Carlos: 2314 books

El libro busca entender el surgimiento de Sendero Luminoso tomando como epicentro los sucesos de 1969 por la gratuidad de la enseñanza en Ayacucho. Carlos Iván Degregori anota veinte años después para la nueva edición de este título: "El Perú sigue enfrentando problemas enormes y complejos;...

Thomas Jefferson had a radical dream for higher education. Designed to become the first modern public university, the University of Virginia was envisioned as a liberal campus with no religious affiliation, with elective courses and student self-government. Nearly two centuries after the university’s...

Commerce by a Frozen Sea is a cross-cultural study of a century of contact between North American native peoples and Europeans. During the eighteenth century, the natives of the Hudson Bay lowlands and their European trading partners were brought together by an increasingly popular trade in furs,...

The life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever written The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all, but rather a confession written...

La rebelión de las Cañadas es un libro que documenta el levantamiento del EZLN, uno de los sucesos más emblemáticos de la historia de México a finales del siglo XX. Edición actualizada de un bestseller que generó fuertes reacciones y es hoy un clásico del tema. La rebelión de...

Una obra que demuestra que la contraofensiva no solo resultó funcional a las aspiraciones políticas del almirante Emilio Eduardo Massera y de la logia Propaganda Due, sino que además existió un pacto entre la cúpula montonera y el ex comandante naval; un acuerdo secreto que llevó a la muerte...

Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period,...

Este nuevo libro de Carlos Monsiváis es el iluminador relato de las semanas cuando, entre marchas, mítines, errores, sectarismos, proezas individuales y colectivas y tomas de conciencia, un movimiento no sólo estudiantil defiende los derechos humanos, prepara el advenimiento de la sociedad civil, amplía los horizontes culturales y le da forma a otro modelo de comportamiento.

En la actualidad presenciamos un cambio profundo en las concepciones del territorio, las fronteras y los límites –nociones que fueron construidas a finales del siglo XIX y fortalecidas durante la mayor parte del siglo XX–. Sin embargo, cabe preguntar ¿tales cambios conducen invariablemente a...

Inspired by the award-winning poet and actor’s acclaimed one-man play, a powerful coming-of-age memoir that reimagines masculinity for the twenty-first-century male. Award-winning poet, actor, and writer Carlos Andrés Gómez is a supremely gifted storyteller with a captivating voice whose...

Carlos Frías, an award-winning journalist and the American-born son of Cuban exiles, grew up hearing about his parents' homeland only in parables. Their Cuba, the one they left behind four decades ago, was ethereal. It existed, for him, only in their anecdotes, and in the family that remained in...

Alamar, the home of award-winning Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores, is the setting for his collection, The Counterpunch and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales). Constructed as a self-help community in eastern Havana, Alamar is the largest housing complex in the world....

Winner of the Cervantes Prize ** ** Carlos Fuentes, one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, is at the height of his powers in this stunning new novel—a magnificent epic of passion, magic, and desire in modern Mexico, a rich and remarkable tapestry set in a world where free will fights with...

Here is a true literary event–the long-awaited new novel by Carlos Fuentes, one of the world’s great writers. By turns a tragedy and a farce, an acidic black comedy and an indictment of modern politics, The Eagle’s Throne is a seriously entertaining and perceptive story of international intrigue,...