Author: Publisher: Lianne Kross
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Author: American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record
Author: Bendíceme, Ultima
Author: Rudolfo AnayaPublisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538772205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Full of “sensual dreams [and] unexplained phenomena,” this "best-known and most-respected" coming-of-age classic from the godfather of Chicano literature follows a young boy growing up in the llano, or plains, of post-World War II New Mexico, and the generous curandera who introduces him to the sacred side of life (New York Times). A PBS Great American Read · Winner of the Premio Quinto Sol Award · Recipient of the National Humanities Medal · With a new Foreword by author, playwright, and stage director Denise Chavez; a new Afterword by award-winning journalist and author Carmela Padilla; and a new essay by Manuel Muñoz, a Macarthur Fellow and winner of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. “I pulled this baby into the light of life . . . Only I will know his destiny.” Antonio Marez is six years old when the woman who helped usher him into the world comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. Venerated by some as a miracle-worker—and disparaged by others as a bruja—Ultima, a curandera, or healer, opens Tony’s eyes to the spiritual roots of his culture, and introduces him to a magical, if sometimes frightening, new world: a realm in which she operates as a shaman. Suddenly, the ordinary challenges and triumphs of childhood become extraordinary. As Ultima shows Tony how to cure ailments, reverse curses, and restore peace to those who have lost it, he embarks on a singular quest, one in which he probes the family ties that bind and rend him, questions the Catholicism that shaped him, and explores the Spanish, Mexican, and Native American influences that informed not only his heritage, but his very sense of self. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who was there the day he was born . . . and will nurture the birth of his soul. A rich and wondrous story that reveals universal truths about the human condition and celebrates the beauty of Chicano culture. Includes a Reading Group Guide.
A New Pronouncing Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages
Author: La maldición gitana
Author: Daniel ArcePublisher: Caligrama
ISBN: 8417587446
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Cuatro almas, un único destino: imponer su ley en las calles. Un osado expresidiario, un ladrón de guante blanco, un «marquesito» de buena familia y un macarra de barrio bajo deciden unirse y formar una cooperativa. Juntos, regentarán un grupo de empresas con la intención de camuflar su verdadero negocio: la venta de drogas al por mayor. Con la ayuda de sus fieles capos, un contable, tres entrañables ancianas y un brujo, tratarán de abrirse paso hacia la cima del crimen organizado. El intrépido cuarteto tendrá que lidiar con las consecuencias de su propia ambición.
Spanish Dictionary
Author: Wordsworth Editions LtdPublisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840224962
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : es
Pages : 968
Book Description
A dictionary suitable for English and Spanish speakers at all levels of proficiency, this volume contains over 100,000 entries, with examples of usage including many chosen to help users express themselves in a fluent style.
Días de lluvia
Author: Montserrat LunatiPublisher: Aris and Phillips Hispanic Cla
ISBN: 1910572292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
"Writers, publishers, readers and scholars have stopped apologising for the short story: the genre is no longer a bad investment, a trial-exercise for a novel or a minor entertainment, as demonstrated by exceptional writers with an almost exclusive dedication to it, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Munro, Quim Monzâo or Cristina Fernâandez Cubas. With deep roots in classic and medieval literatures, and great achievements in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, the genre of the short story, which benefits from the linguistic tightness of poetry and the narrative comforts of the novel, has finally been recognised as having a (hybrid) identity of its own. This volume re-edits and expands a previous bilingual collection published in 1997. The first edition included stories by twelve writers: Pilar Cibreiro, Cristina Fernâandez Cubas, Paloma Dâiaz-Mas, Adelaida Garcâia Morales, Lourdes Ortiz, Laura Freixas, Marina Mayoral, Mercedes Abad, Rosa Montero, Maruja Torres, Soledad Puâertolas and Marâia Eugenia Salaverri. The present edition adds another four: Nuria Amat, Juana Salabert, Luisa Castro and Berta Marsâe. The stories gathered in this second edition were written between 1980 and 2010, and testify to the richness and vitality of women’s writing in contemporary Spain. With the original texts in Spanish as well as facing-page English translations, an Introduction, notes, and bio-bibliographical information on each author, this volume is a useful tool for students of the Spanish language and culture at all levels. It includes a selection of secondary reading on Spanish women writers and a selection of anthologies of Spanish short stories since 1997"--
Romance
Author: Oscar Luis GuzmanPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483601013
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The same way that lovers, poets and bohemians alike, since the beginning of time, who each has sung praises and laments in the name of love, this book, ROMANCE, gotas del corazn, (translated: ROMANCE, teardrops from the heart), Oscar Luis Guzmn sings his own praises to XOCHITL, his eternal muse; describing all his experiences in a truly eloquent way, starting with his youthful dreams, disdain, hopelessness, anticipation, and the joy of love; not forgetting, the hurt of the absence and/or the unexpected departure of a loved one. All his dreams passions and disillusions that lovers experience; even hatred and rancor for perceived injuries, and the insufferable pain that sometimes changes a man of reason into a caveman without hope and faith until he falls in love once again and the he starts to live again all is poetically described in ROMANCE, gotas del corazn
Cartas. (Que te hablan a tí)
Author: Luis FernándezPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471740471
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : es
Pages : 144
Book Description
Luis Fernández, con la publicación de este libro, realiza una nueva aportación al ámbito de la psicología aplicada. Fiel a sus inicios, lo hace desde un estilo radicalmente personal, emergiendo desde lo más profundo de su personalidad. Sobre el autor destaca su sinceridad y su respecto del protagonismo. No se limita a crear una teoría aportando ideas o experiencias; va mucho más allá rompe moldes llegando a dar opiniones propias, responsabilizándose y asumiendo cuantas críticas realiza. Este libro, igual que el primero es absolutamente práctico, basado en su larga experiencia tanto profesional como personal. También es fundamentalmente crítico, aún más, acusatorio, sin complejos; no deja una piedra sin pisar. La inquietud y agresividad que le caracterizan le hacen saltar de un tema a otro de forma que el lector no llega a cansarse; todo ello en torno a la idea que envuelve su pensamiento: la mente humana.
El a–o que viene, tambiŽn en JerusalŽn
Author: Juan JosŽ Mateos Sol’sPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291395253
Category : Travel
Languages : es
Pages : 496
Book Description
Los judíos son probablemente el pueblo que más ha sufrido en toda la historia de la Humanidad. Durante 19 siglos han sido odiados, perseguidos, expulsados, torturados y masacrados como ninguna otra nación. El motivo: la acusación lanzada por los cristianos de que ellos habían asesinado a Jesucristo. En respuesta a semejante estupidez y sin ir dialécticamente más lejos, cabe entender que la Iglesia Católica, hasta hace pocos años, hubiera llevado también a la hoguera a Jesús de Nazaret, a los 12 apóstoles y a centenares de mártires del primitivo cristianismo; sencillamente porque todos ellos eran igualmente judíos. Un grupo de viajeros visita ese rincón del mundo, donde a duras penas dejan sobrevivir a los hebreos, al tiempo que se pregunta la verdadera razón de tanto odio por parte de musulmanes, pseudoizquierdistas y falsos progresistas hacia un pueblo que nunca hizo un daño particularmente significativo a nadie.