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God Is Round: Tackling the Giants, Villains, Triumphs, and Scandals of the World's Favorite Game

By Thomas Bunstead (trans) and Juan Villoro

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9781632060587 | Restless Books, April 19, 2016, cover price $16.99

The Guilty: Stories

By Kimi Traube (trans) and Juan Villoro

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9780807600139 | George Braziller, June 15, 2015, cover price $15.95

BalÂ¢n dividido / Hits divided

By Juan Villoro

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9786070721243, titled "BalÃ³n dividido / Hits divided" | Planeta Pub Corp, July 8, 2014, cover price $13.95

El profesor ZÃper y la fabulosa guitarra elÃ©ctrica/ Professor Ziper and the Fabulous Electric Guitar

Product Description: Cremallerus the terrible scientist, jealous of the fame of absent-minded professor Ziper, undertakes a ferocious fight against him. The future of Liquid Cloud, a popular and amusing rock group depends on the outcome of this confrontation because their artistic career is in jeopardy...read more

By Juan Villoro

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9786070118210, titled "El profesor ZÃper y la fabulosa guitarra elÃ©ctrica/ Professor Ziper and the Fabulous Electric Guitar" | Alfaguara, June 30, 2014, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Cremallerus the terrible scientist, jealous of the fame of absent-minded professor Ziper, undertakes a ferocious fight against him.

Posada: A Century of Skeletons

Product Description: To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Posadaâs death, A Century of Skeletons collects nearly 1,000 reproductions of original prints, including dozens of engravings never before published. Over the last century, Posadaâs satirical illustrations with their signature "calaveras," or skeletons, have become synonymous with the imagery of Mexicoâs Day of the Dead celebrations...read more

By Gregory Dechant (trans), Rafael Barajas Duran, Agustin Estrada (photographer), Jose Guadalupe Posada and Juan Villoro

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9788415118664 | Bilingual edition (Rm Verlag, March 31, 2014), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Posadaâs death, A Century of Skeletons collects nearly 1,000 reproductions of original prints, including dozens of engravings never before published.

La guerra de los zetas: Viaje por la frontera de la necropolitica

Product Description: En el aÃ±o 2000, cuando el PRI dejÃ³ al fin la presidencia de MÃ©xico, en el noreste del paÃs nacieron Los Zetas, una banda que entonces parecÃa una anÃ©cdota fugaz dentro del mundo del narco. Doce aÃ±os despuÃ©s, el PRI regresa al poder y Los Zetas parecen eternos mientras libran una guerra contra el cÃ¡rtel de Sinaloa, la organizaciÃ³n criminal mÃ¡s fortalecida durante los gobiernos del PAN...read more

By Diego Enrique Osorno and Juan Villoro (introduced by)

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9780804169493 | Random House Spanish, December 3, 2013, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: En el aÃ±o 2000, cuando el PRI dejÃ³ al fin la presidencia de MÃ©xico, en el noreste del paÃs nacieron Los Zetas, una banda que entonces parecÃa una anÃ©cdota fugaz dentro del mundo del narco.

El libro salvaje / The wild book

Product Description: Juan ya tiene planeadas las vacaciones de verano. Sin embargo, su madre ignora sus planes y lo deja en casa de To Tito, un biblifilo empedernido que hace ruido cuando come y que le teme a los osos de peluche. Ah, escondido entre los miles de ejemplares de la biblioteca de su to, Juan tendr que en encontrar el Libro Salvaje, un libro rebelde que se resiste a la lectura y que guarda entre sus pginas un secreto destinado al lector que sea capaz de atraparlo...read more

By Juan Villoro

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9786071616296 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 1, 2013, cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Juan ya tiene planeadas las vacaciones de verano.

Hay vida en la tierra? / Is there life on earth?

New product. Never used!

By Juan Villoro

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9789871307685, titled "Â¿Hay Vida En La Tierra? / Is There Life On Earth?" | Grupal Logistica Y Distribucion, August 12, 2013, cover price $41.95

9786074110746 | Editorial Almadia S C, February 14, 2012, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: New product.

Brian Nissen

Product Description: This monograph presents a full overview of the paintings and sculptures of London-born, New York/Mexico-based artist Brian Nissen (born 1939). It explores his major themes, which range from myth and history to anthropology and biology, all of which are expressed in an astonishing variety of idioms--including reinterpretations of ancient Mexican codices...read more

By Juan Villoro

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9788415118398 | Rm Verlag, March 31, 2013, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This monograph presents a full overview of the paintings and sculptures of London-born, New York/Mexico-based artist Brian Nissen (born 1939).

La guerra de los Zetas / War of the Zetas

Product Description: Sin duda, Los Zetas es uno de los grupos mÃ¡s poderosos y sanguinarios del narcotrÃ¡fico en MÃ©xico. Este libro documenta puntualmente su historia y las complejas redes que lo conforman. Al investigar las particularidades de lo que se podrÃa denominar el Â«enigma ZÂ», Diego Osorno advierte los riesgos que corre el paÃs en los aÃ±os venideros ante un potencial crecimiento desmedido de esta organizaciÃ³n criminal...read more

By Diego Enrique Osorno and Juan Villoro (introduced by)

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9786073110273 | Grijalbo Mondadori, February 26, 2013, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Sin duda, Los Zetas es uno de los grupos mÃ¡s poderosos y sanguinarios del narcotrÃ¡fico en MÃ©xico.

Aforismos / Aphorisms

Product Description: La literatura, escribiÃ³ Lichtenberg, suele ser mÃ¡s inteligente que su autor. AsÃ, estos escritos, aforismos de difÃcil clasificaciÃ³n y de variadÃsimo contenido, han conquistado a una legiÃ³n de fervorosos lectores entre los que se cuentan Kant, Thomas Mann, Freud, Nietzsche, Goethe, Breton y Schopenhauer, por mencionar sÃ³lo unos cuantos...read more

By Juan Villoro (trans)

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9786071609724 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, June 8, 2012, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: La literatura, escribiÃ³ Lichtenberg, suele ser mÃ¡s inteligente que su autor.

Arrecife

By Juan Villoro

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9788433972354 | Editorial Anagrama, February 27, 2012, cover price $28.95

La casa pierde / The House is Dealt the Losing Hand

Product Description: Led by losers, both glorious and solitary, who interpret the world through a strictly personal code of ethics, this work offers astounding observations on the intricate web we call life. Among other mysteries, these short stories bring to life a boxer whose sheer power of resistance is capable of defeating each and every one of his opponents; a man in love with the duplicate magic of twins; a racetrack addict who feigns fabulous winnings to finance a friendship, and a writer whose work emerges from some one else s hand...read more

By Juan Villoro

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9786071109088 | Alfaguara, May 30, 2011, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Led by losers, both glorious and solitary, who interpret the world through a strictly personal code of ethics, this work offers astounding observations on the intricate web we call life.

El taxi de los peluches / The Taxi of the Stuffed Animals

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By Diego Alverez (illustrator) and Juan Villoro

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9789707853430 | Ediciones Sm, April 1, 2011, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: New product.

Los Sandy en Waikiki / Sandys at Waikiki

By Daniela Franco, Fabio Morabito (contributor), Marius Serra (contributor), Enrique Vila-Matas (contributor) and Juan Villoro (contributor)

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9788492480586, titled "Los Sandy en Waikiki / Sandys at Waikiki: Sandys at Waikiki" | Bilingual edition (Rm Verlag, March 31, 2011), cover price $25.00

Albercas / Pools

Product Description: Los personajes que viven en esta singular piscina son mÃºsicos-adivinos, lectores desquiciados, profesores de mÃºsica que por un crimen ven transformado su arrobamient? Siete relatos que apuestan a la remembranza, a lo imprevisto, a las variables del amor y los lÃmites de las pasiones, escritos con la habitual lucidez y originalidad de Juan Villoro, uno de los autores imprescindibles en la narrativa mexicana contemporÃ¡nea...read more

By Juan Villoro

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9786070705731 | Booket, November 24, 2010, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Los personajes que viven en esta singular piscina son mÃºsicos-adivinos, lectores desquiciados, profesores de mÃºsica que por un crimen ven transformado su arrobamient?

8.8: El miedo en el espejo / 8.8: The Fear in the Mirror: Una cronica del terremoto en Chile / A Chronicle of the Chilean Earthquake

By Juan Villoro

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9786074110524 | Editorial Almadia S C, September 30, 2010, cover price $18.95

Manuel Felguerez: Constuctive Invention

Product Description: A painter of rare independent vision, with an oeuvre that now stretches back a half-century, Manuel FelguÃ©rez (born 1928) is without doubt one of Mexicoâs most outstanding artists. His abstract paintings of the 1950s and 1960s presented expressively worked surfaces and a scratchy mark-making; later he arrived at the work for which he is best known, abstractions of a more classical bent, that evoke the cylindrical geometries of Fernand LÃ©ger and Francis Picabia...read more

By Dore Ashton, manuel Felguerez (other contributor), Jorge Reynoso Pohlenz, Alberto Gonzalez Torres and Juan Villoro

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9788492480777 | Editorial Rm Rio Panuko, July 31, 2010, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A painter of rare independent vision, with an oeuvre that now stretches back a half-century, Manuel FelguÃ©rez (born 1928) is without doubt one of Mexicoâs most outstanding artists.

Paolo Gasparini: The Supplicant

Product Description: Italian-Venezuelan Paolo Gasparini is a key figure in contemporary documentary photography. Known for his emblematic images of conflict zones--the border between the United States and Mexico, the Zapatista territory (from Morelos to Chiapas), the Sierra Tarahumara and Mexico City--Gasparini weaves an ambiguous narrative by fusing contemporary and traditional themes, with the aim of demonstrating that photography can be an act of political conscience...read more

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9788492480555, titled "The Supplicant: Mexico 1971-2007" | Rm Verlag, May 31, 2010, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Italian-Venezuelan Paolo Gasparini is a key figure in contemporary documentary photography.

El optimismo de la voluntad/ The optimism of will: Experiencias editoriales en america latina / Publishing Experiences in Latin America

Product Description: Durante cuarenta aÃ±os nos dice Juan Villoro en el prÃ³logo Herralde ha dirigido su editorial, Anagrama, con el intrÃ©pido placer de quien organiza una fiesta en una paÃs con toque de queda. Y sobre los preparativos y los invitados de este convite nos habla su organizador en El optimismo de la voluntad: un collage de homenajes a autores y editores "Sergio Pitol, Carlos MonsivÃ¡is, Ricardo Piglia, Roberto BolaÃ±o, Mario Muchnik, Arnaldo Orfila, entre otros", ademÃ¡s de notas sobre la experiencia de editar en el contexto latinoamericano...read more

By Jorge Herralde and Juan Villoro (contributor)

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9786071600882 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, July 31, 2009, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Durante cuarenta aÃ±os nos dice Juan Villoro en el prÃ³logo Herralde ha dirigido su editorial, Anagrama, con el intrÃ©pido placer de quien organiza una fiesta en una paÃs con toque de queda.

Palmeras de la brisa rapida/ Swift Breeze Palms: Un viaje a Yucatan/ Trip to Yucatan

Product Description: A fin de conocer sus raices, un joven cronista decide recorrer en coche la peninsula de Yucatan. El periplo no es facil: lo asaltan mosquitos, recuerdos, piramides demasiado arduas, platillos indigeribles y vendedores de souvenirs; entre sus incentivos se encuentran la historia del ajedrecista que desafio a Capablanca, los trovadores que renuevan el eterno arte de morir de amor, los paisajes de embrujo, las infinitas maravillas de la cultura yucateca...read more

By Juan Villoro

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9786074110159 | 1 edition (Editorial Almadia S C, May 30, 2009), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A fin de conocer sus raices, un joven cronista decide recorrer en coche la peninsula de Yucatan.

El libro salvaje/ The Wild Book

Product Description: Juan ya tiene planeadas las vacaciones de verano. Sin embargo, su madre ignora sus planes y lo deja en casa de tio Tito, un bibliofilo empedernido que hace ruido cuando come y que teme a los osos de peluche. Alli, escondido entre los miles de ejemplares de la biblioteca de su tio, Juan tendra que encontrar El libro salvaje, un libro rebelde que se resiste a la lectura y que guarda entre sus paginas un secreto destinado al lector que sea capaz de atraparlo...read more

By Juan Villoro

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9788498413090, titled "El libro salvaje / The Wild Book" | Siruela, May 1, 2009, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Juan ya tiene planeadas las vacaciones de verano.

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9786071600011 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, November 5, 2008, cover price $9.50

Llamadas de Amsterdam/ Calls from Amsterdam

Product Description: Llamadas de amsterdam es una extraordinaria historia de amor. Con una impecable tension narrativa, Juan Villoro despliega una trama hecha de coincidencias, separaciones, misteriosas oportunidades de reencuentro. La accion ocurre en una calle circular, trazada sobre la pista donde una vez corrieron caballos de carreras...read more

By Juan Villoro

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9786074110142 | Editorial Almadia S C, April 30, 2009, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Llamadas de amsterdam es una extraordinaria historia de amor.

Las llaves de la ciudad/ The Keys of a City: Un mosaico de Mexico/ A Mosaic of Mexico City

Product Description: When I came to Mexico City in 1990, with limited knowledge of Spanish, I knew that I wanted to learn to the language well, and to be able to read anything from Don Quijote to One Hundred Years of Solitude in the original. But I never dreamed I would one day write in Spanish, let alone that a prestigious publishing house like Sexto Piso would consider my work worthy of a book...read more

By David Lida and Juan Villoro (foreword by)

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9789685679657 | Advanced Marketing s De Rl De Cv, June 30, 2008, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: When I came to Mexico City in 1990, with limited knowledge of Spanish, I knew that I wanted to learn to the language well, and to be able to read anything from Don Quijote to One Hundred Years of Solitude in the original.

Los culpables / The Guilty Ones

Product Description: Los culpables es el mejor libro de cuentos de Juan Villoro y el mas arriesgado. Luego de aficionarnos a un estilo original y fulminante, Villoro renueva su prosa a fin de explorar distintos registros orales de los impredecibles y complejos sujetos que pueden ser los mexicanos...read more

By Juan Villoro

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9789709854305 | Editorial Almadia S C, April 30, 2008, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Los culpables es el mejor libro de cuentos de Juan Villoro y el mas arriesgado.

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