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Claude Debussy: His Life and Works – $300

31 December, 2010 by rgonzalezr

Paperback: 366 pages Publisher: Dover Pubns; New edition edition (June 1973) Of all the biographies of Claude Debussy, this exhaustively documented work has held its own as the most thorough and well-balanced analysis of the composer and his works. Written by a personal acquaintance of Debussy and an authority on his musical aims and achievements, it quotes copiously from contemporary memoirs and critiques, thus forging a clear-cut picture of the man his works and their turbulent milieu.

Categories: Biografía, Música • Tags: Debussy, music, piano, portraits

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Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century – $200

31 December, 2010 by rgonzalezr

This 600-page companion to the eco-friendly website of the same name is chock-a-block with information about what is going on right now to create an environmentally and economically sustainable future-and what stands in opposition. Along the way, editor Steffen and his team make the stakes perfectly clear: “Oil company experts debate whether we will effectively run out of oil in twenty years or fifty, but the essential point remains: if you’re under thirty, you can expect to see a post-oil […]

Categories: Ecología, Sustentabilidad

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The Modern Firm – $350

31 December, 2010 by rgonzalezr

Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (June 10, 2004) Best Business Book of the Year (2004) – The Economist Business firms around the world are experimenting with new organizational designs, changing their formal architectures, their routines and processes, and their corporate cultures as they seek to improve their current performance and their growth prospect. In the process they are changing the scope of their business operations, redrawing their organization charts, redefining the allocation of decision-making authority and responsibility, revamping […]

Categories: Administración, Business Management, Negocios

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Fury – $120

31 December, 2010 by rgonzalezr

Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (August 6, 2002) Fury is a gloss on fin-de-siècle angst. Salman Rushdie hauls his hero, Malik Solanka, from Bombay to London to New York, and finally to a fictional Third World country, all in order to show off a preternatural ability to riff on anything from Bollywood musicals to revolutionary politics. Professor Solanka is propelled on this path by his strange love of dolls. He plays with them as a child; as an adult […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: New York

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The Golden Bough – $200

31 December, 2010 by rgonzalezr

Paperback: 944 pages Publisher: Penguin Classics; Abridged edition (January 1, 1998) Before Joseph Campbell became the world’s most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of […]

Categories: Antropología, Mitología • Tags: civilización, origenes, primitivo

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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – $180

31 December, 2010 by rgonzalezr

A minor incident in Katrina Blum’s life, turned into news by needy papers, sets in motion a series of destructive events which make the incident a horribly defining one. Boll leads the reader into an evaluation of the so-called “disintrested” and “unbiased” media, who make their living from revealing the darker side of human nature. A good book to read in the aftermath of any media “discovery” or “controversy”.  

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: Boll

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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying – $175

30 December, 2010 by rgonzalezr

In 1927, Walter Evans-Wentz published his translation of an obscure Tibetan Nyingma text and called it the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Popular Tibetan teacher Sogyal Rinpoche has transformed that ancient text, conveying a perennial philosophy that is at once religious, scientific, and practical. Through extraordinary anecdotes and stories from religious traditions East and West, Rinpoche introduces the reader to the fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism, moving gradually to the topics of death and dying. Death turns out to be less […]

Categories: Budismo • Tags: Budismo, espiritualidad, muerte

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The Fortress of Solitude

30 December, 2010 by rgonzalezr

The Fortress of Solitude – $150 Dylan Ebdus is a white kid on a black-and-brown street. As he struggles through public school in 1970s Brooklyn, he is “yoked”–put in a headlock–and frisked for change on a daily basis. Testing into a good Manhattan school, he steps into a long-lasting role: vulnerable among street kids, he’s street-smart compared to his new, privileged pals, and loathes himself as a poseur with both crowds. When he finds a ring that grants the power […]

Categories: Hip-Hop, Música, Novela Ficción

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En el mismo barco

En el mismo barco – $200

30 December, 2010 by rgonzalezr

En 1983 aparece en Alemania un libro que, a la vez de convertirse en un insólito éxito editorial, suscitaría interesantes debates. Se trataba de Crítica de la razón cínica, del filósofo Peter Sloterdijk, «una de las obras más provechosas e inteligentes aparecidas en Alemania en los diez últimos años», según Fernando Savater. Después de un silencio de seis años, en 1993 Sloterdijk publica este fulminante ensayo. En nuestros tiempos, el arte de lo posible ya no se deja definir como […]

Categories: Filosofía

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The Street of Crocodiles

30 December, 2010 by rgonzalezr

The Street of Crocodiles – $200 Bruno Schulz’s fictional world is as strange, unique, and fascinating as any you’ll ever encounter. He builds each story from a physical, natural detail or a phenomena, and imbues it with such hypnotic and poetic intensity, that what should be an ordinary world is transformed into a dream-drunk and febrile one. There is no gratuitous surrealistic maneuver, but an original world view, and this alone, would you agree, is a rare and treasurable thing […]

Categories: Novela Ficción

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Guns Germs and Steel – $220

30 December, 2010 by rgonzalezr

Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist’s answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other […]

Categories: Historia • Tags: antropología, Essays, History, jared diamond

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The Cash Nexus

30 December, 2010 by rgonzalezr

The Cash Nexus – $180 In a work that neatly marries the subjects of his previous books, Ferguson, who made his name with controversial popular histories of World War I (Pity of War, 1999) and the Rothschild banking empire (House of Rothschild, 1998), continues to challenge conventional wisdom. Here, he argues that the enormous expense of war, which forces governments into fiscal innovation, is the primary agent of financial change and its political repercussions, which sometimes include starting new wars. […]

Categories: Economía y Política

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El poder de la Cultura

30 December, 2010 by rgonzalezr

El poder de la Cultura – $200 En nuestro mundo global, marcado por una interculturalidad creciente y un poder simbólico magnificado por las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación, las prácticas y usos culturales colectivos han alcanzado una masividad capaz de revolucionar los hábitos de la sociedad nacional e internacional. El filósofo, ensayista, economista peruano y Jefe de Políticas Culturales de la UNESCO (París), reúne en ese texto, dos décadas de experiencia en la promoción de Políticas Públicas desde la cultura. […]

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The Unknown Quantity – $200

29 December, 2010 by rgonzalezr

Born in Germany in the early twentieth century, mild and sensitive Richard Hieck endured a quietly difficult childhood. Raised in humble circumstances, Richard was profoundly influenced by his withdrawn mother and by his father—an enigma whose devotion centered not on his five children but on his mysterious career. From his father, Richard inherited an interest in the night sky, learning to love the constellations and to take comfort in the strength of Orion and the warm radiance of Venus. At […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: Hermann Broch, madness, Novel, the unknown quantity

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The Listener’s Guide to Music

29 December, 2010 by rgonzalezr

The Listener’s Guide to Music – Oxford University Press (Hard to find) Paperback – $220 Originally published in 1919, this guide is addressed – ‘.not to students and connoisseurs, but to plain simple people who like music but are a little bewildered by its complexity and by the pace at which it passes across their attention. He opens the door of the Masters’ workshop and shows, not the secret of their mastery, for none can show that, but the way […]

Categories: Música

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