Ian Gibson es un autor e hispanista irlandés célebre por su profunda inmersión en la historia y cultura españolas. Sus investigaciones literarias se adentran en figuras y acontecimientos clave del siglo XX, utilizando una investigación meticulosa y un análisis incisivo para iluminar temas complejos para los lectores. El estilo de escritura de Gibson se distingue por su precisión y su capacidad para dar vida a personajes y épocas históricas a través de una narrativa convincente. Su obra a menudo descubre facetas poco conocidas de la vida y el arte españoles, ofreciendo a los lectores nuevas perspectivas sobre su rico pasado.
Esta obra nos brinda una inédita y sorprendente visión de la entrañable amistad que unió a dos colosos de la España del siglo XX. Amistad que el propio Dalí calificó, poco antes de morir, de trágica ( si bien erótica), al no poder, por heterosexual, corresponder físicamente a la pasión que suscitaba en el poeta.
Cisco is moving into the network security arena by unveiling a lineup of a dozen new security products and services, integrating security software features such as firewalls, inrusions detection systems and VPNs into their industry leading networking hardware offerings. To ensure adequate support for these products and services, Cisco also released a new professional-level certification, Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP). The Managing Cisco Network Securiy (MCNS) exam is the first, and most critical, in a series of five exams required to achieve CCSP. This title is aimed at candidates preparing for the Managing Cisco Network Security exam. The accompanying CD includes an advanced testing engine containing all chapter review questions and two bonus exams.
Known primarily as a poet and dramatist, Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca published four books before his early death in the Spanish Civil War. This biography gives an account of his family, his homosexuality and his mysterious death, as well as tracing his literary development.
In this classic graphic novel by the author of the bestselling "Watchmen, " escaping the Hoop, Manhattan Island's land of mindless leisure, is just the first step in a cosmic adventure that takes Halo to the far ends of the galaxy, through war and peace, despair and triumph. B&W artwork throughout.
Sam Slade used to be one of the best robo-hunters in the business. But now he's getting old, and old means slow - which means dead! That is, until Sam takes on the biggest case of his life: Verdus was a paradise planet, and while colonists made their lonf journey there, a self-replicating robot was sent out to prepare the planet. Since the humans arrived, all contact with the colony has been lost. But the lightspeed journey to Verdus has been sabotaged, and relativistic effects have made Slade a much younger man - and now his trouble is just starting!
The New Spain
Since Franco's death, Spain has managed the considerable achievement of a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy. Spaniards are recovering a tradition of tolerance lost in 1492, when Granada, the country's last Moorish enclave, fell to the Christians. Now there is an obsession with making up for lost time, a determination to figure prominently on the map of the contemporary world.
Before the events of A New Hope, Darth Vader employs Boba Fett, on a mission to discover and bring to Vader a single small box, the contents of which could change the fate of the galaxy. But there's a catch: Vader trusts no one, and the truth of the box's mystery is too important to allow the bounty hunter to live! When Fett retrieves the prize, he finds himself the target of more of Vader's thralls. Also includes the hard-to-find 1997 Wizard magazine exclusive, Boba Fett #1/2. *
