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“…Some of them, forced to escape the horrors of Nazi Germany, later found exile in the United States. …”

“…Tras huir de terribles penalidades, estos serán para ellos días llenos de vida y asombro, a pesar de los horrores de los que son testigos y cómplices a la vez. …”

“…An impressive lineup of established and emerging scholars talk seriously about forms of multiplicity that are rarely discussed as such, including direct-to-DVD films made in Nigeria, cross-cultural Japanese horror remakes, YouTube fan-generated trailer mash-ups, and 1970s animal revenge films. …”
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“…It retrieves the illusory body of Kathy Acker through dream and through horror, sees the morphing body of Michael Jackson in becoming all of the bodies he was asked to be, and looks toward Sylvia Plath and the language of her own body. …”

“…With its aesthetics of shock, transgression, parody, Debordian détournement, caricature, and montage, her oeuvre reimagines the fin-de-siècle United States as a schlock horror film for her punk girl protagonist: Acker's cipher for herself and other rebellious and nonconformist women. …”

“…Finally, the authors invoke and reformulate symbols of the four horseman of the apocalypse as rhetorical analogues to frame those aspects of contemporary collapse that elucidate the horror of the zombie. Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis is required reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary culture. …”

“…War Child was founded upon a fundamental goal: to advance the cause of peace through investing hope in the lives of children caught up in the horrors of war. War Child works in many different conflict areas around the world, helping hundreds of thousands of children every year. …”

“…With its aesthetics of shock, transgression, parody, Debordian détournement, caricature, and montage, her oeuvre reimagines the fin-de-siècle United States as a schlock horror film for her punk girl protagonist: Acker's cipher for herself and other rebellious and nonconformist women. …”

“…In addition, the author incorporates the long-forgotten testimonies of bystander contemporaries, who unwittingly became part of the unfolding nightmare and recorded the horror in simple words.This book also serves as a personal journey of discovery. …”

“…All their lives, they warred against the ‘sufferings and horrors’ of enslavement as a centuries-old ‘cursed institution.’ …”

“…In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote in defense of the values of tolerance and change. …”

“…It culminated in the horrors of sterilization camps in India and the one-child policy in China." …”

“…Death by Government is a compelling look at the horrors that occur in modern societies. It depicts how democide has been very much a part of human history. …”

“…A través de una narración impecablemente documentada, Diario de una nazi nos traslada al momento más infame de la historia del siglo xx desde un punto de vista muy poco habitual: el de los alemanes que quisieron cerrar los ojos ante el horror." (contracubierta)…”

“…Con un pudor extremo, pero con una gélida precisión, Semprún desgrana por primera vez en estas páginas el catálogo de horrores a los que él, como tantos otros héroes anónimos, fue sometido antes de acabar deportado en el campo de concentración de Buchenwald. …”

“…El siglo XX se define por el choque entre la democracia y el fascimso, una lucha en la que estaba en juego la supervivencia de la libertad humana y que dejó millones de muertos. Vistos los horrores de esa experiencia, cabría esperar que el mundo rechazara a los sucesores espirituales de Hitler y Mussolini si surgieran en nuestra época. …”

“…Today's wrong-headed monetary policies are now setting the stage for a new global economic and social catastrophe that could rival the recent financial crisis and even the horrors of the 1930s. Coauthored by Steve Forbes, one of the world's leading experts on finance, Money shows you why that doesn't need to happen--and how to prevent it. …”

“…Today's wrong-headed monetary policies are now setting the stage for a new global economic and social catastrophe that could rival the recent financial crisis and even the horrors of the 1930s. Coauthored by Steve Forbes, one of the world’s leading experts on finance, Money shows you why that doesn’t need to happen—and how to prevent it. …”