Neil Smith

"Do you ever wonder, dear Mother and Father, what kind of toothpaste angels use in heaven? I will tell you. . . . This book I am writing to you about my afterlife will be your nitty-gritty. One day I hope to discover a way to deliver my story to you." It is the first week of school in 1979, and Oliver "Boo" Dalrymple--ghostly pale eighth grader; aspiring scientist; social pariah--is standing next to his locker, reciting the periodic table. The next thing he knows, he finds himself lying in a strange bed in a strange land. He is a new resident of a place called Town--an afterlife exclusively for thirteen-year-olds. Soon Boo is joined by Johnny Henzel, a fellow classmate, who brings with him a piece of surprising news about the circumstances of the boys' deaths. In Town, there are no trees or animals, just endless rows of redbrick dormitories surrounded by unscalable walls. No one grows or ages, but everyone arrives just slightly altered from who he or she was before. To Boo's great surprise, the qualities that made him an outcast at home win him friends; and he finds himself capable of a joy he has never experienced. But there is a darker side to life after death--and as Boo and Johnny attempt to learn what happened that fateful day, they discover a disturbing truth that will have profound repercussions for both of them. Hilarious and heartwarming, poignant and profound, "Boo "is a unique look at the bonds of friendship in what is, ultimately, a book about finding your place in the world--be it this one, or the next.

Qué está ocurriendo en los centros urbanos y en muchos otros barrios históricos de las ciudades de Europa, Norteamérica y otros continentes? ¿Por qué se ha producido esa oleada de operaciones de regeneracion urbana con resultados tan extremadamente chic? ¿Se puede dar por terminado este proceso en el marco de la actual crisis financiero-inmobiliaria? ¿Que supone la remodelacion de los centros urbanos para la gente que vive en los mismos?

Oliver Dalrymple é o típico "loser" americano: aos 13 anos, magro e pálido como um fantasma, está mais interessado em biologia e química do que em esportes e vida social. Um dia, enquanto se recupera de um dos frequentes episodios de bullying de que e vitima recitando a tabela periodica em frente a seu armario, ele desfalece para sempre. E e ai que sua verdadeira vida começa. O "ceu" onde Oliver acorda depois do que acredita ter sido uma parada cardiaca em funço de um problema congenito chama-se Cidade e e povoado por pessoas que morreram aos 13 anos, como ele e seu colega de escola Johnny Henzel, que chega dias depois de Boo a Cidade, trazendo noticias perturbadoras sobre a causa da morte deles. Noticias que mudam para sempre a percepço de Oliver Boo sobre sua personalidade e seu lugar no mundo. Elogiado pela critica e adorado pelos leitores, Boo e um romance cativante sobre amizade, confiança, bullying e a dificil tarefa de ser adolescente.

Este libro examina la apariencia, la forma y los procesos de la ciudad "después del neoliberalismo" y atraviesa los contornos del caos y la reconstrucción que ayudan a rehacer el espacio urbano.

From Neil Smith, author of the award-winning, internationally acclaimed story collection Bang Crunch, comes a dark but whimsical debut novel about starting over in the afterlife in the vein of Alice Sebold''s The Lovely Bones.When Oliver ''Boo'' Dalrymple wakes up in heaven, the eighth-grade science geek thinks he died of a heart defect at his school. But soon after arriving in this hereafter reserved for dead thirteen-year-olds, Boo discovers hes a ''gommer'', a kid who was murdered. Whats more, his killer may also be in heaven. With help from his volatile classmate Johnny, Boo sets out to track down the mysterious Gunboy who cut short both their lives.In a heart-rending story written to his beloved parents, the odd but endearing Boo relates his astonishing heavenly adventures as he tests the limits of friendship, learns about forgiveness and, finally, makes peace with the boy he once was and the boy he can now be.

Noam Chomsky es uno de los intelectuales más destacados de nuestros días. Ha ejercido una gran influencia en la lingüística, la psicología y la filosofía, y ha intervenido de manera significativa en

El campo de la geografía crítica ha experimentado una creativa explosión en las últimas décadas. La geografía ha pasado de ser una disciplina presuntamente neutra, dedicada a espacializar fenómenos objetivos (los climas, la poblacion, las infraestructuras), a convertirse en un verdadero campo de batalla en la explicacion de la produccion de las formas de dominio y, concretamente, del capitalismo contemporaneo. En Desarrollo desigual, un clasico en su campo, Neil Smith ofrece la primera teoria completa del desarrollo geografico desigual, entrelazando teorias del espacio y lo que llama "produccion de la naturaleza" con una critica del desarrollo capitalista. Con sus analisis pioneros, el trabajo de Smith anticipo muchos de los contornos desiguales que ahora marcan la globalizacion neoliberal. Principal compañero de David Harvey (quien a su vez prologa este libro) en la reelaboracion critica de los estudios sobre el espacio, Neil Smith se ha convertido en una referencia obligada para cualquiera que este interesado en entender las geografias contemporaneas del capitalismo. Esta tercera edicion de Desarrollo desigual, traducida por primera vez al castellano, incluye un epilogo que actualiza su analisis en el marco de la reciente crisis de la globalizacion neoliberal.