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This is the inspirational history of the New York City borough that has made a complete revolution, from the home of the American dream to the last place on earth and back again. 19 maps & 50 figures.Home to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a ha... More

This most archetypal of symbols can be found all around us: from the folds of coral and the internal structure of the Nautilus shell to the queue settings of Disneyland rides; in the monastic library of Melk in the novel and film "In the Name of the Rose" and Dorothy's yellow-brick road from "The Wi... More

El autor combina el ensayo con la comprobacion cientifica, aportando ejemplos irrefutables de su tesis: las relaciones que la narrativa establece con otros discursos no literarios son a veces mucho mas productivas y determinantes que las que mantiene con su propia tradicion u otras formas de literat... More

"The Hanukkah Gun and Other Secondhand Sol Old West Tales" is a collection of short stories about a nontraditional, Jewish hero in the late 19th-century Arizona Territory. A seller of secondhand goods, Solomon Pliskin is closer to 5-feet-4 than the classic height of heroes, 6-feet-4. Slight and self... More

The road ahead is a difficult one. Increasing competition both at home and abroad, continuing ideological and policy conflict, practical problems, and day to day difficulties of every kind and from every source place extraordinary demands and almost unbearable pressures on the conscientious executiv... More

From the first amateur clubs of the 1860s to today's dominant professional players and national teams under Castro, "The Pride of Havana" is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. 73 halftones. 2 maps.From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" He... More

This casebook gathers a collection of ambitious essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography. The essays range from Ramon Menendez Pidal's seminal study of how Cervantes dealt with chivalric literature to Erich Auerbachs polemical s... More