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The Republic
by Plato
Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. This second edition includes a new introduction by Professor Bloom, whose careful translation and interpretation of The Republic was first published in 1968. In addition to the correct text itself there is also a rich and... (more)
La sociedad de los miedosO DONNELL PACHO
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La sociedad de los miedos
by Pacho O'Donell
Mario Pacho O Donnell nacio en Buenos Aires. Medico se especializo en psiquiatria y psicoanalisis y escribio varios libros y numerosos articulos sobre el tema. Su produccion historiografica puede ser considerada dentro del neo-revisionismo que se propone iluminar aspectos ocultos o desconocidos de nuestra historia en base a investigacion y documentacion irreprochables. Dentro de la serie La historia argentina que... (more)
Sálvese quien pueda : patología de la sociedad argentinaWARTJES DIEGO
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Sálvese quien pueda : patología de la sociedad argentina
by Diego Wartjes
REVES DE LAS LAGRIMAS, EL (Spanish Edition)LOZA CRISTINA
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REVES DE LAS LAGRIMAS, EL (Spanish Edition)
by LOZA CRISTINA
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La vorágine
by José Eustasio Rivera
<…> Las dos novelas más importantes de la literatura colombiana, hasta la aparición de Cien Años de Soledad del premio Nobel Gabriel García Márquez, fueron María de Jorge Isaacs, novela romántica y La vorágine, de José Eustasio Rivera. <…> Ésta se erige como la más importante obra literaria sobre la selva amazónica y es a la vez narración, poesía y denuncia descarnada; reúne, pues, valores literarios y... (more)
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La mujer de los condenados (Spanish Edition)
by Javier Correa Correa
Esta novela es la historia de esos hombres y mujeres que no han figurado en la historia oficial y que se han debatido a su manera entre hacer o no parte de la guerra. No hay héroes en esta novela. Son hombres y mujeres con sus pequeños gestos que hacen que todo el horror de la guerra se pueda palpar con las manos. Son soldados, prostitutas, guerrilleros o curas: histriones de un gran teatro en el que, al final,... (more)
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The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolo Machiavelli was a 16th century Italian public servant and political theorist. "The Prince" is his best known work, for which he is known as the originator of Machiavellian politics. Machiavelli intended this book to serve as a guide to Princes on how to maintain stability, govern practically, and avoid mistakes.
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The Man Who Was Thursday
A Nightmare
by G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem remarks in his Introduction, The real characters are the ideas.... (more)
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Blindness: Book 1
Blindness
by José Saramago
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession... (more)
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The Double
by José Saramago
Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the night, noises in his apartment wake him. He goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video, and... (more)
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Eight Worlds: Book 2
The Persistence of Vision
by John Varley
Dell mass paperback, 1st edition Aug. 1979, ISBN: 0440173116, 316 pages, cover art by Jim Burns. 12mo (7" x 4.25") Paperback reprint of 1978 The Dial Press/James Wade hardcover first edition. Winner, 1979 Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection; 1980 Prix Apollo. UK edition retitled In the Hall of the Martian Kings. 9 stories, 6 of them belonging to the Eight Worlds universe. Introduction... (more)
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Why I Am Not a Christian
And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
by Bertrand Russell
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself — questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom, education and sexual ethics. He brings to his treatment of these questions the same courage, scrupulous logic and... (more)
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The World As I See It
by Albert Einstein
To the majority of people Einstein's theory is a complete mystery. Their attitude towards Einstein is like that of Mark Twain towards the writer of a work on mathematics: here was a man who had written an entire book of which Mark could not understand a single sentence. Einstein, therefore, is great in the public eye partly because he has made revolutionary discoveries which cannot be translated into the common... (more)
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their... (more)
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Avergonzados del evangelio: Ashamed of the Gospel: When the Church Becomes Like the World
by John MacArthur
En este extraordinario libro, el autor hace un llamado a la iglesia para que recupere su voz profEtica de manera que cumpla su papel renovador.
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El caminante y su sombra (Clasicos de la literatura series)
by Friedrich Nietzsche
For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los... (more)
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Cartilla Moral / Moral Identity Book (Centzontle)
by Reyes Alfonso
Valioso opúsculo firmado por Alfonso Reyes en 1944, cuyo propósito inicial fue servir de apoyo al fervor alfabetizador de la Revolución mexicana a principios del siglo XX. Dirigido al lector que acababa de recibir el don de las letras, es una guía laica, respetuosa de creencias particulares, que cuadricula nociones de antropología, política, sociología y civismo bajo el ánimo liberal de urbanidad que procuraba el... (more)
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Artículos
by Mariano José de Larra
Mariano Jose de Larra debe su fama literaria a su aportacion periodistica: sus articulos llamados de costumbres nos conmueven todavia hoy por su talante combativo, su lenguaje directo y su perspicacia que le lleva a poner el dedo en la llaga de cada persona como individuo y como miembro social. Azorin reivindico la figura de Larra a quien considero el unico hombre moderno de su tiempo en Espana. Alabo su rebeldia... (more)
Eros - Los Mundos de La SexualidadJohnson Masters
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Eros - Los Mundos de La Sexualidad
by Johnson Masters
Recuperando lo invisible: Conversaciones sobre cultura
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Recuperando lo invisible: Conversaciones sobre cultura
Text: Spanish