Felipe: 316 books

In the book Inside Japan: its People and Culture written by Felipe Cofreros Ph.D. - is a renowned author of childrens books, newspaper and magazine editor who spent a good amount of years in Japan experienced its culture and witnessed the Japanese people role as a nation in contributing to Japans...

In Near a Thousand Tables, acclaimed food historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells the fascinating story of food as cultural as well as culinary history -- a window on the history of mankind. In this "appetizingly provocative" (Los Angeles Times) book, he guides readers through the eight great revolutions...

Raucous adobe hearts and urban violet mascara. Televised immigration games and ethnic sit-coms. Chile con karma served on a bed of race. In a startling melange of poetry, prose, journal entries, and even a screenplay, Zen Chicano desperado Juan Felipe Herrera fixes his gaze on his own life and times...

From one of the prominent Chicano poets writing today comes a collection of poems to take your breath away. With dazzling speed and energy, Juan Felipe Herrera sends readers rocketing through verbal space in a celebration of the rhythms and textures of words that will make you want to shout, dance,...

First Place co-winner, Best Poetry, Latino Literary Hall of Fame A poetic collage of voices, genres, and time-spaces. A display of power over language and rhythm. A postmodern performance of naked figures hanging in the nebulae of a militarized universe. A new millennium cubist manifesto against...

“I wish I could find the words to tell you the story of our village after you were killed.” So begins Senegal Taxi, the new work by one of contemporary poetry’s most vibrant voices, Juan Felipe Herrera. Known for his activism and writings that bring attention to oppression and injustice, Herrera...

The highlands of Chiapas are smoldering with death. In the winter of 1997, paramilitary agents ambushed and killed many Mayan villagers in Acteal, Chiapas. Gifted writer Juan Felipe Herrera has composed a stirring poem sequence—published in a bilingual format—written in response and homage...

From U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, here are stirring poems that read like music. Awarded the Pura Belpré Honor for this book, Herrera writes in both Spanish and English about the joy and laughter and sometimes the confusion of growing up in an upside-down, jumbled-up world—between two...

In this novel in verse--unprecedented in Chicano literature--renowned poet Juan Felipe Herrera illuminates the soul of a generation. Drawn from his own life as well as a lifetime of dedication to young people, CrashBoomLove helps readers understand what it is to be a teen, a migrant worker, and a...

Os textos selecionados para esta edição tratam, por um lado, daquilo que Lima Barreto chamava de literatura militante, e, por outro, como essa atuação acontecia nos periódicos. Nesse sentido, o leitor tem aqui uma mistura de ensaios, crônicas, contos e cartas que discutem a inserção do escritor...

El intruso honorífico viene a ser una enciclopedia personal en la que se mezclan la interpretación y el dato, la parodia y el análisis, la visión crítica y la visión irónica, dando pie a una especie de caleidoscopio ensayístico en el que se analizan o se definen objetos cotidianos y conceptos...

In Civilizations, Felipe Fernández-Armesto once again proves himself a brilliantly original historian, capable of large-minded and comprehensive works; here he redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization. To...

We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live —...

É senso comum dizer que todo político mente. Mas não seria a verdade uma ilusão, uma impossibilidade que tornaria a mentira ética? Nesse livro, quatro respeitados pensadores de nosso tempo – Gilberto Dimenstein, Leandro Karnal, Luiz Felipe Pondé e Mario Sergio Cortella – debatem as fricções...