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Este libro es una herramienta de estudio y trabajo para alumnos y profesionales de la comunicación, así como para los investigadores del medio televisivo. A su vez, los lectores televidentes tendrán la ocasión de reencontrarse con una parte íntima de su pasado, remoto y reciente, pues esta segunda edición, que viene con nuevo formato, ha sido revisada y actualizada con datos y acontecimientos de estreno.

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Este libro aborda el fenómeno de las teleseries. Desde Twin Peaks hasta The Leftover, de Tony Soprano a Lester Nygaard, desde las batallas en Poniente hasta los juegos de la mafia en Atlantic City, el texto está atravesado por personajes y escenarios que aparecen convocados para explicar la complejidad de una ficción que tiende a lo elusivo, pero que no por ello resulta menos sólida y apasionante.

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La era digital ha modificado las formas de producir, concebir, realizar y consumir las películas. En este libro, el autor analiza el cine peruano a la luz de estos cambios, y comenta más de un centenar de cintas, desde las que se convirtieron en grandes éxitos de público, hasta las de producción autogestionaria, de ficción o documentales, y de géneros diversos, hechas en Lima y en todo el país.

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Relata el surgimiento de la radio, en los años veinte, su posterior cambio de un medio de elite en uno de masas, su Edad de Oro, a mediados del siglo XX, el fracaso del experimento realizado por el Gobierno de la Fuerza Armada; y concluye con el estudio de las dos últimas décadas de caótica expansión, la conformación de nuevas cadenas y corporaciones, así como el desarrollo de la radio popular.

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Можно с уверенностью сказать, что эта выдающаяся американская журналистка опередила свое время. Она провела два важнейших расследования, которые изменили законодательство, боролась с сексизмом на рабочем месте, была депортирована из Мексики диктатором за свои смелые и честные работы, превратила предприятие мужа в одно из самых прибыльных в стране и даже успела объехать вокруг света меньше, чем за 80 дней! Нелли Блай родилась в 1864 году, когда в обществе считалось, что удел женщины – рожать детей, заниматься домом и подчиняться воле своего мужа. Освободиться от этих ограничений и исполнить свои мечты могла лишь женщина редкого характера и решимости. И мало кому это удалось с таким же успехом, как Нелли Блай. Ее жизнь – это пример упорства и настоящей храбрости. Лучана Чимино и Серджио Альгоццино смогли в жанре графического романа рассказать историю Нелли Блай так, чтобы мы увидели все грани ее жизни – не только победы и радости, но боль и трудности, с которыми она сталкивалась. Автор и иллюстратор точно передали эту борьбу человека и времени, чтобы на страницах книги мы увидели женщину, которая никогда не мирилась с препятствиями и внешними обстоятельствами. Эта история обязательно вдохновит девушек навсегда стать хозяйками собственных судеб.

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Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara in three volumes is an account of the voyage known as the «Novara expedition of 1857–1859» published by Karl Scherzer. The Novara expedition of 1857–1859 was the first large-scale scientific, around-the-world mission of the Austrian Imperial navy. The journey lasted 2 years 3 months, from 30 April 1857 until 30 August 1859. Preparation for the research journey was made by the «Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna» and by specialized scholars under direction of the geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter and the zoologist Georg von Frauenfeld. The first coca plant (cocaine) investigations, in particular on St. Paul Island, the Nicobar Islands, and on New Zealand (first geological mapping by Hochstetter), created the bases for future geological research. The oceanographic research revolutionized oceanography and hydrography.

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The Life of Florence Nightingale is a two volumes biography of a famous founder of modern nursing, written by English man of letters Sir Edward Tyas Cook. Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organized care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She gave nursing a favorable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of «The Lady with the Lamp» making rounds of wounded soldiers at night. The quality of Cook's biography is that it draws extensively from Miss Nightingale's own correspondence and presents as closely as it can a person she was. First volume covers the period from 1820 to 1861, and second volume continues to follow events in her life from 1862 to 1910.

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The History of Julius Caesar was written by Napoleon III, the nephew of Napoleon Buonaparte at the time of his reign. The book starts from the description of the Roman history before Caesar, the establishment of the republic, and Punic wars and gradually flows into the main points of Caesar's life up to his death. Besides historical context, a book was a political pamphlet to support the author's political line. In the book, Napoleon III compares himself and his uncle with Julius Caesar, proving that the political and strategic talent of the great emperor of Rome found continuation in the style of the ruling of the Buonaparte family.

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This book is an account of the iconic expedition through Tibet. It was one of the first expeditions of the kind, and it had a tremendous role in the development of Tibetan geographics. The explorer and author, Hedin, was the first European to reach the sacred and legendary Mount Kailash. According to the Buddhist tradition, this mountain is the midpoint of the Earth. He started the expedition in 1906 from the Central Persian desert basins and the western Tibetan highlands. Then, he crossed the Transhimalaya region and discovered new territories. Later, the area of his route was called the Hedin Range. Then, he visited the 9th Pachen Lama in Shigatse. After, he reached the Indus and Brahmaputra rivers' sources and descended the Indus returning home. One of the most significant achievements of this journey is mapping the previously unknown areas of Tibetan highlands. Yet, Hedin wasn't just a prominent explorer but a great storyteller too. From the first pages of the captivating memoir, a reader's attention is entirely absorbed by the vivid description of the exotic places and adventures. Those days, the Indian and Tibetan region was a total mystery for a European. Now, a century on, we know just a little more. So, it is exciting to read about the cultures that are now distant to us geographically and historically. Another bonus you get from this book is a feeling of pioneering. What does a person feel, knowing that they are the first European in Tibet? How is it leaving your home for a long journey full of dangers? You can read about all these things in this beautiful realistic, and captivating memoir.

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This is the remarkable account of the two-year journey across China, Mongolia and Tibet by two French Christian missionaries. After their expulsion from Tibet, where they stayed in the capital Lhasa, they moved back to China. The journey by Évariste Régis Huc and Joseph Gabet, began in September, 1844. They received a commission to travel to Mongolia to check on the progress of the newly established Christian mission created by the Pope. Volume I tells about their adventures in China and Mongolia and Volume II casts light on their further adventures in Tibet.

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