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“Quite enough of Calvin Trillin: forty years of funny stuff” by Calvin Trillin “For at least forty years, Calvin Trillin has committed blatant acts of funniness all over the place—in The New Yorker, in one-man off-Broadway shows, in his “deadline poetry” for The Nation, in comic novels like Tepper Isn’t Going Out, in books chronicling
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“And their children after them: the legacy of Let us now praise famous men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the rise and fall of cotton in the South” by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson “In And Their Children After Them, the writer/photographer team Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson return to the land and families captured
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“Someplace like America: tales from the new Great Depression” by Dale Maharidge and photographs by Michael S. Williamson “In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life–through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis–the deepening crises of
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“Misplaced objects: migrations collections and recollections in Europe and the Americas” by Silvia Spitta “»When things move, things change.» Starting from this deceptively simple premise, Silvia Spitta opens a fascinating window onto the profound displacements and transformations that have occurred over the six centuries since material objects and human subjects began circulating between Europe and
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“American art: history and culture” by Wayne Craven “Here is the most thorough, well-researched, and beautifully illustrated study ever to examine American art from a cultural perspective. The author presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the styles, trends, and political climate that defined each important era.” Extraído de
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“Alfabetización informacional e inclusión digital” coordinado por Aurora Cuevas y Elmira Simeao “En sintonía con el denominado capitalismo cognitivo, a menudo se propicia la distribución de los recursos privilegiando posiciones con predominio informacional, situación que potencia el incremento de la brecha digital. Esta realidad requiere procesos que lleven a superar situaciones de desigualdad, especialmente a
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“A new literary history of America” edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors “In more than two hundred original essays, A New Literary History of America brings together the nation’s many voices. From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science
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“Vivir solo juntos” por Tzvetan Todorov “Los ensayos incluidos en este libro pueden agruparse en torno a un gran tema: la necesaria relación que mantiene el ser humano con personas diferentes a él. Todorov parte de su propia experiencia de exiliado y del estudio de momentos clave de la historia y de los autores que
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“The New York stories of Elizabeth Hardwick” selected by Darryl Pinckney “The earlier stories in this collection are wonderful. The power of them isn’t evident in any one line but gathers slowly, often sneaking in under cover of irony. The characters – a mix of upper-class intellectuals and down-at-heel bohemians – might present well to
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“El ruido de las cosas al caer” por Juan Gabriel Vásquez “El ruido de las cosas al caer se inicia con la exótica fuga y posterior caza de un hipopótamo, último vestigio del imposible zoológico con el que Pablo Escobar exhibía su poder. Ésta es la chispa que arranca los mecanismos de la memoria de