libritos🪽

10/08/2025

Idea Vilariño, poesía completa

Poesía

Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.

Morí por la belleza

Poesía

Una Habitación Propia

Virginia Woolf

Antología Poética

Sylvia Plath

Uncategorized

Las vírgenes suicidas (Spanish Edition)

Jeffrey Eugenides • 2024

Ya no será

Idea Vilariño • 2020

Diarios completos

Sylvia Plath • 2016

Diarios: Nueva edición de Ana Becciu

Alejandra Pizarnik • 2022

Versión corregida, ampliada y definitiva de los diarios de Alejandra Pizarnik. «Una constante de los diarios de escritores es que otros se encarguen de publicarlos póstumamente. Estas publicaciones podrían dar la impresión de ser una violación de la intimidad del diarista, pero no cabe duda de que, al conservarlos, el escritor está indicándonos que es consciente del valor intrínseco que tienen. Eso es aún más evidente en el caso de Alejandra Pizarnik, ya que conservó sus cuadernos hasta el último momento», comenta Ana Becciu en la nota que acompaña esta nueva edición, corregida y ampliada, con muchos fragmentos reveladores que hasta ahora nunca habían visto la luz, de los diarios de una mujer que convirtió su angustia en un destilado de palabras duras y hermosas. Su obsesión por escribir, sus dudas, y sus ganas de comer, fumar y amar con voracidad hasta que el cansancio la derrumbaba... todo quedó apuntado en cuadernos y papeles sueltos que por fin han encontrado su lugar. Aun hoy, cuando ya se han cumplido cuarenta años desde de su muerte, la voz de Pizarnik acompaña al lector en un viaje donde la literatura importa y la vida duele. «A veces me gustaría registrarme por escrito en cuerpo y alma: dar cuenta de mi respiración, de mi tos, de mi cansancio, pero de una manera alarmantemente exacta, que se me oiga respirar, toser, llorar, si pudiera llorar.»--Alejandra Pizarnik, París, 3 de agosto de 1961 ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The revised, extended, and definite version of Alejandra Pizarnik's diaries. "It is frequent that other people publish the diaries of writers posthumously. These publications could give an impression that there has been a violation of the diarist's intimacy, but without a doubt, by preserving their diaries, writers are letting us know they are aware of their intrinsic value. This is even more evident in Alejandra Pizarnik's case, since she kept her notebooks until the end," says Ana Becciu in the note that accompanies this new revised and extended edition, with many revealing fragments that had never before seen the light, from the diaries of a woman who turned her anguish into a distilled form of harsh and beautiful words. Her obsession with writing, her doubts, and her desire to eat, smoke, and love voraciously until collapsing from exhaustion... everything was left on writing, in notebooks and random papers that finally found their place. Even today, forty years after her death, Pizarnik's voice joins the reader on a journey where literature matters and life hurts. "Sometimes I would like to write myself body and soul: give an account of my breathing, my cough, my tiredness, but in an alarmingly accurate way, let me be heard breathing, coughing, crying, if I could cry." --Alejandra Pizarnik, Paris, August 3, 1961