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Corre el año 1176. En la campiña cercana a Legnano, los trescientos hombres de la Compañía del Carromato se oponen al avance del ejército del Sacro Romano Imperio, encabezado por el temible Federico I Barbarroja. Encabeza esta Compañía Rossano de Brescia, aguerrido soldado de fortuna que tiene una cuenta pendiente con Barbarroja, y que ve ahora la oportunidad de saldarla.En esos tiempos tan heroicos como terribles, de enfrentamientos entre güelfos y gibelinos, entre el poder político y el espiritual que amenazan con sumir Italia en un nuevo período de barbarie, se mueven las vicisitudes de Rossano de Brescia, en busca de la propia venganza personal, pero también de Angelica Concesa, audaz condesita dispuesta a todo, incluso a armarse ella misma bajo las enseñas del Carromato con tal de permanecer junto a Rossano.Una subyugante novela de guerra, de batallas y de muerte, pero también una perspicaz reinterpretación en clave épica de las gestas de Alberto de Giussano y de sus jinet

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Although the idea of a collective audience for art – an ‘art public’ – is highly significant in the art world, this is the first book to enquire into the actual history of the art public. The book explores both written and pictorial evidence of its behaviour, and disentangles the connections between art production, the expectations of the audience and a work’s reception. Two aspects shape the narrative: first, the transformation of the audience from passive recipient to active agent; and second, the mockery of the audience by satirists such as George Cruikshank, Thomas Rowlandson, Honoré Daumier and many others. This sweeping account moves from the Greek artist Apelles to Leon Battista Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci, and from Oscar Wilde to film stars, art tourists and leading art museums and galleries worldwide.

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This collection of over 250 contemporary retro-style cheesecake, glamour, and hot rod pinup photographs by Northern California artist Marilee Caruso takes women from all backgrounds and transforms them into the classy yet stimulating bombshells of our parents’ and grandparents’ day. Inspired by icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Bettie Page, or Sophia Loren, each portrait provides a nostalgic glance into the mood, style, and sex appeal of the 1930s, ‘40s, ‘50s, and ‘60s era pin-up girl. From black and white Hollywood starlets to greasy hot rod honeys, this bevy of gorgeous gals has been revamped with vintage hair and makeup, wardrobe, and posing. Shot with high-quality digital technology of the 21st century, each image is reminiscent of the drawings of Gil Elvgrin and Alberto Vargas.

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''Incredible insight with a transgressive, witty, spirit.'' COURTNEY LOVE''The most sensational read of 2022!'' GEMMA COLLINS''A breath of fresh air... I want so many people to read this!'' TRAVIS ALABANZA''Visionary'' VIV ALBERTINEA STYLIST MUST-READ FOR 2022Wellness is oppressive, self love is a trap, hustling is a health risk and it''s all the patriarchy''s fault.Ione Gamble never imagined that entering adulthood would mean being diagnosed with an incurable illness. Watching identity politics become social media fodder from the confines of her sickbed Ione began to pick apart our obsession with self-care, personal branding, productivity and #LivingYourBestLife.Using her experience with disability to cast a fresh gaze on the particularly peculiar cultural moment in which young women find themselves, Poor Little Sick Girls explores the pressures faced - as well as the power of exi

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In this, her third and least-known book, first published in 1980, Jane Jacobs examines not only the particular question of Quebec and Canada, but also the larger issue of sovereignty and autonomy in general. Using Norway as a model, Jacobs details that country's campaign of peaceful persistence that led to breaking ties with Sweden—and suggests that Canada and Canadians should be inspired by the example. An essential component of Jacobs's urban activism, this new edition of the book incorporates and expands the 1979 Massey Lectures, Canadian Cities and Sovereignty-Association, commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Also included is a previously unpublished exclusive interview with Jane Jacobs in her Toronto home in 2005, 25 years after the book appeared and 10 years after the 1995 Quebec referendum. In these musings, she reasserts and updates her thoughts on Separatism—and addresses new issues such as tar sand development in Alberta, the finance of gambling, and the future of the Euro and of Europe.

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This collection assembles the best interviews from Steve Cushing's long-running radio program Blues Before Sunrise, the nationally syndicated, award-winning program focusing on vintage blues and R&B. As both an observer and performer, Cushing has been involved with the blues scene in Chicago for decades. His candid, colorful interviews with prominent blues players, producers, and deejays reveal the behind-the-scenes world of the formative years of recorded blues. Many of these oral histories detail the careers of lesser-known but greatly influential blues performers and promoters.The book focuses in particular on pre–World War II blues singers, performers active in 1950s Chicago, and nonperformers who contributed to the early blues world. Interviewees include Alberta Hunter, one of the earliest African American singers to transition from Chicago's Bronzeville nightlife to the international spotlight, and Ralph Bass, one of the greatest R&B producers of his era. Blues expert, writer, record producer, and cofounder of Living Blues Magazine Jim O'Neal provides the book's foreword.

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The present debate on the so-called "Deuteronomistic History" has become quite confusing and in recent years more and more scholars are inclined to deny the existence of a Deuteronomistic History as elaborated by Martin Noth or at least to modify this thesis radically. The contributions in this volume reflect the present state of discussion about the Deuteronomistic History. With one exception they have all been presented and discussed in three special sessions dedicated to "Deuteronomism" during the SBL International Meeting in Lausanne (July 1997). Three topics were treated: "The Future of the Deuteronomistic History", "Identity and Literary Strategies of the Deuteronomists", "Deuteronomism and the Hebrew Bible". The contributors are: R. Albertz, A.G. Auld, M. Bauks, W. Dietrich, D. Edelman, F. Garcia Lopez, E.A. Knauf, G. Knoppers, S.K. McKenzie, C. Nihan, T.C. Romer, N.H. Rosel, J. Van Seters and J. Vermeylen. Each contribution offers a valuable entry into one of the most important discussions of Old Testament scholarship at the end of the twentieth century.

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WINNER2019 Albertine Prize2019 Lambda Literary AwardPrix du StylePrix de la Porte Dorée 2016 Lire Best Debut Novel Le Prix du Roman NewsNow in B-format PaperbackKimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five, with a new life and the prospect of a child, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which reach her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her, including her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, with his harem of fifty-two wives, and her parents, Darius and Sara, stalwart opponents of each regime that befalls them.In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. Yet it is

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This monograph, edited by noted Italian art critic Bruno Corà and published on the occasion of Art Basel 2018, presents the genesis, critical analysis, and exhibition history of the Combustioni Plastiche [Plastic Combustions] cycle by Alberto Burri. These works span a quarter of a century, from 1953 to 1979, and were created using industrial sheets of different kinds of plastic, with different melting points. They are visceral and technically innovative hybrids, part painting and part sculpture, ranging in size from a few centimetres to larger works installed in places of worship and stage designs for theatre performances. They illuminate Burri's longstanding exploration of the beauty that can be found in mass produced materials, and function as a lens through which we can reassess Burri's entire creative career. Historical photographs by Claudio Amendola and Ugo Mulas, newspaper articles, and in-depth essays offer a complete analysis of this extraordinary cycle of works.

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An ode to nature, poetry and design. In a vertigo between an art book and a book of discovery, this work is a voyage into the poetic land of Nahuatl, an exploration of the literature of the Song of Flowers.It is complemented by an essay by Alberto Manguel on song and flowers in world literature. Accessible and demanding, the book is made-to-measure with natural, low-resource-consumption fibers derived from wine-growing.In Nahuatl, a language spoken in central Mexico since the 7th century, poetry is designated by a pair of metaphors, Ni Xochitl Ni Kuikatl, flower, song. This term describes the poetry as an ephemeral moment of beauty and truth, symbolized by the flower and the song. It is an elevation, an outpouring that is expressed. The flower reaches for the sky and the song soars into the air.At the heart of this still too little-known literary continent, poetry is not that activity of writing. It unfolds above all through song, and is intimately linked to the surrounding vegetation

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Have you ever dreamt of having your own private museum tour with one of the world’s most-celebrated artists? Take a walk through art history in the company of one of the pre-eminent American painters of our time, Alex Katz. Describing his personal encounters with the work of over 90 key artists, Katz’s observations offer a fluent, vivid and incisive view, making Looking at Art with Alex Katz the perfect guide both for those looking for an introduction to the world of visual art, and anyone looking for a fresh view on their favorite artist. Includes entries on: Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Paul Cézanne, Leonardo da Vinci, Peter Doig, Alberto Giacometti, Philip Guston, David Hockney, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Edvard Munch, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Rembrandt, Henri Rousseau, Titian, Luc Tuymans, Vincent van Gogh, Johannes Vermeer and more.

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After the drop in the price of oil, the issue of a carbon tax to complement the EU emission trading scheme is coming back to the fore of political debate. In this volume on carbon pricing, the reader can find an excellent mix of economic theory and policy analysis. To anyone interested in this field, this collection of papers represents a very important contribution to an in-depth understanding of the main tools that can be used to successfully fight climate change.'- Alberto Majocchi, University of Pavia, ItalyCarbon Pricing reflects upon and further develops the ongoing and worthwhile global debate into how to design carbon pricing, as well as how to utilize the financial proceeds in the best possible way for society.The world has recently witnessed a significant downward adjustment in fossil fuel prices, which has negative implications for the future of our environment. In light of these negative developments, it is important to understand the benefits of environmental sustainability through well-documented research. This discerning book considers the design of carbon taxes and examines the consequential outcomes of different taxation compositions as regulatory instruments. Expert contributors assess a variety of national experiences to provide an empirical insight into the use of carbon taxes, emissions trading, energy taxes and excise taxes. The overarching discussion concludes that successful policies used by some countries can be implemented in other jurisdictions with minimum new research and experimentation.This astute work will benefit scholars, practitioners and policymakers alike with an interest in the fields of environmental law, environmental economics, sustainable development and taxation law.Contributors: B. Bahn-Walkowiak, J. Bruha, H. Bruhova-Foltýnovà, B. Butcher, M. Calaf Forn, N. Chalifour, S. Cheng, E. Croci, S. Elgie, E. Guglyuvatyy, M. Jofra Sora, C. Kettner, K. Kratena, E. Meyer, I. Meyer, S. Onoda, J. Papy, T.F. Pedersen, V. Pisa, I. Puig Ventosa, A. Ravazzi Douvan, M. Sargl, K. Schlegelmilch, M.W. Sommer, N.P. Stoianoff, P. ten Brink, W.E. Weishaar, H. Wilts, S. Withana, Sirini, G. Wittmann, A. Wolfsteiner

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The 106th volume in this series for organic chemists in academia and industry presents critical discussions of the following widely used organic reactions: ALKENE CROSS-METATHESIS REACTIONSKarol Grela, Anna Kajetanowicz, Anna Szadkowska, and Justyna Czaban-Józwiak THE CATALYTIC ENANTIOSELECTIVE STETTER REACTIONDarrin M. Flanigan, Kerem E. Ozboya, Subhash D. Tanpure, Alberto Muñoz, Paul R. Blakemore, and Tomislav Rovis

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Italian architecture has long exerted a special influence on the evolution of architectural ideas elsewhere - from the Beaux-Arts academy’s veneration of Rome, to modernist and postmodern interest in Renaissance proportion, Baroque space, and Mannerist ambiguity. This book critically examines this enduring phenomenon, exploring the privileged position of Italian architects, architecture, and cities in the architectural culture of the past century. Questioning the deep-rooted myth of Italy within architectural history, the book presents case studies of Italy’s powerful yet problematic position in 20th-century architectural ideologies, at a time when established Eurocentric narratives are rightly being challenged. It reconciles the privileged position of Italian architecture and design with the imperative to write history across a more global, diverse, heterogenous cultural geography. Twenty chapters from distinguished international scholars cover subjects and architects ranging from Alberti to Gio Ponti, Aldo Rossi, Manfredo Tafuri, Vittorio Gregotti; cities from Rome and Venice to Milan; and an array of international architects, movements, and architectural ideas influenced by Italy. The chapters each question where, how, and why the disciplinary edifice of 20th-century architecture—its canon of built, visual, textual, and conceptual works—relied on Italian foundations, examining where and how those foundations have become insecure. Indispensable for students and scholars of both Italian and global architectural history, Italian Imprints on Twentieth-Century Architecture provides an opportunity to consider the architectural and urban landscape of Italy from substantially new points of view.

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The Story Behind an Unsung Event in the Civil Rights Movement“Over eight days, eight students sparked change that defined their lives, changed an institution and fueled a movement that continues today.” ─Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and former publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald#1 New Release in 1960s History of the U.S. and 2020 Finalist Sarton Women's Literary Award for Nonfiction with Special RecognitionFighting injustice and racism. This narrative tells the story of seven women and one man at the heart of a black power sit-in protesting decreased enrollment and hiring of African Americans at Swarthmore College, and demanding an African American Studies curriculum. The book, written by the former students themselves, includes autobiographical chapters providing a view into the lives of young people during the Civil Rights era.Correcting media representation. For years the media and some in the school community portrayed the peaceful protest in a negative light―this collective narrative provides a very necessary and overdue retelling of the revolution that took place at Swarthmore College in 1969. The group of eight student protestors only recently have begun to receive credit for the school’s greater inclusiveness, as well as the influence their actions had on universities around the country.The incredible true civil rights movement story in Seven Sisters and a Brother teaches us key lessons: Old established institutions can change and will continue to change The struggle to give Black history, Black experiences, and Black lives a well earned place in our culture is winnable Truth can prevail when we unite with others and refuse to accept surrender If you’ve read Warriors Don’t Cry, Between the World and Me, Pulse of Perseverance, Barack Obama’s A Promised Land, or Cicely Tyson’s Just as I Am; then you’ll love Seven Sisters and a Brother.

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Cuaderno sonoro presenta una mirada lírica y fresca en prosa y verso de un poeta-músico que emprende en este pentagrama literario, dividido en cinco partes con un total de 41 textos, su primera incursión en el mundo de las letras.El escritor Jacobo Cortines, autor del prólogo de este poemario, afirma que Lorca y Alberti son los dos poetas más presentes en este libro, dos maestros andaluces que atraen al joven palaciego quien, tras deambular por ciudades y países extraños, dada su condición de intérprete internacional, siente la nostalgia de un Sur extraordinariamente cantado por esos maestros de la palabra.Un Cuaderno, sin duda, que interesará al lector que esté dispuesto a escuchar la mucha y buena música que sus páginas encierran.

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Boas of the West Indies is a comprehensive survey of boid snakes, commonly known as boas, found on the islands of the Lucayan Archipelago, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles. Bringing together the expertise of leading herpetologists R. Graham Reynolds, Robert W. Henderson, Luis M. Díaz, Tomás Michel Rodríguez, and Alberto R. Puente-Rolón, this volume synthesizes established knowledge and new findings on the evolutionary biology, natural history, and conservation statuses of these iconic snakes. One of the most ecologically diverse snake families, boas have inhabited the West Indies for millions of years. From the Cuban boa, which in many folk legends may grow to over twice a person's height, to the Hispaniolan vineboa, discovered only in 2020 and known to measure less than a meter long, Boas of the West Indies examines the eighteen species extant on these islands along with several others now extinct. Species accounts include details such as phenotypic traits, distribution, and behavior. Introductory chapters discuss the history of human-boa interaction, differences between West Indian and neotropical mainland boids, current conservation efforts, and more. Illustrated with over a hundred color photographs and range maps, Boas of the West Indies is a benchmark reference for herpetologists, conservationists, and snake hobbyists that expands our knowledge of—and celebrates—these fascinating creatures so integral to the ecology of these islands.

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The interdisciplinary essays in Decolonial Voices discuss racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities and the aesthetic politics of hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions. This collection represents several key directions in the field: First, it charts how subaltern cultural productions of the US/ Mexico borderlands speak to the intersections of "local," "hemispheric," and "globalized" power relations of the border imaginary. Second, it recovers the Mexican women's and Chicana literary and cultural heritages that have been ignored by Euro-American canons and patriarchal exclusionary practices. It also expands the field in postnationalist directions by creating an interethnic, comparative, and transnational dialogue between Chicana and Chicano, African American, Mexican feminist, and U.S. Native American cultural vocabularies. Contributors include Norma Alarcón, Arturo J. Aldama, Frederick Luis Aldama, Cordelia Chávez Candelaria, Alejandra Elenes, Ramón Garcia, María Herrera-Sobek, Patricia Penn Hilden, Gaye T. M. Johnson, Alberto Ledesma, Pancho McFarland, Amelia María de la Luz Montes, Laura Elisa Pérez, Naomi Quiñonez, Sarah Ramirez, Rolando J. Romero, Delberto Dario Ruiz, Vicki Ruiz, José David Saldívar, Anna Sandoval, and Jonathan Xavier Inda.

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El presente texto está dirigido por el Dr. Alberto Nájera, profesor del Departamento de Ciencias Médicas de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha. Los cuatro autores principales del libro desarrollan su actividad académica e investigadora en las áreas de Radiología y Medicina Física, Física Aplicada y Fisiología. El resto de los autores son médicos de diferentes especialidades, con el fin de garantizar que el texto cubre de forma efectiva las necesidades de los futuros profesionales.Texto orientado tanto a estudiantes de Medicina como de Biomedicina y otras titulaciones afines como Odontología, Fisioterapia y Enfermería.Presenta los conceptos básicos de Física que el estudiante necesita adquirir para comprender el funcionamiento del cuerpo humano, o la indicación y el riesgo de las técnicas diagnósticas y terapéuticas.Aborda los principios básicos de la Física que subyacen en:o los procesos fisiológicos humanos (respiración, intercambio

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Mowafa’s family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. His childhood was spent in Edmonton, Alberta, where he grew up as a visible minority and a muslim whose family had a deeply fractured history. In the year 2000, Mowafa visited his family’s homeland of Palestine. It was the beginning of the Second Intifada and Mowafa witnessed first-hand the effects of prolonged conflict and occupation. It was those observations and that experience that inspired him not only to tell his story but to realize many of the intergenerational and colonial traumas that he shares with the Indigenous people of Turtle Island. His moving memoir compares and contrasts the lives of immigrants with the lives of those who live on occupied land and the struggles that define them both.

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In the stark expanse of Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel, informed by a series of poignant encounters: a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted man from his hometown whose vulnerability and loneliness punctuate the realities of queer life on the fringe. Woven throughout these conversations are memories of Jack, a cousin caught in the cycle of police violence, drugs, and survival. Jack’s life parallels the narrator’s own; the possibilities of escape and imprisonment are left to chance with colonialism stacking the odds. A Minor Chorus introduces a dazzling new literary voice whose vision and fearlessness shine much-needed light on the realities of Indigenous survival.

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An architect without being one, an anomalous designer, a gifted draftsman and collector of objects, Luca Meda (1936-1998) wrote one of the most important chapters in the history of 20th-century Italian design. The world of domestic interiors was his privileged field of action, and the very close, one-of-a-kind relationship with Molteni&C has provided, since the seventies, an example of perfect symbiosis between creativity and business, art and industry. Among the pieces of furniture that have become iconic are the Piroscafo bookcase designed together with Aldo Rossi, the Zim and Ho chairs, the Vivette armchair, the Primafila sofa and the modular systems 505 and Pass. This publication offers an exhaustive portrait of Luca Meda, at long last highlighting the importance and extent of his production - which includes furniture, installations, architectural projects and design objects of all sorts - in the context of a still pioneering season of Italian design, but to whom we nevertheless owe the subsequent success on the world stage. The historical-critical essays dedicated to his work are accompanied by a series of interviews with collaborators and friends who shared knowledge and practice in the realisation of his projects, as well as the re-edition of an interview with Meda himself, published on “Gap casa” in 1983. Bio-bibliographical appendix and a list of works complete the fascinating journey of the volume. Critical essays: Serena Maffioletti, Alberto Ferlenga, Sofia Meda, Nicola Braghieri, Beatrice Lampariello, Rosa Chiesa, Giampiero Bosoni e Chiara Lecce, Dario Scodeller, Mario Piazza. Interviews: Luca Meda, Romano Barchi, Mario Carrieri, Nicola Gallizia, Eliana Gerotto, Peter Hefti, Felix Humm, Laura Maifreni, Bruno Longoni, Carlo Molteni, Diego Peverelli, Richard Sapper, Filippo Zagni. Text in English and Italian.

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Construido a partir de sus recuerdos como periodista, el nuevo libro de Fernando Delgado tiene mucho de memoria personal, aunque se centra sobre todo en los otros y en particular en los exiliados de fuera o de dentro ?los habitantes del llamado exilio interior y su círculo de amigos? que fueron reintegrados a la vida colectiva a lo largo de la década de los setenta, entre el tardofranquismo y los inicios de la democracia. Con la mirada, dice el autor, de un ?cronista de cercanía? que tuvo el privilegio de tratarlos o de conversar con ellos en aquellos años inaugurales, Delgado traza sus retratos yrecuenta sus palabras, en un relato articulado en torno a la figura de Vicente Aleixandre que desde su ya mítica residencia de Velintonia tejió una vasta red de afinidades. Emociones, impresiones, gratitudes o desafectos pasan por estaspáginas donde comparecen nombres fundamentales de la España peregrina como Francisco Ayala, Max Aub, Rosa Chacel, Rafael Alberti, Manuel Andújar, Juan Marichal,

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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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Este é o primeiro libro da tradición editorial galega que afronta a descuberta do xénero internacionalmente coñecido como Comic Poetry: o diálogo da poesía e a banda deseñada que en galego poderiamos traducir por Cómic Poético.40 poemas interpretados en viñetas por 40 dos nomes máis salientables da escena galega. 40 textos seleccionados de entre os 25 anos de aventura literaria de Yolanda Castaño.Ilustradores: Norberto Fernández, Alberto Taracido, Cristian F. Caruncho, Jano, Fran Jaraba, Xulia Pisón, Paula Esteban, Fran Bueno, Xulia Vicente, David Rubín, Miguel Robledo, Manel Cráneo, María Ferreiro, Alicia Jaraba Abellán, Víctor Rivas, Kike J. Díaz, Xosé Tomás, Anxo Cuba, Los Bravú (Dea Gómez & Diego Omil), Yupiyeyo / María Álvarez Hortas, David Pintor, Kiko da Silva, Miguelanxo Prado, Roberta Vázquez, Xan López Domínguez, Siro, Xaquín Marín, Rubén Mariño, Pepe Carreiro, Santy Gutiérrez, Martín Romero, Ramón Trigo, Brais Rodríguez, Miguel Cuba, Cynthia Alonso, Abraldes, Miguel

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En Madrid, en los años noventa, coincidieron una serie de nombres que conformaron una generación de jóvenes artistas flamencos. Herederos de dinastías gitanas, los Carmona, los Heredia o los Carbonell se relacionaron con artistas plásticos como Ceesepe, Ouka Leele, Alberto García-Alix, Barceló o Mariscal. Fue una explosión creativa que revitalizó el final de la llamada movida madrileña ?en su aspecto plástico? con la corriente musical de un flamenco mestizo, abierto a otras músicas, aunque sin perder el patrón de origen.A partir de un cuadro de Barceló que se utilizó como portada para el último disco de Camarón, Montero Glez va revolviendo el pasado hasta llegar a los orígenes de una música donde el ritmo flamenco se fusiona con otras melodías, una fusión que se daría a conocer a finales de los años sesenta cuando el guitarrista flamenco Sabicas, exiliado en Nueva York, graba con el guitarrista eléctrico Joe Beck el disco Rock Encounter. Este trabajo marcará el inicio de una música

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Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was one of the leading fashion designers of the 1920s and 1930s with a flair for the unusual. The first to use shoulder pads, animal print and the inventor of shocking pink, Schiaparelli collaborated with artists including Jean Cocteau, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali, to create extraordinary garments such as the Dali Lobster Dress. Schiaparelli had an affluent clientele, from Katherine Hepburn to Marlene Dietrich, who embraced her outrageous but elegant designs. She designed aviator Amy Johnson's wardrobe for her solo flight to Cape Town in 1936, the culottes for tennis champion Lily d'Alvarez that outraged the lawn tennis establishment, and her clothes appeared in more than 30 films including Every Day's a Holiday with Mae West and Moulin Rouge. Schiaparelli's fascinating autobiography charts her rise from resident of a rat-infested apartment to designer to the stars.

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The Norwegian painter, novelist, and social critic Christian Krohg (1852–1925) is best known for creating highly political paintings of workers, prostitutes, and Skagen fishermen of the 1880s and for serving as a mentor to Edvard Munch. One of the Nordic countries’ most avant-garde naturalist artists, Krohg was influenced by French thinkers such as Émile Zola, Claude Bernard, and Hippolyte Taine, and he shocked the provincial sensibilities of his time. His work reached beyond the art world when his book Albertine and its related paintings were banned upon publication. Telling the story of a young seamstress who turns to a life of prostitution, it galvanized support for outlawing prostitution in Norway—but Krohg was also punished for the work’s sexual content. Examining the theories of Krohg and his fellow naturalists and their reception in Scandinavian intellectual circles, Øystein Sjåstad places Krohg in an international perspective and reveals his striking contribution to European naturalism. In the process, Christian Krohg’s Naturalism provides an unparalleled account of Krohg’s art.

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In Kapusta, Moure performs silence on the page and aloud, writing "gesture" and "voice" to explore the relation between responsibility and place, body, and memory, sorrow and sonority. Here, poetry flourishes as a book "beyond the book," in a space of performance that starts and stops time. In Little Theatres, Ern Moure's avatar Elisa Sampedrn first spoke about theatre and the need for smallness in order to articulate what is huge. Sampedrn, who reappears in the translation mystery O Resplandor as the translator of a language she does not speak, vanishes later in The Unmemntioable when the split in human identity that results from war and displacement is acknowledged. Now, in Kapusta, the character E. is alone, in the smallest of spaces - the bench behind her grandmother's woodstove in Alberta. Here, E. struggles to face the largest of historical and imagined spaces - the Holocaust in Western Ukraine, and to understand her mother's silence at the sadness of her forebears, her "salt-shaker love."

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A los treinta y tres años de la muerte de Manuel Altolaguirre he vuelto otra vez a La Habana, donde el viento marero asistió al renacer de su heroica imprenta de La Verónica, madrileña y universal, poética. Mi querido amigo Gonzalo Santonja, buscador incansable de aquellas islas misteriosas, está recogiendo su memoria, velada por la niebla del tiempo, a través de archivos, de la nostalgia de sus compañeros y del testimonio agradecido de los muchos jóvenes que entonces se formaron en la lectura de los alados libros de aquella mágica imprenta.Rafael AlbertiLa Habana, 1992.

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Casi recién estrenado el siglo XVI, en una Europa todavía recelosa y cerrada en sus fronteras, la llegada del rinoceronte Ganda a Lisboa provocó una enorme curiosidad. Tanto, que las distintas cortes europeas hicieron todo lo posible por conseguir noticias de aquel increíble animal al que, sin verlo y basándose solo en descripciones, dibujó Alberto Durero.El rinoceronte del rey, ilustrado con linóleos de Antonio Santos, muestra cómo en ocasiones las historias reales pueden llegar a ser tan apasionantes y llenas de sorpresas, o más, que las mejores aventuras de ficción.

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Alberto Knox és un misteriós i extraordinari professor de filosofia que explica a Sofia Amundsen, una nena de quinze anys, la vida i l'obra dels grans pensadors de la història. Des dels presocràtics fins a Sartre, passant per Plató, Aristòtil, Jesús, sant Agustí, Galileu, Descartes, Hume, la Illustració, Kant, el Romanticisme, Hegel, Marx, Darwin o Freud, tots participaran del viatge que emprendràSofia pel món de les idees. PeròEl món de Sofia no és només aquest viatge fascinant, és tambéuna novella excepcional i originalíssima, amb un desenllaçimprevisible, que s'ha convertit en un clàssic per a tots els públics.

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Insight Guide to Canada is a pictorial travel guide in a magazine style providing answers to the key questions before or during your trip: deciding when to go to Canada, choosing what to see, from exploring Nova Scotia to discovering Ontario or creating a travel plan to cover key places like Montreal and Quebec. This is an ideal travel guide for travellers seeking inspiration, in-depth cultural and historical information about Canada as well as a great selection of places to see during your trip. This guide book has been fully updated post-COVID-19.The Insight Guide Canada covers: Central Canada, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, New Brunswick, nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Vancouver, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Yukon, and NunavutIn this travel guide you will find: IN-DEPTH CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL FEATURES Created to explore the culture and the history of Canada to get a greater understanding of its modern-day life, people and politics BEST OFThe top attractions and Editor's Choice highlighting the most special places to visit around CanadaCURATED PLACES, HIGH-QUALITY MAPSGeographically organised text cross-referenced against full-colour, high-quality travel maps for quick orientation in Toronto, Vancouver, Alberta and many more locations in Canada.COLOUR-CODED CHAPTERS Every part of Canada, from New Brunswick to Manitoba has its own colour assigned for easy navigationTIPS AND FACTSUp-to-date historical timeline and in-depth cultural background to Canada as well as an introduction to Canada's food and drink and fun destination-specific features. PRACTICAL TRAVEL INFORMATION A-Z of useful advice on everything from when to go to Canada, how to get there and how to get around, as well as Canada's climate, advice on tipping, etiquette and more. STRIKING PICTURESFeatures inspirational colour photography, including the stunning Jasper National Park and the spectacular Vancouver Island.FREE EBOOK Free eBook download with every purchase of a printed book to access all the content from your phone or tablet, for on-the-road exploration.

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La obra recoge el primer volumen de ponencias y comunicaciones presentadas al XII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Americanistas, celebrado, en torno al tema Huelva y América, entre el 17 y el 20 de septiembre de 2007. Los trabajos de Alberto de la Hera, Julián Ruiz Rivera, Cristina García Bernal, José Luis Casado Soto, Enriqueta Vila, Fernando Navarro Antolín o Eloy Navarro constituyen una novedosa aportación al panorama del americanismo. Las actas se publican, además, como homenaje al profesor don Luis Navarro García en su paso a profesor emérito.

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Philosophers of the Renaissance introduces readers to philosophical thinking from the end of the Middle Ages through the sixteenth century. International specialists portray the thought of twenty-one individual philosophers, illustrating their life and work and highlighting the importance of their thinking. Best known among the personalities discussed are Nicholas of Cusa, who combined mathematics with theology; Pico della Mirandola, the first to introduce Hebrew wisdom: Marsilio Ficino, who made the works of Plato accessible to his contemporaries; Pietro Pomponazzi, who challenged the Church with unorthodox teachings; and, Tommaso Campanella, who revolutionized philosophy and science while imprisoned. Philosophers of this period explored a great variety of human knowledge: Greek scholars who had emigrated from Byzantium spread ancient and patristic learning; humanists applied their skills to art, architecture, and the text of the Bible (Leon Battista Alberti and Lorenzo Valla); some debated about methods of scientific research - always with religion in their mind (Raymond Lull, Agrippa of Nettesheim, Philipp Melanchthon, Petrus Ramus, Bernardino Telesio, Jacopo Zabarella); others pondered the ethical implications (Michel de Montaigne, Luis Vives); or they confronted a radical overturn of the traditional worldview (Francesco Patrizi, Giordano Bruno, Francisco Suarez). The book weaves together the stories of these thinkers by emphasizing the unity of Renaissance philosophy. Originally published in German in 1998, the chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated. There is a chapter on Luis Vives that was written specifically for this English edition. This is a rich and accessible introduction to the philosophical thought that shaped modernity.

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This is the most comprehensive dictionary of maintenance and reliability terms ever compiled, covering the process, manufacturing, and other related industries, every major area of engineering used in industry, and more. The over 15,000 entries are all alphabetically arranged and include special features to encourage usage and understanding. They are supplemented by hundreds of figures and tables that clearly demonstrate the principles & concepts behind important process control, instrumentation, reliability, machinery, asset management, lubrication, corrosion, and much much more.With contributions by leading researchers in the field:Zaki Yamani Bin Zakaria Department, Chemical Engineering, Faculty Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia Prof. Jelenka B. Savkovic-Stevanovic, Chemical Engineering Dept, University of Belgrade, Serbia Jim Drago, PE, Garlock an EnPro Industries family of companies, USA Robert Perez, President of Pumpcalcs, USA Luiz Alberto Verri, Independent Consultatnt, Verri Veritatis Consultoria, Brasil Matt Tones, Garlock an EnPro Industries family of companies, USA Dr. Reza Javaherdashti, formerly with Qatar University, Doha-Qatar Prof. Semra Bilgic, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Physical Chemistry, Ankara University, Turkey Dr. Mazura Jusoh , Chemical Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Jayesh Ramesh Tekchandaney, Unique Mixers and Furnaces Pvt. Ltd. Dr. Henry Tan, Senior Lecturer in Safety & Reliability Engineering, and Subsea Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen Fiddoson Fiddo, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen Prof. Roy Johnsen, NTNU, Norway Prof. N. Sitaram , Thermal Turbomachines Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai India Ghazaleh Mohammadali, IranOilGas Network Members' Services Greg Livelli, ABB Instrumentation, Warminster, Pennsylvania, USA Gas Processors Suppliers Association (GPSA)

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How does spirituality enter the education of an architect? Should it? What do we mean by 'spirituality' in the first place? Isn't architectural education a training ground for professional practice and, therefore, technically and secularly oriented? Is there even room to add something as esoteric if not controversial as spirituality to an already packed university curriculum? The humanistic and artistic roots of architecture certainly invite us to consider dimensions well beyond the instrumental, including spirituality. But how would we teach such a thing? And why, if spirituality is indeed relevant to learning architecture, have we heard so little about it?Spirituality in Architectural Education addresses these and many other important philosophical, disciplinary, pedagogic, and practical questions. Grounded on the twelve-year-old Walton Critic Program at the Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning, this book offers solid arguments and insightful reflections on the role that "big questions" and spiritual sensibility ought to play in the architectural academy today. Using 11 design studios as stopping grounds, the volume takes the reader into a journey full of meaningful interrogations, pedagogic techniques, challenging realizations, and beautiful designs. Essays from renowned architects Craig W. Hartman, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alberto Campo Baeza, Claudio Silvestrin, Eliana Bórmida, Michael J. Crosbie, Prem Chandavarkar, Rick Joy, Susan Jones, and Daniel Libeskind open new vistas on the impact of spirituality in architectural education and practice. All this work is contextualized within the ongoing discussion of the role of spirituality and religion in higher education at large. The result is an unprecedented volume that starts a long-awaited conversation that will advance architectural schooling. ACSA Distinguished Professor Julio Bermudez, with recognized expertise on spirituality in architecture, will be the guide in this fascinating and contemplative journey.

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El Valencia es un club grande de España y Europa. Su brillante palmarés y rica historia, protagonizada por nombres de la talla de Antonio Puchades, Faas Wilkes, Pep Claramunt, Mario Alberto Kempes, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Rafa Benítez o David Villa, lo han convertido en una de las entidades de referencia del escenario futbolístico del último siglo. En plena celebración del centenario de la fundación del club y tras la brillante consecución de la octava Copa del Rey en la historia del club, Aproximación a la historia del Valencia CF se plantea como una breve guía que permite el conocimiento exhaustivo, de forma amena y didáctica, de las claves en la conformación y desarrollo de una de las entidades más importantes del deporte español. Un volumen que permitirá al lector descubrir cómo y por qué nació el Valencia, cuáles son los episodios más destacados de su historia y cómo logró sus triunfos y títulos. Un libro, en esencia, que ayuda a comprender qué supone ser valencianista, imprescindible

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Discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's Canada's Best Road Trips. This trusted travel companion features 32 amazing drives, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures. Marvel at the Niagara Falls, spot whales in Newfoundland and sample wine on the Okanagan Valley Wine trail. Get to Canada, rent a car, and hit the road! Inside Lonely Planet's Canada's Best Road Trips: Itineraries for classic road trips plus other lesser-known drives with expert advice to pick the routes that suit your interests and needs Full-color route maps - easy-to-read, detailed directionsDetours - delightful diversions to see the Canada's highlights along the way Link Your Trip - cruise from one driving route to the next Insider tips - get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roadsStretch Your Legs - the best things to do outside the car Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks missLavish color photography provides inspiration throughout Covers British Columbia and Yukon Territory, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Canada's Best Road Trips is perfect for exploring Canada via the road and discovering sights that are more accessible by car. Planning a Canadatrip sans a car? Lonely Planet's Canada, our most comprehensive guide to Canada, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveler's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' Fairfax Media (Australia)

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The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express 'great swarms of thought and feeling'. While each personae has its own poetic identity, together they convey a sense of ambivalence and consolidate a striving for completeness. Dramatic, lyrical, Christian, pagan, old and modern, Pessoa's poets and poetry contribute to the 'mysterious importance of existence'.

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En 1910, Pancho Villa lideró una rebelión contra los terratenientes ricos y luchó para redistribuir la tierra a los pobres mexicanos que la trabajaban para los propietarios, en lo que se llamó la primera revolución socialista. Originalmente publicado como una serie de artículos periodísticos para el Metropolitan Magazine, México insurgente es la crónica de la Revolución mexicana, escrita por John Reed mientras vivía con los rebeldes mexicanos, siendo amigo de Pancho Villa y luchando contra las fuerzas del Gobierno mexicano. El ilustrador Alberto Gamón nos acompaña con su genial trabajo gráfico al México de comienzos del siglo xx.

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Michael Snow (1928–2023) was one of Canada’s greatest living artists, and one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century Canadian art. Despite his longstanding international acclaim, the nascent stages of Snow’s career are comparatively underexamined. Early Snow focuses on the creative heights Snow had already reached by the age of thirty-three: wide-ranging achievements in painting, drawing, sculpture, foldage, cinema, and photography. Even as a young man, Snow’s catholic interests in art and literature contributed to an uncanny ability to create profoundly original works of art.In Early Snow, James King (Michael Snow: Lives and Works, 2019) delves into Snow’s formative years and provides close readings of dozens of the artist’s works, placing them in the context of influences that include modern European art (Paul Klee, Ben Nicholson, Alberto Giacometti) and contemporary American art (Willem de Kooning, Conrad Marca-Relli, Donald Judd, Marcel Duchamp). The artworks featured here can be seen as a blueprint for Snow’s later career, but ultimately, King argues, the work created during this era is about transformation.

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Showcasing a diverse range of contributions from psychoanalysts of many different countries and theoretical orientations, Psychoanalysis and Covidian Life, a collective work edited by Howard B. Levine and Ana de Staal, offers readers the opportunity to explore and reflect upon the ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic has begun to influence analytical practice. From the changes imposed on the framework (online sessions) to the impact of the trauma of isolation and the disruption of our social anchoring (required by confinement and health protection gestures), to the challenge presented to the ‘ordinary’ denial of mortality, this book explores the lessons of what the pandemic can teach us about how to understand and treat collective distress individually and puts psychoanalytical tools to the test of the profound psychosocial upheavals that the twenty-first century may hold in store. This book will be of interest to practising and trainee clinicians and anyone with an interest in the all-consuming effects of a global pandemic. Contributions from Christopher Bollas, Patricia Cardoso de Mello, Bernard Chervet, Joshua Durban, Antonino Ferro, Serge Frisch, Steven Jaron, Daniel Kupermann, Howard Levine, François Lévy, Riccardo Lombardi, Elias & Alberto Rocha Barros, Michael Rustin, Ana de Staal, and Jean-Jacques Tyszler.

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En la madrugada del 20 de marzo de 2003, varias explosiones en el corazón de Bagdad anuncian que la guerra contra Irak ha comenzado. No por esperado el inicio de la ofensiva militar para derribar a Saddam Husein deja de sacudir al mundo, a los iraquíes y a los dos centenares de periodistas extranjeros que, desde varias semanas antes, se encuentran allí. A partir de ese momento, y durante veintiún días, los informadores tratarán de contar al mundo cómo viven y qué sienten los iraquíes asediados por las bombas estadounidenses y la represión del régimen de Saddam.Días de guerra. Diario de Bagdad es un relato pormenorizado de la invasión: qué pasó, cómo se supo, cómo se contó, qué se quedó en el tintero; una crónica bélica que incluye las vivencias de tres reporteros con amplia experiencia en el Mundo Árabe y en conflictos armados.Ángeles Espinosa, del diario El País, Alberto Masegosa, de la agencia Efe, y Antonio Baquero, de El Periódico de Catalunya, no sólo trabajaron juntos duran

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El matrimonio de Blanca, policía antidisturbios, y Alberto, profesor de Historia en un instituto, no pasa por su mejor momento a pesar de que acaban de ser padres. Después de su baja maternal, Blanca vuelve al trabajo, pero nada es como antes: siente que ya no está en forma y no puede dejar de pensar en su pequeña. El primer día la envían a cubrir la seguridad de un partido de la Champions, pero el fallo en el tiro de una bala de goma en una de las cargas policiales provocará que esa noche acabe de manera trágica. Este fatídico accidente supondrá el descenso a los infiernos de Blanca, que entrará en una espiral de destrucción con consecuencias devastadoras.Con una sensibilidad extraordinaria para transmitirnos las emociones de unos personajes totalmente humanos, este thriller psicológico con tintes de domestic noir nos habla sobre el lado más oscuro del matrimonio, los conflictos de la maternidad, las consecuencias de seguir nuestros instintos y la obsesión por la búsq

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Qué ocurriría si los principales acontecimientos políticos y culturales de los primeros cuarenta años del agitado siglo XX español tuviesen lugar en un par de meses, si en pocas semanas sucedieran los asesinatos a tiros de los políticos Canalejas y Eduardo Dato, el atentado del anarquista Mateo Morral con una bomba lanzada en un ramo de flores al paso del cortejo nupcial del rey Alfonso XIII y la sublevación militar de 1936 que dio paso a la guerra civil?La respuesta está en la lectura de esta trepidante novela en la que los personajes secundarios son los grandes escritores Valle-Inclán, Rubén Darío, Baroja, Alberti, Miguel Hernández o Machado y el protagonista un joven aristócrata, Álvaro de Foxá, que se interna en la vida bohemia soñando ser poeta y deseando iniciarse en el amor para descubrir en la realidad a la Golfemia, comprobando que la poesía y el amor son siempre postergados por la necesidad y por la irrupción de las convulsiones políticas.

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A mediados de diciembre de 2007 Gustavo Braudel y su hija Albertine, a quienes ya conocemos por anteriores obras de A. G. Porta, participan en la operación hsys (Hormigas Salvajes y Suicidas), según se desprende del relato que ésta ofrecerá al coronel Francisco Resano: A veces una no sabe, querido coronel, por qué echa de menos una época que en su momento no le pareció mejor que cualquier otra,pero a la que, sin embargo, le tiene un aprecio especial, posiblemente debido a las circunstancias que concurrieron en ella, a las personas que me rodeaban y, tal vez, a que pronto vayan a cumplirse cinco años y todavía no haya podido pasar página. Entonces le prometí un informe de la operación [?] en la que participaron el inspector de policía José Blaya y el también policía Lalo Lucena, ambos jubilados, sinque durante este tiempo haya conseguido escribir una sola palabra. La impresionante trama de personajes, construida minuciosamente con un profundo sentido narrativo, y el estilo depur

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For many Filipinos, one word – kumusta, how are you – is all it takes to forge a connection with a stranger anywhere in the world. In Canada’s Prairie provinces, this connection has inspired community building and created both national and transnational identities for the women who identify as Pinay. This book is the first to look beyond traditional metropolitan hubs of settlement to explore the migration of Filipino women in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Based on interviews with first-generation immigrant Filipino women and temporary foreign workers, this book explores how the shared experience of migration forms the basis for new identities, communities, transnational ties, and multiple levels of belonging in Canada. A groundbreaking look at the experience of Filipino women in Canada, Bonifacio’s work is simultaneously an investigation of feminism, migration, diaspora, and the rubric of multiculturalism in a global era.

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