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No More "How Long Does it Have to Be?": Fostering Independent Writers in Grades 3-8
by Jennifer JacobsonIn No More How Long Does it Have to Be?: Fostering Independent Writers in Grades 3-8, author Jennifer Jacobson provides the inspiration and tools to shift from a teacher-directed writing program to a student-propelled workshop model. Drawing on a wealth of Writer's Workshop experience in upper elementary and middle school classrooms, Jacobson provides strategies to help you engage and support writers as they discover their voices and take charge of their own learning. Jacobson shares tips on how to establish the spaces, routines, and tone to run a highly productive writing time: Building classroom spaces conducive to practicing thoughtful, engaging writingRolling out a streamlined sequence of varied writing activitiesLeading creative explorations of mentor textsIntegrating the riches of mini-lessons, conferring, sharing, and publishingBuilding a workshop curriculum that aligns with your goals and rubrics As she clarifies misconceptions about writing and workshops, she serves up an immensely readable blend of activities, anecdotes, and advice that will energize and inspire your students.
No More Fake Reading: Merging the Classics With Independent Reading to Create Joyful, Lifelong Readers (Corwin Literacy)
by Berit GordonDiscover the Right Mix of Choice Reading and the Classics How do you motivate students with little appetite for classic literature to stop faking their way through texts? Choice reading is just part of the answer. In this ground-breaking book, Berit Gordon offers a blended model that combines the benefits of classics with the motivational power of choice reading. Teachers utilize classic texts to gain a platform for modeling critical reading skills, and students thrive on reading what they want to read. No More Fake Reading gives you all the tools you need to put the blended model to work for your students, transforming your classroom into a vibrant reading environment.
No More Fake Reading: Merging the Classics With Independent Reading to Create Joyful, Lifelong Readers (Corwin Literacy)
by Berit GordonFor middle- and high-school teachers, it’s one of today’s most vexing problems: How do you motivate students with varied interests and little appetite for classic literature to stop faking their way through texts and start advancing as skilled, engaged readers? Independent reading is an important part of the answer, but it’s just that — a part of the whole. In this groundbreaking book, Berit Gordon offers the complete solution, a blended model that combines the benefits of classic literature with the motivational power of choice reading. With the blended model, teachers lead close examinations of key passages from classic texts, guiding students to an understanding of important reading strategies they can transfer to their choice books. Teachers gain a platform for demonstrating the critical reading skills students so urgently require, and students thrive on reading what they want to read. In this research-backed book, Gordon leads you step by step to classroom success with the blended model, showing: The basics of getting your classroom library up and running How to build a blended curriculum for both fiction and non-fiction units, keeping relevant standards in mind Tips and resources to help with day-to-day planning Ideas for selecting class novel passages that provide essential cultural capital and bolster students’ reading skills Strategies for bringing talk into your blended reading classroom How to reach the crucial learning goal of transfer A practical, user-friendly approach for assessing each student’s progress No More Fake Reading gives you all the tools you need to put the blended model to work for your students and transform your classroom into a vibrant reading environment. Berit Gordon coaches teachers as they nurture lifelong readers and writers. Her path as an educator began in the classroom in the Dominican Republic before teaching in New York City public schools. She also taught at the Teachers College of Columbia University in English Education. She currently works as a literacy consultant in grades 3-12 and lives in Maplewood, New Jersey with her husband and three children.
No More Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy (Southern Literary Studies)
by Lydia R. CooperCritics often trace the prevailing mood of despair and purported nihilism in the works of Cormac McCarthy to the striking absence of interior thought in his seemingly amoral characters. In No More Heroes, however, Lydia Cooper reveals that though McCarthy limits inner revelations, he never eliminates them entirely. In certain crucial cases, he endows his characters with ethical decisions and attitudes, revealing a strain of heroism exists in his otherwise violent and apocalyptic world.Cooper evaluates all of McCarthy's work to date, carefully exploring the range of his narrative techniques. The writer's overwhelmingly distant, omniscient third-person narrative rarely shifts to a more limited voice. When it does deviate, however, revelations of his characters' consciousness unmistakably exhibit moral awareness and ethical behavior. The quiet, internal struggles of moral men such as John Grady Cole in the Border Trilogy and the father in The Road demonstrate an imperfect but very human heroism.Even when the writing moves into the minds of immoral characters, McCarthy draws attention to the characters' humanity, forcing the perceptive reader to identify with even the most despicable representatives of the human race. Cooper shows that this rare yet powerful recognition of commonality and the internal yearnings for community and a commitment to justice or compassion undeniably exist in McCarthy's work.No More Heroes directly addresses the essential question about McCarthy's brutal and morally ambiguous universe and reveals poignant new answers.
No More Separate Spheres!: A Next Wave American Studies Reader
by Cathy N. Davidson Jessamyn HatcherNo More Separate Spheres! challenges the limitations of thinking about American literature and culture within the narrow rubric of "male public" and "female private" spheres from the founders to the present. With provocative essays by an array of cutting-edge critics with diverse viewpoints, this collection examines the ways that the separate spheres binary has malingered unexamined in feminist criticism, American literary studies, and debates on the public sphere. It exemplifies new ways of analyzing gender, breaks through old paradigms, and offers a primer on feminist thinking for the twenty-first century. Using American literary studies as a way to talk about changing categories of analysis, these essays discuss the work of such major authors as Catharine Sedgwick, Herman Melville, Pauline E. Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, Catharine Beecher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Sarah Orne Jewett, Nathaniel Hawthorne, María Ampara Ruiz de Burton, Ann Petry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Cynthia Kadohata, Chang Rae-Lee, and Samuel Delany. No More Separate Spheres! shows scholars and students different ways that gender can be approached and incorporated into literary interpretations. Feisty and provocative, it provides a forceful analysis of the limititations of any theory of gender that applies only to women, and urges suspicion of any argument that posits "woman" as a universal or uniform category. By bringing together essays from the influential special issue of American Literature of the same name, a number of classic essays, and several new pieces commissioned for this volume, No More Separate Spheres! will be an ideal teaching tool, providing a key supplementary text in the American literature classroom. Contributors. José F. Aranda, Lauren Berlant, Cathy N. Davidson, Judith Fetterley, Jessamyn Hatcher, Amy Kaplan, Dana D. Nelson, Christopher Newfield, You-me Park, Marjorie Pryse, Elizabeth Renker, Ryan Schneider, Melissa Solomon, Siobhan Somerville, Gayle Wald , Maurice Wallace
No News Is Bad News: Canada's Media Collapse - and What Comes Next
by Ian GillCanada's media companies are melting faster than the polar ice caps, and in No News Is Bad News, Ian Gill chronicles their decline in a biting, in-depth analysis. He travels to an international journalism festival in Italy, visits the Guardian in London, and speaks to editors, reporters, entrepreneurs, investors, non-profit leaders, and news consumers from around the world to find out what's gone wrong. Along the way he discovers that corporate concentration and clumsy adaptations to the digital age have left Canadians with a gaping hole in our public square. And yet, from the smoking ruins of Canada's news industry, Gill sees glimmers of hope, and brings them to life with sharp prose and trenchant insights.
No Place for Home: Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy (Studies in Major Literary Authors)
by Jay EllisThis book was written to venture beyond interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's characters as simple, antinomian, and non-psychological; and of his landscapes as unrelated to the violent arcs of often orphaned and always emotionally isolated and socially detached characters. As McCarthy usually eschews direct indications of psychology, his landscapes allow us to infer much about their motivations. The relationship of ambivalent nostalgia for domesticity to McCarthy's descriptions of space remains relatively unexamined at book length, and through less theoretical application than close reading. By including McCarthy's latest book, this study offer the only complete study of all nine novels. Within McCarthy studies, this book extends and complicates a growing interest in space and domesticity in his work. The author combines a high regard for McCarthy's stylistic prowess with a provocative reading of how his own psychological habits around gender issues and family relations power books that only appear to be stories of masculine heroics, expressions of misogynistic fear, or antinomian rejections of civilized life.
No Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature
by Sharon B. OsterNo Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines how the Hebraic myth, in which Jewishness became a metaphor for an ancient, pre-Christian past, was reimagined in nineteenth-century American realism. The Hebraic myth, while integral to a Protestant understanding of time, was incapable of addressing modern Jewishness, especially in the context of the growing social and national concern around the "Jewish problem." Sharon B. Oster shows how realist authors consequently cast Jews as caught between a distant past and a promising American future. In either case, whether creating or disrupting temporal continuity, Jewishness existed outside of time. No Place in Time complicates the debates over Eastern European immigration in the 1880s and questions of assimilation to a Protestant American culture. The first chapter begins in the world of periodicals, an interconnected literary culture, out of which Abraham Cahan emerged as a literary voice of Jewish immigrants caught between nostalgia and a messianic future outside of linear progression. Moving from the margins to the center of literary realism, the second chapter revolves around Henry James’s modernization of the "noble Hebrew" as a figure of mediation and reconciliation. The third chapter extends this analysis into the naturalism of Edith Wharton, who takes up questions of intimacy and intermarriage, and places "the Jew" at the nexus of competing futures shaped by uncertainty and risk. A number of Jewish female perspectives are included in the fourth chapter that recasts plots of cultural assimilation through intermarriage in terms of time: if a Jewish past exists in tension with an American future, these writers recuperate the "Hebraic myth" for themselves to imagine a viable Jewish future. No Place in Time ends with a brief look at poet Emma Lazarus, whose understanding of Jewishness was distinctly modern, not nostalgic, mythical, or dead. No Place in Time highlights a significant shift in how Jewishness was represented in American literature, and, as such, raises questions of identity, immigration, and religion. This volume will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth- and turn-of-the-century American literature, American Jewish literature, and literature as it intersects with immigration, religion, or temporality, as well as anyone interested in Jewish studies.
No Plot? No Problem!
by Chris BatyChris Baty, motivator extraordinaire and instigator of a wildly successful writing revolution, spells out the secrets of writingand finishinga novel. Every fall, thousands of people sign up for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), which Baty founded, determined to (a) write that novel or (b) finish that novel in--kid you not--30 days. Now Baty puts pen to paper himself to share the secrets of success. With week-specific overviews, pep "talks," and essential survival tips for today's word warriors, this results-oriented, quick-fix strategy is perfect for people who want to nurture their inner artist and then hit print! Anecdotes and success stories from NaNoWriMo winners will inspire writers from the heralding you-can-do-it trumpet blasts of day one to the champagne toasts of day thirty. Whether it's a resource for those taking part in the official NaNo WriMo event, or a stand-alone handbook for writing to come, No Plot? No Problem! is the ultimate guide for would-be writers (or those with writer's block) to cultivate their creative selves.
No Plot? No Problem! Revised and Expanded Edition
by Chris BatyChris Baty, founder of the wildly successful literary marathon known as National Novel Writing Month, has completely revised and expanded his definitive handbook for extreme noveling. Chris pulls from over 15 years of results-oriented writing experience to pack this compendium with new tips and tricks, ranging from week-by-week quick reference guides to encouraging advice from authors, and much more. His motivating mix of fearless optimism and practical solutions to common excuses gives both first-time novelists and results-oriented writers the kick-start they need to embark on an exhilarating creative adventure.
No Plot? No Problem!: A High-Velocity, Low-Stress Guide To Writing A Novel In 30 Days
by Chris Baty"I hereby pledge my intent to write a 50,000-word novel in one month's time." Chris Baty takes the concept of the bestseller The Artist's Way and revs it up with a new attitude. Using week-specific overviews and survival tips, Baty shares his secrets for knocking out a novel in no time. This high-octane strategy is perfect for wordsmiths who can't wait for their temperamental muse to speak.
No Straight Path: Becoming Women Historians
by Elizabeth Payne Sylvia R. Frey Emily Clark Beverly Bond Martha H. Swain Pamela Tyler Stephanie R. Rolph Gail Murray Shelia Skemp Janann ShermanNo Straight Path tells the stories of ten successful female historians who came of age in an era when it was unusual for women to pursue careers in academia, especially in the field of history. These first-person accounts illuminate the experiences women of the post–World War II generation encountered when they chose to enter this male-dominated professional world. None of the contributors took a straight path into the profession; most first opted instead for the more conventional pursuits of college, public-school teaching, marriage, and motherhood. Despite these commonalities, their stories are individually unique: one rose from poverty in Arkansas to attend graduate school at Rutgers before earning the chairmanship of the history department at the University of Memphis; another pursued an archaeology degree, studied social work, and served as a college administrator before becoming a history professor at Tulane University; a third was a lobbyist who attended seminary, then taught high school, entered the history graduate program at Indiana University, and helped develop two honors colleges before entering academia; and yet another grew up in segregated Memphis and then worked in public schools in New Jersey before earning a graduate degree in history at the University of Memphis, where she now teaches. The experiences of the other historians featured in this collection are equally varied and distinctive. Several themes emerge in their collective stories. Most assumed they would become teachers, nurses, secretaries, or society ladies—the only “respectable” choices available to women at the time. The obligations of marriage and family, they believed, would far outweigh their careers outside the home. Upon making the unusual decision, at the time, to move beyond high-school teaching and attend graduate school, few grasped the extent to which men dominated the field of history or that they would be perceived by many as little more than objects of sexual desire. The work/home balance proved problematic for them throughout their careers, as they struggled to combine the needs and demands of their families with the expectations of the profession. These women had no road maps to follow. The giants who preceded them—Gerda Lerner, Anne Firor Scott, Linda K. Kerber, Joan Wallach Scott, A. Elizabeth Taylor, and others—had breached the gates but only with great drive and determination. Few of the contributors to No Straight Path expected to undertake such heroics or to rise to that level of accomplishment. They may have had modest expectations when entering the field, but with the help of female scholars past and present, they kept climbing and reached a level of success within the profession that holds great promise for the women who follow.
No Sweat Public Speaking!: How to Develop, Practice and Deliver a Knock Your Socks Off Presentation! With No Sweat!
by Fred E. MillerThe book details the components, parts and elements of a speech. Fred names them - explains them - and gives examples throughout the book.
No Symbols Where None Intended: Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett
by Mark AxelrodAn homage to Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, this collection of essays sheds new light on canonical authors such as Ibsen, Beckett, and Strindberg. Using style and structure as the connective thread, Mark Axelrod joins a wide and deep conversation on writers on writing.
No Trespassing
by Eva Hemmungs WirténIn this scholarly yet highly accessible work, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén traces three main themes within the scope of cultural ownership: authorship as one of the basic features of print culture, the use of intellectual property rights as a privileged instrument of control, and finally globalization as a pre-condition under which both operate. Underwritten by rapid technological change and increased global interdependence, intellectual property rights are designed to protect a production that is no longer industrial, but informational.No Trespassing tells the story of a century of profound change in cultural ownership. It begins with late nineteenth-century Europe, exploring cultural ownership in a number of settings across both spatial and temporal divides, and concludes in today's global, knowledge-based society. Wirtén takes an interdisciplinary and international approach, using a wide array of material from court cases to novels for her purposes. From Victor Hugo and the 1886 Berne Convention, to the translation of Peter Høeg?s bestseller Smilla's Sense of Snow, Wirtén charts a history of Intellectual property rights and regulations. She addresses the relationship between author and translator, looks at the challenges to intellectual property by the arrival of the photocopier, takes into account the media conglomerate's search for content as a key asset since the 1960s, and considers how a Western legal framework interacts with attempts to protect traditional knowledge and folklore. No Trespassing is essential reading for all who care about culture and the future regulatory structures of access to it.
No al lucro: De la crisis del modelo a la nueva era politica
by Alberto MayolUn ensayo incisivo y valiente que devela las falencias y la renovación del modelo político y social chileno. No al lucro es un ensayo incisivo y valiente, cuyo objetivo es analizar cómo la historia reciente de Chile ha estado rodeada de una serie de poderes -la dictadura, la Iglesia, los políticos, entre otros- que han influido en una sociedad, según el autor, despolitizada y afín a seguir el rumbo de los acontecimientos sin despertar de una modorra cómoda e indolente. Sin embargo, luego de las recientes manifestaciones en pro de una educación de calidad, por la igualdad y por un Chile preocupado del medioambiente, y en un siglo más informado como el XXI, la ciudadanía ha sufrido un cambio profundo: una nueva era política se está desarrollando. Alberto Mayol sin pelos en la lengua da cuenta de un Chile que ha estado sometido a las leyes del mercado, pero que poco a poco está despertando dejando entrever la crisis del sistema, pero también las nuevas posibilidades futuras.
No estás solo
by Javier RuescasNo estás solo retrata un tema de plena actualidad del que todos hemos oído hablar: el acoso a través de las redes sociales entre los jóvenes. Escrito íntegramente en forma de conversaciones de Whatsapp, a modo de diario, el autor reflexiona sobre las dinámicas del bullying y la posibilidad de superarlo a través de la denuncia y el apoyo entre compañeros. Todo iba bien en la vida de Guillermo: tenía un grupo de amigos de clase y ensayaba con ellos en un grupo de música. Pero la llegada al grupo de otro chico, Borja, convierte repentinamente la vida del protagonista en un infierno. El acoso comienza a ser constante y Guillermo pasa a ser el blanco de todas las burlas en un chat de Whatsapp llamado «Los amos de la clase», un grupo creado para humillarle y del que no le permiten salir. Los chicos, además, pasan a ridiculizarlo por ser gay y a amenzarle con contárselo a todo el mundo en el instituto. Solo y ya sin amigos, Guillermo encuentra su único apoyo en Karen, una estudiante norteamericana recién llegada al instituto, quien también sufre los insultos y desprecio de este grupo de chicos por ser nueva y diferente. A través de las conversaciones de whatsapp entre Karen y Guillermo vemos la gran complicidad que se llega a crear entre ambos, reflejando la importancia de encontrar aliados entre los compañeros de clase.
No madres
by María Fernández-MirandaSer o no ser madre, esa es la cuestión para tantas y tantas mujeres... Esta es la historia de María Fernández-Miranda, pero también de otras mujeres como Soledad Lorenzo, Rosa Montero, Maribel Verdú, Mamen Mendizábal, Carmen Ruiz, Inka Martí, Paula Vázquez, Almudena Fernández, Sandra Ibarra y Alaska, que explican por qué no son madres con la esperanza de que un futuro cercano ninguna mujer tenga que dar explicaciones al respecto. «Junto a tantas supermadres, también hay mujeres (cada vez más) que no quieren tener hijos, y hay mujeres que no pueden tener hijos. Yo he pertenecido a ambos bandos [...]. Y en este proceso de aceptación sólo me ha ayudado una cosa: escuchar a las que se encuentran en mi mismo barco, a las que por distintas razones no han podido o no han querido tener descendencia. Lo que pasa es que me ha costado encontrarlas, porque casi todas están calladas, sepultadas bajo la avalancha de blogs, libros y tuits que machaconamente debaten sobre pañales y biberones, como si nunca antes en la historia de la humanidad hubiesen existido las mujeres que dan a luz. Y yo me pregunto: ¿acaso no ha llegado la hora de que nosotras también expresemos cómo nos sentimos?»María Fernández-Miranda Los seres humanos nacen, crecen, se reproducen y mueren, nos hacían repetir en clase. Pero las estadísticas afirman que casi un 30% de las mujeres nacidas en la década de los 70 no tendrá hijos. Un colectivo tan numeroso como poco visibilizado, que ni siquiera cuenta con un nombre propio para definirse y tiene que hacerlo desde la negación: no madres. María Fernández-Miranda nunca sintió eso que llaman instinto maternal y, sin embargo, se sometió a siete fecundaciones in vitro. Esta experiencia le hizo reflexionar acerca de los motivos por los que tenemos hijos y tomar conciencia de los tópicos que convierten la maternidad en destino ineludible para toda mujer. Un valioso aprendizaje en el que descubrió que no estaba sola, sino que las no madres habían permanecido calladas por demasiado tiempo. Y consiguió que su historia individual se transformase en un relato coral en el que Soledad Lorenzo, Rosa Montero, Maribel Verdú, Mamen Mendizábal, Carmen Ruiz, Inka Martí, Paula Vázquez, Almudena Fernández, Sandra Ibarra y Alaska le prestan su voz para reivindicar el derecho a no ser juzgadas. Porque este no es un libro en contra de la maternidad, sino en defensa de la libertad de elección. Ser no madre no constituye ninguna anomalía y ellas son el mejor ejemplo posible de que cuando la puerta de la maternidad se cierra (o ni siquiera se abre), lo que queda no es el vacío, sino la posibilidad de desarrollar una vida diferente, feliz y completa.
No madres: Mujeres sin hijos contra los tópicos
by María Fernández-MirandaSer o no ser madre, esa es la cuestión para tantas y tantas mujeres... Esta es la historia de María Fernández-Miranda, pero también de otras mujeres como Soledad Lorenzo, Rosa Montero, Maribel Verdú, Mamen Mendizábal, Carmen Ruiz, Inka Martí, Paula Vázquez, Almudena Fernández, Sandra Ibarra y Alaska, que explican por qué no son madres con la esperanza de que un futuro cercano ninguna mujer tenga que dar explicaciones al respecto. «Junto a tantas supermadres, también hay mujeres (cada vez más) que no quieren tener hijos, y hay mujeres que no pueden tener hijos. Yo he pertenecido a ambos bandos [...]. Y en este proceso de aceptación sólo me ha ayudado una cosa: escuchar a las que se encuentran en mi mismo barco, a las que por distintas razones no han podido o no han querido tener descendencia. Lo que pasa es que me ha costado encontrarlas, porque casi todas están calladas, sepultadas bajo la avalancha de blogs, libros y tuits que machaconamente debaten sobre pañales y biberones, como si nunca antes en la historia de la humanidad hubiesen existido las mujeres que dan a luz. Y yo me pregunto: ¿acaso no ha llegado la hora de que nosotras también expresemos cómo nos sentimos?»María Fernández-Miranda Los seres humanos nacen, crecen, se reproducen y mueren, nos hacían repetir en clase. Pero las estadísticas afirman que casi un 30% de las mujeres nacidas en la década de los 70 no tendrá hijos. Un colectivo tan numeroso como poco visibilizado, que ni siquiera cuenta con un nombre propio para definirse y tiene que hacerlo desde la negación: no madres. María Fernández-Miranda nunca sintió eso que llaman instinto maternal y, sin embargo, se sometió a siete fecundaciones in vitro. Esta experiencia le hizo reflexionar acerca de los motivos por los que tenemos hijos y tomar conciencia de los tópicos que convierten la maternidad en destino ineludible para toda mujer. Un valioso aprendizaje en el que descubrió que no estaba sola, sino que las no madres habían permanecido calladas por demasiado tiempo. Y consiguió que su historia individual se transformase en un relato coral en el que Soledad Lorenzo, Rosa Montero, Maribel Verdú, Mamen Mendizábal, Carmen Ruiz, Inka Martí, Paula Vázquez, Almudena Fernández, Sandra Ibarra y Alaska le prestan su voz para reivindicar el derecho a no ser juzgadas. Porque este no es un libro en contra de la maternidad, sino en defensa de la libertad de elección. Ser no madre no constituye ninguna anomalía y ellas son el mejor ejemplo posible de que cuando la puerta de la maternidad se cierra (o ni siquiera se abre), lo que queda no es el vacío, sino la posibilidad de desarrollar una vida diferente, feliz y completa.
No me cogeréis vivo (2001-2005)
by Arturo Pérez-ReverteLos artículos más combativos de uno de nuestros autores capitales. «Escribo con tanta libertad que me sorprende que me dejen.» Este libro recoge los artículos publicados por Arturo Pérez-Reverte en la revista El Semanal desde finales del año 2001 hasta el 2005. «... Esta página no puede escribirse con bisturí. Carezco de talento para eso. Los ajustes de cuentas se hacen empalmando la chaira y acuchillando en corto, a lo que salga. En poco más de un folio, y con este panorama, uno pelea y apenas tiene tiempo de mirar a cuántos se la endiña. Sigue adelante, y que el diablo reconozca a los suyos. La justificación es que nadie me obliga, ni vivo de esto. Que podría firmar un libro cada dos años y observar la vida desde el escaparate de una librería. Pero ya ven. Unos domingos me divierto horrores, otros me desahogo, y otros digo en voz alta, o lo intento, lo que algunos no tienen medios para decir. Sin embargo, no es posible quedar bien con todos. Aquí no caben florituras ni sutilezas, si vas a lo que vas. Y menos en esta triste España, donde la gente sólo se da por aludida cuando le pateas los cojones. Pero mochar parejo trae daños colaterales. Víctimas inocentes. La justificación es que uno da la cara y se la juega sin red, sin Dios ni amo, en vez de llevárselo muerto por poner la foto y marear la perdiz, o por hacerle a los demagogos y mangantes que cortan el bacalao -o a quienes pretenden cortarlo- un francés con todas sus letras...»Arturo Pérez-Reverte
No puedo olvidar tu rostro
by Mary Higgins ClarkLa abogada Kerry Macgrath acompaña a su hija Robin a la consulta de un cirujano estético. Mientras aguarda en la sala de espera ve salir a una mujer cuya cara le resulta familiar. Este hecho casual se convertirá en inquientante cuando, en las sucesivas visitas a la consulta del doctor Smith, Kerry continúe viendo esa misma cara... pero en diferentes personas. La abogada decide investigar, sin imaginar que está a punto de internarse en un laberinto mortal de engaños y crímenes cuyo hilo de Ariadna se remonta al asesinato de una bella joven once años atrás...«La Agatha Christie americana.»El Mundo
No quiero salir de casa
by Daniel Titinger"Titinger parte de una foto fija -una teoría-, la clava contra una pared y, a través de un paciente trabajo de reportero, despelleja esa foto capa tras capa hasta dejarla en los huesos. Y luego vuelve a montarla. A su manera." Leila Guerriero No quiero salir de casa. Crónicas de viaje. Y otros viajes, es una aproximación al arte de irse y retornar. Cada texto implica no solo un desplazamiento geográfico, sino también un recorrido emocional que el autor construye con historias delirantes, datos precisos y personajes de alguna forma notables. Es en la trashumancia donde encontramos la génesis de esta escritura, en el tránsito y la exploración de paisajes disímiles, como el desierto del Sahara, la ciudad de Seattle o el ignoto trópico de Surinam. Hay un segundo traslado en estos textos, y es el abordaje de la topografía íntima de individuos excepcionales cuyas historias bordean la ficción. En cada persona retratada, como en cada lugar visitado, Titinger descubre verdades ocultas, cosmovisiones fragmentadas, mitos que se desdibujan y más de una paradoja. Al mismo tiempo, hay un tercer movimiento: una revisitada a la identidad de los peruanos. las vidas de Kina Malpartida, Sixto Paz o Maju Mantilla; la misteriosa muerte de una manada de camellos en la ciudad de Ica; el discutido origen del pisco y del cebiche; la historia de éxito de Inca Kola; las violentas batallas rituales de Tocto, en Cusco; entre otras historias, dan pistas de la idiosincracia nacional, así como de sus traumas y complejos, y de sus sueños y esperanzas.
No val a badar: Més de cent mots catalans intraduïbles
by Jordi Badia i PujolUn recull de més de cent mots catalans intraduïbles a altres llengües que hem de reivindicar perquè no caiguin en l'oblit. «Andròmina», «rai», «colla», «déu-n'hi-do», «coent», «petar», «cofoi», «patxoca», «nòmer», «somiatruites»... En aquest llibre hi trobareu més d'un centenar de mots d'aquesta mena. I què tenen en comú? Doncs que tots, per una raó o altra, són exclusius de la llengua catalana. I són únics perquè, si els cerquéssim en un diccionari bilingüe, ens costaria Déu i ajut trobar-ne la traducció a les altres llengües. Són allò que podríem anomenar «mots intraduïbles». Per aquest motiu no podem badar i cal que els preservem com un bé preuat. A No val a badar hi trobareu exemples de tots aquests mots usats pels nostres escriptors, al costat d'explicacions sobre els significats, l'origen i l'evolució de cadascun, a més d'una munió de derivats, frases fetes i refranys. La sensació que us deixarà la lectura d'aquest llibre és que tenim una llengua rica i variada però, sobretot, que té recursos per a continuar creixent.
No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
by Mark Twain John S. Tuckey William M. GibsonThis is the only authoritative text of this late novel. It reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last, and the only one he finished or called the "The Mysterious Stranger." Albert Bigelow Paine's edition of the same name has been shown to be a textual fraud.
Noah Webster: Weaver of Words
by Pegi Deitz SheaThis picture book celebrates one of the most important patriots in post-Revolutionary times -- Noah Webster.Most readers know Noah Webster for his dictionary masterpieces and his promotion of a living "American Language" that embraces words and idioms from all its immigrant peoples. But he was also the driving force behind universal education for all citizens, including slaves, females, and adult learners. Speaker of twenty languages, he developed the new country's curriculum, writing and publishing American literature, American history, and American geography. He published New York City's first daily newspaper. As editor, Webster conducted a study and linked disease with poor sanitation. He created the country's first insurance company, established America's first copyright law, and became America's first best-selling author.NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book