"Fictions" is a collection of short stories, influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes. Borges turns dry logical puzzles into enchanting fables.
Jorge Luis Borge`s Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here we find the astonishing accounts of Funes, the man who can forget nothing the French poet who recreated D...
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was a literary spellbinder whose gripping tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of h...
Although full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, the stories which make up The Aleph also contain some of Borges`s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes...
AFTER THE SUSPICIOUS DEATH of Pope John Paul I, powerful religious, political, and enigmatic factions are working to uncover the truth. A few operatives bold enough to penetrate the Vatican's shadowy ...
Gangs mirror their communities - but is the community a concrete space, for instance a neighbourhood, or is it a collective identity? This volume addresses this and other questions from an eclectic ra...
The nervous system has a remarkable capacity for self-reorganization, and in this first systematic analysis of the interaction between hormones and brain plasticity, Luis Miguel Garcia-Segura proposes...
Game Theory with Economic Applications
In this collection of essays, an international group of scholars investigate the global building cleaning industry to reveal the extent of neoliberalism's impact on cleaners. This book provides ...
The increasing awareness on the varied consequences of hypogonadism in distinct organs and systems has supported the notion of estrogens as systemic agents. This observation is congruent with the var...
Provides an introduction to High-Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) technology and its applications for wireless communications High-altitude platform stations offer a promising new technology that c...