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From John Currin's old-master-style Playboy bunnies to Elizabeth Peyton's fin-de-siècle portraits; from Julie Mehretu's dizzying, multilayered architectural landscapes to Shahzia Sikander's multipatterned miniature ones; from Yoshitomo Nara's angry and enigmatic little girls to Kara Walker's stereotypical negresses; and from Barry McGee's caricatures of urban graffiti to Matthew Ritchie's cosmological diagrams--drawing is back, if it ever went away. In contrast to the digitized, multimedia direction that much of contemporary art has taken in the past decade, drawing has become a major and arguably parallel mode of expression for many of today's most important young artists. Drawing Now, published to accompany the first major survey of contemporary drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 15 years, contains more than 100 color reproductions of work by 26 international artists, both well-known and emerging, that demonstrate the fascinating variety of methods and approaches, mediums and scales, apparent in this old-again, new-again art. Accompanying essays by the exhibition's curator, Laura Hoptman, explore eight themes that she perceives in the field--Drafting & Architecture, Mental Maps & Metaphysics, Popular Culture & National Culture, Fashion, Likeness & Allegory, Envisioning a City, Science & Art, Comics & Other Subcultures, Ornament & Crime--and provide key impulses behind drawing's recent resurgence.

Artists Include: Kara Walker, John Currin, Toba Khedoori, Chris Ofili, Franz Ackerman, Kai Althoff, Russell Crotty, Graham Little, Mark Manders, Barry McGee, Julie Mehretu, Yoshitomo Nara, Paul Noble, Jockum Nordstrom, Jennifer Pastor, Los Carpinteros,Laura Owens, E;izabeth Peyton, Matthew Ritchie, Ugo Rondinone, Shahiza Sikander, David Thorpe, and Richard Wright amongst others.

Essay by Laura Hoptman.

Paperback, 9.5 x 12 in., 192 pages, 130 color.
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This is the Spanish-language translation of Josh McDowell's well-known introduction to the person of Jesus Christ, More Than a Carpenter .
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The truth of an utterance depends on various factors. Usually these factors are assumed to be: the meaning of the sentence uttered, the context in which the utterance was made, and the way things are in the world. Recently, however, a number of cases have been discussed where there seems to be reason to think that the truth of an utterance is not yet fully determined by these three factors, and that truth must therefore depend on a further factor. The most prominent examples include utterances about values, utterances attributing knowledge, utterances that state that something is probable or epistemically possible, and utterances about the contingent future. In these cases, some have argued, the standard picture needs to be modified to admit extra truth-determining factors, and there is further controversy about the exact role of any such extra factors.
With contributions from some of the key figures in the contemporary debate on relativism this book is about a topic that is the focus of much traditional and current interest: whether truth is relative to standards of taste, values, or subjective informational states. It is an issue in the philosophy of language, but one with important connections to other areas of philosophy, such as meta-ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology..
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Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, The Carpenter's Pencil charts the linked destinies of Dr. Daniel Da Barca, Herbal, and of the unnamed painter with the carpenter's pencil. The Carpenter's Pencil was a bestseller in Spain and has been published in various languages. Description in Spanish: En la carcel de Santiago de Compostela, en plena Guerra Civil, un pintor dibuja el Portico de la Gloria con un lapiz de carpintero, reflejando los rostros... y aun mas, la desesperacion de sus companeros de presidio. Un guardian su futuro asesino., lo observa todo. A partir de esta escena, el Lapiz de Manuel Rivas hilvana una historia donde el amor logra vencer a la desesperacion..
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Two-dimensional semantics is a framework that helps us better understand some of the most fundamental issues in philosophy: those having to do with the relationship between the meaning of words, the way the world is, and our knowledge of the meaning of words. This selection of new essays by some of the world's leading authorities in this field sheds fresh light both on foundational issues regarding two-dimensional semantics and on its specific applications.
Contributors:
Richard Breheny, Alex Byrne, David Chalmers, Martin Davies, Gareth Evans, Manuel Garcia-Carpintero, Josep Macia, Martine Nida-Rumelin, Christopher Peacocke, James Pryor, Francois Recanati, Scott Soames, Cara Spencer, Robert Stalnaker, Kai-Yee Wong, Stephen Yablo.
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Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, The Carpenter's Pencil charts the linked destinies of Dr. Daniel Da Barca, Herbal, and of the unnamed painter with the carpenter's pencil. The Carpenter's Pencil was a bestseller in Spain and has been published in various languages.

Blurb in Spanish:
En la cárcel de Santiago de Compostela, en plena Guerra Civil, un pintor dibuja el Pórtico de la Gloria con un lápiz de carpintero, reflejando los rostros... y aún más, la desesperación de sus compañeros de presidio. Un guardián, su futuro asesino, lo observa todo. A partir de esa escena, el «lápiz» de Manuel Rivas hilvana una historia donde el amor logra vencer la desesperanza..
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This book describes the history of the research on inertial confinement nuclear fusion over the past 50 years. It is written by the leading scientists in this field and authentic protagonists of this period which started during the Cold War, as classified research in France, former USSR, United Kingdom and USA and as open research in Japan, Germany, Italy, Israel and Spain. The idea of publishing this book emerged years ago when Nobel Laureate Nicloai G. Basov, together with Professor Guillermo Velarde, decided to compile the history of inertial confinement fusion, inviting the participation of its pioneers. Both Basov and Velarde believed that only the pioneers involved in the research itself could relate to this history in a realistic and truthful manner. Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) is an interdisciplinary research subject, its main goal is aimed at solving mankind's energy problem for generations to come. This noble idea started almost simultaneously with the development of thermonuclear weapons (known to the public as the hydrogen bomb). This apparently close affiliation hindered the progress in the energy research. The ICF research and technology for solving the problem of energy production turned out to be so difficult and complex that only a worldwide collaboration could advance the research and achieve a successful solution. The book presents the direct testimony and open account of the facts, events, dates and contrasting research which culminated in 1988 with the Madrid Manifesto. This was suggested by Erik Storm and Guillermo Velarde and was signed by more than one hundred scientists around the world. They claimed international and open collaboration and paved the way, in 1990 in the United States, for the declassification of more than 90% of the work related to inertial confinement nuclear fusion research. A total of 23 chapters are presented with the description of the work carried out in the main laboratories around the world - From West to East: In the United States - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, KMS (Michigan), Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Laboratory for Laser Energetics at Rochester University and Naval Research Laboratory; in Europe: Institute of Nuclear Fusion (Spain), Rutherford Appleton Laboratory - Central Laser Facility (United Kingdom), Gessellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung, GSI (Germany), Max Planck Institute fur Quantenoptik (Germany) Laboratorio Gas Ionizzati, ENEA, (Italy); in Israel: Soreq Nuclear Research Centre; and in the former Soviet Union: Kurchatov and Troisk Institutes, Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Lebedev Physical Institute, All Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics - VNIEF (Arzamas 16), All Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics - VNITF (Chelyabinsk) It also present the work - from Japan: Insitute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University; and from Australia: University of New South Wales. Unfortunately, the contributions of Commisariat d'Energie Atomique and the Ecole Politechnique from France were not received. The chapters are written with emphasis as to why inertial confinement nuclear fusion was was chosen. They include a detailed overview of its beginnings and the first papers written by authors; their photographs and details of their teams, descriptions of unknown and significant episodes, as well as exciting technical descriptions and results. However the authors have focussed their account on their own personal perspectives. The result is an independent, personal and realistic account of historical data during the past 50 years. Level of readership is scientists, engineers, graduate and undergraduate students of science, history of science, philosophy of science and the intelligent reader..
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2006 Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk delivers a new novel filled with headlong intensity and mesmerizing prose. Narrator Osman, a university student in Istanbul, lays a spell on the reader with the opening words: "I read a book one day and my whole life was changed." This book, which opens the door to the promise of a new life, affects Osman to the point that he abandons his studies, turns his back on home and family and embarks on a wondrous odyssey.

Description in Spanish: Hasta el inesperado momento en que abrió el libro, la vida de Osman se reducía a asistir a clase de Ingeniería y regresar a la casa que compartía con su madre. La lectura y un tiroteo en las calles nevadas de Estambul convirtieron al joven héroe en un viajero nocturno cuya existencia nunca volvió a ser la misma.

Osman recorre un inmenso país acompañado de una mujer que, por azar, dejó el libro sobre la mesa de un café. Una mujer que ama a otro hombre. El mismo a quien están buscando, el único que comprende el poder del libro.

Orhan Pamuk, un autor comparado con Nabokov, Borges o Umberto Eco, nos aporta la creatividad y la visión de un hombre de hoy que vive y escribe en la frontera de dos mundos: Occidente y el Islam..
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