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Indagación del choteo fue inicialmente una conferencia pronunciada por Mañach en 1928. En la revisión de 1955 el autor afirma que en gran medida el «choteo» es un vestigio del pasado. Sin embargo, basta una lectura minuciosa de Indagación del choteo para constatar que el choteo es aún en nuestros...

In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde Writing for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges:“A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where...

A Penguin Classic Widely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of Joaquim...

Debravo tiene en estos poemas el fulgor encendido de la protesta, la llama quemante de las voces que se dirigen al pueblo e increpan la miseria. Libertad de palabra para el que es su esclavo, cárcel para el que pide un mundo nuevo. La poesía social tiene en Debravo un magnífico exponente. Porque...

Milagro abierto es poesía de la intimidad, del cuerpo, del abrazo erótico y del silencio en la habitación; el Devocionario del amor sexual renuncia al pudor y a los eufemismos de la abundante poesía amorosa que había. Los Consejos a Cristo revelan el temperamento religioso que siempre mostró...

Polémica epistolar -vía correo electrónico- entre dos amigos de juventud que luego tomarían visiones políticas distintas. El detonante, una nota periodística sobre el progresismo de los Kirchner, derivaría luego en diversas valoraciones del presente y del pasado, con eje en el peronismo. Así,...

Scrappy Claudette sets out once again with her pal Marie and her little brother Gaston to right wrongs and fight evil. And this time, it's personal. Claudette is out to get the dragon who ate her father's legs...and his legendary sword. But as usual, nothing is as simple as it seems, and Claudette...

Picture this: Hello Kitty and her friends are making music, producing plays, snapping photos, solving mysteries and...playing with dragons? Art is all around, and Hello Kitty and her friends know exactly where to find it! And don't miss three lovely pieces by Maite Oz!

Hello Kitty has places to be and friends to meet! Join Hello Kitty in her first-ever comic book adventures as she explores an underground realm, moonlights as an international super spy, climbs the Himalayas, travels back in time, and discovers that sometimes, the best place to get away from...

Anything is possible if you just imagine... Hello Kitty and her friends are letting their imaginations run wild—dreaming up rainy day adventures, inventing amazing machines and solving problems in the most inventive ways. When creativity and friendship combine, the possibilities are endless! And don't miss Sarah Goodreau's flights of fancy!

Los siete libros de la Diana is one of the first examples of pastoral poetry in Spain. It is distinguished by being written in a mixture of verse and prose and for combining various settings in the same story. Among others, it includes the pastoral atmosphere, the supernatural, urban, and even some Moorish themes. 

Charlotte Blue-Tongue, Peg-Leg Pete, Glass-Eyed Gabby, and their friends swashbuckle through the streets demanding loot and treasure from their neighbors in this Halloween pirate tale. As their world transforms from neighborhood to pirate's lagoon, they shout, "We be pirates. TRICK ARRR TREAT!"...

How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning,...

Presenting an analysis of different approaches for predicting the service life of buildings, this monograph discusses various statistical tools and mathematical models, some of which have rarely been applied to the field. It explores methods including deterministic, factorial, stochastic and computational...