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El infinito en un junco: la invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
Par Irene Vallejo. 2019
This award-winning essay explores the history of books in a journey through almost thirty centuries of the life of the…
book and those who have safeguarded it. Identifies important moments in the development of the book, from the battlefields of Alexander to the Oxford Library. Premio Nacional de Ensayo et al. Spanish language. 2019Un tal Evo: biografía no autorizada
Par Darwin Pinto. 2013
The authors, award-winning journalists who start following Evo Morales as an agricultural organizer in the 1980s, share the unknown history…
of the former president of Bolivia. They reveal details from his childhood on the high plateau until his first term as president. Strong language and some violence. Spanish language. 2007The Berlitz self-teacher, Spanish
Par Berlitz Schools of Languages of America. 1949
Spanish-language study guide designed for the independent student. Stresses oral practice and presents each of thirty-eight lessons as a conversational…
dialog incorporating vocabulary and grammar exercises. A pronunciation guide and English translation follow each sentence. Also provides information on Spanish customs. 1949Josefina entra en acción: un cuento de verano (The american Girls Collection #Bk. 5)
Par Valerie Tripp. 1998
Josefina and her family, in Santa Fe, await the arrival of wagon trains to trade blankets and mules for goods…
they need. Patrick O'Toole, a wagon scout, promises to handle the family's transactions, but he suddenly disappears. Sequel to Feliz Cumpleaños, Josefina (BR 14707). For grades 2-4. Spanish language. 1998Así es Josefina, una niña americana
Par Valerie Tripp. 1997
En 1824 Josefina, una niña de nueve años, vive con su padre y sus tres hermanas en un rancho cerca…
de Santa Fé, Nuevo México, Las niñas se preocupan de mantener el hogar, como lo hacía su madre quien murió el año pasado. Para grados 2 a 4. Seguido de Josefina Aprende una Lección (BR 14465)Una sorpresa para Josefina: un cuento de Navidad
Par Valerie Tripp. 1997
Durante la segunda Navidad sin Mamá, Josefina y sus tres hermanas celebran las tradiciones de Las Posadas que les ayudan…
a mantener v iva la memoria de su madre difunta. Sigue a Josefina Aprende una Lección (BR 14465). Para grados 2 a 4Vuelos vespertinos (Colección Argumentos (Editorial Anagrama) #564)
Par Helen Macdonald. 2021
"In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics…
ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing songbirds from the Empire State Building as they migrate through the Tribute of Light, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk's poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds' nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife. By one of this century's most important and insightful nature writers, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us." -- Goodreads"La Malinche, a foundational figure in the history of Mexico, has been adorned with the halo of suspicion that enveloped…
Eve after her expulsion from paradise; condemned to silence and turned into one of the most frequent characters of Creole writing. Deified by some and demonized by others, she has inspired tragedies, romantic dramas, chronicles, poems and even cartoons. Like all mythical and historical characters, it is necessary to revisit her periodically, delve into our roots, review the mestizaje and rethink her present and past wanderings to clarify the multiple meanings of one of the most powerful cultural enigmas in Mexico and Latin America. This volume brings together the memories of the colloquium entitled La Malinche, her Parents and Children, with the participation of Carlos Monsiváis, Roger Bartra, Hernán Lara Zavala, among other well-known writers; and two new essays on this controversial character: a panoramic look at the myths, uses and customs that have consolidated Malintzin as the paradigm par excellence of mestizaje." -- Translation provided by NLSChina irrumpe en Latinoamérica: ¿dragón o panda? (Colección Geopolítica y dominación)
Par Alfredo Jalife-Rahme. 2020
Las guerras globales del agua: privatización y fracking
Par Alfredo Jalife-Rahme. 2021
"Just as the 20th century was the era of the "oil/gas wars" that were part of the superpowers' geostrategic games,…
the 21st century is oriented towards the "global water wars" that have already begun in some areas of the planet, full of sea water and, paradoxically, where most humans are thirsty." -- Translation provided by NLSHistoria mínima de la revolución cubana (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Rafael Rojas. 2018
"A brief and complete history of recent Cuba, from the generalized struggle against the dictator Batista in 1956 until the…
approval of the socialist Constitution in 1976. The Cuban Revolution was a decisive event in Latin American history in the second half of the 20th century. The Cold War consolidated Cuba as an international political actor, as Cuban leaders supported guerrillas in other countries in order to spread the revolution. The institutionalization of the revolutionary regime was a slow process full of twists and turns, conditioned by both internal and external factors." -- Translation provided by NLSNuestra hambre en la Habana: memorias del Período Especial en la Cuba de los 90
Par Enrique Del Risco. 2022
"|Our Hunger in Havana| is a book of personal memories of the 90s Cuban postwar period of peace that received…
the curious euphemism of "Special Period." In a tragicomic tone, the author describes and explains the debacle that brought cats and banana skins to the status of delicacies, pigs to that of urban pets raised in bathtubs, and the practical disappearance of public transportation, gastronomy, and alcoholic beverages. A national catastrophe told through the personal experiences of one who worked in a school, a museum, and a cemetery while trying to be young, free, and happy at the worst time in Cuba's history." -- Translation provided by NLSJuan de Juanes: escritores, editores, agentes literarios y otras glorias y calamidades
Par Sergio Ramírez. 2014
"Memory is also a sort of homage to the friends who have accompanied us throughout life, those with whom we…
share a table, books, travels and, in the case of Sergio Ramirez, revolution. In Juan de Juanes' vast map of memories, Ramirez traces the route that takes us from his beginnings as a writer, the triumph of the Sandinista revolution in his native Nicaragua, the Alfaguara Prize in 1998, to the awarding of the 2011 José Donoso Ibero-American Literature Prize, a few days before the suicide of the Chilean writer's only heir, Pilar Donoso. In the pages of Juan de Juanes, Sergio Ramírez tells us about memorable characters in his life, to whom he remained indebted, among others Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Augusto Monterroso, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Cardenal and Juan Cruz, his first editor and the starting point of this journey through Latin America." -- Translation provided by NLSLatinitas: una celebración de 40 soñadoras audaces
Par Juliet Menéndez. 2021
"Discover how 40 influential Latinas became the women we celebrate today! In this collection of short biographies from all over…
Latin America and across the United States, Juliet Menéndez explores the first small steps that set the Latinitas off on their journeys. With gorgeous, hand-painted illustrations, Menéndez shines a spotlight on the power of childhood dreams. From Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to singer Selena Quintanilla to NASA's first virtual reality engineer, Evelyn Miralles, this is a book for aspiring artists, scientists, activists, and more. These women followed their dreams-and they just might encourage you to follow yours!" -- GoodreadsGastronomía e imperio: la cocina en la historia del mundo (Sección de obras de historia)
Par Rachel Laudan. 2020
"Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers.…
Laudan's innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement." -- GoodreadsMemorias de una infamia
Par Lydia Cacho. 2014
"In 2005, after publishing her book The Demons of Eden - where she denounced the very powerful men behind the…
a Mexican child pornography ring - Lydia Cacho became a target. Exactly eight months after the publication of the book, one morning as she was making her way to work, Lydia was apprehended by the police from the neighboring state of Puebla, and taken into custody during a nightmarish 24 hours during which she was tortured, intimidated and abused. In this chilling memoir, comparable to Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel, Lydia tells her story and exposes the horrific ways in which women - and young girls in particular - are abused then disposed of, while an oftentimes corrupt government simply sits and watches." -- GoodreadsA sangre y fuego con Pancho Villa (Vida y pensamiento de Mexico)
Par Juan Bautista Vargas Arreola. 1988
Aguas de estuario
Par Velia Vidal. 2020
"In these letters, Velia Vidal recounts her wanderings since she returned to the Chocó region of Colombia, to the Pacific…
Ocean, and devoted herself to the promotion of reading and culture. Incorporating elements from her surroundings, she elaborates metaphors that account for her internal tide and the tensions between the center and the periphery. Through writing, the author constructs a personal history and geography." -- Translation provided by NLSFrutos extraños: (crónicas reunidas 2001-2019) (Narrativa hispánica (Alfaguara (Firm)))
Par Leila Guerriero. 2020
"In this revised and expanded edition of |Strange Fruit|, Leila Guerriero shows us the most sensitive, vigorous and throbbing face…
of a profession that is going through difficult times and works the miracle of making us believe in the profession of journalism again. The articles collected in this book, written between 2001 and 2019, constitute a master class in journalism, show the world from a unique, intense and different perspective, and have the capacity to knock the reader out." -- Translation provided by NLSPuño y letra (Biblioteca breve (Santiago, Chile))
Par Diamela Eltit. 2014
"In Handwriting, Eltit offers her reading of the Argentine trial of Enrique Arancibia Clavel for his participation in the assassination…
of General Prats and his wife, Sofía Cuthbert. The work's main concept is the literal transcription of documents generated by third parties, but also considers three brief texts, written in her own handwriting, that explain the book's motives and allow two reflections. The first, linked to her narrative staging of the book, to the use of third-party documents, and their function in the literary act; the second focuses on the documents' content that reveals the motives of one of so many political crimes executed during the Pinochet dictatorship." -- Translation provided by NLS