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Author: Jesus Maria Villena Martin
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 147106154X
Category : Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 318

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En un futuro, después de una cruel guerra atómica, la tierra se ha convertido en un vasto desierto hostil, con continuas guerras entre dos facciones enfrentadas.El soldado Max Anderson y un pequeño grupo de científicos han sobrevivido al terrible experimento que les ha llevado a este oscuro futuro. Allí, solo les espera guerra, muerte y un familiar enemigo, atroz y despiadado, llamado Bruce "Ash" Campbell.

Author: Snake Plissken
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 144527762X
Category : Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 302

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En un futuro, después de una cruel guerra atómica, la tierra se ha convertido en un vasto desierto hostil, con continuas guerras entre dos facciones enfrentadas.El astronauta y soldado Bruce A. Campbell, ha llegado a este mundo desconocido, esperando encontrar la redención que lleva tanto tiempo soñando.

Author: Jesus Maria Villena Martin
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471061191
Category : Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 609

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En un futuro, después de una cruel guerra atómica, la tierra se ha convertido en un vasto desierto hostil, con continuas guerras entre dos facciones enfrentadas.El soldado Max Anderson y los científicos Alison y Sharko, han viajado en el tiempo, borrando todo rastro del que una vez fue el azote y la representación de la locura, Bruce "Ash" Campbell. Pero la vuelta a casa no va a ser fácil, pues la única manera, les llevará a viajar atravesando todo el peligroso y desconocido, sudeste americano. Aunque lo peor, algo que nadie espera, camina de forma paralela hacia un destino similar.Con éste volumen, finaliza la trilogía iniciada con "Un nuevo comienzo", de la saga "La Tierra Oscura".

Author: Anne L. Walsh
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144387681X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 310

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This volume delves deeply into the role played by stories and storytelling in shaping, controlling and mapping present-day Spain, and examines fiction in various manifestations and genres, especially written and filmic. It contrasts such stories and their context with the past, investigating the differences and similarities between spatially and geographically varying narrations in order to tease out the link between the time of telling and the act of living. Throughout the book, scholars look separately at this phenomenon, and their findings reveal a close bond between events occurring in the real world and the relating of fictional stories. Particularly in Spain, the geographic space of interest here, storytelling is used both as catharsis and didactically. Authors and filmmakers find inspiration in everyday occurrences, and, while there is nothing unusual in that, the interest here lies in the consequent transformation of these occurrences into fascinating stories that attempt to make sense of chaotic events, connect those events temporally, and explore the meaning of the consequent coherence. Stories are at the very essence of humanity, be they fictional or based on everyday reality. This collection focuses specifically on Spain where easily identifiable features of history (such as the Spanish Civil War, the Franco Dictatorship, transition, democracy, and the global economic crisis) have had a major impact on everyday life. The narratives emerging show clear evidence of that impact, with an emphasis on such themes as the significance of memory, the impossibility and instability of such memory, the chaotic nature of life, and the place of the nation/state in the psyche of the individual, with emerging themes investigating the role of solidarity and empathy in the empowerment of the individual. This volume is informed by the shift that occurred in the twentieth century towards a world of unstable parameters, whereby whatever knowledge that is received must be questioned as to the extent of its authenticity since that knowledge is always affected by memory, experience, and time, all subjective phenomena in themselves.

Author: Angie Cruz
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250205921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Shortlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction “Through a novel with so much depth, beauty, and grace, we, like Ana, are forever changed.” —Jacqueline Woodson, Vanity Fair “Gorgeous writing, gorgeous story.” —Sandra Cisneros Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn’t matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year’s Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights. Lonely and miserable, Ana hatches a reckless plan to escape. But at the bus terminal, she is stopped by Cesar, Juan’s free-spirited younger brother, who convinces her to stay. As the Dominican Republic slides into political turmoil, Juan returns to protect his family’s assets, leaving Cesar to take care of Ana. Suddenly, Ana is free to take English lessons at a local church, lie on the beach at Coney Island, see a movie at Radio City Music Hall, go dancing with Cesar, and imagine the possibility of a different kind of life in America. When Juan returns, Ana must decide once again between her heart and her duty to her family. In bright, musical prose that reflects the energy of New York City, Angie Cruz's Dominicana is a vital portrait of the immigrant experience and the timeless coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world.

Author: James L. Patton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022616960X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1363

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The second installment in a planned three-volume series, this book provides the first substantive review of South American rodents published in over fifty years. Increases in the reach of field research and the variety of field survey methods, the introduction of bioinformatics, and the explosion of molecular-based genetic methodologies have all contributed to the revision of many phylogenetic relationships and to a doubling of the recognized diversity of South American rodents. The largest and most diverse mammalian order on Earth—and an increasingly threatened one—Rodentia is also of great ecological importance, and Rodents is both a timely and exhaustive reference on these ubiquitous creatures. From spiny mice and guinea pigs to the oversized capybara, this book covers all native rodents of South America, the continental islands of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Caribbean Netherlands off the Venezuelan coast. It includes identification keys and descriptions of all genera and species; comments on distribution; maps of localities; discussions of subspecies; and summaries of natural, taxonomic, and nomenclatural history. Rodents also contains a detailed list of cited literature and a separate gazetteer based on confirmed identifications from museum vouchers and the published literature.

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Category : Civilization, Hispanic
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Jason W. Moore
Publisher: Kairos
ISBN: 9781629631486
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Earth has reached a tipping point and we are entering an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity's relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition? Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these questions. The contributors to this book diagnose the problems of Anthropocene thinking and propose an alternative: the global crises of the 21st century are rooted in the Capitalocene; not the Age of Man but the Age of Capital.

Author: Gesine Müller
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110641135
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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From today’s vantage point it can be denied that the confidence in the abilities of globalism, mobility, and cosmopolitanism to illuminate cultural signification processes of our time has been severely shaken. In the face of this crisis, a key concept of this globalizing optimism as World Literature has been for the past twenty years necessarily is in the need of a comprehensive revision. World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise offers a wide range of contributions approaching the blind spots of the globally oriented Humanities for phenomena that in one way or another have gone beyond the discourses, aesthetics, and political positions of liberal cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization. Departing basically (but not exclusively) from different examples of Latin American literatures and cultures in globalized contexts, this volume provides innovative insights into critical readings of World Literature and its related conceptualizations. A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a mustread for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.

Author: Hernan Cortes
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300090943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 647

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Written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, Hernan Cortes's letters provide a narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortes's journey to Honduras in 1525. The two introductions set the letters in context.