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      • Cataplum Libros

        Good books are like meek animals that stretch when we caress their backs, and that show us their bellies so we go and play with them; but they also do not hesitate to give us a good bite to free us from the claws of routine. To create these noble creatures, in Cataplum we dig like moles through the collective memory and explore the roots that connect us as Latin-Americans; thus, we recover our oral tradition, our playful language and its diverse and endless possibilities. As truffle-seeking pigs, we have developed an acute nose to find texts of authors from past and actual times. As rabbits we jump here and there tracking down illustrators with new proposals. And as eagles we strive to see, from a distance, how image and texts can coexist in harmony. In sum, our catalogue has been conceived as a living creature; one that begun as something very little, like bear cubs, but capable of becoming a fabulous living being; one that combines the best qualities of noble animals and have the power to captivate us.

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      • April 2019

        Spirit in Philosophy

        A Metaphysical Inquiry

        by Belo, Catarina

        Catarina Belo explores the question of spirit in the history of philosophy and in various philosophical disciplines, highlighting its meaning and significance for Thomas Aquinas, George Berkeley, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, among other major figures. Belo argues that some of the traditional arguments concerning God, reason, and our knowledge of the world are shared by these philosophers, culminating but not ending in Hegel. In addition, she defends a kind of idealism that is not incompatible with realism. The book assumes the form a lively dialogue between a student and a teacher—following the literary tradition in philosophy that begins with Plato. The question of the spirit and its varied meanings are examined philosophically from a historical and a conceptual perspective.

      • December 2019

        Retomada

        by Pablo Albarenga

        Con esta selección fotográfica registrada entre 2016 y 2019, Pablo Albarenga nos adentra en la vida y la lucha de los pueblos indígenas de Brasil por recuperar sus territorios.Muchos son los pueblos originarios que viven en América Latina. Los que se identifican hoy como guaraníes vivieron y transitaron en la región comprendida por Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay. Se dice que si caminamos de Uruguay a Brasil y luego a Bolivia, podríamos dormir cada noche en una tekoá distinta. Las tekoás son aldeas donde preservan su legado ancestral; tekoá significa, en lengua guaraní, la tierra sin mal, el lugar donde se lleva a cabo la forma de ser guaraní.Estos pueblos de tierras bajas han hecho evidente una impactante capacidad para oponerse a eso que llamamos progreso. Son los que han enfrentado con mayor firmeza a las grandes obras y megaproyectos, desde la represa de Belo Monte (Brasil) hasta la carretera que atraviesa el Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro-Sécure (Bolivia).Las retomadas —reocupaciones de tierras indígenas— son un retorno a lo esencial, un acto de rebeldía de los pueblos indígenas de Brasil para volver a unirse con el territorio ancestral. Estos pueblos nos interpelan sobre si somos capaces de reconocer la diferencia, de aceptar la libertad del otro, su derecho a ser y a elegir cómo vivir. Pues en su libertad se evidencian nuevos rumbos posibles que nos obligan a mirarnos en su espejo para repensarnos.

      • Children's & YA
        January 2019

        The Three Stones

        by António Ramalho, Catarina Bico

        This is the story of a child that runs after destiny itself. An endless search for something wonderful and miraculous. In his quest, he will find many temptations, and who knows if will resist them. In the end, the little boy will learn the most important secret… he will learn that the world is only good-hearted if you wear a smile on your face.

      • Fiction

        Belo se pere na devetdeset/Whites Wash At Ninety

        by Bronja Žakelj

        Whites Wash at Ninety is an exhilarating debut, a powerful, witty and most of all inspiring novel that tells the story of the narrator, who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s. In her childhood, her world revolves around her parents, her brother Rok, her grandmother Dada, her aunts and uncles, the Sarajevo Winter Olympics and all the other big and small things that made up the world of every child growing up in Yugoslavia back then. And although it speaks about all these things, the novel is mainly a story of growing up, of facing loss and illness, of overcoming fears and of everything that we do not want to see until we are inevitably faced with it.This is a book that delves into eminent questions of life and death, with humour and charm, and without a trace of moralising or self-importance.

      • Medicine

        Medical Care

        Official Journal of the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association

        by Edited by Catarina Kiefe MD, PhD , Jeroan J Allison MD, MS

        Monthly - 2013 Volume(s) - 49 www.lww-medicalcare.com Rated as one of the top ten journals in healthcare administration, Medical Care is devoted to all aspects of the administration and delivery of healthcare. This scholarly journal publishes original, peer-reviewed papers documenting the most current developments in the rapidly changing field of healthcare. Medical Care reports on the findings of original investigations into issues related to the research, planning, organization, financing, provision, and evaluation of health services. Ranked 5th among 62 in Health Care Sciences & Services with an Impact Factor of 3.194 (2008 Journal Citation Reports®, Thomson Reuters, 2009)

      • September 2022

        The Weight of living on Earth

        by David Toscana

        Winner of the MARIO VARGAS LLOSA V BIENNIAL NOVEL PRIZE, 2023 Mario Vargas Llosa says "I have just read this novel by the Mexican writer David Toscana, which won the Biennial Novel Prize that bears my name, held in Guadalajara, and I think it is one of the most original texts published in recent years". "What is at stake in this remarkable text is humour. A strange and incandescent humour". "One of the original aspects of this book is that game by which, in the depths of the tragedies that the characters experience, there is always a light to which they can cling", "I think David Toscana has written one of the best novels in the language". La Nación, article by Mario Vargas LlosaWritten with the will to believe that imagination and desire are powerful forces for transforming reality, The Weight to Live on Earth puts us in front of an immense frieze of possibilities: life changes as we read, the author proposes, and this is how this group of characters turn the city of Monterrey into every possible scenario from Tsarist Russia to Soviet Russia, and a canteen will be a space station, an orange orchard will be a dacha, the Santa Catarina River will be the Neva, and an abandoned cable car will be the take-off platform. Sinopsis The news of the death of three Soviet cosmonauts on their return to Earth after 23 days on the Sailyut space station is the trigger for the delirious journey that Nikolai is about to embark on. Driven by his passion for reading, he changes his name to Nikolai Nikolayevich Pseldonov and his everyday life in the early 1970s in northern Mexico becomes a frieze that combines all the times and spaces of Russian literature: from Tolstoy to Bulgakov, from Chekhov to Akhmatova. Nicholas and his wife, along with a handful of strangers who join them along the way, fervently recreate scenes, conversations and stories from a wide range of novels, short stories and plays, but which, unlike the knights imitated by Don Quixote, star anti-heroes. Dozens or hundreds of stories that help us to piece together their own history and to sense their desolation in the face of a world in which they do not fit, a world they can only face with their imagination. Because, as the protagonist of The weight to live o earth says, “Life is the only infinite thing that has an end”.   WHAT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT THE AUTHOR’S WORK“Una obra que en España emparentaría de modo claro con el mejor Luis Landero, puesto que se sustenta en un mismo aliento o eje: el hiato entre realidad e irrealidad y el afán de los hombres por no resignarse a lo que son sin haber, al menos, intentado probar la suerte de lo que podrían ser; en suma: la redención en la búsqueda de lo imposible.” Ernesto Calabuig, El Cultural, El Mundo. “El humor, y en específico el negro, en las novelas de Toscana es legendario (…) logra unir la gran tradición de la picaresca en español con el universo metafísico de otro checo, Franz Kafka, para imponer un nuevo adjetivo atmosférico a la literatura mexicana: toscaniano o toscanesco.” Juan José de Ávila, El Confabulario, El Universal.

      • Fiction

        Thou Shalt Forget the Fire

        by Gabriela Riveros

        The story of the Sephardi Jew’s exodus from Spain and Portugal —silenced across four centuries— and their struggle to survive migrations, epidemics, hurricanes, war, prejudice, torture, political intrigues, and betrayals superbly narrated by Gabriela Riveros’ expert voice. Olvidarás el Fuego is the very first novel that chronicles this poignant story, the tragedy of the Carvajal lineage and the fate of their manuscripts and memoirs, found in 2016 at an auction house in New York, after having been stolen from the National Archives.  Through vivid, flesh-and-blood characters, we will witness their heroic, underground resistance, the fight of both men and women, entire families who gave their lives for their right to freedom of thought, belief, and religion. From Europe to New Spain, from Africa to Asia, the protagonists guard an ancestral secret, all while they are besieged by a political context in which cultural diversity was not only considered a sin, but a crime against the Estate.

      • Houses

        by María José Ferrada, Pep Carrió

        The authors of this book take us on a journey through the different ways of inhabiting a house. Based on illustrations by Pep Carrió made with acrylic markers, the writer María José Ferrada uses poetic language and humor to propose a set of micro-stories that invite readers to observe their own ways of inhabiting the world.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2017

        ARAWETÉ

        A Tupi people from the Amazon forest

        by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (author), Camila de Caux (author) and Guilherme Orlandini Heurich (author)

        Result of an academic research carried out in the 1980s by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, this book was published in 1992, following an edition adapted for wider, non-specialized audiences who showed great interest in the Araweté way of life. This third edition, revised and expanded with new chapters based on recent studies, celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the pioneering research by one of the most respected Brazilian anthropologists, and, above all, retrieves the struggle of this people to survive, resist and reinvent themselves without losing their culture.

      • Fiction
        2019

        Isaac D

        by Leandro Pileggi, Levi Tonin

        What if you woke up and were someone else? What if unnamable creatures showed up everywhere? What if only you noticed they were there? What if they came after you? Would you run? Would you hide? Or would you fight… Isaac D is a Light novel full of action and good humor, spiced by many Lovecraft and pop culture references. A fantasy built on humanity’s largest mysteries that brings together modern myths and pulp story classics.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2020

        AMAZON MOUTH

        Society and culture in Dalcidio Jurandir

        by Willi Bolle

        This book presents an overview of Amazonian history and analyzes the novel Cycle of the Far North, by Dalcidio Jurandir, a work that represents the social inequality and exclusion inherent to Amazonian society. Willi Bolle rescues the work of this important, albeit unknown, author, emphasizing Dalcidio Jurandir’s contribution to our understanding of Amazonian culture. In his work, Jurandir describes the quotidian of those living in the periphery of society, and advocates, quite emphatically, quality education for the poor. He also registers the social dialect of the inhabitants of the Amazon, in a document of the cultural memory of the region.

      • Biography & True Stories
        July 2018

        TARSILA DO AMARAL, THE MODERNIST

        by Nádia Battella Gotlib

        In this engaging and reader-friendly biography, the professor and essayist Nádia Batista Gotlib recreates the libertarian trajectory of Tarsila do Amaral, focusing on her private life, her training in art, the modernist circuit and the Pau-brasil and Anthropophagic movements, detailing the painter’s active commitment to defending the diversity of both her art and her affective and personal life. A paradigm of rupture in visual arts and literature, Tarsila do Amaral influenced Brazilian art production and played a leading role in the social mobility of women. This book offers readers a full picture of her intense life and work, deciphering their complexity, originality and worldview.

      • Children's & YA

        Frontiers

        by Marcia Kupstas

        An unforgettable journey changes the way the protagonist Maurícia faces life, releasing her from her daily fears and anxieties.  The adventures and challenges the youth faces allow the reader to see himself/herself in the reference universe where the characters are inscribed, as well as share their spheres of action. The storyline takes us through the Brazilian Amazon and gets Machu Picchu, the ruins of the Inca city in Peru, involving Archeology and UFOs.

      • September 2017

        Every food has a history

        by Joana Monteleone

        A delicious piece of work. Several essays, all of them told with pleasure of a historian who, at this moment, is not making History, but telling stories. Such storytelling, however, demands culture and talent, and Joana has extra talent and culture: she is a cook, that is, a first-rate storyeller, who moves through several times and through several dishes. The book, indicated for readers of any age, shows how much eacha meal we make is full of stories to be told and to tell us.

      • The Arts
        April 2018

        NEW HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN CINEMA II

        by Fernão Pessoa Ramos and Sheila Schvarzman (editors)

        This second volume of New History of Brazilian Cinema covers Brazilian cinema from the postwar period up to the present, discussing the Cinema Novo and Cinema Marginal movements, the state-owned producer Embrafilme, pornochanchada (soft-core sex comedies) and the crisis and revival of Brazilian film production from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, ending with an overview of experimental filmmaking, documentary film and contemporary film fiction up to 2016. Ebook version brings additional texts: “Brazilian New Cinema (1960-1972)”, by Bertrand Ficamos, and the extensive filmography “Brazilian films released from 1969 to 2016”, by Luiz Felipe Miranda

      • Native Brazilians

        Children's Edition

        by Daniel Munduruku

        A carefully produced Brazil’s native populations. This title introduces the most important elements of the culture, beliefs, and lifestyle of Brazilian Indians, explaining the differences between the numerous nations that inhabited the country long before the arrival of the Portuguese colonizers. Today there are more than 200 native nations in Brazil, with a population of approximately 750 thousand people.

      • Adventure
        2019

        La Dame Chevalier and Salomon’s lost table

        by A.Z. Codenonsi

        The years is 1927 and the murder of a soldier in a military hospital in Morocco begins a chance for an extremely valuable artefact, disappeared for more than a thousand years: the Table of Salomon, King of Kings, that would give its owner the wisdom of a thousand wise men. And when the Bureau’s investigation gets to the weapon used in La Dame Chevalier’s parents’ murder, the agent decides to travel to north Africa looking for the artefact and answers. Along with the young Justine Carbonneau, both women go to the desert among a war between the empire and the Berbers, fighting for their independence. But Chevalier will have company. Mercenaries led by the mysterious organization Ostia Mithrae also

      • Fiction
        March 2020

        The girl by the bridge

        by Diego Mello

        Three lives intertwined at random. An orphan of 25 years, a psychiatrist with cancer and the girl by the bridge - a young woman with suicide attempt history - will discover how grievances, absences, anxieties and sorrows can transform us through affection, gratitude and hope after the chaos. 'The girl by the bridge', the writer and psychiatrist Diego Mello, is a novel that deals with the feeling of 'an exaggerated amount of life', even through pain and disappointments. The reader is transported to the movements that develop within the chaotic and turbulent psychological functioning and that question the certainties of life. The arduous task of facing feelings, the author indicates that you need to 'look in the stars some sort of encouragement to pain' and see how the other interferes with our psyche and can save us or condemn us. The work challenges us to walk the path of the characters and the discovery of who we really are, or want to be. In the words of one character, 'You have to get lost to find yourself.'

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