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Inkworld Trilogy: Book 3
Inkdeath
by Cornelia Funke
The Adderhead's immortality is bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo, who has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay, Mo's fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. The Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead again fears the White Women of Death. To bring the renegade Bluejay back to repair the book, the... (more)
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Hopscotch
by Julio Cortázar
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly... (more)
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This Is Your Brain on Music
The Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin
A fascinating exploration of the relationship between music and the mind — and the role of melodies in shaping our lives. Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life — even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last becoming clear, thanks to revolutionary neuroscience and the emerging field of evolutionary psychology.... (more)
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The Aleph
And Other Stories
by Jorge Luis Borges
El trabajo que da titulo a Historia de la eternidad se ocupa del tiempo y de su negacion y examina dos concepciones contrapuestas de eternidad: la alejandrina, de raiz platonica, y la cristiana, nacida con la doctrina trinitaria de Ireneo y formalizada por San Agustin. Otras dos penetrantes digresiones estudian la doctrina de Nietzsche sobre el eterno retorno y las concepciones basadas en el caracter recurrente... (more)
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El Mundo Alucinante/A Hallucinations (Fabula)
by Reinaldo Arenas
El mundo alucinante del escritor cubano Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990) es una de las novelas hispanoamericanas mas conocidas y formalmente mas audaces del llamado boom de la decada de los sesenta. Esta novela lanzo a Arenas al ruedo internacional, aunque, paradojicamente, fue la que durante aÃ±os le ocasiono persecuciÃ³n y prision en su propio pais. A medio camino entre la biografia imaginaria y la novela... (more)
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Pedro Páramo
by Juan Rulfo
Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of two artists--writer Juan Rulfo and photographer Josephine Sacabo. In one such village of the mind, Comala, Rulfo set his classic novel Pedro Páramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a... (more)
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In Praise of the Stepmother: Book 2
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
by Mario Vargas Llosa
A companion to the scandalous bestseller In Praise of the Stepmother, Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel is "an amazingly seductive work" ( San Francisco Chronicle ). The boundary between physical reality and the imagination has been at the heart of literature in Spanish ever since Don Quixote. In The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto , his most generous and ambitious novel in years, Mario Vargas Llosa draws on that... (more)
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Where the Air Is Clear (Lannan Selection)
by Carlos Fuentes
"Carlos Fuentes is perhaps the only living Latin American writer who has it in him to do for his country what Euclides da Cunha did for Brazil in Os Sertoes, and to make the passion of the land's rebirth and repossession comprehensible to the outsider."
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Pedro Páramo y El llano en llamas
by Juan Rulfo
Text: Spanish
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness
by Daniel G. Amen
BRAIN PRESCRIPTIONS THAT REALLY WORK In this breakthrough bestseller, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're born with. Here are just a few of neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen's surprising--and effective--"brain prescriptions" that can help heal your... (more)
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How Brains Think
Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now
by William H. Calvin
Noted evolutionary biologist and author William Calvin has written a fascinating and far-reaching look at the forces that created human intelligence. Calvin demonstrates that our intelligent mental life is a constantly shifting accommodation to stimuli from within us and from our environment.
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Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers: Thirty-Three Years in the Oil Fields (Personal Narratives of West Series)
by Gerald Lynch
"The people in this story are real ! The events took place just as I described them, with no embellishment. It is a true factual story of thirty-three years in the 'patch' through boom and bust and how people coped with both--the small triumphs, as well as the trials and troubles of the people who made the oil fields. Not from the outside, I lived it with them. Their troubles were mine and we shared a strange... (more)
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Roughnecks: Oil Patch U.S.A
by Kit Kittle
Kittle set out to examine an "American archetype": the men who work on oilrigs and are known as roughnecks. Traveling through Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Louisiana, he shot pictures of the drillers on and off the jobposing in begrimed overalls and hard hats, standing next to a pinup taped inside a locker door, drinking beer, proudly displaying their families (or prostitutes), showing off tattoos. There are... (more)
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Ed Loy: Book 1
The Wrong Kind of Blood
by Declan Hughes
After twenty years in Los Angeles, Ed Loy has come home to bury his mother. But hers is only the first dead body he encounters after crossing an ocean. The city Loy once knew is an unrecognizable place, filled with gangsters, seducers, hucksters, and crazies, each with a scheme and an angle. But he can't refuse the sexy former schoolmate who asks him to find her missing husband—or the old pal-turned-small... (more)
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Casa de Campo
by José Donoso
Text: Spanish
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Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series: Book 3
Oil in Texas
The Gusher Age, 1895-1945
by Diana Davids Hinton
"Comprehensive in its coverage, clearly organized and written, and thoroughly researched, this book fills a significant hole in the historical literature on Texas oil." --Joe Pratt, Cullen Professor of History and Business, University of Houston As the twentieth century began, oil in Texas was easy to find, but the quantities were too small to attract industrial capital and production. Then, on January 10,... (more)
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The Kingdom of This World
by Alejo Carpentier
A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black regime—built on the same... (more)
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Monkey Man
by Stephen Price
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Vision of the Brain
by Semir Zeki
Written by Professor of Neurobiology at University College in London and a Fellow of the Royal Society, this book describes how the world, as we experience it, is designed from within by the cortex of the brain. Readers will gain new insight into how we acquire knowledge of the outside world. Clear and accessible to general readers yet packed with new information for specialists. Illustrated. 7 1/4 x 9 3/4.
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Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History: Book 3
Early Louisiana and Arkansas Oil
A Photographic History, 1901-1946
by Kenny Arthur Franks
PAUL F. LAMBERT is Executive Director and KENNY A. FRANKS is Director of Education and Publication of the Oklahoma Heritage Association, Oklahoma City. Both received their doctoral degrees in history form Oklahoma State University, and both are co-authors of Early Oklahoma Oil: A Photographic History , 1859-1936, also published by Texas A&M University Press, and authors of many other books and articles.