Leopoldo Méndez y su tiempo

Esta selección, que abarca de 1953 hasta los años sesenta, es un registro de la crítica literario-periodística de uno de los más grandes escritores contemporáneos de la literatura mexicana: Juan Rulfo. La imagen pública del narrador pertenece a dos generaciones: los coetáneos de Rulfo o Generación de 1929, y la Generación del Medio Siglo.

Índice 01_Procesada Filosofía de las «ediciones limitadas» Richard Le Gallienne 02_Bastarda Leer la lectura Roger Chartier Maneras de leer o las alfabetizaciones múltiples Joaquín Rodríguez Los libros del fin del mundo Fernando Iwasaki El nuevo rol del editor, y el futuro del libro y la industria editorial Guillermo Schavelzon Apología del libro y de la librería Miquel Flamarich El negocio de la literatura Richard Nash 03_Corrida La Feria del Libro de Madrid de la A a la Z Javier Rodríguez Marcos 04_Pelada Toma nota. Apuntes para emprender en el mundo editorial Ángel L. Fernández...

Companion to the 2009 science fiction movie, Avatar. "This report details Pandora's alien ecosystem; its mining mother lode and topography; its flora and fauna; and the culture, language, and physiology of the native population, the aggressive hunter-gatherer race called the Na'vi. ... Also included in this manual are highly confidential and detailed descriptions of RDA [the "enemy" -- the Resources Development Administration] technology and weapons systems deployed to suppress the indigenous hostiles and defend employees agingst the dangerous Pandoran environment"--P. [4] of cover.

The manuscripts were begun in Milan while Leonardo da Vinci was in the service of Ludovico Sforza. He continued the work during the last 25 years of the artist's life. The works were subsequently published in the collection and based on Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini. After Leonardo's death, those notebooks passed into the hands of his pupil and heir Francesco Melzi, and he published them later. It was a task of overwhelming difficulty due to its scope and Leonardo's idiosyncratic writing.