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In Pluriversal Politics Arturo Escobar engages with the politics of the possible and how established notions of what is real and attainable preclude the emergence of radically alternative visions of the future. Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals and on current Latin American theoretical-political debates, Escobar chronicles the social movements mobilizing to defend their territories from large-scale extractive operations in the region. He shows how these movements engage in an ontological politics aimed at bringing about the pluriverse—a world consisting of many worlds, each with its own ontological and epistemic grounding. Such a politics, Escobar contends, is key to crafting myriad world-making stories telling of different possible futures that could bring about the profound social transformations that are needed to address planetary crises. Both a call to action and a theoretical provocation, Pluriversal Politics finds Escobar at his critically incisive best.

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El conflicto entre Occidente y Oriente ? tan de moda en la actualidad ? no es nuevo, sino que hunde sus raíces en la Antigüedad. A la muerte de Alejandro Magno (323 a.C) esa lucha se enquistó entre sus herederos y los partos, que libraron cruentas luchas

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La actuación de los pretorianos estuvo marcada por el heroísmo y la traición. Su poder creció hasta convertirse en la llave de la política de Roma y no tardaron en aprovecharse de ello. Su preparación era la mejor, sus medios ilimitados y su capacidad no tenía igual. No existían soldados más diestros entre las tropas romanas. Este es un relato épico sobre la guardia imperial, los guerreros seleccionados para proteger la integridad del Estado cuyo destino estaba en sus manos. Siempre preparados para neutralizar cualquier amenaza, quizá salvaron la vida a tantos emperadores como a los que se la arrebataron. Roma. En la residencia palatina, el soberano del más grande imperio occidental ni siquiera se permite pasear por sus jardines sin ser vigilado. El poder genera ambición por ocuparlo, y no había mayor poder en la Antigüedad que el emperador. Las campañas fronterizas contra los germanos o los partos suponen un peligro adicional. Nunca sus enemigos extranjeros tendrán otra oportunidad co

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Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalize, pathologize, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as well. While postcolonial studies of the past few decades have focused on how these ethnicities have been constructed by others, Disrupting Savagism reveals how each group, in turn, has actively attempted to create for itself a social and textual space in which certain negative prevailing discourses are neutralized and rendered ineffective. Arturo J. Aldama begins by presenting a genealogy of the term “savage,” looking in particular at the work of American ethnologist Lewis Henry Morgan and a sixteenth-century debate between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de las Casas. Aldama then turns to more contemporary narratives, examining ethnography, fiction, autobiography, and film to illuminate the historical ideologies and ethnic perspectives that contributed to identity formation over the centuries. These works include anthropologist Manuel Gamio’s The Mexican Immigrant: His Life Story, Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, and Miguel Arteta’s film Star Maps. By using these varied genres to investigate the complex politics of racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities, Aldama reveals the unique epistemic logic of hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions.The transcultural perspective of Disrupting Savagism will interest scholars of feminist postcolonial processes in the United States, as well as students of Latin American, Native American, and literary studies.

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In this fourth instalment, Captain Alatriste becomes involved in a mission to save the King of Spain's gold... Swashbuckling adventure and high octane action.The year is 1626, and a battle-weary Captain Alatriste and his companions sail home from the on-going war in Flanders. He returns to a Spain that is rotten to the core, as gold from the Americas floods into the port of Seville, brought by the country's infamous treasure fleet.As various factions within the Court vie for supremacy, certain interests are creaming off undeclared profits from the galleons' cargo, thus depriving the royal treasury of its lifeblood. Indeed some of the booty is finding its way into the hands of the same rebel provinces Spain is fighting to suppress.The King and his most trusted advisor, the Count-Duke Olivares, have become aware of one such plot and have decided to teach the perpetrator a lesson. Once more, they must call upon Captain Alatriste's blade in a dangerous adventure that will bring the captain face to face with his nemesis, and with a ruthless man who has designs on the throne...

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The third in the bestselling Captain Alatriste series.Flanders, 1625. After his tussles with the Inquisition and the intrigue of the Spanish court, Captain Alatriste has returned to the mud and desperation of the long war in Flanders. This is Iñigo's first experience of war and the realities of hand to hand combat. It is on the battlefield that he will finally have the chance to become a man and prove his worth.The troops are weary and ill-nourished and the winter has been long. As Spain sinks ever further into depravity and corruption, the soldiers have not been paid and must survive by whatever ways they can. Mutiny is in the air, but the Spaniards are strong and their famous iron discipline has brought them many victories against the Calvinist forces of the heretics. Reputation, honour, and the glory of Spain will keep them in the fight, but for how long? Meanwhile, the Captain's trusted friend Quevedo's star is rising at court and he keeps Alatriste appraised of the machinations of his arch-enemy Luis de Alquézar and the notorious assassin with the black heart, Gualterio Malatesta.

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: Letras UniversalesEste libro recoge en esencia la vida del escritor suizo Ulrich Bräker, nacido en 1735 en una familia campesina muy pobre, criado en medio de grandes necesidades, que fue soldado mercenario, escapó de la guerra, volvió a casa, se casó, se dedicó al negocio del hilo, tuvo hijos. y poco más. Una vida como la de muchos de sus paisanos y vecinos, nada especial, y sin embargo esta autobiografía novelada, o novela autobiográfica, ha recibido los elogios de autores como Hofmannsthal o Walter Benjamin.Hay en la obra de Bräker un carácter tan atormentado y temeroso de Dios como firme en su individualidad, un carácter marcado por la introspección reflexiva y una curiosidad y admiración por el mundo que trata de ver en lo anecdótico tanto las leyes naturales o del hombre como los designios del Todopoderoso. Esto es lo que permite a Bräker contemplarse desde cierta distancia y narrar su discurrir por el mundo exterior e interior de form

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In Pluriversal Politics Arturo Escobar engages with the politics of the possible and how established notions of what is real and attainable preclude the emergence of radically alternative visions of the future. Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals and on current Latin American theoretical-political debates, Escobar chronicles the social movements mobilizing to defend their territories from large-scale extractive operations in the region. He shows how these movements engage in an ontological politics aimed at bringing about the pluriverse—a world consisting of many worlds, each with its own ontological and epistemic grounding. Such a politics, Escobar contends, is key to crafting myriad world-making stories telling of different possible futures that could bring about the profound social transformations that are needed to address planetary crises. Both a call to action and a theoretical provocation, Pluriversal Politics finds Escobar at his critically incisive best.

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In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an “autonomous design” that eschews commercial and modernizing aims in favor of more collaborative and placed-based approaches. Such design attends to questions of environment, experience, and politics while focusing on the production of human experience based on the radical interdependence of all beings. Mapping autonomous design’s principles to the history of decolonial efforts of indigenous and Afro-descended people in Latin America, Escobar shows how refiguring current design practices could lead to the creation of more just and sustainable social orders.

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Algorithmic design is not simply the use of computer to design architecture and objects. Algorithms allow designers to overcome the limitations of traditional CAD software and 3D modelers, reaching a level of complexity and control which is beyond the human manual ability. Algorithms-Aided Design presents design methods based on the use of Grasshopper®, a visual algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhinoceros®, the 3D modeling software by McNeel & Associates allowing users to explore accurate freeform shapes. The book provides computational techniques to develop and control complex geometries, covering parametric modeling, digital fabrication techniques, form-finding strategies, environmental analysis and structural optimization. It also features case studies and contributions by researchers and designers from world's most influential universities and leading architecture firms. 

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French “photograffeur” JR’s tribute to cultural institutions during COVID-19 Throughout the pandemic, cultural institutions have been forced to shut their doors to the public. Palazzo Strozzi in Florence has commissioned street artist JR (born 1983) to address this unfortunate reality. He has done so by transforming the facade of the Palazzo into a towering photographic collage installation that functions like an anamorphosis: when viewed from a particular vantage point, the distorted image reveals a courtyard, exhibition hall and library. In this volume, JR offers the public a look inside that which, for now, is inaccessible. The Wound (La Ferita) is a poignant reflection on the wound endured by cultural institutions during the pandemic. The book includes a conversation between the artist and curator Arturo Galansino, in which they delve into the genesis and realization of this singular piece.

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Charming yarns spun around a series of artist-made knitted creatures provide entertainment as well as warm-hearted life lessons. The curious creatures with unusual problems arrive daily at Dr Knit’s laboratory and consulting rooms. The solutions he provides will engage and amuse the reader. Enjoy the tale of the owl whose impaired vision turns out to be due to the fact that he is blind to love, and whose enlightenment clears his vision. Or read about the cupcake whose sadness, despite her impressive shoe collection, is the result of the baker forgetting to make her a heart—easily solved by Dr Knit with a little cake-colored knitted heart. Each case study is illustrated with photographs and illustrations that bring the stories to life, while the patterns for the characters and their accessories are supplied at the back of the book.

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In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an “autonomous design” that eschews commercial and modernizing aims in favor of more collaborative and placed-based approaches. Such design attends to questions of environment, experience, and politics while focusing on the production of human experience based on the radical interdependence of all beings. Mapping autonomous design’s principles to the history of decolonial efforts of indigenous and Afro-descended people in Latin America, Escobar shows how refiguring current design practices could lead to the creation of more just and sustainable social orders.

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Dentro de la evolución de la literatura española, pocos periodos brillan con tanta intensidad y ofrecen tantas facetas en el ámbito de la poesía como el que va desde fines del siglo XIX hasta el final de la Guerra Civil. La presente " Antología de la poesía española (1890-1939) " es la más completa y actualizada de las que se han realizado hasta ahora sobre este periodo de nuestra historia literaria y reúne, junto a los autores más conocidos, cuya evolución creadora se resume mediante una amplia selección de su obra, a otros menos valorados aunque de reconocida importancia histórica (como algunas voces efímeras vinculadas a la vanguardia), o bien olvidados, por desidia o ignorancia, en las historias de la literatura. A través de la extensa y esclarecedora introducción inicial y de los estudios sobre la vida y la obra que acompañan a cada uno de estos escritores, Arturo Ramoneda (responsable asimismo de la selección) ofrece, paralelamente, una útil visión global de la poesía española de

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François René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) fundió en las " Memorias de ultratumba " lo individual y lo universal, su vida doméstica y su existencia de estadista. Destinadas a ser publicadas después de su muerte, pudo analizar en ellas con entera libertad su compleja trayectoria literaria, sentimental y política, que incluye una decisiva intervención en 1823 en los asuntos de España, y los sucesos más representativos de la agitada historia francesa de la época: la Revolución Francesa, Napoleón y los reinados de Luis XVIII, Carlos X y Luis Felipe de Orleans, en los que tuvo una activa participación. Especial interés tienen, asimismo, las descripciones de sus viajes por América, Inglaterra, Italia, Jerusalén, Berlín, Venecia, Praga y otros muchos lugares. La presente selección de esta cumbre del género memorialístico ofrece al lector los hitos más relevantes de una obra en la que la distancia entre las fechas de escritura y las de los acontecimientos relatados permitió a su autor establec

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En este libro, preparado con motivo del 500 aniversario de la herida que dio lugar a la conversión de san Ignacio y que abre la celebración del Año Ignaciano, el lector se va a encontrar las reflexiones del P. Arturo Sosa, Superior General de la Compañía de Jesús desde el año 2016, sobre el mundo de hoy, la Iglesia y la propia Compañía, con fuerte insistencia en sus Preferencias Apostólicas Universales, junto con algunas sugerencias para la reflexión y la oración personal y comunitaria. Así, en palabras del P. Sosa, el lector es invitado a crecer, arrancando del momento en el que se encuentra, guiado por el Señor y avanzando paso a paso (?) a hacerse también peregrino, para recorrer el camino de la aventura de ser cristiano en este mundo en cambio.El libro está escrito en colaboración con el periodista Darío Menor y recoge el fruto de sus entrevistas semanales con el P. Sosa a lo largo de dos meses y medio.

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En este libro, ARTURO RAMONEDA ofrece un manual sencillo que puede resultar de gran utilidad tanto para el profesor como el estudiante que haya de enfrentarse al análisis y comentario de un texto cualquiera. EL COMENTARIO DE TEXTOS: UNA GUÍA PRÁCTICA se divide en dos partes. La primera está integrada por cinco apartados que contienen numerosos ejemplos que sirven para ilustrar la parte teórica. En la segunda se incluyen diversos textos comentados y, junto a las muestras de autores clásicos y contemporáneos (Jorge Manrique, Miguel de Cervantes, Calderón de la Barca, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Pío Baroja, Federico García Lorca, Pedro Salinas y Raúl Brasca), se incluyen muestras de escritos sobre historia, periodismo y publicidad. El paso de lo concreto a lo general, por su parte, se realiza con un análisis del mito de Don Juan. Finalmente, los apéndices que complementan el libro permiten repasar conceptos fundamentales, y siempre necesarios, sobre géneros literarios, métrica y recurso

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How has computer science changed mathematical thinking? In this first ever comprehensive survey of the subject for popular science readers, Arturo Sangalli explains how computers have brought a new practicality to mathematics and mathematical applications. By using fuzzy logic and related concepts, programmers have been able to sidestep the traditional and often cumbersome search for perfect mathematical solutions to embrace instead solutions that are "good enough." If mathematicians want their work to be relevant to the problems of the modern world, Sangalli shows, they must increasingly recognize "the importance of being fuzzy." As Sangalli explains, fuzzy logic is a technique that allows computers to work with imprecise terms--to answer questions with "maybe" rather than just "yes" and "no." The practical implications of this flexible type of mathematical thinking are remarkable. Japanese programmers have used fuzzy logic to develop the city of Sendai's unusually energy-efficient and smooth-running subway system--one that does not even require drivers. Similar techniques have been used in fields as diverse as medical diagnosis, image understanding by robots, the engineering of automatic transmissions, and the forecasting of currency exchange rates. Sangalli also explores in his characteristically clear and engaging manner the limits of classical computing, reviewing many of the central ideas of Turing and Godel. He shows us how "genetic algorithms" can solve problems by an evolutionary process in which chance plays a fundamental role. He introduces us to "neural networks," which recognize ill-defined patterns without an explicit set of rules--much as a dog can be trained to scent drugs without ever having an exact definition of "drug." Sangalli argues that even though "fuzziness" and related concepts are often compared to human thinking, they can be understood only through mathematics--but the math he uses in the book is straightforward and easy to grasp. Of equal appeal to specialists and the general reader, The Importance of Being Fuzzy reveals how computer science is changing both the nature of mathematical practice and the shape of the world around us.

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This text presents translators from different linguistic backgrounds discussing multilingual translation in the European Union. All articles stress the political dimension of multilingualism, and the professional role of the translator as communicator, on which much of the credibility of a union "speaking with one voice in many languages" will ultimately depend.

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This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we live, think, act and design: the assumption of dualism, or the fundamental separateness of things. The authors contend that the key to constructing livable worlds lies in the cultivation of ways of knowing and acting based on a profound awareness of the fundamental interdependence of everything that exists what they refer to as relationality. This shift in paradigm is necessary for healing our bodies, ecosystems, cities, and the planet at large. The book follows two interwoven threads of argumentation: on the one hand, it explains and exemplifies the modes of operation and the dire consequences of non-relational living; on the other, it elucidates the nature of relationality and explores how it is embodied in transformative practices in multiple spheres of life. The authors provide an

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The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These questions are the inspiration for the mathematical mystery novel Pythagoras' Revenge. Suspenseful and instructive, Pythagoras' Revenge weaves fact, fiction, mathematics, computer science, and ancient history into a surprising and sophisticated thriller. The intrigue begins when Jule Davidson, a young American mathematician who trolls the internet for difficult math riddles and stumbles upon a neo-Pythagorean sect searching for the promised reincarnation of Pythagoras. Across the ocean, Elmer Galway, a professor of classical history at Oxford, discovers an Arabic manuscript hinting at the existence of an ancient scroll--possibly left by Pythagoras himself. Unknown to one another, Jule and Elmer each have information that the other requires and, as they race to solve the philosophical and mathematical puzzles set before them, their paths ultimately collide. Set in 1998 with flashbacks to classical Greece, Pythagoras' Revenge investigates the confrontation between opposing views of mathematics and reality, and explores ideas from both early and cutting-edge mathematics. From academic Oxford to suburban Chicago and historic Rome, Pythagoras' Revenge is a sophisticated thriller that will grip readers from beginning to surprising end.

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Shingen el conquistador, volumen quinto de la monumental obra de Terje Solum La saga de los samuráis, recorre una década encarnizada cuya principal característica es la desmedida ambición e insaciable sed de conquista del clan Takeda. Una década en la que el conflicto por la supremacía sobre Shinano alcanzará su punto álgido en la cruenta e impredecible cuarta batalla de Kawanakajima (1561), testigo del duelo personal real o legendario entre los archienemigos Shingen y Kenshin, al tiempo que el fragor y la devastación de la guerra se extenderá por doquier, alcanzando al Echigo de los poderosos Uesugi, al norte, Kozuke al oeste y Suruga al sur, feudo de los Imagawa. Siempre alerta de cualquier amenaza externa o conjura interna, Takeda Shingen desarrollará una compleja y tupida red de espías o shinobi, de cuya labor da cuenta el presente volumen, así como de otra de sus estratagemas a medio camino entre la realidad y el mito, el kagemusha o ?general sombra?.Con 6 láminas a color, map

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UN HOMBRE, TRES MUJERES Y UNA REVOLUCIÓN.UN VIAJE AL CORAZÓN HUMANO Y A LA AVENTURA.UNO DE LOS LIBROS DEL AÑO SEGÚN EL CORREOLa etapa creativa que está atravesando Arturo Pérez-Reverte resulta asombrosa. [Revolución es] la mejor novela de Pérez-Reverte? Al menos y sin duda, una de las mejores.Sergio Vila-Sanjuán, La VanguardiaÉsta es la historia de un hombre, tres mujeres, una revolución y un tesoro. La revolución fue la de México en tiempos de Emiliano Zapata y Francisco Villa. El tesoro fueron quince mil monedas de oro de a veinte pesos de las denominadas maximilianos, robadas en un banco de Ciudad Juárez el 8 de mayo de 1911. El hombre se llamaba Martín Garret Ortiz y era un joven ingeniero de minas español. Todo empezó para él ese mismo día, cuando desde su hotel oyó un primer disparo lejano. Salió a la calle para ver qué ocurría y a partir de ese momento su vida cambió para siempre...Revolución es m

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