Mas Alla de los Pilares de la Tierra / Beyond the Pillars of the Earth

An introductory yoga book that presents it in a very close and understanding way. It begins with the question "Can you do many things at once?" in order to lead the reader to the realization that doing just one thing can be much harder than doing many things simultaneously. The simplest and natural thing to do is simply breathe. This book includes a reading guide as an important practical component for those who want to begin the practice of yoga through easy postures. Un libro introductorio al yoga que lo presenta de una manera muy pr�xima y entendedora. � Parte de la pregunta...

Book offers a close philosophical look at José Enrique Rodó's ARIELISM, an important component of modernism in Latin American history. The images of Ariel and Caliban come to life as the author analyz-es Rodó's book, Ariel, in context of history and literature. In the face of general Latin American failure, the author looks for answers in cultural mechanisms which are inherent to Latin American history.

Este libro ofrece una actualizada aproximación crítico-teórica, de carácter transdisciplinario, al estudio de la cultura latinoamericana, entendida como un campo de lucha por el poder representacional y como espacio simbólico para la expresión de subjetividades colectivas. A través de estudios de variados registros se exploran los temas del poder; la producción simbólica; las articulaciones de clase, raza y género; el lugar de las humanidades y el papel de los intelectuales en el contexto de la globalización. Para ello, se analizan las relaciones entre lo local, lo nacional, lo...

Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria analyzes the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manifestation of cosmopolitanism, global cultural cartographies, and a self-fashioned poetic genealogy. Ramírez Rojas approaches de Greiff’s poems as cultural maps that reveal both a desire of connectivity with the world and a need for reorganizing the imaginary library of world literature. From a self-assumed position of eccentricity, de Greiff builds a network of global connections and disputes the binary division of cultural centers and...