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Intervenciones (Archipiélago Caribe #11)
Par Eduardo Lalo. 2019
"The winds are not random, even if they are a manifestation of chaos. I have decided to take advantage of…
them to "organize" this book that gathers a public activity apparently removed from the intimate writing workshop. None of these texts would have been written if someone had not requested them. The interventions of others created these interventions and opened for me an alternate stage for the rigors of thought. For many years, he was a studio writer, but this that the reader now receives is live writing, performance, singer-songwriter text. A writer bent on the discipline of brevity, he has produced an extensive book, which is nevertheless a collection of small pieces. The winds have engendered this daily life of letters and the winds, capricious and determining, have dictated the order of the texts that are grouped in three parts. All of them include lectures, columns, letters, pleadings and other materials, in a succession in which the chronologies have been altered. I thank readers (and, in due course, listeners) for their interest in and reception of this staged art of writing." -- Translation provided by NLSFludd
Par Hilary Mantel. 2018
"Full of dry wit, compassionate characterisations and cutting insight, Fludd is a brilliant gem of a book, and one of…
Hilary Mantel's most original works. Fetherhoughton is a dreary town in 1950s northern England. Father Angwin has lost his faith. Sister Philomena strains against convent life. The inhabitants of the town go about their lives in a haze. Then a stranger appears, bringing with him the hint of something new. But who is Fludd? An angel come to shake the dwellers from their stupor, or is he the devil himself, a wanderer of the darkest places in the human heart?" -- Provided by publisherEl laberinto de la soledad y otras obras (Penguin ediciones)
Par Octavio Paz. 1997
"Octavio Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character,…
and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains Octavio Paz' most famous work, a beautifully written and deeply felt discourse on Mexico's quest for identity that gives us an unequaled look at the country hidden behind the mask. Also included are Postscript, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, and Mexico and the United States, all of which develop the themes of the title essay and extend his penetrating commentary to the United States and Latin America." -- GoodreadsFrutos extraños: (crónicas reunidas 2001-2019) (Narrativa hispánica (Alfaguara (Firm)))
Par Leila Guerriero. 2020
"In this revised and expanded edition of |Strange Fruit|, Leila Guerriero shows us the most sensitive, vigorous and throbbing face…
of a profession that is going through difficult times and works the miracle of making us believe in the profession of journalism again. The articles collected in this book, written between 2001 and 2019, constitute a master class in journalism, show the world from a unique, intense and different perspective, and have the capacity to knock the reader out." -- Translation provided by NLS"Over the last decade, intermittent fasting-restricting calorie intake for a proscribed number of hours for a set number of days-has…
become increasingly popular. While some in the medical community initially dismissed the idea as a dangerous fad, in recent years researchers have validated the safety of fasting for weight loss, and found compelling evidence that it offers wide-ranging health benefits, including lowering blood pressure; reducing risk factors for diabetes, cancer, and other diseases; promoting longevity; and increasing cognitive function. However, many people aren't sure how to incorporate fasting into their daily routine. What are best practices? Do you need to fast every day? What do you eat on non-fasting days? How can you fast when your family doesn't? What if you're a person who gets hungry after not eating for a few hours? In this essential guide, Dr. Jason Fung, Megan Ramos, and Eve Mayer address common questions and offer practical advice for integrating beneficial periods of food restriction into daily life. They set three initial goals: Start Your Fasting Engine, Find Your Fasting Lane, and Win the Race. Each goal is broken down into ten manageable steps that can be taken at your individual pace. Love breakfast? Then it may take a little while to get used to not eating it. Already skip it? Jump ahead to restricting lunch. Fung, Ramos, and Mayer know every person's physiological and psychological response to food restriction is different, and they're here to help you find the tools and strategies that will work best for your life." -- GoodreadsPor favor, rebobinar
Par Alberto Fuguet. 2012
"Connecting directly with Generation Ñ, the second novel by Fuguet runs at a breakneck speed. It sometimes feels more like…
a video clip than a conventional novel. Fuguet tells stories with a common background of adolescence, of sex, drugs, and rock n roll. At the high speed that this novel is narrated, it questions the present from the perspective of diverse protagonists--men and women living a doubtful and strange modernity; in this sense, |Please, Rewind| is a great chronicle of our times." -- Amazon.comSeñales que precederán al fin del mundo
Par Yuri Herrera. 2020
"Leaving behind her life in Mexico to search for her brother, Makina is smuggled across the border into the USA…
carrying a pair of secret messages--one from her mother and one from the Mexican underworld." -- Provided by NLSFrancisco: el primer Papa latinoamericano
Par Mario Escobar. 2013
"The recent resignation of Pope Benedict XVI took the world by surprise and for good reason. More than 600 years…
had passed since a pope last left his post. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, is a man of prayer, a man of action, and a humble man who has always promoted others over himself. In fact, it was Bergoglio who bowed out of the running in the papal election of 2005 to facilitate the rise of Benedict XVI. However, the new pope faces a Catholic Church in crisis-a church that has lost the media pull of John Paul II and is still hounded by pedophile scandals and the filtration of documents from former papal administrations. His first year may not be an easy one, but neither this man nor the church itself has ever shied away from the challenges thrust upon them. Pope Francis is austere and simple but has vast theological training. He is a man of his time but one who also travels by subway and bus just like any other citizen. Tirelessly fighting poverty and marginalization, he is a beacon of hope for the poor, persecuted sectors of the church. Has a Catholic spring finally arrived after a very long winter? Francis is the complete biography of a humble man who has suddenly become one of the most powerful and influential men on the planet." -- Amazon.comEl amigo del héroe
Par Alvaro Enrigue. 2012
"'It's not that I've chosen to be second place, I'm just a natural. Besides, I've believed in the goodness of…
second place for many years.' So begins The Hero's Friend, first published in 1998 and remastered for this edition. This story by Álvaro Enrigue dusts off the naivety and vanity of childhood: Ponchito, a child like any other, played at being the hero. A memorable literary exercise. A sobering experience. Enrigue puts himself at the feet of his protagonist and relives the dialogues of two middle school kids who in their relentless fight against crime are forced to face the ultimate and most unexpected consequences." -- Translation provided by NLSValiente clase media: dinero, letras y cursilería (Colección Argumentos (Editorial Anagrama) #455)
Par Alvaro Enrigue. 2013
"This book tells an uncomfortable story, the ways in which the interpretation of money and class issues separated Spanish writing…
into two: American and Spanish. The last major poet of the Golden Age, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, was also the accountant general of one of the strongest credit institutions in the empire. It is not so strange that she saw the problems of the heart more as matters of finance. Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, an advanced modernist, is the best witness to the birth in America of the social group that changed the world in spite of its terrified vulgarity and its fear of change: the middle class. And after him, Rubén Darío: the greatest poet. Can his writing also be explained as a matter of class? Sor Juana and Darío are the two points of an arc that grounds American writing and gives it the myth of origin that separated it from the Spanish: that of the writer who asserted himself against the tide of his social origin group." -- Translation provided by NLSEl ojo en la mira (Lector&s #13)
Par Diamela Eltit. 2021
"No makeup. A woman looks at the libraries of her life over time. A leftist woman who alters all the…
mandates, the absences of women writers in curricula or literary institutions. A woman who speaks out in favor of cultural minorities and recognizes herself in them, who investigates the mechanisms of domination and control, the cultural effects of dictatorships, on both sides of the Andes. She is a Chilean writer who bears the name of a dog or a flower: Diamela Eltit, the same one who in this book removes the deep layers of so many readings that constitute her. Without airs, without establishing hierarchies, until she penetrates the most real part of herself and of the times." -- Translation provided by NLSHermanas
Par Daisy Johnson. 2022
"Born just ten months apart, July and September never needed anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school…
bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. There, the bond between the sisters starts to shift." -- Provided by NLSLa dieta Keto: reinicia tu metabolismo en 21 días y quema grasa de forma definitiva
Par Mark Sisson. 2018
A detailed step-by-step guide to eliminate processed grains, sugars, and refined vegetable oils from your diet to achieve nutritional ketosis…
in 21 days. You can teach your body to burn fat instead of sugar to lose weight and stay healthy. Includes meal plans and recipes. Spanish language. 2018Maldad
Par Leticia Sierra. 2022
"A thirteen-year-old girl is found dead in a wasteland in Oviedo with a brutally disfigured face and a mangled body.…
Elsa, the young victim, was a student at a high school in the area, and the journalist Olivia Marassa (from the regional newspaper) and the inspector Agustín Castro (from the police) are assigned to the investigation. When the news comes out, both have been away for several days and Olivia seems to be too late for an exclusive. But she has shown before that she doesn't give up easily and has a special nose for the most gruesome cases. She soon begins to investigate on her own and discovers that the victim had many secrets and enemies. Students younger and older than her, as well as teachers, feared her for her abusive and violent behavior...." -- Translation provided by NLSMuerte al Rey (Diamante rojo #03)
Par Angy Skay. 2019
"After the hunt for Jack's enemy, the internal struggle due to his evil deeds will result in agreeing to a…
deal he could never have imagined, Aaron being the biggest of his problems. On the other hand, Micaela will find herself plunged into a pit so dark that she will not be able to get out of it, as she searches for the cause of all her misfortune. But the fear of protecting what she loves so much in order to somehow remember the best of her life will make her consider what pieces she must move. In this last installment of the story, we will discover the great deception in which the protagonists have been involved without being aware of it. Together they must find the freedom they crave and bring to an end the stage of their lives in which they were always one step behind. Will they succeed, or will it be true that villains have no place in this cruel world and can never have a happy ending?" -- Translation provided by NLSLo que hay
Par Sara Torres. 2022
"While her mother dies of cancer in a northern city, the protagonist is making love with a woman in a…
hotel in Barcelona. She will catch a flight to visit her mother the next morning, but she is already late. Shortly after, her lover abruptly and definitively disappears. Her partner returns from London to live with her in a small apartment by the sea, trying to calm and sustain her, while she cries for a mother and longs for a lover." -- Provided by publisherEl verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes
Par Tatiana Țîbuleac. 2019
"Aleksy still remembers the last summer he spent with his mother. Many years have passed since then, but when his…
psychiatrist recommends him to relive that time as a possible remedy for his painter's block, Aleksy soon dives into his memory and is again shaken by the emotions that plagued him when they arrived in that little French holiday village: resentment, sadness, anger. How to overcome the disappearance of his sister? How to forgive the mother who rejected him? How to face the disease that is consuming her? This is the tale of a summer of reconciliation, of three months in which mother and son finally lay down their arms, spurred on by the arrival of the inevitable and by the need to make peace with each other and with themselves." -- Translation provided by NLSBig data: breve manual para conocer la ciencia de datos que ya invadió nuestras vidas (Ciencia que ladra... Serie mayor)
Par Walter Sosa Escudero. 2019
"The great Walter Sosa Escudero initiates us into the revolutionary world of big data, the explosion originated by the massiveness…
of the Internet, which provides instant information about the behavior of billions of users. But just as important as the data are the algorithms, the statistical and computational techniques that allow us to process them; that is why this book introduces us to the data science, a new discipline that involves statistics, mathematics, computing, design and all the areas of daily life that depend on data: from politics and sociology to medicine or physics, from business to the government. In addition to presenting interesting case studies and methods, and in the face of the overzealous optimism of some big data gurus, our author also asks whether this flood of information will be able to radically change the way we see and live in the world. In a colloquial tone but with the utmost scientific rigor, this book offers a guided walk through the downpour of data and algorithms. It does not presuppose any technical training, just the curiosity to know what this battle promises, which some see as the beginning of a new era and others as the evil that is coming to destroy our daily lives." -- Translation provided by NLSLo que no aprendí
Par Margarita García Robayo. 2014
|What I Didn't Learn| can be read as a novel of initiation in which eleven-year-old Caty is dazzled by the…
figure of two men: her father, who hides a secret that only seems to reveal itself to her, and Aníbal, the neighbor's hippie son whom she meets in an abandoned house. But also, this moving and disturbing tale speaks of how individual and family memory is constructed; when faced with the imminent extinction of memories, one reflects on the winding territory of childhood, on the ambiguity of the common past." -- Translation provided by NLSLa Bomba de San José
Par Ana García Bergua. 2013
"In this fun and joyous novel Ana García Bergua humorously evokes Mexico City in the 1960s: a daring and naive…
city, where poets work in brand-new advertising agencies and painters no longer want to paint murals and wives no longer want to be obedient, and where the creative energy is such that even a relative of Mr. President aspires to create a film masterpiece, with the scintillating presence of the Costa Rican leading lady known as 'La Bomba de San José'." -- Translation provided by NLS