The international community has long grappled with the issue of safeguarding the environment and encouraging sustainable development, often with little result. The 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development was an emphatic attempt to address this issue, setting down 27 key principles for th[...]
The Japanese term for mobile phone, keitai (roughly translated as "something you carry with you"), evokes not technical capability or freedom of movement but intimacy and portability, defining a personal accessory that allows constant social connection. Japan's enthusiastic engagement with mobile te[...]
"Dreamtigers" has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of "Great Books of the Western World". It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotati[...]
This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on such literary figures as Pascal, Coleridge, Cervantes, Ha[...]
"Lusty . . . strenuous comedy . . . Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist.""
--New York Times"[...]
PIERDE LA GRASA ABDOMINAL...EN SOLO 20 MINUTOS, DOS VECES POR SEMANALA SECUENCIA DE 12 SEGUNDOS(TM) es el mas reciente y revolucionario metodo de entrenamiento de resistencia para quemar grasa creado por Jorge Cruise, la superestrella de la buena forma fisica del cuerpo. Gracias a este sistema te ve[...]
"La vida es un camino que nos lleva hacia un destino final. Todos sabemos que llegar alli es nuestro desafio. Hay muchas formas de conseguirlo. Sin embargo, existen algunos caminos que son parada obligada." --Jorge Bucay
En "El camino de las espiritualidad," Jorge Bucay nos muestra como librarno[...]
La obra poetica completa del maestro argentino en un solo volumen
Ademas de extraordinario narrador y ensayista, Jorge Luis Borges fue un excelente poeta. De hecho, puede decirse que la poesia es el alma de su obra. Indisociable de sus cuentos y ensayos, estos poemas son parte indispensable del [...]
"Pense en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algun modo los astros." --Jorge Luis Borges
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"Ficciones "es quiza el libro mas reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros "El jardin de senderos que[...]
"Uno de los artistas contemporaneos mas memorables... La deuda que tenemos contraida con el quienes escribimos en espanol es enorme." --Mario Vargas Llosa
Considerado uno de los escritores mas influyentes del siglo XX en cualquier idioma, la obra de Jorge Luis Borges continua inspirando a nuevas[...]
""A veces creo que los buenos lectores son cisnes aun mas tenebrosos y singulares que los buenos autores."" --Jorge Luis Borges
En su primer libro de ficcion, Borges trabaja con biografias de ladrones y rufianes verdaderos; personajes traidores y a veces tambien heroicos. Aqui estan, entre otros[...]
Part of a series that provides the foundation and information you need for the Board exam and every day clinical use. With key features like emergent findings tables and differential diagnoses tables and 600 images, this book provides information by experts on various body systems and modalities of [...]
It is widely recognized that neuropsychiatric disturbances contribute substantially to disability among persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI). This issue of Psychiatric Clinics addresses the most common and the most clinically challenging neuropsychiatric sequelae of TBI. The overarching aim of [...]
This book collects approximately nine hundred problems that have appeared on the preliminary exams in Berkeley over the last twenty years. It is an invaluable source of problems and solutions. Readers who work through this book will develop problem solving skills in such areas as real analysis, mult[...]
"Numerical Optimization" presents a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the most effective methods in continuous optimization. It responds to the growing interest in optimization in engineering, science, and business by focusing on the methods that are best suited to practical problems. For [...]
A Spanish translation of the original Curious George story. "Certain to be one of the most popular of the picture-book translations." -- School Library Journal[...]
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