Jorge: 1196 books

Jorge and Laura Posada are not the kind of parents who say to their children, "Do as I say." Their parenting mantra instead is, "Let's do it together," and the Posadas have always made good nutrition and fitness a core element of their family lifestyle. Fit Home Team is their formula for getting parents...

The poems depict mental verses by an individual who has been through the ravages of Depression in which uses old themes and combining them in a new contemporary style unique to his persona. As is with the rest of his poetry books, Jorge dedicates all his works to all those who want to enjoy them, but specifically are intended for those individuals afflicted with a disability.

“Borges’s composed, carefully wrought, gnarled style is at once the means of his art and its object-his way of ordering and giving meaning to the bizarre and terrifying world he creates: it is a brilliant, burnished instrument, and it is quite adequate to the extreme demands his baroque imagination...

Jorge Luis Borges ((Buenos Aires,1899-Ginevra, 1986), scrittore, saggista, poeta, filosofo, traduttore e bibliotecario è tra i grandi protagonisti della letteratura del Novecento. Le sue opere sono notissime nell'intero pianeta. Qui sono raccolti alcuni suoi interventi degli ultimi anni che riguardano...

La presente antología de Jorge Mañach, contiene tres de sus más conocidos ensayos Indagación del choteo, La crisis de la alta cultura en Cuba y Barú, Clavelito y compañía.

While Fidel Castro maintains his longtime grip on Cuba, revolutionary scholars and policy analysts have turned their attention from how Castro succeeded (and failed), to how Castro himself will be succeeded—by a new government. Among the many questions to be answered is how the new government will...

Jorge Mañach y Robato (Sagua la Grande, 1898-San Juan de Puerto Rico, 25 de junio de 1961). Cuba.Escritor, periodista, ensayista y filósofo, autor de una biografía de José Martí y de numerosos ensayos filosóficos.Se graduó de Filosofia y Letras por la Universidad de Harvard (1920) en la que...

“We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic.” Mexico, an escape route, inspiration, and ecstatic terminus of the celebrated novel On the Road, was crucial to Jack Kerouac’s creative development. In this dramatic and highly compelling...

In this book Jorge Larrain discusses three of the most important concepts in the social sciences: ideology, reason and cultural identity.

With a population of 40 million and growing, the United States witnessed Latinos becoming the largest minority in America in 2003—creating a voting bloc with the potential to determine the outcome of elections throughout the nation.
 In The Latino Wave, award-winning journalist Jorge Ramos...

For decades, fixing the United States’ broken immigration system has been one of the most urgent challenges facing our country, and time and time again, politicians have passed the buck. With anti-immigrant sentiment rising around the country, and presidential elections on the horizon, it’s no...

From the massive nationwide rally in support of immigrant rights in May 2006 to protests against the increasingly frequent immigration raids across the country, the public debate on immigration reform has largely centered on Mexican immigrants. Yet, in the United States, we rarely hear the Mexican...

Jorge Luis Borges llegó a considerar 'La divina comedia' de Dante como un microcosmos del saber medieval. La obra de Dante, en especial esta, permite una aproximación a diversas cuestiones de ciencia y de cosmología. El poema trata un amplio espectro de temas: filosofía, teología, moral y política....

La historia del engaño y de la mentira es tan antigua como la humanidad, como la existencia de la raza humana sobre la faz de la tierra. Es imposible saber cuál es el origen de la mentira, Siempre se ha dicho que el mentiroso nace, en esa eterna pregunta de si el hombre nace o se hace, en el caso...