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Biblioteca Nueva Alianza de Civilizaciones de las Naciones Unidas.
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Editorial Kairos En Defensa de Los Animales
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Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd BELL JAR
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Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa Divis O PERFILES DE LA MARCULINIDAD
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Necesidad de la literatura
Book SynopsisEn general, la obra de Emilio Lledó se caracteriza por el uso jugoso y rico de palabras claras, consistentes, por una pasión expresiva y muy rigurosa, por el empeño de que el pensamiento antiguo o moderno tenga peso ante ciertos desgarros del presente que pone siempre en evidencia y más en el siglo XXI.Este volumen reúne tres textos sobre la literatura, la libertad de expresión y la importancia de la cultura ilustrados por Eugenia Ábalos.
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El Desvelo Nos Gustan Los Domingos
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Donde el amor allí el mundo
Book SynopsisLa crisis ecológico-social contemporánea es tan profunda que nos invita a reconsiderar los fundamentos mismos de las ideologías y el sentido común dominante. No resultará a la postre contraproducente la búsqueda de dominación sobre la naturaleza? Tiene sentido considerarnos como individuos separados de sus semejantes y de los ecosistemas? El antropocentrismo no nos está descarriando mucho? Cabe decir, a estas alturas de la historia humana, que sabemos habitar la Tierra? Quizá podamos avanzar hacia lo que se podría llamar una simbioética para seres terrestres, para Homo sapiens que de verdad decidan asumir la condición humana terrestre en la biosfera del tercer planeta del Sistema solar. Los ensayos reunidos en este volumen tratan de profundizar en esa idea.
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Historia de la literatura argentina contada en una hora
Book SynopsisPrimer libro de una serie sobre de monografías literarias por países que El Desvelo Ediciones publicará y que comienza con esta Historia de la literatura argentina contada en una hora, siguiendo el ejemplo del ya clásico que Klabund (Alfred Henschke) escribió sobre la literatura alemana hace casi 100 años. En este caso, dos profundos conocedores de la literatura argentina y argentinos ellos, como los ensayistas, editores y traductores Tomás García Lavín y Andrea Constanza Ferrari, son los encargados de destilar las obras y autores más destacados de la literartura hecha en Argentina o por argentinos, una de las más importantes del mundo.La literatura argentina una serie de tiene hitos que marcan su identidad y evolución: Sarmiento con Facundo (1845) fundó un ensayo político y cultural sobre la oposición entre civilización y barbarie; José Hernández en Martín Fierro (1872-79) convirtió al gaucho en emblema nacional; Leopoldo Lugones, con Lunario sentimental (1909), abrió la experimentación modernista; Ricardo Güiraldes fijó en Don Segundo Sombra (1926) el mito gauchesco en tono elegíaco; Roberto Arlt, con Los siete locos (1929), anticipó la novela urbana y existencial moderna; Borges en Ficciones (1944) revolucionó la narrativa con juegos metafísicos; Bioy Casares en La invención de Morel (1940) proyectó la literatura fantástica hacia la ciencia ficción; Cortázar, con Rayuela (1963), rompió los moldes de la novela latinoamericana; Manuel Puig, en El beso de la mujer araña (1976), mezcló cultura popular y reflexión política en la dictadura; y Piglia, con Respiración artificial (1980), integró literatura, memoria e historia bajo la censura, trazando un puente entre la tradición y la crítica contemporánea. En conjunto, la literatura argentina ha sido uno de los laboratorios narrativos más fértiles del siglo XX, uniendo tradición local y experimentación universal. Su influencia en la lengua española es decisiva, al haber generado autores y obras que redefinieron tanto el canon latinoamericano como el horizonte de la narrativa hispánica moderna.
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El mundo como ensayo
Book SynopsisConsciente de que a veces hay que elegir el camino menos acostumbrado para llegar a casa, el poeta y ensayista Juan Malpartida se enfrenta en este libro?digresivo, personal, pero siempre extraordinario?a la tan humana aspiracio?n de atrapar el infinito del mundo en la concrecio?n del lenguaje, a la necesidad filoso?fica de dar cuenta de la realidad sin dejar de lado la poesi?a. Y es que este particular diccionario existencial no busca alcanzar conclusiones, sino ofrecer apasionadas tentativas, pues su singular poe?tica supone rizomas, cantos a capela, cuentos de las mil y una noches [...], salidas arriesgadas del surco, fatalidad y juego en un retrato del mundo desde una esquina apenas visible de un yo que escribe su biografi?a, y por tanto invita a ser lei?do de principio a fin como un relato tan subjetivo como sutil.
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Oxford University Press Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Book SynopsisThis is a new prose translation of Dante''s epic. A newly edited version of the Italian text will be on facing pages. This edition includes fully comprehensive notes with the latest in contemporary scholarship as well as 16 short essays on special subjects at the end of the book.
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Oxford University Press GUTHLAC POEMS EXETER BOOK C
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Oxford University Press Aristoxenus Elementa Rhythmica
Book SynopsisA critical edition of Elementa Rhythmica of Aristoxenus, a contemporary of Aristotle, with English translation and commentary. This study covers rhythm and harmonic theory from the surviving fragments of Aristoxenus' text and other sources, and then applies it to actual texts of Greek poetry.Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction: the evidence; the Greek theory of rhythm - Aristoxenus and others. Part 2 Texts and translations: Aristoxenus, "Elementa Rhythmica", Book II; Michael Psellus, "Introduction to the Study of Rhythm"; "Fragmenta Neapolitana"; Aristoxenus, "On the Primary Chronos" (fragment); P. Oxy. XXXIV 2687. Part 3: commentary.
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Oxford University Press Iambi et Elegi Graeci Ante Alexandrum Cantati
Book SynopsisThese two volumes contain all that survives and has hitherto been published of pre-Alexandrian elegy and iambus, with the relevant testimonia and critical apparatus. The text includes the Cologne Epode of Archilochus and several other fragments in a more complete or correct form.
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Oxford University Press NEPOS SELECTION CATO CAHSC C Clarendon Ancient History Series
Book SynopsisThe author has selected a cross-section of Cornelius Nepos' work, which shows the literary, social, political and intellectual history of the period 90 to 30 B.C. There are also fragments of Cato, Atticus and Nepos' other works.Table of ContentsBibliography; Life of Cato; Life of Atticus; Prologue to the lives of the foreign generals; Selected fragments of Nepos, Cato, and Atticus; Letter of Cornelia; Commentary; Index
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Oxford University Press A Passion for DNA
Book SynopsisIn 1953, two young, unknown scientists sparked a worldwide revolution. Studying DNA for clues to the nature of genes, James Watson and Francis Crick deduced its molecular composition - two chains twisted into a double helix - and immediately realized that the structure implied how genes were copied and passed from one generation to the next.Their observation has had extraordinary consequences: the discovery of a genetic code that all living things share and the realization that the code translates into proteins; the ability to alter an organism''s genetic make-up; recognition that diseases like cancer begin when genes go wrong; the foundations of a biotechnology industry and the means of cloning plants and animals; a start on cataloguing human genes; and the glimmer of a new kind of medicine that uses DNA therapeutically.In the midst of the ferment, its instigator Jim Watson has been tireless. A principal architect and visionary of the new biology, a Nobel Prize-winner at 34 and best-sTrade ReviewReview from previous edition James D. Watson . . . has always been a man of passion and strong views . . . His writings on the important issues of the day, prepared over a period of more than thirty years and presented in the 25 essays of this wonderful book, are only slightly less provocative than his frequently startling spontaneous remarks. * Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences *Table of ContentsAUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FLIGHTS; VALUES FROM A CHICAGO UPBRINGING; GROWING UP IN THE PHAGE GROUP; MINDS THAT LIVE FOR SCIENCE; EARLY SPECULATIONS AND FACTS ABOUT RNA TEMPLATES; BRAGG'S FOREWORD TO THE DOUBLE HELIX; BIOGRAPHIES: LURIA, HERSHEY, AND PAULING ; RECOMINANT DNA CONTROVERSIES; IN FURTHER DEFENSE OF DNA; STANDING UP FOR RECOMBINANT DNA; THE NOBELIST VERSUS THE FILM STAR; THE DNA BIOCHEMICAL CANARD ; ETHOS OF SCIENCE; MOVING TOWARDS THE CLONAL MAN: IS THIS WHAT WE WANT?; THE DISSEMINATION OF UNPUBLISHED INFORMATION; SCIENCE AND THE AMERICAN SCENE; THE NECESSITY FOR SOME ACADEMIC ALOOFNESS; STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE; SUCCEEDING IN SCIENCE: SOME RULES OF THUMB ; WAR ON CANCER; THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY AND CANCER RESEARCH; MAINTAINING HIGH QUALITY CANCER RESEARCH IN A ZERO-SUM ERA; THE SCIENCE FOR BEATING DOWN CANCER ; SOCIETAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; MOVING ON TO HUMAN DNA; ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; GENES AND POLITICS; FIVE DAYS IN BERLIN; GOOD GENE, BAD GENE: WHAT IS THE RIGHT WAY TO FIGHT THE TRAGEDY OF GENETIC DISEASE?; VIEWPOINT: ALL FOR THE GOOD - WHY GENETIC ENGINEERING MUST SOLDIER ON ; AFTERWORD: ENVOI - DNA, PEACE AND LAUGHTER ; NAME INDEX, SUBJECT INDEX
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