3b6acaa2-2524-45c1-a966-e824c04a98feTrueNewShip71Spanish_BooksAmazonLargeBooksreviewrank184746184750769298168http://www.amazon.com/Drum-Basics-Step-Ultimate-Beginner/dp/0769298168%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0769298168Sandy GennaroPaperback78697807692981600769298168Alfred Publishing CompanyEnglishEnglishSpanish995USD$9.95Alfred Publishing Company1Book1997-08Alfred Publishing CompanyAlfred Publishing Company985USD$9.85200011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnewN7eWIz56pnoJ%2BQAviowSW1qb1p%2BVQek%2F9IR4ddSHkRT24QiNM%2B8lDfNvS%2B11RaJajog2YbBaOk2bQXHsUUb5eg%3D%3D995USD$9.95In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.5.04107692981685002008-04-29

Great place to start!

I actually bought this back in 1995 after I had played in a garage band for about a year. I had "played by ear" and never learned to read music. I picked this up with intentions of expanding our band and then put it aside as life got in the way and the drums went in storage. So, fast forward to 2008 and the kit is out of storage and set up with some new hardware. THIS BOOK IS AWESOME! It lays down the basics in an easy-to-follow format and then converts that to sheet music... I CAN READ MUSIC NOW! I was able to get through the entire book in less than 2 weeks and am proficient at fills and grooves, I never did that after 3 years of playing by ear. The CD tracks are great and easy to follow. The lead-out counting gets the beat in your head before the sticks even move. The ONLY suggestion I'd make with this book is to get a good quality metronome to play along with. I'd couple this with another book, "picture yourself drumming" which is a bit more extensive in the descriptions and methodology. Another great choice would be "All about drums", again, great teaching method and some real sheet music and examples of popular songs in that. No complaints here, just order the book and get practicing!07692981685222007-08-15

It's good!

I started drumming about 2 months ago with a basic set, Tommy Igoe's 'Getting Started on the drums' dvd and this book. The book is endless pages of exercises that gradually builds in difficulty. It's great. Each new pattern gets you using all four limbs, and are easy to modify for more practice (open/closed hi hats, crash vs hi hats, etc). It's got sycophated patterns, drum fills, and stuff on establishing a 'groove' with a band/bass player. Not the end-all of drum books, but perfect for beginners.07692981685221999-12-05

The Beat Goes On!

This is an excellent beginners and improvers book for budding drummers and percussionists, providing a comprehensive introduction to rock and blues drums. Written by Sandy Gennaro, an experienced session musician, and accompanied by a most useful practice CD, it will provide knowledge and confidence for all tomorrows drummers.0769298168517191999-07-12

Great Book to Start With. The Easiest Guide for Beginners.

I had absolutely no musical background, but I learned basic rock drumming by using this book together with the video guide Drum Basics Step One and Two by Sandy Gennaro. The authors' instructions are easy to understand and follow, and you don't have to know how to read music to start playing. I would strongly recommend using these materials with a Yamaha DTXpress, and practice, practice, practice.159257162X0471794112B00005YWK2B00005UV6907692337081768Percussion1764Instruments & Performers4507Music86Entertainment1000Subjects283155Books4544Instruction & Study4539Theory, Composition & Performance4507Music86Entertainment1000Subjects283155Books307709011Instrumentos y Intérpretes307713011Cuerdas307710011General307711011Guitarra307715011Instrumentos de Viento de Madera307712011Piano307714011Voz307706011Música530116Entretenimiento301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books307734011Instrucción y Estudio307732011Teoría, Composición y Performance307706011Música530116Entretenimiento301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712501011General AAS307706011Música530116Entretenimiento301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712497011General AAS530116Entretenimiento301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books400272011Paperback394184011Mass Market401237011Trade394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books8427032374http://www.amazon.com/Dulce-vivas-Live-Sweet-Reposteria/dp/8427032374%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D8427032374229531http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/211AVKSVA4L._SL75_.jpg7548http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/211AVKSVA4L._SL160_.jpg160101http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/211AVKSVA4L.jpg180114Ana BensadonHardcoverJuan Mari ArzakBenito Garzon641.567697884270323781008427032374MR EdicionesSpanishSpanishSpanish8502295USD$22.95MR Ediciones1290Book2006-03-30MR EdicionesMR Ediciones1105901511USD$15.113741USD$37.411120011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnewLM29ao02vG6axNBQK0FTdavjiPYd2jJSsu6OHLDjnxkM8ndO2igopHPUfwzdeNMKlgAjUeu2Owzb8gs5ezDS3A%3D%3D1836USD$18.36Usually ships in 24 hours5.04184270323745002008-07-30

delicious recipes

This is a great book if you speak spanish, the recipes are delicious, and the photographs are great also.84270323745002008-05-18

Long Time Search

The book arrived on time and in good shape. There were handwritten notes and recipes in the front of the book and the rear of the book...I thought I had purchased a new copy but I have no problem with personalization. The book has long sought recipes which I remember my grandmother preparing and I am thrilled to have such a well written book.84270323745002007-10-25

just awsome

I leaved for a number of years at Tangiers Morocco, and is a refreshment to my past experience. Just beautifull, mi two kids ( born in Tangiers) <br />have one each too.84270323745002007-05-06

Great dessert and pastry collection

This is a wonderful collection of sephardic dessert and pastry recipes. It is also a cultural glimpse into the language of sephardic spain. You can almost hear the recipes being whispered in your ear. I tried 20 of the recipes, and they work too.B000A3WW0I0060888180B00127SHLO076452483603930118364201Desserts4196Baking6Cooking, Food & Wine1000Subjects283155Books4233General6Cooking, Food & Wine1000Subjects283155Books16261081Spanish16260961Foreign Language Nonfiction53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books307602011Postres307599011Hornear301743Cocina301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712485011General AAS307599011Hornear301743Cocina301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books307614011General301743Cocina301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books307615011Comidas301743Cocina301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712481011General AAS301743Cocina301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books309310011No-Ficción309311011Automotriz309414011Ciencias Sociales309319011Crimen y Criminales309335011Educación309487011Estudios de la Mujer309374011Feriados309375011Filosofía309366011Gobierno309483011Hechos Verídicos309486011Planeamiento Urbano y Desarrollo309401011Política309322011Sucesos de Actualidad309478011Transportación301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712406011General AAS301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books394181011Hardcover394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155BooksB0007J2GVUhttp://www.amazon.com/dream-Ediciones-English-Spanish-poetry/dp/B0007J2GVU%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0007J2GVUPedro Calderón de la BarcaUnknown BindingLa VerónicaEnglishEnglishLa Verónica259Book1942La VerónicaLa Verónica0000005.041B0007J2GVU59102007-05-04

A Superbly Faithful and Show-Worthy Version

Pedro Calderon de la Barca is one of the great playwrights of the Renaissance, and his La Vida es Sueño, or Life is a Dream, is at the top of nearly everyone's list of Calderon's "Greatest Hits." Depicting the revolt of a Polish prince imprisoned by his father because of a prophecy that the boy would one day endanger the realm, this three act play has been translated into English more than a dozen times in the last century alone, but this is the first version I have seen that is not only faithful to the letter of the text but to the form and feeling of the play in the pleasure of the reading moment. In a monumental act of poetic ventriloquy, the translator Gregary Racz has miraculously managed to reproduce the exact rhyme scheme of this "Golden Age" masterpiece in an elegantly metrical English that echoes the original Spanish line for line, all 3319 of them. Vide this snippet from the closing soliloquy of ACT II. <br /> <br />What's life? Not anything it seems. <br />A shadow. Fiction filling reams. <br />All we possess on earth means nil, <br />for life's a dream, think what you will, <br />and even all our dreams are dreams. <br /> <br />I predict Racz's Life is a Dream will have an immensely long shelf-life and a brilliant career on the Anglo-American stage. <br />B0007J2GVU5882005-09-11

Excellent play at an excellent price

This play is a hidden gem. Calderon has written a classic comedy that follows the formula but ventures into classic philosophy as well: what is our life? Is it real? Is it a dream? If it is a dream, how then should we live our lives? This is the center of Oedipus Rex, with its fate versus free will theme, and Calderon explores it with humor and compassion. The Dover edition is inexpensive but doesn't cut corners, making it perfect for college students. I highly recommend it!B0007J2GVU58132004-01-27

FORGET HAMLET, A NEW GUY IS IN TOWN

To be or not to be maybe is one of the most famous quotation. It is catchy, but " ¿Qué es la vida?/un frenesi/ ¿Qué es la vida?/ una ilusión" is better.<p>Forget a spoiled prince too obssesed with his mother. Forget a maid who needs a therapy and soon. We have Segismundo and Rosaura. A brave, drop dead gorgeous dark hero and a resourceful, witty, inteligent heroine. You will laugh, you will cry.<br>You have romance, sword-fighting-cross-star lovers, intrigue, foreign policy. All in one.<p>Seriously, this is the best play ever written. You can enjoy only the story or find a real interpretation of Spain under the Habsburgs. But also a search for identity. Calderon asks the eternal question WHO ARE WE and wrapped it in a wonderful, rich and manificent dress.<br>Try it and you forget Dennmark. And if you can read it in Spanish. Maybe is hard but it will worth.B0007J2GVU552602001-02-02

Life is indeed a dream

This immortal play is an allegory: a tale which illustrates us on some superior truth, employing symbols. Basil is the king of Poland, who hides his son Sigmund (Freud?, just kidding)in a tower, for fear that an oracle may come true. Once, he takes him out to see what kind of man he is, and discovers Sigmund is arrogant and authoritarian. Then he puts him back in his cell and manages to convince him that everything was just a dream. After that, civil war begins, and Sigmund is out to fight, a totally different man from what he was.<p>"Life is a dream" is a play about the utter unreliability of our senses. Of course, we have to use them to figure out some reality in which we can live. But we have no idea of who we are and where we come from, much less what will happen after death. We also don't know what death is. It is also a case in favor of peace and solidarity. Why spend our brief and dream-like time on Earth being mean and dirty?: let's all be friendly and good, and this will be a good dream and not a nightmare.<p>Despite its philosophical subject, the play is quick-paced and funny. The plot to make Sigmund believe everything was a dream is hilarious, and it is easy to see why it's a classic. Read it.<B>The masterwork of Spain’s preeminent dramatist—now in a new verse translation</B> <P> <I>Life Is a Dream</I> is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending themes of free will and predestination, illusion and reality, played out against the backdrop of court intrigue and the restoration of personal honor. <P> In the mountainous barrens of Poland, the rightful heir to the kingdom has been imprisoned since birth in an attempt by his father to thwart fate. Meanwhile, a noblewoman arrives to seek revenge against the man who deceived and forsook her love for the prospect of becoming king of Poland. Richly symbolic and metaphorical, <I>Life Is a Dream</I> explores the deepest mysteries of human experience.015601310X019954017904864111760141439491048628208210296Spanish10248Poetry17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books10441Spanish10311World Literature17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books9681903854http://www.amazon.com/El-Amor-Las-Mujeres-Vida/dp/9681903854%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D96819038546521273Mario BenedettiPaperback8609789681903855439681903854Santillana Publishing Co IncSpanishSpanishSpanish766995USD$9.95Santillana Publishing Co Inc1Book2001-06Santillana Publishing Co IncSantillana Publishing Co Inc43480624USD$6.240200005.04196819038545112005-02-14

Benedetti es un genio

UN libro para la vida. Si has amado, vivido y soñado este libro tiene algo para ti, y si no has hecho ninguna de esas cosas con este libro aprenderas que se siente cada una de ellas desde un lenguaje universal y sencillo. Un libro excelente. 96819038545222003-05-24

Compendio de la mejor poesia del maestro

Bennedetti es un autor que nos tiene acostumbrados a lo cotidiano, a lo urbano, al sentir de seres normales ante situaciones que se le dan a cualquiera. Su poesia, a diferencia de lo tradicional, es abierta, amplia, sutil en su forma de hacer llegar el mensaje, pero sin tabues ni complicaciones. Este libro viene en dos ediciones, una de ellas incluye un disco compacto con todas las poesias leidas por el autor mismo. En todo caso, es la mejor recoleccion de poesia de Bennedetti. Disfrutela96819038545112002-11-20

Just great

This is a wonderful selection of Benedetti love poems made by the author. Very enjoyable even to those for whom poetry is not a favorite genre, as the language is easy, most poems short, and we can all relate with the feelings described. A good start to get acquainted with the wonderful work of this man... the book also makes a great gift to give a girlfriend.96819038545352000-03-28

No introduction is necessary...

No itroduction is necesary when we are talking about Mario Benedetti. His capacity to comunicate with the reader, the simplicity, and the humanity of his works is what makes him famous all through latin america. "My estrategy is deeper and more simple My estrategy is that same day I don't know how or with what pretext you finally need me" Benedetti. Beautiful indeedIn this series of poems the author brings to life his most popular verses such as Te quiero and No te salves. As you listen to each word, they come alive, and so will your emotions.842048144084204718361400095808B00008O34X030738726710259General10248Poetry17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books10296Spanish10248Poetry17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books16260421Spanish16260301Foreign Language Fiction17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books271607011Spanish & Portuguese271602011European10204History & Criticism17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books1061352jp-unknown344258011Specialty Stores283155Books308940011Española y Portuguesa308937011Europea308931011Historia y Crítica301747Literatura y ficción301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712719011General AAS308937011Europea308931011Historia y Crítica301747Literatura y ficción301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712717011General AAS308931011Historia y Crítica301747Literatura y ficción301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books308949011General308944011Poesía301747Literatura y ficción301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books308966011Español308944011Poesía301747Literatura y ficción301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712735011General AAS308944011Poesía301747Literatura y ficción301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712662011General AAS301747Literatura y ficción301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712406011General AAS301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books400272011Paperback394184011Mass Market401237011Trade394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books0789910810http://www.amazon.com/Campo-Batalla-Mente-Joyce-Meyer/dp/0789910810%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D07899108101367420Joyce MeyerPaperback9780789910813600789910810Spanish HouseSpanishSpanishSpanish650499USD$4.99Spanish House1259Book1997-01Spanish HouseSpanish House40420184USD$1.8439USD$0.3920200011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnewN9H05VMsOhVNaj2syb9MLD3EA0M078ghoWCS95VfvCDzCo%2BLI3ncqQNBnyp5F9vepuFqWDL9f4LhRsb8thYuUA%3D%3D499USD$4.99Usually ships in 24 hours5.04107899108105002008-08-20

¡Un libro que todo seguidor de Cristo no debe dejar de leer!

Conocí este libro a través de una amiga que está pasando por un dificil momento emocional. Me llamó poderosamente la atención y lo adquirí. Este es el tercer ejemplar que obsequio y que por otro lado he recomendado sin restricción. <br /> <br />Joyce Meyer introduce al lector en un mundo que muchos seguirdores de Cristo desconocen y es que el terreno de lucha espiritual se decide en nuestras mentes. No estamos en un campo neutro. O estamos de parte de Dios o del enemigo. No hay termino medio. <br /> <br />Cada capítulo nos introduce a un estado superior a fin de reconocer que tipos de pensamientos son los que ocupan nuestra mente: O son de Dios o son de Satanas. Lo mas interesante de todo, es que de una manera muy didactica, Meyer nos orienta a identificar tales pensamientos a fin de seguir los de procedencia Divina y rechazar o subyugar a El, los que inocula el enemigo. <br /> <br />Es una libro que debe ser leido mas de una vez, comentarse, digerirse, compartirse. No deje de hacerlo sin antes encomendarse a Dios en oración para que le oriente y le llene de entendimiento y sabiduría de lo alto. Se que este proceder mantendrá alejado al enemigo y será su mejor vía para que cada página, cada parráfo, cada frase y palabra pueda ser entendida. <br /> <br />Lo recomiendo ampliamente, incluso la versión para jóvenes. Satanas está atacando a los adolescentes despiadadamente y para ellos despliega información que va directamente a sus mentes con la finalidad de tergiversar el plan divino para cada uno de ellos. <br /> <br />"Porque no tenemos lucha contra sangre y carne, sino contra principados, contra potestades, contra los gobernadores de las tinieblas de este siglo, contra huestes espirituales de maldad en las regiones celestes" Efesios 6: 12 <br />07899108105002007-01-04

Muy Bueno - Recomendado.

Se los recomiendo a todos. Un excellente libro que nos prepara a vencer y a entender lo que la vida nos repara de alguna manera. Muy Buena escritora.07899108105002006-11-18

A "must read"

It has beeen a blessing for us to learn how can we change our mind.0789910810510102000-07-19

El campo de battalla de la mente

El campo de batalla de la mente, is a wonderful book. Ocassionaly as christian people we can think that we are perfect and that all we have to do is to pray and persevere. The Bible says that our "struggle is not against flesh and blood...but against the power of the dark world and against spiritual forces", therefore our battles will be spirituals. When I read this book I could realized that our behavior is showing "who" is winning our inside battle and why we should give God the opportunity to struggle instead of us and through our lifes. I suggest that this book should be read more than once, really. <p>El campo de batalla de la mente es un libro maravilloso. Como cristianos podemos pensar que somos perfectos y que todo lo que tenemos que hacer es orar y perseverar. Pero la Biblia establece que "nuestra lucha no es contra carne ni sangre...sino contra las tinieblas espirituales", por lo tanto nuestra lucha será espiritual. Al leer este libro pude crear conciencia de que nuestra conducta muestra "quién" está ganando nuestra lucha interna y cómo darle a Dios la oportunidad de que luche en lugar nuestro y a través de nuestras vidas. Este libro debe ser leído más de una vez, lo recomiendo.088419811115918548060446693650B000JGWE2C088419808169980Devotionals12809Spirituality22Religion & Spirituality1000Subjects283155Books16261081Spanish16260961Foreign Language Nonfiction53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books229268011Spanish229203011Foreign Language Nonfiction229036011Nonfiction2200840114-for-3 Books Store251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books231831011Devotionals231825011Spirituality231018011Religion & Spirituality2200840114-for-3 Books Store251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books242748011All 4-for-3 Deals2200840114-for-3 Books Store251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books309310011No-Ficción309311011Automotriz309414011Ciencias Sociales309319011Crimen y Criminales309335011Educación309487011Estudios de la Mujer309374011Feriados309375011Filosofía309366011Gobierno309483011Hechos Verídicos309486011Planeamiento Urbano y Desarrollo309401011Política309322011Sucesos de Actualidad309478011Transportación301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books309910011Devocionales309908011Espiritualidad301752Religión y espiritualidad301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712904011General AAS309908011Espiritualidad301752Religión y espiritualidad301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712859011General AAS301752Religión y espiritualidad301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712406011General AAS301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books3941730114-for-3 Books394171011Promotion (special_merchandising_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books400272011Paperback394184011Mass Market401237011Trade394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books950041712Xhttp://www.amazon.com/El-cuaderno-Noah-Nicholas-Sparks/dp/950041712X%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D950041712X527870http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516Y89EBTML._SL75_.jpg7547http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516Y89EBTML._SL160_.jpg160100http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516Y89EBTML.jpg475298Nicholas SparksMaria Eugenia CiocchiniPaperback813.54978950041712950950041712XEmeceSpanishSpanish8751595USD$15.95Emece199Book1997EmeceEmece4555023807USD$238.070100005.041950041712X5662004-07-07

BEST BOOK EVER!*!*

I LOVED this book. It was honestly one of the ebst bookd I've read. Nicholas Sparks is such a talented writer. His books just come to life in your imagination and you can't put the book down once you've started. I've read many of Sparks' books and anyone you choose to read is outstanding! Nicholas Sparks truly has a GREAT gift!!!950041712X5442002-07-08

The Best Notebook

I read this book in about 5 hours. It's pretty hard for me to do that...but it was just impossible for me to put down this book. Nicholas Sparks is a genius, he truly knows how to write. He is the William Shakespeare of our time. Any book this man writes is truly a work of art.950041712X5222002-04-15

great book!

this book is just...really good. no words. just good.950041712X5372001-05-05

Amor el resto de la vida

Es la historia de amor, que mucha gente sueña para su vida... y solamente unos pocos podemos vivirla y difrutarla de esa manera y con esa intensidad.<p>Son de esas historia donde la piel, el corazon y el alma se extremecen de tal manera que lo unico que queda es agradecer a Dios, por amar y ser amado de tal manera.<p>Es una verdadera historia de amor, desde el principio hasta los "80 años"... tal cual como deseamos vivirla nosotros.<p>Felicitaciones Nicholas Sparks, sos todo un maestroEl ambiente rural de Carolina del Norte se combina con el drama de un amor imposible para traernos una novela conmovedora. Los laberintos del córazon humano serán, más que nada, el medio en que se desarrolla esta historia.B000FL88Y4B000WO251QB000AI8M3Y0446605239B001G8WXHS10449Spanish10443Untranslated10311World Literature17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books565650Sparks, Nicholas70040( S )70021Authors, A-Z17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books16260421Spanish16260301Foreign Language Fiction17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books745662General13371Historical23Romance1000Subjects283155Books308830011( S )308831011Saint-Exupery, Antoine de308832011Salinger, J.D.308833011Saramago, Jose308834011Shakespeare, William308838011Sheldon, Sidney308839011Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft308840011Steinbeck, John308843011Stendhal308844011Stevenson, Robert Louis308845011Stoker, Bram308738011Autores, A-Z301747Literatura y ficción301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books308979011( S )308973011Autores, A-Z308972011Ficción de La Mujer301747Literatura y ficción301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712662011General AAS301747Literatura y ficción301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712704011General AAS308891011General301747Literatura y ficción301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712722011General AAS308981011Literatura Mundial301747Literatura y ficción301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books309950011General301753Romance301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books309951011Histórico301753Romance301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712927011General AAS301753Romance301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712406011General AAS301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books400272011Paperback394184011Mass Market401237011Trade394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books849800361Xhttp://www.amazon.com/FIN-ETERNIDAD-Solaris-ISAAC-ASIMOV/dp/849800361X%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D849800361X3111785http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Il8Ka6uFL._SL75_.jpg7552http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Il8Ka6uFL._SL160_.jpg160111http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Il8Ka6uFL.jpg500348ISAAC ASIMOVPaperback813978849800361190849800361XLA FACTORIA DE IDEASSpanishSpanishSpanish8902595USD$25.95LA FACTORIA DE IDEAS1350Book2007-09-01LA FACTORIA DE IDEASLA FACTORIA DE IDEAS906101287USD$12.87600011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnewC%2BQL1IFOcnn520zI%2FgmBPI3eK%2Fy%2FYVaetZBI12nF1mzKcfWorp4WJpkauqUPEsGWflREDzsZfCrVssczXHzUeA%3D%3D2595USD$25.95Usually ships in 24 hours5.041849800361X4112006-11-17

EXCELENTE

De lo mejor, este libro vale la pena leerlo, quizá lo mejor que escribió Asimov y eso ya es decir mucho.849800361X5012003-05-22

Predecesor de Matrix

Definitivamente una de las mejores obras de ciencia ficcion que he leido. La complejidad del tema espacio-tiempo-dimension es absolutamente formidable y envolvente. Los que ya vieron Matrix Reloaded comprenderan que tiene un cierto paralelismo con el libro, tanto por su trama fundamental como por su historia de amor entrelazada.849800361X5012002-02-06

EXCELENTE

es un libro, ke no termina de sorprenderte hasta el final... tiene toda la emocion, y creo ke es un libro espectacular, donde se mezcla la ciencia ficcion, en la vida del hombre, muy pero muy bien...<p>10 puntos849800361X5331999-07-01

Un libro de ficción para recordar

Este es uno de los libros de ficción que más ha perdurado en mi memoria, recomendado para volver a leer despues de unos años. It's one of the best fiction book I have ever read, it's recommended to read more than once.Andrew Harlan ha cometido un crimen, pero su acto no es un simple delito. La ley que ha quebrantado es la más importante de todas para un Ejecutor: la ley que impide que miles de años de historia sean borrados y reescritos de forma irreversible por la guerra, la muerte y la decadencia. Ni siquiera la Eternidad, la organización a la que pertenece, puede detenerle. / Due to circumstances within our control... Tomorrow will be canceled. The Eternals, the ruling class of the Future, had the power of life and death not only over every human being but over the very centuries into which they were born. Past, Present, and Future could be created or destroyed at will. You had to be special to become an Eternal. Andrew Harlan was special.16282General16272Science Fiction25Science Fiction & Fantasy1000Subjects283155Books284596General14704Asimov, Isaac14653( A )14652Authors, A-Z25Science Fiction & Fantasy1000Subjects283155Books285614Paperback14704Asimov, Isaac14653( A )14652Authors, A-Z25Science Fiction & Fantasy1000Subjects283155Books308196011( A )308195011Autores, A-Z301741Adolescentes301735Infantil y juvenil301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712544011General AAS301741Adolescentes301735Infantil y juvenil301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books310091011General310090011Asimov, Isaac310089011( A )310088011Autores, A-Z301754Ciencia ficción y fantasía301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books310092011Pasta Blanda310090011Asimov, Isaac310089011( A )310088011Autores, A-Z301754Ciencia ficción y fantasía301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books310127011General310124011Ciencia Ficción301754Ciencia ficción y fantasía301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712479011General AAS310124011Ciencia Ficción301754Ciencia ficción y fantasía301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712466011General AAS301754Ciencia ficción y fantasía301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712406011General AAS301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712662011General AAS301747Literatura y ficción301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712704011General AAS308891011General301747Literatura y ficción301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712982011General AAS465600New & Used Textbooks251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712990011General AAS468236Literature468206Humanities465600New & Used Textbooks251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books713014011General AAS319654011Qualifying Textbooks251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books400272011Paperback394184011Mass Market401237011Trade394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books9781594330http://www.amazon.com/El-Gancho-Michael-Travis/dp/9781594330%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D9781594330Michael TravisHardcover9209789781594335509781594330Publication ConsultantantSpanishSpanishSpanish11002995USD$29.95Publication Consultantant632Book2006-12-01Publication Consultantant2006-12-01Publication Consultantant958602276USD$22.76100011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnewlgPS2Pn3fJ8Jk0w1RAw7iJ02MrSDpahhWzZU5L0l73dJVOX9QpkAxyQq6HUCLAult7Z8KU9MhKXG7TG%2BMDESVg%3D%3D2276USD$22.76In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.5.04197815943305002007-07-10

WOW

There are few books in the last five years that I did not want to end. This was one of them. It was awarded "1st place - Fiction, novel" in the 2007 Alaska Professional Communicators Communications Contest. Alaska Professional Communicators is the Alaska affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women. <br /> <br />This saga explores the history of a family who immigrated to America from Mexico in the early nineteen hundreds. There is an awareness of the detailed research & expert touch necessary to seamlessly intertwine actual historical personages and events with the characters' story. This novel is a shining example of personal and historical disasters woven with masterful skill to create a bright and colorful tapestry. <br /> <br />One of the prevading themes that surfaces in this book like a shark's fin, throughout the story is the social struggle between poor men and the "hacendados", the privileged, rich class of men who exploit them. In this novel, the hook is used as a unique metaphor. It encompasses a name, a place, a dream, family, and of course El Gancho, the name of the book. <br /> <br />The main characters of the book, Prudenciano Nava and Paz Nava are portrayed exceptionally well. The author let's you get to know the characters, loveable in their own rights but fallible, as all people are. Some of the less loveable characters are motivated by everything from hunger for admiration and esteem to using others' weaknesses for their own gain. <br /> <br />The reader is introduced to Prudenciano Nava in the first chapters of the book. The writer quickly pulls the reader into the setting with a wealth of vivid imagery. Prudenciano Nava lives a reckless life. He works as a laborer with his childhood friend and runs from what Texans call "rodeo" to "rodeo" <br /> <br />. As we venture through Prudenciano Nava's life with him we learn about his frolics and foibles: Relationships, responsibility (or lack there of) as well as Prudenciano's penchant for cultivation of females' expectations, to their moral detriment and families' anger.The author brings you so far into the world he has created & the characters that abide there it seems you can feel the breath of these characters and hear their heartbeats. There are many escapades and escapes in this saga. The escapes are more serious, fleeing from supervisors that consider the help expendable; disease; starvation, and a war ravaged Mexico, and ultimately a flight to another country where our characters continue to reap the consequences of their choices. <br /> <br />Ultimately Prudenciano Nava emerges as a survivor above all else. <br /> <br />The author successfully communicates the vivid immediacy of living life <br />constantly on the edge. We feel the grit and dust of the roads of Mexico, <br />taste the tobacco and the alcohol, and feel the desert heat. This book works on various levels, as history, as an adventure, or as a social or political commentary. The reader looks through an open window into the past, raw and real. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />97815943305122007-05-10

Davis review of El Gancho

Read enough books and you'll eventually find a book that encompasses all the elements you really enjoy: a well-written tale of adventure, action, realistic situations, and, most importantly, memorable characters in a great storyline. "El Gancho: A Saga of an Immigrant Family's Journey out of Mexico" by Michael Travis fits that description. On the surface, Travis' book is a fictionalized, but truthful, account of his great-grandparents and their migration from Monte Escobedo, Mexico, to Sydney, Montana. But beneath the surface is the story of the immigration of Mexican people to the U.S. in the early 1900s, a time when immigration wasn't the contentious issue of today. In fact, in those days, America actively encouraged migration. The United States' westward expansion with its attendant increase in agricultural production and the accompanying growth of railroads and the like called for large amounts of cheap labor. Mexican immigrants provided that labor more readily and cheaply than any other group. And helping hold everything together, Travis has made "El Gancho" a different sort of history book. He's made it interesting and entertaining as he intersperses his story of family with actual historical people and events. <br /> <br /> "El Gancho" (meaning the Hook in Spanish) centers around the life of Travis' great-grandfather Tereso Minjares, known in his earlier life as Prudenciano Nava. Talk about your memorable characters, Prudenciano Nava is that and more. In following the family's northern migration, Michael Travis manages to do something few authors writing about their ancestors achieve. Travis makes their lives extremely interesting and exciting, and yet manages to portray them with all their faults and frailties. We see Prudenciano/Tereso as an egotistical man whose pride, laziness, fondness of tequila, and disdain for honest labor leads him to make some seriously bad choices that affect not only himself, but others, particularly his much younger, long suffering wife, Paz. Although 33 years his junior, she is obviously the more mature of the two. <br /> <br />Although the first chapter has 78-year-old Tereso Minjares taking a break from the sugar beet field and reflecting back on his life, the story really starts with the illiterate 48-year-old Prudenciano Nava toward the end of his career with the Mexican rodeo. Nava is a master at a particularly dangerous event known as tailing the bull. This event involves flipping a full-grown bull onto its back by its tail. Few men could do this as the experienced and wily bulls came equipped with more than a ton of muscle and very sharp horns. While his partner on horseback acted as a target to draw the animal into a rampaging charge, Prudenciano came from behind, grasped the animal's tail and flipped it on its back. That's if all goes well. When things don't go well, the animal's size, agility and razor sharp horns poses a real threat of serious injury or death for one or both men and their horses. Such was the case in Fresnillo when, in front of his estranged family, Prudenciano misses the tail and the bull kills his life-long friend and partner, Tereso. Depressed, Prudenciano practically begs to be allowed to return to his father's ranch. <br /> <br />It's there on Emilio Nava's ranch that Prudenciano's life takes a significant turn. Quickly remembering why he left in the first place, Prudenciano rebels against work and the requirement to learn to read and write. As he resorts to his old ways of boasting and bossing others around, he alienates both his father and his older brother, Abundio. Then, he meets Abundio's 15-year-old stepdaughter, Maria Paz Esparsa. Following a fight with his brother, Prudenciano leaves, taking a willing Paz with him. They manage to throw off their pursuers long enough for them to quickly marry and their long arduous trip north begins. <br /> <br />Over the ensuing years, Prudenciano tries valiantly to provide for his wife and their expanding family. But his pride, his inability to read, his fondness of drink, and his preference for reliving his past glories regularly interfere. He takes up work in a silver mine, only to have a cave-in nearly kill him as he saves his boss. When an outbreak of typhus sends the family to Chihuahua (walking the whole way), Prudenciano becomes a guard in service to one of the town's richest men. And it's there he first encounters Pancho Villa and warns him of a traitor in his midst. It's also where he gets tagged with the nickname "El Gancho," as he participated in his last la Colleada. But their relatively good life comes to a quick end when, worried that authorities will learn he helped Villa, Prudenciano moves with Paz and their three children to El Paso, once again walking the whole way. <br /> <br />Entering the United States legally, thanks to centavos Paz has put away, Prudenciano soons succumbs to another meaning for the term El Gancho. Promising good jobs, good pay, and housing for families, unscrupulous labor agents extend the hook and lure men into dangerous or low paying jobs. The process is made all the easier by the illiteracy of the average immigrant. Prudenciano gets a backbreaking job on the railroad with he and his family sharing a drafty boxcar as a house. Then, following a drunken binge in celebration of Mexico's Independence Day, Prudenciano nearly kills a man accidentally and soon finds himself on the run. A year later with a new name, Tereso Minjares, he sends for Paz and the children to join him in his new job at a logging camp. After several more moves and several more jobs the family finally settles in Sydney, Montana, working sugar beets for the Holly Sugar Company. Of course, they arrived there after Tereso once again swallowed the hook offered by John Dillon, the same man who'd talked him into the railroad job. <br /> <br />All in all, "El Gancho" is a great story filled with exciting adventures and incredulous difficulties, many of them brought on by the poor choices made by the colorful Prudenciano/Tereso. Anyone wishing to understand the real challenge of coming to los Estados Unidos in the early 1900s would do well to read "El Gancho." <br />97815943305112007-05-10

Culturally Accurate and Makes Me Want to Know More About My Own Family History

Michael Travis describes the attitudes and expectations of the Mexican culture with incredible accuracy. Even in modern days, I have seen many men and women struggle within their family roles for better or for worse. Prudencio Nava's difficulty with alcoholism and settling into a permanent home along with Paz's struggle to keep the family together reflects the lives of many Mexican family's today. El Gancho brings into the perspective the historical ramifications of the Mexican migration into the United States during the late 1800 and early 1900. It has given me insight into my own Mexican family's prejudices and mistrusts of other cultures and for authority in general. During his reading at the Fairbanks Arts Association Bear Gallery, Michael explained the extensive research necessary for this book. His hard work is to be admired. I wish I had his dedication to find out more about my family roots.97815943304222007-03-08

El Gancho y La Mosca

Weaving a rich tapestry of history, tall tales and outright lies, Michael Travis presents his reader with a story that spans more than thirty years and four generations, taking us from rural Mexico to an immigrant colonia in Montana. <br /> <br />Travis especially excels at subtly building tension in his reader particularly in the 'colleada', a death-defying rodeo event. Using brutal and resonant imagery as a conductor's wand rather than a club, Travis evokes artfully evokes appropriate feelings and empathy with his characters throughout the novel. <br /> <br />If a criticism could fairly be leveled at Travis, it is that he's too unflinchingly honest about his characters, often they are despicable and/or inscrutable, and by the end of the book it is difficult for the modern, enlightened reader to empathize or identify with his protagonist due to his defiant ignorance and all consuming machismo. But in truth, this should be seen as a strength on Travis' part. The reader must remember that Prudenciano Nava is not a modern man, not even for his own time. He is a primal creature who runs on instinct and raw power. He recalls the classical hero who, despite all of his strength and power inevitably falls to his untempered hubris. <br /> <br />Most of all, El Gancho is the story of a world, a place a people and a time that will seem both alien and familiar to the modern reader. These things are truly just next door in both time and space. The life changes of the Minjares family parallel the enormous changes that the world was experiencing at that same time. As life would never be the same for Prudenciano's family again, so too would the world never be the same. <br /> <br />I highly recommend this book. Read it if you love history. Read it if your ancestors or you crossed that Big River long ago or last week. Read it if your connection to your own family runs deep or you wish it did. <br /> <br />To paraphrase the foreword by Joe Minjares, Prudenciano Nava is that primitive creature that lies dormant, just beneath the surface in all of us. Incomprehensible yet utterly human. This story is for everyone.Prudenciano Nava is a Mexican <I>colleador</I> -- a rodeo performer of exceptional skill and strength who flips bulls on their backs by grabbing their tails. A trained horse and agile <I>colleador</I> partner allowed him to escape the deadly horns, and bask in the admiration of the crowd.<BR><BR> Nava, scornful of honest labor, has an uncontrollable temper, a weakness for drink, and abandoned his wife. Pursued on horseback, the 49-year old Nava eloped with his brother's 15-year-old stepdaughter, leaving the drudgery of his father's <I>rancho</I>, for riches in Mexico's northern states. But the Mexican revolution explodes, shattering the nation and Nava's dreams. He and his family flee north yet again.<BR><BR> During a botched train holdup in New Mexico, Nava nearly kills a man; now he must elude the law and a fearsome Apache bounty hunter. Nava becomes Tereso Minjares and seeks a quiet life. But his lust for fame lures him to run guns for the legendary rebel, Pancho Villa.<BR><BR> Ultimately humbled, Tereso never realizes that he was the instrument of the greatest El Gancho (Hook) of all. Because of Tereso's faults and God-given strengths, the Minjares family is brought to a new destiny in Los Estados Unidos.<BR><BR> <I>El Gancho</I>, the true stories of an illiterate great-grandfather once taken as a spinner of exaggerated tales, is the experience of real people who endured the hardships of history, and became the foundation of a nation.2375General2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books2393General2376Historical2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books3048891Memoirs2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books4978Spain4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books16261081Spanish16260961Foreign Language Nonfiction53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books307448011General301733Biografías y memorias301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books307450011General307449011Históricas301733Biografías y memorias301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712436011General AAS307449011Históricas301733Biografías y memorias301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books307459011Memorias301733Biografías y memorias301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712431011General AAS301733Biografías y memorias301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books307841011España307830011Europa301745Historia301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712520011General AAS307830011Europa301745Historia301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712514011General AAS301745Historia301731Libros en español504358Formats251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books309310011No-Ficción309311011Automotriz309414011Ciencias Sociales309319011Crimen y Criminales309335011Educación309487011Estudios de la Mujer309374011Feriados309375011Filosofía309366011Gobierno309483011Hechos Verídicos309486011Planeamiento Urbano y Desarrollo309401011Política309322011Sucesos de Actualidad309478011Transportación301731Libros en español504358Formats