New Releases Winter 2011 Catalog - Fondo de Cultura Económica [PDF]

Catalog Higlights and New Releases Summer 2012

Contents

Latin American Literature, 3 Literature Editions in English, 7 Latin American Poetry, 8 Essays, 10 Art, 11 Anthropology & History, 12 Politics & Social Science, 15 Audio Books, 16 Science & Nature, 17 Children’s Books / Fiction, 20 Young Adult Books, 36 Children’s Books / Non-fiction, 38 Other Publishers, 41 Distribution and Sales Contact Information, 42

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Luis Jorge Boone nació en Monclova, Coahuila, en 1977. Autor de siete poemarios: Legión

tor; por un lado, recoge la única novela de Edén Ferrer, perfecta mezcla de erudición y humor en una historia

(2003), Galería de armas rotas (2004), Material de ciegos (2005), Traducción a lengua extra-

absorbente y brillantemente narrada donde el crimen, la desidia y la estupidez se entretejen de diversas for-

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ña (2007), Novela (2008), Primavera un segundo (2010) y Los animales invisibles (2010); del

mas, aunada a una selección de ensayos y pequeños relatos; por otro, constituye una suerte de antología

libro de cuentos La noche caníbal (2008); y de

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poética donde las más variadas imágenes se unen en un mosaico armónico que da cuenta del genio de su

Trazos en el espejo. 15 autorretratos fugaces

creador. Epiclesis es el testamento literario de un escri-

la novela Las afueras (2011).

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Inés Arredondo 2005, el de Poesía Joven Elías Nandino 2007, el de Ensayo Carlos Echánove

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Trujillo 2009 y el de Poesía Ramón López Velarde 2009.

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darles el gusto de una palinodia. ¡Yo no soy un delincuente!”

argas filas de gente rara is all about writing: the protagonists of these stories share the fantasy of achieving glory through the creative process, rather than through the writing trade. Boone’s characters are slightly disturbed and lack imagination, or play some role in the editing process; people whose work revolves around the writer’s task and yet fail miserably to be authors themselves. This shows us another side to writing: the fears, the fragility, the disenchantment with life, the good, the perverse, the human side to the creator. This series of carefully constructed and devised tales will appeal to everyone who loves a good story.

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piclesis is a complete and complex four-part work: the first part examines the only novel by Edén Ferrer, a highly original and ambitious detective story, intensely intellectualized and written in muscular and erudite prose; the second introduces thirteen previously unpublished narratives, full of unforgettable characters and settings; the third includes three essays, notably one on Diego Rivera; and the final part has a collection of poems previously scattered about and largely unknown, as well as several other previously unpublished poems.

La migraña

The Migraine Antonio Alatorre

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n Antonio Alatorre’s vast oeuvre, La migraña occupies a special place as the only novel written by this man of letters and to which he dedicated considerable effort. Told through an internal dialogue and from different perspectives, opening up readers’ eyes, the novel tells the story of Guillermo, a character who sets off on a journey to his adolescence; he is confronted with the moral precepts of religion, the discovery of sex, and life beyond the strict Catholic school education he received. A creative exercise that unmasks an aspect of Alatorre’s work that is sure to captivate readers.

Sobre esta tierra

On this Earth Eraclio Zepeda

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he Urbina family come from the Chiapanecan town of La Zacualpa and are owners of a ranch of the same name; Sobre esta tierra is the story of this family over its various generations and framed by Mexico’s shifting political circumstances—the Reform War, Porfirio Diaz’ regime, and the Revolution. It shows how one family, like so many others, welcomed a period of plenty and prestige … only to see it vanish as quickly as it had come.

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vivir se ve forzada a entremezclarla con la aparición de nuevas reglas estrictas, monjas intransigentes y compañeras conflictivas. Todo esto enmarcado en el sur de la ciudad, donde anti-

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Guzmán etas, vols. I, II y III

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calles y avenidas mal trazadas.

La autora nos presenta una obra donde cada detalle de la cotidianidad de las familias mexicanas está perfectamente descrito, pero sin dejar a un lado su estilo delicadamente irónico. Calzada de los misterios evoca no sólo aquellos buenos

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tiempos de nuestra cambiante ciudad, sino que también nos hace recordar la inocente explosividad de la infancia y la altanera volatilidad de la adolescencia.

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emories come to us in many ways. For the young protagonist of Calzada de los misterios, the streets of Mexico City unveil her life and memories, from her earliest years until she leaves school; episodes of a life story gradually remembered and revealed along streets walked for twelve years. The author takes us down the Boulevard of Mysteries, showing us its power of evocation and revealing the city as an infinite labyrinth: For what is a city and its streets if not memory in its purest form?

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Los archivos de Efrén Hernández (1904-1958) debieron haber sido revisados a finales de los cincuenta o principios de los sesenta por los allegados al autor, cuando se tenía un paisaje claro tanto de lo que había publicado como de lo que estaba escribiendo hacia la época en que lo sorprendió la muerte. Ha explicado Dolores Castro

Eduardo Rojas Rebolledo

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n account of the adventures of Horacio Kustos, “the last explorer of the 21st century,” a man who discovers all kinds of wonders and strange happenings in the routine world in which we often live. The stories, containing an element of the fantastic, are presented as “novels”; each one pokes fun at the various novelistic sub-genres (costumbrismo literature, detective stories, etc.) and combine to create a story told “in issues”—a parody of pamphlet literature—in which it is hinted that everything could be a product of a demented character’s delirium. Yet at the same time the quarrel between the imagination and conformity is settled. All this in a single extraordinary work of literature. 10/11/11 12:24 PM

Obras completas, II

The Complete Works, II

Efrén Hernández

Obras completas II

Efrén Hernández

Por todo esto, el armado de la obra en 1965 no fue completo; y

cuarenta años más tarde hubo que enfrentarse a un rompecabezas muchos de ellos, el tiempo contado. Fue necesario, además, hacer un rastreo en diarios, suplementos culturales y revistas para saber cuáles de los originales mecanográficos habían visto la luz, ya fuera antes o después de 1958, año de la muerte de Efrén Hernández. De esa exploración han resultado, entre otros, los hallazgos siguientes: el libreto fílmico Dicha y desdichas de Nicócles Méndez:

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tragiburledia cinematográfica, escrito para Cantinflas y en cuya concepción participaron Dolores Castro, Rosario Castellanos y Marco Antonio Millán; la pieza dramática Casi sin rozar el mundo, pensada para la actriz María Douglas; el conjunto de su prosa crítica (reunida por la UNAM en 1995, a lo que se agregan materiales no con-

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siderados para esa edición), más ese libro de ideas y pensamientos que Efrén Hernández nombró tempranamente Manojo de aventuras. Cierra este tomo segundo con un dossier crítico en el que se

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Castellanos y Javier Peñalosa, entre otros. Como subdirector de la Revista Antológica América publicó, ente otros, los primeros textos de Juan Rulfo. Colaboró con cuentos, poemas, reseñas

mentos culturales de la ciudad de México. Se dio

a conocer en 1928 con su cuento Tachas. Otros

libros suyos son El señor de palo (1932), Cuentos (1941) y Las tierras despojadas (1980).

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ugo von Nagel, this novel’s main character, is a young man whose family share in a legend: the male progeny are born with members of prodigious size. Günter von Gropius, the story’s narrator and Hugo’s best friend, reliving his memories, reconstructs their adventures as friends and recounts a series of sexual encounters that were full with misunderstandings and never consummated, sea voyages, jealous and scorned lovers, intrigues, deceits, painful love affairs—in more than one sense—and death. A blend of humor and melancholy infuses this fast-flowing and highly original story.

Los archivos de Efrén Hernández (1904-1958) debieron haber sido revisados a finales de los cincuenta o principios de los sesenta por los allegados al autor, cuando se tenía un paisaje claro tanto de lo que había publicado como de lo que estaba escribiendo hacia la época en que lo sorprendió la muerte. Ha explicado Dolores Castro que esa exploración fue un propósito incumplido por ella, dedicada a sus siete hijos; por Rosario Castellanos, que se fue a Chiapas, y por Octavio Novaro, quien se ocupaba de su empresa editorial. Por todo esto, el armado de la obra en 1965 no fue completo; y

cuarenta años más tarde hubo que enfrentarse a un rompecabezas de difícil definición, con unos papeles amarillentos que tenían, muchos de ellos, el tiempo contado. Fue necesario, además, hacer un rastreo en diarios, suplementos culturales y revistas para saber cuáles de los originales mecanográficos habían visto la luz, ya fuera antes o después de 1958, año de la muerte de Efrén Hernández. De esa exploración han resultado, entre otros, los hallazgos si-

guientes: el libreto fílmico Dicha y desdichas de Nicócles Méndez: tragiburledia cinematográfica, escrito para Cantinflas y en cuya concepción participaron Dolores Castro, Rosario Castellanos y Marco Antonio Millán; la pieza dramática Casi sin rozar el mundo, pensada para la actriz María Douglas; el conjunto de su prosa crítica (reunida por la UNAM en 1995, a lo que se agregan materiales no con-

siderados para esa edición), más ese libro de ideas y pensamientos que Efrén Hernández nombró tempranamente Manojo de aventuras. Cierra este tomo segundo con un dossier crítico en el que se

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his second volume of Efrén Hernández’ Obras Efrén Hernández Completas is divided into two parts: theater completas andObras criticism. The first includes texts such as Dicha II Nicócles Méndez: tragiburledia y desdichas de cinematográfica [Fortunes and Disasters of Nicócles Méndez: a Cinematographic Tragi-Farcical-Comedy], Casi sin rozar el mundo [Barely Grazing the World] and Cederano; the second is a compilation of essay and story outlines for unfinished projects, as well as an excellent dossier of the critical histories of works ranging from the early epilogue of Salvador Novo for the story Tachas (1928) to texts by Villaurrutia, Paz, Rosario Castellanos, José de la Colina, etc.

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Efrén Hernández (Guanajuato, 1904–ciudad de México, 1958) fue narrador, poeta, ensayista y

dramaturgo. Formó parte del grupo “Ocho poetas mexicanos” junto a Dolores Castro, Rosario

Castellanos y Javier Peñalosa, entre otros. Como subdirector de la Revista Antológica América publicó, ente otros, los primeros textos de Juan

Rulfo. Colaboró con cuentos, poemas, reseñas y ensayos críticos en revistas literarias y suplementos culturales de la ciudad de México. Se dio

a conocer en 1928 con su cuento Tachas. Otros

libros suyos son El señor de palo (1932), Cuentos (1941) y Las tierras despojadas (1980).

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Fotografía de Juan Rulfo. Propiedad de la señora Clara Aparicio de Rulfo. Se reproduce con su autorización, con carácter especial, para esta edición limitada.

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The Last Explorer VILMA FUENTES

The Boulevard of Mysteries

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Calzada de los misterios

Fotografía de Juan Rulfo. Propiedad de la señora Clara Aparicio de Rulfo. Se reproduce con su autorización, con carácter especial, para esta edición limitada.

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hese works of fiction are a sample of perhaps the most original Latin American writing today. Mauricio Molina’s exceptional use of language and agile prose captivate readers’ attention from the very first line and hold it throughout the constant shifts in time periods and everyday situations that become extraordinary events when least expected. Every page takes the reader toward discovering the aptlydefined secret rules that apply to the vertigo of life.

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El álgebra del misterio

Sueños de escarabajo. Antología de cuentos

Beetle Dreams:

An Anthology of Short Stories

The Algebra of Mystery

Latin American Literature

The Secret Plot

La trama secreta

Jorge F. Hernández

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The Fish

Sergio Fernández

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compilation of Guillermo Samperio’s 9 786071 607218finest short stories. The author’s boundless imagination is given free rein; in these pages everyday situations are given a mysterious edge. Street vendors and footballers, lovers and high-school students, poets and writers all congregate in this wonderful gathering that evokes the words of its creator: “Every city is a cabaret and a large hotel that fits into a telephone directory; an open Pandora’s box sprouting shoots of sadness and joy, nostalgia and memories.”

Los peces

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f an enigma can be deciphered mathematically, if 9 786071 607829 magic has a secret formula, if there is an algorithm for the fantastic, then it will be revealed in this book that takes the secrets of incredibility to the extreme. Hernández’ fiction is full of energy, recovering the narrative verve of Borges or Bioy Casares, or the subtle brevity of Monterroso or Mutis. Dates, times, bus ticket numbers, checkers, are all organized into a randomness that manages to reconfigure reality.

Georgia Ricardo Chávez Castañeda

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his is a novel in code. Readers must pay attention to every image, every name and every metaphor to understand that this novel must be felt rather than understood. Los peces tells the story of a foreign girl’s encounter with an Italian Catholic priest. However, it is not the merely account of these two lives colliding, but also a journey inside a whirlpool of feelings and memories, an invitation to relive our own encounters and the summoning of an all-powerful and evoking female voice.

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eorgia is the love story of a couple living under the weight of a painful past reaching well into their present. Ricardo Chávez Castañeda ponders memories, solitude, and suicide through characters immersed in a cold, unknown, and unfathomable atmosphere that will eventually crush them. Their only salvation resides in language, which would not only allow them to communicate but to reaffirm their existence in strange and dismal times.

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he Collected Works series compiles the most significant work of several twentieth-century Mexican writers, especially those belonging to the generation of writers known as the “Generación de Medio Siglo” or the “Casa del Lago” generation. The collection features works by authors such as Sergio Pitol, Juan García Ponce, Julieta Campos, Elena Poniatowska and Rosario Castellanos, alongside emblematic figures of the “Contemporáneos” group. The collection is important as a possible canon of contemporary Mexican authors.

Este volumen IV de las Obras reunidas de Carlos Fuentes recoge cuatro novelas exploratorias del espacio transfronterizo en su obra: Una familia lejana, Gringo viejo, La campaña y La frontera de cristal, novelas que conforman un ciclo donde las fronteras geográficas —entre México y Estados Unidos— y las conceptuales —las huellas de la conquista hispánica, las incursiones francesas en el siglo xix y la relaciones entre Europa y América— delinean los rasgos de la pluralidad de México a través de esas historias y sus personajes. Estas ubicaciones fantasmales, colmadas de tiempos y presencias que rehusan desaparecer y que adquieren existencia emblemática en estas novelas, resguardan los conflictos históricos y culturales y procesan los dilemas de la identidad puesta en crisis en la hechura moderna de México y América Latina. Antes que nada, se trata de dramas que forman parte de una narrativa que en las historias instaura el presente y en el ahora la memoria. Relatos hechos de fronteras rehechas, otro canto a la libertad del lector, estas novelas son hoy más que nunca contemporáneas. No existe literatura sin maldición ni tampoco sin mediación. Aquí la mediación es aparentemente descartada, ofrecida en bandeja a los ojos del lector, que a su vez la oye trasladada a la voz de un narrador que va desenrollando un manuscrito hijo y nieto de otros manuscritos luminosos como antecedentes. M argo glantz

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Gringo viejo es una novela que sigue mostrando el interés acerca de las fronteras que Fuentes puso de manifiesto en su obra mayor sobre el encuentro de España y América y sus tramas histórico-culturales. Aquí la frontera se convierte en una fuente de lenguaje, en un discurso de lugares comunes, malentendidos e incomprensiones. Son dos lenguajes que se encuentran sin reconocerse, se acercan y se pierden. r ayMond l. WilliaMS Gringo viejo es una novela sobre un autor errante escrita por un autor errante (quien hace que su presencia y la historia de sus andares sean desconocidas hasta la última página de la novela). d EBr a c aStillo

padre, creció en diferentes ciudades del mundo, entre otras, Washington, Buenos Aires y Santiago de Chile. A los 16 años se asentó por fin en México y dio inicio a su fructífera carrera literaria. Bilingüe

Collected Works IV Mexican Frontiers

desde la infancia, es durante su adolescencia cuando decide que será

el español, y no el inglés, el idioma de su literatura. Su primer libro de cuentos, Los días enmascarados, fue publicado en 1954. Terminó la licenciatura en derecho en la

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completó sus estudios superiores en Ginebra en el Instituto de Altos

Estudios Internacionales. Ya en 1955 había fundado, junto con Emmanuel Carballo y Octavio Paz, la Revista Mexicana de Literatura, de la que fue director de 1955 a 1958.

En 1956 fue becario del Centro Mexicano de Escritores y, más

creó la revista política El Observador. Ha sido miembro del servicio exterior mexicano; de 1972 a 1976 fungió como embajador de México en Francia. Ha sido también catedrático y conferencista en las universidades de Columbia, Pennsylvania, Cambridge y Harvard.

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na, nació en Panamá en 1928. Debido al trabajo diplomático de su

adelante, en 1959, al lado de Jaime García Terrés y Luis Villoro,

Europa hizo una presencia indeleble en América, y América, acaso por vías de la imaginación y del arte —y ello se inscribe de modo contundente en el contexto de Una familia lejana— hace una presencia recíproca en Europa. No puede haber una familia que no esté regida por afectos, riñas y deudas recíprocas, que no esté amparada en el principio más amplio de la mutualidad. a rturo E chavarría La frontera de cristal es un casi un libro de texto, un manual (didáctico y escéptico, lúcido y estereotipado) de los temas de la zona fronteriza y de la problemática de la relación bilateral con el vecino del Norte. StEvEn B oldy

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los siguientes premios: Biblioteca Breve por Cambio de piel (1967),

Xavier Villaurrutia (1976), Rómulo Gallegos por Terra Nostra (1977), Internacional Alfonso Reyes (1979), Nacional de Literatura (1984),

Miguel de Cervantes (1987), Príncipe de Asturias (1994) y la Legión de Honor del gobierno francés (1992, 2003), entre otros.

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Su vasta obra, traducida a varios idiomas, abarca novela, ensayo, cuento, teatro, guión cinematográfico y análisis político. Entre su trabajo narrativo destacan La región más transparente (1959), Aura (1962), La muerte de Artemio Cruz (1962), Zona sagrada (1967), Cambio de piel (1967), Terra Nostra (1975), Agua quemada (1981), Gringo viejo (1985), Cristóbal Nonato (1987), La campaña (1990), El naranjo o los círculos del tiempo (1993), La frontera de cristal (1997), Los años con Laura Díaz (1999) y La silla del águila (2003). Asimismo, es autor de libros fundamentales de ensayo como Tiempo mexicano (1971), Valiente mundo nuevo (1990), El espejo enterrado (1992), Geografía de la novela (1993) y Nuevo tiempo mexicano (1995). Es miembro de El

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he fourth compilation of Carlos Fuentes’ works brings together four of his classic novels: Distant Relations, Old Gringo, The Campaign and The Crystal Frontier. This constitutes a cycle in which the geographical borders between Mexico and the United States, and the conceptual borders drawn by the conquest, the French invasions of the nineteenth century and relationships between Europe and America, all trace an outline of Mexico’s identity depicted through its history and prominent figures.

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Obras reunidas III. Imaginaciones mexicanas / Collected Works III: Mexican Imagery

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Selected Poems

Learning Spanish, Writing Poetry

Anthology alfonso reyes

Jaime sabines

Hugo Hiriart

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n introduction to the Spanish language through playful exercise in poetry writing. It approaches the task with humor and, as classic writers might say, it attempts to instruct while giving pleasure. Those who know nothing, those who know a little, and those who know a lot will each find this book interesting and instructive.

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Sun, Stone and Shadows.

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Latin American Poetry

Rompeolas

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In the Close Distance

Breakwaters

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Angelina Muñiz-Huberman

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compilation of the works of Uruguayan writer Eduardo Milán since the publication of Manto, in 1999. Memory and utopia, reflection and action, sound and sense, ethics and aesthetics: all these divergent forces are held in constant tension throughout Milán’s work—poem after poem, the Uruguayan émigré has developed a language without parallel in recent Latin American literature.

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his six-part collection includes forty-five remarkably musical poems which reflect youth as the flower of life, the inevitable farewells, love in its various forms, the immense sea and unexplainable landscapes: themes recurring throughout poetry for hundreds of years, and also present here thanks to Salvador Elizondo’s exquisite poetry and skill as a writer. ISBN( P b ) : 9786071609496

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nraveling poetic themes through unconventional perspectives, and using poetic prose to explore classical motifs in poetry—like the sea, dreams, and love—Eduardo Hurtado takes his poetic style forward in Casi nada. The poet explores less-than-ideal topics such as death, “flies in the ointment,” and convalescence in order to create a poetical voice with a distinct language capable of dealing with every subject in life.

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Poesía Reunida. Tomo I: Violín y otras cuestiones Tomo II: El emperrado corazón amora

Complete Poetry. Volume 1: Violin and Other Questions. Volume II: The Dogged Heart Adores juan gelman violín y otras cuestiones

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acceso, y los encuentra sumergiéndose en la obra ensayística de Cuesta, en busca de las preocupaciones estéticas que más

Luisa Josefina Hernández Los grandes muertos

selección y prólogo

ensayos

“lúcida y radical, apasionada por sí misma y sostenida en sí misma; una inteligencia extraordinaria”.

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Inés Arredondo nació en 1928 en Culiacán, Sinaloa. En 1947 se inscribe en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM para seguir la licenciatura en filosofía; sin embargo, en 1948 empieza la carrera de letras hispánicas. Entre 1952 y 1955 trabaja en la Biblioteca Nacional; después sustituye a Emilio Carballido en una cátedra de la Escuela de Teatro de Bellas Artes. En 1957 publica “El membrillo”, su primer cuento, en la Revista de la Universidad, y por esos años colabora en la Revista Mexicana de Literatura, donde se publican varios de sus cuentos. En 1961 recibe una beca del Centro Mexicano de Escritores. Al año siguiente viaja a Montevideo, donde trabaja en la Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio. En 1962 vuelve a México y trabaja como miembro de la mesa de redacción de la Revista Mexicana de Literatura hasta su fin en 1965. Después se desempeña como investigadora de la Coordinación de Humanidades y como profesora de literatura en la UNAM. También colabora en México en la Cultura, suplemento de la revista Siempre! En 1965 publica su primer tomo de cuentos, La señal. En 1972 escribe su tesis de maestría sobre el ensayista y poeta mexicano Jorge Cuesta. En 1979 se publica su segundo libro, Río subterráneo, que le vale el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia. En 1983 publica Opus 123, novela corta, y en 1988 su último tomo de cuentos, Los espejos. Muere el 2 de noviembre de 1989 en la Ciudad de México.

he fourth volume of Alfonso Reyes’ Diario spans the period between 1936 and 1939. It begins with the last part of his fifth notebook, following the author’s return to Argentina, and finishes with the details of numerous contacts with other important figures. Here we see Alfonso Reyes as a skillful, intelligent and shrewd diplomat, with well-defined ideological positions and politics. By the end of this fourth volume we can see his concerns before returning to Mexico, a country which various fortune-tellers told him would be his final destination.

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El Diario de Alfonso Reyes abarca cerca de medio siglo: desde el año de 1911 hasta casi el día de su muerte, el 27 de diciembre de 1959.

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Mota, su hijo Alfonso y su nieta Alicia publicaron el tramo que va de 1911 a 1930. Desde 1969, fecha de la publicación de ese primer tramo del Diario del polígrafo, el público lector esperaba la edición de este testimonio monumental de la vida literaria, íntima, diplomática, política y académica del gran humanista regiomontano. Sin embargo, no fue sino hasta mayo de 1995 cuando Alicia Reyes, albacea y heredera de don Alfonso, comunicó que el documento se encontraba en proceso de edición. No estaba sola. José Luis Martínez (1916-2007), antiguo discípulo del regiomontano universal, ex director de la editorial Fondo de Cultura Económica y editor él mismo de los últimos tomos de las obras del escritor (del XXII al XXVI), así como de la primera parte de la correspondencia sostenida entre Reyes y Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1899-1914), encabezó —de común acuerdo con Alicia Reyes— un equipo de especialistas en la obra de Alfonso Reyes que acometería esta monumental labor. Cada uno de ellos representaría a una de las instituciones con las que Reyes había tenido relación: El Colegio de México, la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, la Universidad de Nuevo León, El Colegio Nacional y el Fondo de Cultura Económica. Vino a sumarse un poco más tarde la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

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his volume compiles all the reviews and criticisms on Jorge Cuesta written by Arredondo, the outstanding Mexican novelist. Claudia Albarrán compiled and wrote a prologue for this collection which reveals Arredondo’s unique voice and her profound interest in authors, the state of literature, as well as aesthetical underpinnings for her intimate and turbulent intellect.

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Inés Arredondo nació en 1928 en Culiacán, Sinaloa. En 1947 se inscribe en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM para seguir la licenciatura en filosofía; sin embargo, en 1948 empieza la carrera de letras hispánicas. Entre 1952 y 1955 trabaja en la Biblioteca Nacional; después sustituye a Emilio Carballido en una cátedra de la Escuela de Teatro de Bellas Artes. En 1957 publica “El membrillo”, su primer cuento, en la Revista de la Universidad, y por esos años colabora en la Revista Mexicana de Literatura, donde se publican varios de sus cuentos. En 1961 recibe una beca del Centro Mexicano de Escritores. Al año siguiente viaja a Montevideo, donde trabaja en la Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio. En 1962 vuelve a México y trabaja como miembro de la mesa de redacción de la Revista Mexicana de Literatura hasta su fin en 1965. Después se desempeña como investigadora de la Coordinación de Humanidades y como profesora de literatura en la UNAM. También colabora en México en la Cultura, suplemento de la revista Siempre! En 1965 publica su primer tomo de cuentos, La señal. En 1972 escribe su tesis de maestría sobre el ensayista y poeta mexicano Jorge Cuesta. En 1979 se publica su segundo libro, Río subterráneo, que le vale el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia. En 1983 publica Opus 123, novela corta, y en 1988 su último tomo de cuentos, Los espejos. Muere el 2 de noviembre de 1989 en la Ciudad de México.

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his is a trip through time around Mexico City and among the people who have inhabited, visited or written about it, from its beginnings as a refuge for Spaniards to its transformation into one of the biggest cities in the world. This is a portrait of the city as a character that comes alive thanks to the constant activity and renovation of its inhabitants. Quirarte manages to reconstruct the identity of a city in constant movement from the perspective of famous authors, Mexican and foreign, from Cervantes to Elena Poniatowska.

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his fifth volume of Alfonso Reyes’ Diario, edited by Javier Garciadiego, encompasses the years between 1939 and 1945, giving us a record of the writer’s life as he leaves the diplomatic service to return to Mexico. This was the time when he helped establish what is now El Colegio de México, and became a founder of Fondo de Cultura Económica, all while consolidating his reputation as one of Mexico’s foremost writers.

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his volume includes high-quality reproductions of the murals painted by Vlady in the Lerdo de Tejada Library from 1972 to 1982. Covering 2000 square meters, this artwork revolves around one main theme—revolution, both in its social and cultural aspects. Two texts complement Vlady’s work, one that is written by the painter himself and takes the reader on a journey through his work, its development and meaning; the second is an essay by Leonardo Da Jandra that explores the many facets of Vlady’s muralist paintings. 1st ed., 2011 Hardcover. 80 pp. 30 × 30 cm (12 × 12 in) Series: Tezontle

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Advanced Performance Studies Diana Taylor and Marcela Fuentes

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iscussing performance not exclusively as an artistic discipline but focusing on the many outlying areas in which it occurs—politics, sports, religion, and civic events— this volume collects works by seventeen authors and traces the study and theory of this art form. The essays in this volume shed light on many areas of performance as a professional discipline, examined by every artist and theorist, and raises new discussions aided by the contribution of both performance artists and theorists.

1st ed., 2011 Paperback. 631 pp. 16.5 × 23 (6.5 × 9 in) Series: Arte Universal ISBN: 9786071606310

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$51.95

1st ed., 2010 Hardcover. 1685 pp. 21 × 27 cm (8.3 × 10.6 in) Series: Tezontle

Diccionario enciclopédico de la música

The Oxford Companion to Music Alison Latham

ISBN: 9786071600202

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$159.99

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ith over eight thousand entries, this version of the classic Oxford Companion to Music, revised and updated for the 21st century, is the most complete work in terms of musical reference. An indispensable tool for students and professional musicians, as well as a useful and pleasant companion for every music lover and reader who wishes to enrich his or her knowledge and enjoyment of music. It covers a broad range of themes, including composers, theory and music history. For its Spanish-language version, Alison Latham’s work has been carefully revised by a group of 150 musicians and musicologists.

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Anthropology & History

Fideicomiso Historia de las Américas. Serie Ciudades

History of the Americas Trust

Cities Series

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his series examines several aspects of the most important pre-Hispanic cities; each chapter gives a glimpse of their inhabitants’ everyday life and an insight into pre-Hispanic societies as a whole. The books are richly illustrated with drawings, maps and full-color photographs. The fundamental purpose of this series is to spread knowledge about these ancient cultures.

Tenochtitlan

Monte Albán

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

Joyce Marcus

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his book takes the reader deep into the heart of ancient Tenochtitlan, present-day Mexico City, which so impressed the Spanish conquistadors. How was the city organized? Who were the people who lived there? Why did it fall so rapidly to attack by foreign invaders? The answers to these and other questions can be found in the pages of this book, in which the reader can trace the history of Tenochtitlan, all the way from its origins until its tragic end. 1st ed., 2006 Paperback. 191 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.5 × 8.2 in) Series: Cities

ith erudition and clarity, the author guides readers through this important archeological site and the surrounding areas that sustained the Zapotec civilization. This book describes why Monte Albán was founded, how the surrounding agricultural villages were managed and controlled, and how its borders were established. Joyce Marcus tells a story as intelligent and relevant as the Zapotecs themselves. 1st ed., 2008 Paperback. 206 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.5 × 8.2 in) Series: Cities

$14.95

$15.95 ISBN: 9789681684600

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ISBN: 9789681681180

Paquimé

El Tajín, la urbe que representa al orbe Tajín. The City which Represents the World

Beatriz Braniff Cornejo

Sara Ladrón de Guevara

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aquimé is one of the most important archeological sites in Northern Mexico. In the middle of the Chihuahua desert, where the extreme climate doubtlessly tested inhabitants’ attachment to the city on a daily basis, Paquimé remains one of the least understood and most fascinating settlements in this region of Mexico. Beatriz Braniff reconstructs the social, economic and cultural life of the city’s inhabitants and this work makes it abundantly clear why Paquimé is compared to the glories of the ancient Mediterranean with respect to its government, legal system, and most importantly, its fascinating architecture.

1st ed., 2008 Paperback. 112 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.5 × 8.2 in) Series: Cities

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$11.95 ISBN: 9789681686161

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his book is an exhaustive investigation of the urban development and the greatness of El Tajín, a pre-Hispanic center located in the north of the state of Veracruz that has documented an era and provided inspiration for historians, intellectuals and artists alike. Thus, the author studies the location and context, the art and world view of “the city that adores the god of thunder.” Illustrated with color photographs, maps and drawings of murals and panels, the book pays homage to one of the most beautiful and extraordinary places in the world. 1st ed., 2008 Paperback. 206 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.5 × 8.2 in) Series: Cities

$15.95 ISBN: 9786071602992

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Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century Graham Robb

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his book examines homosexual love during the nineteenth century in Europe and the United States, revealing it as a stranger to science, to society, and to itself. Drawing on several literary sources, Robb’s book is a stimulating account of the many social prejudices that homosexuality faced at the time, and also outlines a new theory on a form of tolerance toward homosexuality expressed in nineteenth-century works of fiction.

$39.95 ISBN: 9786071609250

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1st ed., 2012 Paperback. 398 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in) Series: Historia

Anthropology & History

Extraños. Amores homosexuales en el siglo xix

El mundo de la cafeína

La ciencia y la cultura en torno a la droga más popular del mundo

The World of Caffeine

Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug Bennett Alan Weinberg And Bonnie K. Bealer

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affeine is the most popular drug in the history of mankind. This book tells the story of its discovery and the many ways in which it has affected societies and cultures—including our own—and the role it has played in medicine, art and botany. The World of Caffeine is an effort to abandon overly specialized studies in favor of an exchange of ideas between diverse academic fields, as it harmoniously integrates the rigor of science and the appeal of historical narrative. 1st ed., 2012 Paperback. 560 pp. 16.5 × 23 (6.5 × 9 in) Series: Tezontle

$46.95 ISBN: 9786071609434

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Bajo la sombra de la historia Estudios sobre el islam y el judaísmo

Under the Shadow of History Studies on Islam and Judaism

Fernando del Paso $34.95 1st ed., 2011 16.5 × 23 cm (6.5 × 9 in) Paperback. 896 pp. Series: Historia ISBN: 9786071608116

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he question “What do believers believe?” nourishes Fernando del Paso’s curiosity regarding otherness. This essay offers a historical interpretation of two Middle Eastern religions, Islam and Judaism, analyzing their cultural practices and representations: their customs, tradition, ideologies, cosmologies, and everything that constitutes their interpretation of the world. The result is a panoramic view of the development of both religions, accurately written and fit for all kinds of readers.

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Anthropology & History

Fideicomiso Historia de las Américas. Serie Historia Breve

History of the Americas Trust. A Brief History Series

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hese books describe the origins, customs, traditions, conflicts, leading figures and events which shaped the states in Mexico.

Paperback 16.5 × 23 cm (6.5 × 9 in)

Aguascalientes. Historia breve / Aguascalientes: A Brief History

Jesús Gómez S. y Francisco J. Delgado

384 pp

9786071605467

$19.95

B. California Sur. Historia breve / Baja California Sur: A Brief History

Ignacio del Río y María Eugenia Altable F.

300 pp

9786071605757

$16.95

Baja California. Historia breve / Baja California: A Brief History

Miguel León-Portilla y David Piñera

292 pp

9786071605696

$15.95

Campeche. Historia breve / Campeche: A Brief History

Carlos Justo Sierra y Fausta Gantús

372 pp

9786071605924

$19.95

Chiapas. Historia breve / Chiapas: A Brief History

Emilio Zebadúa

264 pp

9786071606419

$16.95

Chihuahua. Historia breve/ Chihuahua: A Brief History

Luis Aboites A.

284 pp

9786071606679

$12.99

Coahuila. Historia breve / Coahuila: A Brief History

María Elena Santoscoy y Martha Rodríguez

428 pp

9786071605795

$14.99

Colima. Historia breve / Colima: A Brief History

José M. Romero y Paulina Machuca

296 pp

9786071606945

$15.95

Durango. Historia breve / Durango: A Brief History

José de la Cruz Pacheco

268 pp

9786071606839

$14.95

Estado de México. Historia breve / Estado de México: A Brief History

Manuel Miño, Cecilia Cadena y María T. Jarquín

368 pp

9786071605931

$19.95

Guanajuato. Historia breve / Guanajuato: A Brief History

Alma Parra, Ethelia Ruiz y Mónica Blanco

337 pp

9786071606853

$20.95

Guerrero. Historia breve / Guerrero: A Brief History

Carlos Illades

256 pp

9786071606877

$16.95

Hidalgo. Historia breve / Hidalgo: A Brief History

Rocío Ruiz de la Barrera

308 pp

9786071606891

$12.99

Jalisco. Historia breve / Jalisco: A Brief History

José María Muriá

276 pp

9786071605474

$12.99

Michoacán. Historia breve / Michoacán: A Brief History

Álvaro Ochoa y Gerardo Sánchez

332 pp

9786071605948

$17.95

Morelos. Historia breve / Morelos: A Brief History

Alicia Hernández Chávez

336 pp

9786071606884

$18.95

Nayarit. Historia breve / Nayarit: A Brief History

Mario Contreras Valdez

328 pp

9786071605481

$17.95

Nuevo León. Historia breve / Nuevo León: A Brief History

Israel Cavazos e Isabel Ortega

380 pp

9786071606402

$18.95

Oaxaca. Historia breve / Oaxaca: A Brief History

Ángeles Romero, Luis Arrioja y Édgar Sánchez

392 pp

9786071605771

$20.00

Puebla. Historia breve / Puebla: A Brief History

Leonardo Lomelí

348 pp

9786071606822

$18.95

Querétaro. Historia breve / Querétaro: A Brief History

Marta E. García U.

408 pp

9786071606921

$12.99

Quintana Roo. Historia breve / Quintana Roo: A Brief History

Lorena Careaga V. y Antonio Higuera B.

360 pp

9786071606396

$19.95

San Luis Potosí. Historia breve / San Luis Potosí: A Brief History

Tomás Calvillo U. y María I. Monroy

360 pp

9786071606952

$18.95

Sinaloa. Historia breve / Sinaloa: A Brief History

Sergio Ortega Noriega

396 pp

9786071606914

$20.95

Sonora. Historia breve / Sonora: A Brief History

Ignacio Almada

116 pp

9786071606686

$12.99

Tabasco. Historia breve / Tabasco: A Brief History

Carlos Martínez Assad

376 pp

9786071606907

$12.99

Tamaulipas. Historia breve / Tamaulipas: A Brief History

Octavio Herrera Pérez

348 pp

9786071606938

$16.95

Tlaxcala. Historia breve / Tlaxcala: A Brief History

Ricardo Rendón Garcini

276 pp

9786071606846

$12.99

Veracruz. Historia breve / Veracruz: A Brief History

Carmen Blázquez, José Velasco y Yovana Celaya

420 pp

9786071605955

$17.95

Yucatán. Historia breve / Yucatán: A Brief History

Sergio Quezada Jesús Flores, Mercedes Vega, Sandra Kuntz y Laura del Alizal

356 pp

9786071606860

$17.95

340 pp

9786071605498

$18.95

Zacatecas. Historia breve / Zacatecas: A Brief History

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Amor líquido Acerca de la fragilidad de los vínculos humanos

Zygmunt Bauman

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN

A SOCIOLOGÍA

s part of an accurate analysis of society in a globalized world, and of the changes this is making to the human condition, Bauman analyzes love and how, in an increasingly commercial context, people approach their relationships by considering the costs and benefits involved, with self-interest at heart. In this highly original and daring work, the author reveals the injustices and anxieties of modern life yet without being overly pessimistic: he expresses the hope that the problems posed by our modern, liquid society are indeed surmountable. $15.95

1st ed., 2005 Paperback. 203 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in) Series: Sociología

ISBN: 9789681683726

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Politics & Social Science

Amor líquido. Acerca de la fragilidad de los vínculos humanos Liquid Love. On the Fragility of Human Connections

Umbrales

Genética neoliberal. Mitos y moralejas de la psicología evolucionista

Neo-Liberal Genetics

The Myths and Moral Tales of Evolutionary Psychology Susan McKinnon $12.95

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n this selection of essays, McKinnon makes an anthropological case to prove that culture and behavior cannot be exclusively a question of genetics. The author opposes the approach of evolutionary psychology, and offers an accessible and well-argued critique of certain myths of human nature fabricated by evolutionary psychologists, based on ethnocentric understandings of sex, gender, kinship, and social relations that are shaped by neoliberal economic values.

1st ed., 2012 Paperback. 240 pp. 11 × 17 cm (4.3 × 6.7 in) Series: Umbrales ISBN: 9786071608680

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La ilusión occidental de la naturaleza humana

Strong States, Weak States

The Western Illusion of Human Nature

Joel S. Migdal

Marshall Sahlins

Estados débiles, Estados fuertes

1st ed., 2011 Paperback. 125 pp. 11 × 17 cm (4.3 × 6.7 in) Series: Umbrales

1st ed., 2011 Paperback. 191 pp. 11 × 17 cm (4.3 × 6.7 in) Series: Umbrales

ISBN: 9786071607300

ISBN: 9786071605726

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$14.95

thought-provoking and innovative view of the relationship between State and Society—of politics, State, corruption and development—offering a new perspective to help explain weaknesses in the legal order and the emergence of the “failed state.” Migdal’s approach offers a clear and straightforward explanation of current political reality and a road map to repair the social consequences of the State’s weakness.

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his work combines two important articles by Marshall Sahlins. The first, “The Western Illusion of Human Nature,” tackles Western concepts of nature and culture by reflecting on their origins and concluding that society is based on a perverse idea of human nature that ignores the true and universal character of society. The second article, “What is Anthropological Enlightenment?” analyzes concepts such as “illustration,” “modernity,” and “culture” in Western society, in relation with distinct forms of being, acting, and thinking in non-Western societies.

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Audiobooks

Entre

A

voces

collection of classical Mexican and Latin American audio books. Read by their original authors or by other famous writers, this collection is proud to use only the unabridged versions of original texts. Probably the greatest virtue of Entre Voces is that it evokes for the listener the oral tradition that is intrinsic to the origins of every literary work. The collection includes poetry, narrative fiction, and drama, by authors as important as Lope de Vega or Sor Juana.



Contextos

Contexts

Salvador Elizondo

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n anthology of Salvador Elizondo’s work, taken from the collection “Entre Voces,” this is the reproduction of a recording made in 1999 and contains excerpts of the novels Farabeuf o la crónica de un instante and El hipogeo secreto, and from the shorter texts El grafógrafo, Camera lucida, Cuaderno de escritura, and Elsinore. ISBN: 9786071608611

9 786071 608611 Ecos / Echoes, in the voice of the author

Rafael Cadenas

9786071606815

$ 9.99

En el filo del gozo / The Edge of Pleasure, in the voice of María del Carmen Farías

Rosario Castellanos

7509827000086

$ 9.99

En la orilla del silencio y otros poemas / The Limits of Silence and Other Poems

Alí Chumacero

7509827000062

$ 9.99

Los sueños, en voz de la autora / Dreams, in the voice of the author

Elsa Cross

9786071602114

$ 9.99

El divino Narciso (loa y auto sacramental) / Divine Narcisus, directed by José Luis Ibáñez

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

7509827000659

$44.99

Fecunda Fuente / Fertile Fountain, in the voice of Juan Gelman

Rubén Darío

7509827000369

$ 9.99

Cristóbal Nonato

Carlos Fuentes

7509827000147

$ 9.99

El duque Job / Job the Duke, in the voice of Héctor Azar

Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera

7509827000314

$ 9.99

Muertes históricas / Historic Deaths, in the voice of Ignacio Solares

Martín Luis Guzmán

7509827000246

$ 9.99

La muchacha ebria y otros poemas / Drunken Girl and Other Poems, in the voice of David Huerta

Efraín Huerta

7509827000529

$ 9.99

El jefe pluma blanca / Chief White Feather, in the voice of Alejandro Aura

Renato Leduc

7509827000406

$ 9.99

Nican Mopohua, leído a cuatro voces / Nican Mopohua, read in four voices

Miguel León-Portilla

9786071600585

$14.99

La gatomaquia / Gatomaquia, in the voice of José Luis Ibáñez

Félix Lope de Vega

7509827000703

$21.99

Resonancia, poesía en dos lenguas / Resonance, Poetry in Two Languages

Pura L. Colomé and Alaistair Reid (eds.)

9786071605917

$38.95

Poesía / Poetry, in the voice of Guillermo Sheridan

Ramón López Velarde

7509827000109

$ 9.99

Sinfonía concluida y otros cuentos / Concluded Symphony and Other Stories

Augusto Monterroso

7509827000123

$ 9.99

Poesía / Poetry, in the voice of Alí Chumacero

Amado Nervo

7509827000383

$ 9.99

Poesía y prosa / Poetry and Prose, in the voice of José Luis Ibáñez

Salvador Novo

7509827000482

$ 9.99

Escritura en voz alta / Writing Out Loud

Fernando del Paso

7509827000284

$ 9.99

7509827000161

$ 9.99

El diosero y otros cuentos / The God Maker and Other Stories, in the voice of Roberto López Moreno Francisco Rojas González

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$9.99

1st ed., 2011 Audio CD (14.5 × 12.5 cm) 5.7 × 5 in

Juan Rulfo: voz del autor / Juan Rulfo: the author’s voice

Juan Rulfo

7509827000048

$14.99

Jaime Sabines en Bellas Artes / Jaime Sabines at Bellas Artes

Jaime Sabines

7509827000024

$ 9.99

Canasta de cuentos mexicanos / Mexican Short Stories, in the voice of Francisco Rebolledo

Bruno Traven

7509827000468

$ 9.99

Nocturnos, nostalgias y otros poemas Nocurnals, Nostalgia and Other Poems, in the voice of Alberto Dallal

Xavier Villaurrutia

7509827000505

$ 9.99

Science & Nature

La Ciencia

para Todos

F

ondo de Cultura Económica—supported by the Ministry of Public Education (sep) and the National Council on Science and Technology (Conacyt)—planned this series to disseminate scientific knowledge in short books with clear, accessible and enjoyable texts in order to stimulate interest—especially among the young—in the study and development of science. The series initially consisted of books on research conducted by Mexican scientists, and has since broadened its scope to include all Latin American countries, which explains why name has changed from La Ciencia desde México to La Ciencia para Todos.

Paperback 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)

Un universo en expansión

Una faceta desconocida de Einstein

Las células de la mente

Albert Einstein: navegante solitario

An Expanding Universe

An Unknown Side of Einstein

The Cells of the Mind

Albert Einstein: A Solitary Sailor

Luis F. Rodríguez

Eliezer Braun

Ricardo Tapia

Luis de la Peña

$9.99

$12.99

$6.99

$6.99

2nd ed., 1995 110 pp. Series: LCpT, 1

2nd ed., 1995 103 pp. Series: LCpT, 19

3rd ed., 2003 158 pp. Series: LCpT, 30

2nd ed., 1998 119 pp. Series: LCpT, 31

Terremotos

Earthquakes Alejandro Nava

ISBN: 9789681666231

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ISBN: 9789681668464

ISBN: 9789681669164

ISBN: 9789681668587

ISBN: 9789681676971

Cómo viven las plantas

La vida, el tiempo y la muerte

El calor de la Tierra

On the Life of Plants

Life, Time and Death

The Heat of the Earth

Carlos Vázquez Yanes

Fanny Blanck-Cereijido and Marcelino cereijido

Rosa María Prol-Ledesma

$6.99

$6.99

$6.99

$6.99

4th ed., 2002 158 pp. Series: LCpT, 34

2nd ed., 1997 108 pp. Series: LCpT, 48

3rd ed., 2002 202 pp. Series: LCpT, 52

3rd ed., 2002 175 pp. Series: LCpT, 58

ISBN: 9789681685584

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ISBN: 9789681666026

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ISBN: 9789681666590

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Science & Nature

Telescopios y estrellas

Telescopes and Stars Daniel and Juan Manuel Malacara

Armas y explosiones nucleares: la humanidad en peligro Weapons and Nuclear Explosions: Humanity in Danger

La destrucción de la naturaleza

María Ester Brandan

and Alma Orozco Segovia

The Destruction of Nature Carlos Vázquez Yanes

$7.99

$6.99

$6.99

2nd ed., 1998 175pp Series: LCpT, 57

3rd ed., 1998 113 pp. Series: LCpT, 61

3rd ed., 2002 102 pp. Series: LCpT, 83

ISBN: 9789681663872

ISBN: 9789681668747

ISBN: 9789681667283

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Cáncer: herencia y ambiente

El agua

Chemistry and the Kitchen

Cancer: Inheritance and Environment

Water

José Luis Córdova Frunz

Cristina Cortinas

Manuel Guerrero

La química y la cocina

$6.99

$6.99

$9.99

3rd ed., 2002 154 pp. Series: LCpT, 93

4th ed., 2011 259 pp. Series: LCpT, 96

5th ed., 2006 178 pp. Series: LCpT, 102

ISBN: 9789681666088

ISBN: 9786071606143

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ISBN: 9789681680114

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¿Cómo funciona una célula?

El colesterol: lo bueno y lo malo

La muerte y sus ventajas

Fisiología celular

Cholesterol: Pros and Cons

Death and its Advantages

Victoria Tudela

Marcelino Cereijido and Fanny Blanck-Cereijido

How Does a Cell Work? Cellular Physiology Antonio Peña

ISBN: 9786071601254

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$11.95

$6.99

$13.95

3rd ed., 2009 134 pp. Series: LCpT, 122

4th ed., 2008 80 pp. Series: LCpT, 140

4th ed., 2011 190 pp. Series: LCpT, 156

ISBN: 9789681685607

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ISBN: 9786071606457

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Qué es el metabolismo

Stress: What is it and How to Avoid It

What is Metabolism

Alberto Orlandini

Antonio Peña

Por qué no hay extraterrestres en la Tierra

Why aren’t there Aliens on Earth Armando Arellano Ferro

$6.99

$9.99

$6.95

1st ed., 1999 220 pp. Series: LCpT, 172

1st ed., 2001 126 pp. Series: LCpT, 184

1st ed., 2003 170 pp. Series: LCpT, 193

ISBN: 9789681664138

ISBN: 9789681660918

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ISBN: 9681670272

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Terrible Crocodiles?

El amor en tiempos de la contaminación

Juan Luis Cifuentes and Fabio Germán Cupul

Tessy López and Aurelí Guerra

¿Los terribles cocodrilos?

Science & Nature

El estrés: qué es y cómo evitarlo

Love in Times of Pollution

A la hora de comer ¿qué nos preocupa? What Are We Concerned About When It Comes to Eating? Carlos Blanco

$6.99

$7.95

$8.95

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ISBN: 9681672208

ISBN: 9789681673710

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ISBN: 9789681675165

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El billar no es de vagos.

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Ciencia juego y diversión

Los microbios, ¿amigos o enemigos?

Pool is not for Wasters.

Microbes: Friends or Enemies?

Science, Games and Fun

Dora Elina Jorge Viera

Carlos Bosch Giral

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Ovnis y viajes interestelares, ¿realidad o fantasía? UFO's and Interstellar Journeys, ¿Reality or Fantasy? Shahen Hacyan

$12.95

$9.95

$15.95

1 ed., 2009 158 pp. Series: LCpT, 223

1 ed., 2009 140 pp. Series: LCpT, 227

1st ed., 2012 146 pp. Series: LCpT, 231

st

ISBN: 9786071601490

1st ed., 2005 158 pp. Series: LCpT, 205

ed., 2004 160 pp. Series: LCpT, 202

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1st ed., 2004 136 pp. Series: LCpT, 197

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ISBN: 9786071601506

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Children’s Books / Fiction

Los

Primerísimos

C

reated to stimulate the early stages of the reader's development inside and outside the classroom, these books make graphic and literary proposals from the best Mexican and foreign authors and illustrators, offering distinctive and enriching views for children’s emotional and cognitive development as they set out on their journey to read alone or accompanied.

Age: 3+ 17 × 21.5 cm (6.7 × 8.7 in) Paperback

El pequeño rey

The Tiny King Taro Miura

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he tiny king seems to have it all: a huge castle, a massive table, a giant horse and an enormous fountain. Everything, in fact, except someone to share it all. While playing with geometrical forms, colors, and shapes, this book tells the story of how the tiny king’s life changes after getting married, when he discovers true greatness. $7.50 1st ed., 2012 Paperback. 40 pp.

Papelitos

Belisaire

María Cristina Ramos and Claudia Legnazzi

Gaëtan Dorémus

$8.50

$8.50

1st ed., 2004 Paperback. 56 pp.

1st ed., 2004 Paperback. 40 pp. ISBN: 9789681673086

ISBN: 9681670582

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Ozu’s Luck

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¿Sansón?

Samson?

Claudia Rueda

Jenny Pavisic and Margarita Sada

$8.50

$8.50

1st ed., 2003 Paperback. 32 pp.

1st ed., 2007 Paperback. 28 pp.

ISBN: 9789681670511

ISBN: 9789681683351

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Belisario

Little Papers

La suerte de Ozu

ISBN: 9786071609168

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Papá escapó con el circo

Mariana Ruiz Johnson

Etgar Keret and Rutu Modan

$8.50

$8.50

1st ed., 2010 Paperback. 32 pp.

1st ed., 2004 Paperback. 49 pp.

ISBN: 9786071602558

ISBN: 9789681673338

Dad Runs Away with the Circus

Irupé and Yaguareté

9 786071 602558

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Mi amor

Marcel y André

Marcel and André

My Love

Pierre Pratt

Beatrice Alemagna

$7.50

$8.50

1st ed., 2004 Paperback. 40 pp.

1st ed., 2009 Paperback. 28 pp.

ISBN: 9681672763

ISBN: 9786071600363

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Barcos en la lluvia

¡Ves al revés!

Ships in the Rain

Daft Bat

María Cristina RamoS

Jeanne Willis

and Claudia LEgnazzi

and Tony Ross

$8.50

$8.50

1st ed., 2007 Paperback. 64 pp.

1st ed., 2008 Paperback. 32 pp.

ISBN: 9789681683658

ISBN: 9789681685348

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La mejor mascota

9 789681 685348

Luna estelar

The Best Pet of All

Stellar Moon

David LaRochelle and Hanako Wakiyama

Ricca Fukuda and Kuniko Nagasaki

$8.50

$8.50

1st ed., 2007 Paperback. 36 pp.

1st ed., 2007 Paperback. 48 pp.

ISBN: 9789681683740

ISBN: 9789681684334

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Irupé y Yaguareté

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Backlist from the series Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

Trucas

El conejito soñado. 5 historias de José

juan gedovius

Age: 3+

The Bunny of My Dreams 5 Stories of José Malika Doray Age: 8 months+

$19.99 $11.99 1st ed., 1997 Hardcover. 26 pp. 18 × 21 cm (7.1 × 8.3 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

1st ed., 2011 Board books 5 vols. 12 × 12 cm (4.7 × 4.7 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

ISBN: 9789681654108

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ISBN: 9786071605191

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El lápiz

The Pencil

Paula Bossio

La bruja y el espantapájaros

The Witch and the Scarecrow

Gabriel Pacheco Age: 1+ $9.99

Age: 7+

Board book. 24 pp. 16 × 16 cm (6.3 × 6.3 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

ISBN: 9786071606099

A

9 786071 606099

little girl finds the end of a line which has the ability to transform into different shapes. As we move through the pages, it turns into a slide, a vine, a ring, a bubble, and a clothesline. Although it is a simple line drawn with a crayon or a pencil, it is also a guide towards fun, invention and creativity. This is a tribute to the act of playing, to drawing and its infinite possibilities. Every page holds a surprise for the reader.

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1st ed., 2011 Picture book. 44 pp. 24 × 30 cm (9.4 × 11.8 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

$13.99 ISBN: 9786071606785

9 786071 606785

Age: 4+

A la Orilla del Viento

Age: 10+

Por el color del trigo Atrapados

The Color of Wheat

Stuck

Antonio Malpica

Oliver Jeffers

Illustrated by Iban Barrenetxea

W

$12.95

ISBN: 9786071609243

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Children’s Books / Fiction

Los Especiales de

hen a child gets his kite stuck in a tree, he throws every imaginable object to bring it back down. In the end, after practically the entire city has become lodged in its canopy, the tree lets the kite float back down to the child. The problem will then be how to get everyone and everything down from the tree’s branches.

1st ed., 2012 Picture book. 72 pp. 21 × 27 cm (8.3 × 10.6 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

T

his fictionalized biography of the author of The Little Prince, brimming with imagination and subtle literary references, begins when Tonio, the main character, sets off to discover the world. As the story progresses, we are gradually introduced to the likeable Scoundrel, with whom Tonio discusses his stories, the people he knows, and the friend he must find. The story ends with the expedition from which Tonio would never return.

1st ed., 2012 Picture book. 32 pp. 27 × 27 cm (10.2 × 10.2 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

$16.99 ISBN: 9786071608062

9 786071 608062

Age: 13+

El cuaderno de las pesadillas

The Notebook of Nightmares Ricardo Chávez Castañeda

A

notebook containing every story never told. Stories that do not need paper or words to exist, because they are terrifying tales, voiceless and mouthless, that take shape only when we close our eyes. In this book, according to writer Mónica Lavín, “the reader also gains an awareness of the words, their sound, their strangeness, their power, of what can be built with them. A truly wonderful reading experience.”

Age: 8+

ISBN: 9786071606273

9 786071 606273

1st ed., 2012 Picture book 88 pp. 16.5 × 23 cm (6.5 × 9 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento ISBN: 9786071608635

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El camino más largo

The Longest Road

$10.95   1st ed., 2012 Picture book. 32 pp. 21 × 27 cm (8.3 × 10.6 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

$12.95

A

Nicolás Arispe

young apprentice spends several months in the woods, meditating on the secrets of the universe. When he feels ready to go back to his teacher and tells him how wise he is now. But the mentor demonstrates, in the simplest possible way, that removing oneself far from the world can make one forget the most essential things in life. Along the way, the apprentice crosses—but without truly seeing them—various symbolic landscapes which can be seen to represent different stages of life.

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Backlist from the series A la Orilla del Viento Age: 8+

Las golosinas secretas

The Secret Sweets

Todos los osos son zurdos

All Bears are Left-Handed

Juan Villoro

$7.50 1st ed., 2010 Paperback. 70 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in)

Ignacio Padilla

Illustrated by MAURICIO Gómez MORIN

Illustrated by TRINO

ISBN: 9786071604309

9 786071 604309

$7.50 1st ed., 1995 Paperback. 40 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in)

Age: 8+

ISBN: 9789681646790

Loros en Emergencia

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Parrot Emergency Emilio Carballido

El abuelo ya no duerme en el armario

Illustrated by MARÍA FIGUEROA

Grandpa isn't Sleeping in the Closet Anymore Silvia Molina

$7.50 1st ed., 1994 Paperback. 31 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in)

ISBN: 9789681642303

9 789681 642303

Age: 7+

Illustrated by Silvana Ávila

La historia de Sputnik y David

Age: 8+

The Story of Sputnik and David

$7.50 1st ed., 2009 Paperback. 44 pp 15 × 19 cm (6 × 7.5 in)

Emilio Carballido Illustrated by MARÍA FIGUEROA

ISBN: 9786071601261

$7.50 2nd ed., 1995 Paperback. 48 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in)

9 786071 601261

ISBN: 9789681647964

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Por un tornillo

Los zapatos de fierro

El libro salvaje

For a Single Bolt

The Iron Shoes

The Wild Book

Ignacio Padilla Illustrated by TRINO

Emilio Carballido Illustrated by CARMEN CAREDEMI

Juan Villoro Illustrated by Gabriel Martínez Meave

Age: 10+

Age: 10+

$7.50

$7.50

1st ed., 2009 Paperback. 55 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) ISBN: 9786071600837

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Age: 8+

Age: 12+

$9.50

1st ed., 1998 Paperback. 85 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) ISBN: 9789681658014

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1st ed., 2008 Paperback. 239 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) ISBN: 9786071600011

9 786071 600011

Children’s Books / Fiction

Clásicos

Age: 5+

Alicia en el País de las Maravillas

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by RÉBECCA DAUTREMER

W

hile her elder sister reads a book with “no pictures or conversations in it,” Alice dozes off under a tree; suddenly she sees a white rabbit in a waistcoat, holding a watch, and in quite a hurry. Alice follows him and falls down a seemingly bottomless rabbit hole. On finally reaching the bottom, she finds herself in Wonderland, where everything has rules that seem absurd toher. Soon she sets off on a series of mad adventures and becomes immersed in a world of games and riddles.

ISBN: 9786071608147

9 786071 608147 $34.95

1st ed., 2012 Picture book. 144 pp. 21 × 27 cm (8.3 × 10.6 in) Series: Clásicos

Los cisnes salvajes

Age: 10+

The Wild Swans Hans Christian Andersen Illustrated by Joanna Concejo

Forthcoming (June 2012)

A

wicked queen separates Princess Elisa from her eleven brothers while they are still small children. She turns them into swans, and sends Elisa to live with peasants until her fifteenth birthday. When Elisa returns to the palace, the queen casts a spell on her so that her father does not recognize her. Elisa decides to search for her brothers. Firstly she goes to the woods and then to the sea, where she will learn from the perseverance of the waves and manage not only to reunite with her family but also toreverse the spell that has kept her apart from her brothers.

  1st ed., 2012 Picture book 48 pp. 21 × 27 cm (8.3 × 10.6 in) Series: Clásicos ISBN: 9786071609809

Age: 15+

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1 ed., 2012 Picture book 48 pp. 21 × 27 cm (8.3 × 10.6 in) Series: Clásicos st

Barba Azul

Bluebeard Charles Perrault. Illustrated by Christoph Wischniowski

B

efore setting off on a journey, Bluebeard entrusts his young wife with a bunch of keys that open all the doors of his castle, but he warns her that there is one room which she must not enter under any circumstances. The young woman, overcome by curiosity, enters the forbidden room and discovers the dead bodies of Bluebeard’s previous wives hanging from the walls; just then, Bluebeard returns and discovers his wife’s betrayal. He flies into a rage and the young woman’s life is in grave danger.

$13.95

ISBN: 9786071608628

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Vivian

Mansour

B

orn in Mexico City. She holds a BA in Communication from the Iberoamericana University. She has worked for radio, television and magazines. Winner of the International Prize for Children’s Picture Books (filij 1995).

La excepción de la regla

Exception to the Rule Illustrated by PATRICIO ORTIZ

Age: 10+

El peinado de la tía Chofi

Aunt Chofi’s Hairstyle Illustrated by MARTHA AVILÉS $7.50

Age: 5+

1st ed., 2012 Paperback. 76 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento

$12.99 1st ed., 2002 Hardcover. 27 pp. 21 × 21 cm (8.3 × 8.3 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

ISBN: 9786071608659

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W

hat happens when you’re a small fish surrounded by large, terrifying sharks? Leo’s life is tough; he is always getting bullied by a gang of children who seem to him like threatening sea creatures. But one fine day, with the help of the smartest girl in the class, Leo manages to earn everyone’s respect.

¡Fuiste tú!

0 096816 639695

La mala del cuento

El enmascarado de lata

It Was You!

The Tin-Masked Man

Illustrated by TRINO

Illustrated by TRINO

Age: 5+

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ISBN: 9681663969

The Baddy in the Story Illustrated by PATRICIO ORTIZ

Age: 8+

Age: 10+

$6.50

$7.50

$7.50

1st ed., 2007 Paperback. 24 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento

1st ed., 2005 Paperback. 48 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento

1st ed., 2009 Paperback. 62 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento

ISBN: 9681663969

ISBN: 9681676726

ISBN: 6071600022

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0 096816 767268

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Molina

is a pioneering author of children’s books in Mexico. She studied communication and has worked as a teacher, researcher, and editor for ten years at Ararú, a magazine for parents with special needs. Since 1992, she has been director of a non-profit organization that carries out research and produces information for families with disabled children.

Age: 8+

No me lo vas a creer

You Won’t Believe It

El cristal con que se mira

In the Eye of the Beholder

Illustrated by LUIS CASTRILLÓN

Illustrated by Marcè López

$7.50

Age: 13+

E

milia has impaired hearing, so she is constantly isolated in her silent world; Diego wants to meet his father, so he tries to find him; Andrea has to figure out why her relationship with her mother has become so tense that communication between them is almost impossible. These three stories show how children with disabilities live among other children and how there are actually no prejudices among them.

1st ed., 2002 Paperback. 48 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento ISBN: 9789681666712

9 789681 666712 $8.50 1st ed., 2011 Paperback. 216 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento

El agujero negro

ISBN: 9786071606549

The Black Hole

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La noche de los trasgos

The Night of the Goblins

Illustrated by Enrique martínez

Illustrated by ana ochoa

$7.50

$7.50

1st ed., 1995 Paperback. 48 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento

El zurcidor del tiempo Age: 8+

Children’s Books / Fiction

Alicia

The Time Mender Illustrated by Enrique martínez

1st ed., 2006 Paperback. 133 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento

Age: 10+

Age: 10+

$7.50 1st ed., 1996 Paperback. 60 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento ISBN: 9789681647117

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ISBN: 9789681648633

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ISBN: 9789681675745

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Children’s Books / Fiction

Satoshi

Kitamura B

orn in Tokyo, Japan, 1956. Even though Kitamura has no formal artistic education, he became interested in illustration through comics at an early age. He began illustrating advertisments, magazines, and posters. He then moved to London. Since 1981 he has written and illustrated children's books. His work has been translated and has received important awards, including the Mother Goose Award and Japan’s Illustrated Book Award.

¿Qué le pasa a mi cabello? Gato tiene sueño

Cat is Sleepy

Age: 3 months+

$8.50

$16.99

1st ed., 1998 Board book. 16 pp 16.5 × 16.5 cm (6.5 × 6.5 in)

1st ed., 2007 Picture book. 16 pp 37 × 29 cm (11.5 × 14.5 in)

ISBN: 9789681655372

ISBN: 9789681685287

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9 789681 655372

Ardilla tiene hambre

Squirrel is Hungry

Alex quiere un dinosaurio

Age: 3 months+

A Boy Wants a Dinosaur

$8.50

$13.99

1st ed., 1998 Board book. 16 pp 16.5 × 16.5 cm (6.5 × 6.5 in)

1st ed., 1993 Picture book. 25 pp 24 × 21 cm (9.4 × 8.2 in) ISBN: 9789681641146

ISBN: 9789681655396

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Pato está sucio

Duck is Dirty

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What's Wrong with My Hair?

Age: 5+

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Age: 3 months+

Pablo el artista

Pablo the Artist

$8.50

$12.99

1st ed., 1998 Board book. 16 pp 16.5 × 16.5 cm (6.5 × 6.5 in)

1st ed., 2006 Picture book. 32 pp 22 × 27 cm (8.6 × 10.6 in)

ISBN: 9789681655389

ISBN: 9789681682712

9 789681 655389

Age: 1+

9 789681 682712

Age: 5+

Children’s Books / Fiction

Taro

Gomi

B

orn in Tokyo, Japan, in 1945. As a child he loved traditional Japanese stories filled with mythological animals like dragons, although he also liked the tales by the Brothers Grimm. He studied industrial design at the Duwasawa school in his native city, and his first job was designing tables, chairs, ashtrays, and other objects. But he soon became bored after realizing that these objects only served the purpose for which they had been created, whereas books could have a wide range of uses—something he discovered when he began working as an illustrator. This marked the beginning of a lifelong career and Gomi is now one of Japan’s leading illustrators. He has published over 300 books which have been translated into more than ten languages.

Age: 8 months+ Adivina qué es

Adivina quién soy

Escapes

Guess what!

Guess Who?

Escape!

$8.50

$8.50

$8.50

1st ed., 1993 Board book. 16 pp. 12 × 12 cm (4.7 × 4.7 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

1st ed., 1993 Board book. 16 pp. 12 × 12 cm (4.7 × 4.7 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

1st ed., 1997 Board book. 16 pp. 12 × 12 cm (4.7 × 4.7 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

ISBN: 9789681640095

9 789681 640095

Hay un ratón en la casa

ISBN: 9789681640118

9 789681 640118

¡Mira lo que tengo!

I Got It!

Move!

$8.50

$8.50

$8.50

1st ed., 1993 Board book. 16 pp. 12 × 12 cm (4.7 × 4.7 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

1st ed., 1997 Board book. 16 pp. 12 × 12 cm (4.7 × 4.7 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

1st ed., 1997 Board book. 16 pp. 12 × 12 cm (4.7 × 4.7 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

9 789681 640101

ISBN: 9789681654146

9 789681 654146

9 789681 654139

A moverse

Here I come!

ISBN: 9789681640101

ISBN: 9789681654139

ISBN: 9789681654122

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Children’s Books / Fiction

Francisco

B

Hinojosa

orn in Mexico City, 1954. Hinojosa studied literature and then started writing poetry, short stories, and children’s books. In 1984 he won the ibby Award for La vieja que comía gente. Hinojosa is the foremost author of children’s books in Mexico.

Illustrated by Rafael Barajas, El Fisgón La peor señora del mundo

The Meanest Woman in the World

Amadís de anís, Amadís de codorniz

Sweet Amadis, Savory Amadis Age: 8+

$7.50

Age: 6+

2nd ed., 1995 Paperback. 48 pp 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento

$7.50

ISBN: 9789681647940

2nd ed., 1995 Paperback. 44 pp 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento ISBN: 9789681647056

9 789681 647056

9 789681 647940

Aníbal y Melquiades

Aníbal & Melquiades Age: 8+ $7.50 2nd ed., 1995 Paperback. 48 pp 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento ISBN: 9789681647643

9 789681 647643

Age: 7+

Hoja de papel $14.99 3rd ed., 2010 Picture book. 64 pp 20 × 25 cm (7.8 × 9.8 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento ISBN: 9786071602107

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Paper Sheet 1st ed., 2005 Picture book. 40 pp 19 × 23 cm (7.5 × 9 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

$11.99 ISBN: 9789681675738

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Age: 10+

On Foot

La fórmula del doctor Funes

Doctor Funes' Formula Illustrated by Mauricio Gómez morín Age: 10+

$7.50 3rd ed., 2000 Paperback. 46 pp 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento

$7.50 2nd ed., 1994 Paperback. 104 pp 15 × 19 cm (6 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento

ISBN: 9789681661328

ISBN: 9789681640729 9 789681 661328

9 789681 640729

Children’s Books / Fiction

A golpe de calcetín

Buscalacranes

Scorpionseekers

Age: 10+

$7.50 1st ed., 2000 Paperback. 96 pp 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento

Léperas contra mocosos

ISBN: 9789681662813

Brats versus Imps

9 789681 662813

De domingo a lunes

From Sunday to Monday Age: 10+

Age: 10+

$7.50 1st ed., 2007 Paperback. 80 pp 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento ISBN: 9789681683979

9 789681 683979

$7.50 1st ed., 2008 Paperback. 122 pp 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento ISBN: 9786071600080

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Children’s Books / Fiction

Isol

B

orn in Buenos Aires, 1972, Isol studied fine arts and mixed arts. Her work has developed in the fields of comics, poetry, and visual arts. She is currently devoted to media and book illustration, from publishing firms to magazines and newspapers. She has published her work as author and illustrator in Spain, Mexico, France, and Argentina. She was honored with a Golden Apple award at the bib. Her books are on the White Ravens List with an Honorable Special Mention (2002, 2003, and 2004).

Tener un patito es útil

It's Useful to Have a Duck Vida de perros

A Dog's Life Age: 3+

$16.99 1 ed., 2007 Board book. 32 pp 16 × 15 cm (6 × 6.3 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento st

ISBN: 9789681672850

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$13.99

Age: 1+

1st ed., 1997 Picture book. 32 pp 21 × 24 cm (8.25 × 9.4 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento ISBN: 9789681654238

9 789681 654238

Cosas que pasan

Things that Happen

Secreto de familia

Family Secret

Age: 3+ $8.50

$8.50

2nd ed., 2010 Paperback. 32 pp. 17 × 21.5 cm (6.7 × 8.7 in) Series: Los Primerísimos

1st ed., 2003 Paperback. 48 pp. 17 × 21.5 cm (6.7 × 8.7 in) Series: Los Primerísimos

ISBN: 9786071602589

ISBN: 9789681670467

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Age: 3+

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Nocturnal Dream Book Age: 3+

T

his book is not only a dream catcher, but also a guide to possible dreams, to the visions that stay with us as we visit the nocturnal realm. With artificial light its special ink displays different and surprising images that glow in the dark. A contrast between what we see and what awakens in our dreams when our eyes are shut.

$24.99

Children’s Books / Fiction

Nocturno. Recetario de sueños

1st ed., 2010 Paperback. 32 pp. 17 × 21.5 cm (6.7 × 8.7 in) Series: Los Primerísimos ISBN: 9786071602558

9 786071 602558

El globo

La bella Griselda

The Balloon

Beautiful Griselda Age: 3+

Age: 7+

$7.99

$12.99

1st ed., 2002 Picture book. 32 pp 15 × 17 cm (5.9 × 6.7 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

1st ed., 2010 Picture book. 32 pp 16.5 × 21.5 cm (7.8 × 8.6 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

ISBN: 9789681665739

ISBN: 9786071604491

9 789681 665739

Regalo sorpresa

9 786071 604491

Intercambio cultural

A Surprising Gift

Cultural Exchange

Age: 3+

Age: 3+

$8.50

$8.50

1st ed., 2010 Paperback. 36 pp. 17 × 21.5 cm (6.7 × 8.7 in) Series: Los Primerísimos

2nd ed., 2010 Paperback. 32 pp. 17 × 21.5 cm (6.7 × 8.7 in) Series: Los Primerísimos

ISBN: 9786071605207

ISBN: 9786071602596

9 786071 605207

9 786071 602596

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Children’s Books / Fiction

Triunfo

Arciniegas

Born in Málaga, Colombia. Director of La Manzana azul—a theater group for girls. Winner of Enka Children’s Literature prize and Colombia’s Children’s Book Prize.

El rabo de Paco

Age: 4+

Paco’s Tail Illustrated by Óscar Soacha

P

aco has lost his tail. Despite various imagined explanations of what might have happened, no one knows how or when he lost it, not even Paco himself. So he decides to go on a quest to find his tail. On his way through jungles, over perpetually snow-capped mountains and multiple cities, Paco eventually learns that perhaps the tail wasn’t as important as what he’s collected on his journey around the world.

$8.50 1st ed., 2011 Paperback. 32 pp. 17 × 21.5 cm (6.7 × 8.7 in) Series: Los Primerísimos ISBN: 9786071606563

9 786071 606563

Carmela toda la vida

Carmela Forever

Age: 10+

Illustrated by jotavé $7.50

Age: 3+

Roberto está loco

Roberto is Crazy Illustrated by triunfo arciniegas

1st ed., 2004 Paperback. 80 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento

$8.50 1st ed., 2010 Paperback. 48 pp. 17 × 21.5 cm (6.7 × 8.7 in) Series: Los Primerísimos

ISBN: 9789681673321

9 789681 673321

Los casibandidos que casi roban el sol y otros cuentos

The Nearly Robbers Who Almost Steal the Sun and Other Stories Illustrated by rafael barajas, el fisgón

Age: 8+

ISBN: 9789681673796

9 789681 673796

El vampiro y otras visitas

The Vampire and Other Guests Illustrated by jotavé

Age: 10+ $7.50

$7.50 2nd ed., 1995 Paperback. 40 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento ISBN: 9789681647650

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1st ed., 2000 Paperback. 61 pp. 15 × 19 cm (5.9 × 7.5 in) Series: A la Orilla del Viento

ISBN: 9789691661342

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Children’s Books / Fiction

Anthony

Browne

B

orn in Seffield, UK, 1946. A graphic designer and illustrator, Browne is considered one of the best contemporary authors and illustrators of children’s books. With over 50 books published in many different languages, he has won numerous awards, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award in the year 2000 for his Body of Work.

Age: 6+

Un gorila: un libro no sólo para contar

One Gorilla: A Counting Book

W

hile we are learning how to count from one to ten, we learn the names of various species of primate; while we are discovering a world of primates, we discover that although they are all different, they all belong to the same family, one to which we also belong.

Cosas que me gustan

Things I Like Age: 6 months

Me gustan los libros

I Like Books

  1st ed., 2012 Picture book. 18 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento ISBN: 9786071609410

9 786071 609410

Gorila

Gorilla

Age: 5+

Age: 6 months

2nd ed., 2011 $10.50 Board book. 24 pp 16 × 19 cm (6.2 × 7.84 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

$10.50 3rd ed., 2010 Board book. 20 pp 16 × 19 cm (6.2 × 7.84 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento

ISBN: 9786071605436

ISBN: 9786071605429

9 786071 605436

Forthcoming (October 2012)

9 786071 605429

1st ed., 1991 Picture book. 32 pp 22 × 28 cm (8.6 × 11 in) Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del Viento ISBN: 9789681636500

9 789681 636500

$13.99

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Young Adult Books

A Travésdel Espejo Age: 14+ La piel de Juliette

Shatter Me

J

Tahereh Mafi

uliette is a 17-year-old girl who has lethal skin and she is therefore locked up in a cell with only one small window. Even her parents have rejected her. The world around her is vanishing: animals, flowers, and blue skies are but distant memories. In the midst of chaos, a new government is attempting to reinstate order through control and repression. Juliette then meets Adam and everything begins to change; he helps her face up to her fears and doubts. But just when everything seems to be improving, along comes a twisted young man called Warner whois bent on using Juliette as a weapon to control humanity.

Forthcoming (July 2012)   1st ed., 2012 Paperback.160 pp. 16.5 × 23 cm (6.5 × 9 in) Series: A Través del Espejo ISBN: 9786071609816

9 786071 609816

Severiana

La bicicleta de Sumji

Soumchi

Ricardo ChÁvez Castañeda

Amos Oz $9.99

ISBN: 9789681675721

$13.99

1st ed., 2005 Paperback. 72 pp. 23 × 14 cm (5.9 × 9 in)

ISBN: 9786071602619

9 786071 602619

9 789681 675721

El vuelo de Eluán

Eluán's Flight

Greek Voices

León Krauze

Beatrice Masini

$12.99

$9.99

1st ed., 2011 Paperback. 204 pp. 14 × 23 cm (5.9 × 9 in)

1st ed., 2005 Paperback. 120 pp. 23 × 14 cm (5.9 × 9 in)

ISBN: 9789681674618

9 789681 674618

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Voces griegas

ISBN: 9789681673345

9 789681 673345

1st ed., 2010 Paperback. 165 pp. 14 × 23 cm (5.9 × 9 in)

Young Adult Books

El camino de los muertos

The Road of the Dead Kevin Brooks

C

ole and Ruben seek revenge for the death of their sister Rachel, who was raped and murdered when visiting a friend in a nearby town. While they investigate the identity of the murderer, Ruben uses his skill to perceive what others feel in order to discover a secret that will ensnare the brothers in a world of shadowy characters. Interests and intrigues will now force them to fight for their own lives.

Martyn Pig Kevin Brooks

1st ed., 2012 Paperback. 320 pp. 16.5 × 23 cm (6.5 × 9 in)

$13.95 ISBN: 9786071609175

$13.99

ISBN: 9786071605351

9 786071 609175

1st ed., 2011 Paperback. 204 pp 14 × 23 cm (5.9 × 9 in)

9 786071 605351

Candy

Lucas

Kevin Brooks

Kevin Brooks

$15.99

$ 14.99

1st ed., 2010 Paperback. 321 pp. 14 × 23 cm (9.1 × 5.5 in)

1st ed., 2009 Paperback. 334 pp. 14 × 23 cm (5.9 × 9 in)

ISBN: 9786071602893

ISBN: 9786071600783

9 786071 602893

9 786071 600783

Oscuridad blanca

White Darkness Geraldine McCaughrean

Reinas. Cinco soberanas y sus biografías

Queens Maren Gottschalk $13.99

$14.99

ISBN: 9681682742

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1st ed., 2006 Paperback. 308 pp. 14 × 23 cm (9.1 × 5.5 in)

ISBN: 9786071601742

9 786071 601742

1st ed., 2010 Paperback.164 pp. 14 × 23 cm (9.1 × 5.5 in)

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Children’s Books / Non-Fiction

Ojitos

Pajaritos

A

series of informative books aimed at preschoolers beginning to discover the world around them. These books stimulate their curiosity by giving them the chance to actively read images and information. This series invites children to look closer at what they already know and be surprised with new details.

Age: 3 +

Are You Asleep?

¿Están dormidos? Constanze V. Kitzing

T

he night is about to fall over the African savanna and a lion cub starts visiting the burrows and shelters of many animals. ‘Are you asleep?’ the playful little cub asks the rabbits, the giraffes, and the seahorses, but nobody answers because they are all asleep. Then he finds the owls, ‘Are you asleep?’ asks the lion and they reply, ‘we are well awake!’ Just when a little owl is ready to play with him, the cub starts yawning because he is tired and must go to sleep.

$11.99 1st ed., 2011 Picture book. 32 pp 22 × 22 cm (7 × 7 in) ISBN: 9786071605443

9 786071 605443

¿Quién pasó por aquí?

Who Came By?

Why are You Hiding?

Martha Duhne

María Emilia Beyer Ruiz

Illustrated by Manuel Monroy

Illustrated by Francesca Massai

ISBN: 9789681680619

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¿Por qué se esconden?

$11.99

$11.99

1st ed., 2006 Picture book. 32 pp 22 × 22 cm (7 × 7 in)

1st ed., 2008 Picture book. 32 pp 22 × 22 cm (7 × 7 in) ISBN: 9789681685294

9 789681 685294

¿Cómo es tu papá?

¿Cómo es tu mamá?

What is Your Tongue For?

What is Your Dad Like?

What is Your Mom Like?

María del Carmen Sánchez Mora

Estrella Burgos

Rosanela álvarez

Illustrated by Miguel Tanco

Illustrated by Yasushi Muraki

Illustrated by Jonathan Farr

$11.99 1st ed., 2007 Picture book. 32 pp 22 × 22 cm (7 × 7 in)

ISBN: 9789681683665

9 789681 683665

$11.99

ISBN: 9786071600035

1st ed., 2007 Picture book. 32 pp 22 × 22 cm (7 × 7 in)

9 786071 600035

$11.99 1st ed., 2008 Picture book. 32 pp 22 × 22 cm (7 × 7 in)

Children’s Books / Non-Fiction

¿Para qué usas la lengua?

ISBN: 9786071600059

9 786071 600059

Age: 8+

Cómo ser un explorador del mundo

How to be an Explorer of the World Keri Smith

A

fter establishing that artists and scientists see the world in similar ways—since both are based on observation, recollection, documentation and comparison—this book sets out 59 practical exercises for exploring the material world. The pages are mainly filled with activities which help readers observe and interact with their surroundings, not merely to reveal the fascinating physical world around them but to also show the esthetical depth with which this world can be perceived. ISBN: 9786071608642

9 786071 608642

$12.95

1st ed., 2012 Paperback. 208 pp. 21 × 27 cm (8.3 × 10.6 in)

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Children’s Books / Non-Fiction

Los Especiales de Ciencia Age: 3+

Animales al natural 3. Un zoológico portátil

Life-Size Zoo 3 Teruyuki Komiya and Toshimitsu matsuhashi Illustrated by Masae Takaoka and Akio Kashiwara

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ife-Size Zoo 3 is the third trip to the portable zoo created by Komiya and Matsuhashi. Young visitors will delight in the life-size pictures of the new animals whose features are amazingly detailed thanks to the high-quality images. As well as a fascinating sensory experience, this zoo-book is also bursting with useful facts such as the scientific name, weight, and size of the various species inhabiting the pages.

1st ed., 2012 Hardcover. 48 pp. 26 × 37 cm (10 × 14.5 in) Series: Los Especiales de Ciencia

Forthcoming ISBN: 9786071609632

9 786071 609632

Animales al natural. Un zoológico portátil

Animales al natural 2. Un acuario portátil

Life-Size Zoo

Life-Size Aquarium

Age: 3+

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Age: 3+

$19.99

$19.99

1st ed., 2011 Picture book. 44 pp 26 × 37 cm (10 × 14.5 in) Series: Los Especiales de Ciencia

1st ed., 2011 Picture book. 44 pp 26 × 37 cm (10 × 14.5 in) Series: Los Especiales de Ciencia

ISBN: 9786071605450

ISBN: 9786071606792

9 786071 605450

9 786071 606792

Xcuidihuini. Zapotec Tales

Other Publishers

Xcuidihuini. Leyendas Zapotecas

Age: 6+

Andrés Henestrosa Morales Illustrated by José Esteban Martínez

M

en have always needed to know their environment, to find out the reason for certain things; this is why they created myths and legends: to understand the origin of the world and its inhabitants. With the title Xcuidihuini (little kid), Miguel Ángel Porrúa releases his Kids Collection. This first volume, with the same title, gathers ten Zapotec legends written by Andrés Henestrosa in his youth, and reflect the stories that his mother used to tell him when he was a child.

ISBN: 9786074015102 1st ed., 2011 Hardcover. 72 pp 22 × 34 cm (8.6 × 13.3 in) 9 786074 015102 Published by Miguel Ángel Porrúa $29.00

Una visita al mundo de Frida Kahlo

Age: 8+

Susana Ríos. Illustrated by Érika Mañaga

F

rida Kahlo was a Mexican artist who painted mainly self portraits, in which she uses fantasy to achieve a unique style. Her image is everywhere, in posters, post cards, books and magazines. A Visit to Frida Kahlo’s World leads us through a journey of two famous museums where her work is exhibited, inviting us to know her work, her life an personality in a fun way, discovering the reason why Frida stands out in the history of Mexican art.

A Visit to the World of Frida Kahlo

ISBN: 9789707019454

9 789707 019454

English version by DEBRA NAGAO $14 1st ed., 2007 Paperback. 64 pp. 17 × 23 cm (6.6 × 9 in) Published by Miguel Ángel Porrúa ISBN: 9789707019744

9 789707 019744

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