The advice of a concerned father to his son, Amador reveals how to develop good thinking habits and understand the values of freedom in order to master the art of living well. A runaway bestseller in Europe, this focus on personal ethics is an enlightening testament and introduction to the wisdom of the ages.
What can words be, or rather, what can't they be? Poet Reid introduces children and adults to the wondrous waywardness of words in this delicious confection--a wildly unexpected exploration of sound and sense and nonsense that is like nothing else. Full color.
From Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda comes "Intimacies"--a beautiful companion to "On the Blue Shore of Silence"--showcasing some of Neruda's most extraordinary love poems, and once again married with Mary Heebner's earthy, evocative paintings. Neruda is celebrated the world over as a chronicler of love, and this vibrant addition to the revered ...
In EXTRAVAGARIA, published in 1958, Neruda evolved a lyric poetry that is decidedly more personal than his earlier work. Written in what he called his "autumnal" period, the 68 poems range from the wistful to the exultant, combining psalm and speculation, meditation and humorous aside. Finally, in the long "Autumn Testament," Neruda assesses ...
In the over one hundred poems contained in Isla Negro, Pablo Neruda fashioned a kind of poetic autobiography in which he set out to explore and gather the various "lives" or "selves" he had left behind him in the huge span of his writing existence. Written in his "autumnal" period, from the vantage point of Isla Negra, the small village on the ...
An important collection that includes some of the Nobel Prize winner's own favorite poems. "The Sea" "A single entity, but no blood." "A single caress, death or a rose." "The sea comes in and puts our lives together" "and attacks alone and spreads itself and sing" "sin nights and days and men and living creatures." "Its essence-fire and cold; ...
This book takes the reader on an imaginative, inspiring journey around the world. It all begins with a drawing of a pair of hands, gently cupped around an unseen object:'I have a butterfly in my hands. What will you give me for my butterfly? "I will give you a wishbone." What would I do with a wishbone? "Well, you could trade it for a kite with a ...
First published in 1924, 'Muir's Textbook of Pathology' has set a standard in this subject by linking the scientific aspects that underlie pathological processes, relating these to pathological changes specific to the various organ systems, and placing all in context for students of clinical medicine and surgery. Subsequent editions have retained ...
This is a coverage of Pablo Neruda, the Chilean poet, through his poems, recollections of his legions of friends and 100 photographs of his surroundings and idiosyncratic possessions (Neruda was a passionate collector of everything from shells and ships in bottles to houses). The objects that Neruda collected served the purpose of acting as ...
'Those who were originally called radicals and afterwards reformers, are called Chartists', declared Thomas Duncombe before Parliament in 1842, a comment which can be adapted for a later period and as a description of this collection of papers: 'those who were originally called Chartists were afterwards called Liberal and Labour activists'. In ...
Legacies is the author's own selection from his work, and represents the many facets of Padilla's art: his lyrical love poems, his almost Audenesque meditations on other poets, his deceptively simple verses about history.
This is the classic account of the rise of the Labour Party from its foundation through to Tony Blair's second term as Prime Minister. Thoroughly revised and updated, it describes the events that led to the inception of the party, the role of the trade unions within the party, the successes and failures of the twentieth century and the revival of ...
Now 82 years old, Alastair Reid is one of Scotland's foremost literary figures but his work is currently out of print in the UK (most recent publication is Canongate's "Oases" from 1997 but this represented only a fraction of his work). The bulk of his prose has long been unavailable, so this wide-ranging new collection of prose will present a ...
Alastair Reid began publishing poetry in the "New Yorker" in 1951 and has since contributed reviews, translations, stories, and reportage as well. Having lived variously in Scotland, the United States, Spain, France, Greece, Switzerland, Central and South America, Reid has until recently called Magazine his only permanent address. Many of the ...
"A Fountain, a House of Stone" is a bilingual collection of poems by Cuba's foremost living poet, Herbert Padilla, who now lives in exile in the United States. Padilla's poems constitute a subtle but powerful poetry of domesticity in exile, in which his characteristically questioning, critical poetics have been not so much abandoned as subsumed. ...
This is the essential landscape of Spain, a landscape of surprising diversity and beauty--of farms, villages, small towns, medieval fortress-castles, traditional bullfights, gypsies, and farmers that embody those elements of Spanish culture still little-touched by the homogenizing influences of modern life. 125 full-color illustrations.
Now 82 years old, Alastair Reid is one of Scotland's foremost literary figures but his work is currently out of print in the UK (most recent publication is Canongate's "Oases" from 1997, but it represented only a fraction of his work). The bulk of his poetry has long been unavailable, so this wide-ranging new collection of poetry, translations and ...
In EXTRAVAGARIA, published in 1958, Neruda evolved a lyric poetry that is decidedly more personal than his earlier work. Written in what he called his "autumnal" period, the 68 poems range from the wistful to the exultant, combining psalm and speculation, meditation and humorous aside. Finally, in the long "Autumn Testament," Neruda assesses ...
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