Antonio Moscoso trascorre le sue noiose giornate in un ufficio culturale a Bogotà. Il suo compito è quello di bruciare i manoscritti scartati dalle giurie dei concorsi letterari. Antonio ha un passato burrascoso. Arriva dalla prigione. Il motivo? Il lettore lo scoprirà solo alla fine. Improvvisamente, leggendo qualche pagina tra i manoscritti da bruciare, si imbatte in un romanzo che descrive perfettamente la sua storia, la sua vita. Chi ha scritto questo romanzo? Come fa a conoscere tutti quei dettagli? È qualcuno che conosce? Ecco che inizia un nuovo romanzo nel romanzo dove il protagonista si mette sulle tracce del suo biografo incontrando due donne, un suicidio e altri misteri. Il suo passato tornerà per presentare il conto.

The explosive new book that reveals the true location of the Holy Grail—hidden in plain sight for centuries
Recently discovered parchments in the Egyptian University of Al-Azhar have finally made it possible to identify the location where the Holy Grail has been kept for the last 1,000 years. This groundbreaking find led Margarita Torres
Sevilla and José Miguel Ortega del Río on a three-year investigation as they traced the Grail’s journey across the globe, with detective-like skill, and discovered its final resting place in the Basilica of San Isidoro in León, Spain.
Finally, the dramatic story of the search for and discovery of the Holy Grail is told. Employing meticulous new historical and scientific research, the authors present the definitive history of the cup of Christ, cracking the mystery about one of the world’s most sought-after treasures, the Holy Grail--the origin and object of both Arthurian myth and Christian legend and one of the most enduring stories of Christian literature and art. Compelling and thought-provoking, Kings of the Grail is a journey back through time that follows this ancient symbol back to its origins and forward to its place in our modern world.

* Explores issues relevant to sustainability and business management in luxury goods companies
* Comprehensive collection of current thinking on sustainable luxury products

Most consumers of luxury products and services use them as status symbols – symbols of success. However, the definition of success – and the way it is perceived by others – is changing. Many of these successful consumers now want the brands they use to reflect their concerns and aspirations for a better world. There are shifts in the luxury paradigm, emerging from major changes in social dynamics. In future, the highest-quality product or service will be the one that generates the most benefit to all involved in its production and trade.

Topics covered include value chain management, production and design processes, entrepreneurship, cause-related marketing and innovation. This book explores a wide range of issues relevant to sustainability and business management in luxury goods companies. It represents the most international and complete collection of academic and practitioner thinking on transforming the luxury sector into a powerful advocate for sustainable production and consumption.

The textile industry plays a significant part in the global economy, yet often operates with disregard to its environmental and social impacts. This book takes a wide-ranging look at current analysis of the industry and explores the issues of continuous consumption and increasing disposability.

This book informs readers of the needs and rationale for the integration of medical and dental care and information with an international perspective as to how and where medical and dental care separated into specific domains. It provide high level guidance on issues involved with care and data integration and how to achieve an integrated model of health care supported by integrated HIT. A patient typically expects that a visit to a dentist can usually be resolved immediately. This expectation places a premium on instant, accurate, thorough, and current information. The state-of-the-art of fully integrated (dental-medical) electronic health record (EHR) is covered and this is contrasted with the current state of dental-medical software. While dentists in the US Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the US Indian Health Service (IHS), or the US military, for example, have access to fully integrated health records, most US clinicians still gather information from separate sources via fax or phone calls. The authors provide an in-depth discussion of the role of informatics and information science in the articulation of medical and dental practices and clinical data with the focus on applied clinical informatics to improve quality of care, practice efficiency, coordination and continuity of care, communication between physicians and dentists and to provide a more comprehensive care for the patients. Lastly, the book examines advances in medical and dental research and how these may affect dentistry in the future. Most new advances in healthcare research are information-intensive.

The author recounts his years as a founding member of the New York branch of the Young Lords Organization, the Puerto Rican-American radical political group that arose in the late 1960s and had withered away by the mid 1970s. Melendez describes his own individual political growth and situates the Young Lords within the larger historical contexts of the Latino experience in the US and the radical politics of the 1960s. This is a paperbound reprint of a 2003 book. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

'L'àgora e la piramide' mira ad una soluzione coerente e sistematica delle grandi incognite che la Costituzione spagnola del 1978 continua a proporre dopo un quarto di secolo: La connessione tra la norma costituzionale ed il processo di transizione che l'ha originata; I rapporti fra la struttura sociale e l'organizzazione del potere nella Spagna contemporanea; Le aporie dell'ideologia personalista dei diritti umani; I canali partitocratici che condizionano il gioco della partecipazione politica; L'affermazione di un potere giudiziario irresponsabile; Il quadro autonomista ed europeo che ha messo in discussione l'idea di Spagna da due estremi apparentemente opposti: i separatismi e la globalizzazione.