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Set in and around post-war Toronto, I Am Not Guilty first appeared in a condensed form in the February 1954 Ladies’ Home Journal. That same year, it was published in full by Doubleday as M’Lord, I Am Not Guilty. Helen Graham has been acquitted in the murder of her wealthy husband, Alberta oil baron Steven Graham, but the eyes of the public continue to view her with suspicion. Worried for her future, and that of her young son, she sets out to find the true killer. The trail leads to the apartment of another woman—and revelations about her dead husband’s secret life—then continues to a growing bedroom community in suburban Toronto. What the widow doesn’t realize is that she is not alone in her pursuit of the murderer or how ready that murderer is to kill again.

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A collection of insightful essays by the French philosopher on contemporary art. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through the decades. The Seagull Sartre Library now presents some of his most incisive philosophical, cultural, and literary critical essays in twelve newly designed and affordable editions. Sartre was a prodigious commentator on contemporary art, as is evident from the short but incisive essays that make up this important volume. Sartre examines here the work of a wide range of artists, including recognized masters such as Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, and André Masson, alongside unacknowledged greats like French painter Robert Lapoujade and German painter-photographer Wols.

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Facing Fear is the first time the sculptures of Lynn Chadwick and Alberto Giacometti have ever been explicitly compared and contrasted. In 1956, Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) won the International Sculpture Prize at the Venice Biennale. The youngest artist ever to receive the prize, this British sculptor had begun his career only six years earlier. The runners-up included Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), who was then already a renowned artist and the overwhelming favourite to win. Yet the question of which one received the prize - Giacometti won shortly afterwards, in 1962 - is less significant than the fact that both of them were nominated for it. Each of the two represented, in his own way, the confusion and disillusionment that prevailed in Cold War Europe. For Giacometti, these tensions set off a deep existential crisis that led to a radical shift in his work. His string-like forms, now well known, literally pare down the human being to his essence. In that same period, Chadwick's constructivist figures were described as 'the geometry of fear', a desperate cry expressing the sense of menace that had the artist and his contemporaries in a stranglehold. Text in English and Dutch.

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A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science's philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds. They work with difference and sameness, recursion, divergence, political ontology, cosmopolitics, and relations, using them as concepts, methods, and analytics to open up possibilities for a pluriverse: a cosmos composed through divergent political practices that do not need to become the same. Contributors. Mario Blaser, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Déborah Danowski, Marisol de la Cadena, John Law, Marianne Lien, Isabelle Stengers, Marilyn Strathern, Helen Verran, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

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Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos focuses specifically on Mexican dance practices on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The essays explore various types of Mexican popular and traditional dances and address questions of authenticity, aesthetics, identity, interpretation, and research methodologies in dance performance. Contributors include not only noted scholars from a variety of disciplines but also several dance practitioners who reflect on their engagement with dance and reveal subtexts of dance culture. Capturing dance as a living expression, the volume's ethnographic approach highlights the importance of the cultural and social contexts in which dances are practiced. Contributors are Norma E. Cantú, Susan Cashion, María Teresa Ceseña, Xóchitl C. Chávez, Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez, Renée de la Torre Castellanos, Peter J. García, Rudy F. García, Chris Goertzen, Martha González, Elisa Diana Huerta, Sydney Hutchinson, Marie "Keta" Miranda, Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Shakina Nayfack, Russell Rodríguez, Brenda M. Romero, Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter, José Sánchez Jiménez, and Alberto Zárate Rosales.

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I had been looking for someone to write to for a long time, but how does a man write letters to a god?From his Mediterranean garden on the island of Menorca, Cees Nooteboom writes to the trident-wielding deity, Poseidon, initiating a dialogue not only with the past, as Alberto Manguel observes in his Preface, but with an entire world that seemed lost for ever.Offering a seductive interweaving of keen observation and the fruits of a vast knowledge, Nooteboom explores questions of human existence through the minutiae of the living world around him, and marvels at the secrets of the deep. He recalls figures in history, places he has travelled to, objets trouvés, works of art and literature, and takes a fresh look at the ancient myths. At once playful and poignant, beautiful and bizarre, Nooteboom's Letters to Poseidon are couched in the glittering prose of one of Europe's outstanding stylists.

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Lorca, icon and polymath in all his manifestations. A Companion to Federico García Lorca provides a clear, critical appraisal of the issues and debates surrounding the work of Spain's most celebrated poet and dramatist. It considers past and current approaches to the study of Lorca, and also suggests new directions for further investigation. An introduction on the often contentious subject of Lorca's biography is followed by five chapters - poetry, theatre, music, drawing and cinema - which togetheracknowledge the polymath in Lorca. A further three chapters - religion, gender and sexuality, and politics - complete the volume by covering important thematic concerns across a number of texts, concerns which must be considered in the context of the iconic status that Lorca has acquired and against the background of the cultural shifts affecting his readership. The Companion is a testament to Lorca's enduring appeal and, through its explication oftexts and investigation of the man, demonstrates just why he continues, and should continue, to attract scholarly interest. FEDERICO BONADDIO lectures in Modern Spanish Studies at King's College London. CONTRIBUTORS: FEDERICO BONADDIO, JACQUELINE COCKBURN, NIGEL DENNIS, CHRISTOPHER MAURER, ALBERTO MIRA, ANTONIO MONEGAL, CHRIS PERRIAM, XON DE ROS, ERIC SOUTHWORTH, D. GARETH WALTERS, SARAH WRIGHT

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Richard Brown Baker (1912–2002) began collecting works by emerging artists in the 1940s, becoming one of the first collectors to embrace both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. He eventually amassed a collection of more than 1,600 works from the postwar period, including works by such groundbreaking American artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Morris, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Rosenquist, as well as European and Asian artists such as Alberto Burri, Jean Dubuffet, Georges Mathieu, and Kurt Schwitters. Baker bequeathed the majority of his collection to the Yale University Art Gallery, and the balance to the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Highlighting 130 works, this is the first complete history of Baker's important collection. Essays by renowned art historians contextualize each of the five decades of Baker's collecting efforts, while entries on individual artists illustrate the remarkable scope of Baker's holdings. Throughout the publication, firsthand accounts from Baker's extensive personal journals describe his collecting activities within the dynamic New York art scene of the day.Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery

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This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, takes as a starting point four important paintings in the collection of the Museo Novecento, which belonged to collector Alberto Della Ragione, including a rare watercolour of a female figure that reveals Morandi's extraordinary artistic abilities. It illustrates paintings, drawings, and prints that have been kept in various private collections. Exit Morandi also celebrates Morandi's relationship with art critics such as Roberto Longhi, Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Cesare Brandi and Francesco Arcangeli.

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Me gusta Kawasumi. Por fin Suiren se ha dado cuenta de sus sentimientos pero, por mucho que quiera hablar, las palabras no le salen. Quiere hacerle llegar sus sentimientos, pero es incapaz de hacerlo. Este amor se hace poco a poco más y más grande? Kawasumi también muestra algo de interés por Suiren, pero?

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El retrato de un personaje de la Italia de Mussolini y de la sociedad en la que lucha por integrarse.El conformista , publicada por primera vez en 1951 es, en su superficie, el retrato de un personaje de la Italia de Mussolini y de la sociedad en la que lucha por integrarse. Pero bajo este trasfondo histórico que tanto influyó en Moravia y sus contemporáneos, subyace una idea más ambiciosa: intentar explicar un comportamiento moral característico de nuestro tiempo, el conformismo, un deseo deconfundirse en la masa y no destacar aun a costa de perder la libertad individual. Un fenómeno capaz de convertir a sociedades cultas y críticas en masas indeterminadas capaces de seguir los dictados de cualquier caudillo redentor. El viaje de novios de Marcello, su biografía y la descripción de su entorno, se transforman así en un alegato en contra de los mecanismos del Estado totalitario, y en una de las novelas más atrevidas y actuales del escritor romano. Quizá la más profunda, más madur

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Es probable que una sensación de absurdidad onírica se apodere del lector cuando se adentre en la lectura de Pesadillas de cenas indigestas. También apostamos a que cuando finalice este alucinante viaje por las autopistas del subconsciente el lector deteste para siempre el queso fundido y no lo contemple como posible cena nunca más. Aprenderá a sospechar de los amigos que lo inviten a tomarlo, además. Aprenderá que el infierno está hecho de queso e insomnio.

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Sir Richard Burton, es sin lugar a dudas una de las figuras más fascinantes del S. XIX inglés. Militar de carrera, escritor y traductor por vocación, explorador y viajero por íntima necesidad, dejó tras de sí un importante número de libros de viajes.De todos sus libros de viajes, es su Relato personal de mi peregrinación a Medina y La Meca (título completo de la obra que aquí se ofrece), el más acabado y complejo de todos, superando ampliamente las habituales características del libro de viajes, para pasar a convertirse en casi una novela.

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La Loba Feroz está preocupadísima: su hijo es bueno! Ayuda a las ancianitas a cruzar y prepara pasteles deliciosos. Horrible!Menos mal que su tío el Lobo va a enseñar al Lobito lo que es ser Feroz. Lo conseguirá?El éxito superventas de El Hematocrítico en edición especial.

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Continuación del libro del mismo título dedicado al Imperio Antiguo y publicado igualmente en esta colección, que incluye textos del Reino Medio y del Imperio Nuevo, algunos de ellos aparecidos o editados en fechas muy recientes. además de dos apéndices, el primero con las listas reales y el segundo sobre las posibles menciones a Troya en algunos de estos textos.

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Una interpretación poco acertada del texto ha distorsionado su mensaje evangélico: las bienaventuranzas proclamadas por Mateo 5,1-12 no son una letanía para consolar a los atribulados del mundo, como se ha creído hasta entonces, sino una invitación a los

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En relación con el concepto de poder, sigue reinando el caos teórico. Frente a todo lo que el fenómeno tiene de obvio tenemos todo lo que el concepto tiene de oscuro. Para unos, poder significa opresión; para otros, es un elemento constructivo de l

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Es posible un mundo sin guerras? Arno Gruen así lo cree y plantea es este libro la tesis luminosa, ilustrada con ejemplos y casos extraídos de su experiencia como psicoanalista: no hay maldad en la naturaleza humana, sino que la violencia es el fruto de una cultura cuya socialización engendra autotraición, odio y guerras... La mejor respuesta a la violencia, propone Gruen, consiste en recuperar la bondad que naturalmente poseen los niños y en protegerse de las imposiciones externas de la autoridad y de los modos sociales. Este libro nos anima a desarrollar nuestra propia individualidad y a recuperar la confianza en que un mundo más compasivo y solidario es posible. Si nos aferramos a la bondad que reside en el hombre, dice el autor, y comprendemos que todos estamos vinculados, que dependemos los unos de los otros, la violencia resultará inconcebible.

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The present book aims to study the use of lithic raw materials on the coast of the San Matías gulf (Río Negro, Argentina) during the middle and late Holocene. The understanding of this aspect of human group technology is of fundamental importance as the main archaeological materials recovered at the surface sites of the study area are lithic artefacts made from different types of rock. Thus, understanding how these were selected, reduced and finally discarded will contribute to the understanding of the way of life of the hunter-gatherer groups that inhabited the area during this period. Spanish description: El presente libro tiene como objetivo estudiar el uso de las materias primas líticas en la costa del golfo San Matías (Río Negro, Argentina) durante el Holoceno medio y tardío. El entendimiento de este aspecto de la tecnología de los grupos humanos es de fundamental importancia ya que los principales materiales arqueológicos recuperados en los sitios de superficie del área de estudio son los artefactos líticos fabricados a partir de diferentes tipos de rocas. Así, entender la forma en que éstas fueron seleccionadas, reducidas y finalmente descartadas aportará a la comprensión del modo de vida de los grupos cazadores-recolectores que habitaron el área en el período mencionado.

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