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Barefoot Dogs
Winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters * A San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book of 2015 * Fiction Finalist for the 2015 Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2015 * One of the Texas Observer’s “Five Books We Loved in 2015” * One of PRI’s “The World’s Five Books You Should Read in 2016” “Profound and wrenching…A deeply moving chronicle of one family’s collective devastation, full of remarkable wisdom and humor” (The New York Times Book Review) that follows the members of a wealthy Mexican family after their patriarch is kidnapped. On an unremarkable night, José Victoriano Artea...
Los perros descalzos
Una exploración asombrosamente original de las consecuencias de una guerra oculta en México. Los perros descalzos es una conmovedora elegía a la inocencia robada a cada familia golpeada por la tragedia. Un libro urgente, necesario y provocador sobre la realidad mexicana actual. En una noche como cualquier otra, José Victoriano Arteaga, el patriarca de una próspera familia de la ciudad de México, desaparece sin dejar rastro mientras maneja a su casa luego de un día de trabajo. Los Arteaga encuentran pocas respuestas, y cuando comienzan a recibir paquetes con pistas perturbadoras del paradero del abuelo, ellos comienzan su éxodo a distintas ciudades del mundo para tratar de rehacer sus vidas. Las historias que presenta Antonio Ruiz-Camacho en este libro, escrito originalmente en inglés, traducido al español por el propio autor y aclamado por la crítica estadounidense, ofrecen una íntima y exquisita evocación de la soledad, el amor, la esperanza, y el miedo que puede unir a los familiares incluso cuando la violencia más indescriptible amenaza con destruirla.
Manual del Gestor Cultural
La gestión cultural, es sabido, vive desde hace años una etapa de notorio auge. Esta circunstancia obedece a la necesidad de armonizar el ingente campo de las Humanidades con las innovaciones que conllevan las nuevas tecnologías. Por dicha razón, ha crecido de manera exponencial la demanda de profesionales bien formados y capaces de gestionar un patrimonio de singular riqueza desde el respeto al pasado, al legado artístico, pero con la mirada puesta asimismo en el futuro inminente. Ahora bien, ¿qué hace exactamente un gestor cultural? ¿Dónde desarrolla su labor? ¿Qué formación requiere para ejercer con garantías de éxito su imprescindible labor? Este libro da cumplida y amena r...
Denn sie sterben jung
José Victoriano, der Patriarch der wohlhabenden Familie Arteaga, wird entführt. Er ist nur ein Opfer von vielen in Mexiko, doch für seine Angehörigen ändert sich schlagartig ihre Welt. Mit dem Tode bedroht fliehen sie, nach Amerika, Europa. Antonio Ruiz-Camacho erzählt in acht Geschichten, die sich wie Puzzleteile ineinander verschränken, den Zerfall einer Familie, schildert ihr Leben in der Fremde, die Versuche, dort Fuß zu fassen und deren Scheitern. In Austin, wo Laura, die Tochter des Entführten, jetzt mit ihrer Familie lebt, begegnet sie einem jungen mexikanischen Expat in einem Waschsalon. Während draußen Waldbrände wüten, schließen sie sich hinter heruntergelassenen Jalo...
One of the Boys
"A ... debut about two young brothers and their physically and psychologically abusive father"--
Nimble Tongues
Nimble Tongues is a collection of essays that continues Steven G. Kellman's work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. A series of investigations and reflections rather than a single thesis, the collection is perhaps more akin in its aims--if not accomplishment--to George Steiner's Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language Revolution or Umberto Eco's Travels in Hyperreality. Topics covered include the significance of translingualism; translation and its challenges; immigrant memoirs; the autobiographies that Ariel Dorfman wrote in English and Spanish, respectively; the only feature film ever made in Esperanto; Francesca Marciano, an Italian who writes in English; Jhumpa Lahiri, who has abandoned English for Italian; Ilan Stavans, a prominent translingual author and scholar; Hugo Hamilton, a writer who grew up torn among Irish, German, and English; Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, a Mexican who writes in English; and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a multilingual text.
Natural History and Ecology of Mexico and Central America
Natural History and Ecology of Mexico and Central America presents an interesting overview of the frontiers of biodiversity and ecological research in the geographical area of Mexico and Central America. Chapters cover such topics as biodiversity and ecology of plant communities, tropical subterranean ecosystems, floating Sargassum species, the endangered species Dioon edule, Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, fish and fisheries, urbanization and bats, and food and sustainable diet.
Satellite DNAs in Physiology and Evolution
This book gives a comprehensive overview of the unique roles that non-coding repetitive elements such as satellite DNAs play in different physiological and evolutionary processes. It presents the gene-regulatory aspect of satellite DNAs in different model systems including mammals, insects and plants. In addition, evolutionary aspects of activation of satellite DNAs in terms of transcription and proliferation are highlighted, revealing the role of satellite DNAs in the process of adaptation to changing environment and in the speciation process. Finally, the book discusses satellite DNA activation during pathological transformation and the mechanisms by which they affect disease progression. Namely, some satellite DNAs promote the oncogenic processes by affecting genome epigenetic regulation as well as genome integrity. Readers get a full overview of the latest research on satellite DNA.
Lipases and Phospholipases
This volume provides an essential update on fundamental issues, current and new applications, as well as practical protocols to explore the extensive applications of lipases and the potential application of phospholipases. After an overview, the book delves into activity screening and expression, optimization of the biocatalyst production and performances, and applications of lipases, phospholipases, and esterases. Written for the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and accessible, Lipases and Phospholipases: Methods and Protocols, Second Editionserves as an updated reference book for the large scientific community, both seasoned and novice, working with lipases, phospholipases, and related enzymes.
Prodigals
Adrift in lives of possibility and limitation, the flawed, struggling and sympathetic characters of these desperate, eerie stories seek refuge from meaninglessness and boredom in love, art, friendship, drugs, and sex. A journalist is either the guest or captive of a reclusive former tennis star at his mansion in the French hills; a terrible storm forces a man and a woman, who may be his therapist, to flee New York together; the artistic ambitions of a banker are laid bare when he comes under the influence of two strange sisters. Unflinching, funny and profound, Prodigals maps the degradations of contemporary life - from the deification of celebrity, to the impotence of violence, to the psychological debts of privilege, to the loss of grand narratives - with unusual insight, sincerity, and passion. It is a fiercely honest and heartfelt look at what we have become, the comedy of our foibles, and our longing for home.
