Juan: 2368 books

The first book to examine the unprecedented growth of China's economic investment in the developing world, its impact at the local level, and a rare hands-on picture of the role of ordinary Chinese in the juggernaut that is China, Inc.   Beijing-based journalists Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto...

In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...

It's Christmas Eve, 1861 or 1862. Seventeen-year-old Nogueira, a native of the provinces living in Rio de Janeiro for his studies, has arranged with a neighbor to go to midnight mass. Into the parlor where he is waiting up alone walks Dona Conceição, the thirty-year-old wife of the...

There have been at least 25 prototype humans. We are but one more model, and there is no evidence evolution has stopped. So unless you think Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern are the be all and end all of creation, and it just does not get any better, then one has to ask what is next? Juan Enriquez and...

Juan Eslava Galán, que nos deleitó consu ya mítica Historia de España contadapara escépticos, nos sorprende ahora con una historia del mundo igualmente ágil y divertida, provocadora y didáctica, que entre sonrisas o francas carcajadas nos conducirá en breves y sustanciosos capítulos desde...

José Batres Montúfar - Yo Pienso En Ti Guillermo Blest Gana - Si A Veces Silencioso José Martí - Árbol De Mi Alma (Fragmento) Rubén Darío - Mía Rubén Darío - A Una Novia Rubén Darío - Sonatina Rubén Darío - Bouquet Rubén Darío - Rimas XV José Asunción Silva - Poeta, Di Paso (Fragmento)...

En Peregrinación de Luz del Día (1871), Juan Bautista Alberdi se pregunta sobre la dicotomía civilización-barbarie planteada por Domingo Faustino Sarmiento e ironiza, a través del viaje alegórico de su personaje hermafrodita Luz del Día. El relato constituye un esfuerzo intelectual para modernizar...

After getting his Master's degree in the US, and because he can't get a job, and because all he wants to do all day is sit at his Play Station, Enrique Márquez Pino, a middleclass Bogotan, is forced to return to his home country, where he is to live with his father. Enrique believes that nothing...

Alfred Hitchcock's career spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than 50 films, many of them indisputable classics: Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho, among others. In A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense,...

In the 1920s and 30s, musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York, lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues. In the late 1940s and 50s, the big-band mambo dance scene at the famed Palladium Ballroom was the stuff of legend, while modern-day...

Nominated for three Academy Awards in 1974, including Best Picture and Best Sound, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation is regarded as the archetypal achievement in weaving together a balanced blend of dialogue, cinematography, sound effects, and music. For the film, composer David Shire created...

Inácio Ramos is a cellist. His young wife, daughter of a poor shopkeeper, does not understand his art. She is drawn instead to popular music and those who play it, above all to a mediocre law student who is back in Rio de Janeiro for the holidays. Machado de Assis, Brazil's greatest...

There have been reports over the past century of unusual beings who, legend has it, migrated from the ancient continent of Lemuria before it sank, and who now inhabit the far side of Mount Shasta. They live in a colony in a slightly higher dimension but appear outwardly on occasion to help others....

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