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A valuable resource for gay employees and their bosses.

Straight Talk About Gays In The Workplace: Creating An Inclusive, Productive Environment For Everyone In Your Organization
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A valuable resource for gay employees and their bosses........1996-05-30

Research shows that organizations committed to a diverse workforce experience better customer satisfaction, profitability and competitiveness. This book describes strategies for creating a productive, creative, inclusive organization (like those described in "The 100 Best Places for Gay Men and Lesbians"). It focuses on four areas: non-discrimination policies that include sexual orientation; domestic partnership benefits; employee education about sexual orientation, and AIDS education. The authors point out that while employers can't control employee beliefs about gays and lesbians, they can control employee workplace behavior toward gay and lesbian coworkers. A important resource for managers, and for gay men and lesbians who want to nudge their employers in the right direction

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An unfortunate consequence of the incredible explosion in the number of social science journals since the 1960s is that the literature has become highly balkanized. Today articles on politics are routinely published in so many disciplines that it has become almost impossible for scholars to trace major trends outside of their own subfields. Nor can Ph.D. candidates ensure they have mastered the literature, as it is difficult even to discover much of what has been published. This book addresses these problems by providing a much-needed general guide to important journal articles about politics. In compiling this guide to 10,000 of the most significant articles about politics that have been published in all disciplines, Brunk considered over 250,000 candidate papers. He focuses on five types of research: articles of major theoretical importance, articles offering empirical tests of theories, articles dealing with subjects not addressed elsewhere, articles providing broad reviews of the theoretical literature, and articles about politics in non-political science journals. These are grouped by subfield and by the specialized topics that have received the most intensive scholarly attention, allowing researchers easy access to the bibliographical information that they need.

The Tokyo Trial: A Bibliographic Guide to English-Language Sources (Bibliographies and Indexes in Military Studies)

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The Tokyo Trial: A Bibliographic Guide to English-Language Sources (Bibliographies and Indexes in Military Studies)
Jeanie M. Welch
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Overshadowed for many years by the Nuremberg trials, the Tokyo Trial--one of the major events in the aftermath of World War II--has elicited renewed interest since the 50th anniversary of the war's end. Revelations of previously hidden war crimes, including comfort women and biological warfare, and the establishment of international courts to try Yugoslav and Rwandan war criminals have added to the interest. This bibliography addressees the renewed interest in the Tokyo Trial, providing over 700 citations to official publications, scholarly monographs and journal articles, contemporaneous accounts, manuscript collections, and Web sites. Also included are sources on the Trial's influence on international law and military law and unresolved issues being debated to this day. Defining war crimes after the fact, practicing victor's justice to punish enemies, holding military commanders accountable for their troops' actions--these were issues confronted in the Tokyo Trial and other Asia-Pacific war crimes trials. They are still being investigated, researched, and debated today. This bibliography helps to illuminate these issues from different perspectives, providing a variety of ways to locate relevant English-language sources. The volume also includes citations to contemporary issues stemming from the Asia-Pacific war crimes trials--comfort women, biological warfare, and unresolved issues of reparations and official apologies. The book is a useful guide to sources on all aspects of the Tokyo Trial.

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A LIVELY EXPLORATION OF THE BIGGEST QUESTIONS IN SCIENCE

How Did the Universe Begin?
The Big Bang has been the accepted theory for decades, but does it explain everything?

How Did Life on Earth Get Started?
What triggered the cell division that started the evolutionary chain? Did life come from outer space, buried in a chunk of rock?

What is Gravity?
Newton's apple just got the arguments started, Einstein made things more complicated. Just how does gravity fit in with quantum theory?

What Is the Inside of the Earth Like?
What exactly is happening beneath our feet, and can we learn enough to help predict earthquakes and volcanic eruptions?

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Is language acquisition an inborn biological ability, or does every child have to start from scratch?

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The story of human evolution is not complete. In addition to hoaxes such as "Piltdown Man" and extraordinary finds such as "Lucy," many puzzles remain. What, in the end, do we mean by a "missing link"?

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21 unresolved questions in science briefly examined.......2002-10-02

In addition to cutting edge questions in physics and cosmology (chapters 1 and 14-21) polymath writer John Malone considers the origins of life on earth, the causes of mass extinctions and ice ages, what it's like inside the earth, whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded, if there's a "missing link," how we acquire culture and language, how smart dolphins are, the nature of color perception, how birds migrate, and what the Mayan astronomers knew. Whew!

Needless to say neither he nor anyone else can be a cutting edge expert on such a wide range of scientific topics. The time of the renaissance man is long past. Science is so complex today that virtually no one can be a world class expert in more than one or two disciplines. But Malone doesn't need to be a world class expert since his goal here is merely to introduce the general reader to 21 unresolved questions in science. I think he does a fine job.

The chapters are from eight to 13 pages each, just long enough to introduce the subject and outline the various opinions. Each chapter is concluded with suggestions for further reading.

I was especially impressed with his efficient and balanced presentation of string theory in Chapter 20, "How Many Dimensions Are There?" Malone makes it clear why so many physicists are thrilled with the theory even though it requires at least six addition dimensions that we cannot in any way discern, and even though it has as yet no empirical support. He also does a nice job of presenting the contending theories about how life began on earth in Chapter 2. As I was reading that chapter I was suddenly struck with a conception of primitive life forms in a dormant state being formed in dust clouds and the like floating about the universe looking for a fertile place to express themselves, leading to, if conditions are right, intelligence life forms. The potential of the seed (in the form of a pre-bacterium cell) suddenly appeared to me as amazing, but as a way the universe might work. My sudden understanding was that the bacterium and the right environment together constitute intelligent life. Given enough time and a wide enough distribution, the potential becomes the actual; and therefore looking from a large enough perspective, both in terms of time and space, intelligent life may be seen as being built into the universe as a natural development of matter and energy.

I also liked his exposition on the Mayan astronomers and some of their accomplishments. According to Malone, the Mayan culture was only one of three in human history to have invented the number zero (p. 135), something, for example, the Greeks and Romans were unable to do. Also impressive was the Mayan calculation of the transit of Venus around the sun, correct to within eight one-hundredths of a day, hundreds of years before Europeans achieved such accuracy. I also liked the chapter on quantum mechanics in which Malone concentrates on the development of the theory and the personalities involved.

I was less impressed with the chapter on dolphin intelligence. I thought he could have done more with it. The books he cites are rather old (Couseau (1975), Lilly (1978) along with two newer but more general books). However Malone's suggestion that learning to interpret the "language" of the dolphins might be a good preparation for deciphering signals from ET's (should such signals ever come) is a wise one. If we can't understand our fellow creatures on this planet, how can we expect to understand creatures from another, who might be enormously more dissimilar?

Malone writes clearly and includes enough in the way of color and insight to keep us interested. On pages 124-125, for example, he notes that all invertebrate eyes developed from the skin while all vertebrate eyes "are an outgrowth of the animal's brain," an observation that is particularly relevant to an understanding of ourselves. His report on the details of a bet between physicists Kip Thorne and Steven Hawking concerning the black hole in Cygus X-1 is amusing. Hawking, who bet it wouldn't be confirmed as a black hole, conceded the bet in 1990 with a validation by his thumb print. Also amusing was the story about science fiction writer Cleve Cartmill and his editor at Astounding Science Fiction magazine (John W. Campbell) being investigated by the FBI in 1944 because of Cartmill's short story, "Deadline," which was about a secret atomic research project code named the "Hudson River Project." This was a little too close to the reality of the Manhattan Project for the sensitivities of the FBI! But it was in fact just a case of fiction imitating life. (Or is that the other way around?)

Malone brings up an interesting philosophic point on page 194 in his discussion of parallel universes. If all possible outcomes of our every action exist in other universes, "Does it really matter, then, what we do?" In other words, why bother trying if what we do will be done (and not done) anyway? To which it might be answered, "But it's OUR universe."

Overall the weakness of the book and its strength are one in the same: a brevity that both annoys and inspires us to further reading.

Interesting, solid, and fun science.......2002-05-15

I enjoyed this enormously--it's interesting, solid, and fun science for the non-scientist. A valuable book well written.

Simplistic, shallow, waste of time.......2002-03-10

If you pick this book up in a store you will notice that there are no quotes on it from book reviewers or from the author's peers. Only now do I realize why. This book appears to have been churned out by an obiviously smart fellow who gives readers a 40,000 foot fly-by on twenty-one different topics. This book is appropriate for teenagers who are first encountering ideas such as ice ages and gravity. ("What are Black Holes Really Like" is a chapter that is all of 8 pages.) If you already have a basic working knowledge for any of the topics in this book I recommend you choose more advanced and detailed books.

It's Not Rocket Science . . . But It's Worth Reading.......2001-11-28

"Unsolved Mysteries of Science" is a well-written, interesting survey of twenty-one questions that continue to stump scientists. The book is pitched toward a reader who is not a scientist but who is curious and rational--no scientific formulas, no charts or graphs, and no UFOs or other pseudoscience.

Malone gives each question its own chapter. He then offers some very helpful and clearly presented background information to frame the question. He explains what it is the scientists are struggling with--this is the tough part, because it is sometimes hard to articulate exactly what the problem is, especially when the subject is quantum physics. Each chapter concludes with a good set of suggestions for further reading.

Some of the questions are fairly esoteric ("How Did the Universe Begin?"; "How Will the Universe End?"), some may affect the survival of the human species ("What Causes Mass Extinctions?"; "What Causes Ice Ages?"), and some are just plain mind boggling ("Are There Multiple Universes?" "How Many Dimensions Are There?"). Each chapter is fascinating.

My guess is that this book will be fairly "sequel friendly"--I can think of a few other questions that are kicking around out there (for example, "Is There Life Anywhere Else in the Universe?"), and I would be happy to read "More Unsolved Mysteries of Science" someday.

If you get a kick out of well-written, rational "mysteries" books (as opposed to "von Danikenesque" drivel), you might also have a look at Paul Aron's "Unsolved Mysteries of American History" and "Unsolved Mysteries of History," both of which are published by Wiley in the same highly readable and useful format used by Malone's book.

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Our world is widely contaminated with damaging chemicals, and companies create thousands of new, potentially dangerous chemicals each year. Due to the difficulty and expense of obtaining accurate measurements and the unreliability of reported values, we know surprisingly little about the properties of these contaminants. Determining the properties of chemicals is critical to judging their impact on environmental quality and in making decisions about emission rates, clean-up, and other important public health issues. Chemical Property Estimation describes modern methods of estimating chemical properties, methods which cost much less than traditional laboratory techniques and are sufficiently accurate for most environmental applications. Estimation methods are used to screen chemicals for testing, design monitoring and analysis methods, design clean-up procedures, and verify experimental measurements. The book discusses key methods for estimating chemical properties and considers their relative strengths and weaknesses. Several chapters are devoted to the partitioning of chemicals between air, water, soil, and biota; and properties such as solubility, vapor pressure, and chemical transport. Each chapter begins with a review of relevant theory and background information explaining the applications and limitations of each method. Sample calculations and practical advice on how and when to use each method are included as well. Each method is evaluated for accuracy and reliability. Computer software, databases, and internet resources are evaluated, as well as other supplementary material, such as fundamental constants, units of measure, and more.

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Author's Statement.......2000-01-19

If you need to know how a chemical is going to behave in the lab or in the environment but can't find measured values of its physical properties, here is a book for you. I wrote this book with environmental specialists in mind, but it will also be useful to engineers, scientists, and other specialists in industry and academia who need to screen chemicals, design industrial processes, design chemical syntheses, monitor and analyze chemicals, or identify outliers in measured values of physical properties. The properties covered are boiling point, melting point, density, vapor pressure, solubility, activity coefficient, air-water partition coefficient, octanol-water partition coefficient, sorption coefficient, bioconcentration factor, diffusivity, and volatility. The methods described are, without exception, easy to apply and properly validated. Input data is readily available for them all. Even so, they give accurate and reliable estimates of the properties of a broad range of interesting chemicals within the normal range of ambient conditions. Statistics, applicability, and example calculations are given for every method described. Lots of reference data on many important environmental contaminants is included, too.

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From an early age, humans know a surprising amount about basic physical principles, such as gravity, force, mass, and shape. We can see this in the way that young children play, and manipulate objects around them. The same behaviour has long been observed in primates - chimpanzees have been shown to possess a remarkable ability to make and use simple tools. But what does this tell us about their inner mental state - do they therefore share the same understanding to that of a young child? Do they understand the simple, underlying physical principles involved? Though some people would say that they do, this book reports groundbreaking research that questions whether this really is the case. Folk Physics for Apes challenges the assumptions so often made about apes. It offers us a rare glimpse into the workings of another mind, examining how apes perceive and understand the physical world - an understanding that appears to be both similar to, and yet profoundly different from our own. The book will have broad appeal to evolutionary psychologists, developmental psychologists, and those interested in the sub-disciplines of cognitive science (philosophy, anthropology). The book additionally offers for developmental psychologists some valuable new non-verbal techniques for assessing causal understanding in young children.

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Groundbreaking, Definitive Research.......2003-08-03

The book is exceptionally well written, and the research behind it is powerful and compelling. I first came across Povinelli's work in a special Scientific American issue on intelligence, where he debated his former mentor, Gordon Gallup, on the nature and extent of chimpanzee self awareness. I was wowed by the strength and elegence of his reasoning then, and again in his previous book, "What Young Chimpanzees Know About Seeing", perhaps all the more so because his conclusions run so completely counter to what I had been conditioned to think about chimps from depictions in popular culture.

This book is even better and more full of revelations than his previous work. I couldn't put it down. On top of that, it is an outstanding example of the rigorous application of scientific method, and could provide many terrific examples for teachers trying to teach the scientific method to students.

"Folk Physics for Apes" is probably the best scientific book I've read, beating out tough competition from "The Selfish Gene" and "The Extended Phenotype" (R. Dawkins), "The Dinosaur Heresies" (R. Bakker), as well as other top notch books on the nature of mind, like "An Anthropologist on Mars" (O. Sacks) and "The Rediscovery of the Mind" (J. Searle).

Simply the best!

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Finding love after nearly One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Old Age , Love and Eros in G-M's Memories. . . .

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

A Coming of Age Tale

There's nothing here.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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"The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin." So begins Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and it becomes even more unlikely as the novel unfolds. This slim volume contains the story of the sad life of an unnamed, only slightly talented Colombian journalist and teacher, never married, never in love, living in the crumbling family manse. He calls Rosa Cabarcas, madame of the city's most successful brothel, to seek her assistance. Rosa tells him his wish is impossible--and then calls right back to say that she has found the perfect girl.

The protagonist says of himself: "I have never gone to bed with a woman I didn't pay ... by the time I was fifty there were 514 women with whom I had been at least once ... My public life, on the other hand, was lacking in interest: both parents dead, a bachelor without a future, a mediocre journalist ... and a favorite of caricaturists because of my exemplary ugliness."

The girl is 14 and works all day in a factory attaching buttons in order to provide for her family. Rosa gives her a combination of bromide and valerian to drink to calm her nerves, and when the prospective lover arrives, she is sound asleep. Now the story really begins. The nonagenarian is not a sex-starved adventurer; he is a tender voyeur. Throughout his 90th year, he continues to meet the girl and watch her sleep. He says, "This was something new for me. I was ignorant of the arts of seduction and had always chosen my brides for a night at random, more for their price than their charms, and we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark, so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were ... That night I discovered the improbably pleasure of contemplating the body of a sleeping woman without the urgencies of desire or the obstacles of modesty."

Márquez's style never falters throughout this recounting of his life and his exploration of love, found at an unexpected time and place. The erstwhile lover is still capable of being surprised--and fulfilled. After an absence of ten years, it is a treat to have another parable from the master. --Valerie Ryan

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A New York Times Notable Book

On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known.

Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to the master’s work.

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Finding love after nearly One Hundred Years of Solitude. .......2007-09-28

"The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin."

Best known for One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Márquez's 2004 novella, Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Memorias de mis putas tristes), tells the poignant story of an unnamed, nonagenarian protagonist, a "mediocre" Colombian journalist, scholar, and lifelong bachelor "without a future," who discovers love for the first time in his life after living nearly One Hundred Years of Solitude. He asks a brothel owner, madame Rosa Cabarcas, to assist him in finding "the perfect girl" for him--an adolescent virgin--for his 90th birthday. The girl she finds is a weary, 14-year-old factory worker, willing to sell her virginity for five pesos just to help her family. After a lifetime of prostitutes (514 by age 50), the old man unexpectedly discovers "the improbable pleasure of contemplating the body of a sleeping woman without the urgencies of desire or the obstacles of modesty," while confronting his own mortality. Memories of My Melancholy Whores may be read as a life-affirming parable about finding love in the always-present face of death. I have given this book a four-star rating rather than five only when measured against the genius of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.

G. Merritt

Old Age , Love and Eros in G-M's Memories. . . ........2007-09-11

If you loved García-Márquez's LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA you will love this slim little delightful novel by the master storyteller. CHOLERA, to my mind, is an encyclopedia of many varieties of erotic love. G-M's fascination with this powerful theme is always playful, irreverent, but joyfully uplifting.

In MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES, there is a character who will remind readers of America Vicuña in CHOLERA. G-M is now "pacing the tower of old age" (Yeats), and his handling of the theme of aging is superb. American writers should learn from this master novelist how to write short, beautiful novels.

A customarily fine translation by Edith Grossman.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores .......2007-08-12

I picked this up at the Vegas airport while waiting for my flight. I am a huge fan of Marquez's style of painting vibrant pictures with the simplest of characters. And it has been a while (10 years) since Marquez's last work of fiction came out. So I had no hesitation in picking it up. Also the fact that it was a novella, made it an ideal candidate for flight reading.

First things first. The plot of this book may seem creepy to some. A 90 year old bachelor (not a virgin) deciding to have celebrate his birthday with an adolescent virgin is not exactly a picture of celestial romance. Some may even feel that it is in bad taste.

But I did manage to look beyond that aspect as I read the book.

The book reveals a central character who is fragile physically due to age and probably fragile of mind too. Time seems to have caused atleast a few fissures. This man (who is never named) has never loved, has a near-marriage and all the women he slept with were paid for their 'services'.

At this point I was finding it difficult to decide whether to sympathize with this man for whom death looms ahead or to just reject him outright as a womanizer. I was unable to do both. Probably because as a reader one's duty is not to judge a character but merely observe.

Well, there were shades of the Marquez that we are so familiar with. A poignancy expressed in a very subtle fashion, a hint of highly refined erotica and beautiful imagery.

But does that make a good book ? For me atleast it doesn't. It seemed a bit too laborious and at times pointless. Maybe it was meant to be that way. Finding love when you are at the doorsteps of death, may make your life seem pointless no matter how big your accomplishments are.

Maybe I am so accustomed to the beautiful tapestry of events in Marquez classics like the '100 years of solitude' ? Maybe that is why I felt a bit let down.

So my final verdict ? A good read for die hard Marquez fans. For someone starting out, I wouldn't recommend this as an appetizer for the feast which Marquez is capable of.

A Coming of Age Tale.......2007-08-02

Melancholy - maybe. Imaginative and fanciful - definitely. For those of us over 60, it's a true coming of age tale.

There's nothing here........2007-07-22

I have never written an Amazon review before, but I'm utterly incredulous that anyone could give this awful book five stars.

This book is terrible. This is just a bunch of meandering gibberish about a geriatric fool who falls in "love" with a child who he has no interaction with. It is utterly unbelievable, nonsensical and uninteresting.

Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes / Memories of My Melancholy Whores

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Vaya novela!
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Memoria de mis putas vidas

Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes / Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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"El año de mis noventa años quise regalarme una noche de amor loco con una adolescente virgen. Me acordé de Rosa Cabarcas, la dueña de una casa clandestina que solía avisar a sus buenos clientes cuando tenía una novedad disponible. Nunca sucumbí a ésa ni a ninguna de sus muchas tentaciones obscenas, pero ella no creía en la pureza de mis principios. También la moral es un asunto de tiempo, decía, con una sonrisa maligna, ya lo verás." En un nuevo acto de magia narrativa, el genial autor de Cien años de soledad nos regala una suntuosa y deslumbrante historia, cuyo lirismo y musicalidad apasionará a los lectores.

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Vaya novela!.......2007-07-30

Este libro es fascinante y encantador! Su manera de hacer volar la imaginacion es impresionante y la forma de mantener al lector volando por el mundo de su historia!

Still Garcia Marquez.......2007-06-25

I have to tell you that I am a great admirer. I ve read a lot of his work. I didnt like this one particularly. The story line was flat, the characters were not developed the way he usually does. But still the beauty of his writting is impossible to ignore.

Gabo sigue siendo Gabo..........2007-02-21

Si en este libro pretendes encontrar la sátira de Los Funerales de la Mamá Grande; la magia y complejidad de Cien Años de Soledad; el drama de Relato de un Náufrago; la determinación de El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera; o la melancolía de Extraños Peregrinos: Doce Cuentos; te llevarás una gran desilusión. Pero en cambio, si tus ambiciones son mucho menores, y te dejas llevar ligeramente, sin prejuicios ni tapujos, a través de las breves líneas de este escrito, disfrutarás quizá de una de las historias de amor más sentidas, más profundas y más honestas, salidas de la pluma del creador de Macondo.

Simple, conmovedora, triste y tal vez real..........2007-02-09

Oscar Castro, escritor chileno, escribió "La vida simplemente". Gabriel García Márquez presenta otro perfil de un mismo entorno que al parecer ha sido una constante en el desarrollo de una cultura latinoamericana de la primera mitad del siglo XX.
Esta novela llena de relatos de vivencias de un octogenario personaje que se enamora de una muchacha adolescente que se inicia en un burdel, es muy interesante cómo el autor hace gala de su ingenio para jugar con el tiempo dejando algunos entretenidos acertijos a sus lectores...

Memoria de mis putas vidas.......2007-01-05

I never received this book, I also send back 2 books (Medical Terminology) as for some reason the same book was ordered 3 times and charged 3 times to my account. I got tired of calling and trying to get a refund, one book got returned to me saying that it wasn't Amazons, the other you kept it and never got a refund. I am not happy wiht this type of service, I will not buy any more books from Amazons and I am telling everyone how is it that Amazon's works. I will follow up with the DA to investigate to see if that is how Amazons does business with all customers of this is was just bad luck, but I never received a response from Amazons, therefore I might take other ways to investigate.

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Each Day Dies With Sleep (Theatre Production Play)

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Each Day Dies With Sleep (Theatre Production Play)
Jose Rivera
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This is a production to restore our faith in live theater, and a play to restore our interst in new theater. Jose Rivera, an American playwright born in Puerto Rico, wrote EACH DAY DIES WITH SLEEP. It's real subject is the primitive human struggle between animal instincts and civilized order. The language- poetic, intense, heightened, rude, stunted, funny, by turns--is always vivid. Jose Rivera was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1955, and now lives in Los Angeles. His style has been called "Magic Realism" (a term first concocted by American literary scholars to describe the work of Latin-American writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Amado, Jose Luis Borges and Carlos Fuentes, all of whom tap into a texture of existence seemingly more exotic and meaningful than that recognized by busy Americans.) Rivera resists the label, insisting that all aspects of life are magical if looked at from the right perspective. "It's all in the details," maintains Rivera. "If you choose the details of everyday life carefully enough, and examine them with enough clarity, they can seem magical on their own.

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