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Humanities & Social SciencesThe Animal Mirror
by Zakarías Zafra
Tapachula, Chiapas: a small city on the southern border of Mexico bearing the weight of a continental migratory crisis. Migrants trapped between bureaucracy, misery, and violence. Tens of thousands of bodies halted in front of the invisible wall of the United States. This book seeks to explore migration from the inside out. Its field of exploration encompasses not only the physical border but also the narrator's personal experience as an immigrant in Mexico. It is a hybrid work that weaves through chronicles, personal essays, autobiography, and travel writing, considering the migratory phenomenon not just as a collapse but as a space for profound subjective elaboration. The story of a religious leader expelled from Angola, the adventures of a former Colombian guerrilla threatened by the dissident factions of the FARC, and the nostalgia of an exiled Sandinista from Daniel Ortega's dictatorship blend in a common chorus with the narrator’s voice, son of a father killed by the Venezuelan state and a mother seeking asylum in Mexico. More than a chronicle, "El espejo animal" seeks to be a spoken portrait of migration in Latin America. It is an artifact that enables and amplifies the voices of migrants where they cannot be heard.
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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.
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FictionEverything You Should Know Before You Love Me
by Gerard Guix
Novel eligible for translation grants for Catalan novels from the Institut Ramón Llull Recently translated and published in French Pin i Soler de Novel.la awards 2001 A novel, with a very personal poetic style that opens up to the fantastic, therefore has a very broad reading horizon. The readership is female and male, young adults and avid readers. If our lives are like a film, are we actors… or spectators? Five years have passed since Gerard and Anastasia met in London. Five years in which, despite the passion of the first days, they have grown apart until they feel very far from each other, even though they are in the same bed. Now they are about to embark on a journey to the Swiss shore of Lake Geneva. There, in the house where actress Audrey Hepburn spent her last days, Gerard will try to revive his literary career while she desperately tries to save their relationship. Gerard Guix uses humour, suspense and fantasy in this novel, full of love for the cinema, where readers will discover whether it is possible to erase our memories and live without any.Musical, visual, sensual novel, but not a conventional romance. The fantastic atmosphere that gradually imposes itself, the suspense, the psychological precision of the characters but also the humour nourish a reflection on questions such as the power of forgetting to overcome suffering and difficulties, to the point of envisaging a life without memories. The gradual transformation of the story into a magnetic tape that is slowed down, accelerated and listened to in reverse fascinates by its hypnotising power. The last scene is masterful in this respect. The author’s qualities as a dramatist can be seen in his mastery of the rhythm of the story, the setting of the space and the psychological depth of the characters.
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Geography & the EnvironmentChile geopoético
by Miguel Laborde
Esta publicación reúne veintiocho columnas del investigador, académico y escritor Miguel Laborde, con ilustraciones de Alejandra Acosta, publicadas en la revista La Panera. Sus textos dan cuenta de una serie de datos geográficos e históricos que permiten asomarse a ciertos rasgos distintivos de Chile desde los cuales se construye un relato del imaginario local. La geopoética como concepto nace como una herramienta para comprender y expresar nuestra relación con el mundo y el pensar a la Tierra. Considera la cultura como el modo en el que los seres humanos se conciben a sí mismos y se organizan y orientan. “Desde el punto de vista literario, un libro como este, que corrió el riesgo de ser concebido por la vía de la protesta en un lenguaje de pura comunicación, es, por el contrario, un libro poético, de excelente prosa, de gran riqueza de imágenes y sorpresas de lógica e ilógica. Su crítica al modelo de civilización vigente es lapidaria, pero de un furor contenido”. Gastón Soublette
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Children's & YAAugust 2021Lo que no se comprende
by Inés Arredondo
A selection of short stories by Inés Arredondo, in which the feminine, the sensuality, the eroticism, the unspeakable desire, death, the sordid, and otherness are recurrent themes, and they are part of what can´t be understood, of the intangible that are present in the daily life of its characters. This edition exquisitely illustrated by the young Mexican woman John Marceline contains stories like “Summer”, “Shadows between shadows”, “Mariana”, “The Shunammite”, “Opus 123”, among others.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2017Sobre música, músicos y otras memorias
by Erik Satie
Multifacético y revolucionario, Erik Satie irrumpió en la música a principios del siglo XX con una sutileza inesperada. Creó piezas para piano, música de mobiliario, para películas mudas y cabarets; sólo una arista de su amplia reflexión como compositor. Además, escribió sobre la crítica y los críticos, de sus contemporáneos y de la música. Estas reflexiones, cargadas con un irónico sentido del humor y su personalidad libre de toda regla, fueron publicadas en revistas de la época como fragmentos que parecieron nunca completar una obra en su totalidad. Ordenados temáticamente, en este libro se reúnen textos provenientes de columnas que Satie tituló Memorias de un amnésico, Cuadernos de un mamífero, Observaciones de un imbécil (yo) y Crónica musical, entre otros escritos diversos.
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Children's & YAFebruary 2017Hoy es miércoles
Children whose future has been stolen have only their imagination
by Patricio Nouveau
An unknown adult unexpectedly turns up in the lives of Gilmar and Lanh at the same time but in different parts of the world. Gilmar lives in Bolivia and his father works in the old silver miines of Cerro Rico in the city of Potosí; Lanh is an orphan, she was taken in by the Thuy Xuân orphanage in Vietnam after her parents died when the Perfume River flooded. From their native cities, accompanied by the strange adult, they each undertake a journey that will lead them to Sas, a child soldier who, tries to escape during the Sierra Leone civil war to find his family, return to his former life and set out on a new future. The journey brings together three points on the planet, three languages and three cultures whose only relationship is a book whose photographs have disappeared since Sas was kidnapped from his school. The three boys are eleven years old. They are searching for each other, they need to find each other.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDesde la universidad a la sociedad II
Selección de escritos 2015 -2020.
by Ignacio Sánchez D.
Continuación de su primera selección de escritos, el material reunido en este libro corresponde a las convicciones del rector de la Universidad Católica de Chile, Ignacio Sánchez Díaz, expuestas en columnas y cartas publicadas en periódicos y revistas, así como en documentos y correos electrónicos internos de su segundo período (2015-2020) al mando de esta casa de estudios. Este es su testimonio como actor relevante de la poliédrica realidad de la educación en Chile. Aquí se encontrará una visión que, reconociendo la urgencia del acontecer y los movimientos cambiantes de las opiniones del día, se nutre de lo que siempre permanece fiel a sí mismo. A los temas dominantes del primer ciclo, se suman en la presente entrega asuntos que han marcado las circunstancias vividas por la comunidad académica, tales como la emergencia de las reivindicaciones feministas, la crisis de la Iglesia y la sustentabilidad. Todos estos contenidos son analizados desde el prisma de la universidad, pero también desde la perspectiva del bien común del país, lo que cruza como un hilo esencial las acciones emprendidas por la universidad en su búsqueda de la inclusión, la calidad, la adecuada convivencia interna y la internacionalización. Textos que se escriben en medio de los debates nucleares acerca del sentido de la educación, en ellos también –y sobre todo– se podrá vislumbrar el horizonte hacia el que camina una auténtica universidad católica. "La selección de los diversos contenidos da lugar a una edición que logra plenamente los objetivos más relevantes que pueden esperarse de o pedirse a una obra de este carácter y envergadura. Deja un nítido testimonio de la presencia activa –no solo de su existencia– de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile en la vida social y política del país a partir de su misión y propósito institucionales más propios y distintivos, durante el quinquenio que corresponde al segundo período del Rector Ignacio Sánchez". Aldo Valle. Rector Universidad de Valparaíso 2008-2020.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceCiclo 1. Velocidad-percepción: desarrollo de habilidades perceptivas
Sistema Integral de Lectura Rápida. Comprensión y memorización
by María Guadalupe Baeza Gómez
In this cycle Speed - perception: development of perceptual skills, you will significantly improve the speed of your reading thanks to the exercises of each lesson, whose main objective is that you achieve rapid perception of words, as well as identify and eliminate all those noises, distractions and bad habits that affect your reading process.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceCiclo 2. Comprensión total: atención y concentración
Sistema Integral de Lectura Rápida
by María Guadalupe Baeza Gómez
The effective process of a good read is not only related to speed but also depends on a good understanding that is supported by analyzing, synthesize, apply and construct written information, with the benefit of acquiring new knowledge and give them a meaning of their own. The ability to understand also provides intellectual stimulation, increase of the cultural heritage, development and improvement of language. Therefore, this second cycle is dedicated to increase and enhance this ability. The goal during these five weeks is to keep increasing the eye speed, but above all that now incorporates understanding, attention and visual concentration of texts, symbols and images, for such reasons new reading techniques are exposed, with which he will use the whole brain; this system methodology will teach you to read sentences and paragraphs (more complete ideas) at a single glance and to take scan readings, incorporating all the strategies and skills acquired. It is essential to work in this second cycle the TOTAL UNDERSTANDING, without leaving a side the speed. Practice and perseverance will be your best companions.
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September 2020A 洗濯機のアンゴラ猫
Angora cat in the washing machine
by Manuel Giron
Angora Cat in the washing machine «It was to be expected that censorship would appear at any time. The greed of those who handle the art market is too big and powerful. Speculation and money laundering cannot be stopped. Corruption is the backbone of the global financial system. And the artist is a simple buffoon who appears and disappears by the mafia’s art.» «Es war zu erwarten, dass die Zensur jeden Moment zuschlagen konnte. Die Geldgier derjenigen, die den Kunstmarkt beherrschen, ist zu groß und mächtig. Spekulation und Geldwäsche sind nicht aufzuhalten, und die Korruption ist das Rückgrat des weltweiten Finanzsystems. Der Künstler ist nichts weiter als ein Hofnarr, über dessen Auf- und Abtritt die Mafia entscheidet.» «Era de esperar que la censura apareciera en cualquier momento. La codicia de quienes manejan el mercado del arte es demasiado grande y poderosa. No se puede detener la especulación y el lavado de dinero. La corrupción es la columna vertebral del sistema financiero mundial. Y el artista es un simple bufón que aparece y desaparece por arte de mafia» 投機やマネーロンダリングを止めることはできない。汚職は世界の金融システムにおいて支柱である。そしてアーティストは、マフィアの手によって現れては消えていく単なる道化役に過ぎない。 «Manuel Giron has been writing stories full of humour and irony during his journeys, which revolve around the absurd. His short stories reflect vital dilemmas, everyday stories that the writer takes out of context with an enormous sense of humour. The author allows himself to mix reality and fiction, to express his opinions about the world that surrounds him with total naturalness, in a unique and very personal way, establishing a game in which the author participates, his characters and the reader. Thus, the reader is bound by the force and the tension of the narrative, which wraps him/her up with the turn of each page. Sometimes, it is added in the storyline the wrongdoing and the ambiguity, causing hilarity and surprise. Manuel Giron flirts with fiction, amazes us with his ideas, approaches and fables, while at the same time keeps his feet firmly anchored in the reality. His short stories constitute a magnificent and pleasant surprise, a compilation of ideas with an undoubted poetic background». Begoña Peris President of the United Nations Club of the Book in Spanish, Geneva. eBook Audio
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)March 20182001 Punto Cero
by Carlos A. Colla
Welcome to a luminous journey, at times hilarious, that crosses the misery and dissects the hypocrisy of an abandoned society that struggles to emerge from the abyss. In a Buenos Aires besieged by violence and poverty in the worst economic and ethical crisis in contemporary Argentina, the lives of a select few are shipwrecked in a country that is crumbling. Prostitutes, unemployed workers and cartoneros merge in a ravaged city, pierced by anarchic holes of poverty, evictions and unemployment. Thanks to an unknown fate, the protagonist, disenchanted and responsible for his family, advances between the absurdity of the crisis, in a forward flight, without rest or contemplation, to try to recover a destiny torn from the roots. What could be the destination of such a particular transit?
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceCiclo 3. Retención total: memoria
Sistema Integral de Lectura Rápida. Comprensión y memorización
by María Guadalupe Baeza Gómez
Memory is the psychic faculty by means of which the past is retained and remembered, hence its importance in the process of reading the information only once and remembering it the rest of the lifetime. This is based on attention, perception and reasoning, supported by the association and organization of data, because it not only means accumulating information but also knowing how to use it and for this you have to stimulate and exercise memory. In this third cycle lasting five weeks you will continue exercising all the skills and skills that you have learned in the system to apply in your daily life; also include specific techniques to improve concentration and memory, optimize study time, as well as organize and retain the information of any text. The ability to work in this cycle is TOTAL RETENTION, combining it with speed and understanding. From this one moment your way of reading is different, do not go back to the bad habits and always read with techniques, skills and strategies learned, since on this depends the true mastery from the same.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureNovember 2020Kafka en Maracaná
90 partidos. 90 autores. 90 relatos
by David García Cames, Miguel Ángel Ortiz and Marcel Beltran
Football breaks down all doors, including those of literature. Contrary to popular belief, there are many writers who at some point were attracted by the mystery of the goal or the fervor of the stands. The ball sneaks into the work and life of authors who have built bridges between these two apparently dissociated worlds. From Marguerite Duras to Eduardo Galeano, passing through Albert Camus, Roberto Bolaño, Svetlana Aleksiévich or Federico García Lorca. This book is 90 games that were played one day. This book is made up of 90 stories, halfway between the chronicle and the tale, with which tribute is paid to 90 extraordinary creators who have influenced our way of understanding football.
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October 2019Meaningful breeding paths Educating from consistency
by Clara Martínez Sánchez
Si está al cuidado de niños y adolescentes, ya sea padre o madre de familia, tía o tío, abuela o abuelo, prima o primo, o simplemente un cuidador o tutor, este libro le mostrar varios faros de sentido, es decir, le brindará luces que, al iluminar, le permitirán paso a paso ir descubriendo en cada uno de los capítulos las herramientas fundamentales para orientar la crianza que desea transmitir.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)September 2019Cuentos META
by Enrique Patiño, Hadley Pennington Keefe, Federico Palomera, Lautaro Vincon, Belén Palos, Thais Díaz Montalvo, María Toca, Dixon Acosta Medellín
Is the goal the beginning or the end? Is the goal sequel or consequence? META Stories brings together eight narrative voices that transform realities, invert solutions and reconcile results with objectives, so that the purpose of their actions exceeds their own expectations. Some of the inhabitants of this playing field are: an ambitious journalist and an anti-establishment revolutionary planning known theories on outdated models; a perfect couple who decides their own path of perdition; a Russian teacher determined to beat the winter cold in postwar Spain; a young woman who finds a peculiar way of transmuting her family reality; a dressmaker's apprentice who in World War II Paris amends wrappings and fabrics; a mother who is reborn in a story already written; a woman who prefers to live to imagine, and for whom an outcome is reconstructed; and a man who learns the true meaning of not scoring a goal. The characters and voices in these stories pose new challenges in the extremes of a biographical journey in which the beginning and the end are part of a process of knowledge.
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Children's & YADecember 2018Cuaderno de trabajo
MACRO MENTES
by María Guadalupe Baeza Gómez, Luis Baeza Gómez, Karen Denisse Cabrera Valadez, María José Díaz Sámano, María del Carmen Quintana González, Nayeli González Sánchez, Axel Alberto Contreras Sánchez, Aarón Adrián Cruz Cayetano, Patricia Colín Vargas
This notebook is designed to perform the necessary annotations and solve the activities that appear in each one of the lessons, in order to maintain original material in good condition. These same activities will be available to print. Taking care of the material is important to keep it in good condition, make use of the supports to print!
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Health & Personal DevelopmentAugust 2014226 ejercicios para su mente
DESTREZA MENTAL
by Guadalupe Baeza Gómez, Rafael Enríquez Raya
Dear reader, in this booklet you will find 226 exercises that were designed to integrate into the cognitive training system Mental Skill in printed form, with the purpose to favor their daily exercise in situations or places where it is not possible to use a computer. These exercises are divided into groups of each of the skills cognitive skills that are worked on: linguistics, memory, logic and reasoning, attention and visuospatiality. The exercises can be performed non-sequentially, as they are designed to reinforce skills on which you are interested to focus your efforts; while you are traveling, resting or in your free time outside From home. You will find in electronic format within the Advanced CD all exercise templates, so you don't scratch your notebook and keep it in good condition for later use. Remember the motto that accompanies the system: “Challenges to be mentally fit ". So we invite you to use this booklet and go to work it's been said!
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May 2023Souza
by Nina Avellaneda
Souza lays carpet in apartments and Luiza is an actress; their lives are dominated by precarity, failure, and sacrifice. After a chance meeting they feel a mutual interest. It’s hard to say if they fall for each other because that’s not how they move through the world. Still, this is a story, and Souza and Luiza are the gravitational center of a narrator writing about them while sitting in a crowded cafe; she’s interested in exploring people, feelings, but principally, the art of fiction.Souza is a refreshing work situated between ambiguity and voraciousness, it’s exquisite and subtle, intelligent and poetic, and Nina Avellaneda is an author to keep a close eye on.
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March 2019Gato Angora en la lavadora
Relatos contemporáneos
by Manuel Giron
«La codicia de los que manejan el mercado mundial es demasiado grande y poderosa. La especulación y el lavado de dinero no pueden ser detenidos. La corrupción es la columna vertebral del sistema financiero mundial. Y el artista es un simple bufón que aparece y desaparece por arte de mafia ». «Manuel Girón ha ido escribiendo durante sus viajes historias llenas de humor e ironía que giran en torno al absurdo; sus cuentos reflejan dilemas vitales, historias de todos los días que el escritor saca de contexto con un sentido del humor. El autor se permite mezclar realidad y ficción, expresar sus opiniones sobre el mundo que le rodea con total naturalidad, de manera singular y muy personal, estableciendo un juego en el que participa el autor, sus personajes y el lector, este último obligado por la fuerza y la tensión de la narración que le va envolviendo a la vuelta de cada página, en ocasiones se añade al juego el equívoco provocando la hilaridad y la sorpresa. Manuel Giron coquetea con la ficción, nos asombra con sus ideas, planteamientos y fabulaciones, manteniendo la vez los pies fuertementedos en la realidad. Sus relatos constituyen una magnifica y grata sorpresa, una recopilación de ideas con un indudable trasfondo poético. » Begoña Peris Presidenta del Club del Libro en español de las Naciones Unidas, Ginebra. "Al día siguiente me levanté con un fuerte dolor de cabeza y sin recordarme a qué hora había regresado al hotel. Lo primero que hice fue tomar una larga ducha, y luego, cuando me rasuraba, escuché en el noticiero que todas las palomas del parque Russell Square en el barrio londinense de Blooms amanecido muertas sin explicación alguna. El Inspector de la policía, John Sherrinford, informó a los medios que se desconocía la causa de la muerte masiva de palomas en el parque. Según los análisis de rigor no se había descubierto ningún indicio de envenenamiento, y se había descartado que una inesperada lluvia de granizo, muy frecuentes en la época de verano, las hubiese aniquilado. El locutor mencionó la versión de un mendigo que aseguraba haber visto un día antes en el restaurante del parque a un sujeto extraño, palabras textuales del testigo, observando las palomas y posiblemente las mató con una mala mirada. Versión que el inspector Sherrinford rebatió por considerarla más propia del realismo mágico que de la realidad londinense en la que hasta la fecha nadie había muerto por una mala mirada. El mendigo, que resultó ser un profesor de literatura inglesa en paro desde hacía un par de años, había insistido en señalar a un personaje de gafas oscuras con sudadero de capucha como el principal sospechoso de la masacre, porque en el sudadero llevaba anotada una palabra que podía ser clave durante la investigación: Vendetta ". Libro disponible en papel y formato digital
