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The Craft of Software Testing by Brian Marick
Álbum de Familia by Michelle Roche Rodríguez
Una fascinante e invaluable colección de conversaciones con quince especialistas, artistas o gestores culturales venezolanos, oficialistas y no oficialistas, sobre los cambios que perciben en la identidad psicológica y cultural del venezolano debido...more
Los Vecinos Mueren en las Novelas by Sergio Aguirre
" Un novelista de historias policiales sin éxito en su profesión y su esposa, se mudan al campo. John Bland (asi el nombre del escritor) es un hombre fracasado, no solo en su profesión, sino también en su vida personal, ya que su mujer lo engaña. Ya... " Read more of this review »
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
" As a philosopher, Wittgenstein isn't terribly systematic-- rather shocking for an "analytic" thinker. I would argue that he's an original, using analytic (thought experiments), continental (literary examples), pragmatic (everyday life as a litmus... " Read more of this review »
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
" When I read this years ago, I struggled with it. Tractatus had been so beautifully efficient and lucid (wrong, but beautiful nonetheless.) Then I dove into PI and floundered. On second reading I've had a lot more peripheral material to help me gra... " Read more of this review »
Commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations by Lois Shawver
It's (Mostly) His Fault by Robert Mark Alter
Scrum in Action by Andrew T. Pham
eXtreme Programming eXplained  by Kent Beck
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“La novela negra es una variante de novela policial en la cual el detective es casi tan malandro como los malandros, y se evidencia la corrupción y la crisis social.”
Jesús Puerta

Saul D. Alinsky
“If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.”
Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

Aristotle
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
Aristotle

“Internet es la realidad continuada por otros medios.”
Ignacio Ávalos

Hannah Arendt
“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”
Hannah Arendt


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Best Philosophical Literature
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