Sugerencias para Navidad

"It's a quiet Christmas Eve. The snow is fresh and white, the kids are tucked in and dreaming, and even the mice are snug in their homes. But wait--what's that clatter? This classic Christmas poem was first published anonymously in a newspaper 1823, and it later appeared in an anthology of poetry from the American author Clement Clarke Moore in 1844. This unabridged version from a 1912 edition includes color illustrations from American artist Jessie Willcox Smith."

"Since the mid-1820s, a series of lectures has been delivered each year over the Christmas period in the world-famous Faraday Lecture Theatre at The Royal Institution of Great Britain by prominent scientists, addressed specifically to an audience of children. Initially made accessible in book form, the lectures have been nationally televised throughout the UK and distributed worldwide since the 1960s, making them accessible to an even larger audience. The importance of these lectures in promoting science to a broad audience is perhaps best gauged by the fact that an image of one of Faraday's lectures appeared on the Bank of England #65533;20 note in the 1990s.This anthology brings together, for the first time, a carefully chosen selection of 11 lectures from the 1860s to the 1990s. The selection includes lectures by Michael Faraday, arguably the most important and influential 19th-century physicist, and Lawrence Bragg, the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Prize. Through this work, readers will come to grips with the changing nature of popular science lectures over the past 140 years."

"In late December 1914, German and British soldiers on the western front initiated a series of impromptu, unofficial ceasefires. Enlisted men across No Man's Land abandoned their trenches and crossed enemy lines to sing carols, share food and cigarettes, and even play a little soccer. Collectively known as the Christmas Truce, these fleeting moments of peace occupy a mythical place in remembrances of World War I. Yet new accounts suggest that the heartwarming tale ingrained in the popular imagination bears little resemblance to the truth. In this detailed study, Terri Blom Crocker provides the first comprehensive analysis of both scholarly and popular portrayals of the Christmas Truce from 1914 to present. From books by influential historians to the Oscar-nominated French film Joyeux Noel (2006), this new examination shows how a variety of works have both explored and enshrined this outbreak of peace amid overwhelming violence. The vast majority of these accounts depict the soldiers as acting in defiance of their superiors. Crocker, however, analyzes official accounts as well as private letters that reveal widespread support among officers for the détentes. Furthermore, she finds that truce participants describe the temporary ceasefires not as rebellions by disaffected troops but as acts of humanity and survival by professional soldiers deeply committed to their respective causes. The Christmas Truce studies these ceasefires within the wider war, demonstrating how generations of scholars have promoted interpretations that ignored the nuanced perspectives of the many soldiers who fought. Crocker's groundbreaking, meticulously researched work challenges conventional analyses and sheds new light on the history and popular mythology of the War to End All Wars."

"Mosaico 1. Jingle bells, Joy to the world, We wish you a merry Christmas, Cantares de Navidad, El Año viejo (5:24) -- Arbolito, arbolito (3:48) -- Vive tu vida (3:46) -- Blanca Navidad (2:42) -- Paz y alegría (2:55) -- Mosaico 2. Fiesta de Navidad, Noche buena (5:04) -- Carpintero fino (3:29) -- Fiesta de amor (3:04) -- Regalos a Jesús (3:14) -- Cantemos, cantemos (2:40) -- Los Reyes Magos (2:49) -- Todos a Belén (2:27) -- Jingle bells (3:05) -- Todo el año es Navidad (4:25)"

"Share the biblical story of Christmas with the contemporary and engaging language of The Message Bible. This booklet is the perfect way to personally share the message of the hope of Christmas through excerpts that not only highlight the nativity narrative but also the love and hope given to mankind through Christ's birth. A compilation of revealing Old Testament prophecies and rich, first-hand gospel accounts, The Message of Christmas uses fresh, personal language that will engage and enlighten what you thought you already knew about Christ. With an all-new section offering the "Gifts of Christmas," including love, joy, forgiveness, hope, wholeness, and more, The Message of Christmas will help believers share the gospel and provide a life-impacting experience in the lives of the people around them."

"A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime Here are ten murder cases of “the old-fashioned sort”—evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction—that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these grisly tales range from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club in New York (where a gentleman named Molineux provided a drastic cure for hangovers by putting cyanide in a gift-wrapped bottle of Bromo Seltzer) to an apartment in Glasgow (home of a wealthy Scotswoman whose demise seemed to have been satisfactorily explained by local constables, until Arthur Conan Doyle assumed the role of Sherlock Holmes) and from a builder’s workshop in North London (site of a murder committed by a man called Furnace, who suited his criminal action to his name) to the elegant dwelling of a ménage à trois near the Thames (scene of a puzzling poisoning that, years later, Raymond Chandler tried, unofficially, to solve). In The Christmas Murders, Jonathan Goodman has collected stories as fascinating and compulsively readable as one would expect from a writer described by Jacques Barzun as “the greatest living master of true-crime literature” and by Julian Symons as “the premier investigator of crimes past.”"

"En un esfuerzo por difundir nuestros valores y dar a conocer distintos géneros dramáticos que se cultivan en el país, Árbol Editorial ha reunido en este libro cinco pastorelas seleccionadas por su alto valor escénico. Justificaciones hay muchas. Para empezar por alguna, digamos que pocas cosas pueden ser tan divertidas como montar, actuar o dirigir una pastorela. Y es que la pastorela mexicana -heredera de una larga tradición que para algunos se remonta en los añejos rituales de los llamados autos sacramentales del teatro religioso medieval español- se coje fuerte del brazo de la vida con una espontaneidad y riqueza plástica de imágenes que resulta asombrosa. Tiene sarcasmo y risas amargas; tiene cólera. Y sed de justicia; muestra pasión e indiferencia; muestra milagros y promesas de salvación- y tiene humor, un ingrediente que deforma las situaciones hasta un límite donde no puede conservarse la seriedad y que florece sólo en la literatura de las naciones que han vivido; que conocen el drama, la tragedia y el lirismo y que saben que, en última instancia, mucho de lo que nos rodea no merece el oropel que nos empeñamos en rodearlo."

"First published in 1941, A Northern Christmas is Rockwell Kent's uplifting account of the 1918 Christmas he spent with his 9-year old son in a one-room, moss-caulked log cabin on a remote Alaskan Island. Published here in its original format, with Kent's striking illustrations, this charming keepsake edition is sure to delight a new generation of readers."