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Este volumen recoge textos seleccionados de los Cuadernos de Estudio del venerable José Rivera sobre la obra poética de Eliot.José Rivera comenta sus lecturas de los poemas de Eliot, al que le une una especial afinidad espiritual. El autor reconoce en Eliot una visión profunda de los problemas de las personas: «Siendo una cabeza realmente privilegiada ‒incluso en el orden religioso‒ puede enseñarme mucho acerca de la visión divina sobre el hombre y las cosas». Nos vamos a encontrar, por lo...
| Автор | José Rivera Ramírez |
"LTI"? die Analyse der Sprache des Nationalsozialismus und ihrer Wirkungsmacht, ist sowohl ein Meisterwerk der Geschichtsschreibung als auch ein menschliches Dokument von der Selbstrettung eines Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftlers in hoffnungsloser Zeit. Elke Fröhlich hat den Text auf der Basis der von Victor Klemperer autorisierten Ausgaben von Irrtümern und Fehlern gereinigt, die sich im Lauf der Druck- und Erfolgsgeschichte des Buches eingeschlichen haben, und ihn um einen...
| Автор | Victor Klemperer |
La primera biografía que se publica en español sobre uno de los personajes más influyentes de la ciencia contemporánea. Un relato completo de la vida y la obra de Tesla en el entorno de la revolución industrial. Hoy pocos recuerdan a Nikola Tesla, pero gracias a él se enciende la bombilla del techo cuando pulsamos un interruptor. Fue el descubridor del campo magnético rotatorio, la base de la corriente alterna que hoy ilumina el mundo; pero también el padre de tecnologías visionarias en su...
| Автор | Margaret Cheney |
The concept of Colouredness—being neither white nor black—has been pivotal to the brand of racial thinking particular to South African society. The nature of Coloured identity and its heritage of oppression has always been a matter of intense political and ideological contestation. Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community is the first systematic study of Coloured identity, its history, and its relevance to South African national life. Mohamed...
| Автор | Mohamed Adhikari |
1856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to dye everything it touches a brilliant purple. Perkin has discovered mauve, the world's first synthetic dye, bridging a gap between pure chemistry and industry which will change the world forever. From the fetching ribbons soon tying back the hair on every fashionable head in London, to the...
| Автор | Simon Garfield |
Who was Elizabeth Tuttle? In most histories, she is a footnote, a blip. At best, she is a minor villain in the story of Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the greatest American theologian of the colonial era. Many historians consider Jonathan Edwards a theological genius, wildly ahead of his time, a Puritan hero. Elizabeth Tuttle was Edwards’s “crazy grandmother,” the one whose madness and adultery drove his despairing grandfather to divorce. In this compelling and...
| Автор | Ava Chamberlain |
Read a free excerpt here! American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-called “natural disasters” continue to strike the Mississippi basin, as...
| Автор | Christine A. Klein |
A beautiful and nostalgic look at the royal tour that captured a generation – the first visit of a reigning monarch to Canada. This six week visit from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back again (with a short excursion to the United States) enthralled a young nation. Fifty years ago, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrived at Quebec City to tour «the senior daughter of the dominions». This is a fond recollection of those few magic weeks and the outpouring of affection for the new king and his...
| Автор | Arthur Bousfield |
The Mazinaw, a place of striking natural beauty, is famous for Bon Echo Rock, a massive sheer cliff, dropping into one of Ontario's deepest lakes. The Mazinaw Experience traces the presence of human habitation on the shores of the Mazinaw from its earliest beginnings to the present, from the nomadic Aboriginal people who believed the cliff top to be a sacred place and the rugged lumbermen whose entrepreneurial zeal cleared out the mighty pine, to the settlers who struggled to create new...
| Автор | John Campbell |
Dixie & the Dominion is a compelling look at how the U.S. Civil War was a shared experience that shaped the futures of both Canada and the United States. The book focuses on the last year of the war, between April of 1864 and 1865. During that 12-month period, the Confederate States sent spies and saboteurs to Canada on a secret mission. These agents struck fear along the frontier and threatened to draw Canada and Great Britain into the war. During that same time, Canadians were making...
| Автор | Adam Mayers |
Unsolved mysteries surround the remarkable men known as the Templars. Their ancient origins go back much further than their well-known adventures in the Middle East in the twelfth century. They knew that ancient secrets were waiting to be rediscovered and, perhaps, reactivated. They could generate labyrinthine codes – and decipher those that others had created in the remote past. But no real understanding of Templarism is possible without examining what became of their noble order after the...
| Автор | Patricia Fanthorpe |
When the Lincoln Alexander Parkway was named, it was a triumph not only for this distinguished Canadian but for all African Canadians. The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway looks at the history of blacks in the Ancaster-Burlington-Hamilton area, their long struggle for justice and equality in education and opportunity, and their achievements, presented in a fascinating and meticulously researched historical narrative. Although popular wisdom suggests that blacks first came via the Underground...
| Автор | Adrienne Shadd |
A colourful and revealing look at more than 500 years of commerce conducted at the renowned Frankfurt Book Fair, from its beginnings in the Middle Ages. Even then, in spite of internal strife and religious upheaval, books were becoming increasingly accessible to those who found their way to Frankfurt to buy, sell, and promote. The fact that King Henry VIII sent Sir Thomas Bodley as his personal emissary to purchase books for the new library at Oxford University is an indication of the Fair’s...
| Автор | Carolyn Gossage |
In the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. At the time the population of Canada West was just short of a million and about 30,000 black people lived in the colony, most of whom were escaped slaves from south of the border. One of the people Drew interviewed was Harriet Tubman, who was then based in St. Catharines but made several trips to the U.S. South to lead slaves to...
| Автор | Benjamin Drew |
From prospectors to politicians, promoters to profiteers, New Westminster's known them all. It is Western Canada's oldest city, aptly named by Queen Victoria as the first capital of the new colony of British Columbia. On the mighty Fraser River, it has survived gold rushes, loss of capital status, fire, flood, the Depression, and two world wars. This collection of illuminating black and white photographs, artwork, and text shows how its tenacious citizens have thrived. It follows the...
| Автор | Gavin Hainsworth |
Czym różni się dziennikarz popierający republikanów od tego, który stawia na demokratów? Co łączy konserwatywną sieć FOX z uchodzącą za postępową MSNBC? I czy na pewno media powinny budować kapitał na wzajemnej niechęci? Przed Państwem gorzki i pełen ironii audyt wielkiej korporacji Nienawiść sp. z o.o. Nagradzany amerykański reporter Matt Taibbi bezlitośnie rozprawia się z dziennikarskim bałaganem w USA i wnikliwie analizuje typy politycznej ortodoksji, które tylko pozornie się od siebie...
| Автор | Matt Taibbi |
Przez większość życia uważałem Ślązaków za jaskiniowców z kilofem i roladą. Swoją śląskość wypierałem. W podstawówce pani Chmiel grała nam na akordeonie Rotę , a ja nie miałem pojęcia, że ów plujący w twarz Niemiec z pieśni był moim przodkiem. O swoich korzeniach wiedziałem mało. Nie wierzyłem, że na Śląsku przed wojną odbyła się jakakolwiek historia. Moi antenaci byli jakby z innej planety, nosili jakieś niemożliwe imiona: Urban, Reinhold, Liselotte. Później była ta nazistowska burdelmama,...
| Автор | Zbigniew Rokita |
Welcome to the 3 Books To Know series, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books.These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies.We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is: Age of EnlightenmentThe Age of Enlightenment – or Age of Reason – was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe...
| Автор | Рене Декарт |
Odo Marquard (1928–2015) gilt zu Recht als einer der scharfsinnigsten Essayisten unter den Philosophen. Sein ebenso pointierter wie polemischer und humoristischer Stil prägt sein Werk, das er selbst mit einem Augenzwinkern als «Transzendentalbelletristik» bezeichnet. Die Möglichkeiten der Philosophie sah er kritisch, sprach von Kompetenzverlust und schuf das Wortungetüm «Inkompetenzkompensationskompetenz» für die Bemühungen des Faches. Ironisch führte er aus, «Philosophie ist, wenn man trotzdem...
| Автор | Odo Marquard |
Philosophie kann in bedrängenden Situationen Orientierung geben, als Ratgeber dienen, namentlich im Zusammenhang mit dem Tod, der existentiellsten aller Lebensfragen. Dieses E-Book führt ebenso behutsam wie grundsätzlich in vier zentrale, jeden Einzelnen von uns betreffende Fragen ein: Was ist der Tod? Ist der Tod ein Gut oder ein Übel – oder keines von beiden? Ist es vernünftig, den eigenen Tod zu fürchten? Und wie soll ich mich vernünftigerweise zu meinem eigenen Tod verhalten?
| Автор | Héctor Wittwer |
El cohete V-2 forma parte del arsenal de «armas milagrosas» que los científicos alemanes concibieron y fabricaron durante el Tercer Reich en bases secretas en el Báltico y en fábricas subterráneas. Se trata de una tecnología que en su momento rayaba la ciencia ficción y, por ello, los países aliados tardaron años en creer que realmente existían.Pero en el momento en que las V-2 comenzaron a llover sobre Londres y Amberes ya no cabía ninguna duda sobre su existencia y sus mortíferas...
| Автор | José Manuel Ramírez Galván |
Una novela sobre el ingenio y e l valor de una mujer que cambió la historia. «En este momento ya ni siquiera puedo saber cuál es mi nombre: soy el olvido, soy la Marina, soy la Malinche, soy Malinalli… Yo soy la que tuvo dos cuerpos con un solo nombre: los enemigos de todos y los aliados convirtieron a don Hernando en parte de mi carne. Él y yo éramos Malinche, el ser doble que era palabra y espada.» Desde la enfermedad, cercana a la muerte, olvidado su papel en las arriesgadas avanzadas que...
| Автор | José Luis Trueba Lara |
Zu Recht gilt René Descartes (1596–1650) als wichtigste Gründungsfigur des modernen Rationalismus: Für viele ist er der erste moderne Philosoph überhaupt. Die vorliegende Einführung in das Gesamtwerk nimmt nicht nur die berühmten «Meditationen» mit ihrem radikalen Zweifel und der Formel «Ich denke, also bin ich» in den Blick, sondern auch Descartes' wissenschaftliche Texte zu Mathematik und Physik oder zu medizinisch-anthropologischen Themen: eine Einführung genau so, wie man sie braucht....
| Автор | Hans Poser |
Sempre les Vigílies de la Litúrgia de les Hores shan caracteritzat per extenses lectures extretes de la Bíblia i dautors eclesiàstics. Entre aquests darrers els Pares de lEsglésia sobresurten. Són joies del tresor eclesial que venen després de la lectura bíblica, sobretot de lAntic Testament però també de lEvangeli i dels altres textos del Nou. I des daquí ens acompanyen a la vida de cada dia, plens duna frescor sempre nova. Bernabé Dalmau, monjo de Montserrat, ens proposa una selecció daquestes...
| Автор | Bernabé Dalmau |