. Los bajos fondos de mugre y sopa clara se entremezclan con las enormes villas de urbanizaciones privadas, las inmensas y modernas construcciones y los altos funcionarios corruptos.

Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (10 oktyabrya 1870 goda, Voronezh - 8 noyabrya 1953 goda, Parizh) - russkiy pisatel' i poeht, pervyy laureat Nobelevskoy premii po literature iz Rossii (1933 god).V ehtot sbornik voshli sleduyushchie rasskazy:

Dans la nuit du 18 au 19 janvier 2011, Laëtitia Perrais a été enlevée à 50 mètres de chez elle, avant d'être poignardée et étranglée. Il a fallu des semaines pour retrouver son corps. Elle avait 18 ans. Ce fait divers s'est transformé en affaire d'État : Nicolas Sarkozy, alors président de la République, a reproché aux juges de ne pas avoir assuré le suivi du "présumé coupable", précipitant 8 000 magistrats dans la rue. Ivan Jablonka a rencontré les proches de la jeune fille et les acteurs de l'enquête, avant d'assister au procès du meurtrier en 2015.