Author: Ramón Mata Torres
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Huichol Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Azul es el shamán
Author: Ramón Mata Torres
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Huichol Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Huichol Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Juan Perón
Author: Jill Hedges
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755602684
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Within Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón continues to be the subject of exaggerated and diametrically opposed views. A dictator, a great leader, the hero of the working classes and Argentina's “first worker”; a weak and spineless man dependent on his strongerwilled wife; a Latin American visionary; a traitor, responsible for dragging Argentina into a modern, socially just 20th century society or, conversely, destroying for all time a prosperous nation and fomenting class war and unreasonable aspirations among his client base. Outside Argentina, Perón remains overshadowed by his second wife, Evita. The life of this fascinating and unusual man, whose charisma, political influence and controversial nature continue to generate interest, remains somewhat of a mystery to the rest of the world. Perón remains a key figure in Argentine politics, still able to occupy so much of the political spectrum as to constrain the development of viable alternatives. Jill Hedges explores the life and personality of Perón and asks why he remains a political icon despite the 'negatives' associated with his extreme personalism.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755602684
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Within Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón continues to be the subject of exaggerated and diametrically opposed views. A dictator, a great leader, the hero of the working classes and Argentina's “first worker”; a weak and spineless man dependent on his strongerwilled wife; a Latin American visionary; a traitor, responsible for dragging Argentina into a modern, socially just 20th century society or, conversely, destroying for all time a prosperous nation and fomenting class war and unreasonable aspirations among his client base. Outside Argentina, Perón remains overshadowed by his second wife, Evita. The life of this fascinating and unusual man, whose charisma, political influence and controversial nature continue to generate interest, remains somewhat of a mystery to the rest of the world. Perón remains a key figure in Argentine politics, still able to occupy so much of the political spectrum as to constrain the development of viable alternatives. Jill Hedges explores the life and personality of Perón and asks why he remains a political icon despite the 'negatives' associated with his extreme personalism.
Only the Road / Solo el Camino
Author: Margaret Randall
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373858
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Featuring the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership. It is distinguished by its stylistic breadth and the diversity of its contributors, who come from throughout Cuba and its diaspora and include luminaries, lesser-known voices, and several Afro-Cuban and LGBTQ poets. Nearly half of the poets in the collection are women. Only the Road paints a full and dynamic picture of modern Cuban life and poetry, highlighting their unique features and idiosyncrasies, the changes across generations, and the ebbs and flows between repression and freedom following the Revolution. Poet Margaret Randall, who translated each poem, contributes extensive biographical notes for each poet and a historical introduction to twentieth-century Cuban poetry.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373858
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Featuring the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership. It is distinguished by its stylistic breadth and the diversity of its contributors, who come from throughout Cuba and its diaspora and include luminaries, lesser-known voices, and several Afro-Cuban and LGBTQ poets. Nearly half of the poets in the collection are women. Only the Road paints a full and dynamic picture of modern Cuban life and poetry, highlighting their unique features and idiosyncrasies, the changes across generations, and the ebbs and flows between repression and freedom following the Revolution. Poet Margaret Randall, who translated each poem, contributes extensive biographical notes for each poet and a historical introduction to twentieth-century Cuban poetry.
Un viaje de vida y vuelta
Author: Rafael Turrón
Publisher: Caligrama
ISBN: 8417505539
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
¿Pasillo, celda o ventanilla? Tras conocer una noticia que hace tambalear tanto su pasado como el presente, pues no tiene futuro, Francisco decide narrar desde su celda la maravillosa experiencia que le aportó Taiwán. Viajes que le hicieron descubrir un mundo que, después, mientras combatía en la guerra, intentó olvidar. Hoy quiere recordar y luchar con palabras para explicar quién es y quién no quiso ser, pero fue.
Publisher: Caligrama
ISBN: 8417505539
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
¿Pasillo, celda o ventanilla? Tras conocer una noticia que hace tambalear tanto su pasado como el presente, pues no tiene futuro, Francisco decide narrar desde su celda la maravillosa experiencia que le aportó Taiwán. Viajes que le hicieron descubrir un mundo que, después, mientras combatía en la guerra, intentó olvidar. Hoy quiere recordar y luchar con palabras para explicar quién es y quién no quiso ser, pero fue.
Vuelo azul
Against Autonomy
Author: Timothy J. Reiss
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804743501
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This book investigates "cultural instruments," meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture. It explores their history from antiquity to the early Enlightenment and their use and reworking by different cultures, moving from Europe to Africa and the Americas, especially the Caribbean, in the process giving close readings of a wide range of authors.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804743501
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This book investigates "cultural instruments," meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture. It explores their history from antiquity to the early Enlightenment and their use and reworking by different cultures, moving from Europe to Africa and the Americas, especially the Caribbean, in the process giving close readings of a wide range of authors.
Sublime Blue
Author: Pablo Neruda
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 0916727874
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Neruda once suggested that his words be poured, like wine, "into the glasses of other languages." Here is just such a communion. Noted American poet William Pitt Root brings us poems from the first of Neruda's three collections of odes, Odas elementales (1954). In his introduction, Root praises Neruda's form, with its phrases that "fall like thin wrists of water cascading from great heights, exploding at intervals against ledges and obstacles protruding from a sheer cliff-face. Fluent, sinuous, riddled with delightful surprise, the offhand form is also suited to the tone of seemingly casual surmise that can so suddenly pool in a conclusion of great clarity and depth." Here are poems addressed to hope and gloom, to numbers and to the atom, to blue flowers and artichokes. This is Neruda at his finest. Book jacket.
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 0916727874
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Neruda once suggested that his words be poured, like wine, "into the glasses of other languages." Here is just such a communion. Noted American poet William Pitt Root brings us poems from the first of Neruda's three collections of odes, Odas elementales (1954). In his introduction, Root praises Neruda's form, with its phrases that "fall like thin wrists of water cascading from great heights, exploding at intervals against ledges and obstacles protruding from a sheer cliff-face. Fluent, sinuous, riddled with delightful surprise, the offhand form is also suited to the tone of seemingly casual surmise that can so suddenly pool in a conclusion of great clarity and depth." Here are poems addressed to hope and gloom, to numbers and to the atom, to blue flowers and artichokes. This is Neruda at his finest. Book jacket.
El Obispo Leproso
Author: Gabriel Miró
Publisher: Hispanic Classics
ISBN: 0856687979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Gabriel Francisco Miro Ferrer was born on July 28th 1879, in Alicante on the Costa Blanca. Brought up in the Castilian-speaking Alicante, Miro was sent away to school in nearby Orihela, aged eight. The Jesuit Colegio de Santo Domingo would become the "Jesus" in The Leper Bishop. Miro studied Law, first a the University of Valencia, then at Granada, from which he graduated in 1900. He married in 1901, at the age of 22, and in that same year published his first novel, La mujer de Ojeda. The Leper Bishop was published in December 1926, when Miro was a grandfather, and he died not long afterwards, in May 1930, of peritonitis. The Leper Bishop (El obispo leproso) follows the story (begun in Our Father San Daniel) of a boy, Pablo, who is sent to a Jesuit school - a place where an extremist version of Catholicism is inflicted on its pupils. The novel portrays the struggle between innocence and evil, which, by the end of the book, is tempered by understanding. Miro has traditionally been seen as a writer difficult or impossible to translate, with very few of his works available in English. It is hoped that this edition will bring this lyrical writer's work to a wider audience.
Publisher: Hispanic Classics
ISBN: 0856687979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Gabriel Francisco Miro Ferrer was born on July 28th 1879, in Alicante on the Costa Blanca. Brought up in the Castilian-speaking Alicante, Miro was sent away to school in nearby Orihela, aged eight. The Jesuit Colegio de Santo Domingo would become the "Jesus" in The Leper Bishop. Miro studied Law, first a the University of Valencia, then at Granada, from which he graduated in 1900. He married in 1901, at the age of 22, and in that same year published his first novel, La mujer de Ojeda. The Leper Bishop was published in December 1926, when Miro was a grandfather, and he died not long afterwards, in May 1930, of peritonitis. The Leper Bishop (El obispo leproso) follows the story (begun in Our Father San Daniel) of a boy, Pablo, who is sent to a Jesuit school - a place where an extremist version of Catholicism is inflicted on its pupils. The novel portrays the struggle between innocence and evil, which, by the end of the book, is tempered by understanding. Miro has traditionally been seen as a writer difficult or impossible to translate, with very few of his works available in English. It is hoped that this edition will bring this lyrical writer's work to a wider audience.
Stories and Poems/Cuentos y Poesías
Author: Rubén Darío
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486121690
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Rich selection of works by Nicaraguan writer Rubén Darío, the high priest of the modernismo school of literature, features poems and stories from Azul (Blue), Prosas profanas (Worldly Hymns), and others.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486121690
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Rich selection of works by Nicaraguan writer Rubén Darío, the high priest of the modernismo school of literature, features poems and stories from Azul (Blue), Prosas profanas (Worldly Hymns), and others.
Spanish
Author: Dorothy Thomas
Publisher: Dot Publications
ISBN: 0957302878
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
American English edition. "e;See it, say it."e; Easy-to-use guide to Spanish for complete beginners. Pictures show users what to say and how to say it, covering a wide range of tourist situations from hotels and self-catering to shopping, bars and restaurants, travel, visiting the doctor and making friends. Also includes an extensive menu guide and two-way dictionary, plus a brief grammar section showing how the language fits together. All Instant books are written in collaboration with native speakers.
Publisher: Dot Publications
ISBN: 0957302878
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
American English edition. "e;See it, say it."e; Easy-to-use guide to Spanish for complete beginners. Pictures show users what to say and how to say it, covering a wide range of tourist situations from hotels and self-catering to shopping, bars and restaurants, travel, visiting the doctor and making friends. Also includes an extensive menu guide and two-way dictionary, plus a brief grammar section showing how the language fits together. All Instant books are written in collaboration with native speakers.