Product Description: The material in this text was compiled to serve as a study guide for a REVIEW of microbiology and immunology suitable for preparing for Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). I have assumed that you, the reader, have already had a full fledged course covering this discipline...read more

A collection of old and new words features words to be said in singing moods, words for times of day, and rude names for nitwits, and defines such words as gongoozler, tantony, and cosse

From the author of 'SHADOW WITHOUT A NAME', this title reveals tales of demented explorers, impossible missions and strange plagues.

A collection of definitive nautical works by the Nobel Prize-winning poet reflects his self-proclaimed identity as an armchair sailor and is complemented by Isla Negra-inspired art. 25,000 first printing.

One of Pablo Neruda's own favorites among his books, Extravagaria marks an important stage in the progress of his poetry. It was written at the point in his life when he had returned to Chile after many wanderings and moved to Isla Negra on the Pacific coast. These writings celebrate this coming to rest, this rediscovery of the sea and the land, for in Extravagaria Neruda evolved a lyric poetry that is decidedly more personal than his earlier work. Written in what he called his "autumnal" period, the sixty-eight poems range from the wistful to the exultant, combining psalm and speculation, meditation and humorous aside. (view table of contents)

Over the course of nine intensely focused chapters the advice of a father to his son on the art of living become a treatise on ethics, understanding the nature of freedom, and finding the life worth living well. 20,000 first printing.

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Explores the world of Chilean writer Pablo Neruda through recollections from his friends, his poetry, and Luis Poirot's photographs, taken at his home in Isla Negra

Product Description: Alastair Reid began publishing poetry in the New Yorker in 1951 and has since contributed reviews, translations, stories, and reportage as well. Having lived variously in Scotland, the United States, Spain, France, Greece, Switzerland, Central and South America, Reid has until recently called Magazine his only permanent address...read more

This series of more than a hundred poems forms a poetic autobiography that captures Neruda's childhood impressions and awakenings, early loves and travels, and struggle for self-definition (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Jorge Luis Borges