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Hay figuras arquetípicas que pueden transformar la vida de una persona y el draco es una de ellas. Esto lo afirma la autora de este libro mientras guía al lector en un recorrido poliédrico e interdisciplinario por los mundos "de afuera y de adentro" del dragón-serpiente multilingüe, teniendo presente que, como bien dice el Mahabharata: "Si escuchas [o lees] con atención un relato, no serás nunca más la misma persona". La autora se apoya en la última física cuántica ("sólo el sujeto en primera persona puede modificar el sistema observado") para invitar al lector a modificar sus...

Determined to identify an activity that she can share with her beloved cat, a little girl in a striped kitty costume climbs trees, hosts tea parties and draws pictures while her reluctant cat becomes increasingly dismayed. (fiction > pets)

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

Discusses how Soriano established himself by eloquently combining genres. The prose will unmask Argentina's ethical and political corruption during the period of history called The Dirty War.