GILLES LIPOVETSKY SELECTED SUMMARIES

The greatest thinkers of humanity at your fingertips, in minutes! If you thought you would never be able to understand the essential classic authors, you were wrong! With our "Summarized Classics" collection, you will understand the main ideas of the most important thinkers in a very short time and with little effort. The present volume covers the central axes of this discipline. Among them, the reader will find an analysis of the following: In addition to a summary of the essentials of the classic work Leviathan (1651), we offer the reader a description of the historical context in which...

Texas cuisine is influenced by various cultures, including German, British, African American, Cajun/Creole, Mexican, Native American and Asian. Most people associate Texas cuisine with Tex-Mex cooking, but readers will learn that, for instance, the Texas barbecue is equally famous as well as unique in all of the United States.

Todo el mundo ama a los pandas. Nos encanta verlos jugar, trepar, dormir y masticar. ¡Pero cuidado, también rasguñan—mira ese árbol! Ilustrado con maravillosas imágenes que registran el lugar único de este animal en China y en todo el mundo, este libro en español es para niños de Nivel 2 que leen solos o con ayuda de vez en cuando.

Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life. Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories, hot dogs and mangos, the sweet syllables of Spanish and the snag-toothed traps of English. Here is the glory, and pain, of being Latino American. Latino Americans hail from Cuba and California, Mexico and Michigan, Nicaragua and New York, and editor Lori M. Carlson has made sure to capture all of those accents. With poets such...

Cathryn Deen, considerada la actriz más bella del mundo, sufre un accidente de coche mientras es perseguida por un paparazzi. Desfigurada, cínica y con el corazón roto, se refugia en casa de su abuela, perdida en los Apalaches. Thomas perdió a su mujer y a su hijo en el atentado de las torres gemelas. Desde entonces ha luchado contra el alcohol y la desesperación y piensa que nada ni nadie puede devolverle el sentido a su vida. Hasta que conoce a Cathryn.