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Contemporary Heritage Lexicon: Volume 1 (Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering)
by Cristiana Bartolomei Alfonso Ippolito Simone Helena Tanoue VizioliThis book presents themes related to contemporary architecture as the results of diverse cultural influences and architectural legacies, manifested in a rich variety of styles, materials, and spatial perceptions. It consists of 24 chapters written by authors from various continents and contains the result of research highlighting contemporary architecture in relation to multiple aspects that are distinguished by their eclectic nature, characterized by the integration of diverse cultural and architectural influences. The book examines aspects involving material aspects, technologies, design, history, salvage, technologies, and digitization. The aspects covered are always filtered through research, which objectively integrates traditional and innovative approaches. Thus, the focus is to explore the contemporary lexicon not only in the field of architecture and engineering, but in all those areas where this theme can be read with a meaningful vision. Contemporary architecture is constantly evolving, reflecting the changing needs of society and anticipating the challenges of the future.
Contemporary Heritage Lexicon: Volume 2 (Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering)
by Cristiana Bartolomei Alfonso Ippolito Simone Helena Tanoue VizioliThe book presents themes related to contemporary architecture as the results of diverse cultural influences and architectural legacies, manifested in a rich variety of styles, materials, and spatial perceptions. It consists of 24 chapters written by authors from various continents and contains the result of research highlighting contemporary architecture in relation to multiple aspects that are distinguished by their eclectic nature, characterized by the integration of diverse cultural and architectural influences. The book examines aspects involving material aspects, technologies, design, history, salvage, technologies, and digitization. The aspects covered are always filtered through research, which objectively integrates traditional and innovative approaches. Thus, the focus is to explore the contemporary lexicon not only in the field of architecture and engineering but in all those areas where this theme can be read with a meaningful vision. Contemporary architecture is constantly evolving, reflecting the changing needs of society and anticipating the challenges of the future.
Contemporary Second- and Third-Person Autobiographical Writing: Narrating the Male Self (Routledge Auto/Biography Studies)
by Christina Schönberger-StepienThis book explores 21st-century uses of the second- and third-person perspective in Anglophone autobiographical narratives by canonical male writers. Through detailed readings of contemporary autobiographical works by Paul Auster, Julian Barnes, J.M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie, the study demonstrates the multiple aesthetic, rhetorical, and un/ethical implications of the choice of narrative perspective as well as the uncommon step of articulating the self from a perspective which is not I. Drawing on (rhetorical) narratology and autobiography theory, the book engages with questions and tensions of subjectivity and relationality, the interplay of distance and proximity resulting from the narrative perspective, and its effects on the relationship between autobiographer, text, and reader. In addition, the book traces relevant guiding principles that the authors use to navigate their self-narratives in relation to others, such as questions of embodiment, visuality, grief, ethics, and politics. Situating the narratives in their socio-political and cultural context, the book uncovers to what extent these autobiographical narratives reflect the authors’ position between self-withdrawal and self-promotion as well as their response to questions of male agency, self-stylisation, and celebrity status.
Contemptible [Illustrated Edition]
by Anon “casualty”Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos"An 'Old Contemptible' recounts the campaign of 1914.At the outbreak of the First World War, units of the British regular army-the B. E. F-were despatched to the continent to assist the French in an attempt to stem the tide of the advancing Imperial German Army as it marched inexorably towards Paris. The enemy viewed the 'Tommies' as 'that contemptible little army.' In that way peculiar to the British the insult became a byword for courage and honour as the highly trained and motivated soldiers in khaki demonstrated just what a contemptible little army could do. However, this was a war of attrition and despite the 'contemptibles' magnificent performance the 'grey horde' could not initially be halted. What followed was the memorable retreat from Mons. The author of this book was a subaltern officer serving in one of the county regiments of the B. E. F and chose as his title for this book the proudly worn designation 'Contemptible.' Although the book was written under a pseudonym it is widely believed that the writer was Arnold Gyde who served with the South Staffordshire Regiment and was one of the first British soldiers to set foot on the continent. Although the account of this vital aspect of the opening months of the conflict is presented in a 'factional' style it is clearly based on the author's first hand experiences." -Print Ed.
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
by James ShapiroFor more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is generally agreed to be the finest body of work by a writer in the English language. In this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays. Among the doubters have been such writers and thinkers as Sigmund Freud, Henry James, Mark Twain, and Helen Keller. It is a fascinating story, replete with forgeries, deception, false claimants, ciphers and codes, conspiracy theories--and a stunning failure to grasp the power of the imagination. As Contested Will makes clear, much more than proper attribution of Shakespeare's plays is at stake in this authorship controversy. Underlying the arguments over whether Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, or the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays are fundamental questions about literary genius, specifically about the relationship of life and art. Are the plays (and poems) of Shakespeare a sort of hidden autobiography? Do Hamlet, Macbeth, and the other great plays somehow reveal who wrote them? Shapiro is the first Shakespeare scholar to examine the authorship controversy and its history in this way, explaining what it means, why it matters, and how it has persisted despite abundant evidence that William Shakespeare of Stratford wrote the plays attributed to him. This is a brilliant historical investigation that will delight anyone interested in Shakespeare and the literary imagination.
Context and Content: The Memoir of a Fortunate Architect
by A.J. DiamondA deeply personal memoir from one of Canada’s most celebrated architects.In this personal account of A.J. Diamond’s life and work, he shares how he came to be the founder of the leading architecture firm Diamond Schmitt, one of Canada’s most successful architecture companies. He also explains his principles of design, which at their core are about making a positive impact in the world, considering the needs of the content, client, and context. Diamond gives insight into his design principles in relation to some of his most notable projects, including the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, la Maison symphonique de Montréal, the Mariinsky II Theatre in Saint Petersburg, and the new city hall in Jerusalem. Diamond also chronicles his family ancestry, his childhood in South Africa, from his birth in his grandfather’s study in the small provincial town of Piet Retief on the borders of Eswatini (Swaziland) and Mozambique, to his university days at the University of Cape Town and Oxford — where he played rugby at the international level, scoring two winning tries for the Oxford Blues against Australia — and the University of Pennsylvania. His memoir traces his immigration to the U.S. and, eventually, Canada as well as his growing architectural practice in Toronto, where he focused on the issues facing his chosen city.
Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering
by Maurice IssermanThis magesterial and thrilling history argues that the story of American mountaineering is the story of America itself. In Continental Divide, Maurice Isserman tells the history of American mountaineering through four centuries of landmark climbs and first ascents. Mountains were originally seen as obstacles to civilization; over time they came to be viewed as places of redemption and renewal. The White Mountains stirred the transcendentalists; the Rockies and Sierras pulled explorers westward toward Manifest Destiny; Yosemite inspired the early environmental conservationists. Climbing began in North America as a pursuit for lone eccentrics but grew to become a mass-participation sport. Beginning with Darby Field in 1642, the first person to climb a mountain in North America, Isserman describes the exploration and first ascents of the major American mountain ranges, from the Appalachians to Alaska. He also profiles the most important American mountaineers, including such figures as John C. Frémont, John Muir, Annie Peck, Bradford Washburn, Charlie Houston, and Bob Bates, relating their exploits both at home and abroad. Isserman traces the evolving social, cultural, and political roles mountains played in shaping the country. He describes how American mountaineers forged a "brotherhood of the rope," modeled on America's unique democratic self-image that characterized climbing in the years leading up to and immediately following World War II. And he underscores the impact of the postwar "rucksack revolution," including the advances in technique and style made by pioneering "dirtbag" rock climbers. A magnificent, deeply researched history, Continental Divide tells a story of adventure and aspiration in the high peaks that makes a vivid case for the importance of mountains to American national identity.
Continental Drifter
by Kathy MacLeod“A fantastic story about the awkward feelings of being from neither here nor there."—Dan Santat, National Book Award winner and author of A First Time for EverythingWith a Thai mother and an American father, Kathy lives in two different worlds. She spends most of the year in Bangkok, where she’s secretly counting the days till summer vacation. That’s when her family travels for twenty-four hours straight to finally arrive in a tiny seaside town in Maine.Kathy loves Maine’s idyllic beauty and all the exotic delicacies she can’t get back home, like clam chowder and blueberry pie. But no matter how hard she tries, she struggles to fit in. She doesn’t look like the other kids in thisrural New England town. Kathy just wants to find a place where she truly belongs, but she’s not sure if it’s in America, Thailand . . . or anywhere.
Contra Bush
by Carlos Fuentes"La insolencia pierde a los hombres y a las naciones." Esta obra reúne reflexiones sobre la crisis política estadounidense y global provocada por la administración de George W. Bush y su círculo más próximo. En un planeta donde miles de millones de seres humanos reclaman por trabajo y salud, educación y techo, los Estados Unidos, única potencia mundial, imponen hoy intereses ajenos y opuestos a esas necesidades. Olvidando que todos somos descendientes de encuentros de civilizaciones, Bush y su equipo exaltan los fundamentalismos violentos en vez de promover, como incumbe al fuerte, políticas constructivas que eliminen los focos de tensión que atraen a insatisfechos y fanáticos. En Contra Bush, Carlos Fuentes formula un deseo que es a la vez convocatoria a los ciudadanos estadounidenses: que recuperen la voluntad de emplear la extraordinaria fuerza de su país para cooperar en favor de la legalidad internacional, el desarrollo económico y el respeto a las culturas. Sólo así el terrorismo podrá ser vencido.
Contraband
by Michael KwassLouis Mandrin led a gang of bandits who brazenly smuggled contraband into eighteenth-century France. Michael Kwass brings new life to the legend of this Gallic Robin Hood and the thriving underworld he helped to create. Decades before the storming of the Bastille, surging world trade excited a revolution in consumption that transformed the French kingdom. Contraband exposes the dark side of this early phase of globalization, revealing hidden connections between illicit commerce, criminality, and popular revolt. France's economic system was tailor-made for an enterprising outlaw like Mandrin. As French subjects began to crave colonial products, Louis XIV lined the royal coffers by imposing a state monopoly on tobacco from America and an embargo on brilliantly colored calico cloth from India. Vigorous black markets arose through which traffickers fed these exotic goods to eager French consumers. Flouting the law with unparalleled panache, Mandrin captured widespread public attention to become a symbol of a defiant underground. This furtive economy generated violent clashes between gangs of smugglers and customs agents in the borderlands. Eventually, Mandrin was captured by French troops and put to death in a brutal public execution intended to demonstrate the king's absolute authority. But the spectacle only cemented Mandrin's status as a rebel folk hero in an age of mounting discontent. Amid cycles of underground rebellion and agonizing penal repression, the memory of Mandrin inspired ordinary subjects and Enlightenment philosophers alike to challenge royal power and forge a movement for radical political change.
Contractor Combatants: Tales of an Imbedded Capitalist
by Carter AndressAn insider account an entrepreneur hired to support American peacekeeping efforts in Iraq in the wake of the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime.The enemy is everywhere in war-torn Iraq, and suppliers and construction workers run the same risks as uniformed combatants: guerrilla attacks, suicide bombings, rocket bombardments, and road mines. This is the compelling story of Carter Andress and the unique methods his multinational team used to deliver vital supplies to coalition forces and help rebuild the devastated country. Armed to the teeth with AK-47s, sidearms, and bags full of grenades, these “contractor combatants” engaged in deadly firefights with the enemy while attempting to fulfill their mission and defend their own lives. Some gunned down insurgents. Others were themselves killed. This riveting war story is the first to define the role of this new breed of private warrior and to do so in a gripping and highly graphic narrative.
Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood
by JoAnna NovakFor readers of Rachel Cusk and Maggie Nelson, the rapturous memoir of a soon-to-be-mother whose obsession with the reclusive painter Agnes Martin threatens to upend her lifeFive months pregnant and struggling with a creative block, JoAnna Novak becomes obsessed with the enigmatic abstract expressionist painter Agnes Martin. She is drawn to the contradictions in Martin&’s life as well as her art—the soft and exacting brushstrokes she employs for grid-like compositions that are both rigid and dreamy. But what most calls to JoAnna is Martin&’s dedication to her work in the face of paranoid schizophrenia.Uneasy with the changes her pregnant body is undergoing, JoAnna relapses into damaging old habits and thought patterns. When she confides in her doctor that she&’s struggling with depression and suicidal ideation, he tells her she must stop being so selfish, given she has a baby on the way, and start taking antidepressants. Appalled by his patronizing tone and disregard of her mental health history, JoAnna instead turns to Martin for guidance, adopting the artist's doctrine of joyful solitude and isolation.JoAnna heads to Taos, where Martin lived for decades, and gives herself three weeks to model her hermetic existence: phone off, email off, no talking to her husband, no touching the dog. Out of a deep, solitary engagement with a remarkable artist&’s body of work emerges an entirely new way for JoAnna to relate to the contradictions of her own body and face up to the joys and challenges of impending motherhood.
Contrapunto de la Realidad
by Lilian G. Selvaggio Stephen John O'ConnorMi viaje personal explorando el camino paralelo que toma nuestro espíritu/alma, escondido detrás del caos de nuestras vidas. La Energía de la Luz nos susurra y nos empuja suavemente en las nuevas direcciones que realizan nuestro camino de vida, dándonos significado y concentración, y permitiéndonos seguir la ruta que hemos elegido antes de nuestros nacimientos. Relato historias personales sobre iniciaciones en órdenes esotéricas, el encuentro con mi guardián, la exploración de vidas pasadas y su influencia y dones, Ayahuasca y la iglesia del Santo Daime de Brasil, y mucho más.
Contrarreloj
by Santiago Botero"Dentro de la carrera ciclista muchos te dirán que no puedes, que es imposible, que no eres bueno. Pero ahíes donde toca ignorarlos y seguir pedaleando con la convicción clara de a dónde quieres llegar". S.B Santiago Botero saltó del ciclismo recreativo al profesional y aterrizó en Europa a los 23 años, sin saber casi nada del de porte a ese nivel. Aprender le costó varios errores que casi lo apartan de su destino. Fue un ciclista colombiano atípico: alto, rubio, universitario, con unas piernas potentes que se destacaban en la escalada, y sobre todo cuando pedaleaba solo contra el viento, en las cronos, una categoría en la que ningún colombiano había destacado antes. La contrarreloj, dijo, es una prueba masoquista: "Es uno quien se obliga, por voluntad propia, a infligirse dolor y llevar el cuerpo a la agonía sobre la bicicleta, solo para obtener el placer del triunfo". Allí encontró su lugar en este exigente deporte. Además del reloj, Botero tuvo otros rivales, incluso más peligrosos que sus colegas: la inseguridad acerca de su talento, y sus desórdenes alimenticios provocados por la ansiedad y por esa idea implícita en la práctica del ciclismo según la cual, a menor peso, mayor rendimiento. En estas páginas, Botero nos cuenta sus fortalezas y debilidades, sus luchas y renuncias, sus momentos de gloria y de dolor. Leerlo es como un viaje a las más legendarias cumbres a bordo de su bicicleta. Y desde la altura, somos capaces de admirar toda la humanidad de un campeón de talla mundial
Contribución de los ingenieros de caminos catalanes al progreso de España
by Fernando Sáenz RidruejoEste libro atesora algunas de las aportaciones más importantes a la Ingeniería de Caminos de nuestro país y da a conocer a sus geniales artífices. «Las obras públicas son realidades muy complejas que pueden determinar la prosperidad o la ruina de comarcas enteras.» Las palabras de Sáenz Ridruejo quedan reflejadas en este elaborado compendio biográfico del que emana un gran respeto por la profesión y por los compañeros con quienes la comparte. Fruto de una rigurosa investigación, este libro llega de la mano del historiador de los ingenieros de Caminos por excelencia y aporta un detallado testimonio de las contribuciones catalanas al progreso de la casa y de la causa común, ingenios que han facilitado y que facilitan a diario nuestra movilidad, nuestra comodidad y, en definitiva, nuestras vidas.
Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games
by Cliff BleszinskiThe designer of Unreal and Gears of War offers an eye-opening personal account of the video game industry as it grew from niche hobby to hundred-billion-dollar enterprise.Video games are dominating the planet. In 2020, they brought in $180 billion dollars globally—nearly $34 billion in the United States alone. So who are the brilliant designers who create these stunning virtual worlds? Cliff Bleszinski—or CliffyB as he is known to gamers—is one of the few who&’ve reached mythical, rock star status. In Control Freak, he gives an unvarnished, all-access tour of the business. Toiling away in his bedroom, Bleszinski created and shipped his first game before graduating high school, and at just seventeen joined a fledgling company called Epic Games. He describes the grueling hours, obscene amounts of Mountain Dew and obsessive focus necessary to achieve his singular creative visions. He details Epic&’s rise to industry leader, thanks largely to his work on bestselling franchises Unreal and Gears of War (and, later, his input on a little game called Fortnite), as well as his own awkward ascent from shy, acne-riddled introvert to sports car-driving celebrity rubbing shoulders with Bill Gates. As he writes, &“No one is weirder than a nerd with money.&” While the book is laced with such self-deprecating humor, Bleszinski also bluntly addresses the challenges that have long-faced the gaming community, including sexism and a lack of representation among both designers and the characters they create. Control Freak is a hilarious, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir. Even if you don&’t play games, you&’ll walk away from this book recognizing them as a true art form and appreciating the genius of their creators.
Control the Crazy
by Samantha Rose Vinny GuadagninoWe all have the power to make our lives better in an instant. You have absolute power to control your crazy. In his new book, Vinny from Jersey Shore shares the step-by-step program that has helped him get a handle on his anxious mind and filled him with a sense of personal power and control that has rocked every facet of his life.
Controlling Our Destiny: A Board Member’s View of Deaf President Now
by Philip W. BravinIn March 1988, students at Gallaudet University led a successful protest to demand the selection of the university’s first deaf president. The Deaf President Now (DPN) movement was a watershed event in American deaf history; it achieved self-governance for the deaf community and placed Gallaudet in the center of a national media spotlight. Controlling Our Destiny is Philip Bravin’s personal perspective of these momentous events. A lifelong member of the deaf community and proud Gallaudet alumnus, Bravin was a member of the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees and the chair of the presidential search committee during DPN. Although the deaf community had been strongly advocating for a deaf president to lead the university, the board (which had a hearing majority) selected the lone hearing candidate. Bravin recounts the discussions and decision-making that happened behind the scenes leading up to and following the ill-fated announcement. He reflects on the integrity of the process and the internal conflict he experienced as a deaf person who supported a deaf president yet felt compelled to abide by his duties as a board member. After the protests, his leadership was recognized when he was selected as the first deaf chair of the board. Photographs and documents add depth to Bravin’s account, many of which will be seen by the public for the first time. I. King Jordan, the first deaf president of Gallaudet, provides a foreword in which he shares his own unique insight into these events. Controlling Our Destiny captures the energy and the urgency of DPN. Readers will understand the complexities of the presidential search process and the cultural and historical contexts that triggered the protest. Bravin’s memoir contemplates power, access, community, and the enduring legacy of a movement that inspired deaf people around the world.
Controversy Creates Cash
by Jeremy Roberts Eric BischoffBischoff, one of the most controversial figures in the world of wrestling, takes a no-holds-barred look at his career and life. He discusses what he did right as WCW president--and what failed--as he helped shape the sports entertainment industry into the billion-dollar business it is today.
Conundrum
by Jan MorrisThe great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he was not only a man, but a man's man.Except that appearances, as James Morris had known from early childhood, can be deeply misleading. James Morris had known all his conscious life that at heart he was a woman.Conundrum, one of the earliest books to discuss transsexuality with honesty and without prurience, tells the story of James Morris--s hidden life and how he decided to bring it into the open, as he resolved first on a hormone treatment and, second, on risky experimental surgery that would turn him into the woman that he truly was.
Convenience Voting and Technology
by Claire M. SmithOne of modern democracy's biggest challenges is the overseas voter. This book is the first of its kind to explore the issues of military and overseas voting, an often neglected voting bloc, by investigating the successfulness of overseas voting initiatives, technologies, and policy efforts.
Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science
by Peter WatsonA brilliant history of science over the past 150 years that offers a powerful new argument—that the many disparate scientific branches are converging on the same truths.Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite their very different beginnings, have been coming together over the past 150 years, converging and coalescing. Intimate connections have been discovered between physics and chemistry, psychology and biology, genetics and linguistics. In this groundbreaking book, Peter Watson identifies one extraordinary master narrative, capturing how the sciences are slowly resolving into one overwhelming, interlocking story about the universe. Watson begins his narrative in the 1850s, the decade when, he argues, the convergence of the sciences began. The idea of the conservation of energy was introduced in this decade, as was Darwin’s theory of evolution—both of which rocketed the sciences forward and revealed unimagined interconnections and overlaps between disciplines. The story then proceeds from each major breakthrough and major scientist to the next, leaping between fields and linking them together. Decade after decade, the story captures every major scientific advance en route to the present, proceeding like a cosmic detective story, or the world’s most massive code-breaking effort. Watson’s is a thrilling new approach to the history of science, revealing how each piece falls into place, and how each uncovers an “emerging order.” Convergence is, as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg has put it, “The deepest thing about the universe.” And Watson’s comprehensive and eye-opening book argues that all our scientific efforts are indeed approaching unity. Told through the eyes of the scientists themselves, charting each discovery and breakthrough, it is a gripping way to learn what we now know about the universe and where our inquiries are heading.
Conversaciones con Carlos Altamirano
by Gabriel Salazar Carlos Altamirano«Nunca he tenido interés en ganar nada a través de la política?» Carlos Altamirano Orrego, el hombre de poderoso pensamiento crítico y el político combativo, es el que surge en estas conversaciones que tuvieron lugar a lo largo de tres años y medio con el Premio Nacional de Historia, Gabriel Salazar, quien ejerció de contrapunto intelectual y sesudo editor. Una colosal memoria crítica, que contribuye al entendimiento de un político que abandonó para siempre ?como lo hizo Altamirano? su clase oligárquica de origen; que tomó la dirección del Partido Socialista en 1971, cuando Allende comenzó a aplicar sin transacción alguna el programa revolucionario; que se mantuvo leal al «compañero Presidente» aun estando en desacuerdo con él respecto de cómo responder a los ostentosos preparativos del golpe militar, que años después planteó la ruptura con el comunismo de prosapia estalinista y que hoy reflexiona sobre el futuro de una izquierda progresista. Asimismo, el lector tiene en sus manos un cuadro mayor que retrata el devenir de la izquierda chilena y el avance del movimiento popular, así como la férrea resistencia de las clases altas a cualquier cambio y la calculada preparación del golpe de Estado, con un análisis inédito del Informe de la Comisión Church que desvela hechos escandalosos. Una lectura absolutamente imprescindible para interpretar la historia reciente de Chile sin anteojeras.
Conversaciones con Carlos Altamirano: Memorias Críticas
by Gabriel Salazar Vergara Carlos Altamirano OrregoUna lectura absolutamente imprescindible para interpretar la historia reciente de Chile sin anteojeras. «Nunca he tenido interés en ganar nada a través de la política.» Carlos Altamirano Orrego, el hombre de poderoso pensamiento crítico y el político combativo, es el que surge en estas conversaciones que tuvieron lugar a lo largo de tres años y medio con el Premio Nacional de Historia, Gabriel Salazar, quien ejerció de contrapunto intelectual y sesudo editor. Una colosal memoria crítica, que contribuye al entendimiento de un político que abandonó para siempre #como lo hizo Altamirano# su clase oligárquica de origen; que tomó la dirección del Partido Socialista en 1971, cuando Allende comenzó a aplicar sin transacción alguna el programa revolucionario; que se mantuvo leal al «compañero Presidente» aun estando en desacuerdo con él respecto de cómo responder a los ostentosos preparativos del golpe militar, que años después planteó la ruptura con el comunismo de prosapia estalinista y que hoy reflexiona sobre el futuro de una izquierda progresista. Asimismo, el lector tiene en sus manos un cuadro mayor que retrata el devenir de la izquierda chilena y el avance del movimiento popular, así como la férrea resistencia de las clases altas a cualquier cambio y la calculada preparación del golpe de Estado, con un análisis inédito del Informe de la Comisión Church que desvela hechos escandalosos.
Conversaciones con jugadores exquisitos: El fútbol visto y debatido por sus protagonistas: Diego Milito, Claudio Marangoni, Enzo Francescoli, Jorge Rinaldi, Alberto Márcico y César Luis Menotti
by Gustavo Noriega Diego LatorreEntrevistados por el ex jugador estrella y actual comentarista deportivo Diego Latorre y el periodista Gustavo Noriega, seis futbolistas de primera línea cuentan sus experiencias, hablan de sus referentes y describen sus impresiones sobre el deporte más popular de la Argentina y su devenir, ayer y hoy. ¿Es posible hablar de fútbol sin sentirse preso de las rivalidades? ¿Puede un hincha de Boca apreciar a un jugador habilidoso de River, y viceversa? ¿Pueden conversar amablemente los hinchas de San Lorenzo y Huracán, Talleres y Belgrano, Racing e Independiente? La posibilidad de ver fútbol internacional debería haber engendrado un nuevo tipo de hincha, menos apegado a los colores de un equipo que a los talentos de un jugador o a un modelo de juego. Sin embargo, hoy más que nunca, el sentimiento de pertenencia se ha convertido en adhesión irracional, desborde, enemistad acérrima. La lógica brutal de los barrabravas se ha extendido a jugadores, dirigentes, parte del periodismo y hasta el público general. Pero hay esperanza: en este panorama en el que las agresiones son moneda corriente, es posible encontrar a unos cuantos futbolistas que se negaron a formar parte del gran circo del enfrentamiento y pusieron al deporte en el centro de sus preocupaciones. Deportistas destacados, adorados por hinchas propios y ajenos, capaces de crear en la cancha un espectáculo y de comportarse fuera de ella con un espíritu de cuerpo casi aristocrático, ajeno al insulto y la provocación: los jugadores exquisitos. En estas páginas se proponen una serie de encuentros con varios de estos futbolistas de elite. Abren el micrófono Gustavo Noriega y Diego Latorre, quien en sus años de jugador fue indiscutiblemente uno de ellos, delantero de enorme habilidad y gambeta desconcertante. Y se prestan generosamente al juego Diego Milito, Marangoni, Francescoli, Rinaldi, Márcico y Menotti: un inmejorable seleccionado de exquisitos.