El mono desnudo
Author: Desmond Morris
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13:
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The Censorship Files
Author: Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0791480542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on extensive research in the Spanish National Archive, Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola examines the role played by the censorship apparatus of Franco's Spain in bringing about the Latin American literary Boom of the 1960s and 1970s. He reveals the negotiations and behind-the-scenes maneuvering among those involved in the Spanish publishing industry. Converging interests made strange bedfellows of the often left-wing authors and the staid officials appointed to stand guard over Francoist morality and to defend the supposed purity of Castilian Spanish. Between these two uneasily allied groups circulated larger-than-life real-world characters like the Barcelona publisher Carlos Barral and the all-powerful literary agent Carmen Balcells. The author details the fascinating story of how novels by Mario Vargas Llosa, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Gabriel García Márquez, and Manuel Puig achieved publication in Spain, and in doing so reached a worldwide market. This colorful account underpins a compelling claim that even the most innovative and aesthetically challenging literature has its roots in the economics of the book trade, as well as the institutions of government and the exigencies of everyday politics and ideology.
Cuando los recuerdos HABLAN
Author: Ricardo Alberto Díaz
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2022-01-14
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1662457847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClaudette, es una chica del área de Burdeos que estudia en París. Conoce a Rubén, un joven cadete mexicano de la academia de la Asociación Internacional de Policía en Francia, AIPOL. Le cuenta la historia de la granja vitivinícola de su familia. Como su bisabuelo tiene que luchar contra los alemanes durante la Primera Guerra Mundial y su abuelo hace lo mismo 20 años después, en la Segunda Guerra Mundial contra la Alemania nazi de Hitler. Para después sucumbir durante la crisis del petróleo en 1973. Rubén sabe de una organización criminal internacional a gran escala que se dedica al robo, falsificación y venta fraudulenta de obras de arte desaparecidas. La historia, la ficción, el romance y la aventura, se funden en esta novela llena de intrigas y emoción, donde el lector se siente aprisionado desde la primera página.
Howppiness
Author: Jaume Batlle i Perales
Publisher: Author House
Published: 2014-04
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1481792903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEngineers focus on improving and optimizing. So maybe it was about time an engineer said something about happiness. And you are going to like it! Happiness is a tool at your service. Learn how it works and put it to work for you, to your best convenience. Find a full spectrum of the questions that most relate to well-being so that you can easily cook your own recipe for happiness and increase your smiling rates and well-being. This book can help you answer the following questions: - What is happiness? - What components can we find in our well-being? - What is the biological function of happiness? - What is the relationship between money and happiness? - How does our professional career relate to happiness? - What do we need to be happy? - How should altruism be understood? - Does it pay to be altruistic? - What are the main characteristics of love? - How do love and happiness relate? - Does love vanish with time? - How can I improve my life? - What do I need to do to be happier? You have got the answers in your hands! Read, improve, optimize, and be happier!
Scientifica Historica
Author: Brian Clegg
Publisher: Ivy Press
Published: 2019-10-01
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1782408789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScientifica Historica is an illustrated, essay-based review of those books that marked the development of science from ancient civilizations to the new millennium. The book is divided into five eras and explores the leading scientific pioneers, discoveries and books within them: Ancient World – looks at the beginnings of language, plus the first ever scientific documents produced and translated Renaissance in Print – explores the effects of the invention of the printing press and the exploration of the seas and skies Modern Classical – surveys the nineteenth century and the development of science as a profession Post-Classical – dissects the twentieth century and the introduction of relativity, quantum theory and genetics The Next Generation – reviews the period from 1980 to the modern day, showing how science has become accessible to the general public Plus an introduction to the history and development of writing and books in general, and a list of the 150 greatest science books published. From carvings and scrolls to glossy bound tomes, this book beautifully illustrates the evolution of scientific communication to the world. By recounting the history of science via its key works—those books written by the keenest minds our world has known—this book reflects the physical results of brilliant thought manifested in titles that literally changed the course of knowledge.
Nuestros genes. Mitos y certezas sobre el prodigioso fenómeno humano
Author: Nicolas Jouve de la Barreda
Publisher: Digital Reasons
Published: 2023-11-21
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 8410093049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUn panorama general, básico y didáctico sobre la singularidad genética y biológica de la especie humana. Tras la creación del universo con el big-bang hace 13.700 millones de años brotó la vida en un planeta idóneo para su expansión y diversificación. En el libro se detallan los mecanismos de la evolución y de la aparición del Homo sapiens a partir de unos ancestros prehomínidos en el centro de África, hasta su expansión por todo el mundo. Se describen los procesos de la hominización y humanización y las especiales características del ser humano. Se explica el significado del “fenómeno humano” y el por qué y el cómo del resurgir de una especie tan singular. La única que asciende al mundo de la racionalidad y que en consecuencia vive su vida de forma consciente, se comunica con sus congéneres, crea la cultura y domina su entorno con un sentido ético y de trascendencia. En el libro se describen los fundamentos genéticos de nuestros rasgos biológicos, los determinantes genéticos y ambientales que influyen en el comportamiento humano, las enfermedades hereditarias y los detalles de nuestro genoma en relación con el de los demás seres vivos. Se distingue entre lo innato y lo adquirido. Se derriban los mitos y se asientan las pruebas de lo que es genuinamente humano y lo que no lo es. También se aborda el futuro de la humanidad en la era de las tecnologías emergentes, con los desafíos éticos de la manipulación genética y las corrientes materialistas que tratan de conducir a nuestra singular especie a la utopía transhumanista y posthumanista.
Homo Sapiens
Author: Antonio Vélez Montoya
Publisher: eLibros Editorial
Published: 2013-08-20
Total Pages: 919
ISBN-13: 9588732727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe themes discussed in this book, translated to English by Australian Kieran Tapsell, form part of a revolutionary discipline known under the name of evolutionary psychology, a discipline that has become the most powerful tool discovered to date for man to understand himself. Much of the knowledge revealed by human science is explained as a result of the evolutionary process, using as a premise the theory that the majority of modern man’s desires, impulses, interests and inclinations, and mental faculties were designed by the evolutionary process of the species. This new focus allows us to synthesize a group of already established findings, coming from such diverse disciplines as genetics, evolution, ethology, anthropology, psychology, neurology and epistemology. In this way, it is possible to explain an important part of complex human behavior under one sole, unifying principle: the direct or indirect search for a greater reproductive efficacy. With this work, easily readable by the general public, the author completes a cycle of subjects that he had begun with From the Big Bang to Homo Sapiens (2004), a book published in Spanish by Villegas Editores.
El mono desnudo
Author: Desmond Morris
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13:
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Author: Eduardo Diaz Zalamea
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-05-02
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1291861335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCon su habitual humor frio y sofisticado, con sinceridad y con una falta total de pudor, el autor nos presenta el relato de su irrisoria vida amorosa. No se trata de exhibicionismo facebookiano ni de un ejercicio de nostalgia: este libro ofrece sin pretensiones algunos retratos del amor... y eso es todo, amigos.
CPD Self-Defense Method
Author: Francisco Javier Rodríguez Román
Publisher:
Published: 2019-07-20
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1771924896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Tree wants peace, yet wind does not” Japanese proverb The CPD Method is a Self-Defense method which consists of a large number of techniques, both physical and non-physical. The physical techniques are based in Traditional Martial Arts (judo, karatedo, aikido, kobudo, kyusho) and are adapted to the specific situations they are needed for. This adaptation will be determined by the context in which these techniques must be used. Feminine Personal Defense, Police Self-Defense, Street Self-Defense. As well as these three Self-Defense fields, the CPD Methods comprises Comprehensive Penitentiary Defense, which, due to such a specific context it takes place in, deserves a special mention. The CPD Method opts for the philosophy of the minimum possible amount of intervention. This translates into avoiding conflict. If conflict is inevitable, then we will use the maximum proportionality in our techniques, causing the minimum possible amount of damage.
