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      • Trusted Partner
        December 1998

        Lectura in Biblia

        Luthers Genesisvorlesung (1535–1545)

        by Asendorf, Ulrich

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      • Fiction

        The 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.

      • 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.

      • Fiction
        December 2017

        La biblia aria

        by Jordi Matamoros

        The renowned professor of mineralogy Leonid Kulik, is appointed to carry out the investigation of a great explosion that took place in 1980, June the 30th, in the Siberian tundra of Tunguska. Together with his assistant, good friend and also professor Alekséi, he will enter an inhospitable territory considered cursed by the locals, who attribute the disaster to divine punishment. Superstitions, the weather and the difficulties of the road will not prevent them from locating the epicenter where a meteorite allegedly impacted, allegedly destroying more than 10 million trees. There they will find something very different from what they expected: no trace of a crater or a fireball, although, anchored in the air, an oval object of unknown nature, waiting to be found. The investigation of what clearly appears to be an extraterrestrial ship, will trigger a series of events in which the teachers will be involved. A Nazi secret society, commanded by the Führer himself, will traverse time to the very cradle of humanity, to discover that nothing is as they have told us. * * * El reconocido profesor de mineralogía Leonid Kulik, es designado para llevar a cabo la investigación de una gran explosión que tuvo lugar el 30 de junio de 1908 en la tundra siberiana de Tunguska. Junto a su ayudante, buen amigo y también profesor Alekséi, se adentrará en un inhóspito territorio considerado maldito por los lugareños, que atribuyen el desastre a un castigo divino. Las supersticiones, el clima y las dificultades del camino no impedirán que localicen el epicentro en el que supuestamente impactó un meteorito que habría arrasado más de 10 millones de árboles. Allí hallarán algo muy distinto a lo que esperaban: ni rastro de cráter ni de bólido, aunque sí, anclado en el aire, un objeto oval de naturaleza desconocida, esperando a ser encontrado. La investigación de lo que a todas luces parece ser una nave extraterrestre, desencadenará una serie de acontecimientos en los que los profesores se verán implicados. Una sociedad secreta nazi, comandada por el Führer en persona, surcará el tiempo hasta la misma cuna de la humanidad, para descubrir que allí nada es como nos lo han contado.

      • Religion: general
        April 2015

        LA BIBLIA EN ROSTROS DE MUJER

        by Montero Carrión, Domingo J.

        Descubrir el lado o el rostro femenino de la Biblia es necesario, pero no es fácil hacerlo equilibradamente. Existen feminismos «reactivos», agresivos y feminismos «reaccionarios», anclados en el tradicionalismo. Estas páginas pretenden invitar a releer las historias de mujeres bíblicas, descubriendo no solo al personaje, sino también el mensaje y el paisaje, con sus ambigüedades, con sus luces y sus sombras. Mi propósito es eminentemente catequético. El mensaje bíblico parte de un principio fundamental: el hombre y la mujer, los dos unidos, y no por separado, encarnan la imagen de Dios (Gén 1,27).

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2015

        Salomé

        by Elaine Vilar Madruga

        En un futuro en el que los humanos cazan creaturas invaluables en planetas desconocidos, una de ellas cae en manos de las más altas jerarquías del imperio galáctico y es la razón de motines y desconfianza. El poder político se ve desestabilizado al nacer dentro de los gobernantes un hambriento deseo, despierto por este ser del espacio exterior, cuyo destino recuerda a las primeras historias de la humanidad. Esta novela obtuvo el Premio Calendario 2013 y el Premio Agustín Rojas de la Crítica a la mejor novela de ciencia ficción publicada en Cuba el mismo año.

      • February 2021

        La Biblia y el dron

        Sobre usos y abusos de figuras bíblicas en el discurso político de Israel

        by Rabinovich, Silvana

        There is in this book the stinking smell of phosphorus coming from the air, the evocation of the panoptic gaze of the imperial planes that cross the sky in a few seconds over the roofs of miserable villages and towns. There is the voice of the poets who wonder when the unjust will end and what should never have begun, and along with that voice that of the political leaders who rewrite the dictated word to enunciate it in a justifiable key of extermination, also the voice of the founding fathers of the Jewish State and of those who warned, in the face of the evidence of the first outrages, the sure possibility of a collapse of the ideals of ethics and justice. Rubén Chababo.

      • Religion: general
        December 2002

        CONTAR A JESÚS

        LECTURA ORANTE DE 24 TEXTOS DEL EVANGELIO

        by Aleixandre Parra, Dolores

        Libro para conocer mejor a Jesús y encontrarle desde el evangelio, para releer textos del A.T. con nuevas perspectivas, para aprender a orar desde la Biblia.

      • Religion: general
        January 2015

        LA CONCIENCIA

        by Flecha Andrés, José Román

        ¿Qué es la conciencia? ¿Qué significan expresiones como «me remuerde» la conciencia (o «no me remuerde»)? ¿Queda todo «arreglado» con tal de que las malas acciones no sean conocidas, para que parezca que no existen? A estas cuestiones relativas a la conciencia se refiere este libro. Está concebido siguiendo el esquema clásico que asume los pasos de ver, juzgar y actuar. En el primer capítulo se dirige la vista a nuestra comprensión de la conciencia. En el segundo y el tercero se recogen las bases para un discernimiento sobre la conciencia, tomadas de la Biblia y de la reflexión cristiana sobre la misma. En el tercero, la mirada a la situación se abre a una reflexión sobre la responsabilidad humana tanto personal como estructural, siempre alentada por la esperanza.

      • History of religion

        The Bible, from the Beginning to the End

        A Reading Guide for Today

        by Alberto de Mingo Kaminouchi

        No literary work has exerted more influence on Western culture than the Bible. None has been more studied by archaeologists, historians, philologists, anthropologists, philosophers or theologians across the centuries. For anyone interested in this work, true heritage of the world, this book is an indispensable introduction to the main contents and to the discoveries that have been done in recent decades, usually restricted to specialists’ circles. The author offers a vast overview of each one of the books of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Characters, geographical settings, historical events, cultures, literary genres and numberless complementary data help the reader to think about the present in light of a past that has configured the mindset of whole generations. “The author combines a simple, yet rigorous, scientific vision of the problems, with a believing reading and an extraordinary pedagogical ability to reach today’s readers.”

      • Biblical studies & exegesis

        The Way of the Disciple

        Following Jesus according Mark's Gospel

        by Santiago Guijarro

        The originality of this work is the invitation to read the Gospel in light of the experience of Jesus’ discipleship. The circumstances of today’s readers are certainly different from those of the first disciples. Nowadays, possibly no one makes a living by fishing with rudimentary techniques in a small lake and no one speaks the language of those fishermen...  Yet, today’s readers can easily share with them the experience of being called by Jesus and the joy of being by His side. They may even know first hand how difficult it is sometimes to persevere in following Jesus. We must remember today the founding experiences of our faith, discipleship being one of them.

      • Literature & Literary Studies

        De la confesión nocturna

        by Carmen Nozal

        El último libro de la poeta Carmen Nozal titulado De la confesión nocturna posee dos partes en su estructura: De la Divinidad con forma y de la Divinidad sin forma. En él recurre a contraponer dos realidades desde la creencia y la escritura. Ella reconoce que esta forma puede ser múltiple o no; pero al mismo tiempo contrapone esta realidad en el ejercicio escritural; en la sección “De la Divinidad con forma”, la autora recurre a formas estróficas clásicas como sonetos, décimas, silvas entre otras, y en la segunda parte “De la Divinidad sin forma”, se desprende de los recursos clásicos y recurre al verso libre o al prosema para reflejar con igual tratamiento la vehemencia por Dios, cualquiera que sea su forma. Nuestra poeta, no sólo se sustenta en la Biblia y en los místicos españoles y latinoamericanos; también abreva y recorre otros paisajes y culturas. Cuando Carmen Nozal, poeta de oficio y dedicación, recibió el anhelado correo de la Fundación Fernando Rielo anunciándole su honroso puesto de finalista, se ubicaba a los poetas de acuerdo a su lugar de hábitat y la señalaban: Carmen Nozal-Cuauthémoc. Ahí la imagino en esas calles y avenidas de la Colonia Roma, donde afloran las librerías de viejo, entre el ruido de las calles, el caminar de las multitudes, los ruidos de los autos y del metro; las noticias, sus plantas creciendo en la pequeña huerta junto al balcón, entre sus cantos místicos y sus divinidades, con forma o sin forma, a las cuales hace su entrega, con destreza y belleza y aún en la terrena duda: “Pienso en la Divinidad, puede que no todos los días, pero casi. Quiero escribirle, sin embargo”. Javier Alvarado

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        June 2019

        TELL

        by Martín Lombardo

        Once upon a time… the Tell universe, a universe that is presented to us in multiple intertwined dimensions, and in which the characters intersect in paths of thought and action. In a transition between written language and visual language, the novel reconstructs the relationship between life and art, so that the action breaks down into reality and warns us that we live in it. On the one hand, we are introduced to a 60 years-old filmmaker who revisits his life. Despite not having the last name Tell, he wonders if he is a descendant of the mythical Swiss hero, William Tell. On the other hand, there is a young man trying to piece together an endless puzzle in which, in exchange for a fee, he finds himself aroused by his own desires. And also, there is a mysterious feminine presence around which all stories are forged, as the origin and end of the real and the mythical. Read, see, and dare to ask yourself: Am I a Tell?

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        Üñüm püllü. Bird spirit

        by Lorenzo Aillapán

        Lorenzo Aillapán, recognized as a Living Human Treasure in 2012 by UNESCO, is the Mapuche bird man - üñümche in Mapuzugun. A poet originally from the coast of the Araucanía Region, he is a great connoisseur of nature, of the mysteries hidden by living beings on land and in the sea. Part of this wisdom is shared with the readers in these 46 poems about diverse organisms that inhabit different environments: the water (fish and seafood), the mountainous universe (trees) and the winged universe (birds). Through hisverses, the poet describes various aspects of these living beings: what they are like, what the place is like where they live, how they behave, what use they can be put to and what importance they have for the Mapuche people. In the case of the birds, the poems also incorporate the onomatopoeia of their song. This complete anthological volume is bilingual Mapuzugun/Spanish.

      • Literature & Literary Studies

        EL QUIJOTE. Versión abreviada y adaptada al español de América Miguel de Cervantes

        by Pablo Chiuminatto. Editor.

        Ediciones UC presenta esta versión abreviada de Don Quijote de la Mancha, adaptada al español actual de América. "Esta nueva versión permite a los lectores disfrutar del conjunto de su trama, y especialmente del humor cervantino, sin las dificultades que genera la distancia temporal no solo con el español de aquellos tiempos, sino también con la realidad históricocultural de la España de 400 años atrás". Carlos Mata, Universidad de Navarra.

      • August 2018

        Cybertlön

        by Luis Sagasti

        Few Argentinian authors narrate in the interstice of speculative fiction and essay, between story and aesthetics. Luis Sagasti is a ferocious reader and demonstrates his sophisticated ear without resorting to solemnity or shouting, adept at finding the threads that secretly bind John Cage, the Beatles, Picasso, Ariana Harwicz, and César Aira. Cybertlön is a lucid essay about the state of contemporary art and the emergence of the cyberflâneur: a landlubber who surfs the web and reflects on the wreckage of his experience. But as a boy, Sagasti learned to travel much earlier, like so many of his generation, by browsing the massive and unpretentious I Know Everything encyclopedia from Larousse, a compendium of the world in 12 volumes, with no clear logic or order. From those first readings and his democratic and unbiased attention to the world, Sagasti builds his own Aleph.

      • Christian theology

        Salvation

        A Sketch of Soteriology

        by Emilio J. Justo

        When human beings seriously reflect on their existence and the world around them, they are faced with pressing questions that require an answer. What is the meaning of my life? Why does the world exist? Is happiness possible? Why there is suffering? Why do I have to die? Is it possible to overcome guilt and redeem sin? Will someone bring justice someday?  All these questions and many others ultimately point to salvation, whose goal is to overcome the evil we suffer and to achieve the fullness we long for. From a Christian perspective, salvation can also be understood as the personal participation in God’s communion.

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