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The book tells in a unique way, the discovery of a mysterious manuscript that recounts the experiences of an unfortunate man who was the victim of his own success. The pages of this singular story are in themselves a compendium of simple teachings about the risks of reaching fortune without being prepared for it; and how, despite having setbacks in life, it is always possible to start all over again.

One day, little Joshua is forced to leave Mrs. Harriet's foster home, the only home the kid had ever known. He had been placed there by the Child's Welfare Agency when he became orphaned at a very young age. Now with great uneasiness, he must cope with the uncertainty of living amongst strangers in other shelters. The precarious situation he now faces, encourages him to uncover strengths, which leads him to discover a passion that enables him to offset harassment and intimidation, allowing him to withstand his loneliness, while keeping alive his dream of belonging a family.

With the action, the daring and the boldness of The Game of Thrones, and the journey of quest and redemption of The Lord of the Rings, this debutant epic fantasy novel will take you on a journey of adventures, intrigue, vengeance and magic, in which the eternal struggle between the good and the evil develops into a unique and original plot. Baby Princess Aelanis of Terrara is kidnapped by orders of the powerful and despotic Duke Guildor of Alasia, who by means of terror and despotism caused by the influence of a set of malignant gems, governs the northern realms of Pelair. Only the kingdom of Terrara has resisted falling under his rule. Luck allows the baby princess to be rescued and grows away from her kingdom, unaware of her origin. Meanwhile to the south of Pelair, another despotic monarch, Vonegh of Kaffre, self-appoints as the king of those vast territories using deception and murder. This forces his stepson Brannan, the true heir of those kingdoms, to flee and take refuge in Terrara where he enlists as a mercenary. In his unbridled ambition, Vonegh, not satisfied with his conquests, longs to conquer the kingdoms of the north. As expected, the war between these two powers soon arises. Fate propitiates the paths of Aelanis and Brannan to intersect several times in this milieu of war, rivalry, and betrayal, to end up sharing a series of adventures in an epic journey of discoveries that will guide them towards a destiny never imagined by none of them.

In a medieval land, a dared and spirited young woman faces perils and risks her life to recover a set of evil gems that have allowed an ambitious and wicked Duke to enslave her people. An unlikely fellowship formed by a benevolent sorceress, a friendly and loyal dwarf, a runaway prince turned mercenary, and a mysterious white falcon comes to her aid as she journeys through the vast territories of Pelair to accomplish her mission.

There is no consensus among specialists in agricultural contracts over whether the long-term inefficiencies that classical economists attributed to sharecropping actually exist. This article maintains that they do exist and are partly caused by the fact that sharecropping is hardly compatible with the tenant being compensated for improvements, viticulture being the main historical exception. In line with recent contributions to the sharecropping literature, the article contends that the widely held belief among scholars of agricultural contracts that sharecropping was very frequent in Europe's vineyards is incorrect. However, it also provides evidence of an issue whose importance has gone largely unnoticed: prior to the twentieth century, many of the European vineyards worked by sharecroppers had been created by the sharecroppers themselves, through contracts which entitled them to compensation. Those contracts abounded while viticulture depended basically on two inputs, land and labour. When viticulture became a heavy consumer of capital, they were rapidly abandoned, but not in Catalonia, with a paradoxical result: the Catalan rabassa morta contract, which for centuries had made it possible to eliminate both the long- and short-term inefficiencies of sharecropping, ended up becoming an obstacle to overcoming the short-term inefficiencies. The article discusses why that happened.

Fixed-rent contracts do not free landlords from the need to supervise the land if it is of high value and fragile fertility, nor do they free them from the costs of monitoring farmers if they are poor peasants prone to fall into arrears. In such cases, however, compensation for improvements will encourage tenants to farm with care and act as a bond against non-payment of rent. This article studies the repercussions of these kinds of situations by analysing what happened in nineteenth-century Valencia, where being the owners of the improvements led to tenants eventually becoming the owners of the land.

El libro relata de manera muy singular, el descubrimiento de un misterioso manuscrito que cuenta las vivencias de un desafortunado hombre quien fuera víctima de su propio éxito. Las páginas de este singular relato, son de por sí un compendio de sencillas enseñanzas acerca de los riesgos de alcanzar la fortuna sin estar preparado para ello; y de cómo a pesar de tener tropiezos en la vida, siempre es posible comenzar de nuevo

El cooperativisme agrari, com a fórmula jurídica d'organització econòmica, és revisat i analitzat en aquesta publicació il·lustrada, i cofinançada amb Intercoop, amb motiu del centenari de la promulgació de la Llei de sindicats agrícolas

Un día, el pequeño Joshua se ve obligado a abandonar la casa de la señora Harriet, único hogar que el niño conociera hasta entonces. Había sido colocado allí por disposición de la Agencia de Bienestar Infantil cuando quedara huérfano a muy temprana edad. Ahora con gran desasosiego, se debe enfrentar a la incertidumbre de vivir entre extraños en otros orfanatos..La precaria situación que le corresponde vivir, le hace descubrir una fortaleza y desarrollar una pasión que le permiten soportar el acoso y la intimidación; haciéndole más llevadera su soledad, sin abandonar su sueño de encontrar y ser aceptado por una familia.