Author: Eduardo ProttoPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557483794
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 141
Book Description
NADERÍAS Y MARAVILLAS
Author: Eduardo ProttoPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557483794
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 141
Book Description
Cuadros y maravillas del universo
Author: A First Spanish Book and Reader
Author: William Frederic GiesePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish language
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Bomarzo
Author: Manuel Mujica LáinezFREDY CLAVEL en Los Consejos del Abuelo Sobre El planeta Azul
Author: Andres TomasPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450070345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Novelas Cortas Escogidas de D. Pedro A. de Alarcón
Author: Pedro Antonio de AlarcónPublisher:
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Category : Spanish language materials
Languages : es
Pages : 184
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Novelas Cortas
Author: Don Pedro A. De AlarconPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 110533886X
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 264
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Casta Painting
Author: Ilona KatzewPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300109719
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Casta painting is a distinctive Mexican genre that portrays racial mixing among the Indians, Spaniards & Africans who inhabited the colony, depicted in sets of consecutive images. Ilona Katzew places this art form in its social & historical context.
Papyrus
Author: Irene VallejoPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0593318897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A rich exploration of the importance of books and libraries in the ancient world that highlights how humanity’s obsession with the printed word has echoed throughout the ages • “Accessible and entertaining.” —The Wall Street Journal Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and Pharaohs were so determined to possess them that they dispatched emissaries to the edges of earth to bring them back. When Mark Antony wanted to impress Cleopatra, he knew that gold and priceless jewels would mean nothing to her. So, what did her give her? Books for her library—two hundred thousand, in fact. The long and eventful history of the written word shows that books have always been and will always be a precious—and precarious—vehicle for civilization. Papyrus is the story of the book’s journey from oral tradition to scrolls to codices, and how that transition laid the very foundation of Western culture. Award-winning author Irene Vallejo evokes the great mosaic of literature in the ancient world from Greece’s itinerant bards to Rome’s multimillionaire philosophers, from opportunistic forgers to cruel teachers, erudite librarians to defiant women, all the while illuminating how ancient ideas about education, censorship, authority, and identity still resonate today. Crucially, Vallejo also draws connections to our own time, from the library in war-torn Sarajevo to Oxford’s underground labyrinth, underscoring how words have persisted as our most valuable creations. Through nimble interpretations of the classics, playful and moving anecdotes about her own encounters with the written word, and fascinating stories from history, Vallejo weaves a marvelous tapestry of Western culture’s foundations and identifies the humanist values that helped make us who we are today. At its heart a spirited love letter to language itself, Papyrus takes readers on a journey across the centuries to discover how a simple reed grown along the banks of the Nile would give birth to a rich and cherished culture.
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