A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK Good bookshops are questions without answers. They are places that provoke you intellectually, encode riddles, surprise and offer challenges ... A pleasing labyrinth where you can't get lost: that comes later, at home, when you immerse yourself in the books you have bought; lose yourself in new questions, knowing you will find answers. Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon and Other Essays explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. In essays on these vital social, cultural, and intellectual spaces, Jorge Carrion travels from London to Geneva, from Miami's Little Havana to Argentina, from his own well-loved childhood library to the rosewood shelves of Jules Verne's Nautilus and the innovative spaces that characterize South Korea's bookshop renaissance. Including interviews with writers and librarians-including Alberto Manguel, Iain Sinclair, Luigi Amara, and Han Kang, among others-Against Amazon is equal parts a celebration of books and bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter-and, most urgently, a manifesto against the corrosive influence of late capitalism.

'QUIEN DIJO QUE EN EL PERU NO SE LE RENDIAN HONORES A DON JOSE ANTONIO DE LA SANTISIMA TRINIDAD BOLIVAR PALACIOS Y BLANCO, EL LIBERTADOR? HE AQUI UN DOCUMENTO QUE PRUEBA LO CONTRARIO.

"A lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the world: Jorge Carrion has gone and visited them all. We can't travel right now, but we can travel in books." MARGARET ATWOOD Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Librairie des Colonnes in Tangier, the Strand Book Store in New York and provoke encounters with thinkers, poets, dreamers, revolutionaries and readers. Bookshops is the travelogue of a lucid and curious observer, filled with anecdotes and stories from the universe of writing, publishing and selling books. A bookshop in Carrion's eyes never just a place for material transaction; it is a meeting place for people and their ideas, a setting for world changing encounters, a space that can transform lives. Written in the midst of a worldwide recession, Bookshops examines the role of these spaces in today's evershifting climate of globalisation, vanishing high streets, e-readers and Amazon. But far from taking a pessimistic view of the future of the physical bookshop, Carrion makes a compelling case for hope, underlining the importance of these places and the magic that can happen there. A vital manifesto for the future of the traditional bookshop, and a delight for all who love them. Translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush

La Fundacion Universidad Hispana (FUNHI) y la Asociacion de Periodistas Peruanos en el Exterior (APPEX), cuyos contactos directos son: www.fundacionuniversidadhispana.com y www.jcradiotv.com, promueven este libro ubicado en un espacio, tiempo e historia recurrente a nivel de la convivencia de nuestros pueblos entre civiles y militares. JCR narra la gran anecdota de la vida militar, al tiempo que recrea los momentos mas memorables en la vida del Comandante Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias. JCR ha sido candidato al Congreso de la Republica del Peru en las elecciones generales del 2011, en su afan de hacer factible que los peruanos del exterior tengan un escano en el Congreso que los represente y vele por sus intereses, en linea directa con los pueblos olvidados del Peru no llamado Lima.