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Uno. Una joven mbyá guaraní cuenta la maldición dé haber parido gemelos -según la tradición local, una inequívoca prueba de adulterio, su paso por el hospital para una cesárea y la convalecencia posterior en la casa de su cuñada se...

The charges of the proton and electron are opposite and equal, even though the proton is bigger. But why are they equal? This is one of the deepest unresolved puzzles of physics. Frank Close takes us on a journey into the quantum subatomic world of particles. He describes the strong and weak forces that operate alongside electromagnetism, the color and flavor charges, as well as the parallels between them, giving hints of a deeper unity.

It’s the eve of the 1980s. PC Liz Seeley joins the squad investigating the murders. With a violent boyfriend at home and male chauvinist pigs at work, she is drawn to a feminist collective led by the militant and uncompromising Rowena. There she meets Charmaine – young, Black, artistic, and fighting discrimination on two fronts. As the list of victims grows and police fail to catch the killer, women across the north are too terrified to go out after dark.

Eclipses: What Everyone Needs to Know helps explain the profound differences between a 99.99 percent partial eclipse and true totality, and inform listeners how to experience this most beautiful natural phenomenon successfully. It covers eclipses of sun, moon, and other astronomical objects, and their applications in science, as well as their role in history, literature, and myth. It describes the phenomena to expect at a solar eclipse and the best ways to record them - by camera, video, or by simple handmade experiments.

When car-making giant General Motors decided to close its plant in Lansing, Michigan, in 1996, one person - the city's newly elected mayor - stood up and said “no”. Initially, it was the cry of a man in the wilderness. Not once in its century-long history had GM reversed a decision to close a plant. But Mayor David Hollister quietly went to work building the Lansing Works! Keep GM! movement and succeeded in defying all the odds. Lansing remains GM's Oldsmobile headquarters. 

¿Cómo encontrar la propia ficción que sostiene nuestra identidad o la de otros? ¿Cómo escapar de esas ficciones aniquiladoras o necesarias? La idea de identidad como ilusión atraviesa esta poderosa colección de cuentos de Marina Closs, a veces como nudo asfixiante y a veces como punto de apoyo. Los personajes de Pombero parecen recomponerse a medida que hablan: nadie tiene una identidad sin una historia, nadie tiene una historia sin una voz.