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Ébano
Book SynopsisCuenta Ébano la historia de una joven pareja, un fotógrafo europeo y una bellísima africana educada en la Sorbona, que es brutalmente secuestrada en el Chad en su luna de miel y vendida como esclava. Su marido emprende entonces una desesperada búsqueda a lo largo del continente africano en una carrera contrarreloj.A la dramática luz de África, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa muestra al desnudo las más crueles y las más nobles inclinaciones del ser humano en una historia estremecedora que al lector se le meterá en la piel dejándole una huella indeleble.Esta novela es un homenaje a los miembros del extinto Escuadrón blanco y está basada en datos auténticos dados a conocer por miembros de la Comisión de las Naciones Unidas para la Abolición de la Esclavitud y La Sociedad Antiesclavista en Londres, investigaciones llevadas acabo por el propio autor en África Central.
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DEBOLSILLO Ébano
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Ébano edición limitada Enfrentados 2
Book SynopsisAmar nunca fue tan peligroso como en Enfrentados, de Mercedes Ron.Descubre la autora N1 que ha seducido a más de 1.000.000 lectoras con CULPA MÍAMarfil ya no es la misma. Todo lo que creía que era verdad ha demostrado ser una mentira más. También Sebastian.Sus enemigos intentarán doblegarla, hacerla suya, la amenazarán con acabar con todo aquello que Marfil ama... Ahora que está en peligro es cuando más necesita que alguien le diga al oído que todo irá bien. Aunque sea otra mentira.Con Sebastian ocupando cada parte de su mente, pero dolida por su traición, Marfil se obligará a sí misma a no sentir nada por él. Pero, cuando los secretos empiezan a desvelarse, ni siquiera su férrea voluntad conseguirá que lo odie tanto como ella desea.Podrá Marfil perdonar tantas mentiras? Será capaz de dejar a un lado el pasado y escuchar su corazón?
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Mujeres de ébano
Book SynopsisÁfrica subsahariana esconde vidas apasionantes de mujeres extraordinarias, capaces de emplear su brillante carrera profesional en la promoción de otras mujeres africanas. Tras recorrer esos países y conocer sus vidas de primera mano, la autora nos adentra en las tribus, costumbres y tradiciones de esas tierras, y nos descubre la fuerza interior que impulsa a estas grandes mujeres a gastar su vida por los demás.Al leer estos relatos, el lector se convencerá de que África no solo "tiene solución", sino también mucho que enseñar a una sociedad occidental sumida en sus propias crisis.
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B de Bolsillo (Ediciones B) Ébano Enfrentados 2
Book SynopsisAmar nunca fue tan peligroso como en Enfrentados, la nueva saga de Mercedes Ron.Marfil ya no es la misma. Todo lo que creía que era verdad ha demostrado ser una mentira más. También Sebastian.Sus enemigos intentarán doblegarla, hacerla suya, la amenazarán con acabar con todo aquello que Marfil ama... Ahora que está en peligro es cuando más necesita que alguien le diga al oído que todo irá bien. Aunque sea otra mentira.Con Sebastian ocupando cada parte de su mente, pero dolida por su traición, Marfil se obligará a sí misma a no sentir nada por él. Pero, cuando los secretos empiezan a desvelarse, ni siquiera su férrea voluntad conseguirá que lo odie tanto como ella desea.Podrá Marfil perdonar tantas mentiras? Será capaz de dejar a un lado el pasado y escuchar su corazón?
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Independently Published El Leviatán de Ébano
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Editorial Impedimenta La torre de ébano
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp El pistolero de ébano
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Paperblanks Agenda 2019. Filigrana Floral Ébano
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Independently Published Nácar y coral ámbar y ébano
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Independently Published La Chiave di Ebano
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Ekare Europa En El Bano
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Ebanyelio Saindua San Luken Arabera
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Ebanyelio Saindua San Luken Arabera
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University of Illinois Press Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.
Book SynopsisThis fresh and fascinating exploration of Ebony's political, social, and historical content illuminates the intellectual role of the iconic magazine and its contribution to African American scholarship. The magazine's status as a consumer publication helped to mediate its representation of African American identity in both past and present.Trade ReviewOne of the Chicago Sun-Time's Books Not to Miss A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020 Honorable Mention, Research Society for American Periodicals, 2021 "By emphasizing Bennett's role and placing the magazine within the context of each stage of the postwar Black Freedom Struggle, West thoughtfully connects Black Americans' historical perspectives with the social transformations occurring in postwar America." --Journal of African American History"West thoroughly dispels the critical tendency to dismiss or overlook a magazine like Ebony as too commercially oriented to be of cultural or historical significance." --American Literary History"West presents media scholars and educators with a new way of viewing Ebony and its founder, John Harold Johnson. Thanks to West, researchers are better able to visualize Ebony as more than 'a black counterpart to Life magazine' and Johnson as more than just an entrepreneur who targeted his magazine's content to the black bourgeois." --American Journalism”E. James West’s book is the first major examination of Ebony as a forum for black historical discourse and the magazine’s long-time executive editor Lerone Bennett Jr.’s multifaceted thought, work, and scholarship as a leading popular historian of the black past and vital contributor to the post-war black history movement. A well-researched and accessible study situated within the growing field of black intellectual history, Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. is a major contribution to our understanding of what West aptly calls 'popular black history.'”—Pero G. Dagbovie, author of Revisiting the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American history in the Twenty-First Century"West expertly chronicles how Ebony magazine and its executive editor Lerone Bennett Jr. shaped cultural perception of African-American history. . . . This astute history shines a welcome light on a pioneering journalist. " --Publishers Weekly"A fantastic, deeply-contextualized new book about Ebony and Bennett." --IMixWhatILike"This concise, illuminating book serves as a useful marker for a full-fledged (and long overdue) critical history of Ebony, a major American magazine, in all its glories and travails." --PopMatters"Recommended." --Choice
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Hardpress Publishing Lafrique quatoriale Okanda BangouensOsyeba 1
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University of Illinois Press Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.
Book SynopsisThis fresh and fascinating exploration of Ebony's political, social, and historical content illuminates the intellectual role of the iconic magazine and its contribution to African American scholarship. The magazine's status as a consumer publication helped to mediate its representation of African American identity in both past and present.Trade ReviewOne of the Chicago Sun-Time's Books Not to Miss A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020 Honorable Mention, Research Society for American Periodicals, 2021 "By emphasizing Bennett's role and placing the magazine within the context of each stage of the postwar Black Freedom Struggle, West thoughtfully connects Black Americans' historical perspectives with the social transformations occurring in postwar America." --Journal of African American History"West thoroughly dispels the critical tendency to dismiss or overlook a magazine like Ebony as too commercially oriented to be of cultural or historical significance." --American Literary History"West presents media scholars and educators with a new way of viewing Ebony and its founder, John Harold Johnson. Thanks to West, researchers are better able to visualize Ebony as more than 'a black counterpart to Life magazine' and Johnson as more than just an entrepreneur who targeted his magazine's content to the black bourgeois." --American Journalism”E. James West’s book is the first major examination of Ebony as a forum for black historical discourse and the magazine’s long-time executive editor Lerone Bennett Jr.’s multifaceted thought, work, and scholarship as a leading popular historian of the black past and vital contributor to the post-war black history movement. A well-researched and accessible study situated within the growing field of black intellectual history, Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. is a major contribution to our understanding of what West aptly calls 'popular black history.'”—Pero G. Dagbovie, author of Revisiting the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American history in the Twenty-First Century"West expertly chronicles how Ebony magazine and its executive editor Lerone Bennett Jr. shaped cultural perception of African-American history. . . . This astute history shines a welcome light on a pioneering journalist. " --Publishers Weekly"A fantastic, deeply-contextualized new book about Ebony and Bennett." --IMixWhatILike"This concise, illuminating book serves as a useful marker for a full-fledged (and long overdue) critical history of Ebony, a major American magazine, in all its glories and travails." --PopMatters"Recommended." --Choice
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LEGARE STREET PR El Abanico
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El rebaño
Book SynopsisNO SABEMOS LO QUE LOS HIJOSSON CAPACES DE HACER.NI LO QUE SUS PADRES LLEGARÍANA HACER POR ELLOS.Quedan pocos minutos para que terminen las clases.Los padres se van amontonando a la entrada del colegio para recoger a sus hijos.Entonces sucede algo que nadie podía esperar; la pesadilla se ha hecho realidad y el peligro y las sospechas que todos comparten parecen estar de vuelta.Es necesario seguir guardando el secreto antes de que impere el caos.Pero ya es demasiado tarde porque El Rebaño ha entrado en acción.Y no hay nada más aterrador que un grupo de padres presa del pánico.Pablo Rivero vuelve a poner el foco en los peligros que nos rodean con un thriller inquietante y magnético donde nada es lo que parece y donde lo cotidiano se vuelve terrorífico. Tan desasosegante como real, El rebaño es una crítica a la necesidad de pertenecer a un grupo, a la sobreprotección a los hijos y a la gestión de los conflictos más escabrosos que pueden darse en vecindarios y colegios. Porque nunca llegamos a conocer a quienes nos rodean.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Three Other Theban Plays: Aeschylus' Seven
Book SynopsisThough now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae, the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Greek poets, one explored in a now lost epic cycle, as well as several other surviving tragedies. With a rich Introduction that sets three of these plays within the larger contexts of Theban legend and of Greek tragedy in performance, Cecelia Eaton Luschnig’s annotated translation of Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes, Euripides' Suppliants, and Euripides' Phoenician Women offers a brilliant constellation of less familiar Theban plays—those dealing with the war between Oedipus’ sons, its casualties, and survivors.Trade Review"Luschnig's goal is to offer translations that are both readable and speakable and in this she has succeeded admirably. Both the tragedy expert and the novice will enjoy reading these translations; the stage actor will enjoy speaking these lines. . . . Three Other Theban Plays offers a reliable, thorough resource to its primary audience of students. Undergraduates are likely to find these translations more accessible than those in the similarly targeted University of Chicago Greek tragedy translations and will certainly find this edition, as a whole, more supportive of their efforts to contextualize and interpret these plays." —Adriana Brook, Lawrence University, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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HopeRoad Publishing Ltd IN THE COMPANY OF MEN: The Ebola Tales
Book SynopsisTwo boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest, where they shoot down bats with glee, and cook their prey over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an insidious disease that neither the local healer's potions nor the medical team's treatments could cure. Compounding the family's grief, experts warn against touching the sick. But this caution comes too late: the virus spreads rapidly, and the boys' father is barely able to send his eldest daughter away for a chance at survival.Trade ReviewA powerful poetic ode to life in a country of ancient customs, ravaged by death..A magnificent and essential text' Le Figaro;'A powerful poetic ode to life in a country of ancient customs, ravaged by death. A magnificent and essential text' Le Figaro; '[Tadjo] intertwines facts, well-known songs, legends, poems, fictionalized testimonials, and documentary prose in the stirring orality of this novel to give voice to the humanitarian disaster.Realistic, painterly and poetic, the impeccably structured polyvocal novel registers the urgency, despair, commitment, dedication and solidarity that Ebola provokes and leaves one shivering' World Literature Today
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Harvard University Press Faces of Perfect Ebony
Book SynopsisThough blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British imagination. In her exploration of this emerging black presence, Molineux assembles evidence ranging from shop signs, tea trays, trading cards, board games, and playing cards to song ballads and William Hogarth’s graphic satires.Trade ReviewOffers an important and original analysis of local and popular representations of empire in Britain. It is the first account to present a sustained analysis of how images of white mastery and black servitude were mobilized to help Britons think about themselves in a metropolitan context. This book will make a major contribution to British imperial history, Atlantic history and culture, the history of racialization and slavery, and the histories of art and visual culture. -- K. Dian Kriz, Brown UniversityA vivid and arrestingly original book. Molineux's innovative work shows us that the story of black life in imperial Britain survived in the most unlikely of sources: in contemporary print, iconography and theatre, in shop signs, trade cards, and ephemera of all kinds. Her persuasive argument, allied to the richness of her evidence, illuminates not only eighteenth-century Britain, but provides a discerning insight into the broader world of Atlantic history in the long century before abolition. What had once seemed a curiosity is now revealed, via Molineux's forensic and literary skills, as a multilayered portrait of cultural change during the long century of Britain's Atlantic empire. -- James Walvin, University of YorkAn exemplary work that takes the study of the visual cultures of slavery in bold new directions. By turning her delicate skills of interpretation to anything and everything that Britain's colonial ambition generated, Molineux has inaugurated what may be a tidal change in early slavery studies. She deserves our gratitude for having produced a brilliant piece of detective work which redefines our notions of racial encounter. Faces of Perfect Ebony is a book we should all read, digest, and read again, if we hope to understand the bizarre ways in which the white gaze appropriated and unfortunately still appropriates the black body. -- Marcus Wood, University of SussexFocusing on the period of Britain's greatest engagement in the Atlantic slave trade (ca. 1680-1807), Molineux taps on material culture and popular literature to reveal the presence of Africans in Enlightenment Britain. In doing so, she extends further into the past the growing body of scholarship emphasizing the imperial metropole as a significant contact zone between Britain and its tropical empire. She also highlights slavery's existence in the UK and correlation with racial "othering." While Britain's black population remained small, its presence exerted significant influence in British culture, from the use of images of Africans on shop signs and household commodities to the role of black subjects in performance and art. Most important is Molineux's exploration of British society's ambivalence toward people of African descent. This ambivalence enabled the simultaneous drawing of contrasts and similarities between whites and blacks in the UK, the latter feeding abolitionist sentiment. Based on exhaustive research, this book skillfully employs cultural critique to illuminate the empire's influence on British society. -- A. M. Wainwright * Choice *
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Omnidawn Publishing Contraband of Hoopoe
Book SynopsisAn immigrant's lyric narrative of humor, illicit revelation, insight, and desire
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Narratio De Helio Eobano Comprehendens Mentionem De Compluribus Illius Ãtatis Doctis Et Eruditis Viris. Accesserunt C.t. Kuinoelii Oratio De Helii Eobani In Bouas Literas Meritis Et Helii Eobani Carmina De Pugna Studentum Erphordiensium. Re
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SUMA El rebaño The Flock
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp El Habano Y Mi Novia
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Narratio De Helio Eobano Comprehendens Mentionem De Compluribus Illius Ãtatis Doctis Et Eruditis Viris. Accesserunt C.t. Kuinoelii Oratio De Helii Eobani In Bouas Literas Meritis Et Helii Eobani Carmina De Pugna Studentum Erphordiensium. Re
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NubeOcho El rebaño
Book SynopsisSer parte de un rebaño es fácil, solo hay que hacer lo que hace el resto. Pero la oveja Cuatro se aburre y decide no seguir a las demás. ¿Podrá dormir Miguel, el niño que las cuenta al irse a la cama?*Libro seleccionado por New York Public Library dentro de la lista de "Los mejores libros para pequeños 2023".A Miguel le cuesta dormir. Cada noche cuenta ovejas que saltan una valla. Primero salta la oveja Una, luego Dos, Tres y así hasta que Miguel se duerme.Pero una noche, la oveja Cuatro dice que está cansada de saltar. “¡No! ¡No! ¡Y no!”, grita cuando la intentan convencer. ¿Qué pueden hacer las demás ovejas del rebaño?------------Being part of a flock is easy, you just have to do what the others do. But when Sheep Four decides not to follow the others, how will Miguel, the boy counting sheep, get to sleep? *Book selected by The New York Public Library in the list “Best Books for Kids 2023”.Being a sheep is easy. All they have to do is graze, snooze and help people fall asleep now and again. Every person is assigned their own personal flock… The drill is always the same, first Sheep one jumps over the fence, then Sheep two followed by Sheep three and so forth.When a little boy called Mike can’t sleep one night, he starts to count his personal flock.. Sheep One, Sheep Two, Sheep Three… but then something strange happens… Sheep four doesn’t want to jump!How will Mike be able to get to sleep now?
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Editorial Anagrama S.A.U. El verano de los inocentes
Book SynopsisEl último condenado a muerte del franquismo: la crónica de un episodio histórico que no debe ser olvidado.El 27 de septiembre de 1975, al alba, el régimen franquista cerró su historial de ejecuciones con el fusilamiento de cinco condenados por terrorismo. El último en morir acribillado fue Xosé Humberto Baena, un joven militante gallego del Frente Revolucionario Antifascista y Patriota (FRAP), acusado ?sin pruebas ni testigos? de matar a un policía en la calle Alenza de Madrid. Allí había huido Baena apenas meses antes, con la policía pisándole los talones por sus actividades clandestinas, justo cuando el FRAP estaba a punto de emprender una escalada de violencia que pretendía derrocar una dictadura ya agonizante.A horas de ser fusilado, recibió la visita de su padre, que quiso saber al menos si su hijo era realmente culpable: Lo siento, papá, pero no puedo darte este consuelo. No fui yo quien lo mató.Ejecutó Franco al hombre equivocado? Sabía Baena el nombre del verdadero autor del atentado? En esta historia no hay claroscuros: todo es oscuridad revestida de secretos que, durante medio siglo, han permanecido sellados por leyes de impunidad y pactos de silencio.
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Independently Published Monjes Urbanos: Tercer Libro del Padre Esteban
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Lulu.com Ebony The Black Rose or a Tale of Antwn Lan Gomye
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Quercus Publishing Strifes Bane
Book Synopsis''I loved these characters, even though I knew it was going to hurt. Heart-wrenching. Poignant. Lovely'' - Brandon Sanderson The final instalment of the heart-breaking Shattered Kingdoms series.In the south, the Shadari rebels have thrown off their Norlander oppressors and are struggling to rebuild their desert kingdom - but King Daryan is about to discover a secret cabal that has been working against everything he is trying to do.Lahlil Eotan has left her great victory in Norland behind her in the hopes of reuniting with King Jachad of the Nomas - before his transformation into a god separates them for ever. But somehow she''s acquired a travelling companion in the form of one Rho Arregador, who won''t let her forget her role in the Shadar''s predicament or in her sister Isa''s chilling transformation.But Daryan is facing more than treachery and plague: an ancient enemy with unimaginable powers is sailing towards him, determined to cTrade ReviewI loved these characters, even though I knew it was going to hurt. Heart-wrenching. Poignant. Lovely * Brandon Sanderson on Blood's Pride *Inventive . . . absorbing and rewarding * Kirkus on The Shattered Kingdoms *The suspense, character development, and worldbuilding are all superior, and the ominous tone of the opening is sustained throughout * Publisher’s Weekly on The Shattered Kingdoms *Superb * Tor.com on Blood's Pride *Intrigue, betrayal and old rivalries play out against the fires of revolution. Hang on for a wild ride! * Gail Z. Martin, author of Chronicles of the Necomancer on The Shattered Kingdoms *A remarkable feat for a newcomer, and leaves me eager for the sequel, Fortune's Blight * Locus on Blood's Pride *Her ability to insert beautiful descriptions into an action-packed scene is certainly the mark of a talented writer and the series only looks set to become more exciting as the story progresses. * British Fantasy Society on Blood's Pride *Picture the fluent prose and flawless world-building of an author such as Trudi Canavan combined with the epic plot and character lists of an author like Martin and you won't be far off . . . Her ability to contrast beauty with brutality, hope with despair and love with hate will secure this novel as one of the year's finest * Fantasy-Faction on The Shattered Kingdoms *
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LEGARE STREET PR Kitab Alfalahah. Libro De Agricultura. Su Abu Zacaria Jihia Aben Mohamed Ben Ahmed Ebn El Awam Sevillano. Trad. Al Castellano Y Anotado Por Josefantonio Banqueri. arab. Et Castell....
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Syracuse University Press Remember Me to Lebanon
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Stephen Fleming Manual de ebanistería para principiantes
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Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos El poder del diálogo y del encuentro Ebner
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de Gruyter Kritische Texte und Deutungen, Ergänzungsband 1, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Eine Bibliographie
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El rebaño excelente cómo superar las carencias
Book SynopsisEs el universitario una oveja, que hay que unir a un buen rebaño para que alcance una buena posición económica? Eso es todo, o casi todo? Deresiewicz denuncia carencias, interpela, incomoda. Porque está en juego la propia construcción interior de la persona. Enseñar no es un problema de ingeniería. No se trata de transferir una cierta cantidad de información de un cerebro a otro. ?Educar? significa ?conducir?. El trabajo de un profesor es conducir los poderes que permanecen latentes en el interior de los estudiantes. Un profesor despierta; un profesor inspira (...). No está allí para ?responder preguntas?, o al menos esa no es la parte más importante de su trabajo; está allí para hacerlas. William Deresiewicz es ensayista, conferenciante y crítico literario. Ha sido profesor en las universidades de Yale y Columbia, y actualmente ocupa una cátedra en Artes liberales en la Universidad de Chicago. Ha publicado cientos de ensayos y artículos, entre otros, en New York Times, The Atlantic y The Nation, traducidos en 17 lenguas. Ha sido premiado con el Hiett Prize en Humanidades, el Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, y el Sydney Award. En tres ocasiones ha sido nominado para el National Magazine Award en EE.UU.
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp A Banalização Do Evangelho
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John Wiley & Sons Lebanon
Book SynopsisTells of the suffering - memories of an abandoned garden fading away - and of a poet at the confluence of two cultures: Western and Middle Eastern. This bilingual book comprises Sentimental Archives of a War in Lebanon and the English translation of Lebanon: Twenty Poems for One Love. It includes more than forty selected poems.
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Cornell University Press The Theban Plays
Book SynopsisPrecise yet fluent translations of the timeless Theban tragedies.Trade ReviewIn emphasizing the political elements of the plays, Professors Ahrensdorf and Pangle spur their readers — our students — to engage deeply with Sophocles' masterpieces....Their incisive reflections interrogate the texts in original and thought-provoking ways, particularly in regard to their political elements. Even where we disagree with them, their ideas merit serious consideration.... The translators situate Oedipus the Tyrant in its political context and ask probing questions about the nature of tyranny, guilt, and knowingness.... The introductions to Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone are similarly rich in ideas. Alternately considering matters of justice, allegiance and political legitimacy, Ahrensdorf and Pangle mine themes of timeless interest and application. In Antigone, they question Creon’s injunction to obey — son to father, young to old, ruled to ruler — and his admonition that there is no greater evil than anarchy. In these two principles, one finds the root of arguments, both ancient and contemporary,over the nature of political legitimacy and stability. -- Michael Fontaine and Richard Fontaine * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsTranslators' PrefaceIntroduction to Oedipus the TyrantOedipus the TyrantIntroduction to Oedipus at ColonusOedipus at ColonusIntroduction to AntigoneAntigone
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La Esfera de los Libros, S.L. El Ebro la batalla decisiva de los mil días
Book SynopsisDe todas las batallas que se libraron durante la guerra civil española, la del Ebro es la más crucial, no sólo por su fiereza, sino porque tras ella quedó históricamente decidido el resultado de la contienda. Fue una batalla de cien días -se desarrolló entre el 25 de julio de 1938 y el 14 de noviembre del mismo año- en el marco de una guerra de mil días, la guerra de España. Este capítulo de nuestra historia no explica todo el enfrentamiento, pero sí la crueldad de una dialéctica de voluntades hostiles que desencadenó un fuerte choque entre grandes ideales: los encarnados por Vicente Rojo, comandante de Infantería, y Francisco Franco, general de división. El primero influido por hombres como Miaja, Torrado o Hernández Saravia, y el segundo por gente como Mola, Dávila o Kindelán.Ambos frentes, con casi un cuarto de millón de soldados en sus filas, definieron el juego estratégico y la conducción de las operaciones militares en un radio de acción de 50 kilómetros, cuyo centro debemos situar en Gandesa. La repercusión de la batalla tanto en la política nacional como más allá de nuestras fronteras fue enorme; supuso, entre otras cosas, la retirada de las Brigadas Internacionales así como el reconocimiento de la España de Franco en el horizonte internacional.Alonso Baquer analiza minuciosamente las medidas tácticas y políticas tomadas por personajes tan relevantes como Azaña, Negrín, Franco, Rojo, Dávila, Modesto, Yagüe, Barrón, Líster, Tagüeña y García Valiño, apoyándose en numerosos relatos tanto de especialistas en la materia como de los propios protagonistas. Asimismo, reconstruye el contexto de la España anterior al acontecimiento bélico y las causas que lo desencadenaron.Con abundantes fotografías y numerosos gráficos que permiten observar el campo de batalla paso a paso, la lectura de estas páginas impresionará por la similitud que se aprecia entre tres de las más grandes contiendas del siglo XX: Verdún (1916), Ebro (1938) y Stalingrado (1942).ACOGIDA DEL LIBRO"El autor se detiene en el juego de las ideas estratégicas de políticos y militares protagonistas, desde Azaña, Negrín y Franco, a Rojo, Modesto, Yagüe y Dávila". Josep Maria Sòria, "La Vanguardia"."El libro de Baquer es cartesiano: metódico, templado, con un orden estricto; aspira a una cierta imparcialidad, como la de un observador distanciado que tratara de dar razón a cada elemento". Rafael Núñez Florencio, "El Cultural".
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Equianos Travels
Book SynopsisThe most famous slave memoir of the 18th century. Equiano''s Travels recounts the extraordinary life and times of Olaudah Equiano, from his early life in Africa to his struggle for freedom in the West Indies. ''I who had been a slave in the morning, trembling at the will of another, was become my own master, and completely free.'' Olaudah Equiano was only eleven when he was kidnapped from the Kingdom of Benin. His report on the horrors that followed whilst imprisoned on slave ships and on land offers a rare and significant insight into the realities of the transatlantic slave trade.First published in London in 1789, Equiano''s memoirs were an instant success and paved the way for the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.Abridged and edited by Paul Edwards.''A powerful and terrifying read.'' Guardian ''Central to our understanding of Atlantic slavery.'' The Times ''A gripping accounTrade Review'A powerful and terrifying read.' * Guardian *'Central to our understanding of Atlantic slavery.' * The Times *New York Times"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":6763,"3":{"1":0},"4":{"1":2,"2":16777215},"6":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":0}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"8":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":0}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":2}]},"9":0,"12":0,"14":{"1":2,"2":0},"15":"Arial"}" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">'A gripping account from 1789 of life as a slave.' * New York Times *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Theban Plays King Oedipus Oedipus at Colonus
Book SynopsisKing Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/AntigoneThree towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynastyThe legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity''s struggle against fate. King Oedipus is the devastating portrayal of a ruler who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realize he has committed and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself. Oedipus at Colonus provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king, while Antigone depicts the fall of the next generation, through the conflict between a young woman ruled by her conscience and a king too confident of his own authority.Translated with an Introduction by E. F. WATLINGTrade Review“[Oedipus the King] is Sophocles’ most famous play and the most celebrated play of Greek drama . . . Aristotle cites it as the best model for a tragic plot . . . Freud recognized the play’s power to dramatize the process by which we uncover hidden truths about ourselves . . . Sophocles is more interested in how Oedipus pieces together the isolated fragments of his past to discover who and what he is and in tracing the hero’s response to this new vision of himself.”—from the Introduction by Charles SegalTable of ContentsThe Theban legend; "King Oedipus"; the legend continued; "Oedipus at Colonus"; the legend continued; "Antigone"; notes to "King Oedipus"; notes to "Oedipus at Colonus"; notes to "Antigone".
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Gradifco El banquete Critn o el deber del ciudadano
Book SynopsisEncuadernación: RústicaColección: Pensadores Universales\"Obra de madurez, El Banquete de Platón conjuga la sabiduría filosófica con la peripecia literaria. El exacto cruce entre estas dos habilidades da por resultado una de las obras imprescindibles del pensamiento occidental: amenidad, juego de la inteligencia, sensualidad y belleza, pueblan el ámbito propicio para reflexionar sobre Eros: una sobremesa entre jóvenes cultos, flor y nata de su época, presididos por el más excéntrico y seductor de los pensadores: Sócrates. Acompaña a El Banquete, Critón o El deber del ciudadano, certero diálogo en vísperas de la sentencia que ha condenado al filósofo a morir. Vitalidad, reflexión, amor y muerte, en una obra insoslayable.
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