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]]> 185407 The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by James Moore and Adrian Desmond.

In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too 'surrounded with prejudices'. He had been reworking his notes since the 1830s, but only with trepidation did he finally publish The Descent of Man in 1871. The book notoriously put apes in our family tree and made the races one family, diversified by 'sexual selection' - Darwin's provocative theory that female choice among competing males leads to diverging racial characteristics. Named by Sigmund Freud as 'one of the ten most significant books' ever written, Darwin's Descent of Man continues to shape the way we think about what it is that makes us uniquely human.

In their introduction, James Moore and Adrian Desmond, acclaimed biographers of Charles Darwin, call for a radical re-assessment of the book, arguing that its core ideas on race were fired by Darwin's hatred of slavery. The text is the second and definitive edition and this volume also contains suggestions for further reading, a chronology and biographical sketches of prominent individuals mentioned.

Charles Darwin (1809-82), a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. The advent of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 challenged and contradicted all contemporary biological and religious beliefs.

If you enjoyed The Descent of Man, you might like Darwin's On the Origin of Species, also available in Penguin Classics.]]> 796 Charles Darwin 0140436316 Omar 5 4.04 1871
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]]> 302250 507 Alejandro Guichot y Sierra 8486556821 Omar 4 4.00 1903
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]]> 257498 112 William S. Burroughs 0142000256 Omar 5 3.84 1986
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]]> 43440 Forty Stories, the companion volume to Sixty Stories, we encounter a dazzling array of subjects: Paul Klee, Goethe, Captain Blood, modern courtship, marriage and divorce, armadillos, and other unique Barthelmean flights of fancy. These pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces tangle with the ludicrous, pose questions that remain unresolved, and challenge familiar bits of language heretofore unexamined. Forty Stories demonstrates Barthelme's unrivaled ability to surprise, to stimulate, and to explore.]]> 246 Donald Barthelme 0141180943 Omar 5 4.22 1987
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]]> 24453366  
The profiles include :
50 Cent, Tim Allen, Woody Allen, André 3000, Kevin Bacon, Tony Bennett, Joe Biden, David Blaine, Albert Brooks, James L. Brooks, Jim Brown, James Lee Burke, Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton, George H. W. Bush (with Barbara Bush), Michael Caine, Chevy Chase, Chris Christie, Francis Ford Coppola, Kevin Costner, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Daniels, Ted Danson, Robert DeNiro, Bruce Dern, Danny DeVito, Robert Duvall, Art Garfunkel, Ricky Gervais, Phillip Glass, Elliott Gould, Kelsey Grammer, Robert Haas, Jim Harrison, Kevin Hart, Ethan Hawke, Jesse Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, Joan Jett, Larry King, Padma Lakshmi, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lyle Lovett, James Meredith, Helen Mirren, Keith Olbermann, Gary Oldman, Yoko Ono, Mary-Louise Parker, Pelé, Sean Penn, Robert Redford, Lionel Richie, Amy Schumer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Slash, Aaron Sorkin, Harry Dean Stanton, Sting, Donald Sutherland, Jeffrey Tambor, Christopher Walken, Sigourney Weaver, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and Thom Yorke.]]> 152 Esquire Magazine 1618371657 Omar 5 4.05 2015
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]]> 16893 347 F. Scott Fitzgerald 0811212475 Omar 5 3.93 1936
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]]> 35992819 Arthur Schopenhauer Omar 5 3.30
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]]> 58718389 2064 James Boswell 8418370440 Omar 0 to-read 0.0 1790
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]]> 1612729 Prolifera cierto humor equívoco, abundan las persecuciones espectaculares y acaso haya excesiva referencia a personajes históricos o provenientes de lo que llamamos el mundo real.
Empezando por Gardel, claro, con su gloriosa y devastada sonrisa. Precisamente, la reconstrucción de ese ícono emblemático de la felicidad perdida será esta vez el objeto final de la empresa.
No es necesario aclarar que nada en Perramus es o aspira a la verdad: Borges no sólo no ha muerto sino que ha ganado el Nobel en el episodio anterior y aquí se les atribuyen a personajes de papel y tinta llamados Frank Sinatra, Fidel Castro, García Márquez, María Kodama y Osvaldo Pugliese -entre otros- conductas no necesariamente atribuibles a sus homónimos de carne y hueso.
Ninguna empresa mítica va a salvar (nos) a los náufragos de la historia, pero el gesto de ir a buscar, el viaje en sí -Kavafis dixit en Itaca, evocada al final- es lo que justifica la entrega, redondea el único sentido. Y creo que también para Perramus -la historieta Perramus, digo- vale pensarlo así."

Juan Sasturain]]> 176 Juan Sasturain 9505157738 Omar 5 3.98 1989
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]]> 750481 116 Oswald Spengler 0898759838 Omar 5 3.92 1931
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]]> 40124105
Introduction by Terry Eagleton]]> 728 Oscar Wilde 1857150422 Omar 5 4.39 1991
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]]> 50389062
Excerpt from Bones and I: Or the Skeleton at Home
Long ago, visiting iIkmonastery of La Trappe, I wius struck with the very discontented appearance of its inmates. In some of their faces, indeed, I detected no expression whatever, but on none coukl I perceive the sliirhtest jjlcam of satisfaction with their lot. No wonder: few men are of the stuff that makes a good recluse. The human animal is naturally gregarious, like the sohin goose, the buffalo, the monkey, or the mackerel.]]> 270 George John Whyte-Melville Omar 4 3.50
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]]> 44042 "Bioy ha sido muy bueno y muy indulgente conmigo. El es una persona para la cual mi vida no tiene secretos".

----Jorge Luis Borges

Durante cinco décadas de amistad y complicidad literaria, Adolfo Bioy Casares visitó infinidad de veces a Jorge Luis Borges. Este libro es el diario que Bioy fue escribiendo sobre esos encuentros entre 1947 y 1989. El resultado es el retrato más completo y más íntimo de Borges jamás presentado a los lectores y la crónica minuciosa y deliciosa de una amistad legendaria. Bioy y Borges fueron amigos entrañables y compañeros de aventuras literarias. Durante años se reunían todos los días: escribían juntos, trabajaban juntos, paseaban, veraneaban y comían juntos. Con discreción pero con la puntillosidad y la constancia de quien sabe qué está destinado a hacer un aporte fundamental, Bioy anotaba sus impresiones, los diálogos, las consideraciones de su amigo sobre escritores clásicos y contemporáneos, sobre el amor, la amistad, los sueños, la muerte, Dios, el destino, la filosofía, la comida, las mujeres, la política, las costumbres de su época, la idiosincrasia de los pueblos. El presente libro es reflejo de ese intercambio que enriqueció a uno y otro, y torció para siempre el rumbo de la literatura en español.
El relato por parte de Bioy de aspectos poco conocidos de la vida de Borges, la transmisión precisa de sus ideas originales y brillantes, el dibujo de su personalidad, en general poco conocida o poco evidente, quedan plasmados en este libro como es posible que no logre hacerlo ninguna biografía. En ese sentido, Bioy Casares es el interlocutor perfecto, como un tamiz hecho a medida para que se luciera la inteligencia del amigo, para dialogar con él en condiciones de igualdad y transmitirlo al papel con talento inigualable.]]> 1664 Adolfo Bioy Casares 8423338738 Omar 5 to-read 4.40 2006
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]]> 55773467 224 Nick Land 8861055214 Omar 0 to-read 3.60 2011
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]]> 126985 All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a dazzling exploration of modern consciousness. In this unparalleled book, Marshall Berman takes account of the social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world and the impact of modernism on art, literature and architecture. This new edition contains an updated preface addressing the critical role the onset of modernism played in popular democratic upheavals in the late 1920s.]]> 400 Marshall Berman Omar 5 4.30 1981
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]]> 58566313 Spandrell Omar 0 to-read 3.91
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]]> 18337532 The Manosphere is a loose collection of blogs, books, and forums about men, male issues, and masculine interests. Covering areas of this vast "dirty snowball" like Pick Up Artists (PUAs) and Game, Traditional and Christian Conservatives, Wise Old Men, Puerarchs, Alpha Dads, Men's Rights Activists, (MRAs), Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) and other facets of masculinity in a post-feminist world, Ironwood has designed this book to be a survey and introduction, not an exhaustive study. Find out why men aren't getting married as much or as early. Find out what your daughter's chances of finding a "good man" really are ...and figure out what constitutes a "good man".

Aimed squarely at feminism's tropes and misandry, The Manosphere delves deeply into gender relations from the masculine side, and where it takes you may surprise you. Men today are struggling, searching, healing, and fighting ...but they are more and more coming to the feminism-inspired conclusion that the time has come for them to pursue their interests as men, often independent of women or their interests.]]> 487 Ian Ironwood Omar 5 3.79 2013
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]]> 28256439 The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific processes behind the wonders of which we are blissfully unaware. Much like human families, tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, and support them as they grow, sharing nutrients with those who are sick or struggling and creating an ecosystem that mitigates the impact of extremes of heat and cold for the whole group. As a result of such interactions, trees in a family or community are protected and can live to be very old. In contrast, solitary trees, like street kids, have a tough time of it and in most cases die much earlier than those in a group.

Drawing on groundbreaking new discoveries, Wohlleben presents the science behind the secret and previously unknown life of trees and their communication abilities; he describes how these discoveries have informed his own practices in the forest around him. As he says, a happy forest is a healthy forest, and he believes that eco-friendly practices not only are economically sustainable but also benefit the health of our planet and the mental and physical health of all who live on Earth.]]> 272 Peter Wohlleben 1771642483 Omar 5 4.06 2015
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]]> 28936183 ‘Interspersed with acts of breathtaking linguistic daring.’
Charlotte Mendelson, Observer Book of the Year

Opening with a powerful and tender ‘Ode to the Hymen’, Sharon Olds uses this age-old poetic form to address many aspects of herself, in a collection that is centred around the female body and female pleasures, and touches along the way on parts of her own story which will be familiar from earlier works, each episode and memory now burnished by the wisdom and grace of looking back. In such poems as ‘Ode to My Sister’, ‘Ode of Broken Loyalty’, ‘Ode to My Whiteness’, ‘Blow Job Ode’, ‘Ode to the Last 38 Trees in New York City Visible from This Window’, Olds treats us to an intimate self-examination that, like all her work, is universal and by turns searing and charming in its honesty. From the early bodily joys and sorrows of her girlhood to the recent deaths of those dearest to her – the ‘Sheffield Mountain Ode’ for Galway Kinnell is one of the most stunning pieces here – Olds shapes her world in language that is startlingly fresh, profound in its conclusions, and life-giving for the reader.]]> 118 Sharon Olds 1911214063 Omar 0 to-read 3.96 2016
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]]> 13330670
In this wise and intimate telling—which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending—Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love’s sight; the surprising physical bond that still exists between a couple during parting; the loss of everything from her husband’s smile to the set of his hip. Olds is naked before us, curious and brave and even generous toward the man who was her mate for thirty years and who now loves another woman. As she writes in the remarkable “Stag’s Leap,” “When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it’s I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.” Olds’s propulsive poetic line and the magic of her imagery are as lively as ever, and there is a new range to the music—sometimes headlong, sometimes contemplative and deep. Her unsparing approach to both pain and love makes this one of the finest, most powerful books of poetry Olds has yet given us.]]> 112 Sharon Olds 0375712259 Omar 0 to-read 4.15 2012
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]]> 684479
For many years Spengler lived quietly in his home in Munich. thinking, writing, and pursuing his hobbies - the collecting of pictures and primitive weapons, listening to Beethoven quartets, reading the comedies of Shakespeare and Moliere, and taking occasional trips to the Harz Mountains and to Italy. He died suddenly of a heart attack in Munich three weeks before his fifty-sixth birthday.]]> 428 Oswald Spengler 0394421795 Omar 0 to-read 4.14 1918
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]]> 17937029 Irene de un tal Albert de Routisie. En el prefacio de esa edición, Jean-Jacques Pauvert comentaba, no sin cierta ironía, cómo todavía en plena rebelión del 68 el autor del texto, perfectamente reconocible, se negaba a salir de su anonimato. Hoy podemos decir sin rodeos que se trataba de Louis Aragon, el gran poeta, novelista y ensayista francés, y aprovechamos esta nueva edición para restablecer el título original de la obra : El coño de Irene, a la que hemos añadido dos nuevos textos de contenido también erótico: El instante y Las aventuras de Don Juan Lapolla Tiesa. Tanto El coño de Irene como El instante se cuentan entre los escasos fragmentos conservados de una extensa novela, La Défense de l´infini, que Aragon comenzó a escribir en 1923 y que destruyó en 1927, después de recibir la censura de sus amigos del grupo surrealista. Las aventuras de Don Juan Lapolla Tiesa, por su parte, constituye el esbozo de una nueva novela inspirada en la lectura de Las once mil vergas, de Guillaume Apollinaire.

Los tres textos, pertenecientes al mejor momento de la etapa surrealista de Aragon, revelan, cada uno a su manera, una intensa vivencia del erotismo, que se plasma en la creación de insólitas situaciones y de un lenguaje absolutamente renovador. De El coño de Irene en particular, publicado por primera vez clandestinamente en 1928, Albert Camus dijo que se trataba del más hermoso de los libros relacionados con el erotismo. En él, Aragon pasea su mirada indiscreta por un sórdido burdel de provincias, para centrarla a continuación en el personaje de Irene, una joven devoradora de hombres que impone a cuantos la rodean la ley de su deseo.

Además del prefacio de Jean-Jacques Pauvert y de la presentación de André Pieyre de Mandiargues que acompañaban la primera edición de El coño de Irene en esta colección, se incluyen en este volumen cinco aguafuertes de André Masson y un rico aparato de notas confeccionado por Edouard Ruiz para la primera edición íntegra de La Défense de l'infini, aparecida tras la muerte de su autor (Gallimard, 1986).]]> 222 Louis Aragon 8472233634 Omar 0 to-read 2.67 1989
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