El oficio de investigador

El oficio de investigador
Author: Diego Antonio Pineda Rivera
Publisher: Bilineata Publishing
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2012-10-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9585754258

En este libro el autor busca examinar cómo se construye el oficio de investigador a partir de un personaje de ficción, Sherlock Holmes, que bien puede ser considerado como uno de los más interesantes modelos de investigación de todos los tiempos. A partir de él es posible examinar algunos de los principales problemas conceptuales y metodológicos que están a la base de todo proceso investigativo, los cuales, además, pueden ser igualmente relevantes en muy diversos campos. Más que “enseñar a investigar” -esto es algo que sólo se aprende en la práctica misma y en la medida en que profundizamos en nuestras disciplinas específicas-, la lectura de los relatos sobre Sherlock Holmes genera en el lector atento una reflexión en torno al sentido, el proceso, los métodos, las estrategias, entre otro. de la investigación científica. A partir de él se podremos realizar, entonces, un examen del oficio de investigador, podremos ver cómo se hace ciencia y, a la vez, podremos suscitar una reflexión sobre cómo nosotros mismos podríamos hacerla. La utilización de un modelo literario como éste tiene una serie de ventajas. Además de que los relatos sherlockianos son de muy agradable lectura, se propicia a través de ellos una introducción narrativa a los problemas claves de la investigación, que podríamos y deberíamos confrontar con visiones alternativas de lo que constituye una lógica de la investigación científica. Los relatos policíacos de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle constituyen una literatura de un elevado nivel de reflexión teórica, dado que Sherlock Holmes es un personaje que, a la vez que construye un oficio propio, el de investigador, va reflexionando continuamente sobre dicho oficio y sobre la práctica investigativa en general; sobre todo, hay una poderosa “lógica de la investigación científica” implícita, y muchas veces explícita, en estos textos.

The Life, Music, and Times of Carlos Gardel

The Life, Music, and Times of Carlos Gardel
Author: Simon Collier
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages: 369
Release: 1986-12-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0822976420

In the first biography in English of the great Argentinian tango singer Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Collier traces his rise from very modest beginnings to become the first genuine "superstar" of twentieth-century Latin America. In his late teens, Gardel won local fame in the barrios of Buenos Aires singing in cafes and political clubs. By the 1920s, after he switched to tango singing, the songs he wrote and sang enjoyed instant popularity and have become classics of the genre. He began making movies in the 1930s, quickly establishing himself as the most popular star of the Spanish-language cinema, and at the time of his death Paramount was planning to launch his Hollywood career.Collier's biography focuses on Gardel's artistic career and achievements but also sets his life story within the context of the tango tradition, of early twentieth-century Argentina, and of the history of popular entertainment.

Finding Your Writer's Voice

Finding Your Writer's Voice
Author: Thaisa Frank
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1250093406

An illuminating guide to finding one's most powerful writing tool, Finding Your Writer's Voice helps writers learn to hear the voices that are uniquely their own. Mixing creative inspiration with practical advice about craft, the book includes chapters on: Accessing raw voice Listening to voices of childhood, public and private voices, and colloquial voices Working in first and third person: discovering a narrative persona Using voice to create characters Shaping one's voice into the form of a story Reigniting the energy of voice during revision

Placing Autobiography in Geography

Placing Autobiography in Geography
Author: Pamela Moss
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780815628477

Chronicling the history of geography entails not only the literature emerging from geographers' pens and printers but also the geographers themselves. Why and how geographers have taken the career paths they have taken is as much importance as their scholarly output. The contributors use autobiography as a tool to document the history of geography, as a method of data collection, or as a mode of analysis. Taken together, their work provides empirical examples of the ways geographer are engaging the critical questions raised by the changes in their field.

The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Author: Donald Clarke
Publisher: Puffin Books
Total Pages: 1398
Release: 1990
Genre: Music
ISBN:

From Abba to ZZ Top by way of James Brown, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, this comprehensive reference book on popular music encompasses the extraordinary range of modern music from country, cabaret, reggae, folk, gospel, rock 'n' roll, and swing. More than 3,000 entries illuminate the careers of top performers, sognwriters, and musicians and outline the histories of important record labels.

The Second Marxian Invasion

The Second Marxian Invasion
Author: Stephen W. Potts
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 110
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 089370279X

Stephen W. Potts presents Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in terms of their dual contributions to the SF genre and to modern Russian literature, placing their work in both its historical and literary context.