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Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Patricia Highsmith
Publisher: Anagrama
ISBN: 8433944851
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Peggy se ha suicidado en Mallorca, donde vivía con su marido una vida de bohemia dorada. ¿Por qué lo ha hecho? Más aún: ¿se ha suicidado realmente? Estas preguntas son el punto de partida de una intriga, psicológica y policíaca. El padre de Peggy, Coleman, célebre pintor norteamericano y hombre de fogoso temperamento, culpa a su yerno, Ray Garret, de la muerte de su hija y, empujado por un odio obsesivo, decide vengarla. Tras un encuentro entre ambos en Roma, Coleman dispara contra Ray y lo da por muerto. Herido muy ligeramente, Ray está más sorprendido que furioso: la actitud de Coleman se basa en un malentendido que Ray quiere disipar (antes de su regreso a Nueva York, donde quiere montar una galería de arte), por lo que lo sigue hasta Venecia. Lejos de cambiar de actitud, Coleman intenta asesinarlo de nuevo a la primera oportunidad. Salvado de morir ahogado por un gondolero, Ray comprende que se ha metido en la boca de lobo y su primera reacción es esconderse en Venecia. Con un nombre falso. ¿Por miedo y cansancio? ¿O por maquiavelismo instintivo y deseo de inculpar a su suegro, cuando la policía empieza a inquetarse por su desaparición? Las causas son más oscuras y complicadas... mientras en Venecia, transformada en una inmensa trampa, se entabla un extraño y atroz juego del escondite. Como escribió el conocido especialista de la novela policial, Julian Symons, «ciertamente, Ray y Coleman, acarreando sus alforjas de culpa personal o nacional a través de Venecia, están entre los más memorables productos de la poderosa imaginación de Miss Highsmith».

Author: Susan Homar
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047222140X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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This first-of-its-kind book brings together writing by artists and scholars to survey the lively field of Puerto Rican experimental dance across four decades. Originally published as Habitar lo Imposible, the translation in English features essays, artist statements, and interviews plus more than 100 photos of productions, programs, posters, and scores. Throughout, Inhabiting the Impossible provides fresh, invaluable perspectives on experimentation in dance as a sustained practice that has from the start deeply engaged issues of race, gender, sexuality, and politics. The book is also enhanced by a bibliographic section with detailed resources for further study.

Author: Iraida H. Lopez
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813063434
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida López explores various narratives of return by those who left Cuba as children or adolescents. Including memoirs, semi-autobiographical fiction, and visual arts, many of these accounts feature a physical arrival on the island while others depict a metaphorical or vicarious experience by means of fictional characters or childhood reminiscences. As two-way migration increases in the post-Cold War period, many of these narratives put to the test the boundaries of national identity. Through a critical reading of works by Cuban American artists and writers like María Brito, Ruth Behar, Carlos Eire, Cristina García, Ana Mendieta, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Ernesto Pujol, Achy Obejas, and Ana Menéndez, López highlights the affective ties as well as the tensions underlying the relationship between returning subjects and their native country. Impossible Returns also looks at how Cubans still living on the island depict returning émigrés in their own narratives, addressing works by Jesús Díaz, Humberto Solás, Carlos Acosta, Nancy Alonso, Leonardo Padura, and others. Blurring the lines between disciplines and geographic borders, this book underscores the centrality of Cuba for its diaspora and bears implications for other countries with widespread populations in exile.

Author: Ana Crespo Solana
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303086460X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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This two-volume set highlights the importance of Iberian shipbuilding in the centuries of the so-called first globalization (15th to 18th), in confluence with an unprecedented extension of ocean navigation and seafaring and a greater demand for natural resources (especially timber), mostly oak (Quercus spp.) and Pine (Pinus spp.). The chapters are framed in a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary line of research that integrates history, Geographic Information Sciences, underwater archaeology, dendrochronology and wood provenance techniques. This line of research was developed during the ForSEAdiscovery project, which had a great impact in the academic and scientific world and brought together experts from Europe and America. The volumes deliver a state-of-the-art review of the latest lines of research related to Iberian maritime history and archaeology and their developing interdisciplinary interaction with dendroarchaeology. This synthesis combines an analysis of historical sources, the systematic study of wreck-remains and material culture related to Iberian seafaring from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and the application of earth sciences, including dendrochronology. The set can be used as a manual or work guide for experts and students, and will also be an interesting read for non-experts interested in the subject. Volume 1 focuses on the history and archaeology of seafaring and shipbuilding in the Iberian early modern world, complemented by case studies on timber trade and supply for shipbuilding, analysis of shipbuilding treatises, and the application of Geographic Information Systems and Databases (GIS) to the study of shipwrecks.

Author: William Franke
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040089348
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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This book offers a reading particularly of Part II of Don Quixote, a reading that is embedded in a philosophical reflection on the revelation of religious truth in and through literature. Part II of Don Quixote is the far richer part for its meta-literary reflection on the novel itself as a genre and on life as such seen through the lens of self-reflection. The author has treated the phenomenon of modern self-reflexivity as originally theological in nature in previous publications (notably Dante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection, Routledge, 2021). The present endeavor expands this overall intellectual project, extending it into detailed consideration of what is recognizably another nodal great work inaugurating unprecedented forms of self-reflection in the early modern period. Reading the founding texts of literary and cultural tradition in this negative-theological key proves crucial to allowing them to release the full force of their religious vision in the present age, despite its sometimes obstinate secularity. This reading absorbs and reconciles the religious and secular readings of Miguel de Unamuno and José Ortega y Gasset, two of Spain’s outstanding philosophical luminaries. Both thinkers based their entire philosophies and their analyses of the Spanish national character and destiny on their interpretations of the Quixote. Negative theology deploys critical reason that critiques the limits of reason itself and opens toward an unfathomable (un)ground of All. Such speculative interpretation performs a synthesis of the secularizing and sacralizing tendencies that are both sublimely operative in the text of the Quixote. It thereby enables the work to emerge in the fully parodic and paradoxical vitality that other interpretations, governed by one paradigm or the other, access only partially. Rather than falling into one camp or the other, the proposed approach combines and resources both heritages, sacred and secular, in their deepest synergisms. Spanish baroque mysticism and contemporary post-secular thought are made to converge in highlighting the blessed, even sacred, donation that literature like Don Quixote preserves and transmits as our most precious and saving cultural heritage.

Author: CARLOS CUAUHTÉMOC SÁNCHEZ
Publisher: Ediciones Selectas Diamante SA de CV
ISBN: 6077627380
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165

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Publicado anteriormente como Free Sex? la pregunta de hoy. Más de 50 000 libros vendidos. Temas: Cómo encontrar pareja Caricias Íntimas Romances rápidos Ligues por internet ¿Qué somos? ¿Novios o free? Embarazos no planeados Errores del noviazgo Bichos genitales Hablemos sobre NOVIAZGO Y SEXO. Analicemos los recovecos de un romance, un orgasmo, una fiesta swinger y todo lo relacionado con el tema de pareja; usaremos información objetiva con un solo hilo conductor: la dignidad sexual. Será divertido, y extremadamente útil. Te lo prometo. Podrás arrepentirte de muchas cosas en la vida, pero no de leer este libro. ¿Empezamos? Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez

Author: Judit Nagy
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144386613X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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The present volume brings to North American Native Studies – with its rich tradition and accumulated expertise in the Central European region – the new complexities and challenges of contemporary Native reality. The umbrella theme ‘Indigenous perspectives’ brings together researchers from a great variety of disciplines, focusing on issues such as democracy and human rights, international law, multiculturalism, peace and security, economic and scientific development, sustainability, literature, and arts and culture, as well as religion. The thirty-five topical and thought-provoking articles written in English, French and Spanish offer a solid platform for further critical investigations and a useful tool for classroom discussions in a wide variety of academic fields.

Author: CARLOS CUAUHTÉMOC SÁNCHEZ
Publisher: Ediciones Selectas Diamante SA de CV
ISBN: 6077627356
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Este libro es un complemento didáctico de la novela Juventud en éxtasis. Contiene material de investigación, guías de estudio y tareas para profundizar en los siguientes temas: Noviazgo Caricias íntimas Dignidad sexual Decepciones amorosas Masturbación Pornografía Enfermedades de transmisión sexual Prostitución Disfunciones Desviaciones Confusión sexual Unión libre Matrimonio Embarazos no deseados El lector podrá disfrutar una interesante novela mientras se adentra en el estudio de un curso que se ha convertido en texto de consulta para muchos profesores, padres y estudiantes en el mundo.

Author: Susana Chas
Publisher: Eduvim
ISBN: 9871727755
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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