Product Description: He read and wrote with the greatest of passions. And Jorge Luis Borges, the greatest of Argentine writers, created, through a 60-year-long career, one of the significant and enduring literary legacies of any writer of the 20th century...read more

A portrait of the Latin-American writer and poet draws on interviews and previously unavailable sources to cover such topics as Borges's ancestry in Argentina, the passions and challenges that marked his life, and the evolution of his political ideas. Reprint.

A biography of the flamboyant and often persecuted author of Kiss of the Spider Woman traces the remarkable life and career of Manuel Puig, an Argentinian banned by the Peronists and shunned by the left for his multi-layered, often erotic novels. (view table of contents)

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Traces the life and career of the seminal twentieth-century author, from his early youth in Europe, return to Buenos Aires in the 1930s, and the ultimate recognition of his body of work in the 1960s to his death in 1986 (view table of contents)

Split version of General, Organic, and Biochemistry. This text gives students a solid foundation of the chemistry of the human body, consistently demonstrating that a strong background in molecular structure and properties leads to better understanding of biochemical interactions. The strength of this book is its readability, its application to normal human biochemical pathways, as well as discussing biochemical conditions present in diseases.

Split version of General, Organic, and Biochemistry. This text gives students a solid foundation of the chemistry of the human body, consistently demonstrating that a strong background in molecular structure and properties leads to better understanding of biochemical interactions. The strength of this book is its readability, its application to normal human biochemical pathways, as well as discussing biochemical conditions present in diseases. (view table of contents)

Rebelling against strict social conventions, Ocampo fought for women's rights in Argentina, opposed the Peron regime, and, through her literary review, introduced South Americans to European and Northern American writers

A longtime friend of the famed Argentinian writer links Borges's personal history with his literary production, tracing the unfolding and fruition of a creative genius.

Product Description: The best of Eduardo Mallea's many volumes of essays, this collection was first published in 1937 and predates all of his novels, which pulled existential themes from these writings. Written from the perspective of a liberal thinker in Argentina who saw his nation in the 1930s as being dominated by repressive forces that betrayed the fundamental ideals upon which the country was built, this collection serves as both the author's spiritual autobiography and a contribution to the history of Argentina...read more