Essay genre books (152)
Norway32.
Connected History : Essays and Arguments by Sanjay Subrahmanyam EN
IndiaDescription:
A collection of essays that span many regions and cultures, by an award-winning historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue durée or micro-history, but 'connected history': connected cross-culturally, and spanning regions, subjects and archives that are conventionally treated alone. Not a research paradigm, he insists, it is more of an oppositionswissenschaft, a way of trying to constantly break the moulds of historical objects. The essays... continue
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Contra viento y marea : (1964-1988). by Mario Vargas Llosa ES
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
Adieu, Sartre
Novelista y dramaturgo, Mario Vargas Llosa es también un ensayista de gustos eclécticos. Si su país, el Perú, le preocupa ante todo -su historia, su futuro político y, más allá, el futuro de toda América Latina-, estas páginas, escritas entre 1962 y 1983, dan testimonio de un interés apasionado por los grandes Preguntas del momento: ¿Qué tipo de sociedad para América Latina? ¿Qué papel debe jugar el intelectual en la ciudad? Su disputa con Günter Grass muestra que no tie... continue
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Create Dangerously by Albert Camus EN
AlgeriaDescription:
In these speeches Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot
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Venezuela36.
Dominican Republic37.
England38.
Decolonising the Mind : The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o EN
KenyaDescription:
Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.
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Decreto apostolicam actuositatem : Sobre el apostolado de los laicos : promulgado el 18-XI-1965 by Paulo VI ES
Country: Europe / 
Vatican City
Vatican City
Description:
Encíclica del Papa Paulo VI, en el contexto del Concilio Vaticano II, en el que se desarrolla la propuesta del papel de los laicos (creyentes que no han recibido ningún Orden Religioso) en post de lo que se dio en llamar la Evangelización de la Cultura.
Romania