Pobreza y desigualdad social en la narrativa costarricense: 1890-1950

Al oído de la cordillera es un libro de viaje que descubre desde las primeras páginas a un narrador singular, que logra fundir la voz del escritor y del geólogo para entregar una fina y poética descripción del paisaje. Desde Colombia hasta Argentina, se suceden bellas pinturas geográficas que trazan su camino por el corazón de la cordillera de los Andes. Es un libro contado por unos ojos ávidos dispuestos al asombro.

When he was outcast, Torak was the hunted one. Nine moons later he becomes the hunter when he vows to avenge the killing of one of his closest friends. Racked by guilt and grief, he follows the killer into the Deep Forest, where the World Spirit stalks the hidden valleys as a tall man with a stag's antlers.

When Iraqi terrorists wreak havoc on the world, White House advisor Jon Bennett must complete a billion-dollar oil deal--the basis for a historic Arab-Israeli peace treaty--or the world will face the threat of nuclear devastation.

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...