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As Puerto Rico rapidly industrialized from the late 1940s until the 1970s, the social, political, and economic landscape changed profoundly. In the realm of heath care, the development of medical education, new medical technologies, and a new faith in science radically redefined childbirth and its practice. What had traditionally been a home-based, family-oriented process, assisted by women and midwives and “accomplished” by mothers, became a medicalized, hospital-based procedure, “accomplished” and directed by biomedical, predominantly male, practitioners, and, ultimately reconfigured, after the 1980s, into a technocratic model of childbirth, driven by doctors’ fears of malpractice suits and hospitals’ corporate concerns.Pushing in Silence charts the medicalization of childbirth in Puerto Rico and demonstrates how biomedicine is culturally constructed within regional and historical contexts. Prior to 1950, registered midwives on the island outnumbered registered doctors by two to one, and they attended well over half of all deliveries. Isabel M. Córdova traces how, over the next quarter-century, midwifery almost completely disappeared as state programs led by scientifically trained experts and organized by bureaucratic institutions restructured and formalized birthing practices. Only after cesarean rates skyrocketed in the 1980s and 1990s did midwifery make a modest return through the practices of five newly trained midwives. This history, which mirrors similar patterns in the United States and elsewhere, adds an important new chapter to the development of medicine and technology in Latin America.

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La tumultuosa, romántica y trágica historia de una mujer que luchó por liberarse de la jaula dorada en que la habían encerrado. Sissi, emperatriz rebelde es la segunda parte de Sissi, emperatriz accidental, las novelas sobre la emperatriz de Austria-Hungria que han enamorado a las lectoras de Estados Unidos, de la autorabest seller de The New York Times, Allison Pataki.Verano de 1868. Tras su apoyo a la causa húngara, que culminó con su coronación como reina de Hungría, la emperatriz Isabel de Austria -conocida por todos como Sissi- ha encontrado su propia voz, como mujer y como soberana del Imperio más antiguo y vasto de Europa.Instalada en el palacio de Gödöllo, a las afueras de Budapest, por primera vez puede disfrutar de uno de sus hijos, la pequeña Valeria, y recibir al conde Andrassy, el hombre del que está secretamente enamorada.Hasta que unas cartas que llegan de Viena la obligan a enfrentarse de nuevo a su eterno dil

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Encuadernación: RústicaSi bien la experiencia es madre de todo saber, existe una especie de conjuro social para retarnos a un estado de eterna juventud en lo puramente externo, en lo superficial. Desde ese despropósito tratamos de disimular, y lo que es peor, tratamos de negar la evidencia: nos hemos hecho mayores. Sin embargo, no se es viejo por la presencia de achaques (que a veces se dan también a edades muy tempranas), sino por una actitud derrotista ante la vida, carente de estímulos e ilusiones."El arte de envejecer" revela cómo es posible armonizar los rigores de una edad más o menos avanzada con un espíritu capaz de asumir nuevos retos, nuevas metas. El elixir para lograrlo reside en la capacidad que tengamos para inventar, para crear y forjar proyectos cada día, para darles cuerda y descubrir que nuestra disposición es la clave de todo.Isabel Agüera, autora de títulos tan celebrados como "Guía práctica para abuelos con nietos" o "Cómo educar desde la experiencia", n

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From National Book Award–nominated writer Andrea Lee comes Red Island House, a travel epic that opens a window on the mysterious African island of Madagascar, and on the dangers of life and love in paradise, as seen through the eyes of a Black American heroine.“People do mysterious things when they think they have found paradise,” reflects Shay, the heroine of Red Island House. When Shay, an intrepid Black American professor, marries Senna, a brash Italian businessman, she doesn’t imagine that her life’s greatest adventure will carry her far beyond their home in Milan: to an idyllic stretch of beach in Madagascar where Senna builds a flamboyant vacation villa. Before she knows it, she becomes the reluctant mistress of a sprawling household, caught between her privileged American upbringing and her connection to the continent of her ancestors. So begins Shay’s journey into the heart of a remote African country. Can she keep her identity and her marriage intact amid the wild beauty and the lingering colonial sins of this mysterious world that both captivates and destroys foreigners? A mesmerizing, powerful tale of travel and self-discovery that evokes Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Red Island House showcases an extraordinary literary voice and gorgeously depicts a lush and unknown world.

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Is fashion that is out of order and doesn't seem to follow any obvious rules truly accidental? Or has dissonance in fashion always been a guiding principle? Can coincidence therefore be predictable and controllable? A publication which defies all boundaries of categorisation has been created out of the workings of fashion that almost inevitably has to be out of order, so as to increase its attractive power and generate attention with its interruptions of the ordinary. The contributions, on the border between art and fashion and residing within the realms of literary theory, design theory, cultural history and technology, demonstrate in manifold ways processes, images and ideas that are striving for innovation and transgressing established parameters. The publication is dedicated to the constructive side of the development of fashion, whereby the theme of Out of Order is combined with the concept of dissonance as a creative formula. If one starts from the premise that fashion is no longer fashion when it can be generalised, categorised, repeated and described, then the process of dissonance constitutes the significant impulse for everything new. With contributions from: Pamela Church Gibson, Annette Geiger, Judith Gerdsen, Hanna Heilmann on Vibskov & Emenius, Iris Maria vom Hof in conversation with Oliver Sieber, Verena Kuni, Isabell Lizardi & Matt Johnson, Thomas Oláh, Andrea Sick, Bitten Stetter & Daniel Späi, Terre Thaemlitz, Barbara Vinken, Harry Walter and Gundula Wolter.

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Close analysis of the poem reveals extensive allusion to contemporary social, religious and political events. This is an entirely new and original reading of Pearl, placing the anonymous masterpiece in the context of the Cheshire coterie that flourished at the court of Richard II during the 1390s. The brilliance of its poetic construction has long been acknowledged, but here Pearl is also shown to engage with the social, religious and political events of the late fourteenth century. The poem's defense of infant baptism is seen as countering Lollardcriticism of the sacraments, its retelling of the Parable of the Vineyard as offering scriptural support to the aims of the Statute of Labourers. The poem's dazzling representation of aristocratic magnificence - jewelled crowns, gem-embroidered gowns, livery badges, civic processions, and monumental architecture - studied in this context, relates to the spectacular royal culture of one of England's most ambitious monarchs. The courtly elegy offered consolation after the death of Anne of Bohemia, while its vision of a royal child-bride figured in the intense national debate over the king's prospective marriage to the six-year-old Isabelle of France. Richard II's fall from power brought to an end not simply Cheshire privilege, but also a poetic tradition that produced some of the finest works of English literature, most notably Pearl and Gawain and the Green Knight. Professor JOHN BOWERS teaches at the Department of English at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

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Considers current events through an examination of this seventeenth-century philosopher. In recent years there has been a revival of interest in the writings of Baltasar Gracián, a seventeenth-century Spanish Jesuit who explored the political uses of rhetoric. Gracián is best known in the United States for his bestselling collection of aphorisms entitled The Art of Worldly Wisdom, but his pragmatic philosophy has been influential in Europe since the mid-seventeenth century. The essays in this volume focus on the relevance of Gracián’s writings in our own day, when the importance of rhetoric as a discipline necessary to manage public life is indisputable. Ranging in focus and theoretical perspective from Lacanian psychoanalysis to the sociology of everyday life, from considerations of aesthetics and philosophy to examinations of the culture of the baroque, these essays demonstrate that Gracián’s work offers insights into the deployment of rhetoric under the “New World Order.” Contributors: Luis F. Avilés, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Anthony J. Cascardi, U of California, Berkeley; David Castillo, U of Minnesota; Jorge Checa, U of California, Santa Barbara; William Egginton, Stanford U; Alban K. Forcione, Princeton U; Edward H. Friedman, Indiana U; Carlos Hernández-Sacristán, U of Valencia, Spain; Isabel C. Livosky, Knox College; Michael Nerlich, Technische Universität, Berlin; Oscar Pereira, U of Nebraska; Malcolm K. Read, SUNY, Stony Brook; Francisco J. Sánchez, U of Iowa.

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Petra Durst-Benning's captivating historical novel pays homage to the trailblazing women of the early twentieth century—like Elizabeth Arden and Estée Lauder—who shaped culture, shattered convention, and strived to make the world around them more beautiful. Despite all that Clara Berg has achieved as a wife, mother, and chemist—especially for a woman in turn-of-the-century Berlin—ending her abusive marriage comes at great cost. The judge hands her inheritance—her parents' pharmacy—over to her ex-husband. Now, with her reputation in near ruins thanks to the scandal that rocked her marriage, no reputable chemist will hire her. Worst of all, she has lost all rights to her young son and daughter. Only her dearest friends, Josephine and Isabelle, themselves no strangers to hardship, remain steadfast. With their encouragement, Clara decides to start over in the spa town of Lake Constance, where she creates a homemade cream and launches a cosmetics revolution. Against all convention, she teaches other women and herself how to face the challenges of each new day with confidence and beauty. Soon her renown brings prestige, professional accolades, even new romance. But through it all, her heart beats for her beloved children—will success finally bring the reunion she longs for?

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The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches—synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational—this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of research? How do academic agendas reflect larger social, economic, and cultural interests? How have schools of thought and intellectual traditions configured, and sometimes predetermined, the study of the ancient Near East? Contributions treating research during the Nazi and fascist periods examine the interpenetration of academic work with politics, while contributions dealing with specific national contexts disclose fresh perspectives on individual scholars as well as the conditions and institutions in which they worked. Particular attention is given to scholarship in countries such as Turkey, Portugal, Iran, China, and Spain, which have hitherto been marginal to historiographic accounts of ancient Near Eastern studies.In addition to the editors, the contributors are Selim Ferru Adali, Silvia Alaura, Isabel Almeida, Petr Charvát, Parsa Daneshmand, Eva von Dassow, Hakan Erol, Sebastian Fink, Jakob Flygare, Pietro Giammellaro, Carlos Gonçalves, Katrien de Graef, Steven W. Holloway, Ahmed Fatima Kzzo, Changyu Liu, Patrick Maxime Michel, Emanuel Pfoh, Jitka Sýkorová, Luděk Vacín, and Jordi Vidal.

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El presente volumen reúne cuatro novelas de Josefina Aldecoa cuyo hilo conductor es el amor, el desamor, la pasión, el abandono, el sentido de la existencia, la búsqueda de respuestas y la propia identidad.Con profunda honestidad y gran claridad intelectual, la autora adentra al lector en la vida cotidiana de sus personajes. De este modo descubrimos la historia de Isabel y Ana en Hermanas, dos mujeres con una infancia condicionada por su madre y cuyas vidas están marcadas por un mismo hombre. También acompañamos a Adriana, la protagonista de El vergel, en su viaje a Lanzarote en busca de la verdad acerca de la desaparición de su marido. En El enigma seguimos al profesor Rivera, un hombre mediocre y fracasado en el amor, hasta Estados Unidos, donde hallará una nueva oportunidad para enamorarse. Finalmente, nos detenemos en la reflexión en torno a la condición de la mujer que se destila en La Casa Gris, donde Teresa, recién llegada a Londres, conoce a mujeres de distintas procedencias

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La correspondencia de Descartes, lejos de ser algo marginal respecto de las obras que publica, es una valiosa clave para comprender su sistema. En ella encontramos ideas y principios cuya asunción resulta necesaria para profundizar en el análisis de las teorías que da a la imprenta bajo las formas más canónicas de la escritura filosófica: el Discurso, las Meditaciones, los Principios. En la presente edición se ofrece su correspondencia completa con Isabel de Bohemia y con Cristina de Suecia y su círculo, así como una amplia selección de las cartas sobre la libertad, la moral y la teoría del hombre que Descartes intercambia, a lo largo de toda su vida intelectual, con otros corresponsales. Con ello, se pone a disposición del lector español un conjunto de textos esencial para el estudio y la comprensión del cartesianismo, verdadero centro de gravitación intelectual de la Modernidad filosófica, y de las polémicas en cuyo laborioso y a veces áspero despliegue cobra forma.

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Crónicas del nueve parabellum es el libro más personal de Ricardo Magaz. Un cuaderno de bitácora donde el autor se cita a menudo y vuelca historias y casos que ha vivido en primera línea o que ha examinado directamente para las televisiones, los periódicos y las emisoras de radio, porque ?todo el mundo lleva un lobo dormido dentro?. Artículos, tribunas, columnas, análisis, prólogos, argumentarios de trabajo para los medios, o viajes, nutren esta selección particular de textos con alma criminológica y paladar literario para armar un libro lúcido y penetrante que da testimonio real de una época, 2008-2018, de la España de género negro.Dos capítulos especiales cierran las páginas de la obra. Uno dedicado al asesinato de Isabel Carrasco y otro al crimen de la peregrina Denise Pikka Thiem en el Camino de Santiago, que Magaz estudió e investigó a pie de obra con la solvencia de un profesor de fenomenología criminal y el pulso de un escritor.

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Dejando a un lado sus privilegios, los miembros de los Trastámara, los Austrias o los Borbones, por muy divinos que se creyeran, no vivieron al margen de las pasiones mundanas. La presión por asegurar la descendencia de su linaje, las conspiraciones de los propios familiares, las guerras con el resto de potencias rivales o su legado ?en algunos casos, lastrado por la consanguinidad? suscitaron traiciones, intensas campañas de desprestigio y no pocas extravagancias. Juana I, desoyendo todas las advertencias, acudió embarazadísima a una fiesta donde se puso de parto y alumbró al futuro emperador Carlos en un retrete; Felipe V se creía rana y brincaba y croaba por palacio; Luisa Isabel de Orleans protagonizaba insólitas exhibiciones de eructos y ventosidades; Fernando VI solía corretear bajo una sábana como un fantasma; Alfonso XIII se convirtió en el primer promotor del cine pornográfico en España... Por no olvidar que muchos de ellos, cuando se deprimían o se sentían sobrepasados por su

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María Teresa Álvarez nació en Candás (Asturias) el 27 de octubre de 1945. Licenciada en Ciencias de la Información, fue la primera mujer cronista deportiva en la radio asturiana y la primera presentadora del programa regional de TVE en Asturias.En 1987 se trasladó a Madrid para conducir la Subdirección de Cultura y Sociedad de los telediarios de TVE. Un año más tarde dejó la información diaria para realizar documentales histórico-divulgativos. En esta línea ha dirigido: Viaje en el tiempo, dedicado a desvelar los enigmas e incógnitas sobre Cristóbal Colón; La pequeña española, Viena 1791-1991, que recreaba la vinculación de Mozart con España; Sefarad, la tierra más bella, sobre el pasado y el presente de los judíos sefarditas; y Mujeres en la Historia, un tema que siempre le ha interesado y sobre el que, además de escribir, da cursos y conferencias.En 1999 publicó su primer libro, La pasión última de Carlos V. A éste le han seguido: Isabel II. Melodía de un recuerdo, El secreto

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La saga de Los pilares de la Tierra y Un mundo sin fin, que ha cautivado a millones de lectores, prosigue ahora con la magnífica y apasionante nueva novela de Ken Follett.Uno de los mejores thrillers del año 2017 según Amazon y uno de los mejores libros publicados en 2017 para The Washington Post y Barnes & Noble.Una columna de fuego arranca cuando el joven Ned Willard regresa a su hogar en Kingsbridge por Navidad. Corre el año 1558, un año que trastocará la vida de Ned y que cambiará Europa para siempre.Las antiguas piedras de la catedral de Kingsbridge contemplan una ciudad dividida por el odio religioso. Los principios elevados chocan con la amistad, la lealtad y el amor, y provocan derramamientos de sangre. Ned se encuentra de pronto en el bando contrario al de la muchacha con quien anhela casarse, Margery Fitzgerald.Cuando Isabel I llega al trono, toda Europa se vuelve en contra de Inglaterra.

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Salvaje, perturbador, cruel.UN BRUTAL THRILLER DE CARMEN MOLA, EL FENÓMENO LITERARIO QUE HA REVOLUCIONADO EL MUNDO EDITORIAL CON MÁS DE 2 MILLONES DE LECTORES. Lo que parecía un paraíso se terminó convirtiendo en un infierno. Una novela negra impactante y perturbadora al más puro estilo Carmen Mola.Un terrible levantamiento del ejército contra la reina Isabel II tiñe de sangre y muertos las calles de Madrid y el horror campa por toda la ciudad. Entre cañonazos y disparos, una bailarina llamada Leonor y Mauro, un estudiante de Medicina, se ven envueltos en un homicidio que marcará sus vidas.Para evitar la prisión o la muerte, Leonor se ve obligada a huir a La Habana, pero al llegar allí se da cuenta de que este supuesto paraíso no es lo que espera. Las plantaciones de azúcar y los ingenios esconden la tragedia de un esclavismo aún muy vivo. Y, entre los esclavos, reaparece Mauro, aunque puede que ya sea tarde para recuperar su amor. En un intento

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La autora presenta en esta obra un itinerario que, teniendo como base la pedagogía ignaciana de los Ejercicios más en su caudal de fondo que en la forma, ahonda en la experiencia de las mujeres del Evangelio. Al profundizar en los relatos donde aparecen personajes femeninos, descubre en ellos las cuatro llamadas a la vida adulta: la llamada a la identidad, a la intimidad, a ser generativas y a la integridad, como un camino de ahondamiento y de maduración.A través de María, Marta, Isabel o la mujer encorvada, se nos ofrece en este libro la posibilidad de encontrar un acceso a los textos evangélicos ?el lugar donde el Espíritu se filtra para buscarnos? más rico en matices, en frescura, en la posibilidad de despertar nuestra sensibilidad, de abordar la compasión, el servicio, la intimidad... desde unas claves más completas e integradoras. Porque hay algo del sensus Christi que nos perdemos si no nos ponemos junto a ellas.MARIOLA LÓPEZ VILLANUEVA (Bigastro, Alicante 1966), religiosa

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Este libro se propone cumplir con una de las obligacionespendientes de la historia de la literaturaespañola, pero también de la historiografía en generaly, en concurso con ella, de la memoria histórica:recuperar para el lector la voz de las escritoras quesufrieron el trauma de la Guerra Civil y del exilio yque, aún hoy, a pesar de la intensidad de sus letras,permanecen olvidadas.En la obra de las mujeres que colman esta antología,silenciadas como tantas de sus compatriotas, sontemas recurrentes el extrañamiento ante el otro, lanostalgia o la idealización del retorno, que condensanlas vivencias traumáticas del doloroso momentohistórico que les tocó vivir.Este volumen reivindica sus voces a partir de unacuidadosa selección de sus textos, estremecedorespor la dureza con la que expresan el desarraigo y elabandono de lo propio, apenas dulcificados por laesperanza del regreso.Esta antología reúne textos de Isabel Oya

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José Enrique Ruiz-Domènec (Granada, 1948) es catedrático de historia medieval en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Ha impartido cursos y ha dictado conferencias en numerosas universidades de Europa y de América. Miembro de número de la Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona, es además un recio escritor con títulos tan importantes en la moderna historiografía como Ricard Guillem o el somni de Barcelona, El despertar de las mujeres, Rostros de la Historia, Lecturas para un nuevo milenio, la monumental y exitosa biografía El Gran Capitán, El Mediterráneo: Historia y cultura e Isabel la Católica o el yugo del poder, todos ellos publicados en Grup 62.Este libro es a la vez una biografía histórica y un estudio del arte del Renacimiento. Sigue los pasos de Leonardo desde su nacimiento hasta su muerte. Tiene como protagonistas al propio pintor y a los personajes que le rodearon a lo largo de su vida, el maestro Verrocchio, la fam

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Putas, brujas y locas es el apelativo con el que la historia oficial ha descrito a las mujeres que desafiaron las convenciones en la Edad Moderna, una época de prodigios y profunda crisis con tan pocas posibilidades de supervivencia que para salir adelante fue necesario explotar la creatividad al máximo y hacer de la picaresca el estilo de vida. La almiranta Isabel Barreto lideró la expedición a las Islas Salomón con mano de hierro y ayuda de la horca contra todos aquellos que se atrevieran a contrariarla; la esclava morisca Elena de Céspedes fue la primera mujer cirujano, amén de soldado, pero también la primera en casarse con otra mujer; una profetisa llamada Lucrecia de León hizo tambalear el reinado de los Austrias poniendo a Felipe II contra las cuerdas de sus vaticinios, más precisos y polémicos que los de cualquier Nostradamus; la adelantada Mencía de Calderón cruzó los mares y atravesó mil seiscientos kilómetros de selva con una caravana de mujeres casaderas durante seis largos

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Martha Asunción Alonso Javier Blánquez Jorge Carrión Mery Cuesta Marilena de Chiara Agustín Fernández Mallo Bruno Galindo Berta Jiménez Luesma Reinaldo Laddaga Isabel Navarro Pedro G. Romero Marisol Salanova Cristian Segura. Coordinado por Jorge CarriónEn muy poco tiempo, Rosalía se ha convertido en una de las artistas más influyentes y conocidas del mundo. Su mezcla de flamenco, pop, músicas urbanas y músicas latinas es, al mismo tiempo, comercial y experimental. Además, sus colaboraciones, sus coreografías, sus videoclips o su uso de las redes sociales establecen puentes con los principales ámbitos creativos de nuestro tiempo.Al igual que la figura que lo ha inspirado, este libro también quiere ser una constelación proteica e híbrida de talentos periodísticos, reflexivos, poéticos y críticos en torno al fenómeno Rosalía. Así, algunos de los autores de este volumen abordan la relación de su música con el flamenco y el nuevo flamenco, lo natural y lo artificial, la t

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Descripción: 25x16 cm.Encuadernación: cartoné.Colección: Áncora y delfín,1106.En la tercera serie de los Episodios nacionales , escrita entre 1898 y 1900, es decir diecinueve años después de haber concluido la anterior, Galdós retoma la historia de España en el punto en que la había dejado ?la muerte de Fernando VII?, para relatar la difícil etapa de la minoría de su hija, la futura Isabel II, no reconocida por los absolutistas que proclaman rey al infante don Carlos, hermano del rey fallecido. Los liberales arropan entonces a la reina viuda, María Cristina, y se inicia la primera guerra carlista. A lo largo de la serie, Galdós seguirá las vicisitudes de los dos bandos, entre el País Vasco, donde reside la corte absolutista, y Madrid, capital del gobierno liberal, con algunas incursiones en Levante y Cataluña. La serie no sólo contiene numerosos episodios bélicos, como las campañas de los generales carlistas Zumalacárregui y Cabrera, el cerco y la liberación de Bilbao, o las

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El Descubrimiento y la Conquista coinciden en ser los hechos o episodios históricos clave para la monarquía y la hegemonía hispánicas de los siglos XV y XVI, cuyos intereses y estrategia del imperio no coincidían en absoluto ni en tiempo ni en prioridad con los de sus protagonistas. El tablero donde se jugaba el dominio mundial se focalizaba lejos de aquellas prometedoras tierras y, por ende, los recursos, tanto económicos como humanos del imperio español se repartían con otros intereses y fines.? Los enigmas, el origen y los mitos sobre la fi gura de Colón y el comienzo de la aventura.? Los cronistas del Descubrimiento y la Conquista de América.? La Cartografía y los avances sobre el mundo que favorecieron la hazaña.? Los auténticos personajes de la Conquista, hombres en su mayoría: Francisco Pizarro, Juan Sebastián Elcano, Pedro de Valdivia, entre otros..., pero también bravas pioneras, auténticas mujeres de armas tomar como Isabel Barreto, Catalina de Erauso o Franci

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Charlotte, Branwell, Emily y Anne, han inventado un mundo tan real, vívido y fascinante que pueden adentrarse en él. Su infancia en Yorkshire Moore no ha sido fácil, especialmente tras la muerte de sus hermanas mayores. Pero han cogido pluma y papel y ahora siempre que quieran pueden acudir a "La ciudad de cristal" si lo necesitan, es su secreto, su vía de escape. Dentro experimentan toda clase de aventuras. Pero pueden conformarse con la realidad cuando la ficción es tan atractiva? Qué ocurre con los mundos imaginarios cuando sus creadores crecen? Y es que ahora que se han hecho adultos todo parece desmoronarse. Las tramas han entrado en bucle, los personajes se están volviendo locos, y, por si fuera poco, se está derramando una gran cantidad de tinta...De la autora de La Enciclopedia de la Tierra Temprana y Las cien noches de Hero. La cautivadora historia de las hermanas Brontë, de la mano de Isabel Greenberg.

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En 1980, el año en el que ETA perpetró más asesinatos, tres mujeres empezaron a organizar la resistencia pacífica contra el terrorismo en España. Una de ellas acabaría convirtiéndose en su principal exponente: Ana María Vidal-Abarca. Su marido, el comandante del Ejército Jesús Velasco, había sido asesinado aquel fatídico año en Vitoria. Ella tenía 41 años y cuatro hijas con las que se trasladó a Madrid para que crecieran lejos de un ambiente cada vez más asfixiante.En cuestión de meses y junto a Sonsoles Álvarez de Toledo e Isabel O?Shea, fundó la primera asociación de víctimas del terrorismo. Su objetivo inicial era ayudar a las viudas que, tras el asesinato de sus maridos, quedaban en una situación de casi total desamparo. Para localizarlas pusieron un anuncio en la prensa con un apartado de correos. Enseguida comenzaron a recibir cartas y a conocer de primera mano cómo la onda expansiva del terrorismo socavaba a centenares de familias. Ana María tomó enseguida las riendas: viajó

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Orovida es la crónica, desde un punto de vista femenino (que no feminista), del destino de una mujer en el reinado de los Reyes Católicos.La novela se inicia en 1476, durante los festejos organizados en Toledo con ocasión de la victoria de Isabel y Fernando sobre los portugueses, donde David Villeda, un rico comerciante judío, y su bella esposa, Orovida, contemplan el espectáculo desde un balcón, sin participar en la alegría general. Sobre la comunidad judía se cierne la amenaza de Torquemada, el fanático confesor de la reina.Guiladi describe con detalle un momento en que diferentes credos intentaban convidir de forma pacífica respetando unas normas de convivencia aceptadas por todos, si bien no exenta de conflictos y recelos que acabaron desembocando en un enfrentamiento abierto. Con esta obra Guiladi inició la trilogía sobre la España de las tres culturas, a la que siguieron "Los cipreses de Córdoba" y "La copista del rey Alfonso".Esta obra es todo un ejemplo para afronta

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Los primeros veinte años de aplicación de la compleja regulación de la prueba pericial han planteado infinidad de problemas prácticos de todo tipo en los tribunales.Esta monografía los analiza críticamente y formula soluciones eficaces para resolverlos, así como presenta casi un centenar de propuestas articuladas de mejora normativa. Y ello lo hace de la mano de los verdaderos especialistas de la prueba pericial: desde la visión judicial con los estudios del Magistrado de la Sala 1 del Tribunal Supremo, José Luis Seoane Spiegelberg, y de las magistradas Carmen Ortiz Rodríguez y Rosa M Méndez Tomás, ambas profesoras ordinarias de la Escuela Judicial del CGPJ; desde la perspectiva científica con trabajos de los académicos que han dedicado sus tesis doctorales a esta prueba, como los estudios de Pedro M. Garciandía González, Ignacio Flores Prada, Carmen Vázquez, Eva Isabel Sanjurjo Ríos y Rafael de Orellana Castro; y desde la experiencia del derecho comparado con las aportaciones de exper

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Haciéndose eco de la diferentes tendencias transnacionales e interdisciplinares aplicadas a los estudios de la mujer, el volumen bilingüe En torno a espacios y género/ Negotiating Gendered Spaces cuestiona el papel fundamental que la noción del espacio tiene en campos tan diferentes, y a la vez tan conectados, como la sociología, la educación, los estudios culturales, la política y la literatura. Desterrando antiguas concepciones del espacio por los que la mujer era tradicionalmente vista como una víctima del lugar que ocupa, los artículos incluidos en el presente volumen ofrecen un amplio espectro de las posibilidades existentes cuandola mujer entra en diálogo con el espacio; un diálogo por el que el espacio se reinventa y se erige en punto de partida para dejar de ser un punto de clausura.Las editoras son profesoras de Filología Inglesa en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM):ISABEL DURÁN GIMÉNEZ-RICO es catedrática de universidad. Autora del libro Autobiografía: version

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This collection investigates the world of nineteenth-century Quaker women, bringing to light the issues and challenges Quaker women experienced and the dynamic ways in which they were active agents of social change, cultural contestation, and gender transgression in the nineteenth century.New research illuminates the complexities of Quaker testimonies of equality, slavery, and peace and how they were informed by questions of gender, race, ethnicity, and culture. The essays in this volume challenge the view that Quaker women were always treated equally with men and that people of color were welcomed into white Quaker activities. The contributors explore how diverse groups of Quaker women navigated the intersection of their theological positions and social conventions, asking how they challenged and supported traditional ideals of gender, race, and class. In doing so, this volume highlights the complexity of nineteenth-century Quakerism and the ways Quaker women put their faith to both expansive and limiting ends. Reaching beyond existing national studies focused solely on white American or British Quaker women, this interdisciplinary volume presents the most current research, providing a necessary and foundational resource for scholars, libraries, and universities.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Joan Allen, Richard C. Allen, Stephen W. Angell, Jennifer M. Buck, Nancy Jiwon Cho, Isabelle Cosgrave, Thomas D. Hamm, Julie L. Holcomb, Anna Vaughan Kett, Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Linda Palfreeman, Hannah Rumball, and Janet Scott.

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A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory’s intersections with neocybernetic systems theory Often seen as an outlier in science, Gaia has run a long and varied course since its formulation in the 1970s by atmospheric chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis. Gaian Systems is a pioneering exploration of the dynamic and complex evolution of Gaia’s many variants, with special attention to Margulis’s foundational role in these developments.Bruce Clarke assesses the different dialects of systems theory brought to bear on Gaia discourse. Focusing in particular on Margulis’s work—including multiple pieces of her unpublished Gaia correspondence—he shows how her research and that of Lovelock was concurrent and conceptually parallel with the new discourse of self-referential systems that emerged within neocybernetic systems theory. The recent Gaia writings of Donna Haraway, Isabelle Stengers, and Bruno Latour contest its cybernetic status. Clarke engages Latour on the issue of Gaia’s systems description and extends his own systems-theoretical synthesis under what he terms “metabiotic Gaia.” This study illuminates current issues in neighboring theoretical conversations—from biopolitics and the immunitary paradigm to NASA astrobiology and the Anthropocene. Along the way, he points to science fiction as a vehicle of Gaian thought. Delving into many issues not previously treated in accounts of Gaia, Gaian Systems describes the history of a theory that has the potential to help us survive an environmental crisis of our own making.

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'Pia Bramley captures this bizarre love and confusion perfectly' - Cariad Lloyd'A beautiful, bittersweet keepsake for anyone who's navigated the journey to parenthood during this exceptional time' - Leah Hazard'Tender and moving' - Katherine May'This is a perfect book' - Isabel Greenberg'True loveliness on every single page' - Lizzy Stewart'A thing to treasure and keep close at hand' - Emily Haworth-Booth'A reminder of all the angst, the strangeness, the minor griefs, but - most importantly - of the magic' - Jennie AggA moving, funny exploration of life as the parent of a lockdown baby, by illustrator Pia Bramley.Since March 2020, babies have been born into a world of masks, hand washing and social distancing. They met their grandparents on video calls. Their parents held them up to windows and took them for long walks in the rain.Pia Bramley's illustrations capture the intimacy of the small, strange world of the pandemic baby. She draws on her own experience as a new parent, telling the story of a child's first year against the backdrop of the pandemic: the quiet streets of the first lockdown, the relative freedom of summer, the long nights of autumn and winter and, finally, new hope as spring arrives and life begins to open up again. Moving, funny and deeply honest, this is a book for every parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or friend who waited to hold their pandemic baby.

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WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTHBBC RADIO 4'S OPEN BOOKOne family's skeletons emerge on a 1950s seaside summer holiday in this classic mystery from 'Britain's Patricia Highsmith' and the 'grandmother of psycho-domestic noir' (Sunday Times)'Makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up .. Take it on holiday with you.' Times'Brilliant ... Such clever, witty writing.' Elly Griffiths'Fremlin packs a punch.' Ian Rankin'Splendid ... Got me hooked.' Ruth Rendell'A slow-burning chill of a read by a master of suspense.' Janice Hallett'A dark delight. Witty, unsettling domestic noir. Imagine Barbara Pym with arsenic.' Clare ChambersThe holidays have begun. In a seaside caravan resort, Isabel and her sister Meg build sandcastles with the children, navigate deckchair politics, explore the pier's delights, gorge ice cream in the sun. But their half-sister Mildred has returned to a nearby coastal cottage where her husband - the mysterious Uncle Paul - was arrested for his first wife's attempted murder: and family skeletons emerge. Now, on his release from prison, is he returning for revenge, seeking who betrayed him? Or are all three women letting their nerves get the better of them? Though who really is Meg's new lover? And whose are those footsteps ...?'Sinister, witty and utterly compelling. A genius.' Nicola Upson

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This bestselling book provides indispensable tools and strategies for explicit, systematic phonics instruction in K-3. Teachers learn effective ways to build students' decoding skills by teaching letter-sound relationships, blending, word building, multisyllabic decoding, fluency, and more. The volume is packed with engaging classroom activities, many specific examples, and research-based explanations. It offers a complete phonics assessment and clear guidelines for sequencing instruction to give every student a strong foundation for reading. More than 30 reproducible forms and word lists are included in the appendices. Purchasers get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size and find a wealth of supplemental teaching resources. New to This Edition *Six additional chapters covering key topics, including assessment, phonemic awareness, orthography, and automaticity. *A complete phonics assessment with administering and scoring guidelines. *Downloadable forms and word lists, plus a companion website with rich supplemental resources, including word/syllable cards, assessment tools, and illustrated stories featuring target words, which teachers can project or print for classroom use. *More classroom examples and "Your Turn" activities, as well as expanded word lists. See also Bringing Words to Life, Second Edition: Robust Vocabulary Instruction and Creating Robust Vocabulary: Frequently Asked Questions and Extended Examples, by Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, and Linda Kucan, which provide essential tools for K-12 vocabulary instruction.

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An instructive book that examines the practice of drawing for illustration through case studies and sketchbooks, written by one of the world’s foremost experts and teachers on the subject. This essential handbook explores the subject of drawing for illustration in-depth, with an emphasis on drawing as a skill and fundamental language that every illustrator should master. It aims to encourage students through examples and case studies, by showcasing the often-unseen world of draughtsmanship that underpins the finished graphic. From book illustration to graphic novels, caricatures to commercial design, it draws on contemporary sketchbooks, projects and historical examples to make the connection between the practice of drawing from observation and drawing from imagination. Martin Salisbury sets out by explaining the fundamentals of this exciting discipline, before outlining the basic principles of line, tone, composition and colour through inspiring examples. Different approaches to drawing including anecdotal, sequential and reportage are examined, to enable students to acquire their own personal visual language. Interviews with illustrators also provide invaluable insight into the creative process, as they outline their challenges and motivations, and what drawing personally means for them. Packed with visual inspiration, this book features detailed analysis of works by key illustrators from past and present including George Cruikshank, Egon Schiele, Ronald Searle and Sheila Robinson through to Laura Carlin, Alexis Deacon and Isabelle Arsenault, looking at the differing roles drawing plays in their particular illustrative languages and how styles have changed over time.

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Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgical procedure performed on women in the United States. For some women, the decision to have a hysterectomy is an easy one; for others, it is a difficult choice associated with concerns about risks, discomfort, and female identity. Yet many disorders of the uterus-fibroid tumors, uterine and cervical cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, adenomyosis, and uterine prolapse-may require surgical treatment. In this thoroughly updated edition of Hysterectomy: Exploring Your Options, gynecologists Edward E. Wallach, Esther Eisenberg, Isabel Green, and Stacey A. Scheib describe and explain every aspect of the procedure, including, Symptoms of gynecological disorders that may require uterine fibroid removal or hysterectomy; the full range of diagnostic and therapeutic imaging techniques, including MRI-focused ultrasound; thorough explanations of specific alternative measures that may be used to avoid the need for hysterectomy; the various techniques for hysterectomy, including single-incision surgery and robotic hysterectomy; how to prepare for surgery and what to expect while in the hospital; details on the surgery and postoperative recovery, including information about pain medications, when to resume daily activities, how sexual function may be affected, future reproductive possibilities, and the benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy. Included in this compassionate, comprehensive guide to treatment and recovery for women having - or deciding whether to have - a hysterectomy are stories of women whose own experiences with hysterectomy offer useful advice for anyone considering the procedure.

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The rise of the Capetian dynasty across the long thirteenth century, which rested in part on the family's perceived sanctity, is a story most often told through the actions of male figures, from Louis IX's metamorphosis into "Saint Louis" to Philip IV's attacks on Pope Boniface VIII. In Courting Sanctity, Sean L. Field argues that, in fact, holy women were central to the Capetian's self-presentation as being uniquely favored by God. Tracing the shifting relationship between holy women and the French royal court, he shows that the roles and influence of these women were questioned and reshaped under Philip III and increasingly assumed to pose physical, spiritual, and political threats by the time of Philip IV's death. Field's narrative highlights six holy women. The saintly reputations of Isabelle of France and Douceline of Digne helped to crystalize the Capetians' claims of divine favor by 1260. In the 1270s, the French court faced a crisis that centered on the testimony of Elizabeth of Spalbeek, a visionary holy woman from the Low Countries. After 1300, the arrests and interrogations of Paupertas of Metz, Margueronne of Bellevillette, and Marguerite Porete served to bolster Philip IV's crusades against the dangers supposedly threatening the kingdom of France. Courting Sanctity thus reassesses key turning points in the ascent of the "most Christian" Capetian court through examinations of the lives and images of the holy women that the court sanctified or defamed.

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**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK AND BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING 2021 SELECTION'A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the personal and political' ObserverLandry and Prentiss are two brothers born into slavery, finally freed as the American Civil War draws to its bitter close. Cast into the world without a penny to their names, their only hope is to find work in a society that still views them with nothing but intolerance. Farmer George Walker and his wife Isabelle are reeling from a loss that has shaken them to their core. After a chance encounter, they agree to employ the brothers on their land, and slowly the tentative bonds of trust begin to blossom between the strangers.But this sanctuary survives on a knife's edge, and it isn't long before a tragedy causes the inhabitants of the nearby town to turn their suspicion onto these new friendships, with devastating consequences.'[A] highly accomplished debut' Sunday TimesReaders have been swept away by The Sweetness of Water:'Such a powerful, magnificent book; I urge you to read it. The comparisons with Colson Whitehead are justified' *****'A staggering debut and a story that stays with you' *****'Thought-provoking and moving . . . a gripping and compelling novel that exposes flaws, mixed emotions and imperfect relationships, and yet it holds on with determination and hope. It fully deserves a 5-star rating' *****'Outstanding . . . A book that deserves widespread recognition and a wide audience' *****

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A DAILY TELEGRAPH TOP 50 BOOK OF THE YEAR AND POLITICS BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST POLITICS BOOK OF THE YEAR'BRILLIANT' ANDREW MARR'HAD ME OPEN-MOUTHED WITH AMAZEMENT' ED BALLS'ESSENTIAL' JON SOPEL'A GRIPPINGLY-WRITTEN, DETAILED BOOK THAT ANSWERS SO MANY QUESTIONS' ISABEL HARDMAN'SUPERB' EVAN DAVISThe explosive full story of the past dozen years of Tory rule, from coalition to self-destruction. Over the last decade, the British people have seen five different Conservative Prime Ministers, with five different missions and five messages to the nation. From the ashes of a financial crisis, to a break from the EU, to a global pandemic, governments - and ideologies - have changed, but Tory power has clung on. Merciless rebellion and the swift ousting of leaders have enabled this, and yet the same ruthlessness may ultimately bring about their downfall.Witty, hair-raising and brilliantly sourced, The Right to Rule links as never before stories of betrayal in Cameron's Coalition, the rifts behind the Referendum, the travails of May, the chaos of the pandemic, the sagas of Johnson, the Truss implosion and the Sunak patch-job.Through his unique access and unmissable inside stories, acclaimed Westminster journalist Ben Riley-Smith's explosive account is essential for anyone wondering how the Tories kept changing, kept revolting - and kept winning. This is the entertaining and dramatic account of our times, for anyone wondering how Britain got into this state.

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The fourteen essays of this volume engage in distinct ways with the matter of motion in early modern Spanish poetics. Los catorce ensayos de este volumen conectan de una manera perceptible con el tema del movimiento enla poesía española del siglo de oro The fourteen essays of this volume engage in distinct ways with the matter of motion in early modern Spanish poetics, without limiting the dialectic of stasis and movement to any single sphere or manifestation. Interrogation of the interdependence of tradition and innovation, poetry, power and politics, shifting signifiers, the intersection of topography and deviant temporalities, the movement between the secular and the sacred, tensions between centres and peripheries, issues of manuscript circulation and reception, poetic calls and echoes across continents and centuries, and between creative writing and reading subjects, all demonstrate that Helgerson's central notion of conspicuous movement is relevant beyond early sixteenth-century secular poetics, By opening it up we approximate a better understanding of poetry's flexible spatio-temporal co-ordinates in a period of extraordinary historical circumstances and conterminous radical cultural transformation. Los catorce ensayos de este volumen conectan de una manera perceptible con el tema del movimiento en la poesía española del siglo de oro, sin limitar la dialéctica de la estasis y movimiento a una sola esfera o manifestación única. Entre los multiples enfoques cabe destacar: el cuestionamiento de la interdependencia de la tradición e inovación, de la poesía, del poder y la política, de los sigantes que se transforman, de los espacios que conectan y cruzan con los tiempos 'desviados'; análisis de las tensiones entre lo sagrado y lo secular, del conflicto centro-periferia y del complejo sistema de producción, circulacióny recepción de los manuscritos; el diálogo con el eco poético a través de los siglos y de los continentes y la construcción creativa del sujeto escritor y/o lector. Al abrir la noción central de Helgerson del "movimiento cono" más allá de la poesía nueva secular, este libro propone un entendimiento más completo de las coordinadas espacio-temporales de la poesía en un periodo de circunstancias históricas extrao Jean Andrews is Associate Pssor in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham. Isabel Torres is Professor of Spanish Golden Age Literature at Queen's University, Belfast. Contributors: Jean Andrews,Dana Bultman, Noelia Cirnigliaro, Marsha Collins, Trevor J. Dadson, Aurora Egido, Verónica Grossi, Anne Holloway, Mark J. Mascia,Terence O'Reilly, Carmen Peraita, Amanda Powell, Colin Thompson, Isabel Torres

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Confidence affects how we deal with stress and how we fulfill our potential to achieve the results we desire. In sports and in life, confidence is the underlying factor determining mental and physical performance, leading to overall success. This book by experienced mental performance specialist Isabelle Hamptonstone contains a collection of powerful techniques and tips to help hockey players overcome lack of confidence. Clear instructions and illustrative case studies show how training the brain to develop and sustain hockey confidence can upgrade results and help players make smarter, quicker decisions under pressure. Hamptonstone shares step-by-step guidelines gleaned from her years of research working with the giants in the game of hockey. Some of the greatest hockey players in the world have used these very same steps to change their game and their lives. Added to this base of personal knowledge, the book references inspiring moments of mental performance by Wayne Gretzky, Doug Lidster, Scott Niedermayer, Shane Doan, Darryl Sydor, Jarome Iginla, and Mark Recchi. This pragmatic and positive book is a game-changing guide and valuable resource for anyone interested in high-performance hockey, as well as a valuable tool for self-development.

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Transnational Feminist Itineraries brings together scholars and activists from multiple continents to demonstrate the ongoing importance of transnational feminist theory in challenging neoliberal globalization and the rise of authoritarian nationalisms around the world. The contributors illuminate transnational feminism's unique constellation of elements: its specific mode of thinking across scales, its historical understanding of identity categories, and its expansive imagining of solidarity based on difference rather than similarity. Contesting the idea that transnational feminism works in opposition to other approaches—especially intersectional and decolonial feminisms—this volume instead argues for their complementarity. Throughout, the contributors call for reaching across social, ideological, and geographical boundaries to better confront the growing reach of nationalism, authoritarianism, and religious and economic fundamentalism. Contributors. Mary Bernstein, Isabel Maria Cortesão Casimiro, Rafael de la Dehesa, Carmen L. Diaz Alba, Inderpal Grewal, Cricket Keating, Amy Lind, Laura L. Lovett, Kathryn Moeller, Nancy A. Naples, Jennifer C. Nash, Amrita Pande, Srila Roy, Cara K. Snyder, Ashwini Tambe, Millie Thayer, Catarina Casimiro Trindade

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Once largely ignored, the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead has assumed a new prominence in contemporary theory across the humanities and social sciences. Philosophers and artists, literary critics and social theorists, anthropologists and computer scientists have all embraced Whitehead’s thought, extending it through inquiries into the nature of life, the problem of consciousness, and the ontology of objects, as well as into experiments in education and digital media.The Lure of Whitehead offers readers not only a comprehensive introduction to Whitehead’s philosophy but also a demonstration of how his work advances our emerging understanding of life in the posthuman epoch. Contributors: Jeffrey A. Bell, Southeastern Louisiana U; Nathan Brown, U of California, Davis; Peter Canning; Didier Debaise, Free U of Brussels; Roland Faber, Claremont Lincoln U; Michael Halewood, U of Essex; Graham Harman, American U in Cairo; Bruno Latour, Sciences Po Paris; Erin Manning, Concordia U, Montreal; Steven Meyer, Washington U; Luciana Parisi, U of London; Keith Robinson, U of Arkansas at Little Rock; Isabelle Stengers, Free U of Brussels; James Williams, U of Dundee.

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Certain great friendships have left their mark in the annals of philosophy – and, without a doubt, the friendship of Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers is among them. Although they wrote very few texts together, their intellectual companionship lasted for over thirty years, and their respective work can be fully understood only when the many interconnections of their thought are brought to the fore. Latour and Stengers occupy the same starting place, one which remains at the heart of their work: scientific practice, which is the pride of modernity. Why do we Moderns define ourselves as those who know, while others are condemned to be only believers? This question led Latour and Stengers to the same fundamental question: how to understand and live in what Latour calls "the new climatic regime” and what Stengers calls “catastrophic times"? Philippe Pignarre's aim is not to try to sort out which ideas belong to whom but rather to interweave their thought even more. In so doing, he sheds new light on the origins and development of their work at the same time as he documents an exceptional intellectual adventure between two of the leading thinkers of our age.

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In the 1880s, through an amendment to the Indian Act of 1876, the government of Canada began to require all Aboriginal children to attend schools administered by churches. Separating these children from their families, removing them from their communities and destroying Aboriginal culture by denying them the right to speak Indigenous languages and perform native spiritual ceremonies, these residential schools were explicitly developed to assimilate Aboriginal peoples into Canadian culture and erase their existence as a people. Daring to break the code of silence imposed on Aboriginal students, residential school survivor Isabelle Knockwood offers the firsthand experiences of forty-two survivors of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School. In their own words, these former students remember their first day of residential schooling, when they were outwardly transformed through hair cuts and striped uniforms marked with numbers. Then followed years of inner transformation from a strict and regimented life of education and manual training, as well as harsh punishments for speaking their own language or engaging in Indigenous customs. The survivors also speak of being released from their school and having to decide between living in a racist and unwelcoming dominant society or returning to reserves where the Aboriginal culture had evolved. In this newly updated fourth edition, Knockwood speaks to twenty-one survivors of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School about their reaction to the apology by the Canadian government in 2008. Is it now possible to move forward?"

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Doce relatos, doce pequeñas obras maestras de un autor en su mejor momento literario «El autor, lejísimos de buscar placidez y comodidad en sus historias, es un maestro en el arte de la novela psicológica con mayúscula.» —Isabel Llauger, Qué Leer   Hombres y mujeres en tránsito, llegados a un país o una ciudad nueva, viajeros atrapados en un crucero teóricamente paradisiaco que se convierte en pesadilla, parejas que cuanto más hablan menos se comunican, padres primerizos de un bebé llorón, mujeres que celebran un cumpleaños en el que no hay mucho que celebrar... toda una galería de personajes llenos de verdad y con vidas a la deriva protagonizan estos doce relatos de un autor en lo mejor de su carrera literaria.   La incursión del autor en el relato breve, con la destreza y la imaginación que ha derro

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Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in fi lm, either directly as practitioners or in other areas such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of filmmaking and the power invested in the gaze itself. Who is looking and who is being looked at, who is telling women’s stories in Africa and what governs the mechanics of making those films on the continent?The interviews with Tsitsi Dangarembga, Taghreed Elsanhouri, Jihan El-Tahri, Anita Khanna, Djo Tunda wa Munga, Rumbi Katedza, Katarina Hedrén, Isabel Noronhe, Arya Lalloo and Shannon Walsh demonstrate the contradictory points of departure of women in film – from their understanding of feminisms in relation to lived-experiences and the realpolitik of women working as cultural practitioners.The disciplines of gender studies, postcolonial theory, and film theory provide the framework for the book’s essays. Beti Ellerson, Jyoti Mistry, Antje Schuhmann, Nobunye Levin, Dorothee Wenner and Christina von Braun are some of the contributors who provide valuable context, analysis and insight into, among other things, the politics of representation, the role of fi lm festivals and the collective and individual experiences of trauma and marginality which contribute to the layered and complex fi lmic responses of Africa’s film practitioners.

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Juntos de Fabio Marra, aborda el tema de la normalidad.Qué es la normalidad? Qué significa ser normal?Isabel, una mujer decidida que vive con su hijo Miguel, un joven discapacitado impulsivo y generoso, nunca ha aceptado que su hijo sea diferente de los demás y Miguel se ha convertido en su única razón de vivir. Su hija Sandra regresa después de diez años de ausencia.Esta relación fusional entre una madre y su hijo nos habla de apego y de entrega.Qué sucede actualmente cuando un miembro de nuestra familia depende de nosotros? Existen vidas que no merecen la pena de ser vividas? En tal caso, quién decidiría cuál merece la pena y cuál no? Estamos preparados para aceptar lo diferente?Por qué cada vez hacemos menos cosas juntos?

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La reina Juana I de España era la hija de Fernando e Isabel, los Reyes Católicos, y hermana de Catalina de Aragón. Ella fue elegida para casarse con Felipe el Hermoso, un conocido mujeriego e intrigante político, de quien cayó apasionadamente enamorada desde el primer momento. El matrimonio fue apasionado y tempestuoso, pero la temprana muerte de Felipe lo truncó.A la muerte de su madre, Juana debería haber reinado como Reina de Castilla pero insensiblemente le fue negado el poder y el estado, la mayor parte de su vida la malgastó encarcelada por los tres hombres de su vida: su marido Felipe, su padre Fernando y su hijo Carlos. Ella afrontó esta crueldad con coraje y determinación, su resistencia animada, que injustamente le hace ganar el apodo por el que se le recuerda.

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