Jules of the World: The California Caper

"Historias con Alma" es una sorprendente y metafísica manera de explorar la posibilidad de que nos convirtamos todos en fantasmas, y lo que ocurre a partir de ahí. Humor, dulzura, personajes entrañables y carcajadas en más de doscientas tiras protagonizadas por Mike y Bryan, el caso de almagelismo más celebrado en Facebook. Es, en sus propias palabras, el proyecto más personal de este autor conocido, sobre todo, por su saga de zombis "Los Caminantes", nacido del azar durante la promoción de una de sus novelas, y que se ha ganado día a día el corazón de sus seguidores.

Market forces have profoundly affected the contemporary research university's fundamental tasks of creating and disseminating knowledge. They arguably have provided American universities access to greater wealth, better students, and stronger links with the economy. Yet they also have exaggerated inequalities, diminished the university's control over its own activities, and weakened the university's mission of serving the public. Incorporating twenty years of research and new data covering 99 research universities, Knowledge and Money explains this paradox by assessing how market forces have affected universities in four key spheres of activity: finance, undergraduate education, primary research, and participation in regional and national economic development. The book begins by chronicling how universities have enlarged revenues by optimizing tuitions, and how they have managed these funds.

It reveals why competition for the best students through selective undergraduate admissions has led to increased student consumerism and weakened university control over learning. The book also explains why research has become an increasingly autonomous activity within the university, expanding faster than class instruction or faculty resources. Finally, it shows how the linkage of research to economic development has engendered closer ties with industry and encouraged the commercialization of knowledge.

Por quase trinta anos, entre 1969 e 1997, a sociedade brasileira foi desnudada pela escrita espirituosa do jornalista Zózimo Barrozo do Amaral em sua coluna diária no Jornal do Brasil e depois em O Globo. Muito além dos registros sociais, ele oferecia um noticiário que flertava com a economia, a política e o esporte (sua paixão), em um estilo elegante e sem qualquer cerimônia. Fez muitos amigos, ganhou uns poucos desafetos e chegou a ser preso duas vezes durante o regime militar. Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos reconstitui toda a trajetória do colunista, desde sua infância, no bairro carioca do Jardim Botânico, passando por seu começo de carreira quase acidental no jornalismo, até conquistar uma coluna assinada no Jornal do Brasil, aos vinte e sete anos. Ao seguir a trilha aberta por pioneiros como Álvaro Americano, Jacinto de Thormes e Ibrahim Sued, ele fez escola. Enquanto se tornava a mais respeitada grife do colunismo no país, Zózimo registrava nas páginas dos jornais as imensas mudanças ocorridas na elite carioca. As festas saíram dos salões dos grã-finos e instalaram-se em casas noturnas como o Regine’s e o Hippopotamus. A animação movida pelo champã ganhou aditivos como a cocaína. Ao mesmo tempo que retratava o agito social, Zózimo enfrentava os próprios demônios. Viveu amores, momentos de turbulência familiar e sérias questões de saúde.

Mas até o final foi um homem apaixonado pela vida, como ele gostava de dizer: “Enquanto houver champanhe, há esperança.”

Los cuentos son: 1. Ellos de Robert A. Heinlein. 2. Mucho, mucho tiempo de R.A. Lafferty. 3. Civilizar de Algys Budrys. 4. Especies protegidas de H.B. Fyfe. 5. Aún no es el fin de Fredric Brown. 6. El Sentinela de Arthur C. Clarke.

The Hebrews call me prophetess, the Egyptians a seer. But I am neither. I am simply a watcher of Israel and the messenger of El Shaddai. When He speaks to me in dreams, I interpret. When He whispers a melody, I sing. At eighty-six, Miriam had devoted her entire life to loving El Shaddai and serving His people as both midwife and messenger. Yet when her brother Moses returns to Egypt from exile, he brings a disruptive message. God has a new name – Yahweh – and has declared a radical deliverance for the Israelites. Miriam and her beloved family face an impossible choice: cling to familiar bondage or embrace uncharted freedom at an unimaginable cost. Even if the Hebrews survive the plagues set to turn the Nile to blood and unleash a maelstrom of frogs and locusts, can they weather the resulting fury of the Pharaoh? Enter an exotic land where a cruel Pharaoh reigns, pagan priests wield black arts, and the Israelites cry out to a God they only think they know.

This extensively researched book illuminates many of the enigmas that have surrounded the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, offering keen insights into Stalin’s thinking and the reasons for his catastrophic blunder. “If, after the war, the Soviet Union had somehow been capable of producing an official inquiry into the catastrophe of 6/22—comparable in its mandate to the 9/11 commission here—its report might have read a little like [this book]. . . .  Murphy brings to his subject both knowledge of Russian history and an insider’s grasp of how intelligence is gathered, analyzed and used—or not.”—Niall Ferguson, New York Times Book Review "A fascinating and meticulously researched account of mistaken assumptions and errors of judgment that culminated in Hitler’s invasion of Russia in June 1941. Never before has this fateful period been so fully documented."—Henry A. Kissinger