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The Ice Palace - $525

21 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

A new edition of what is commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer’s masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss and Unn, two friends who have only spent one evening in each other’s company. But so profound is this evening between them that when Unn inexplicably disappears, Siss’s world is shattered. Siss’s struggle with her fidelity to the memory of her friend and Unn’s fatal exploration of the strange, terrifyingly beautiful frozen waterfall that is the Ice Palace are described in prose of […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: Ice Palace, Noruega, Norway, Peter Owen, Vesaas

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King City - $275

21 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

At last! The long-awaited collection of the complete King City series is here, chock-full of comic book games, puzzles, and wordplay! Joe is a catmaster, trained to use his cat as any tool or weapon. His best friend, Pete, falls in love with an alien he’s forced to sell into green slavery, while his ex, Anna, watches her Xombie War veteran boyfriend turn into the drug he’s addicted to. King City, an underbelly of a town run by spy […]

Categories: Comics, Novela Gráfica • Tags: Brandon, Comic, Comics, Graphic novels, King City, novela grafica

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My vocabulary did this to me Jack Spicer

My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer - $425

20 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the seven small books he had seen to press. A West Coast poet, his influence spanned the national literary scene of the 1950s and ’60s, though in many ways Spicer’s innovative writing ran counter to that of his contemporaries in the New York School and the West Coast Beat movement. Now, more than […]

Categories: Poesía • Tags: 2009, Jack Spicer, Poesía, Poetry, Wesleyan

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Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition - $265

20 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine. Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to us, and each of these powerful chemicals has the potential to play an important role in supporting our health. They impact thousands upon thousands of metabolic reactions inside the human body. But calculating the specific influence of each of these chemicals isn’t nearly sufficient to explain the […]

Categories: Ciencia, Medicina, Salud, science • Tags: Nutrición, Comida, Medicina, Salud, Food, Health, Medicine, Nutrition, 2013, Fitness, BenBella, Diets, Colin Campbell

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Parecon: Life After Capitalism – $285

16 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Albert offers an alternative system of participatory economics to end the dehumanizing failures and injustices of free-market capitalism. ‘What do you want?’ is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation, and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provides an answer: participatory economics, ‘parecon‘ for short ‒ a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity, and people democratically […]

Categories: Actualidad, Economía y Política • Tags: economía, Verso, political science, Ciencias políticas, globalization, 2003, economics, teoria economica, Michael Albert

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The Fine Print- How Big Companies Use %22Plain English%22 to Rob You Blind

The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use “Plain English” to Rob You Blind - $365

16 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

“No other modern country gives corporations the unfettered power found in America to gouge customers, shortchange workers, and erect barriers to fair play. A big reason is that so little of the news . . . addresses the private, government-approved mechanisms by which price gouging is employed to redistribute income upward.” You are being systematically exploited by powerful corporations every day. These companies squeeze their trusting customers for every last cent, risk their retirement funds, and endanger their lives. […]

Categories: Business Management, Derecho, Negocios • Tags: 2012, Business, Consumer, Consumer relations, Customer service, David Cay Johnston, Fine Print, Investor, Law, Legal, ley, leyes, Negocios, Portfolio Hardcover, PR, reference

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The Whispering Muse: A Novel - $325

16 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Already celebrated far beyond his native Iceland, the novels of Sjón arrive on waves of praise from writers, critics, and readers worldwide. Sjón has won countless international awards and earned ringing comparisons to Borges, Calvino, and Iceland’s other literary superstar, the Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness. The Whispering Muse is his masterpiece so far. The year is 1949 and Valdimar Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander with elevated ideas about the influence of fish consumption on Nordic civilization, has had the extraordinary good […]

Categories: Fantasía, Mitología, Novela Ficción • Tags: 2013, barco, Farrar, mar, maritimo, mitología, mitologia, Nórdica, Nordic, Norway, sea adventures, Sjón, Straus and Giroux

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The Doors Of Perception: Heaven and Hell - $275

14 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

In 1952 Aldous Huxley became involved in the now legendary experiment to clinically detail the physiological and psycho-logical effects of the little known drug used by Mexican and Native American elders in religious practices. The drug was Peyote-now commonly know as mescalin. By the standards of the time, Huxley was a hard working, respected, and reserved intellectual from a highly intelligent, well-know, and eccentric British family. By any standards, the results of the experiment were remarkable. The Doors of Perception […]

Categories: Drogas, Filosofía, Medicina • Tags: Consciousness, doors, doors of perception, Drugs, Huxley, mescalin, Mind, Perception, thought

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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel – $345

12 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

A resilient doctor risks everything to save the life of a hunted child, in this majestic debut about love, loss, and the unexpected ties that bind us together. In his brilliant, haunting novel, Stegner Fellow and Whiting Award winner Anthony Marra transports us to a snow-covered village in Chechnya, where eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the night, accusing him of aiding Chechen rebels. Across the road their lifelong neighbor […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: 2013, Chechnya, Family saga, Hogarth, marra, Novel, political, Russia, war

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A Voice Through A Cloud – $345

12 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

A Voice through a Cloud is English novelist Denton Welch’s moving account of his recovery from a bicycling accident that left him partially paralyzed at the age of 20. Espouser of picnics and bicycle rides, cataloger of exquisite textures, pitiless surgeon of affect and mores, and also a pretty good painter, Denton Welch has drawn fans as far removed from his world of English pastoralism as William Burroughs and Richard Hell. Characterized by Welch’s mercilessly acute powers of observation, A […]

Categories: Biografía, Memorias, Novela Ficción • Tags: 2004, accidente, Bicycle, Bio, Biografía, Biography, Burroughs, Denton Welch, Exact change, memoir, Memorias

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The Anatomy of Being – $350

12 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

This is the anatomy of our being. This is our flesh, our muscles, our sinews and our limbs all tangled up beside each other. And this, is what they found when we left it all behind. Shinji Moon is eighteen years old living in Manhattan. She studies English, Journalism, and Creative Writing at NYU. She has published a book of poetry, The Anatomy of Being and has had poems published in The Alembic, West 10th,and Freckled Magazine.

Categories: Poesía • Tags: Lulu, Poesía, Poetry, Shinji Moon

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Store of the Worlds- The Stories of Robert Sheckley (New York Review Books Classics)

Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley – $295

12 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic cityscapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth century. Today, as the new worlds, alternate universes, and synthetic pleasures Sheckley foretold become our reality, his vision begins to look less absurdist and more prophetic. This retrospective selection, chosen by Jonathan Lethem and Alex Abramovich, brings together the best of […]

Categories: Ciencia Ficción, Cuentos, Humor • Tags: anthology, Antología, Ciencia Ficción, Cuentos, Dystopia, Farce, farsa, Nyrb, NYRB Classics, Science Fiction, Sheckley, Short Stories, Stories

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The Other – $285

12 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other’s thoughts, but they couldn’t be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes parents proud. The Perrys live in the bucolic New England town their family settled centuries ago, and as it happens, the extended clan has gathered at its ancestral farm this summer to mourn […]

Categories: Novela Ficción, Psicología, Terror • Tags: Darkness, Horror, Nyrb, NYRB Classics, terror, The Other, Tryon, twins

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The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations – $435

10 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, Michael L. Ross looks at how developing nations are shaped by their mineral wealth–and how they can turn oil from a curse into a blessing. Ross traces the oil curse to the upheaval of the 1970s, when oil prices soared and governments across the developing […]

Categories: Actualidad, Economía y Política • Tags: globalization, Oil, Petróleo, politics, Princeton, USA

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The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement – $345

9 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships. But can our current political system, one that seems responsive only to the wealthiest among us and leaves most Americans feeling disengaged, voiceless, and disenfranchised, really be called democratic? And if the tools of our […]

Categories: Actualidad, Economía y Política, Ensayo, Historia, Sociología • Tags: 2013, América, Ciencias políticas, Democracia, Democracy, doctrines, Ensayo, Graeber, Historia, History, ideologies, Ideology, politica, politics, Spiegel & Grau, USA

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The Ice Palace - $525

King City - $275

My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer - $425

Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition - $265

Parecon: Life After Capitalism – $285

The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use “Plain English” to Rob You Blind - $365

The Whispering Muse: A Novel - $325

The Doors Of Perception: Heaven and Hell - $275

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel – $345

A Voice Through A Cloud – $345

The Anatomy of Being – $350

Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley – $295

The Other – $285

The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations – $435

The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement – $345

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