Peter Taylor

Desde que se publicó la primera edición en castellano de este texto, ya clásico, se han producido cambios trascendentes en el mundo: han surgido nuevos Estados y el nuevo orden geopolítico que comenzaba a perfilarse en los años 90 tiene una faz más nítida en este nuevo siglo. En esta segunda edición, corregida y aumentada, de Geografía Política: Economía-mundo, Estado-nación y localidad, se analizan las políticas que se desarrollan a diversas escalas. La nueva obra, revisada por los dos autores , incluye una completa actualización, nuevas figuras y estudios de caso y un capítulo enteramente nuevo sobre la política de identidad.

Written by a team of infertility experts, this guide addresses the complex subject of subfertility. It begins with diagnosis in the male and female before presenting advice on all forms of assisted conception as well as counselling help with treatment decisions.

Based on the author's television series on the IRA, this book traces the group's history and relationship with Sinn Fein.

On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon the top secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to Ireland A gripping exploration of how MI5 and MI6 worked for a ceasefire with the IRA and how one meeting changed everything Telegraph An extraordinary story A true tale of espionage The TimesApril 1998 the Good Friday Agreement is signed ending decades of violence and bloodshed in Northern Ireland The process of getting the IRA to end its so called armed struggle was always the prerequisite of the search for peace It was Operation Chiffon that finally helped make it possible Operation Chiffon takes us inside the top secret intelligence operation whose roots go back to the bloodiest years of the conflict in the early 1970s involving officers from MI6 and later in the 1990s MI5 The remarkable story which has remained hidden for forty years is now revealed by legendary BBC journalist Peter Taylor with unique access to the officers involved Drawing on exclusive interviews and Taylor s fifty years of covering the conflict the book narrates in first hand detail how those involved risked their careers and their lives to help secure the fragile peace

La vida de Quintus Cincinnatus Lovell Dudley cambia bruscamente cuando su padre, un viajante de comercio viudo, decide contraer matrimonio con una millonaria de St. Louis divorciada y con dos hijas. Quintus dejara de frecuentar hoteles y pensiones de segunda, perdera contacto con la remota granja de su abuela en Tennessee y abandonara su educacion en un sinfin de escuelas publicas para conocer la vida de familia, la buena sociedad, las fiestas, los colegios de pago y las limusinas con chofer. Unas complejas y tensas relaciones con su madrastra, asi como las multiples contradicciones a las que se vera sometido, le impulsaran a desarrollar una sensibilidad poco comun en un adolescente.Dotado de un estilo sencillo y conciso, Taylor describe un sofisticado mundo sureño que se ve irremediablemente afectado por la perdida de los valores tradicionales y la implantacion de otros nuevos correspondientes a una sociedad urbana e industrializada.La critica norteamericana ha comparado a menudo la obra de Taylor con la de Chejov pero, como Jonathan Yardley afirma en "The Washington Post", su literatura no puede compararse con la de nadie, pues cada una de sus palabras lo califica como lo que realmente es: un maestro de la narrativa norteamericana.Peter Taylor (1917) ha publicado varias colecciones de cuentos: "The Widows o...

How does a man become successful although unable to read or write? How does a woman get her final revenge on her husband? What happens when a man invites friends to a party at which he himself doesn't appear, but watches from a distance? What happens to a boy who feels fated to be a genius? These are some of the questions dealt with in the ten stories in this collection. The stories, by important modern authors, have been specially selected for advanced students of English. They are not simplified, but vocabulary explanations and notes are provided in order to help comprehension.