Author: Publisher: abecedário jurídico
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Author: LA ILUSION DE MANDRAGORAS
Author: Rene Barrios AvelarPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557624878
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
La Ilusion de Mandragoras es el Manual del Politico moderno. Independientemente de los grados de participacion politica, es importante conocer las reglas del juego en la actualidad. Los estudiosos de las ciencias politicas, encontraran en este manual una aberracion de lo que deberia ser un estudio de la politica. Sin embargo, cuando se encuentren en el campo de accion, este manual les resultara muy efectivo.
Oh-Di-Seas de Un Mar-Ino
Author: No-É DreamPublisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463339313
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Guillermo Gerardo González Zamudio (1931) Nace en tierras Veracruzanas, Ingeniero Mecánico Naval y Arquitecto Naval, fue recopilando a lo largo de su vida anécdotas personales, familiares y profesionales, las cuales describe con un particular sentido enigmático, humorístico, sarcástico, que obliga a la reflexión para poderlas ubicar en contexto, utilizando sobrenombres, algunas veces en idioma Inglés, para hacer difícil la identificación de los personajes y hechos. De pluma ligera e inspirada, relata la forma en que se sucedieron los acontecimientos que en su momento fueron reales.
Author: Publisher: Erasmus Ediciones
ISBN: 8415462107
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Magic
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789508891846
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Photographs by Santiago Melazzini.
Crimes of the Tongue
Author: Alicia Gaspar de AlbaPublisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 1518507301
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A native of the El Paso / Ciudad Juarez region, acclaimed author and scholar Alicia Gaspar de Alba writes that she grew up with “a forked tongue and a severe case of cultural schizophrenia, the split in the psyche that happens to someone who grows up in the borderlands between nations, languages and cultures.” Border dwellers struggle with place and identity in the short fiction included in this collection. An El Paso-born American citizen with a high school diploma and a talent for writing seeks a job as a reporter at the El Paso Herald after World War I but gets hired as a janitor and research specialist instead. A Mexican woman takes her young daughter north to protect her from sexual abuse, only to leave the girl with relatives while she crosses the river in search of a job and a new life. And a college student gets a Tarot reading to help her discern the historical symbolism of her bicultural identity. The award-winning writer explores other “crimes of the tongue” in the essays in this volume: pochismo, or the mixing of English and Spanish, as both a family taboo and a politics of identity; the haunting memory of La Llorona, protector of undocumented immigrants and abandoned children, and her blood-curdling cry of loss and revenge; the intersection of the personal and the political in the transgressive work of Chicana/Latina artists; the sexual and linguistic rebellions of La Malinche and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz; and the reverse coyotaje, or border crossing, of Chicana lesbian feminist theory translated into Spanish and visual art as a way of sneaking this counterhegemonic pocha poetic thought into Mexico. These essays and stories are always intellectually rigorous and often achingly personal.
Caribbean Without Borders
Author: Gabriel J. Jiménez FuentesPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144388135X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
One of the most salient issues in Caribbean studies is the region's linguistic and cultural fragmentation as a result of European colonization. More than five centuries later, the islands and American countries whose shores touch the Caribbean Sea still echo such maladies. The title of this book is a call towards unity, a unity that, in the words of Barbadian poet, historian and critic Kamau Brathwaite, "is submarine." In the past, nations' borders were established based on the distance a cannon ball was able to cover when fired from land out to sea. It is time to go beyond the cannon ball distances out into uncharted territories, beyond the canon, and, thus, beyond the cannon's range.This book features a selection of essays presented at the fifth annual Caribbean Without Borders conference at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. It critically delves into the fields of linguistics, history, literature, philosophy, politics, feminism, cultural studies, music, film, and art, among many others, as a means to re-visit, re-view, re-envision, re-read, re-interpret, and thus re-create a Caribbean aesthetics that looks to submarine unity, a unity that defies spatial, temporal, and social borders. The book conveys the limitless nature of the Caribbean and its rich culture, making it an appealing transdisciplinary source for a multidisciplinary academic audience.
Masters of Deception
Author: Al SeckelPublisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402705779
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Rings of seahorses seem to rotate and butterflies seems to transform into warriors right on the page. Astonishing creations of visual trickery by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo make this breathtaking collection the definitive book of optical illusions. Includes an illuminating Foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hofstadter.
U.S.A.
Author: The Spectacle of Illusion
Author: Matthew TompkinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780500022429
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In The Spectacle of Illusion, professional magician-turned experimental psychologist Dr. Matthew L. Tompkins investigates the arts of deception as practised and popularised by mesmerists, magicians and psychics since the early 18th century. Organised thematically within a broadly chronological trajectory, this compelling book explores how illusions perpetuated by magicians and fraudulent mystics can not only deceive our senses but also teach us about the inner workings of our minds. Indeed, modern scientists are increasingly turning to magic tricks to develop new techniques to examine human perception, memory and belief. Beginning by discussing mesmerism and spiritualism, the book moves on to consider how professional magicians such as John Nevil Maskelyne and Harry Houdini engaged with these movements - particularly how they set out to challenge and debunk paranormal claims. It also relates the interactions between magicians, mystics and scientists over the past 200 years, and reveals how the researchers who attempted to investigate magical and paranormal phenomena were themselves deceived, and what this can teach us about deception. Highly illustrated throughout with entertaining and bizarre drawings, double-exposure spirit photographs and photographs of spoon-bending from hitherto inaccessible and un-mined archives, including the Wellcome Collection, the Harry Price Library, the Society for Physical Research, and last but not least, the Magic Circle's closely guarded collection, the book also features newly commissioned photography of planchettes, rapping boards, tilting tables, ectoplasm, automata and illusion boxes. Concluding with a modern-day analysis of the science of magic and illusion, analysing surprisingly weird phenomena such as ideomotor action, sleep paralysis, choice blindness and the psychology of misdirection, this unnerving volume highlights how unreliable our minds can be, and how complicit they can be in the perpetuation of illusions.