Profesionales y Técnicos

La obra póstuma de Georges Politzer (1903-1942), Principios Elementales de Filosofía será una herramienta de primer orden para todos los que desean aproximarse a la doctrina marxista y a su ardua terminología, con un lenguaje claro, conciso y entendedor. Profesores y alumnos gozarán de sus páginas comprensibles como hasta ahora no habían tenido a mano nada semejante. Con esta obra podrán suscitar debates y extraer profundas reflexiones tras plantearse la ancestral pregunta: ¿Por qué estudiar filosofía? 

A través de sus páginas la mano del gran psicólogo que fue Politzer está siempre presente, así como su entrega (que fue total) por la causa que defendió y pagó con su vida. Una obra ideal para celebrar el segundo centenario del nacimiento de Karl Marx y sus ideas. 

Aprender inglés de la mano de los autores más importantes de la literatura universal es posible con esta colección. Los Clásicos Bilingües contiene el texto en castellano acompañando página a página por su versión el inglés. Para completar la experiencia de aprendizaje se incluye una serie de ejercicios para poner en práctica los nuevos conocimientos del idioma.

Los arquitectos tienen más y más materiales a su disposición a medida que la tecnología se desarrolla,y nuevos usos para materiales antiguos.Este libro muestra qué se puede alcanzar con esta riqueza en elección de materiales. 

La elección del material puede tener efectos de amplio alcance,haciendo que un proyecto sea más acogedor,más asequible o más versátil.Fotografías a todo color,textos explicativos y tablas que ofrecen detalles a arquitectos y diseñadores sobre las propiedades de cada material.

Around the World in Eighty Days is-perhaps-the best known work of French writer Jules Verne (1828-1905).

The novel narrates the adventures of British gentleman Phileas Fogg and his French valet Passepartout,as they attempt to travel around the world in eighty days to win a wager. 

The novel was a commercial success and helped Jules Verne achieve worldwide recognition. His work became synonymous with daring adventure,science and futurism. 

Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth,England,on 7 February 1812.One of the greatest living writers of the Vietorian Era,as his fume and talent is still recognised and celebrated to this day.A master of social commentary,his work touched every aspect and shade of the world and reality that surrounded him.

His style was complex and poetic,with a strong comedie touch, and his satire about the British Aristocracy was, and still is,very popular. 

His short stories and novels are filled with sorne of the most memorable and original characters in aH of English Literature,transcending their own stories and pages ro beco me primordial in Western culture and tradition.Such is the case of Ebenezer Scrooge and Oliver Twist;characters that became the perfect archetype for greed and humiliry,respectively. 

Many of his works are the perfect historieal document of a time of great change,innovation and social inequaliry,fiHed with hope for a better tomorrow through science and human achievement. 

Great Expectations (1854) is considered one of rhe author\'s greatest and more sophisticated works.The novel narrates the story of Phillip Pirrip,an orphan blacksmith apprentiee whose life aspiration is to become a gentleman and part of the nobility.

The Scarlet Letter is a novel written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in 1850.The story takes place in the Puritan Boston of the mid 17th century and revolves around a woman named Hester Prynne,who conceived a child out of wedlock and was forced to wear a scarlet letter \'A\' (Adulreress) which condemns her to alife of struggle and humiliation. 

The novel deals with the social and moral themes typical of the time and geographical setting.Puritanism was a way of life in rhose days especially in Massachusettsand many women and men faced trials and punishrnenr for their "sins" and "misconducrs".The story centres on Hester and her daughter and how she deals with her morherhood as a social outcast,but the author rakes every chance he gets to comment on morality,human nature,legality and guilt. 

Tbe Scarlet Letter was received well by critics,with the obligatory outcry from religious leaders for the risqué subject matter of the story, but nevertheless enjoyed a resounding commercial success amongst readers.Ir was one of the first mass-produced books in America,rapidly becoming a symbol of the renaissance of American literature in the 19th century.

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne\'s work has endured the test of time for the human appeal of his stories and the deep psychological complexity of his characters. 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh,Scotland.He went to a private school at 9 years old,thanks to the support of a rich un de after a poor childhood caused by his father\'s alcoholismo He started studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1876 and during that period ofhis life he also began writing fiction.By 1879 he managed to publish sorne of his stories in various literary magazines of the Scottish capital. 

After serving as a doctor for sorne merchant ships in voyages to Greenland and Africa,he studied ophthalmology in Vienna and later established in London,where he opened a private practice.He continued writing specially while waiting for his patients. 

His most famous literary creation,the detective Sherlock Holmes, saw the public light for the first time in 1886 thanks to the novel A Study in Scarlet.From that moment on,Arthur Conan Doyle would write many stories for the fictitious detective and his inseparable partner,Dr.John Watson.The author also explored many other themes,characters and literary styles,but his fame was earned mainly for the thrilling adventures of Holmes and Watson. 

 

He died in 1930,in his East Sussex house,after a long and prolific literary career. 

The Metamorphosis is arguably Franz Kafka\'s most recognized literary work. Published in Germany in 1915 as Die Verwandlung,this dark short novel or novella,has made its way as one of the most important works of literary fiction of the 20th Century. 

Gregor Samsa,a traveling salesman living with his family in Prague-part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at that time,wakes up one day to find himself transformed, without rhyme or reason,into an indescribable creature.Understandably,Gregor Samsa\'s life changes abruptly and dramatically and the novel focuses in how this change affects the mind of the protagonist and the ones around him. 

This situation is very taxing on Gregor and his family,but is handled by the author and the characters very naturally,very stoically,as if there\'s nothing to do about it but to move on and make the best of it.This way of handling life and the impossible situations it brings is very particular of Kafka and his narrative.

 

He often explored the mundanity through tragedy and insurmountable odds-many times to the point of absurdity as a way of exposing human nature and commenting on society and the surrounding world. 

White Fang is the main character and ti de of the novel published in 1906 by the American writer Jack London (1876-1916),originally published as a series in Outing magazine. 1he story takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th century,in the Yukon Territory in Canada. 

Narrated almost entirely from the viewpoint of White Fang (a dog¬wolf crossbred) the story focuses on his journey from cub to maturiry,his adventures and his relationships with humans and animals alike.The author makes the most of this unusual approach in storytelling,by digging deep into complex themes,such as human cruelry,redemption,survival and violence. 

White Fang reached worldwide recognition after its publication, especially with young readers,probably due to the geographical setting and the wild nature of the titular character.

The stories are not directly related, but both deal with similar themes and situations,cementing the place of Jack London in American literature for posterity. 

The novel has been adapted into several forms of media,including film and television,furthering the reach of White Fang\'s story and immortalising in new and exciting ways the ideals of Jack London and his animal world.