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Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water
Vicki Valosik · 2024
La Oculta
Héctor Abad Faciolince · 2015
Las intermitencias de la muerte
José Saramago · 2006
Memorias del subsuelo
Fiódor M. Dostoievski · 2023
Kafka en la orilla (Spanish Edition)
Haruki Murakami · 2013
Kafka Tamura Se Va De Casa El Día En Que Cumple Quince Años. Los Motivos, Si Es Que Los Hay, Son Las Malas Relaciones Con Su Padre –un Famoso Escultor Convencido De Que Su Hijo Repetirá El Aciago Sino Del Edipo De La Tragedia Clásica– Y La Sensación De Vacío Producida Por La Ausencia De Su Madre Y Su Hermana, Que Se Marcharon También Cuando él Era Muy Pequeño. Sus Pasos Le Llevarán Al Sur Del País, A Takamatsu, Donde Encontrará Refugio En Una Peculiar Biblioteca Y Conocerá A La Misteriosa Señora Saeki. Si Sobre La Vida De Kafka Se Cierne La Tragedia (en El Sentido Clásico), Sobre La De Satoru Nakata Ya Se Ha Abatido: De Niño, Durante La Segunda Guerra Mundial, Sufrió Un Extraño Accidente Del Que Salió Con Secuelas, Sumido En Una Especie De Olvido De Sí, Con Dificultades Para Comunicarse... Salvo Con Los Gatos. A Los Sesenta Años Abandona Tokio Y Emprende Un Viaje Que Le Conducirá También A La Biblioteca De Takamatsu. Así, Las Vidas Y Destinos De Los Personajes Se Van Entretejiendo En Un Curso Inexorable Que No Atiende A Razones Ni Voluntades. Pero, A Veces, Hasta Los Oráculos Se Equivocan.
El Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges · 2011
Illustrated
Duck, Death and the Tulip
Wolf Erlbruch · 2016
From award-winning author and illustrator, Wolf Erlbruch, comes one of the world's best children's books about grief and loss. Voted one of the 100 greatest children's books of all time by the BBC.<br/><br/>In a curiously heart-warming and elegantly illustrated story, a duck strikes up an unlikely friendship with Death. Duck and Death play together and discuss big questions. Death, dressed in a dressing gown and slippers, is sympathetic and kind and will be duck’s companion until the end.<br/><br/>“I’m cold,” she said one evening. “Will you warm me a little?”<br/>Snowflakes drifted down.<br/>Something had happened. Death looked at the duck.<br/>She’d stopped breathing. She lay quite still.<br/><br/>Explaining the topic of death in a way that is honest, lightly philosophical and with gentle humor, this enchanting book has been translated into multiple languages, adapted into an animated movie and short film and performed on stages worldwide.<br/><br/>Wolf Erlbruch received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2006 and was the winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2017. Tender and direct, this is an excellent tool for helping to explain and talk about death, dying and bereavement with children Loved by adults and children, parents and grandparents, also suitable for schools, grief centers and counsellors<br/>Praise for Duck, Death and the Tulip<br/><br/>“The gold standard of picture books about death is Duck, Death and the Tulip…It’s hard to describe how this extraordinarily tender book manages to be both heartbreaking and comforting, but it does."―The New York Times<br/><br/>"The most extraordinary picture book I’ve seen in many a year. A duck becomes friends with Death, and it’s the most natural thing in the world. Trust me, adults get far more weirded out by this book than children ever do. Amazing."―Patrick Ness, Time Out London<br/><br/>"The most moving book I’ve read this year is the German picture book Duck, Death and The Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch, about the strange, uneasy friendship."―Meg Rosoff, The Financial Times<br/><br/>“The German children's book author and illustrator Wolf Erlbruch offers a wonderfully warm and assuring answer in Duck, Death and the Tulip - a marvelous addition to the handful of intelligent and imaginative children's books about death and loss.”―Maria Popova, Brainpickings<br/><br/>“Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch is a superb picture book from Germany, that tells a gentle story of the relationship between Death and a duck. Death is portrayed as a sympathetic figure in a dressing gown who is with us all the time, but who only comes into Duck’s consciousness towards the end of his life. It is warm, poignant and witty.”―Anthony Browne, The Guardian
Mr. Bliss
J. R. R. Tolkien · 1983
Mr. Bliss's first outing in his new motor-car, shared with several friends, bears, dogs, and a donkey, though not the Girabbit, proves to be unconventional though not inexpensive.
Design
Conversaciones con Alvar Aalto (Spanish Edition)
· 2010
La belleza del objeto cotidiano (Spanish Edition)
Soetsu Yanagi · 2020
Al despertar, lo primero que percibimos es el tacto de nuestras sá banas, la luz con la que nos envuelve la lá mpara que encendemos, la forma y color de la vajilla del desayuno... Desde ese momento y hasta terminar el dí a, cuando cerramos de nuevo los ojos sobre el textil de la almohada, nuestro cuerpo se habrá topado y desenvuelto con una infinidad de objetos diversos. Se trata de cosas modestas, comunes y ordinarias, que usamos constantemente sin prestarles apenas atenció n. Pero los objetos son tambié n unos compañ eros constantes en nuestra vida y, como tales, afirma Soetsu Yanagi, deben hacerse con cuidado y fabricarse para que duren. Deben ser tratados con respeto e incluso afecto. Y deben aunar perfectamente belleza y utilidad. Soetsu Yanagi es un pensador imprescindible hasta ahora iné dito en castellano, y una de las voces clave del siglo XX en llamar la atenció n sobre el valor de los objetos cotidianos y la artesaní a anó nima. Este libro, que recopila los ensayos breves del crí tico japoné s, nos enseñ ará a mirar con nuevos ojos a nuestro alrededor y a admirar el increí ble valor material e intangible de las creaciones anó nimas, siempre bellas y honestas, que forman parte de nuestra vida cotidiana.
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin · 2023
The #1 New York Times bestseller.<br/><br/>"A gorgeous and inspiring work of art on creation, creativity, the work of the artist. It will gladden the hearts of writers and artists everywhere, and get them working again with a new sense of meaning and direction. A stunning accomplishment.” —Anne Lamott<br/><br/>From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us.<br/><br/>“I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be.” —Rick Rubin<br/><br/>Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn’t, he has learned that being an artist isn’t about your specific output, it’s about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone’s life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.<br/><br/>The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime’s work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments—and lifetimes—of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.
Design as Art
Bruno Munari · 2019
An illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design, by the enfant terrible of Italian art and design for most of the twentieth century<br/><br/>A Penguin Classic<br/><br/>Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as “the new Leonardo.” Munari insisted that design be beautiful, functional and accessible, and this enlightening and highly entertaining book sets out his ideas about visual, graphic and industrial design and the role it plays in the objects we use everyday. Lamps, road signs, typography, posters, children's books, advertising, cars and chairs—these are just some of the subjects to which he turns his illuminating gaze.
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JUAN SALVADOR GAVIOTA
Juan Salvador Gaviota · 2014
