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Borges himself chose the poems for this collection, focusing not on meaning, or theory or autobiography, but simply the intense pleasure at the moment of rereading; in his words, this is a "hedonistic" assortment.

Conocer el nacimiento y la posterior evolución de la filosofía en el mundo heleno antes del advenimiento de Sócrates significa emprender un recorrido a veces intrincado pero siempre apasionante que se ve iluminado aquí con los amplios conocimientos históricos, filosóficos y filológicos de su autor, el prestigioso Olof Gigon. La admirable tarea exegética que Gigon desarrolla en esta obra nos permite disfrutar de una hilvanada evolución del pensamiento presocrático y contextualizar cada uno de los planteamientos filosóficos que se van sucediendo en la antigua Grecia. Remontándose en ...

Three boys. Three stories. And one sport that unites them - and maybe not the one you'd expect.For as long as they can remember, best friends Mario and Carlos have talked about playing professional baseball one day like one of their idols, Rafael Soriano of the Yankees. Though they have only played the game on the streets of the neighborhood, growing up the boys often repeated the same conversation about someday wearing the pinstriped uniform and giving post-game interviews to the press - in English and Spanish! It was wishful thinking, to be sure, but common for many young boys raised in the ...

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