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El gran friso narrativo de los Episodios Nacionales sirvió de vehículo a Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) para recrear en él, novelescamente engarzada, la totalidad de la compleja vida de los españoles (guerras, política, vida cotidiana, reacciones populares) a lo largo del agitado siglo XIX. Vergara fue la villa guipuzcoana que vio unido para siempre su nombre al convenio entre los generales Espartero y Maroto que puso fin en 1839 a los seis sangrientos años largos durante los que transcurrió la Primera Guerra Carlista. Las pintorescas intrigas históricas que precedieron a este acontecimiento se entreveran con las novelescas que siguen protagonizando Fernando Calpena, Beltrán de Urdaneta, Aura, Zoilo y demás personajes de esta Tercera serie.Episodios Nacionales. Tercera serie, 7

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Angel Vergara’s work tests the limits of art and reality by questioning the way the contemporary image shapes the intermingled public and private spheres—as well as our own experience Angel Vergara’s (b. 1958; based in Brussels) work is a continued investigation into the power of the image. By means of performances, videos, installations, paintings and drawings, he tests the limits of art and reality. Each of his works is an attempt to break through the image and to make its impact on an aesthetic as well as a sociocultural and political level. Thus, Vergara creates a new, suspended reality, grown from the artist’s personal dialogue with reality and with the image by which it has already been transformed. Decontextualised images of reality are mediated by the artist and transformed into art, encouraging the viewer to question their way of perceiving the everyday as well as the way it is presented to them in images. Vergara’s art disorients and disconcerts the viewer. It questions what is known and opens paths to new modes of signification. Accompanying the 2023 retrospective exhibition “In the Instant” that the MACS is dedicating to Angel Vergara, this important book reviews the career of the Belgian artist and highlights the close relationship between his painting and the cinematic medium. Distributed for Mercatorfonds Exhibition Schedule: 02.11.2022–02.06.2023 Outside installation. Musée de la batellerie—Conflans Sainte Honorine, France. 24.11.2022–19.03.2023 Photo Brut - Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels 23.04.2023–08.10.2023 Angel Vergara. In a Moment. Monographic exhibition. MAC’s in Mons, Belgium.

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All Future Plunges to the Past explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and responded to Joyce's work. Through contextually rich close readings, José Vergara uncovers the many roles Joyce has occupied in Russia over the last century, demonstrating how the writers Yury Olesha, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrei Bitov, Sasha Sokolov, and Mikhail Shishkin draw from Joyce's texts, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, to address the volatile questions of lineages in their respective Soviet, émigré, and post-Soviet contexts. Interviews with contemporary Russian writers, critics, and readers of Joyce extend the conversation to the present day, showing how the debates regarding the Irish writer's place in the Russian pantheon are no less settled one hundred years after Ulysses. The creative reworkings, or "translations," of Joycean themes, ideas, characters, plots, and styles made by the five writers Vergara examines speak to shifting cultural norms, understandings of intertextuality, and the polarity between Russia and the West. Vergara illuminates how Russian writers have used Joyce's ideas as a critical lens to shape, prod, and constantly redefine their own place in literary history. All Future Plunges to the Past offers one overarching approach to the general narrative of Joyce's reception in Russian literature. While each of the writers examined responded to Joyce in an individual manner, the sum of their methods reveals common concerns. This subject raises the issue of cultural values and, more importantly, how they changed throughout the twentieth century in the Soviet Union, Russian emigration, and the post-Soviet Russian environment.

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Este tercer libro del colombiano Edwin Vergara ingresa al cuerpo de sus lectores con su característica fuerza acuñada en el corazón, pero esta vez, añadiendo a su estructura versos de una sutileza distinta que advierte el nuevo aliento del autor. Lo que tu invierno me dejó es la unificación de una historia de amor llevada a una lírica de corto aliento, y por tanto, contun-dente en su mensaje y su lección. La metáfora de Edwin Vergara nunca surge a manera de eufemismo, sino como una dulce imagen que doblega a la violencia de lo sucedido; ?su pecho es una calamidad constante?, nos dice.No obstante, aunque la sacudida del comienzo es oscura, el panorama va aclarándose con el ir y venir de la tinta, pues muestra cómo ?quizás? la poesía fue la herramienta catártica para derrotar al recuerdo y continuar de pie en el camino. Lo que tu invierno me dejó es un libro sentencia, es la aseveración constante del poeta de ser consciente de sus heridas, de la fragilidad de sus temores, pero también

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Female strives to capture transgender women without artificial studio lighting or the irrelevance of color. While trans people are often sensationalized in the media, Pilar Vergara set out to quietly capture their individuality through intimate portraits. Pilar Vergara, originally from Chile, has a long background in human rights photography. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, the Associated Press, and Reuters, among other outlets.

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A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracyThis provocative book reveals how the majority of modern liberal democracies have become increasingly oligarchic, suffering from a form of structural political decay first conceptualized by ancient philosophers. Systemic Corruption argues that the problem cannot be blamed on the actions of corrupt politicians but is built into the very fabric of our representative systems.Camila Vergara provides a compelling and original genealogy of political corruption from ancient to modern thought, and shows how representative democracy was designed to protect the interests of the already rich and powerful to the detriment of the majority. Unable to contain the unrelenting force of oligarchy, especially after experimenting with neoliberal policies, most democracies have been corrupted into oligarchic democracies. Vergara explains how to reverse this corrupting trajectory by establishing a new counterpower strong enough to control the ruling elites. Building on the anti-oligarchic institutional innovations proposed by plebeian philosophers, she rethinks the republic as a mixed order in which popular power is institutionalized to check the power of oligarchy. Vergara demonstrates how a plebeian republic would establish a network of local assemblies with the power to push for reform from the grassroots, independent of political parties and representative government.Drawing on neglected insights from Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolas de Condorcet, Rosa Luxemburg, and Hannah Arendt, Systemic Corruption proposes to reverse the decay of democracy with the establishment of anti-oligarchic institutions through which common people can collectively resist the domination of the few.

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Domestically and abroad, America is known as the richest country in the world. It is hard not to be impressed by the standard of living in the nation’s most affluent suburban and urban neighborhoods. Yet, scattered amid stretches that abound in wealth, the country is home to neighborhoods rife with violence, poverty, segregation, and decay. Within these blighted urban landscapes, however, there is at least one notable example of plenty: churches. They do not always appear as traditional houses of worship, but often emerge from the retrofitted shells of former storefronts, garages, factories, warehouses, domestic dwellings, and public institutions. Regardless of the façade, churches populate America’s poorest neighborhoods.Bringing together more than 300 richly textured color photographs and a series of candid interviews with pastors, church officials, and congregation members, this extraordinary book explores the conditions, beliefs, and practices that shape the churches and the lives of the nation’s urban poor. Over a period of thirty years, sociologist and photographer Camilo José Vergara repeatedly visited these places of worship and the eclectic mix of buildings that house them. In twenty-one cities located in ten states across the country, photographic sequences coupled with insightful narrative show how ordinary structures assume, modify, and shed a religious character, how traditional churches—if they fail to adapt to new congregations—are demolished, and how new churches are designed and built from the ground up.Vergara pays special attention to the objects, texts, and imagery that religious leaders make use of to create environments that inspire devotion. Pastors of developing congregations often arrive as crusaders, with missions that cannot be served by traditional religious iconography, and with budgets that force them to use inexpensive materials. In some cases, pastors bring objects of worship from their home towns in places such as Mexico, Puerto Rico, Africa, and the West Indies. Despite the idiosyncratic features and folk decoration that distinguish ghetto churches from one another, however, Vergara shows that, for the most part, they are driven by similar religious agendas. They tend to preach about resilience, avoid involving themselves in national and international events, and consider their truths to be absolute and eternal.A powerful, poignant, and visually arresting portrait, How the Other Half Worships stands as a stark witness to how churches are being rebuilt in the dilapidated streets of America’s cities and how religion is being reinvented by the nation’s poor.

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For more than a century, Harlem has been the epicenter of black America, the celebrated heart of African American life and culture - but it has also been a byword for the problems that have long plagued inner-city neighborhoods: poverty, crime, violence, disinvestment, and decay. Photographer Camilo Jose Vergara has been chronicling the neighborhood for forty-three years, and Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto is an unprecedented record of urban change. Vergara began his documentation of Harlem in the tradition of such masters as Helen Levitt and Aaron Siskind, and he later turned his focus on the neighborhood's urban fabric, both the buildings that compose it and the life and culture embedded in them. By repeatedly returning to the same locations over the course of decades, Vergara is able to show us a community that is constantly changing - some areas declining, as longtime businesses give way to empty storefronts, graffiti, and garbage, while other areas gentrify, with corporate chain stores coming in to compete with the mom-and-pop shops. He also captures the ever-present street life of this densely populated neighborhood, from stoop gatherings to graffiti murals memorializing dead rappers to impersonators honoring Michael Jackson in front of the Apollo, as well as the growth of tourism and racial integration. Woven throughout the images is Vergara's own account of his project and his experience of living and working in Harlem. Taken together, his unforgettable words and images tell the stories of how Harlem and its residents navigated the segregation, dereliction, and slow recovery of the closing years of the twentieth century and the boom and racial integration of the twenty-first. A deeply personal investigation, Harlem will take its place with the best portrayals of urban life.

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A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracyThis provocative book reveals how the majority of modern liberal democracies have become increasingly oligarchic, suffering from a form of structural political decay first conceptualized by ancient philosophers. Systemic Corruption argues that the problem cannot be blamed on the actions of corrupt politicians but is built into the very fabric of our representative systems.Camila Vergara provides a compelling and original genealogy of political corruption from ancient to modern thought, and shows how representative democracy was designed to protect the interests of the already rich and powerful to the detriment of the majority. Unable to contain the unrelenting force of oligarchy, especially after experimenting with neoliberal policies, most democracies have been corrupted into oligarchic democracies. Vergara explains how to reverse this corrupting trajectory by establishing a new counterpower strong enough to control the ruling elites. Building on the anti-oligarchic institutional innovations proposed by plebeian philosophers, she rethinks the republic as a mixed order in which popular power is institutionalized to check the power of oligarchy. Vergara demonstrates how a plebeian republic would establish a network of local assemblies with the power to push for reform from the grassroots, independent of political parties and representative government.Drawing on neglected insights from Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolas de Condorcet, Rosa Luxemburg, and Hannah Arendt, Systemic Corruption proposes to reverse the decay of democracy with the establishment of anti-oligarchic institutions through which common people can collectively resist the domination of the few.

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This exhibition presents a selection of fourteen artists from this collection that show different plastic forms in dialogue with the architectural space. Marisa García Vergara, author of the text of this publication, reviews these works in relation to perception, showing how in art the dimensions of space, and therefore its perception, multiply, as other factors that have to do with memory and the affects involved. This book is a work in collaboration with the artist Fernanda Fragateiro, who has worked just as she builds her works: the arrangement, order and fragments of the works, the archive images... The result is a catalog that looks like an artist book.

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In this book, Angela Vergara tells the story of the labor movement in Chile through the experiences of workers in copper mines owned by Anaconda, a major multinational corporation. Relying on archival sources, newspapers, and oral histories, she recounts the workers’ economic, political, and social struggles over the forty-five-year period when the Cold War dominated politics.The labor movement, Vergara argues, was a progressive force instrumental in the introduction of national reforms and the radicalization of politics. In Chile its role is critical to understanding the expansion of the welfare state in the 1950s, the introduction of social reforms in the 1960s, and the Chilean road to socialism in the early 1970s. The book reveals the historical origin of the implementation of neoliberal policies, the erosion of labor rights, and the emergence of the so-called Chilean economic model championed by the “Chicago boys.” Many of the changes undertaken in the 1970s and 1980s, the book shows, had their impetus in the crisis of the import-substitution effort of the late 1950s.

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In the first decades after the end of French rule, Francophone authors engaged in an exercise of rewriting narratives from the colonial literary canon. In The Author as Cannibal, Felisa Vergara Reynolds presents these textual revisions as figurative acts of cannibalism and examines how these literary cannibalizations critique colonialism and its legacy in each author’s homeland. Reynolds focuses on four representative texts: Une tempête (1969) by Aimé Césaire, Le temps de Tamango (1981) by Boubacar Boris Diop, L’amour, la fantasia (1985) by Assia Djebar, and La migration des coeurs (1995) by Maryse Condé. Though written independently in Africa and the Caribbean, these texts all combine critical adaptation with creative destruction in an attempt to eradicate the social, political, cultural, and linguistic remnants of colonization long after independence.The Author as Cannibal situates these works within Francophone studies, showing that the extent of their postcolonial critique is better understood when they are considered collectively. Crucial to the book are two interviews with Maryse Condé, which provide great insight on literary cannibalism. By foregrounding thematic concerns and writing strategies in these texts, Reynolds shows how these rewritings are an underappreciated collective form of protest and resistance for Francophone authors.

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"Cuando las heridas del cuerpo dejan de doler es porque han sanado. Cuando las heridas del corazón dejan de doler es porque el corazón se ha helado."Vive en una gran ciudad, los bancos lo asedian, el socio le ha puesto un pleito, ya no se entiende ni con su mujer... Qué más le podría pasar? En el momento más oscuro, un encuentro ilumina su vida: Cayla. Tal vez ella le cuente la historia de Joshiken, Corazón de Invierno, un selknam, un solitario indio ona que deberá buscar el puñal azul si quiere romper el hielo de su corazón, una dura prueba para un hombre que creía tenerlo todo y carece de lo primordial: esa llama en nuestro interior que alimenta el alma, nos confirma que estamos vivos y nos revela que somos alguien único.Hace tiempo que el último indio ona pisó Tierra del Fuego. Su historia pasó desapercibida para todos, sin duda, pues a quién importa que muera uno, que mueran cien? Menuda, delgada como un suspiro y de piel ajada como el cuero viejo, la anciana Cayla da testimo

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Descripción: 20x13 cm.Encuadernación: cartoné.Edicion bilingüe: Latin-español.El tratado sobre la formación moral del príncipe, escrito por el dominico Vicente de Beauvais, en torno a 1260, constituye una de las manifestaciones de literatura moral principesca más importantes de la Edad Media. Consta de veintiocho capítulos, que abordan tres grandes cuestiones: la naturaleza del gobierno y sus condiciones, la formación del gobernante ideal y la de aquellos que participan en la administración pública. Una temática que proyecta con fidelidad una imagen de la cultura pedagógica medieval descansando en el papel rector de las monarquías vicarias de Cristo. Idea que habría de marcar ?no sin problemas? la teoría y la acción política de la mayor parte de la Europa cristiana y especialmente de los países mediterráneos hasta bien entrado el siglo XV, siendo esta obra uno de sus más fieles exponentes.El texto latino del volumen está basado en la editio princeps de Rostock de 1477, c

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Este trabajo expone, desarrolla y resume, con un lenguaje sencillo, profundo y sugerente, lo trabajado ?minuto a minuto? con cientos de docentes de varios países, y distintos niveles educativos, en la formación del Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos. Además, lo hace en clave de actualidad. La realidad que el planeta está viviendo, a partir de la pandemia COVID-19, constituye -para el autor- un punto de inflexión en la enseñanza, y así lo refleja a lo largo de las páginas del libro. También lo pone de manifiesto en la forma de implementar el ABP, los agrupamientos, la evaluación y el centro de interés de docentes, alumnado y comunidad. El desafío que se propone este libro es intentar condensar en pocas páginas el trabajo realizado, desde la práctica, en la formación llevada a cabo durante décadas y cientos de horas de trabajo con escuelas y docentes de distintos países. La aspiración del autor es que este libro sea útil a quien lo pueda leer. Una pequeña provocación para iniciar un proyect

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Guía práctica para dejar de fumar de una vez por todas.

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Se intenta instaurar en este libro una mejor comprensión entre el hipertenso y su dolencia, mostrándole los riesgos en que puede incurrir (infarto, hemiplejia, insuficiencia renal.) si ignora su hipertensión.

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La memoria es un instrumento fundamental en todos los ámbitos y etapas de la vida, y la sobreinformación que nos rodea en el mundo actual nos satura muchas veces y nos hace perder capacidad de concentración y memorización. Este libro pretende poner remedio a esto a través de técnicas, trucos, ejercicios y motivación dirigidos a todos los que quieran mantener su memoria a pleno rendimiento: desde estudiantes y opositores hasta personas de mediana edad que no quieren padecer deterioro cognitivo.

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This lavishly illustrated volume offers a fascinating glimpse into Ruben's artistic process. The six glorious scenes that make up the Triumph of the Eucharist series by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) are highlights of the Museo Nacional del Prado's superb collection of Remish paintings. Completed in 1626, these brilliantly detailed sketches were painted at the behest of the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia in preparation for a series of monumental tapestries that are now considered among the finest made in Europe in the 17th-century. Unfortunately, additions to the wooden supports, introduced after the paintings were created, made the panels considerably larger than Rubens intended and over time caused serious damage to the original sections. With the aid of the Getty Foundation's Panel Paintings Initiative, the panels have been restored and returned to their original dimensions by the Prado, and the magnificent oil sketches can once again be placed on public view. This exquisitely illustrated volume provides new insight into the history of the Eucharist series of paintings and tapestries and attests to Rubens' exhilarating art.

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Rate and record your favorite manga as well as track your progress and make notes with this must-have journal perfect for manga readers everywhere. Calling all manga readers: this book is just for you!My Manga Collection is a tracker and reading journal created for manga fans to record the details of their favorite series and keep track of their progress. Inside, you’ll find easy-to-use templates for each series you’re reading with space to review each volume as you read and make a note of what you read so you can easily pick up where you left off. Each template ends with a series of thoughtful questions to get you thinking about your reading, and help you decide what to read next. It’s everything you need to keep up with your god-tier favorites, your trash reads, and everything in between.

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Finalista del IV Premio Vergara-Rincón de la Novela Romántica.Ginebra Freire se sentía afortunada. Lo tenía todo: un trabajo que le gustaba, un marido al que adoraba, estaba a punto de ser madre... Pero en pocos días lo pierde todo y a punto está, incluso, de perder la vida.Guiada por extrañas visiones que intenta ignorar, acepta la propuesta de su hermana de instalarse en Edimburgo con el propósito de empezar de nuevo. Durante una visita a un museo sufre un accidente, y despierta en otro tiempo.Corre el año 1744 y se halla en uno de los prostíbulos más conocidos de la capi- tal escocesa. Perdida y desconcertada, irá encontrando personas que con paciencia y humor la ayudarán a sobrevivir, aunque también se granjeará enemigos.Mientras tanto, los fantasmas que antes la acosaban irán tomando cuerpo, entre ellos un misterioso guerrero escocés que embriagará sus sentidos y trastornará sus sentimientos.Finalista del IV Premio Vergara-Rincón de la Novela Romántica.Ginebra F

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La autora de este libro es diabética. Recoge en sus páginas un buen número de reflexiones con la esperanza de que puedan servir de ayuda.

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About thirty boys are the only survivors of a shipwreck in which all the adults who manage to reach an island perish. He immediately asks how to survive in such conditions, and two groups with their respective leaders are soon created. Ralph becomes the leader of those who are willing to collect and build shelters, while Jack becomes the leader of the hunters, animated by an adventurous spirit. Tensions between the two sides do not take long to appear.

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