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La ciencia es tan generosa que permite ser desarrollada desde diferentes perspectivas y, por ende, ofrece inagotables aplicaciones, desde las especializadas hasta las cotidianas.
Por ello, y pensando en la ciencia como un prisma de múltiples caras, este libro se ideó como un espectro de temas de derecho, internacionalización, estrategias educativas, historia, medio ambiente, nutrición, aplicaciones de química, de matemáticas, de física y de...
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Stefan Kisielewski (1911-1991) the dissident Polish writer and composer in his own words - but translated so that English readers can discover for themselves Kisiel's insightful, witty and provocative opinions on Debussy, jazz, Moniuszko, 'musical Marxism' and much else including his own music of course.
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How to Write the Best Essay of Your Life is based on a simple idea: your best essay means not only the highest grade, but also the easiest, least stressful writing process possible. You can have it all: the best results with less stress and less time.How? By putting an emphasis on thought over style. With this guide for university and college students, you'll learn how to beat procrastination and craft a thorough and engaging paper in as little time...
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Este libro surge de la preocupación compartida por avanzar en la comprensión de la estructura argumentativa de la obra de Martin Heidegger. En virtud de esta cuestión, se requiere acordar una manera para acceder al nudo problemático de su pensar y avistar formas de emprender un recorrido por su obra. Una obra que parece bifurcarse en diversos caminos y modos de filosofar, pero que entraña un motivo vital y una pregunta permanente.
De este modo,...
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
New York Times best-selling author and James Beard Award winner Samin Nosrat collects the year's finest writing about food and drink.
"Good food writing evokes the senses," writes Samin Nosrat, best-selling author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and star of the Netflix adaptation of the book. "It makes us consider divergent viewpoints. It makes us hungry and motivates us to go out into the world in search of new experiences....
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The year's top food writing, from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country. Edited by Silvia Killingsworth and renowned chef and author Gabrielle Hamilton.
"A year that stopped our food world in its tracks," writes Gabrielle Hamilton in her introduction, reflecting on 2020. The stories in this edition of Best American Food Writing create a stunning portrait of...
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Culinary Tourism is the first book to consider food as both a destination and a means for tourism. The book's contributors examine the many intersections of food, culture and tourism in public and commercial contexts, in private and domestic settings, and around the world. The contributors argue that the sensory experience of eating provides people with a unique means of communication. Editor Lucy explains how and why interest in foreign food is expanding...
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A mini-guide to everything that's wrong: unemployment, the economy, employment, corporations, bad bosses, inequality, crap jobs, culture, foreign policy, revolution, the environment, Wall Street, animal rights, the 1 percent...you name it, I skewer it.
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The literary anthology Freeman's, created by writer, critic, and former Granta editor John Freeman, has quickly gained an international following with wide acclaim. It has been called "bold [and] searching" by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and "impressively diverse" by O Magazine. This issue introduces a list of more than twenty-five poets, essayists, novelists, and short story writers from around the world who are shaping contemporary literature and...
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An award-winning historian's guide to writing about history, in both fiction and nonfiction. Is history absolute? Is writing about the past an exact science, or is it more of a nebulous discipline open to different interpretations and points of view? These are important questions that noted historian Ian Mortimer says all serious writers of history must reflect on. This new collection explores those ideas, providing an analysis on how the immensity...
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An A-to-Z treasury of dumb, disastrous, and hard-to-believe human behavior from the New York Times-bestselling author of “Stupid History!”
* A doctor's actual diagnostic notation: The patient is married but sexually active.
* "Shooting Reported at Firing Range"-The State, Columbia, South Carolina, August 4, 2006
* Arrested for public urination in Bowling Green, Ohio: Mr. Joshua Pees.-The Sentinel-Tribune, Bowling Green, Ohio, September 5, 2001
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OBRA CANDIDATA AL PREMIO EUSKADI DE ENSAYO EN CASTELLANO.
Estamos ante un libro fuera de serie por bigámico, solícito y osado. Un libro que es escritura de escrituras y que se podría decir que esta escrito al alimón aunque conserve el perfil singular de cada autor. Un libro transitado por dos miradas enamoradas de la palabra que intentan dar testimonio de aquellos momentos en que la literatura es esencial, audaz, alimenticia, necesaria.
Una psicoanalista...
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Un viaje por la verdad: el antídoto perfecto en los tiempos de las fake news.
¿Cómo hemos llegado al mundo de la "posverdad" y los "hechos alternativos"? Y, sobre todo, ¿cómo podremos salir de él? Este libro nos da la respuesta a través de la compleja historia de la verdad y la mentira. Baggini, uno de los jóvenes filósofos británicos con mayor proyección mundial, identifica los diez tipos de verdades más habituales y estudia cuáles son...
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Este libro es un esfuerzo por explicar las decisiones de doce años de gobiernos kirchneristas sin prejuicios ni sesgos ideológicos, tratando de entender la racionalidad de las decisiones, aun cuando fueran contraintuitivas o lisa y llanamente malas desde un punto de vista económico. Los Kirchner no fueron locos ni héroes, pero la grieta intelectual impide entenderlos cabalmente.
Para entender el obrar de Néstor y Cristina es necesario remontarse...
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Un relato histórico que nos asoma a los acontecimientos más relevantes de la historia de la humanidad.
Desde la revolución cognitiva hasta Silicon Valley, este libro ameno condensa en menos de 300 páginas la historia de la humanidad, despertando nuestra curiosidad por nuestro pasado, presente y futuro y haciéndonos reflexionar sobre la unicidad de la especie humana.
Los inicios de nuestra especie, los grandes acontecimientos históricos, las...
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Este libro explora, tanto desde diversos enfoques teóricos como desde el análisis histórico y político concreto, los mecanismos que han permitido que la perversión populista opere desde dentro de regímenes que, en muchos casos, pudieron haberse consolidado en democracias en el sentido cabal de la palabra.
Se argumenta que, con la instauración en la última década, en un buen número de países de la región, de esta democracia adjetivada (progresista,...
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Edgar Allen Poe wrote in what was considered the New World. It wasn't. The European settlers brought their emotional and psychological baggage with them - they brought the old horrors and sometimes invented new ones. And there were already horrors there, waiting to be woken...His work still resonates, but does the horror?Does it stand up, two hundred (ish) years later, half a world away, a modern world, with all new horrors, with the ravages of analysis,...
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Este libro explora los valores, las prácticas y los imaginarios de hombres y mujeres de sectores medios urbanos que en las últimas décadas se han posicionado como competitivos y ascendentes. Pero, al mismo tiempo, se trata de sectores altamente vulnerables en dos niveles: vulnerabilidad social, en referencia a perder el estatus alcanzado, y vulnerabilidad psicológica, en cuanto son demandados por un "management del yo" y la permanente búsqueda...
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A collection of the best science and nature writing published in North America in 2019, guest edited by New York Times best-selling author and ground-breaking physicist Dr. Michio Kaku.
"Scientists and science writers have a monumental task: making science exciting and relevant to the average person, so that they care," writes renowned American physicist Michio Kaku. "If we fail in this endeavor, then we must face dire consequences." From the startlingly...
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