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Unnatural selection
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Mara Hvistendahl |
"Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed se… |
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Amanecer en el desierto
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Waris Dirie,D'Haem, Jeanne/ Dirie, Waris |
Waris Dirie se convirtió en modelo internacional, y rostro habitual de los productos Revlon. Pero esta supermodelo no ha olvidado sus duros orígenes, la circuncisión a la que fue sometida a los cinco… |
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Wüstenblume
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Cathleen Miller,Waris Dirie,Miller |
Waris Dirie leads a double life -- by day, she is an international supermodel and human rights ambassador for the United Nations; by night, she dreams of the simplicity of life in her native Somalia … |
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Cat's Eye
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Margaret Atwood |
**Cat's Eye** is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisce… |
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