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El profesor / by Katzenbach, John.(CARDINAL)523139; Sierra, Julio,1941-translation.(CARDINAL)480440;
As retired professor Adrian Thomas leaves his doctor's office after being diagnosed with untreatable Lewy body dementia, he witnesses the kidnapping of Jennifer Riggins, and determines to use his remaining time to rescue her.
Subjects: Spanish language materials.; Fiction.; College teachers; Retired teachers; Older men; Dementia; Lewy body dementia; Kidnapping; Teenage girls;
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Higher education : chronicles of a dumpster fire / by Oliphant, Dr. Ashley,1978-author.;
Dr. Livie Green is an associate professor of English at Clary-Smith University and it's fixing to snap her very last nerve. While Green and her wickedly sharp colleagues attempt to keep the school's dysfunction from driving them to drink (any more than they already do in faculty meetings), their feckless dean works jigsaw puzzles in his office, and schedules utterly useless meetings to pass the time. Meanwhile, the even more aimless administration attempts to shut down the scandalous--but totally true--underground faculty newspaper that exposes the ineptitude of the institution's leaders at every turn. A professor with twenty years of college teaching experience, Dr. Ashley Oliphant drops the mic on academia in this uproariously funny prequel to Jimmy Buffett: A Key West Revival, and offers comedic insight into the unfortunate state of higher education in America today.
Subjects: Fiction.; Education; Profesors;
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Profesores, tiranos y otros pinches chamacos / by Hinojosa, Francisco.(CARDINAL)725574;
Cuentos sobre gobiernos, autoridades, poder -- Trabajos locos -- Destinos que se tuercen -- Sueños rotos / historias de amor.
Subjects: Short stories.; Fiction.;
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Martes con mi viejo profesor : un testimonio sobre la vida, la amistad y el amor / by Albom, Mitch,1958-author.;
Subjects: Schwartz, Morris S.; Brandeis University; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Teacher-student relationships; Death; Esclerosis amiotrófica lateral (Enfermedad); Relaciones maestro-estudiante; Muerte;
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La biblioteca magica del Profesor Marloc / by Hernández Chambers, Daniel,1972-author.(CARDINAL)678476;
Tomás, Isabel, Ernesto y Julia son amigos del alma y adoran las buenas aventuras. Cuando Isabel les dice que su vecino, el profesor Alexander Marloc, ha desaparecido en extrañas circunstancias, los cuatro se ponen a investigar. Armados con walkie-talkies y el máximo valor posible, atraviesan el jardín vecino y entran en una extraña mansión. Cuando Ernesto casi es devorado por Moby Dick, uno de los libros que encuentran abiertos en el sótano, los niños saben que el peligro acecha y tendrán que hacer lo imposible para rescatar a Marloc y lograr salir con vida de allí.
Subjects: Fiction.;
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Arturo y sus problemas con el profesor / by Brown, Marc Tolon.(CARDINAL)343474;
Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Animals; Schools; Teachers;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Professor Schiff's guilt : a novel / by Schiff, Agur,1955-author.(CARDINAL)869457; Cohen, Jessica(Translator),translator.(CARDINAL)353214;
"A stellar novel rendered into a darkly comic, unforgettable narrative by Booker International Prize winning translator Jessica Cohen. An Israeli professor travels to a fictitious West African nation to trace a slave-trading ancestor, only to be imprisoned under a new law barring successive generations from profiting off the proceeds of slavery. But before departing from Tel Aviv, the protagonist falls in love with Lucile, a mysterious African migrant worker who cleans his house. Entertaining and thought-provoking, this satire of contemporary attitudes toward racism and the legacy of colonialism examines economic inequality and the global refugee crisis, as well as the memory of transatlantic chattel slavery and the Holocaust. Is the professor's passion for Africa merely a fashionable pose and the book he's secretly writing about his experience there nothing but a modern version of the slave trade?"--
Subjects: Satirical literature.; Novels.; Family secrets; Slave trade;
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Por qué fracasan los países : los orígenes del poder, las prosperidad y la pobreza / by Acemoglu, Daron,author.(CARDINAL)530380; Robinson, James A.,1960-author.(CARDINAL)268475; García Madera, Marta,translator.(CARDINAL)787764;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-589)."¿Qué determina que un país sea rico o pobre? ¿Cómo se explica que, en condiciones similares, en algunos países haya hambrunas y en otros no? ¿Qué papel tiene la política en estas cuestiones? Que algunas naciones sean más prósperas que otras, ¿se debe a cuestiones culturales?, ¿a los efectos de la climatología?, ¿a su ubicación geográfica? No, en absoluto. Ninguna cuestión relativa a la prosperidad de un país está relacionada con estos factores, sino que proviene de otro mucho más tangible: la política económica que dictaminan sus dirigentes. Son los líderes de cada país, afirman los reconocidos profesores Daron Acemoglu y James A. Robinson en este libro, quienes determinan con sus políticas la prosperidad de su territorio, y así ha ocurrido en todos los períodos de la historia, como demuestran en este apasionante estudio." --
Subjects: Colección Las Revoluciones; Economics; Economic history; Poverty; Economic development; Revolutions; Economía; Historia económica; Pobreza; Desarrollo económico; Países en desarrollo; Países en desarrollo;
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Las doncellas / by Michaelides, Alex,1977-author.(CARDINAL)805008; Manero Jiménez, Laura,translator.(CARDINAL)501215; Martín de Dios, Laura,translator.(CARDINAL)354198;
A sus treinta y seis años, Mariana intenta recuperarse de la pérdida de Sebastian, el gran amor de su vida, ahogado durante unas vacaciones en una isla griega. Ella trabaja en Londres como terapeuta, pero cuando su sobrina Zoe, la única familia que le queda, la llama desde Cambridge para contarle que Tara, su mejor amiga, ha sido brutalmente asesinada cerca de la residencia de estudiantes, decide acudir en su ayuda. Allí conoce a Fosca, un carismático profesor de Filología Clásica. El profesor mantiene un grupo de estudio con un número muy selecto de discípulas, todas hermosas y de familias elitistas, del que Tara formaba parte: las Doncellas. En el dormitorio de la joven, Mariana encuentra una postal con unos versos en griego clásico que exigen un sacrificio. Pronto los cadáveres de otras Doncellas irán apareciendo en el campus con los ojos arrancados y con una piña en la mano, y Mariana no solo deberá enfrentarse a la resolución de estos crímenes, sino a los fantasmas de su propio pasado.
Subjects: Fiction.; Novela psicología.; Spanish language materials.; Materiales en español.; Psychological fiction.; University of Cambridge; College teachers; Murderers; Mythology, Greek; Secret societies; Truthfulness and falsehood; Mitología griega; Sociedades secretas; Verdad y mentira;
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Professor Borges : a course on English literature / by Borges, Jorge Luis,1899-1986,author.(CARDINAL)138318; Arias, Martín,1970-editor.(CARDINAL)703479; Hadis, Martín,1971-editor.(CARDINAL)703480; Silver, Katherine,translator.(CARDINAL)389431;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-300) and index.About this book -- Class 1: the Anglo-Saxons. Genealogy of the Germanic kings. Poetry and kennings. -- Class 2: Beowulf. Description of the Germans. Ancient funeral rites. -- Class 3: Beowulf. Bravery and boastfulness: Beowulf as compared to the compadritos. -- Class 4: The Finnsburh fragment. The Vikings. Anecdotes from Borges's trip to York. :The Battle of Brunanburh" Tennyson's translation. -- Class 5: "The Battle of Maldon." Christian poetry. "Caedmon's hymn." The runic alphabet. Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon elegies. -- Class 6: The origins of poetry in England. The Anglo-Saxon elegies. Christian poetry: "The dream of the Rood." -- Class 7: The two books written by God. The Anglo-Saxon bestiary. Riddles. "The grave." The Battle of Hastings. -- Class 8: A brief history until the eighteenth century. The life of Samuel Johnson. -- Class 9: Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, by Samuel Johnson. The legend of the Buddha. Optimism and pessimism. Leibniz and Voltaire. -- Class 10: Samuel Johnson as seen by Boswell. The art of biography. Boswell and his critics. -- Class 11: The romantic movement. The life of James Macpherson. The invention of Ossian. Opinions about Ossian. Polemic with Johnson. Reappraisal of Macpherson. -- Class 12: Life of William Wordsworth. The prelude and other poems. -- Class 13: The life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A story by Henry James. Coleridge and Macedonio Fernandez, compared. Coleridge and Shakespeare. In cold blood, by Truman Capote. -- Class 14: Coleridge's final years. Coleridge compared to Dante Alighieri. Coleridge's poems. "Kubla Khan." Coleridge's dream. -- Class 15: The life of William Blake. The poem "The Tyger." Blake and Swedenborg's philosophy, compared. A poem by Rupert Brooke. Blake's poems. -- Class 16: Life of Thomas Carlyle. Sartor Resartus by Carlyle. Carlyle, precursor of Nazism. Bolivar's soldiers, according to Carlyle. -- Class 17: The Victorian era. The life of Charles Dickens. The novels of Charles Dickens. William Wilkie Collins. The mystery of Edwin Drood, by Dickens. -- Class 18: The life of Robert Browning. The obscurity of his work. His poems. -- Class 19: Robert Browning's poems. A chat with Alfonso Reyes. The ring and the book. -- Class 20: The life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Evaluation of Rossetti as a poet and a painter. The theme of the double (fetch). A book of exhumed poems. Rossetti's poems. History cyclically repeated. -- Class 21: Rossetti's poem. Rossetti as seen by Max Nordau. "The Blessed Damozel," "Eden Bower," and "Troy Town." -- Class 22: The life of William Morris. The three subjects worthy of poetry. King Arthur and the myth of the return of the hero. Morris's interests. Morris and Chaucer. "The defence of Guenevere." -- Class 23: "The tune of the seven towers," "The sailing of the sword," and The earthly paradise, by William Morris. The Icelandic sagas. The story of Gunnar. -- Class 24: The story of Sigurd the Volsung, by William Morris. The life of Robert Louis Stevenson. -- Class 25: The works of Robert Louis Stevenson: New Arabian Nights, "Markheim," The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Jekyll and Hyde in the movies. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. "Requiem," by Stevenson.
Subjects: Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986; Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986; Universidad de Buenos Aires.; English literature; English literature;
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