Moliere is one of the world's great dramatists and this is a wonderful collection. Like Shakespeare, he appeals to us an entertainer as well as a thinker, which accounts for his continued popularity since the 17th century. This collection is ideal for scholars, fans and common readers alike. The selections accurately represent the variety and quality of Moliere's writing.

This is a fabulous book of transformation and I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in ascension. Told from a Nagual woman's perspective, it is magical and refreshing.

It's also cool to read this woman's interaction with don Juan, the wise shaman from Carlos Castenedas' series. The author gives a strong visual, with regard to the choice we have, in moving outward from this dimension.

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_Donoso Cortes: Cassandra of the Age_ is an excellent biography of the nineteenth century Spanish political and theological thinker Donoso Cortes. Donoso Cortes is famous for his reactionary beliefs concerning the French Revolution and the subsequent ideologies inspired by it and as a political prophet of the coming crises of his age. From his beginnings as a moderate liberal intellectual and journalist in early nineteenth century Spain, Donoso turned to the traditions of the Catholic Church and came to regard his age as afflicted with a loss of center due to the denial of tradition and the established order. Like other Catholic traditionalist counter-revolutionaries such as Joseph de Maistre and Bonald of his time, Donoso believed his age was headed for disaster in its denial of God and his rightful place among men as well as that revealed tradition of God in society so that it could only be saved through outright divine intervention. Unlike the liberals of his time, Donoso understood man to be rooted in sin and capable of radical evil due to his fall from grace. For Donoso, humanity would be entirely irredeemable were it not for the constraints imposed upon him from revealed tradition and the saving grace of Christ. In fact, Donoso's prophecies concerning his age were so dark and pessimistic that many have failed to see any hope for mankind at all in them short of a direct divine intervention. Donoso served as both a journalist and friend to the Queen Maria Cristina of Spain as well as a diplomat to both Berlin and Prussia and later to France. He had various relationships with certain central political figures of his time including the emperor Napoleon III as well as the pope. Donoso predicted the coming bloodshed in Europe, the nationalist and socialist revolutions in the next century, as well as making predictions for an innate saving power residing in the people and traditions of Russia and its civilization. It is the importance of these darkened predictions to the modern age that have made Donoso a figure who was revived in more recent times by various conservative political writers, among them the jurist and Third Reich intellectual Carl Schmitt. Donoso's early writings were written from the perspective of a moderate liberal and emphasized the role of intellect in political affairs. Later Donoso would take a sharper turn towards reaction rejecting the ideals of the revolution, and in his most famous work _Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism_ would outline the major differences between these political ideologies. For Donoso, liberalism represented a sliding point between the traditional order which consisted of the Catholic Church and the monarchy and the extremes of socialism and nihlism. Donoso respected socialism for having its own "demonic theology" and admired (though he sharply criticized) the famous anarchist philosopher Joseph Proudhon. Donoso observed the move away from God through pantheism (represented by democracy which deified the masses) towards His outright denial in atheism and nihlism. Donoso remarked frequently about the dangers of excessive discussion and parliamentarianism and the loss of the role of authority. The author, R. A. Herrara, contends that Donoso served as a Cassandra for his age, a prophet whose dark interpretations were doomed to be ignored in his time, but whose revelations demonstrated profound truths. This book provides an excellent biography of a lonely figure who stood for tradition and the authority of Catholicism in a time of crisis - a Catholic traditionalist and a dark prophet for his time.

This is a fascinating book! Written as the first person reminiscences of Isaac Mylar during his childhood and adulthood between 1855 and 1880 in the quaint mission town of San Juan Bautista, California. One visualizes a droll and grizzled Mark Twain-ish narrator describing the day to day goings-on in San Juan ... an important crossroads town and stagecoach depot in old California. While being entertained by Isaac's homey narration, one learns a lot about California history. We meet the Breen family, survivors of the Donner Party, Encarnacion Sanchez, the richest woman in California, an assortment of famous outlaws including Tiburcio Vasquez, and various nineteenth century entertainers passing through on their way to the minefields. We learn about the tensions that developed in this small California town, peopled by both northerners and southerners, at the outbreak of the Civil War. And finally, we learn about the effect of the railroad on small town economies in California. I have a much better feel for California history after reading this book ... and I think you will too. I highly recommend it.

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This book offers a new and complete understanding of soy, as an excellent example of the ultimate concept of food. Soy provides nutrients and phytochemicals. The phytochemicals of soy help to prevent the most common diseases, as heart attack and cancer.

Robert Musil is one of the greatest european (he's austrian) writers of the XXth century. He's the author of The man without qualities and this is the subject of El reino milenario. Juan García Ponce introduced Musil's work to the spanish spoken world and this book is an introduction to his great novel, done with a great sense of criticism and knowledge of Musil's time and mind. I recomend this title strongly if you like essays that inspire you to read something you don't know.

The debate that hasn't taken place in many developing countries and is increasingly needed is exactly what Juan Enriquez discusses in this book. The author provides a clear set of arguments that everyone, from a 7 year old to the President of a country, can follow to understand why science and technology is the enabler to be a participant in the new knowledge economy. Investing in its people is the only way emerging countries will be able to "hop on the bus" of the information revolution. The first step is to get involved in this debate, and as Enriquez suggests, one does not have to be a Ph.D. in Economics or a Lawyer to participate in it. Anyone interested in participating in this debate, as well as in designing the strategies that can enable Mexico and other emerging countries to succeed in the new economy, should definitely read this book!

This book contains three short-stories that are considered among the best of mexican 20th century literature. Remember Juan Rulfo's El llano en llamas, Inés Arredondo's Underground river -río subterraneo- (she's of García Ponce's generation), Juan José Arreola, et al. El gato is the first story and, in my taste, the best. Maybe that's because i live in a building like the one described there (one of the author's best achievements is description). The plot involves a woman, a cat, and a man. That's all i can say about it but you should know there's much more to it. La plaza is a short piece on melancholy for a city remembered; a place one knew in youth and comes back a mature man. La gaviota is a beautiful piece on teenage love, Octavio Paz said that it was the first time in mexican literature that someone wrote about the subject with great quality. This is a great introduction to the mature García Ponce.