Lila Sherman

This compact and thorough reference handbook describes art treasures, hours, and facilities in 550 museums and galleries in all 50 states and Canada. For travelers, driving directions are included. For researchers, libraries and other services are listed. A cross-reference feature quickly locates collections of special interest.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

A Guide to Collections in the United States and Canada

Art Museums of America

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Don Lancaster

Calling enthusiast of technology history!

Want to put your own words and pictures on an ordinary tv set?
TV Typewriter Cookbook shows you how to accomplish this economically and easily.
Chapter 1 starts with some basics-what a tv typewriter is, and what its uses, configurations, and principles of operation are. Also included is some of the terminology involved with tvt's and microcomputer interface.
Three basic types of memories are covered: you-program
PROMs, factory-programmed ROMs, and RAMs that let you se-lactively store and retrieve information.
Cursor and update circuitry techniques range from the traditional count and compare and the McFadden system, to "super front panel' tvt's that work directly from microcomputers. Update systems include both frame-rate and direct memory access systems.
Also covered are hard-copy techniques, color graphics, and
games such as "chess" and "pong."
TV Typewriter Cookbook is for the computer hobbyist, the professional data processor, the video game "freak," the electronics technician, and those working with video recording, cable tv, or studio broadcasting. The book is also useful as a text for teaching microprocessors on the high school through university levels.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

TV Typewriter Cookbook

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Marvin L. De Jong

Calling collectors of technology!

Teaches assembly language programming at the beginning level-no prior knowledge of 6502 assembly language needed
• Directs you in hands-on-computer exercises and experiments, with both software and hardware.
• Enables you to interface the Apple I|* to outside devices, e.g. a/d and d/a converters, timers, etc
• Provides interfacing circuits and programs that can be used on the Apple 11® without modification.
• Enhances your power as a programmer in your use of the Apple ||®
• Gives you a general understanding of how microcomputers work than can by programming in BASIC or any other high-level

Apple II Assembly Language

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Gary Taylor

"Gary Taylor's meditation on whiteness is learned, articulate, and deeply felt. Much of the material will be unfamiliar to most readers, and the argument, original and provocative, genuinely transforms an essential part of the social and cultural landscape. This is an important and exciting book."
—STEPHEN ORGEL, J. E. Reynolds Professor in Humanities, Stanford University
"In this wide-ranging, deftly coordinated, incisively focused book, Gary Taylor addresses two Renaissances. Making a major contribution to the new subfield of whiteness studies in the English Renaissance, Taylor locates the origin of an explicit appeal to white racial identity in the second decade of the seventeenth century—a turning point he illuminates through strong comparative analysis of the transition from Shakespeare to Thomas Middleton. Moreover, since the book's reach extends to the nineteenth-century American literary Renaissance, revised to include African American voices, Taylor also brilliantly reconfigures the overall framework of whiteness studies as a whole. Gary Taylor speaks with contemporary urgency about the persistent problem of white blindness to white skin privilege: presenting a comprehensive, detailed history of white identity formation, Taylor opens our eyes. Future scholarship starts here."
—PETER ERICKSON, author of Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare's Drama and Rewriting
Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Race, Culture, and Identity from Columbus to Hip-Hop

What does it mean to be white? When and why did men buy the idea that they were "whites," and who sold it to them? The secret history of whiteness is told, for the first time, in this important book by an internationally-acclaimed cultural historian and journalist. Gary Taylor tracks the growth of modern white identity through the history of art, law, literature, science, and sexuality--and through the eyes of black and brown observers. From Columbus to George W. Bush, from Shakespeare to Eminem, from John Bunyan to George Wallace, Buying Whiteness will transform the way you read our past and present.

Buying Whiteness

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Elizabeth Martínez

Elizabeth Martínez's unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martínez presents a radical Latina perspective on race, liberation and identity. She describes the provocative ideas and new movements created by the rapidly expanding US Latina/o community as it confronts intensified exploitation and racism.

Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martínez presents a radical Latina perspective on race, liberation and identity. She describes the provocative ideas and new movements created by the rapidly expanding US Latina/o community as it confronts intensified exploitation and racism.

De Colores Means All of Us

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Walter Rodney

In this classic work published in the heady days of anticolonial revolution, The Groundings with My Brothers follows the global circulation of emancipatory ideas, from the black students of North America to the Rasta counterculture of Jamaica and beyond. The book is striking in its simultaneous ability to survey the wide and heterogeneous international context while remaining anchored in grassroots politics, as Rodney offers us firsthand accounts of mass movement organizing. Having inspired a generation of revolutionaries, this new edition will reintroduce the book to a new political landscape that it helped shape, with reflections from leading scholar-activists Carole Boyce Davies, Patricia Rodney, David Austin, Randall Robinson, Verene A. Shepherd, and Robin Small.

"I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together." - Walter Rodney In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In this classic work published in the heady days of international black power, Groundings with My Brothers details the global circulation of emancipatory ideas, but also offers first-hand reports of Rodney's mass movement organizing. Introduced and contextualized by leading Caribbean scholar-activists, this updated edition brings Rodney's legacy to a new generation of radicals.

The Groundings with My Brothers

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José Antonio Villarreal

"De lo anterior podrá inferirse la importancia que adquiere la decisión que ha tomado la casa editorial Anchor de verter al español la primera novela de Villarreal en el trigésimo quinto aniversario de su primera edición en inglés. Esta importancia se debe a que, en primer lugar, Pocho ha sido considerada como la novela que sirve de piedra angular a la literatura chicana; por otra parte, varios de los temas planteados en Pocho-tales como la inmigración, los inter cambios culturales, el choque con la modernización y la identidad cultural-son problemas que en la actualidad se debaten en países alrededor del mundo."
— de la introducción escrito por Dr. Roberto Cantú

Jose Antonio Villarreal illuminates here the world of "pochos," Americans whose parents come to the United States from Mexico. Set in Depression-era California, the novel focuses on Richard, a young pocho who experiences the intense conflict between loyalty to the traditions of his family's past and attraction to new ideas. Richard's struggle to achieve adulthood as a young man influenced by two worlds reveals both the uniqueness of the Mexican-American experiences and its common ties with the struggles of all Americans—whatever their past.

Pocho (en Espanol)

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Walt. Whitman

Lee Bennett Hopkins

First edition from 1988. Copy withdrawn from library, and well kept.

Beautiful edition

Poems by Walt Whitman

Voyages

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Native American Rights Fund

Wonderful art book! 

Visions for the Future celebrates contemporary Native American artists and shares their unique views on the twenty-first century. These provocative works capture the vivid emergence taking shape in the Native American art world. Each piece is accompanied by the young artists' perspectives on art, identity and the future of Indian Country. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Native American Rights Fund, the oldest and largest nonprofit law firm dedicated to asserting and defending the rights of Indian tribes organizations, and individuals nationwide.

A Celebration of Young Native American Artists

"Visions for the Future celebrates contemporary Native American artists and shares their unique views on the twenty-first century. These provocative works capture the vivid emergence taking shape in the Native American art world. Each piece is accompanied by the young artists' perspectives on art, identity, and the future of Indian Country."--Back cover (Volume 1).

Visions for the Future - V.1

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Yuri Herrera

Lobo, el protagonista de esta novela fascinante sobre la vida en la frontera de México con los Estados Unidos, no posee educación pero le sobra talento para convertir los sucesos notables en baladas épicas. Cuando el cabecilla de una banda local de narcóticos topa con él, Lobo se convierte en el juglar del reino. A través de sus canciones, describe la vida tanto dentro de la corte como fuera de ella, y aunque al principio sus composiciones sirven para glorificar y popularizar el cartel, juegan a la larga un papel integral en su desaparición. Con su lenguaje lírico y popular, Trabajos del reino es un retrato vívido de un mundo de arrabales, cantinas, prostíbulos, drogas, armas y muerte que no dejará de afectar a ningún lector.

"Yuri Herrera destaca con su primer libro, Trabajos del reino, en el que, a través de la mirada de un compositor de corridos, despliega ante el lector un panorama de la 'vida palaciega' de un cártel del narcotráfico. Lobo, protagonista y narrador de la novela, es un ser marginado desde su nacimiento. No posee educación, pero le sobra el talento para convertir en cantos épicos los sucesos notables, por eso es el Artista. Una tarde se topa con el hombre que habrá de transformar su vida... Así, reconstruyendo el mundo interior del cártel con un lenguaje popular no exento de lirismo, muestra de su excelente oído, y con un tono que algunas veces adquiere registros de fábula infantil y otras de tragedia del Renacimiento, las palabras del Artista nos internan en un castillo donde parece reinar la felicidad, pero cunden las intrigas soterradas."--Publisher's description.

TRABAJOS DEL REINO

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Martin Jay

Decades later, the work done by the founding members of the Frankfurt School continues to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society, and politics.
"Over the last fifty years or more, Martin Jay's indefatigable efforts have helped to transform the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School from an esoteric affair known only to a few cognoscenti into a major point of reference in the most important debates on contemporary society. This latest publication shows just how relevant Critical Theory remains as we confront the darkening of the Zeitgeist. As human-made catastrophes multiply, we surely have need more than ever of the astonishing foresight, born in dark times, of thinkers such Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin and Marcuse, whose work Jay illuminates here. The concluding chapter, which discusses the alt-right's unhinged attack on the Frankfurt School, vividly captures the frightening irrationality of the times in which we live." Joel Whitebook, Columbia University, author of Freud: An Intellectual Biography
"Brilliant rereadings of known texts. An absolute pleasure."
Seyla Benhabib, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University
"With this collection of brilliant and insightful essays Martin Jay has returned to the topic that defined his early career: Critical Theory. Possessing deep historical knowledge and endowed with great sensitivity for theoretical nuances, Jay traces the unfolding of what is commonly called the Frankfurt School. This book is a precious gift to America in these troubled times."
Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus, Cornell
"Fresh, learned, and historically precise, these essays remind us how fortunate English readers are to have Martin Jay as their entryway into the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt Institute." Susan Buck-Morss, Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory, Cornell University
MARTIN JAY is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught Modern European Intellectual History and Critical Theory for forty-five years. He has published many books, among which are The Dialectical Imagination and Reason after Its Eclipse.

Essays on the Frankfurt School

Assessing the legacy of the Frankfurt School in the twenty-first century Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the 21st century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and politics. Exploring unexamined episodes in the School's history and reading its work in unexpected ways, these essays provide ample evidence of the abiding relevance of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Löwenthal, and Kracauer in our troubled times. Without forcing a unified argument, they range over a wide variety of topics, from the uncertain founding of the School to its mixed reception of psychoanalysis, from Benjamin's ruminations on stamp collecting to the ironies in the reception of Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, from Löwenthal's role in Weimar's Jewish Renaissance to Horkheimer's involvement in the writing of the first history of the Frankfurt School. Of special note are their responses to visual issues such as the emancipation of color in modern art, the Jewish prohibition on images, the relationship between cinema and the public sphere, and the implications of a celebrated Family of Man photographic exhibition. The collection ends with two essays tracing the still metastasizing demonization of the Frankfurt School by the so-called Alt Right as the source of "cultural Marxism" and "political correctness," which has gained alarming international resonance and led to violence by radical right-wing fanatics.

Splinters in Your Eye

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Christian Parenti

While Hamilton's extraordinary life has become an object of renewed popular in-terest, his ideas remain misunderstood.
Radical Hamilton is a fascinating history of his political economy-as reflected in policies, correspondence, The Federalist Papers, and his neglected masterpiece, Report on Manufactures. In this engrossing narrative, Parenti explores his subject's radical ideas in the context of the tumult of the Revolutionary War, insurgent slave revolts, Shay's rebellion, and capitalism's emergence on the global stage. Parenti contrasts Hamilton to contemporaries, such as Thomas Jefferson, a paragon of conservative, slave-owning, anti-statist chinkers.

Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder

A dramatic re-evaluation of the founding of the United States and the history of capitalism. In retelling the story of the radical Alexander Hamilton, Parenti rewrites the history early America and global economic history writ large. For much of the twentieth century, Hamilton-sometimes seen as the bad boy of the founding fathers or portrayed as the patron saint of bankers-was out of fashion. In contrast his rival Thomas Jefferson, the patrician democrat and slave owner who feared government overreach, was claimed by all. But more recently, Hamilton has become a subject of serious interest again. He was a contradictory mix: a tough soldier, austere workaholic, exacting bureaucrat, yet also a sexual libertine, and a glory-obsessed romantic with suicidal tendencies. As Parenti argues, we have yet to fully appreciate Hamilton as the primary architect of American capitalism and the developmental state. In exploring his life and work, Parenti rediscovers this gadfly as a path breaking political thinker and institution builder. In this vivid historical portrait, Hamilton emerges as a singularly important historical figure: a thinker and politico who laid the foundation for America's ascent to global supremacy-for better or worse.

Radical Hamilton

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Patrick Cockburn

Based on eyewitness reporting, War in the Age of Trump captures the powerful forces driving the permanent crisis in the Middle East under Trump. Elected in 2016, Trump became president just as the nine-month siege of Isis in Mosul was beginning. His first term saw the fall of the Kurds in Iraq and Syria, the advance of Turkey, and the apparent stabilization of Iraq up until the mass street protests began
in 2019. Throughout this period, the conflict between the US and Iran has escalated, culminating in Trump ordering the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in 2020.
Patrick Cockburn has long been considered the most significant commentator on the US-led intervention in the region, an often critical yet impartial judge of events. He shows how Iraq and Syria became the arena for a proxy war involving the United States, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other powers. Cockburn vividly brings to life how soldiers at war and civilians under bombardment experience and try to survive these devastating conflicts. He asks the most pressing questions about the region today. Has ISIS been permanently defeated or could it take advantage of the mounting chaos to stage a comeback? Will clashes between America and Iran ultimately lead to war?
War in the Age of Trump is a groundbreaking account of the current disintegration of the Middle East by the man the New York Times described as the greatest living foreign correspondent in English.

The Defeat of ISIS, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran

In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East.
Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to Turkey's attack on Kurdish territory in November 2019, and recounts the new phase in the wars of disintegration that have plagued the region, leading to the assassination of Iranian General Sulemani.
Cockburn offers panoramic on-the-ground analysis as well as a lifetime's study of the region. As author of The Rise of Islamic State, and the Age of Jihad, he has proved to be leading, critical commentator of US intervention and the chaos it has wrecked/ And here he shows how, since Trump entered the White House promising an end to the Forever War, peace appears a distant possibility with the continuation of conflict in Syria, Saudi Arabia's violent intervention in the Yemen, the fall of the Kurds, riots in Baghdad, and the continued aggression towards Iran. While ISIS has been defeated, it is not clear whether it has disappeared from the region. Trump's policies has appeared to pour petrol on the flames, emboldening the other superpowers involved in the proxy wars. Following the collapse of the deal with Iran, and the threat of war crimes, is a new balance of power possible?

War in the Age of Trump

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Charlotte Bront¨e

Tim Dolin

Perfect on the inside, three marker on the top edge.

'I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.' George Eliot Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Beck's school in 'Villette'. Strongly drawn to the fiery autocratic schoolmaster Monsieur Paul Emanuel, Lucy is compelled by Madame Beck's jealous interference to assert her right to love and be loved. Based in part on Charlotte Bronte's experience in Brussels ten years earlier, Villette (1853) is a cogent and dramatic exploration of a woman's response to the challenge of a constricting social environment. Its deployment of imagery comparable in power to that of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and its use of comedy-ironic or exuberant-in the service of an ultimately sombre vision, make Villette especially appealing to the modern reader.

Villette

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Maxine Hong Kingston

Library copy without the paper cover. Perfect on the inside

Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts

"'No name woman' originally appeared, in slightly different form, in the January 1975 issue of Viva"--T.p. verso.

The Woman Warrior

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition

In May 1860, Walt Whitman published a third edition of Leaves of Grass. His timing was compelling. Printed during a period of regional, ideological, and political divisions, written by a poet intimately concerned with the idea of a United States as “essentially the greatest poem,” this new edition was Whitman’s last best hope for national salvation. Now available in a facsimile edition, Leaves of Grass, 1860 faithfully reproduces Whitman’s attempt to create a “Great construction of the New Bible” to save the nation on the eve of civil war and, for the first time, frames the book in historical rather than literary terms. In his third edition, Whitman added 146 new poems to the 32 that comprised the second edition, reorganized the book into a bible of American civic religion that could be cited chapter and verse, and included erotic poetry intended to bind the nation in organic harmony. This 150th anniversary edition includes a facsimile reproduction of the original 1860 volume, a thought-provoking introduction by antebellum historian and Whitman scholar Jason Stacy that situates Whitman in nineteenth-century America, and annotations that provide detailed historical context for Whitman’s poems. A profoundly rich product of a period when America faced its greatest peril, this third edition finds the poet transforming himself into a prophet of spiritual democracy and the Whitman we celebrate today—boisterous, barbaric, and benevolent. Reprinting it now continues the poet’s goal of proclaiming for “the whole of America for each / individual, without exception . . . uncompromising liberty and equality.”

Leaves of Grass 1860

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Tracy Chevalier

No. 13 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, 1792. Poct, artist, and printer William Blake-local eccentric and political radical-works anonymously amidst the raucous din of a reeming, jittery Lon-don. Across the Channel, revolution is imploding in France. Nearby, the renowned Astleys Circus is rehearsing its upcoming show, and next door the Kellaway family, recently arrived from the countryside, is moving in. Maggie Butterfield, the streetwise daughter of a local rogue, is looking for trouble—or at least a friend. When she and young Jem Kellaway are drawn into Blake's spell, the chance meeting of three unusual souls sets the stage for an impassioned journey. Jem and Maggie spark the imagination of the poet, influencing one of the greatest and most mystical works in English literature, Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Burning Bright evokes the full pageantry of Georgian London: its circus spectacles, mustard fac-tories, pubs and bawdy songs, the grandeur of Westminster Abbey and the secrets of Cut-Throat Lane. Behind these lie the greater movements of an era: the influence of a nearby revolution, the mustering of forces loyal to the Crown, and the agonies of being an independent thinker in an age suspicious of dissent.
As she did in the bestselling Girl With a Pearl Ear-ring, Chevalier brilliantly captures an era and a sense of place, at the same time deftly evoking an artist's vision. Overflowing with energy, enterprise, and the power of creation, Burning Bright brings us a vivid story of the unpredictable, exhilarating passage toward adulthood.

Presents a sweeping and romantic tale set against the historical backdrop of William Blake's London.

Burning Bright

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I tour de-force of history and imagination.
The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier's answer to the mystery behind one of the art world's great masterpieces.
A set of bewitching medieval tapestries hangs today in a protected chamber in Paris. They appear to portray a woman's seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now.
Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arro-gant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house—mother and daughter, servant and lady-in-waiting-before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven.
There, master-weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has on finishing the tapestries— his finest, most intricate work—on time for his exacting French client. Ill-prepared for temptation and seduction, he and his family are consumed by the project and by their dealings with the full-blooded painter from Paris.
The results change all their lives-lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look.
In The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry-an extraordinary story exquisitely told.

Interweaves historical fact with fiction to explore the mystery behind the creation of the remarkable Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, woven at the end of the fifteenth century, which today hang in the Cluny Museum in Paris.

The Lady and the Unicorn

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José Ignacio Carnero

«Nuestros padres nos mandaban a un colegio concertado y después a una universidad privada sin saber muy bien por qué.
Nos ponían en manos de brujos que conocían los secretos del éxito. Un máster: la palabra mágica de los chamanes. De esta forma, confiando en una alquimia que no conocían, ahorraban durante sus vidas, desgastaban sus rodillas, sus nudillos, sus za-patos, y nos martilleaban siempre con la misma frase: que no íbamos a heredar nada salvo los estudios que nos pagaban.»
El título de este libro alude a la voz euskera que significa «madre», y también a la tercera persona del presente del verbo amar, y es justamente en esa intersección donde José Ignacio Carnero despliega una narración elegante y llena de belleza alrededor de la enfermedad de un ser querido, de las expectativas cumplidas e incumplidas de toda una generación, y de la memoria familiar.
O como alerta esta obra a su inicio: «No es que todas las familias felices se parezcan las unas a las otras, sino que, como han estado tan ocupadas siendo felices, no han encontrado el momento de ponerse a escribir sobre sí mismas. Es el olvido, y no la felicidad, el que hace a esas familias iguales».

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Centrada en la vida de Genoveva Alcocer, La tejedora de coronas es un viaje por la historia del siglo XVIII desde una Cartagena anclada en la oscuridad. En ella, la imaginación, la inteligencia, la investigación y el espíritu fraternal buscan abrirse paso en una sociedad marcada por la Inquisición, en la que predominan la intolerancia, la superstición y la represión brutal. Narrada con un dominio asombroso del lenguaje, erudita, rigurosa, musical, la novela constituye uno de los hitos de la literatura colombiana.

La tejedora de coronas

Silvia Terrón

Umbra transcurre en un futuro en el que los humanos ya no pueden emitir sonidos y el planeta ha quedado dividido en una región de luz y otra -llamada Umbra- de sombra. Los ecos de las voces de nuestro presente se fosilizaron en un mineral llamado «ecoral», que es la principal fuente de energía. Las clases altas rompen fragmentos de mineral para liberar el eco prisionero que suena una última vez antes de desaparecer. Pero el ecoral escasea, y gran parte de la población de Umbra vive privada de voz y entre tinieblas, comunicándose de manera táctil.
¿Cómo sobreponerse a ello? ¿Cómo reconstruir nuestra voz en un mundo de silencio y oscuridad?
Umbra es una metáfora lúcida e inquietante sobre el futuro de la especie humana, una reflexión sobre la voz y la comunicación, sobre la arqueología de un pasado remoto que es nuestro presente y la evolución futura de la especie.

"Umbra transcurre en un futuro en que los humanos ya no pueden emitir sonidos y el planeta ha quedado dividido en una región de luz y otra -llamada Umbra– de sombra. Los ecos de las voces de nuestro presente se fosilizaron en un mineral llamado «ecoral», que es la principal fuente de energía. Las clases altas rompen fragmentos de mineral para liberar el eco prisionero que suena una última vez antes de desaparecer. Pero el mineral escasea, por eso gran parte de la población de Umbra vive privada de voz y entre tinieblas, comunicándose de manera táctil. ¿Cómo sobreponerse a ello? ¿Cómo reconstruir nuestra voz en un mundo de silencio y oscuridad? Umbra es la quinta apuesta de Mercedes Cebrián como editora de Caballo de Troya en 2018. Tras catorce años de andadura, el sello es hoy en día referencia entre los autores más jóvenes y ambiciosos. Cada año un editor invitado pone su impronta personal al catálogo." --

Umbra

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Fatima Bhutto

How do three young people-all with Pakistani backgrounds but coming from very different worlds-wind up face to face in a jihadi training camp on the edge of Mosul?
Anita is a denizen of Karachi's biggest slum, contending with the everyday indignities of poor girls. Monty belongs to Pakistan's private-school elite, but an angry and alluring classmate awakens him to the emptiness of his pampered life. Sunny has grown up in the south of England, navigating immigrant-parent expectations and adopted-country racism.
The Runaways follows these remarkable characters through journeys shaped-like so many coming-of-age stories today-by the dislocations of inequality, the breakdown of community, and the siren songs of religion and social media. These three don't seem to have much in common, aside from the vulnerability and longing of youth. And yet their lives converge in the Iraqi desert, a place where life and death walk hand in hand and where their closely guarded secrets force them to make a terrible choice.

A Novel

"Dazzling. A novel that holds up to scrutiny a world of claustrophobic war zones, virulent social media and cities collapsing upon themselves, and then sets it down again, transformed by the grace of storytelling." – Siddartha Deb, author of The Point of Return Anita lives in Karachi’s biggest slum. Her mother is a maalish wali, paid to massage the tired bones of rich women. But Anita's life will change forever when she meets her elderly neighbour, a man whose shelves of books promise an escape to a different world. On the other side of Karachi lives Monty, whose father owns half the city and expects great things of him. But when a beautiful and rebellious girl joins his school, Monty will find his life going in a very different direction. Sunny's father left India and went to England to give his son the opportunities he never had. Yet Sunny doesn't fit in anywhere. It's only when his charismatic cousin comes back into his life that he realises his life could hold more possibilities than he ever imagined. These three lives will cross in the desert, a place where life and death walk hand in hand, and where their closely guarded secrets will force them to make a terrible choice.

The Runaways

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Chris Harman

Some wear on the outside but the inside is intact

From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

A People's History of the World

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Andreas Malm

War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

What does the COVID 19 tell us about the climate breakdown, and what should we do about it? The economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been unprecedented. Governments have spoken of being at war and find themselves forced to seek new powers in order to maintain social order and prevent the spread of the virus. This is often exercised with the notion that we will return to normal as soon as we can. What if that is not possible? Secondly, if the state can mobilize itself in the face of an invisible foe like this pandemic, it should also be able to confront visible dangers such as climate destruction with equal force. In Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency, leading environmental thinker, Andreas Malm demands that this war-footing state should be applied on a permanent basis to the ongoing climate front line. He offers proposals on how the climate movement should use this present emergency to make that case. There can be no excuse for inaction any longer.

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