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Cuentos de La Selva (Biblioteca Clasica y Contemporanea) 4 reviews
Horacio Quiroga
Losada, 1995
bilingual teacher's saving grace
What can a bilingual teacher do when s/he notices that students look bored during read aloud? If they are in grades 2 or above, whip out Cuentos de la selva, a collection of stories about animals in the jungles of South America. Start with "El loro pelado". That will captivate them completely. After that, they will enjoy all other stories. Any student with a 5th grade reading level can read and ...
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LA Rebelion De Lucifer (Coleccion contemporanea)5 reviews
Juan Jose Benitez
Lectorum Pubns Inc (J), 1985
Una historia fantástica
El Juicio de Lucifer, el cual leí alrededor de 1985, me dejo impresionado por la maravillosa y fantástica imaginación de J.J. Benitez, el mismo autor de "Caballo de Troya". Me pregunto quien está detrás de él. Tanta imaginación, tanta fantasía, como en el "San Juan". Algo parece provenir del "Libro de Urantia". Estupendo para un juego de Aventura en Computador o una película de ciencia ficción ...
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Retrato En Sepia (Contemporanea)16 reviews
Isabel Allende
Debolsillo, 2004
Una magistral obra de la literatura Latinoamericana
Esta es la primera novela que leo de la escritora Isabel Allende, me parecio una obra genial, la manera y el estilo de Allende son tan originales que me dejan sin aliento y sin nada mas que agregar,lo unico que se puede decir es que la lean.
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Cuentos de Eva Luna (Contemporanea)16 reviews
Isabel Allende
Debolsillo, 2004
She Writes With Magic Ink
What a collection of characters! An illiterate woman who sells words. A man obsessed with a little girl. A woman whose marriage was based on letters written by the wrong man. A woman who spends her life waiting for revenge. A rich man who keeps a girl prisoner. Rascals trying to break into society. A lonely dictator. Invisible Indians. Every character is flawed in some terrible way, and yet, ...
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Contemporary View of Haiku = Vista Contemporanea de Haiku3 reviews
Michael Moore, Don Albert
Mustard Seed Press, 1996
Contemporary View of Haiku captures the joy of haiku
Contemporary View of Haiku is a work that explore the free-verse style of an old Japanese art form in a bilingual format. ISBN: 0-9610702-6-9 Mustard Seed Press Michael Moore's poetic microcosm is inhabited by the subjects usually associated with haiku: cicadas, fish, dragonflies, crickets, plum blossoms, gardens, and the seasons. But Moore juxtaposes themes with images as diverse as bungi ...
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In praise of idleness and other essays,4 reviews
Bertrand Russell
G. Allen & Unwin, 1948
In Praise of this Book
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Controversial philosopher and Nobel Prize winner Lord Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) has written fifteen scintillating essays on which to whet our intellectual appetites. These short essays were written between 1925 and 1935.
Russell writes in an elegant, readable, and understandable style. His arguments are well thought out.
These essays consider social questions not discussed in ...
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Around the world in wanderer III3 reviews
Eric C Hiscock
Oxford University Press, 1972
I WAS THERE
I've bought every book Eric Hiscock ever wrote, and read them all twice, Of all the sailing book's I have bought, his are the best. I can only say it must have been Eric's way with word's,But all the time I was reading, I really thought I was there with them both,It was a strange feeling when I had finished a book, I felt as though something was missing out of my life. We lost a great writer when ...
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Cien anos de soledad (Contemporanea)6 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
DeBolsillo, 2003
One of the best books you'll ever read
I've had this book in my collection for the last 5 years. I tried to pick it up when I was 20 but I'm glad I waited. A couple of nights ago I couldn't sleep and went to my study to pick it up. I haven't slept since.
Cien años de soledad is a literary triumph. It tells us the story of the Buendías, the founders of Macondo, a small village somewhere in South America (my guess being Colombia, of ...
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Diplomacia Contemporánea: Teoria y Practica para el Ejercicio Profesional4 reviews
Manuel Morales Lama
Ares Multimedia, 2005
Imprescindible para toda biblioteca.
Muy pocas obras literarias logran impactar al lector y garantizan su existencia a través de los años. Como fiel lector desde su primera impresión, siempre he encontrado esta guia útil para amigos, estudiantes, y catedráticos. La existencia de esta pieza literaria la recomiendo sin reservas para todos aquellos que interactúan con el mundo globalizado de hoy.
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La Peste/ the Plague (Contemporanea / Contemporary)5 reviews
Albert Camus
Debolsillo, 2006
THE NOVEL "POR EXCELENCIA" FROM CAMUS
Having submitted this review in spanish and not having it posted, I'll try again in english....... Camus reached fame with his elaborations about the concept of the absurd (the purposeless search of the meaning of existence in a universe void of any)in three works: The Stranger, a novel; Caligula, a teathrical opus; and The Myth of Sisyphus, a recopilation of philosophical essays. In his second ...
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Cien Sonetos De Amor (Biblioteca Clasica y Contemporanea)2 reviews
Pablo Neruda
Losada, 1986
I wish everybody could read thsi book.....
I think this book is the best poems book that i have read,it express itself all the things you want to read either when you are feeling down or when you are feeling great, it told me a lot of things,it simply makes somebody believe in love,only for the deep meaning of every single word described on each poem....
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Corazon Sin Llave (Coleccion Alfa de Orion. Narrativa contemporanea)1 review
Poldy Bird
Ediciones Orion, 1995
CORAZON SIN LLAVE
QUE UNA ESCRITORA NOS ABRA SU CORAZON ES LO MAXIMO QUE UN LECTOR PUEDE PEDIR Y POLDY BIRD LO HACE SIN MIRAMIENTOS Y RECIBE A CORAZON SIN LLAVE LO QUE UNO QUIERA DARLE.
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El Pendulo De Foucault (Contemporanea (Debolsillo))2 reviews
Umberto Eco
Debolsillo, 2003
Te sube al Péndulo!
Una novela, con toques de ensayo. Posee una bagaje de investigación serio, que mediante un relato novelado realmente te "sube al péndulo" para transladarnos a un recorrido en le tiempo de los templarios.
Eco escribió esta novela, mucho antes que el Código Da Vince y no me equivocaría al suponer que Dan Brown pretende emularlo. Sin embargo, la novela de Eco es muy superior, en información ...
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El Siglo De Las Luces (Obras Maestras De La Literatura Contemporanea)2 reviews
Alejo Carpentier
Catedra, 1983
a true example of the modern Baroque
Carpentier's Siglo de las luces (The century of light) is the novel that can truly be called the key representative of magic realism. In the story of three brothers wandering all around the world the author crammed every little detail of the wonders of the eighteen century America (and of some parts of Europe). Thus he gave a sweeping portrait of the atmosphere of the age of the Enlightenment ...
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Popol-Vuh: O LIbro Del Consejo De Los Indios Quiches (Biblioteca Clasica Y Contemporanea)2 reviews
Anonimo
Oceano De Mexico, 1998
Antiguo libro maya...
Maravilloso libro que explica la mitologia maya. La historia de un pueblo, la creacion del hombre. Realmente imperdible para aquellos estudiosos del tema, y para aquellos curiosos, como yo.
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Reflexiones: Ensayos Sobre Escritoras Hispanoamericanas Contemporaneas (Coleccion Academia (Ediciones Nuevo ...2 reviews
Ediciones Nuevo Espacio, 2002
The Publisher
The most complete and up to date collection of essays on contemporary Spanish-American Women Writers. Ediciones Nuevo Espacio (Academia Collection) proudly presents Reflexiones: ensayos sobre escritoras hispanoamericanas contemporáneas edited by Dr. Priscilla Gac-Artigas. In two volumes you will find the most complete and up to date collection of essays on contemporary Spanish-American women ...
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Donde estoy no hay luz y esta enrejado: El libro de Jorge Valls (Biblioteca cubana contemporanea)1 review
Jorge Valls
Editorial Playor, 1981
Jorge Valls, excellent poet and social democrat
I came across an old copy of "Donde estoy no hay luz y está enrejado" written apparently behind the bars of a Cuban prison, and found the quality of these poems and the passion for life and outrage at injustice to be exemplary. I recommend this book to anyone with a working knowledge of Spanish, and love of language and literature.
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Ciencias Sociales - Sociedad y Cultura Contemporaneas / 2 Edicion1 review
Lina M. Torres Rivera
Thomson International, 2002
un libro completo
con este libro los estudiantes de ciencias sociales reciben el beneficio de ver unas tesis doctorales muy profesionales con temas muy bien expuestos y trabajados. lo recomiendo pues tiene todo lo que se cubre en las clases de ciencias sociales
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Economia: Una Introduccion Contemporanea (SPANISH TRANSLATION OF ECONOMICS: A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION , ...1 review
William A. McEachern
South-Western College Pub, 1999
principios de economia
necesito conocer un libro que contenga los principios básicos de introducción a la economía, desde el punto de vista micro y macroeconómico
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Epocas Literarias Y Evolucion: Edad Media, Romanticismo, Epoca Contemporanea2 reviews
Carlos Bousono
Gredos, 1983
Bousono capta todo
Carlos Bousono es uno de los mejores y mas original pensadores de nuestros tiempos. Entiende y analiza la literatura sin quitar la chispa.
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