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Ediciones Martínez Roca Garoé
Una historia de amor, muertes, conquista, tráfico de esclavos, una tragedia, un elemento misterioso por cuya posesión los hombres enloquecen, un ancestral secreto que durante siglos permitió a los habitantes de la isla de El Hierro superar todas las adversidades...Una novela inolvidable donde la conquista de una tierra salvaje e inhóspita, la ambición desmedida por el poder y la riqueza y la magia que envuelve una misteriosa leyenda apasionará a sus millones de seguidores y sorprenderá a los pocos que aún no le conocen.
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Editorial Fundamentos Canciones III de The Beatles.
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Editorial Fundamentos Canciones y prosa King Ink
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Editorial Fundamentos Canciones de los Rolling Stones II
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Editorial Fundamentos Canciones 2
Edición Bilingüe: Español, FrancésEn el volumen anterior de las canciones de Moustaki (número 75 de esta misma colección) ofrecíamos su producción desde su resonante éxito, en 1968, con Le métèque hasta 1974.Ahora en este segundo y último volumen se recogen las canciones aparecidas desde 1975 hasta ahora. Son los años que representan una depuración y perfección en su estilo. Años en los que tras calmarse el eco de su resonante triunfo se deja oír con mayor claridad la voz del poeta.
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En el castillo de Barba Azul aproximacin a un nuevo concepto de cultura
Los cuatro textos de este volumen constituyen un hito en el pensamiento contemporáneo por tratarse de una de las primeras tomas de posición ante las tendencias de pesimismo cultural presentes en autores como T. S. Eliot ya a mediados del siglo xx. A partir de su concepto de poscultura, Steiner formula una serie de réplicas de gran lucidez, belleza y atrevimiento, precisamente en un momento en que este pesimismo reaparece en todo su radicalismo y violencia.La cultura, nueva divinidad del siglo xx, había mostrado su impotencia ante la confianza puesta en ella al constatar que no pudo evitar ni suavizar las peores atrocidades surgidas de la mente humana. Y, sin embargo, postular la muerte de la cultura es un sinsentido mientras existan seres humanos. Deben ampliarse entonces las fronteras del concepto de cultura, aceptando como hechos culturales no sólo lo indecible del Holocausto, sino también la ciega destrucción masiva de un patrimonio cultural irrestituible?Steiner propone sopor
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Cultura identidad y política el nacionalismo y los nuevos cambios sociales
Las agitadas relaciones entre estado, sociedad civil e identidad cultural son los temas principales de esta exploración que en muchos aspectos sigue vigente en nuestros días. En vista de los horrores de los que hemos sido capaces los seres humanos en lo
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Especial de invierno en el Pas de las Maravillas de Faith
Mientras el ambiente festivo inunda las calles, Faith ?Zephyr? Herbert está a punto de embarcarse en un viaje que la llevará a través de la madriguera del conejo? hacia un alucinante País de las Maravillas invernal donde cada día es especial! Pero detrás de todos esos adornos y algodón de azúcar, no todo es lo que parece?
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Arzalia Ediciones Bajamar
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GEDISA Lo maravilloso y lo cotidiano en el Occidente medieval
El mundo de la Edad Media hace tiempo que dejó de ser aquella era oscura que el Renacimiento nos legó como imagen. La virtud de este bello libro de Le Goff es saber reconstruir aquel mundo poblado de seres maravillosos, hadas, dragones y demonios,
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LID Editorial Empresarial, S.L. 50 casos de xito en experiencia de cliente
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Ediciones Tutor, S.A. Manual de la técnica de los ejercicios para el entrenamiento de la fuerza
El mejor recurso práctico de entrenamientoDesarrollado por la NSCA, este manual es un recurso práctico, tanto para los que aspiran a ser profesionales de la fuerza y el acondicionamiento y entrenadores personales, como para los que ya ejercen como tales. Con inigualables demostraciones visuales de una serie de ejercicios con pesos libres o máquinas, este libro es una valiosa herramienta para quienes preparan sus certificaciones por la NSCA y un recurso excelente para los que diseñan programas para deportistas y clientes de cualquier edad y nivel de forma física.En el libro se describe, paso a paso y con fotografías en color, la técnica adecuada de 54 ejercicios con peso libre y 16 con máquina, para todos los grupos musculares, e incluye: un vídeo online demostrativo de cada ejercicio de entrenamiento de fuerza; la identificación de los músculos implicados y el agarre correcto, así como la postura y el rango de movimiento de cada ejercicio; la descripción de las acciones articular
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Daddy issues Un anlisis sobre la figura del padre en la cultura contempornea
El nacimiento y el desarrollo del movimiento #MeToo en 2017 implicó, entre muchas otras cosas, una dura crítica a nuestra sociedad entendida como una construcción patriarcal en la que, a lo largo de la historia y de manera continuada, los hombres han acaparado todas las parcelas de poder, y este poder se ha ejercido constantemente en perjuicio de las mujeres. Sin embargo, el movimiento #MeToo parece haber dejado al margen de sus debates al padre, figura fundamental a la hora de diseccionar las estructuras de poder que sostienen al patriarcado, y que además está en la misma raíz etimológica de la palabra. Si bien podemos exigir responsabilidades en la vida pública y privada a jefes, compañeros de trabajo, parejas y amigos, qué ocurre con los padres?A partir de un buen número de ejemplos tomados de la historia y de la ficción, la psiquiatra y sexóloga Katherine Angel ha tenido la audacia de reflexionar por primera vez de manera directa y profunda sobre el lugar que ocupa la figura pat
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PRH Grupo Editorial Los niños sí vienen con instructivo Children Do Come with Instructions
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Los padrotes Tlaxcala / The Pimps of Tlaxcala
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Boosey & Hawkes Inc Piano Concerto No 1 Op 28 Reduction for Two Pianos Four Hands
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State University of New York Press The Suspension of Seriousness: On the Phenomenology of Jorge Portilla, With a Translation of Fenomenología del relajo
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University of Hawai'i Press Ka Lei Ma'aheo Teacher's Guide and Answer Key: Beginning Hawaiian
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Little, Brown & Company Rumbo al Hermoso Norte
Nayeli es una chica de diecinueve anos que trabaja en una taqueria de tres Camarones, un poblado mexicano. Ve en suenos a su padre, que emigro al norte cuando era nina. Recientemente se ha dado cuenta de que su padre no es el unico hombre que se ha ido del pueblo, de hecho ya casi no quedan hombres, todos se han ido al otro lado, a los Estados Unidos. Un grupo de narcotraficantes tambien se ha percatado de ese hecho y ven la oportunidad para apoderarse. Pero una noche, durante la exhibicion de la pelicula Los Siete Magnificos, Nayeli tiene una revelacion: Debe dirigirse al norte a reclutar sus propios Siete Magnificos, para que la protejan de los criminales y coadyuven a repoblar Tres Camarones. Ella y sus amigas viajan al norte y en el camino hacia esa extrana y fascinante tierra de sus suenos, ese mitico lugar donde su padre desaparecio, van sumando una coleccion de inusitados y sorprendentes aliados. La meta es un poblado del estado de Illinois, donde Nayeli espera encontrar a su padre y reclutar a sus guerreros. Con suerte, hara realidad tambien su destino.
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Diogenes Verlag AG Der Panzer des Hummers
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Penguin Putnam Inc Kiss Me, Mi Amor
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North Star Editions Mythical Creatures: Dragons
Introduces readers to the fascinating folklore behind dragons. Readable text, fun facts, and eye-catching photos invite readers to explore the mythology of this popular mythical creature.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Issues in English Language Learning
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Developments in Higher Education
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Genetic Discrimination
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Manchester University Press Queer Muslim Diasporas in Contemporary Literature and Film
This book explores the representation of queer migrant Muslims in international literature and film from the 1980s to the present day. Bringing together a variety of contemporary writers and filmmakers of Muslim heritage engaged in vindicating same-sex desire, the book approaches queer Muslims in the diaspora as figures forced to negotiate their identities according to the expectations of the West and of their migrant Muslim communities. The book examines 3 main themes: the depiction of queer desire across racial and national borders, the negotiation of Islamic femininities and masculinities, and the positioning of the queer Muslim self in time and place. This study will be of interest to scholars, as well as to advanced general readers and postgraduate students, interested in Muslims, queerness, diaspora and postcolonialism. It brings nuance and complexity to an often simplified and controversial topic.
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Collective Ink Tuareg
The Tuaregs are the true sons of the desert. They can survive in the harshest of conditions like nobody else. The noble inmouchar Gazel Sayah, is the master of a large extension of the desert. One day, two fugitives arrive from the north and Gazel, following his ancient and sacred hospitality laws, gives them shelter. However, Gazel doesn't realise that his act of kindness will lead him towards a deadly adventure. "Tuareg" is a classic epic and at the same time a beautiful rendition to one of the most singular cultures in the world.
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Elsevier - Health Sciences Division Precision Medicine in Neurodegenerative Disorders: Part I: Volume 192
Precision Medicine in Neurodegenerative Disorders, Part One, Volume 192 in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology deals with the "Why" in the approach to slow the progression of accelerated brain aging. This volume is intended to provide a scholarly background on the framework, basic science and conceptual pitfalls related to disease-modifying efforts in Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative disorders. Among topics covered are different models of precision medicine, the lumping-versus-splitting tension in biomarker development and therapeutics, and the rationale for replacing the convergence of the prevailing autopsy-based nosology of neurodegenerative diseases with the divergence of a systems biology approach to human diseases. Specific chapters are dedicated to the promise of genetic subtypes and the lessons in disease modification offered by the fields of oncology and cystic fibrosis that can be adapted to the field of neurodegeneration. Matching a biology-correcting therapy with those biologically suitable to benefit from such therapy represents the vision and mission of precision medicine, the highest level of personalized medicine.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books
Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. Contributors explore libraries at particular moments in their history across a wide range of cases, and includes Alberto Manguel’s account of the Library of Alexandria as well as chapters on library collecting in the middle ages, the libraries of prime ministers and foreign embassies, protest libraries and the slow transformation of university libraries, and the stories of the personal libraries of Virginia Woolf, Robert Duncan, Sheila Watson, Al Purdy and others. The book shows how the history of the library is really a history of collection, consolidation, migration, dispersal, and integration, where each story negotiates private and public spaces.Unpacking the Personal Library builds on and interrogates theories and approaches from library and archive studies, the history of the book, reading, authorship and publishing. Collectively, the chapters articulate a critical poetics of the personal library within its extended social, aesthetic and cultural contexts.
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Duke University Press Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis
Featuring essays by some of the most prominent names in contemporary political and cultural theory, Sovereignty in Ruins presents a form of critique grounded in the conviction that political thought is itself an agent of crisis. Aiming to develop a political vocabulary capable of critiquing and transforming contemporary political frameworks, the contributors advance a politics of crisis that collapses the false dichotomies between sovereignty and governmentality and between critique and crisis. Their essays address a wide range of topics, such as the role history plays in the development of a politics of crisis; Arendt's controversial judgment of Adolf Eichmann; Strauss's and Badiou's readings of Plato's Laws; the acceptance of the unacceptable; the human and nonhuman; and flesh as a biopolitical category representative of the ongoing crisis of modernity. Altering the terms through which political action may take place, the contributors think through new notions of the political that advance countermodels of biopolitics, radical democracy, and humanity. Contributors. Judith Butler, George Edmondson, Roberto Esposito, Carlo Galli, Klaus Mladek, Alberto Moreiras, Andrew Norris, Eric L. Santner, Adam Sitze, Carsten Strathausen, Rei Terada, Cary Wolfe
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Workman Publishing The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy
Following the success and momentum of his anthology How to Love the World (93,000 copies in print), James Crews's new collection, The Path to Kindness, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems from a diverse range of voices including well-known writers Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black poets include January Gill O’Neil, Tracy K. Smith, and Cornelius Eady. Native American poets include Kimberly Blaeser, Joy Harjo (current U.S. Poet Laureate), and Linda Hogan. The collection also features international voices, including Canadian poets Lorna Crozier and Susan Musgrave. Presented in the same perfect-in-the-hand format as How to Love the World, the collection includes prompts for journaling and exploration of selected poems, a book group guide, bios of all the contributing poets, and stunning cover art by award-winning artist Dinara Mirtalipova. A foreword by Danusha Laméris, along with her popular poem "Small Kindnesses," is also included.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Pathogenesis Mechanism & Cardiovascular Risk Factors for Arteriosclerosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Importance & Implications of Early Diagnosis
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Taschen GmbH The Art of Pin-up
Since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren that sold for $ 2,000 in 1996 are going for $ 200,000 and more today. Pin-up—drawings, paintings, and pastels of an idealized female face and figure intended for public display—was produced between 1920 and 1970 for calendars, magazine covers, and centerfolds. The majority of original paintings were discarded by publishers and calendar companies after printing, making the surviving art that much more precious. Based on the formidably sized Art of Pin-up, this accessible edition gathers nearly 100 artists alongside in-depth showcases of the top 10 names in the game. Each chapter opens with a reproduction of an original calendar or magazine cover by that artist. The reproduction quality of the paintings, pastels, and preparatory sketches that follow—largely sourced from the original art—invites the viewer to trace the brushstrokes, while the exquisite period calendars, vintage prints, and original model photos document the artists’ creative process. Much of these ephemera were photographed on-site at the historic Brown & Bigelow Company, home to the world’s largest archive of vintage pin-up calendars. In addition to the chapters on the 10 featured artists, the book includes bios and art of 85 painters, the most complete compendium of pin-up artists ever compiled. All this adds up to a hard-to-beat book on this popular subject.
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University of Minnesota Press Rebirth of the Clinic: Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care
From physical location to payment processes to expectations of both patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the contemporary medical clinic's central activity has changed since Michel Foucualt's Birth of the Clinic. Indebted to that work, but recognizing the gap between what the modern clinic hoped to be and what it has become, Rebirth of the Clinic explores medical practices that shed light on the fraught relationship between medical systems, practitioners, and patients.Combining theory, history, and ethnography, the contributors to this volume ground today's clinic in a larger scheme of power relations, identifying the cultural, political, and economic pressures that frame clinical relationships, including the instrumentalist definition of health, actuarial-based medical practices, and patient self-help movements, which simultaneously hem in and create the conditions under which agents creatively change ideas of illness and treatment.From threatened community health centers in poor African American locales to innovative nursing practices among the marginally housed citizens of Canada's poorest urban neighborhood, this volume addresses not just the who, what, where, and how of place-specific clinical practices, but also sets these local experiences against a theoretical backdrop that links them to the power of modern medicine in shaping fundamental life experiences. Contributors: Christine Ceci, U of Alberta; Lisa Diedrich, Stony Brook U; Suzanne Fraser, Monash U; John Liesch, Simon Fraser U; Jenna Loyd, CUNY; Annemarie Mol, U of Amsterdam; Mary Ellen Purkis, U of Victoria.
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Hirmer Verlag My Generation: The Jablonka Collection
The Jablonka Collection is regarded as one of the highest-profile repositories of American and German art of the 1980s. In this catalogue the art dealer, gallerist and curator Rafael Jablonka (*1951) provides for the first time an insight into his wide-ranging collection, which is dedicated primarily to artists of his own generation.Rafael Jablonka has collected art for decades according to the basic principle of assembling multiple works from the different creative phases of artists. With some 120 works –paintings, works on paper, sculpture and installations –the catalogue introduces the oeuvres in question and shows a representative cross-section of the extensive Jablonka Collection, which was presented to the Albertina on permanent loan in 2019.
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Hirmer Verlag Wolfgang Laib in Florence: Without Time, Without Space, Without Body…
In 2019, Wolfgang Laib entered into a dialogue with masterpieces by Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi and Benozzo Gozzoli in his philosophical and poetic installations of pollen and beeswax. The publication documents impressively this unique and spectacular art event. Following an invitation from the Museo Novecento in Florence, Wolfgang Laib – one of the outstanding artists of the present day – created five works in four of the city’s main sights, including the convent of San Marco and the Pazzi Chapel. In their juxtaposition with the historic masterpieces, the delicate pollen sculptures and the imposing beeswax ziggurat cause the contrast between present and past, physical place and endless space, and real and spiritual life to become blurred and lead us towards the central questions of life.
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Pennsylvania State University Press Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas
Democracy is venerated in US political culture, in part because it is our democracy. As a result, we assume that the government and institutions of the United States represent the true and right form of democracy, needed by all. This volume challenges this commonplace belief by putting US politics in the context of the Americas more broadly. Seeking to cultivate conversations among and between the hemispheres, this collection examines local political rhetorics across the Americas. The contributors—scholars of communication from both North and South America—recognize democratic ideals as irreducible to a single national perspective and reflect on the ways social minorities in the Western Hemisphere engage in unique political discourses. The essays consider current rhetorics in the United States on American exceptionalism, immigration, citizenship, and land rights alongside current cultural and political events in Latin America, such as corruption in Guatemala, women’s activism in Ciudad Juárez, representation in Venezuela, and media bias in Brazil. Through a survey of these rhetorics, this volume provides a broad analysis of democracy. It highlights institutional and cultural differences in the Americas and presents a hemispheric democracy that is both more pluralistic and more agonistic than what is believed about the system in the United States.In addition to the editors, the contributors include José Cortez, Linsay M. Cramer, Pamela Flores, Alberto González, Amy N. Heuman, Christa J. Olson, Carlos Piovezani, Clara Eugenia Rojas Blanco, Abraham Romney, René Agustín de los Santos, and Alejandra Vitale.
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Pennsylvania State University Press Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas
Democracy is venerated in US political culture, in part because it is our democracy. As a result, we assume that the government and institutions of the United States represent the true and right form of democracy, needed by all. This volume challenges this commonplace belief by putting US politics in the context of the Americas more broadly. Seeking to cultivate conversations among and between the hemispheres, this collection examines local political rhetorics across the Americas. The contributors—scholars of communication from both North and South America—recognize democratic ideals as irreducible to a single national perspective and reflect on the ways social minorities in the Western Hemisphere engage in unique political discourses. The essays consider current rhetorics in the United States on American exceptionalism, immigration, citizenship, and land rights alongside current cultural and political events in Latin America, such as corruption in Guatemala, women’s activism in Ciudad Juárez, representation in Venezuela, and media bias in Brazil. Through a survey of these rhetorics, this volume provides a broad analysis of democracy. It highlights institutional and cultural differences in the Americas and presents a hemispheric democracy that is both more pluralistic and more agonistic than what is believed about the system in the United States.In addition to the editors, the contributors include José Cortez, Linsay M. Cramer, Pamela Flores, Alberto González, Amy N. Heuman, Christa J. Olson, Carlos Piovezani, Clara Eugenia Rojas Blanco, Abraham Romney, René Agustín de los Santos, and Alejandra Vitale.
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Castalia Ediciones La cueva de Montesinos Entrelazamiento
GRAN ENCICLOPEDIA CERVANTINACoordinadores: ALFREDO ALVAR EZQUERRA, FLORENCIO SEVILLA ARROYO.Responsables de área: MANUEL ALVAR EZQUERRA, JOSÉ DOMÍNGUEZ CAPARRÓS, BEGOÑA LOLO HERRANZ, JOSÉ MANUEL LUCÍA MEGÍAS, PATRICIA MARTÍNEZ GARCÍA, PEDRO JAVIER PARDO, JOSÉ MANUEL PEDROSA BARTOLOMÉComité científico: MANUEL ALVAR [+] ANTONIO DOMÍNGUEZ ORTIZ [+] ALBERTO BLECUA PERDICES, JEAN CANAVAGGIO, ANTHONY CLOSE, JAIME CONTRERAS, PABLO JAURALDE POU, ISAÍAS LERNER, FRANCISCO MÁRQUEZ VILLANUEVA, AUGUSTIN REDONDO, MARTÍN DE RIQUER, ELÍAS RIVERS, ALDO RUFFINATTO.Colaboradores: Rosario Aguilar Perdomo. Tomás Albaladejo. Luis Alburquerque G. Beatriz Alonso Acero. Manuel Alvar. Manuel Alvar Ezquerra. Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra. Carlos Alvar Ezquerra. Antonio Álvarez Osorio. Trinidad Antonio Sáenz. Juan Aranda Doncel. Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce. Nieves Baranda. Feliciano Barrios Pintado. Rafael Benito Sánchez Blanco. Bartolomé Bennassar. Javier Blasco. Alberto Blecua Perdices. José Manuel Blecu
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Cornell University Press The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe
In The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope, Samuel Y. Edgerton brings fresh insight to a subject of perennial interest to the history of art and science in the West: the birth of linear perspective. Edgerton retells the fascinating story of how perspective emerged in early fifteenth-century Florence, growing out of an artistic and religious context in which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives. And yet, ironically, its discovery would have a profound effect not only on the history of art but on the history of science and technology, ultimately undermining the very medieval Christian cosmic view that gave rise to it in the first place. Among Edgerton's cast of characters is Filippo Brunelleschi, who first demonstrated how a familiar object could be painted in a picture exactly as it appeared in a mirror reflection. Brunelleschi communicated the principles of this new perspective to his artist friends Donatello, Masaccio, Masolino, and Fra Angelico. But it was the humanist scholar Leon Battista Alberti who codified Brunelleschi's perspective rules into a simple formula that even mathematically disadvantaged artists could understand.By looking through a window the geometric beauties of this world were revealed without the theological implications of a mirror reflection. Alberti's treatise, "On Painting," spread the new concept throughout Italy and transalpine Europe, even influencing later scientists including Galileo Galilei. In fact, it was Galileo's telescope, called at the time a "perspective tube," that revealed the earth to be not a mirror reflection of the heavens, as Brunelleschi had advocated, but just the other way around. Building on the knowledge he has accumulated over his distinguished career, Edgerton has written the definitive, up-to-date work on linear perspective, showing how this simple artistic tool did indeed change our present vision of the universe.
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University of British Columbia Press Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada
Canadian energy systems need to evolve. Beyond providing essential energy services, they must respond to climate change, enhance social justice, and remain sensitive to local cultures and traditions. Can they do this and still make financial sense? Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada gathers experts from across the country to share perspectives on leading theories and practices. Contributors first deal with the conceptual aspects of energy transitions, investigating such topics as energy justice and poverty, the decolonization of energy, community energy planning, the role of energy systems modelling, and links between energy and climate change policy. Building on this foundation, they offer case studies that cover the North, the Atlantic region, Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, along with crucial but difficult to decarbonize sectors like transportation and space heating.Running throughout this comprehensive discussion is a common thread: the importance of paying attention to wider sustainability goals and distributional justice in the process of decarbonizing the Canadian economy.
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Yale University Press Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking
Focusing on the vital role of literature in the development of the artistic practice of Frank Stella (b. 1936), this insightful book looks at four transformative series of prints made between 1984 and 1999. Each of these series is named after a literary work—the Had Gadya (a playful song traditionally sung at the end of the Passover Seder), Italian Folktales, compiled by Italo Calvino, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, and The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi. This investigation offers a critical new perspective on Stella: an examination of his interdisciplinary process, literary approach, and interest in the lessons of art history as crucial factors for his artistic development as a printmaker. Mitra Abbaspour, Calvin Brown, and Erica Cooke examine how Stella’s dynamic engagement with literature paralleled the artist’s experimentation with unconventional printmaking techniques and engendered new ways of representing spatial depth to unleash the narrative potential of abstract forms.Distributed for the Princeton University Art MuseumExhibition Schedule:Princeton University Art Museum (05/19/18–09/23/18)Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville (10/06/18–01/13/19)
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Prestel The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945
Following World War II, Western painting went in completely new directions. A young generation of artists turned their backs on the dominant styles of the interwar period: Instead of figurative representation or geometric abstraction, painters in the orbit of Abstract Expressionism in the US and Art Informel in Western Europe pursued a radically impulsive approach to form, color, and material. As an expression of individual freedom, the spontaneous artistic gesture gained symbolic significance. Large-scale color-field compositions created a meditative space for ruminating the fundamental questions of human existence. The exhibition and catalogue examine the two sister movements against the background of a vibrant transatlantic exchange, from the 1940s through to the end of the Cold War. This lavishly illustrated volume brings together works by more than 50 artists, amongst them Alberto Burri, Jean Dubuffet, Helen Frankenthaler, K. O. Götz, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Georges Mathieu, Joan Mitchell, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Judit Reigl, Mark Rothko, Hedda Sterne, Clyfford Still, and Jack Tworkov.
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Emerald Publishing Limited How Institutions Matter!
This double volume presents a collection of 23 papers on how institutions matter to socio-economic life. The effort was seeded by the 2015 Alberta Institutions Conference, which brought together 108 participants from 14 countries and 51 different institutions. The resulting papers delve deeply into the practical impact an institutional approach enables, as well as how such research has the potential to influence policies relevant to critical institutional changes unfolding in the world today. In Volume 48A, the focus is on the micro foundations of institutional impacts. In Volume 48B, the focus is on the macro consequences of institutional arrangements. Looking across the two volumes, there are multiple theoretical, conceptual, methodological and practical points of convergence and divergence. Overall, the volumes highlight the many ways in which institutional processes and institutional researchers can contribute to our understanding of the micro foundations and macro consequences of institutions and their impacts on a wide variety of globally pressing issues, while also identifying a variety of fruitful directions for knowledge accumulation and development.
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The ANC women's league: Sex, politics and gender: A Jacana pocket history
The women's league has played a large but little understood role in the history of the ANC. Over the years it has been headed by some powerful women including Albertina Sisulu and Winnie Mandela and has often gained public and media attention. But what role has it actually played in black political life and what influence has it had on national and gender politics in the country? This book provides a revealing insight into the connections between gender, sex and politics in the history of South Africa.
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Skyhorse Publishing Boston Marathon: Year-by-Year Stories of the World's Premier Running Event
From running legend Tom Derderian comes a comprehensive look at one of the most storied and celebrated athletic events in the nation, the Boston Marathon.For more than 110 years, the race has been regarded as one of the world’s great racing traditions. From the narrow starting line on Main Street, through the Screams Tunnel, past the coeds of Wellesley, and up the infamous Heartbreak Hill, Derderian chronicles the unforgettable passions, triumphs, and pitfalls of every race in the marathon’s storied history. The book also includes interviews and race recaps from marathoning greats such as Bill Rodgers, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Meb Keflezighi, Uta Pippig, Alberto Salazar, Frank Shorter, Kara Goucher, Ryan Hall, Desiree Davila, Geoffrey Mutai, Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, and dozens more.Complete with more than one hundred photographs and results from every year, Boston Marathon belongs on the shelf of every runner.
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