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Arenas blancas: Experiencias del mundo exterior
by Geoff DyerDel autor de Pero hermoso, un magnífico libro de viajes sobre los lugares que visitamos y el poder de la memoria. Un precioso homenaje al arte y a la literatura. Geoff Dyer, viajero incomparable, en esta ocasión nos invita a acompañarle en un paseo único por diez lugares fascinantes del planeta, un recorrido en el que seremos testigos de sus experiencias en localizaciones muy dispares. En su exploración creativa de los espacios, pero también del tiempo y la memoria, el autor busca dar respuesta, ante todo, a una pregunta: por qué viajamos. Y mientras le seguimos en esta búsqueda, visitamos la Ciudad Prohibida de Pekín de la mano de una sospechosa guía turística por la que el autor sentirá debilidad, nos adentramos en el Campo de relámpagos de Nuevo México, perseguimos el fantasma de Gauguin por la Polinesia francesa, localizamos el paradero de la casa en Los Ángeles de un célebre filósofo o sufrimos por las posibles consecuencias de haber recogido a un autoestopista en el desierto de Arenas Blancas. En este libro Dyer hace acopio de su habitual humor y perspicacia, y nos cautiva una vez más con su estilo inconfundible y enérgico, para ir más allá de la mera crónica de viajes. Mezcla de memorias, ensayo, crítica y ficción, este libro es a la vez un hermoso homenaje al mundo del arte y de la literatura y, en definitiva, una reflexión sobre las grandes cuestiones: de dónde venimos, quiénes somos, adónde vamos. Reseñas:«Dyer es una máquina de mirar, y así sus ficciones y no ficciones son instrucciones para ver más y mejor.»Rodrigo Fresán, ABC «Leer a Dyer es parecido al entusiasmo súbito y al optimismo que sientes cuando acabas de hacer un nuevo amigo, alguien tan bobo como tú pero a la vez más inteligente, en cuya compañía sabes que viajarás a través de la vida de una forma más errante, intensa y alegre.»The Daily Telegraph «Si el propio Chéjov hubiera leído este libro, al llegar al capítulo de Arenas Blancas incluso él se hubiera estremecido por una fraternal envidia.»Jan Morris, The Spectator «De una elocuencia incomparable [...] la acción real se encuentra en la vívida relación entre la mente deDyer y el mundo exterior [...] una parte esencial de viajar es la sensación inevitable de que, sea donde sea que te hayas metido, no se parece a lo que esperabas que sería, del mismo modo que uno nunca es, al menos completamente, el viajero que uno creía ser.»Lev Grossman, Time «A la mirada de Dyer no se le escapa nada, y su cerebro emite descargas tan brillantes como el Campo de relámpagos en una noche de tormenta.»Peter Conrad, The Observer
Aren't We Sisters?
by Patricia FergusonFollowing on from The Midwife's Daughter, Aren't We Sisters? is a gripping novel about buried secrets and unlikely friendship.Norah Thornby can no longer afford to live in her grand family home in the centre of Silkhampton. Unless, perhaps, she can find a respectable lodger.But Nurse Lettie Quick is not nearly as respectable as she seems. What's really going on at the clinic she has opened? And why has she chosen Silkhampton?Meanwhile the beautiful Rae Grainger has found the perfect place to stay, in an isolated house miles away from the town. It's certainly rather creepy, especially at candlelit bedtime, but Rae knows that all she has to do is stay out of sight, until others - paid, professional others - are ready to take her little problem away. Then she can just forget the whole ghastly business . . . can't she?No one guesses, of course, that there's a killer quietly at work in Silkhampton; that in one way or another all three women are in danger . . .
Areopagitica and Other Prose Works
by John Milton C. E. VaughanAn uncompromising defender of liberty as well as a sublime poet, John Milton published the "Areopagitica" in 1644, at the height of the English Civil War. The impetus arose from Parliament's Licensing Order, which censored all printed materials and ultimately led to arrests, book burnings, and other authoritarian abuses. Milton's polemic, strengthened by biblical and classical allusions, remains enduringly significant and ranks among the world's most eloquent defenses of the right to free speech.In addition to the "Areopagitica," this collection of Milton's most significant prose works includes "Of Education," a tract on educational reform; "Meditation Upon Divine Justice and The Death of King Charles the First," a rationale for the overthrow of the monarchy; "The Doctrine and Disciple of Divorce," in which the author urges the enactment of a virtually unheard-of reform allowing divorce for incompatibility and the right of remarriage; and "Autobiographical Extracts," featuring highlights from Milton's memoirs.
Areopagitica and Other Writings
by John MiltonJohn Milton was celebrated and denounced in his own time both as a poet and as a polemicist. Today he is remembered first and foremost for his poetry, but his great epic Paradise Lost was published very late in his life, in 1667, and in his own time most readers more readily recognised Milton as a writer of prose. This superbly annotated new book is an authoritative edition of Milton's major prose works, including Of Education, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates and the Divorce tracts, as well as the famous 1644 polemical tract on the opposing licensing and censorship, Areopagitica.
Ares and the Spear of Fear (Heroes in Training #7)
by Joan Holub Suzanne WilliamsAres, Zeus, and the other Olympians encounter a huge snake and a sharp challenge in this Heroes in Training adventure.After overcoming many challenges, Zeus and his fellow Olympians arrive at the temple at Delphi—only to find a giant snake guarding the entrance! Beyond the python, Pythia appears. Trapped in the temple by the python’s magic and mere presence, Pythia urges the Olympians not to worry about her, for they are urgently needed on another quest. The Olympians are now out to find the Spear of Fear. A group of Amazonian women currently have it, but it really belongs to Ares, the God of War. Ares is thrilled to know the next quest is about him—but soon realizes that when it comes to the powerful spear, he has a LOT to learn...
Ares Express (Desolation Road #2)
by Ian McdonaldA Mars of the imagination, like no other, in a colorful, witty SF novel, taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald's Desolation Road, Ares Express is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet's circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. One young woman, Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the person upon whom the future--or futures--of Mars depends. Big, picaresque, funny; taking the Mars of Ray Bradbury and the more recent, terraformed Marses of authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Greg Bear, Ares Express is a wild and woolly magic-realist SF novel, featuring lots of bizarre philosophies, strange, mind-stretching ideas, and trains as big as city blocks.REVIEWS"Ares Express is a long, adventure-filled, extravagantly colorful, often funny, quite moving, highly imaginative, excellently written story, set on a glorious Mars built partly of sharp-edged Kim Stanley Robinson-style extrapolation, but mostly of lush, loving, Ray Bradbury-style semi-SF, semi-Fantasy, Martian dreams.... I loved it wholeheartedly." - SF Site"Hugo-winner McDonald's virtues have long been underappreciated by major North American publishers... McDonald's fantastic Mars is vividly detailed and owes much to Bradbury's Martian stories. Despite a bit of hand waving around technology that is glibly indistinguishable from magic, this sequel is entirely worthy of its rightly lauded predecessor [Desolation Road]." - Publishers Weekly"One of the strangest, weirdest, fantastic reads of your life." - SF Crowsnest"McDonald is clever, lyrical... snarky, and utterly wondrous. The characters would be completely unbelievable in our world, but in theirs they are inevitable..." - Night Owl Reviews
Ares Express (Desolation Road #2)
by Ian McdonaldA Mars of the imagination, like no other, in a colorful, witty SF novel; Taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald's Desolation Road, Ares Express is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet's circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. One young woman, Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the person upon whom the future - or futures - of Mars depends. Big, picaresque, funny; taking the Mars of Ray Bradbury and the more recent, terraformed Marses of authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Greg Bear, Ares Express is a wild and woolly magic-realist SF novel, featuring lots of bizarre philosophies, strange, mind-stretching ideas and trains as big as city blocks.
Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources (3rd and Expanded Edition)
by Stephen G. MillerThird and expanded edition of this classic work of scholarship on the sports of ancient Greece.
Arf: A Bowser and Birdie Novel (Bowser And Birdie)
by Spencer Quinn"Spencer Quinn speaks two languages -- suspense and dog -- fluently." -- Stephen KingWhy would anyone break into 19 Gentilly Lane? That's where the Gaux family lives, and everyone knows they have nothing worth stealing. More important, the house is usually guarded by Birdie Gaux's dog, Bowser, a large and handsome fellow with a big set of sharp teeth.Now Birdie is looking worried and Bowser is on the trail of something rotten. Who was behind the break in? Why is a girl with green hair asking odd questions about what happened to Birdie's dad, a policeman who was killed in the line of duty years ago? Worst of all, why is the whole town starting to stink of limeade aftershave and CAT?!? The death of Birdie's father may be a cold case, but Bowser can tell it's heating up fast. Someone is coming after Birdie and her family, and Bowser must be ready to protect them from anything. Even that awful cat.
Arfy and the Stinky Smell (Step into Reading)
by Troy CummingsEveryone loves Arfy the rescue dog—star of the New York Times bestselling picture book Can I Be Your Dog?—even when he stinks! This is his first Comic Reader in the #1 early reader line, Step into Reading.Arfy used to be homeless, but now he's found his forever home with a sweet person and a squeaky bone! But what's that smell? Arfy loves to sniff things out--he's great at it, so he is on the case! He will find the source of this mysterious smell, even if he has to sniff the whole neighborhood! Tag along with Arfy on his newest adventure--illustrated with panels and speech balloons for a fun intro to comics! Comic Readers are told almost entirely in action-packed dialogue! Simple, graphic, paneled layouts introduce emergent readers to the joy of comics. Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words. Rhymes and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story.
Arfy Has a Ball (Step into Reading)
by Troy CummingsJoin lovable rescue dog Arfy—star of the New York Times bestselling picture book Can I Be Your Dog?—in his second Step 1 Comic Reader, perfect for readers ages 4-6. Comic Readers are told almost entirely in action-packed dialogue! Simple, graphic, paneled layouts introduce emergent readers to the joy of comics.Arfy loves his forever home! He has his sweet person and so many toys! Arfy wants to play but what should he play with? A ball! That's it! But there are so many kinds of balls! Some balls are too big, some too heavy, and others are too far away. Will Arfy be able to find the perfect ball for him? Tag along with Arfy on his newest adventure--illustrated with panels and speech balloons for a fun intro to comics!Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words. Rhymes and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story.
Argall
by William T. VollmannIn Argall, the newest novel in his Seven Dreams series, William T. Vollmann alternates between extravagant Elizabethan language and gritty realism in an attempt to dig beneath the legend surrounding Pocahontas, John Smith, and the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia-as well as the betrayals, disappointments, and atrocities behind it. With the same panoramic vision, mythic sensibility, and stylistic daring that he brought to the previous novels in the Seven Dreams series-hailed upon its inception as "the most important literary project of the '90s" (The Washington Post)-Vollmann continues his hugely original fictional history of the clash of Native Americans and Europeans in the New World. In reconstructing America's past as tragedy, nightmare, and bloody spectacle, Vollmann does nothing less than reinvent the American novel.
ARGENLEAKS (EBOOK)
by Santiago O DonnellComo en una buena novela de espías, a comienzos de 2011 Santiago ODonnell acudió al llamado del hombre del año, Julian Assange, para un encuentro reservado en un castillo inglés. El autor, el único periodista argentino que tuvo contacto con Assange, había sido investigado a fondo, sus credenciales periodísticas fueron chequeadas y rechequeadas, y recién allí logró encontrarse con el fundador de Wikileaks, para recibir de su mano un pendrive con los cables sobre Argentina producidos por la Embajada de los Estados Unidos en Buenos Aires. Cientos y cientos de documentos secretos que no dejan tema sin tocar, muchos de los cuales se revelan en ArgenLeaks por primera vez. Cables sobre Cristina y sobre Néstor, sobre Amado Boudou, Guillermo Moreno, Hugo Chávez, Antonini Wilson, sobre la AMIA, la oposición, Clarín, Marcelo Tinelli, Joaquín Morales Solá y hasta despachos sobre el propio autor de este libro, que recoge lo más jugoso de la pata argentina del escándalo periodístico diplomático político que sacudió el avispero planetario.
Argentina Noir: New Millennium Crime Novels in Buenos Aires (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)
by Cynthia Schmidt-CruzArgentina Noir offers a guide to Argentine crime fiction, with a focus on works published since the year 2000. It argues that the novela negra, or crime novel, has become the favored genre for many writers to address the social malaise brought about by changes linked to globalization and market-driven economic policies. Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz presents close readings and original interpretations of eleven novels, all set in or around Buenos Aires, and explores the ways these texts adapt major motifs, figures, and literary techniques in Hispanic crime fiction in order to give voice to wide-ranging social critiques. Schmidt-Cruz addresses such topics as organized crime and institutional complicity, corruption during the presidency of Carlos Menem (1989–1999), terrorist attacks on Jewish institutions in Buenos Aires and the mysterious death of Alberto Nisman, and the winners and the losers of neoliberal structural changes. With a solid underpinning in sociological studies and criticism of the genre and its historical context, Argentina Noir reveals how these novels are renovating the genre to engage pressing issues confronting not only Argentina but also countries throughout Latin America and around the globe.
Argentina y otras mujeres
by Adrián Arroyo VicenteToda historia de amor tiene un principio; este es su final. A ver por donde empiezo... Él solo quería volar mientras jugaba al baloncesto y ver el mundo a sus pies mientras colgaba de una red -¿y el dorsal?- El 23-. ¿O quería bailar bien? ¿Quizá cantar como Bublé? Lo que nunca imaginé es que podía escribir tan bien. Léeme. Alejandro García Puya.
Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890−1910 (SUNY series, Genders in the Global South)
by Joseph M. PierceWinner of the 2020 Best Book in the Nineteenth Century Award presented by the Nineteenth Century Section of the Latin American Studies AssociationAs Argentina rose to political and economic prominence at the turn of the twentieth century, debates about the family, as an ideological structure and set of lived relationships, took center stage in efforts to shape the modern nation. In Argentine Intimacies, Joseph M. Pierce draws on queer studies, Latin American studies, and literary and cultural studies to consider the significance of one family in particular during this period of intense social change: Carlos, Julia, Delfina, and Alejandro Bunge. One of Argentina's foremost intellectual and elite families, the Bunges have had a profound impact on Argentina's national culture and on Latin American understandings of education, race, gender, and sexual norms. They also left behind a vast archive of fiction, essays, scientific treatises, economic programs, and pedagogical texts, as well as diaries, memoirs, and photography. Argentine Intimacies explores the breadth of their writing to reflect on the intersections of intimacy, desire, and nationalism, and to expand our conception of queer kinship. Approaching kinship as an interface of relational dispositions, Pierce reveals the queerness at the heart of the modern family. Queerness emerges not as an alternative to traditional values so much as a defining feature of the state project of modernization.
Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930–1943: Transmitting Nationhood (New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies)
by Lauren ReaIn her study of key radio dramas broadcast from 1930 to 1943, Lauren Rea analyses the work of leading exponents of the genre against the wider backdrop of nation-building, intellectual movements and popular culture in Argentina. During the period that has come to be known as the infamous decade, radio serials drew on the Argentine literary canon, with writers such as Héctor Pedro Blomberg and José Andrés González Pulido contributing to the nation-building project as they reinterpreted nineteenth-century Argentina and repackaged it for a 1930s mass audience. Thus, a historical romance set in the tumultuous dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas reveals the conflict between the message transmitted to a mass audience through popular radio drama and the work of historical revisionist intellectuals writing in the 1930s. Transmitted at the same time, González Pulido’s gauchesque series evokes powerful notions of Argentine national identity as it explores the relationship of the gaucho with Argentina’s immigrant population and advocates for the ideal contribution of women and the immigrant population to Argentine nationhood. Rea grounds her study in archival work undertaken at the library of Argentores in Buenos Aires, which holds the only surviving collection of scripts of radio serials from the period. Rea’s book recovers the contribution that these products of popular culture made to the nation-building project as they helped to shape and promote the understanding of Argentine history and cultural identity that is widely held today.
The Argentine Triangle: A Craig Page Thriller
by Allan TopolFormer CIA director Craig Page is enjoying a new, exhilarating life racing cars across Europe. But when new dangers threaten America and an old friend goes missing in Argentina, will Craig be ready to step up to the plate? Undercover in the glamorous world of Buenos Aires' wealthy elite, Page finds himself on the brink of a terrible discovery. A world of brutality hidden in the classified secrets of Argentina's Dirty War comes to light, painting an image of the cataclysmic future awaiting South America. Hard on the heels of The Russian Endgame comes Allan Topol's next great thriller. Rife with the exotic backdrops and hairpin plot turns that put Topol on the best-seller list, The Argentine Triangle is a heart-stopping foray into human vice coupled with power accelerating towards catastrophe. In a world fraught with global conspiracy, Craig Page is king.
The Argentine Triangle (A Craig Page Thriller)
by Allan TopolFormer CIA director Craig Page is enjoying a new, exhilarating life racing cars across Europe. But when new dangers threaten America and an old friend goes missing in Argentina, will Craig be ready to step up to the plate?
Argentinean Literary Orientalism: From Esteban Echeverría to Roberto Arlt (Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia)
by Axel GasquetThis book examines the modes of representation of the East in Argentinean literature since the country’s independence, in works by canonical authors such as Esteban Echeverría, Juan B. Alberdi, Domingo F. Sarmiento, Lucio V. Mansilla, Pastor S. Obligado, Eduardo F. Wilde, Leopoldo Lugones, and Roberto Arlt. The East, which has always fascinated intellectuals and artists from the Americas, inspired the creation of imaginary elements for both aesthetic and political purposes, from the depiction of purportedly despotic rulers to a genuine admiration for Eastern history and millennial cultures. These writers appropriated the East either through their travels or by reading chronicles, integrating along the way images that would end up being universalized by the Argentinean dichotomy between civilization and barbarism, all the while assigning the negative stereotypes of the exotic East to the Pampa region. With time, the exoticism of the Eastern world would shed its geopolitical meaning and was ultimately integrated into the national literature, thus adding new elements into the Argentinean imaginary.
The Argentine's Price
by Maisey YatesLazaro Marino will stop at nothing to reach the top. He's climbed his way out of poverty, but there's still one thing that has been denied to him-entry into the highest echelons of society. And blue-blooded heiress Vanessa Pickett is the key to unlocking the door to all that he desires...With her business in crisis, Vanessa is desperate. A marriage proposal of the utmost convenience will give both Lazaro and Vanessa everything they need. But, for Vanessa, this deal with the devil comes with a startling price.
Argentinian in the Outback & Cattle Rancher, Secret Son
by Margaret WayBeautiful Ava Selwyn is starting to take her life back into her own hands when Juan-Varo de Montalvo arrives at Kooraki cattle station. The dark-eyed Argentinian unsettles the usually composed Ava.Varo can see the wariness in Ava's eyes, and something in him cries out to protect her, but life on the other side of the world will soon call him back.Varo has the power to make Ava whole once more-if only she'll let him in...
Argentinian Playboy, Unexpected Love-Child
by Chantelle ShawBillionaire polo player Diego Ortega has seen the world and sampled many of its women. Sweet beauty Rachel Summers has sated his appetite--so why does he find his body yearning for more? Rachel knows she is not Diego's type-- less glamorous supermodel, more wholesome country girl. But that doesn't mean she has to wear her heart on her sleeve. She kept her virginity a secret before he bedded her. . . . But now she has to tell Diego she's carrying his baby!
The Argentinian's Baby of Scandal (One Night With Consequences #56)
by Sharon Kendrick“I’m…pregnant.”The consequence of his seduction!Housekeeper Tara Fitzpatrick is always as efficient and professional as possible. Until her billionaire boss, Lucas Conway, looks at her with a fiery intensity she just can’t resist. Only now Tara has the mortifying task of flying to New York to tell him—a renowned bachelor whose least favourite word is family—that their electrifying night in his bed had the most scandalous of consequences!Follow Cinderella to glamorous New York!
The Argentinian's Demand
by Cathy WilliamsWhat the bad boy of the business world wants... When billionaire Leandro Perez's indispensable and alluring assistant Emily Edison resigns and lets him know what she really thinks of him, he's furious. He won't let her off easily. If she wants to go, she'll pay the price-two weeks in paradise at his beck and call! ...he gets! Trapped by Leandro, Emily's fragile plan to marry a suitable man to bring security to her family is threatened. And as their attraction gives way to a craving that's impossible to deny Emily will have to make the ultimate choice-duty...or desire?