This historic novel tells the story of how the legendary Erik the Red led his men to a land of plenty where they built a nation: Greenland. Later, Leif, like his father before him, will also guide his people to a sweeping and much more bountiful land which, centuries later, would come to be called America. It is a tale of the challenges of that savage and indomitable world, as well as their struggle against nature and, above all, the Algonquin. Arturo Ortega Blake sets out their customs, dress, and mythology, and even their codes of honor, world view and …

“The Devil holds the strings which move us!” (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857.) Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer… the Devil has many names and faces, all of which have always served artists as a source of inspiration. Often commissioned by religious leaders as images of fear or veneration, depending on the society, representations of the underworld served to instruct believers and lead them along the path of righteousness. For other artists, such as Hieronymus Bosch, they provided a means of denouncing the moral decrepitude of one’s contemporaries. In the same way, literature dealing with the Devil has long offered inspiration …

This book addresses the steel structures design according to procedures and provisions set in the Spanish Building Technical Code (CTE DB-SE-A). A large collection of worked examples develop in a practical way the principles and requirements that will provide safety and serviceability to most of the steel structures for buildings Members under tension, compression and bending are studied in order of increasing complexity, including flexural buckling and lateral-torsional buckling phenomena. Finally, step by step procedures for the design of bolted and welded connections are given, including column bases design All tables and mathematical expressions needed to follow every step of …

This book serves as an introduction to solve the most common electrical circuits in domestic and industry premises. It consists of five units: association of passive elements (unit 1); introduction to single-phase and three-phase circuits (units 2 and 3) and electricity distribution circuits, both single-phase and three-phase (units 4 and 5). It also has an annex where some exercises are solved that were proposed in previous units, and a bibliography with two types of references: some basic ones, which are complementary to this text, and other more advanced ones for interested readers. The approach followed in this text is essentially …

With one of the most renowned medical specialists in Assisted Reproduction, Dr Marisa López-Teijón, and three women who, like you, also want to get pregnant, you will discover the responses to all those questions you began to ask yourself the day you decided you wanted to have a baby. Elisabeth, Marta and Rose face numerous mysteries, doubts, taboos, prejudices and false myths. They feel disoriented, angry, sad and, often, alone. If, like them, you won’t let anything stop you, this book will explain how to conceive spontaneously or with medical help. Practical, surprising, and filled with emotion, this book is …