Mi nombre es Zabdas. Una vez fui esclavo, ahora soy un guerrero, un abuelo y un sirviente. Llamo a Siria mi hogar. Te contaré la historia de Zenobia: Reina guerrera de Palmira, protectora del este, conquistadora de tierras desérticas...
El Imperio Romano está cerca del colapso. Odenato de Palmira sostiene la frontera siria en contra de los persas, que es vital para las rutas comerciales. Es un rey de una tierra perdida que muere por refuerzos. Entonces llama a un viejo amigo, Julio, para enfrentar a un enemigo más viejo, los sarracenos.
Julio cree que Siria debe romper su alianza con Roma y declararse independiente. Pero las creencias de su hija son aún más fuertes. Zenobia está determinada a realizar el sueño de su padre...
Y declarar traidora a Roma...

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras are a prominent, if increasingly familiar, feature of urbanism. They symbolize the faith that spatial authorities place in technical interventions for the treatment of social problems. CCTV was principally introduced to sterilize municipalities, to govern conducts and to protect properties. Vast expenditure has been committed to these technologies without a clear sense of how precisely they influence things. CCTV cameras might appear inanimate, but Opening the Black Box shows them to be vital mediums within relational circulations of supervision.

The book principally excavates the social relations entwining the everyday application of CCTV. It takes the reader on a journey from living beneath the camera, to working behind the lens. Attention focuses on the labour exerted by camera operators as they source and process distanced spectacles. These workers are paid to scan monitor screens in search of disorderly vistas, visualizing stimuli according to its perceived riskiness and/or allurement. But the projection of this gaze can draw an unsettling reflection. It can mean enduring behavioural extremities as an impotent witness. It can also entail making spontaneous decisions that determine the course of justice.

Opening the Black Box

, therefore, contemplates the seductive and traumatic dimensions of monitoring telemediated ‘riskscapes’ through the prism of camera circuitry. It probes the positioning of camera operators as ‘vicarious’ custodians of a precarious social order and engages their subjective experiences. It reveals the work of watching to be an ambiguous practice: as much about managing external disturbances on the street as managing internal disruptions in the self.

Tristán e Isolda
JD Smith
La historia de una promesa. La leyenda de un amor.
En una tierra llena de niebla y de pueblos desesperados, Tristán pelea para defender a Britania oriental de la invasión sajona. En el despertar de la batalla, vuelve a Cornualles portando graves noticias, provocando un cambio en el orden de poder.
Mientras Tristán defiende el este, su tío, el rey Marcos, enfrenta al enemigo que se encuentra al oeste, más allá del mar: Los Escudo de Sangre irlandeses. Marcos está decidido en unir los pueblos de Britania e Irlanda y forjar una alianza que permitiría ver el final de la guerra y el comienzo de la paz.
Isolda, hija de reyes irlandeses y una mujer de sangre, se resigna a su inevitable destino: casarse con el señor Morholt. Un duelo sangriento cambia el curso de su vida, provocando que se encuentre parada en las costas de Cornualles trayendo posibilidad de paz. Pero cuando pierde su corazón en un hombre y se casa con otro, su futuro, junto con el de Britania, se vuelve gris.
Tres personas y una esperanza que nunca se extinguirá. Esta es la historia de una promesa. La leyenda de un amor.

Mi nombre es Zabdas. Una vez fui esclavo, ahora soy un guerrero, un abuelo y un sirviente. Llamo a Siria mi hogar. Te contaré la historia de Zenobia: Reina guerrera de Palmira, protectora del este, conquistadora de tierras desérticas...
El Imperio Romano está cerca del colapso. Odenato de Palmira sostiene la frontera siria en contra de los persas, que es vital para las rutas comerciales. Es un rey de una tierra perdida que muere por refuerzos. Entonces llama a un viejo amigo, Julio, para enfrentar a un enemigo más viejo, los sarracenos.
Julio cree que Siria debe romper su alianza con Roma y declararse independiente. Pero las creencias de su hija son aún más fuertes. Zenobia está determinada a realizar el sueño de su padre...
Y declarar traidora a Roma...

Containing Practical Receipts for Making Sausage and Preparing and Caring all kinds of Meats

THE FIRST THING THEY PRONOUNCE YOU IN LIFE IS "HUSBAND AND WIFE". THE NEXT THING IS "DEAD".

Up till now, preparing for marriage was a lot like preparing for death: You didn't know what was ahead and there was nothing you could do about it anyway! LIFE SENTENCE changes all that with honest, guy-to-guy advice and counsel. Think of it this way: It's like getting your grubby hands on the other team's playbook before the big game. Which is why it's the one book they -- girlfriends, fiancees, and divorce lawyers -- don't want you to read. You'll gain valuable insights into:

BEING ENGAGED: It's the romantic equivalent of being in cyberspace. The ring is like signing a lease with an option to buy.

FIDELITY: If you think that fidelity is a raw deal, remember that she made the same deal. With you. You're the last guy she gets.

GOLF: Never, ever play with her.

Everyone in GustavoÕs family is in a mariachi band. Everyone except Gustavo, that is. They all play viol’nes, trompetas
and guitarrones. Gustavo would love to join the band, but he canÕt play any of the instruments.

Pergamon Texts in Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 2: The Chemistry of Arsenic, Antimony and Bismuth focuses on the physical and chemical properties of arsenic, antimony, and bismuth.
This book discusses the alloys and intermetallic compounds; general aspects of the chemistry of arsenic; salts of antimony and bismuth; and organometallic compounds. The complexes of Arsenic(V), Antimony(V), and Bismuth(V), and mixed valency compounds and mechanisms of redox reactions are also elaborated.
This text describes the chemical and physical properties of compounds, such as hydrides EH3, halides EX3, oxides E2O3, halides EX5, sulfides E2S5, oxides E2O5, and related oxyacids.
This publication is intended for chemical engineering students and chemists researching on the characteristics of arsenic, antimony, and bismuth.

After surviving the massacre of an Aravaipa village, Apache leader, Mangas, swears vengeance on all white men. Sweeping on homesteads and ambushing soldiers, he leaves a trail of destruction throughout Arizona and Mexico. It becomes the quest of one man, civilian scout, Jess Grainger, to try and put an end to his murderous raids. But it is a dangerous trail that could cost him his life.

Il mio nome è Zabdas: un tempo uno schiavo; oggi un guerriero, un nonno, un servitore. Chiamo la Siria casa. Vi racconterò la storia della mia Zenobia: Regina Guerriera di Palmira, Protettrice dell'Oriente, Conquistatrice di Deserti...
L'Impero Romano è vicino al collasso. Odenato di Palmira protegge il confine siriano e le sue vitali strade commerciali dall'invasione persiana. Re cliente in una terra dimenticata, a corto di rinforzi, Odenato chiede aiuto a un vecchio amico, Giulio, per affrontare un antico nemico: i Tanukh.
Giulio crede che la Siria debba separarsi da Roma e dichiararsi indipendente. Ma le convinzioni di sua figlia sono ancora più forti. Zenobia è determinata a realizzare i sogni di suo padre.
E tradisce Roma...
“La magnifica caratterizzazione di JD Smith e la meticolosa ricerca dipingono un quadro vivido e drammatico della Sira del III secolo d.C., in un'epoca in cui Roma si sta disintegrando sotto il peso della sua stessa corruzione. La gioventù di Zenobia, uno dei personaggi storici più enigmatici, viene narrata attraverso gli occhi del cugino Zabdas, uno schiavo che diventa generale. Zabdas è il narratore perfetto e la sua storia segue Zenobia da ragazza intelligente e precoce a imperiosa manipolatrice di re e imperatori, dal regno desertico di Palmira a Roma, e ritorno. Pieno di passione, intrigo e drammaticità, trascina il lettore fino all'ultimissima pagina.”
Douglas Jackson, autore di Caligula "La Boadicea di Siria, una sedicente Cleopatra, e una Daenerys Targaryen in carne e ossa."

Everyone in GustavoÕs family is in a mariachi band. Everyone except
Gustavo, that is. They all play viol’nes, trompetas
and guitarrones. Gustavo would love to join the band, but he canÕt play
any of the instruments. The story is presented in English with only the
concept words in Spanish, in this case the words that pertain to
mariachi music and clothing particular to the mariachi musicians.