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Retrato hablado. Evocaciones de un fantasma
Read moreTitle Retrato hablado. Evocaciones de un fantasma Author Juan Villoro Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244325 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 84 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Retrato hablado commemorates the centennial of Ramón López Velarde's death. Throughout the play, the writer's ghost recalls a dialogue that took place a century earlier between two young students and Miguel Casasola, as they wait for the poet in the photographer’s studio, where he is about to have is portrait taken. Said dialogue and the ghost's monologues present key moments in the life of López Velarde, dubbed the “national poet”, as well as passages that are representative of his literary opus. The book includes an appendix with bibliographical notes on the edition of López Velarde’s works. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
La vida que se escribe. El periodismo cultural de José Emilio Pacheco.
Read moreTitle La vida que se escribe. El periodismo cultural de José Emilio Pacheco. Author Juan Villoro Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244790 Edition number 3 Publication year 2024 Pages 67 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis An analysis of José Emilio Pacheco's journalistic work in his column “Inventario,” first published in Excélsior and then in Proceso, from 1973 until his death. This long-running weekly project had not been fully examined until now. To commemorate the first publication of “Inventario” as an anthology in 2017, Juan Villoro presents an essay where he delves into this heterogeneous collection of texts and analyzes a little studied facet of Pacheco's work. A brief appendix with interesting facts is included at the end. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
El tiempo y sus mastines
Read moreTitle El tiempo y sus mastines Author Vicente Quirarte Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243038 Edition number 1 Publication year 2018 Pages 223 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis In 1980, Vicente Quirarte published his first book of poems: Teatro sobre el viento armado. Since then, he has published many collections and anthologies such as Vencer a la blancura (1982), El peatón es asunto de la lluvia (1999), and many others. His work has been acknowledged with several awards. El tiempo y sus mastines is a selection, put together by the author himself, that gathers more than sixty poems (most of them about love, although it is not the only theme in the book) that showcase the different stages of Quirarte's poetic creation. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
El fantasma de la prima Agueda
Read moreTitle El fantasma de la prima Agueda Author Vicente Quirarte Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077242468 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 103 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis El fantasma de la prima Águeda presents a compilation of short essays, written in different times and places, in which Vicente Quirarte reviews some aspects of Ramón López Velarde's life and work, in a personal and free way. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Nonagenario Cuidam Dicata
Read moreTitle Nonagenario Cuidam Dicata Author Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077241751 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 168 Format Print and digital THEMA History and Archaeology Synopsis This volume is a moving tribute to Miguel León-Portilla on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. Eduardo Matos Moctezuma gives a personal account of the life and work of the Mexican historian. He also compiles an array of reviews dedicated to some of his most outstanding works: Literaturas indígenas de México, Tonantzin Guadalupe. Nahuatl thought and Christian message in the “Nican mopohua”, Cantares mexicanos and México-Tenochtitlan, su espacio y tiempo sagrados. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Octavio Paz y la arqueología
Read moreTitle Octavio Paz y la arqueología Author Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243199 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 62 Format Print and digital THEMA History and Archaeology Synopsis This book gathers four essays by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma on Octavio Paz's relationship with the pre-Hispanic world. The author explores different themes and interests linked to the pre-Hispanic world and archaeology that influenced the work of the Mexican poet. He deals with death and indigenism in Paz's production, describes the writer's ideas on pre-Hispanic art, and also celebrates the poet and his literary production pertaining to this subject. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Las andanzas de un calendario y los trotes de un caballito
Read moreTitle Las andanzas de un calendario y los trotes de un caballito Author Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243991 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 56 Format Print and digital THEMA History and Archaeology Synopsis The Sun Stone was buried in the Plaza de Armas by order of the archbishop of Mexico City a few years after the Conquest. A similar fate befell the equestrian statue of Charles IV, known as El Caballito, which was originally mounted on the Plaza Mayor, but was placed in several other locations before arriving at Plaza Tolsá in 1979. In this book, archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma recounts the details of the pilgrimage of both sculptures in search of rest. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
El largo instante del incendio.Ensayo biográfico sobre José Vasconcelos
Read moreTitle El largo instante del incendio.Ensayo biográfico sobre José Vasconcelos Author Rafael Mondragón Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244646 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 343 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis José Vasconcelos is one of the most pain inducing writers in Mexican literature. These pages explore the reasons behind that pain. They build his biography based on moments in his life and work: his adolescence, the founding of the Ministry of Public Education, the 1929 electoral campaign, and the dark years that led him to defend Nazism. The book presents a mosaic of texts, testimonies, and memories from several generations who participated in Vasconcelism. It invites us to reflect on José Vasconcelos's lingering impact. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Mahler y Shostakóvich
Read moreTitle Mahler y Shostakóvich Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077245544 Edition number 1 Publication year 2025 Pages 90 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis The lives of the last two great symphonists in history, Gustav Mahler and Dmitri Shostakovich, took place in very different times and circumstances. The former was more famous as a conductor than as a composer during his lifetime; the latter was first subjected to Stalinist censorship and later exalted as a creator of socialist music. Mahler influenced the work of Shostakovich, who died of lung cancer, as a result of being an inveterate smoker. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Chaikovski y Puccini
Read moreTitle Chaikovski y Puccini Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077245506 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 90 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Two of the public's favorite composers, Tchaikovsky and Puccini, die in the midst of their creative stage. The former passes away days after the premiere of his Sixth Symphony (Pathetique), giving rise to controversial theories on the cause of death —cholera or suicide?—, a dilemma that we try to elucidate here. Puccini, in turn, survives a serious automobile accident, to die years later in an emergency hospital in Belgium, far away from his homeland and friends, without finishing his last opera: Turandot. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Borodin y Bizet
Read moreTitle Borodin y Bizet Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077245247 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 90 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Two contemporaneous musicians famous for their operas: a Russian, Aleksandr Borodin, author of Prince Igor, and a Frenchman, Georges Bizet, author of Carmen. Borodin, also a celebrated chemist, ends his successful life halfway through a dance. Bizet, gifted with exceptional musical creativity, dies at the age of thirty-six, depressed by the constant struggle to excel in the difficult Parisian musical environment, without ever knowing the phenomenal success that Carmen would gain. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Clara Schumann y Johannes Brahms
Read moreTitle Clara Schumann y Johannes Brahms Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077245049 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 87 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis After Robert Schumann's death in 1856, his widow Clara and Johannes Brahms establish an affectionate relationship that lasts 40 years, but does not lead to marriage. In 1896, she dies exhausted, after leading a hectic life as a pianist and mother of seven children. He dies the following year, ill and disconsolate. This is the story of the long-lasting bond between two geniuses, through music. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Verdi y Gounod
Read moreTitle Verdi y Gounod Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244776 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 90 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Giuseppe Verdi and Charles Gounod, two great opera composers, had a very sparse personal relationship, despite being contemporaries. The former said of Gounod: “He is a great musician, but he has no dramatic substance”, while the latter commented on Verdi: “He is not only an illustrious composer, but a clever businessman”. Verdi had a life full of triumphs for his numerous works -among them La Traviata and Aida-. Gounod, in turn, is remembered today for his Ave Maria and two splendid operas: Faust and Romeo and Juliet. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Liszt y Wagner
Read moreTitle Liszt y Wagner Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244615 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 86 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner: two giants of classical music bound by family ties. The former, in spite of himself, had to accept the latter as son-in-law. Liszt generously offered his genius as a pianist and composer; Wagner used his extraordinary talent to revolutionize opera and satisfy his narcissism. Although very different in terms of personality, Franz and Richard had at least one thing in common: they both produced astonishingly original works. Here is the story of their journey and the end of their lives. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Chopin y Schumann
Read moreTitle Chopin y Schumann Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244554 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 88 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis In the same year, 1810, two sublime piano composers were born: Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann. Since his childhood, the former suffered from a lung disease that would follow him throughout his short life, while the latter, already an adult, developed a psychiatric disorder that would condemn him to die alone in a sanatorium for the mentally ill. Their paths crossed once, and they performed their own and each other's pieces on the piano. Their lives and, perhaps, their extraordinary musical creations cannot be fully understood without knowing their medical histories, which are recounted here. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Berlioz y Mendelsshon
Read moreTitle Berlioz y Mendelsshon Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244363 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 92 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Hector Berlioz and Felix Mendelssohn, renowned composers, innovative conductors, and excellent writers, formed a good friendship in their youth, despite differing in their respective musical styles. Berlioz, a genius tormented by bouts of melancholy and excitement, did not find fame in his country, unlike Mendelssohn, who is perhaps the greatest child prodigy in classical music history. Here is the account of the passionate lives of the authors of Symphonie fantastique and A Midsummer Night's Dream. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Donizeti y Bellini
Read moreTitle Donizeti y Bellini Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244240 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 86 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Vincenzo Bellini and Gaetano Donizetti, two geniuses of 19th century Italian opera, triumph in Paris under the aegis of Rossini. Bellini dies young, at the height of his productivity, under mysterious circumstances, possibly a victim of murder. Donizetti survives him, struggling against a progressive mental deterioration that finally kills him. Both their biographies should, inevitably, include an analysis of their respective medical histories. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Rossini y Schubert
Read moreTitle Rossini y Schubert Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244127 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 86 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Five years separate the births of Rossini and Schubert, yet their lives are diametrically opposite. Gioachino dies old, rich, famous, and exhausted; Franz, on the other hand, dies very young, poor, and at the height of his productivity. Schubert was influenced by Rossini, whom he admired for his operas, which were a sensation in early 19th century Vienna. Rossini did not get to know Schubert's musical work. The medical histories of these two musical giants allow us to understand the cause of Rossini's creative eclipse and the reasons behind Schubert's premature death. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Beethoven y Paganini
Read moreTitle Beethoven y Paganini Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243939 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 99 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Ludwig van Beethoven and Niccolò Paganini lived in the same time, but they had no contact, neither in person nor in writing. Although Paganini considered Beethoven's string quartets to be “extravagant”, the German composer's music surely influenced the compositions of the “diabolical” violinist, twelve years his junior, who traveled to Vienna to give recitals when Beethoven had already passed. Without meeting each other, these two geniuses were linked by the burden of deplorable health; both were in the hands of doctors as famous as incapable of relieving their torments. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Haydn y Mozart
Read moreTitle Haydn y Mozart Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244028 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 80 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Haydn and Mozart, the two greatest creative artists of the classical period, were united by music and friendship. Haydn, Europe's most famous composer during his lifetime, remarked to Mozart's father: “I tell you before God, and as an honest man, that your son is the greatest composer I know”. Mozart, in turn, referred to Haydn as “my teacher”. The same generosity and the same musical language were present in two different personalities: one, boisterous and innovative; the other, austere and conservative. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Bach y Handel
Read moreTitle Bach y Handel Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243755 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 86 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Bach and Handel, two giants of classical music, were born in the same year in Germany; however, they did not get to meet personally. Bach always remained in his country, where he had twenty children. Handel, on the other hand, made his fame and fortune in England, without ever marrying. Both lived long and prolific lives, tied by a common ending: blindness, caused by the clumsy intervention of the same apprentice eye surgeon. Through a medical-biographical assessment of the lives of these composers, the answers to various questions about genius and creativity are revealed. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Monteverdi y Vivaldi
Read moreTitle Monteverdi y Vivaldi Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243434 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 78 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis The two brilliant initiators of Baroque music, Claudio Monteverdi, father of opera, and Antonio Vivaldi, master of the violin, lived in different times, but they had commonalities: they both performed a large part of their vast work in Venice and unenthusiastically embraced priesthood. Monteverdi struggled in vain to achieve the professional and economic recognition he desired. Vivaldi successfully fought a serious pulmonary weakness that afflicted him from birth. Both died at an advanced age for the time. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
De la amibiasis al zika
Read moreTitle De la amibiasis al zika Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077241812 Edition number 1 Publication year 2016 Pages 261 Format Print and digital THEMA Medicine and Nursing Synopsis In this book, Adolfo Martínez Palomo gathers a set of articles that were originally published in the newspaper La Crónica de Hoy. The author deals with various infectious diseases, from amebiasis to zika, and the public health problem they have posed in recent decades. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Teotihuacan, ciudad excepcional en Mesoamérica
Read moreTitle Teotihuacan, ciudad excepcional en Mesoamérica Author Linda Rosa Manzanilla Naim Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077242611 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 143 Format Print and digital THEMA History and Archaeology Synopsis In this work, which condenses more than four decades of multidisciplinary work dedicated to the understanding of Teotihuacan, a brief history of this city is presented, as well as the most recent discoveries about its political, cultural, religious, social, and economic organization. Each topic is presented in a pleasant and fluid manner, making it accessible to both the casual and specialized reader. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Arqueología mexicana. Sus orígenes y proyecciones.
Read moreTitle Arqueología mexicana. Sus orígenes y proyecciones. Author Leonardo López Luján; Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077245254 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 306 Format Print and digital THEMA History and Archaeology Synopsis The enormous relevance of archaeology in Mexico is indebted to a long and vigorous tradition that has its roots in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Since then, this discipline is rich in places, characters, relationships and events that, in one way or another, affect our present and the particular way in which it is approached today. In this book, we are invited to take a fascinating journey to that remote period when Mexican archaeology was taking its first steps, as well as to travel through deserted cities that dazzled the first explorers. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
El ídolo sin pies ni cabeza. La Coatlicue a finales del México virreinal
Read moreTitle El ídolo sin pies ni cabeza. La Coatlicue a finales del México virreinal Author Leonardo López Luján Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243762 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 118 Format Printed THEMA History and Archaeology Synopsis The story of the Coatlicue has been bumpy and eventful. El ídolo sin pies ni cabeza narrates the vicissitudes of this Mexica sculpture since its discovery in the viceregal period. Thanks to extensive research, Leonardo López Luján documents in this book the disputes that this event caused among the intellectuals and antiquarians of the time, the publications that arose around the sculpture, as well as the diverse reactions it inspired in those who came to know it. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Los muertos viven, los vivos matan. Mictlantecuhtli en el recinto sagrado de Tenochtitlan
Read moreTitle Los muertos viven, los vivos matan. Mictlantecuhtli en el recinto sagrado de Tenochtitlan Author Leonardo López Luján Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244318 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 119 Format Printed THEMA History and Archaeology Synopsis The present work gathers a set of articles on Mictlantecuhtli, the Mexica god of death. From the description and analysis of two sculptures exhumed in 1994 in the House of the Eagles of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan, the texts presented here expose some key ideas of Mesoamerican eschatology. In the first article, Leonardo López Luján and Vida Mercado give an account of the conditions in which the sculptures were found and the restoration process after their discovery. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Conversaciones con Fernando González Gortázar. Reflexiones sobre el arte urbano
Read moreTitle Conversaciones con Fernando González Gortázar. Reflexiones sobre el arte urbano Author Felipe Leal Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077245223 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 103 Format Printed THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Conversations held by Felipe Leal and Fernando González Gortázar between 1996 and 2007. The first one that appears in the volume took place in 2007, at the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and explores the emblematic Torres de Satélite, a symbol of an era and a reference of Mexican and world public art. The following three were part of La arquitectura en el espacio y en el tiempo, a program on Radio UNAM. Aspects that marked the prolific work and personality of González Gortázar, marked by the search for happiness, are mentioned. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Conversaciones con Teodoro González de León. La arquitectura, el arte y la ciudad
Read moreTitle Conversaciones con Teodoro González de León. La arquitectura, el arte y la ciudad Author Felipe Leal Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244738 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 114 Format Printed THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Conversation held by Felipe Leal and Teodoro González de León between 1996 and 2013. Series of interviews for Radio UNAM's La arquitectura en el espacio y en el tiempo and for a special TV program on Canal 22, conducted by Leal, in which they exchange views on the meaning and relevance of architecture, its relevance to the organization of life in cities, and the challenges of its teaching and implementation. Teodoro González de León, a humanist convinced of the social and artistic role of architecture. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Herencia léxica del español de México
Read moreTitle Herencia léxica del español de México Author Luis Fernando Lara Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077241799 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 119 Format Printed THEMA Language and Linguistics Synopsis In this work Luis Fernando Lara analyzes the role of etymology in the study of language vocabulary. He also traces the history of Spanish, exposing the heritage that various languages have bequeathed to it over the centuries, from pre-Roman to modern, paying special attention to Mexican Spanish. Lara builds a bridge between language and culture, and touches on other topics such as the use and disuse of vocabulary, the different linguistic ideologies and their attitude towards foreignisms, and the importance of using Spanish as a language of knowledge. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
La educación y la intuición del infinito. Ensayo biográfico sobre Ezequiel A. Chávez.
Read moreTitle La educación y la intuición del infinito. Ensayo biográfico sobre Ezequiel A. Chávez. Author Andrés Íñigo Silva Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243373 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 311 Format Printed THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis This essay introduces the life of Ezequiel A. Chávez, a driving force behind the creation of the National University, its director on two occasions, and promoter of its autonomy; founding director of the National School of Higher Studies, and director of the National Preparatory School. His work as a teacher spanned over forty years during which he taught various subjects such as Geography and Mexican History, and he was the first Psychology professor in the country. Concerned about the present and future of Mexico, he dedicated his life and work to improving himself as a means to help others. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Arturo Rosenblueth 1900-1970
Read moreTitle Arturo Rosenblueth 1900-1970 Author Ruth Guzik Glantz Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077245629 Edition number 1 Publication year 2025 Pages 515 Format Printed THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis This book tells the story of Arturo Rosenblueth, an renowned Mexican physiologist and philosopher of science. A thorough research allows access to his career, his work with Walter B. Cannon, and his contribuitions to physiology and cibernetics. Rosenblueth created the Club de Filosofía de la Ciencia; he was the first head of the Laboratorio de Fisiología of the Instituto Nacional de Cardiología and the founding director of Cinvestav; he was a founding member of the Sociedad Mexicana de Ciencias FIsiológicas and a member of El Colegio Nacional. These pages describe his legacy. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Sólo puede sernos ajeno lo que ignoramos. Ensayo biográfico sobre Alfonso Reyes
Read moreTitle Sólo puede sernos ajeno lo que ignoramos. Ensayo biográfico sobre Alfonso Reyes Author Javier Garciadiego Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244837 Edition number 2 Publication year 2024 Pages 515 Format Printed THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis This biography, based on Alfonso Reyes' most personal and intimate pages -letters and diaries- rebuilds the life of Alfonso Reyes, whose message and legacy are greater than his work. Grounded in his cultural and political context at all times, it also aims to be a history of Mexican culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Alfonso Reyes undertook a difficult process of integration into the Mexican post-revolutionary regime. He was a notable diplomat (in Spain, France, Argentina and Brazil) and a creator of essential institutions for the country. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Triptofanito, Lisina y la pandemia. ¿Y después qué pasó?
Read moreTitle Triptofanito, Lisina y la pandemia. ¿Y después qué pasó? Author Julio Frenk; Andrés García Barrios; Leslie Alger Publisher El Colegio Nacional-Secretaría de Cultura del Estado de Jalisco Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244370 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 100 Format Printed THEMA Health, Relationships and Personal development Synopsis The pandemic turned the kingdom of the Human Body upside down, but that morning its inhabitants discovered that it was about to end... What would happen now? In this adventure, Triptofanito and Lisina prepare to face a new reality. To do so, they will have to help the farmer where they live to remember everything they have learned in recent years. What did the COVID-19 pandemic teach us about our bodies, our relationships with other living beings and the world we inhabit? What needs to change for us to live better? foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Destellos del cosmos. Ensayo biográfico sobre Manuel sandoval Vallarta.
Read moreTitle Destellos del cosmos. Ensayo biográfico sobre Manuel sandoval Vallarta. Author Del Río Haza Fernando Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243137 Edition number 1 Publication year 2018 Pages 254 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis A review of the life and work of Manuel Sandoval Vallarta, the great Mexican physicist, covers from his first steps in a school in the Santa María la Ribera neighborhood to his fruitful stint as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). For this purpose, he recreates the cultural and scientific life of Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century and its most relevant characters and institutions, and relates Sandoval Vallarta's relationship with the pleiad of great physicists who interacted with him. It shows a panorama of world physics in the first part of the century. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
El español. Un ADN cultural de muchas lenguas
Read moreTitle El español. Un ADN cultural de muchas lenguas Author Concepción Company Company Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN En trámite Edition number 1 Publication year 2025 Pages 127 Format Print and digital THEMA Language and Linguistics Synopsis This book is a journey through the loanwords from many languages that have enriched Spanish throughout its existence. It is a tour of ten languages that have left a profound lexical, and sometimes grammatical, mark on Spanish. Contact is the natural condition of human beings and many languages are enriched by it with loanwords. Any language is a sum of genes and mimetic events, because having language and speaking are genetically underpinned activities and are also socially and culturally conditioned by secular and even millenary heritage. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Thomas Khun, revoluciones y paradigmas.Una breve historia de la lingüística
Read moreTitle Thomas Khun, revoluciones y paradigmas.Una breve historia de la lingüística Author Concepción Company Company Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243052 Edition number 1 Publication year 2018 Pages 75 Format Print and digital THEMA Language and Linguistics Synopsis In this book, Concepción Company applies Thomas Kuhn's concept of revolution, expounded in his work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, to the history of linguistics. To do so, she recounts the different paradigms that have guided her work, starting with the pioneers of this relatively young science, who discovered and studied the genetic relationship between some Indo-European languages, and then analyzing the contributions of the Neogrammarians, structuralism, generative grammar, and functionalism. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
El español en América: de lengua de conquista a lengua patrimonial
Read moreTitle El español en América: de lengua de conquista a lengua patrimonial Author Concepción Company Company Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244189 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 145 Format Print and digital THEMA Language and Linguistics Synopsis This work revolves around Spanish in America. It highlights how Spanish went from being a language of conquest to a patrimonial language. Various linguistic strategies that show the strong clash between Spaniards and indigenous peoples, who at first had to find ways to understand each other and make themselves understood, are analyzed, showing how, over the centuries, Spanish in America acquired its own character because of the interbreeding of peoples and languages. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Bitácora de la hoja. Ensayo biográfico sobre Mariano Azuela
Read moreTitle Bitácora de la hoja. Ensayo biográfico sobre Mariano Azuela Author Emiliano Álvarez Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243083 Edition number 1 Publication year 2018 Pages 237 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis The fragmentary writing in this book, which jumps through time and then, quickly, resumes its course, more slowly at times, aspires to give a vivid, though not detailed, account of the life of Mariano Azuela, one of the fundamental writers in 20th century Mexican narrative. The central axis is Los de abajo, which is, undoubtedly, his most important novel. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx
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