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Cambio de guardia

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 8:01:15 PST

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Los Geniecillos Dominicales

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 8:01:08 PST

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Silvio en el Rosedal

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 8:01:04 PST

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La palabra del mudo. IV

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 8:01:03 PST

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Prosas apátridas

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 8:00:30 PST

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LA TENTACION DEL FRACASO

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 8:00:19 PST

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Los diarios, inéditos en España, de un autor de culto del boom iberoamericano.En estas páginas se podrá encontrar a Ribeyro al desnudo, expuesto a los avatares de la cotidianidad, aunque con una asombrosa conciencia artística de su oficio literario.

LA PALABRA DEL MUDO

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:59:39 PST

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La producción cuentística de Ribeyro transmite los anhelos, arrebatos y angustias de sus personajes a través de una prosa limpia y un estilo alejado de artificios, ofreciendo uno de los más grandes ejemplos de la narrativa breve en el mundo occidental. La palabra del mudo se encarga de dar voz a aquellos personajes que en la vida cotidiana están privados de ella: los marginados, los olvidados, l ...

La Novia Oscura

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:58:58 PST

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Laura Restrepo, una de las autoras más importantes de la literatura latinoamericana, ha sabido construir una sensual mezcla de realismo y de imaginación narrativa que ha convertido sus libros en bestsellers internacionales. Su último libro, La Novia Oscura, es una divertida y conmovedora historia de amor. A travé de una serie de entrevistas, la reportera que protagoniza esta novela, da vida a un ...

Leopardo Al Sol

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:57:53 PST

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El asesinato irreflexivo de Adriano Monsalve por parte de su primo hermano Nando Barragán, desencadena una guerra fratricida destinada a durar hasta el fin de los tiempos, y marcada por la inexorable ley del desierto: la sangre se paga con sangre. Barraganes y Monsalves alimentarán su sed de venganza con negocios ilegales, convirtiendo al dinero fácil en rey de una nueva sociedad que habrá perdid ...

"La isla de la pasión"

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:57:32 PST

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Ésta es la historia estremecedora y verídica de un grupo de náufragos sometidos durante nueve años a las más duras pruebas de supervivencia, entre ellas una extraña guerra a muerte en la cual nunca llegan a verle la cara a sus enemigos.

Delirio

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:57:29 PST

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Todos los secretos están guardados en un mismo cajón, el cajón de los secretos, y si develas uno, corres el riesgo de que pase lo mismo con los demás...

Tan cerca de la vida

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:56:47 PST

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¿Puedes estar seguro de que tu vida te pertenece? Max llega a Tokio para participar en una convención de su empresa multinacional de robótica e inteligencia artificial. A su llegada se siente confuso y tiene alucinaciones que achaca al jet-lag y a los efectos de un accidente sufrido poco tiempo antes. Desde el principio es distinguido con una atención especial por parte del presidente de la corp ...

LA CUARTA ESPADA

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:56:19 PST

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La psicología del terrorismo en la figura del fundador de Sendero Luminoso, el grupo guerrillero más sanguinario de los años ochenta. Santiago Roncagliolo se convirtió en 2005 en el ganador más joven del Premio Alfaguara de Novela con Abril rojo (35.000 ejemplares vendidos). Es colaborador habitual de El País. Basada en numerosas entrevistas y un privileg ...

Pudor

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:56:14 PST

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A man who is going to die, a woman who is the recipient of anonymous porn letters, a child who sees corpses, a sex-driven cat, are the main characters of this novel who, as is the case with most families, live together yet are completely alone. This is a novel about our most private thoughts, about the wishes and fears we don't dare confess even to those closest to us. A novel about the secrets w ...

Abril rojo

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:56:06 PST

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Premio Alfaguara de novela 2006Siempre quise escribir un thriller, es decir, un policial sangriento con asesinos en serie y crímenes monstruosos. Y encontré los elementos necesarios en la historia de mi país: una zona de guerra, una celebración de la muerte como la Semana Santa, una ciudad poblada de fantasmas. ¿Se puede pedir más? El investigador de los asesinatos es el fiscal distrital adjunto ...

Los Cachorros

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:54:48 PST

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Contra viento y marea, 1962-1982

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:53:40 PST

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El pez en el agua

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:52:18 PST

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La orgía perpetua

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:49:54 PST

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Examines the character of Emma Bovary and traces the gestation and birth of the novel, Flaubert's method, his mania for documentation, and the novel's ...

La fiesta del chivo

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:49:11 PST

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El sueño del celta

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:47:55 PST

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La aventura que narra esta novela empieza en el Congo en 1903 y termina en una cárcel de Londres, una mañana de 1916. Aquí se cuenta la peripecia de un hombre de leyenda: el irlandés Roger Casement. Héroe y villano, traidor y libertario, moral e inmoral, su figura múltiple se apaga y renace tras su muerte. El sueño del celta describe una aventura existencial, en la que la oscuridad del alma hum ...

La Guerra del fin del mundo

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:47:43 PST

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Conversación en la catedral

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:47:40 PST

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Pantaleón y las visitadoras

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:47:36 PST

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Pantaleón Pantoja, un capitán del ejército recientemente ascendido, recibe la misión de establecer un servicio de prostitución para las Fuerzas Armadas del Perú en el más absoluto secreto militar. Estricto cumplidor del deber que le ha sido asignado, Pantaleón se traslada a Iquitos, en plena selva, para llevar a cabo su cometido, pero se entrega a esta misión con tal obcecación que termina por po ...

La casa verde

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:47:32 PST

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¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:47:30 PST

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Lituma En Los Andes/Lituma in the Andes

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:47:26 PST

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Israel Palestina, Paz O Guerra Santa

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:47:20 PST

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Diario de Irak

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:46:54 PST

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En este libro se recogen los reportajes y artículos de opinión que durante el año 2003 ha ido publicando Mario Vargas Llosa en el diario El País sobre la guerra de Irak.

Los Cuadernos de Don Rigoberto / The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:46:51 PST

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Don Rigoberto fills pages with notes, comments, and fantasies to protect himself from ordinariness. He also uses them to escape the longing he feels for Lucrecia, his wife, from whom hes separated as a result of something that transpired between her and his son. This is much more than a mere erotic novel; it is a story that touches the core of reality and desire, on how a life created by imagina ...

Travesuras de la niña mala

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:46:47 PST

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Travesuras de la niña mala

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:46:29 PST

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¿Cuál es el verdadero rostro del amor? Ricardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sueño que en su Lima natal alimentó desde que tenía uso de razón: vivir en París. Pero el reencuentro con un amor de adolescencia lo cambiará todo. La joven, inconformista, aventurera, pragmática e inquieta, lo arrastrará fuera del pequeño mundo de sus ambiciones. Testigos de épocas convulsas y florecientes ...

El Paraíso en la otra esquina

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:46:22 PST

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Dos vidas: la de Flora Tristán, que pone todos sus esfuerzos en la lucha por los derechos de la mujer y de los obreros, y la de Paul Gauguin, el hombre que descubre su pasión por la pintura y abandona su existencia burguesa para viajar a Tahití en busca de un mundo sin contaminar por las convenciones. Dos concepciones del sexo: la de Flora, que sólo ve en él un instrumento de dominio masculino y ...

Una historia no oficial

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:46:20 PST

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La tía Julia y el escribidor

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:46:13 PST

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Ya en el título de esta novela de Mario Vargas Llosa, publicada en 1977, se recoge la doble historia en que se vertebra su argumento: por un lado, la relación amorosa del joven escritor Varguitas con una mujer de su familia mayor que él, la tía Julia; y por otro, la desaforada presencia del folletinista Pedro Camacho en la misma emisora de radio donde Varguitas trabaja. La tía Julia y el escribid ...

La verdad de las mentiras

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:46:09 PST

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Mediante el certero análisis de algunos textos clave de la literatura del siglo XX, el autor nos habla de la importancia de la ficción y la lectura en la expansión de nuestro universo vital.

El Hablador

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:46:03 PST

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Las mil noches y una noches

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:45:50 PST

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Kathie y el hipopótamo

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:45:43 PST

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LA UTOPIA ARCAICA. JOSE MARIA ARGUEDAS Y LAS FICCIONES DEL INDIGE NISMO

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:44:56 PST

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En este ensayo, Mario Vargas Llosa explora el movimiento indigenista a través de la vida y la obra de uno de sus más originales creadores, el escritor y antropólogo peruano José María Arguedas (1911-1969). Compara mitos y estereotipos de los indígenas y critica las visiones contradictorias del indigenismo al analizar la política, historia, sociología, antropología y literatura del Perú contemporá ...

CARTA DE BATALLA POR TIRANT LO BLANC

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:44:25 PST

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«Es éste el mejor libro del mundo», escribió Cervantes acerca de Tirant Lo Blanc, la novela caballeresca escrita hace cinco siglos. Carta de batalla por Tirant lo Blanc es uno de los ensayos que Mario Vargas Llosa ha dedicado a esta obra de la que afirma es una de las más ambiciosas nunca escritas, tal vez la más actual entre las clásicas. El relato del caballero medieval que acude e ...

LOS JEFES

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:44:13 PST

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Los jefes está compuesto por seis relatos que giran en torno a la violencia como reacción solidaria o rebelión gratuita frente a un entorno hostil; en ellos encontramos esbozos de argumentos y personajes que alcanzarán su pleno desarrollo en las grandes novelas posteriores del autor… Los cachorros muestra, a través de la historia de Pichula Cuellar, un mu ...

Bible and Sword

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:40:05 PST

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With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Barbara Tuchman, explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state--and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today. "Barbara Tuchman is a wise and witty writer, a shrewd observer with a lively command of high drama." ...

The March of Folly

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:39:23 PST

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Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interersts, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government: the T ...

The Proud Tower

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:39:01 PST

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"The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it." --Barbara W. Tuchman The fateful quarter-century leading up to the World War I was a time when the world of Pr ...

A Distant Mirror

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:38:36 PST

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"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." Commentary The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, fear and the Plague. Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the century, revealing both the great rhythms ...

Guns of August

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:37:37 PST

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"More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail ...

Common Wealth

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:36:51 PST

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From one of the world's greatest economic minds, author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty, a clear and vivid map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity and an augury of the global economic collapse that lies ahead if we don't follow it The global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, Jeffrey Sachs argues, one that will overturn many of our basic ...

The End of Poverty

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:34:49 PST

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Celebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. If you think that is too ambitious or wildly unrealistic, you need to read this book. His focus is on the one billion poorest individuals around the world who are caught in a poverty trap of disease, physical isolation, environmental stress, political instability, and lack of access to capital, te ...

The Bed of Procrustes

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:34:05 PST

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Fooled by Randomness

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:04:45 PST

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This book is about luck -- or more precisely how we perceive and deal with luck in business and life. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill -- the world of trading -- Fooled by Randomness is a captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in all our lives. Writing in an entertaining and narrative style, the author succeeds in ta ...

The Black Swan

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:03:43 PST

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A black swan is a highly improbably event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes the event appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world ...

The Information

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:00:38 PST

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The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading. It willtransform readers’ view of its subject.

The Best American Science Writing 2000

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:00:08 PST

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Meticulously selected by bestselling author James Gleick, Harper Audio presents a steller collection of essays written by some of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of our time -- each one read by its creator. Many of these cutting-edge essays offer glimpses of our new realms of discovery and thought, exploring territory that is unfimiliar to most of us or finding the unexpected in the mids ...

What Just Happened

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 7:00:03 PST

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For the past decade change seemed to happen over night, every night. Fueled by the exponential rise of technology, the digital revolution was difficult for many to make sense of, but James Gleick watched and analyzed, criticized and commended, participated in and prophesized about the instantaneous transformations of the world as we knew it. What Just Happened is a collection of Gleick’s artic ...

Faster

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:59:28 PST

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Faster

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:58:57 PST

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Synchronize your watches. We have reached the epoch of the nanosecond. This is the heyday of speed. If one quality defines our modern, technocratic age, it is acceleration. We are making haste. Our computers, our movies, our sex lives, our prayers -- they all run faster now than ever before. And the more we fill our lives with time-saving devices and time-saving strategies, the more rushed we ...

Isaac Newton

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:58:43 PST

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Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave them names—mass, ...

Genius

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:58:40 PST

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From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a stimulating adventure in the annals of science" (The New York Times). 16 pages of photos.

Chaos

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:57:03 PST

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Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. James Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times, resides in this exclusive category. In Chaos, he takes on the job of depicting the first years of the study of chaos--the seemingly random patterns that characterize many natural phenomena. This is not a purely te ...

A Journey through Economic Time

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:54:58 PST

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The American Future

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:51:54 PST

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A History of Britain, Volume II

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:51:49 PST

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Inside these pages lies the bloody epic of liberty, the British Iliad. The second volume of Simon Schama's A History of Britain brings the histories of Britain's civil wars -- full of blighted idealism, shocking carnage, and unexpected outcomes -- startlingly to life. These conflicts were fought unsparingly between the nations of the islands -- Ireland, England, and Scotland -- and between parli ...

The Embarrassment of Riches

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:51:32 PST

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[해외주문원서] 고객님의 요청으로 수입 주문하는 도서이므로, 주문취소 및 반품이 불가합니다. (단, 재고부족인 경우는 가능) [인터파크 제공]

Citizens

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:50:56 PST

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Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology -- a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The New Industrial State

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:47:26 PST

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The Affluent Society

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:46:54 PST

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Galbraith's classic on the "economics of abundance" is, in the words of the New York Times, "a compelling challenge to conventional thought." With customary clarity, eloquence, and humor, Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) in today's world and lays bare the hazards of individual and societal complacence about economic inequity. While "affluent society" ...

The Great Crash 1929

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:46:27 PST

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This work examines the 'gold-rush fantasy' in American psychology and describes its dire consequences. The Florida land boom, the operations of Insull, Kreuger and Hatry, and the Shandoah Corporation all come together in Galbraith's study of concerted human greed and folly.

Teacher Man

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:45:37 PST

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Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize -- winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came 'Tis, his glorious account of his early years in New York.Now, here at last, is McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second ac ...

'Tis

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:44:40 PST

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Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, "Angela's Ashes, " has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the "Los Angeles Times" Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on t ...

Angela's Ashes

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 6:42:36 PST

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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish ...