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Escritores Peligrosos (Dangerous Writers)
by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez an important cuban story teller, reveals through this book a group of interviews made to important writers and intelectuals from Cuba and the World as Gunter Grass or Mario Benedetti where they give intersting points of view concerning literature and society.
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Números calientes: 229 acertijos y reta-cerebros
by Ing. A. Birenboim
Números calientes: 229 acertijos y reta-cerebros - por el Ing. A. Birenboim Una ingeniosa colección de los acertijos lógicos, matemáticos y gráficos más divertidos del mundo dedicado a los verdaderos amantes de los retos intelectuales. El libro contiene ilustraciones a todo color además de despertar el pensamiento creativo, lo que lo convierte en un verdadero entretenimiento para el lector debido a su estilo informal y jocoso. Este libro encabezó la lista de los Best-Sellers israelíes por 12 semanas consecutivas manteniéndose por encima de los mas solicitados libros de recetas de cocina. Una edición en italiano titulada Pazzi-Pazzi Numeri fue publicada a mediados del 2001 por RCS Rizzoli. La nueva edición ampliada de Números calientes cuenta con dos tomos que contienen conjuntamente 290 acertijos. El tomo I está adaptado al amante de acertijos aficionado, mientras que el tomo II está concebido para retar a los mas empedernidos profesionales. Los derechos en inglés todavía están disponibles. Ami Birenboim, un ingeniero de informática brillante, ha estado investigando este fascinante campo desde la adolescencia, y ahora nos trae una selección de los mejores acertijos del mundo, para ávidos entusiastas de este género. Los derechos en español para España y Sudamerica están todavía disponibles!
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Health & Personal DevelopmentPause and Sense
by Emily Atallah
Thousands of people say things such as “I have no time”, “when did life pass me by”, or “I have nothing left to live for.” According to the WHO, nearly 700,000 people commit suicide every year, and conditions such as depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and lack of purpose are increasingly rooted in our societies, blocking our view to a life full of light and possibilities. In the age of instant connectivity, we have never been as disconnected, unmotivated and empty as we are now. In these pages, you will find 10 practical tools that will help you get unstuck, find your way through pain, and reconnect with your purpose towards a plentiful life. The book is divided in three sections that help you understand what is valuable about life, what we can give to the world as human beings, and how we can embrace challenges, increase connectivity with each other and increase our awareness. This book invites you to enrich your own life, through reflections that help you go deep inside, and examples of how others who when through similar experiences, got through them to live a happier, meaningful, and purposeful life.
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FictionThe Countess and the Organ Player
by Cesia Hirshbein
In the historical context of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the height of the Romantic era, the 19th century, Anton Bruckner, the famous Austrian composer and organist, falls in love with the imposing Countess Henriette. She had been appointed lady-in-waiting to Princess Charlotte of Belgium, the wife of Prince Maximilian of Habsburg, to attend to her during the couple's Mexican endeavor. They had been named Emperor and Empress of Mexico and would embark on a journey to America for this mission. Bruckner meets the countess by chance at the funeral of Maximilian, who had been assassinated in Querétaro in 1867, during the so-called Second Mexican Empire. On the recommendation of a musician friend of Henriette's, who sees him at the funeral, she takes piano lessons with Bruckner. When she tells him that she had accompanied the empress to Mexico, the composer becomes enchanted. He admired Maximilian and was passionate about Mexico; he had even wanted to accompany the emperor. Ultimately, the only trips he made were to give organ concerts in London and another at Notre Dame in Paris. Between classes, the countess tells him of the Atlantic crossing, the arrival in Veracruz, and the entrance to Mexico City. Gradually, they grow closer. In one of his concerts, Bruckner meets Franz Liszt, who was a patron of Maximilian's empire in Mexico. Meanwhile, the countess and the organist plan a Requiem, which will be the turning point between them.
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Humanities & Social Sciences
The Gospel of Prosperity
Literary and critical perspectives about the science of getting right quick
by Luis Miguel Estrada
In 2020, amidst the whirlwind of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ideas from books about the science of becoming a millionaire returned to Luis Miguel Estrada whom, since he left a financial job, has dedicated himself fully to literature. In this book, he thinks some of the key questions raised by bestsellers from Napoleon Hill to Kiyosaki. Do we stop seeking money just because we pursue art? More importantly: regardless of what we do, how do we seek money? Why have narratives like positive thinking and the law of attraction become a universal language that gains strength during each economic crisis? Is there a link between bestsellers about the science of getting rich and great universal literature? This book attempts to answer these questions, beginning with the origins of books on becoming a millionaire, which delve into the agile 19th-century United States, transition through the fast-paced turn of the century, and explode in the years after the Great Depression. The journey continues with examples of wild successes (real-life fraudsters like Elizabeth Holmes or fictional criminals like Walter White from Breaking Bad) that prompt us to question the influence of success-at-any-cost ideas on popular culture, as well as their ethical limits. How can one reconcile readings, cultural products, and experiences that seem so distant? The broader reading audience responds more to "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill than to "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. Is there a way to read them alongside each other and emerge renewed from the experience? This book invites you on that adventure.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2019Lugares, recorridos y sentidos de la memoria histórica: Acercamientos metodológicos
by Laura Fonseca Durán, Diana Vernot, Tatiana Rojas Roa, Laura Giraldo Martínez, Edwin Corena Puentes, David J. Luquetta Cediel
This book is an initiative of the Regional Groups of Historical Memory (GRMH), which, together with the National Center for Historical Memory since 2013, generated proposals for the construction of historical memory in Colombia. The objective of the consolidation of the GRMH has been to recognize local research processes carried out by university professors to build bridges between the country's institutions and communities victimized in the framework of the internal armed conflict in Colombia. Although the participatory social research bets are nourished by multiple edges, disciplines, and schools of thought, there are methodological peculiarities in the investigations that are formulated in the key of historical memory that, on this occasion, are transversal and are deepened in each chapter.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2019El espacio público de la migración
by Ricardo Espinoza Lolas y Jordi Riba (coords.)
This new book, The Public Space of Migration, is part of the Aporias de la Democracia series, of which it is its second volume. With the first, which bears the name of the collection, we immersed ourselves in the complex moments that our democracy lives today (haunted by multiple evils: from a voracious capitalism to the arrival of a new fascism, through fanaticism of all kinds); now we reflect on the various ways of expressing the phenomenon of migration. A group of philosophers, theologians, psychoanalysts, artists, sociologists, psychologists, philologists, historians, etc., reflect critically, and in a proactive way, on how to take charge of something that is inevitable and a constitutive part of the human beigns: “to migrate”. This collection intends to move forward with “fundamental issues” that today we radically urge to answer and, for this, we need a reflective and critical look on the level of what society demands of its intellectuals. We can not be locked in our study centers; it is impossible in these times. WeOthers must, and so we are all, trying to improve the quality of life in complex times of such foolishness. This collection will continue and, with our “concepts”, we want to give tools to everyone to be able to generate correct political decision-making. A Revolution of Us begins. * * * Este nuevo libro, El espacio público de la migración, es parte de la serie Aporías de la Democracia, del que es su segundo volumen. Ya con el primero, que lleva el nombre de la colección, nos sumergimos en los complejos momentos que vive nuestra democracia en la actualidad (acechada por múltiples males: desde un capitalismo voraz hasta la llegada de un nuevo fascismo pasando por fanatismos de toda especie); ahora reflexionamos sobre las diversas formas de expresar el fenómeno de la migración. Y para ello nos juntamos en Valparaíso (2018) en el II Coloquio Euro-Latinoamericano: Inmigrantes, Refugiados, Desplazados, un grupo de filósofos, teólogos, psicoanalistas, artistas, sociólogos, psicólogos, filólogos, historiadores, etc., para reflexionar ya de modo crítico, ya de modo propositivo, cómo hacernos cargo de algo que es inevitable y parte constitutiva de lo humano: “migrar”. Esta colección pretende seguir adelante con “asuntos fundamentales” que hoy nos urge radicalmente responder y, para ello, necesitamos una mirada reflexiva y crítica que esté a la altura de lo que demanda la sociedad a sus intelectuales. Nos podemos estar encerrados en nuestros centros de estudio; es imposible en estos tiempos. NosOtros debemos, y estamos entre todos, tratando de mejorar la calidad de vida en tiempos complejos de tanta insensatez. Esta colección seguirá adelante y, con nuestros “conceptos”, queremos dar herramientas a todos para poder ir generando una acertada toma de decisiones políticas. Se inicia con esta colección una Revolución del NosOtros.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAn Introduction to Christian Arab Literature
by Pilar González Casado
Since its very beginning, Christianity has been present in the Middle East. However, the rise of Islam toward the end of the seventh century and the political and linguistic dominion it exerted over that region has a deep impact on the area and the Christian communities. When Arabic became the language of culture, Christian authors adopted it in their writings. As a result of the ups and downs in their relation with Islam, there will be apocalyptic and apocryphal works in ancient Palestine monasteries, books by Melkite, Nestorian and Monophysite authors, dogmatic treatises and poetic compositions. Moreover, both the Bible and patristic, liturgical and hagiographical works were soon translated into Arabic. This literary activity took place not only in major centers such as Damascus, Baghdad and Cairo, but also in farther areas like Al-Andalus.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureApril 2021Sueños de la Euro
El torneo que reconcilió a un continente
by Miguel L. Pereira
As Paul Auster once said, football is the miracle that allowed Europe to hate itself without destroying itself. The ball has done more than any other political project for brotherhood in a land too used to fighting with itself. After each conflict, it was necessary for the ball to be there to make the continent a space of union and not a perpetual trench. For this reason, every time the European Championship is held, there is a part of the world that looks into each other's eyes and shakes hands. For this reason, when we write about the 60 years of history of this emblematic tournament, we are really drawing our memories, our fears and our desires as Europeans. Because the dreams of Delaunay, Panenka, Charisteas, Aragonés or Éder are also our dreams.
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Christian theologyThe Christ Always New
The Place of Context in Christology
by Francisco García Martínez
Something has changed in Christology, something that causes anxiousness and worry among the shepherds and theologians that try to give reason of their faith in a time and in a society where certitudes have dwindled. However, since Christ is the same yesterday, today and always, the only and universal Salvator in history, theology, forced by Christ’s eschatological lordship, which does not despise any historical present as his own body, must look for new ways to offer today’s men and women the truth, beauty and goodness that are in store for all in God’s very depths. According to this logic, where the context becomes a provocation inviting faith and theology to be daring, the liturgical Christ reveals himself as the foundation of Christology, since it is the place where he displays his truth and living presence.
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April 2018Lectores, editores y cultura impresa en Colombia: siglos XVI- XXI
by Editores académicos • Diana Paola Guzmán Méndez Paula Andrea Marín Colorado • Juan David Murillo Sandoval Miguel Ángel Pineda Cupa.
El lector conocerá sobre la circulación de libros entre los siglos XVI y XVII; el dinamismo del mundo impreso durante el siglo XIX y el papel del Estado en ese periodo; la modernización y especialización de los oficios y la formación de comunidades lectoras; así como la edición “independiente” y digital, y la venta de derechos de autores de literatura colombianos en el extranjero.
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September 2018Horizontes culturales de la historia del arte: aportes para una acción compartida en Colombia
by Editor académico: Diego Salcedo Fidalgo. Autores: Karen Cordero Reiman, María Clara Cortés Polanía, Claudia Angélica Reyes Sarmiento, Isabel Cristina Ramírez Botero, Mario Alejandro Molano Vega, Diego Salcedo Fidalgo, Julián Sánchez González, María Margarita Malagón-Kurka, Ana María Franco, Jesús Pedro Lorente, Antonio Sánchez Gómez, Gabriela Gil Verenzuela, Paula Jimena Matiz López, Carlos Rojas Cocoma, Daniel García Roldán, Anne-Marie Losonczy, Jairo Enrique Salazar Chaparro, Mariana Dicker Molano.
Horizontes culturales de la historia del arte. Aportes para una acción compartida en Colombia da cuenta de reflexiones que van desde los silencios u omisiones en la historia del arte, pasando por las conexiones complejas entre estética e historia del arte, hasta las vicisitudes de su práctica en el museo o lugares alternativos. También examina la memoria del arte como nuevo modo de representación, relectura y construcción de subjetividad.
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Fiction
What Would the Pope Say?
by Jaime Larrain
Pope Francis is at a crossroads. The Catholic Church, still reeling from the cases of child abuse and the corruption scandals of the Vatican Bank, has an opportunity for redemption or for a final nail in the coffin, after the Pope’s closes advisor, Cardinal Bullbridge, is kidnapped. While the Pope ponders the destiny of the Church, Aum, the leader of the Chrysallis Team that in 2016 kidnapped business moghul Brian Feller, has set for himself the tremendous challenge of gathering the most important religious leaders of the world so they can witness The Experiment, a mysterious process that could breathe new life into the Catholic Faith. The Experiment was born in the island of Ithaca in 2010, thanks to the work of Aum and Father Thomas, the guardian of the Vatican´s secret files. The motivations of Aum and Thomas are not merely academic, there’s a much larger political agenda at play. Being 86 years of age, and with a very sick son, Aum rolls the dice and brings together the Dalai Lama, Pope Francis, historian Yuval Harari, philosopher Michael Onfray, and many others. But Cardinal Bullbridge wants to put an end to his, which he sees as a threat to the Papacy. And Commissioner Scorza, Vatican Chief of Security, is trying to solve the riddle while also dealing with some scandals of his own making. What Would the Pope Say? Is not just a history of the Vatican, it is the history of an ancient dream that can now become reality, a dream we all carry inside: a spirituality that goes beyond religions, and that is one and universal.
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Children's & YAWHEN THE MOON RISES
Federico García Lorca for kids
by Author: Federico García Lorca / Selection and editing by Marta Mearin / Illustrations: Carolina Monterrubio
Cuando sale la luna (When the moon rises) is an anthological selection of poetry and a play by the great Spanish writer Federico García Lorca. This selection has been specially designed to bring his poetry and drama closer to the world of children and young people, making it accessible to a greater number of boys, girls and young people so that they can discover his work, get to know it and enjoy it. Precisely because of this, some modifications have been made that seek to avoid macho expressions (socially accepted at the time the book was written) and to bring the characters of the play closer to children and young people today. The beautiful illustrations play with the poet’s words, bringing imagination and humor.
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December 2019Retomada
by Pablo Albarenga
Con esta selección fotográfica registrada entre 2016 y 2019, Pablo Albarenga nos adentra en la vida y la lucha de los pueblos indígenas de Brasil por recuperar sus territorios.Muchos son los pueblos originarios que viven en América Latina. Los que se identifican hoy como guaraníes vivieron y transitaron en la región comprendida por Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay. Se dice que si caminamos de Uruguay a Brasil y luego a Bolivia, podríamos dormir cada noche en una tekoá distinta. Las tekoás son aldeas donde preservan su legado ancestral; tekoá significa, en lengua guaraní, la tierra sin mal, el lugar donde se lleva a cabo la forma de ser guaraní.Estos pueblos de tierras bajas han hecho evidente una impactante capacidad para oponerse a eso que llamamos progreso. Son los que han enfrentado con mayor firmeza a las grandes obras y megaproyectos, desde la represa de Belo Monte (Brasil) hasta la carretera que atraviesa el Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro-Sécure (Bolivia).Las retomadas —reocupaciones de tierras indígenas— son un retorno a lo esencial, un acto de rebeldía de los pueblos indígenas de Brasil para volver a unirse con el territorio ancestral. Estos pueblos nos interpelan sobre si somos capaces de reconocer la diferencia, de aceptar la libertad del otro, su derecho a ser y a elegir cómo vivir. Pues en su libertad se evidencian nuevos rumbos posibles que nos obligan a mirarnos en su espejo para repensarnos.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentAugust 2014Orientación inicial
DESTREZA MENTAL
by Guadalupe Baeza Gómez, Rafael Enríquez Raya
Did you know that the brain is the most important organ in the human body? as the center of the nervous system it controls all the functions of the organism, both executive and autonomous, and all bodily processes are based on its proper functioning. For this reason, it is necessary to preserve it in the best possible way, since with the passing of time it tends to deteriorate and, therefore, to diminish its faculties. At the moment guide we will explain everything about this wonderful organ, we will deepen in the knowledge of its different functions; we will also indicate how to use the CDs that are part of the system and that contain the didactic exercises for hone your mental processes related to memory, attention, reasoning as well as skills increase verbal and visuospatial. Exercise in each of cognitive areas with exercises shows that here They offer, in addition to a guide to nutritional care to nurture good your brain. It is convenient that, as an introduction, do a preconception assessment (what you think about something or know of a certain topic), to achieve a greater understanding how this system works brain training, for that we will use a didactic material called table C-Q-A, which a Here we introduce you.
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April 2016Experiencias internacionales de paz : lecciones aprendidas para Colombia
by Angélica Alba, Beatriz Suárez, Bibiana Rueda, Egoitz Gago, Felipe Jaramillo, José David Moreno, Margarita Cadavid Otero, Miguel Barreto Henriques, Olga Illera Correal.
Colombia se enfrenta a uno de los mayores desafíos de su historia reciente: poner fin a más de cinco décadas de violencia armada. El proceso de paz entre el gobierno nacional y las FARC en La Habana permite vislumbrar una posible salida negociada al conflicto armado, pero genera también varios interrogantes en cuanto al modelo y contenido del posible acuerdo. En este libro se exploran tales preguntas, así como a las diversas exigencias y desafíos de la construcción de paz en un potencial escenario de posconflicto.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentJanuary 2016Ya no te aguanto
Como mejorar la relacion con tus hijos adolescentes
by Edouard Atangana, PhD
The book is a practical guide for parents with adolescents children. It helps parents manage their relationship with their teenage children through the tumultous years of adolescence.
