Luis: 2080 books

"Muchas veces me preguntan si de verdad está cambiado el clima. En mi respuesta hay una afirmación: el clima siempre ha cambiado, y a veces de forma más espectacular y mucho más temible que como lo está haciendo ahora". Según el autor, el debate actual ha sido envenenado por los inmensos intereses...

Um best-seller que não julga, apenas constata. Os homens não mentem. E, se mentem, é porque precisam. Para poupar as mulheres - e, também, para se proteger delas.Quantas vezes você mente por dia? Calma, não precisa responder agora. Também não é sempre que você diz uma mentira, só de vez em...

The theme and purpose of the author are so much greater than just its qualification that the reader, whoever, will be interested to learn about the world of the fascinating mind/body interaction, a revolutionary tendency in the scientific and practical functions. Over time, scientific investigations...

Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and memory in multiethnic graphic novels. Such interplay enables a new understanding of the past. The twelve essays explore...

According to the dictionary aphorism is a terse saying embodying a universal truth, or astute observation, as “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” However, my understanding of aphorism comes from Rubem Alves, a great chronicler, poet and writer from Brazil.  Rubem...

«Un grande narratore capace di cogliere i dettagli più profondi nel magistrale artigianato del raccontare.»La Stampa«Sepúlveda ha il senso della narrazione concisa ed efficace, il gusto delle immagini finemente cesellate, un grande dono dell’evocazione che gli permette di rendere semplici, stilizzandoli,...

**Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d’abord les comprendre ** Un récit de voyage pour apprendre, de grands entretiens pour comprendre. Comment est-on Espagnol ? Au pays de Don Quichotte, où résonne à chaque victoire sportive un hymne national sans paroles, la question taraude...

«Un grande narratore capace di cogliere i dettagli più profondi nel magistrale artigianato del raccontare.» La Stampa «Sepúlveda ha il senso della narrazione concisa ed efficace, il gusto delle immagini finemente cesellate, un grande dono dell’evocazione che gli permette di rendere semplici,...

Nacido, criado y educado en Flandes, Carlos V se convertiría a los quince años de edad en el primer rey de Castilla, Aragón y Navarra. He ahí una de las muchas contradicciones que envuelven a la figura de uno de los monarcas más relevantes de la historia de España y Europa. Hijo de Juana I de...

Why are so many people attracted to narrative fiction? How do authors in this genre reframe experiences, people, and environments anchored to the real world without duplicating "real life"? In which ways does fiction differ from reality? What might fictional narrative and reality have in...

No words in English are shorter than "I" and few, if any, play a more fundamental role in language and thought. In Understanding "I": Thought and Language José Luis Bermúdez continues his longstanding work on the self and self-consciousness. Bermúdez develops a model of how...

THE MODERN CONCEPT OF COMMUNICATION explores the meaning of this term in modernity. From the Philosophy of Language, developed by Karl-Otto Apel, progress towards a conception beyond a technical definition, and then, we define the communication to consider human factors, which they were left out of...

Filling a significant gap in the literature by offering a theoretical framework by which we can understand the issues of media, religion and politics Luis Mauro Sa Martino asks how can a religious denomination have any sort of influence on people in a secular age? The author presents data which suggests...

In this fascinating book, Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes critically examines the impact of colonialism and postcolonial migration on the politics and identity of Euro-American imperial powers. It considers how ‘outsiders’ are part of the construction of the ‘native’ identity of the nation-state,...