Jorge: 1196 books

Book cover of Elogio dell’ombra
by Jorge Luis Borges
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 2, 2017

Ogni suo nuovo libro di versi, insinua Borges nel Prologo con incantevole autoironia, è un appuntamento con temi che il «rassegnato lettore» prevede: specchi, spade, il tempo che è «la varia / trama di sogni avidi che siamo», il labirinto senza fine che ci serra, Buenos Aires che è la «milonga...
Book cover of L'idioma degli argentini
by Jorge Luis Borges
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 20, 2016

Che ci racconti del "truco", grazie al quale i giocatori, dimesso l'io abituale, diventano "criollos" che «vogliono spaventare la vita a grida»; o di coltelli che cercano i sentieri della morte e del Chileno, signore dell'insolenza, che si dissangua a terra; o dell'origine del...
Book cover of Inquisizioni
by Jorge Luis Borges
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 7, 2016

Nel 1952 Borges affida alle stampe un libro dal titolo conturbante, "Altre inquisizioni". E appare subito chiaro che un solco profondo, e decisivo, è stato scavato: nell’arte del saggio come nel modo di accostarsi alla letteratura. Ma perché «altre»? A quale misterioso precedente alludeva...
Book cover of Il prisma e lo specchio

Il prisma e lo specchio

Testi ritrovati (1919-1929)

by Jorge Luis Borges
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 26, 2017

Fra il 1923 e il 1929 Borges pubblica tre volumi di poesia su cui in seguito interverrà radicalmente, e tre di prosa che saranno ripudiati. Tutti gli altri scritti – dispersi per lo più in periodici e riviste – cui era affidata l’insolente riflessione di quegli anni verranno dimenticati. E...
Book cover of Prologhi

Prologhi

con un prologo ai prologhi

by Jorge Luis Borges
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 15, 2017

Per tutta la vita Borges ha accompagnato la sua attività di scrittore con quella di critico – o meglio: di appassionato promotore degli scrittori che amava, non di rado ignoti ai suoi compatrioti. E ha esercitato questa attività – che avrebbe rivelato una imprevista geografia letteraria –...
Book cover of Discussione
by Jorge Luis Borges
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 8, 2017

«Ho consacrato la mia vita alla letteratura, e non sono sicuro di conoscerla; non mi azzarderei a darne una definizione, perché per me rimane sempre segreta e mutevole, in ogni riga che ricevo o che scrivo». In questa memorabile dichiarazione di Borges non c’è soltanto quel gusto della sprezzatura...
Book cover of Mexican American Baseball in El Paso
by Richard A. Santillan, Eric Enders, Pete G. Flores
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017

Mexican American Baseball in El Paso chronicles the vibrant and colorful history of baseball in the El Paso-Juárez border region. For more than a century, baseball along the border has served as a means of bringing together people of all backgrounds, races, and nationalities, from the fly-by-night...
Book cover of Pluralism and Unity?

Pluralism and Unity?

Methods of Research in Psychoanalysis

by Jorge Canestri
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018

This book compiles the papers presented at an International Conference, "Pluralism of Sciences: The Psychoanalytic Method between Clinical, Conceptual and Empirical Research" in 2002. It provides the variety and diversity of psychoanalytic research cultures in different psychoanalytic societies.
Book cover of Sustainable Construction Materials

Sustainable Construction Materials

Municipal Incinerated Bottom Ash

by Ciaran J. Lynn, Jorge de Brito, Rui V. Silva
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017

Sustainable Construction Materials: Municipal Incinerated Bottom Ash discusses the global use of virgin aggregates and CO2 polluter Portland cement. Given the global sustainability agenda, much of the demand for these two sets of materials can be substantially reduced through the appropriate use of...
Book cover of English Language Skills Training. Theory and Practice
by Eddie Fisher, Jorge Luis Herrera Ochoa, Yoennis Diaz Moreno
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: N/A, Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba (Faculty of Humanities), course: English Language, language: English, abstract: The ability to teach foreign languages effectively...
Book cover of A Few Great Scientists

A Few Great Scientists

From Alfred Nobel to Carl Sagan

by Jorge Alberto Delucca
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017

The book is a collection of biographies of nine scientists. Each chapter is a short biography of each scientist (two scientists in chapter 4). It starts with Alfred Nobel, a chemist. Several of the scientists won Nobel Prizes.
Book cover of Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World

Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World

Finding Solutions in Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America

by Jorge E. Hardoy, Diana Mitlin, David Satterthwaite
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

New edition of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America contain some of the world's most life- and health-threatening human environments. Environment-related diseases and injuries cause millions of preventable deaths each year. In many squatter settlements,...
Book cover of Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota

Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota

Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management

by Hector Alafita Vásquez, Mr. William W. Arzapalo, Donald M. Baltz
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013

The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...
Book cover of Oil and Gas Exploration in Cuba

Oil and Gas Exploration in Cuba

Geological-Structural Cartography using Potential Fields and Airborne Gamma Spectrometry

by Manuel Enrique Pardo Echarte, Jorge Luis Cobiella Reguera
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017

A summary of the results achieved in the geological-structural mapping, by potential fields and airborne gamma spectrometry data, of the units of igneous and metamorphic rocks in the western regions (Havana-Matanzas), central (Cienfuegos, Villa Clara-Sancti Spiritus) and central-eastern (Camagüey-Las...
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