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Author : Manuel Gayol Mecías
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Total Pages : 36 pages
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Download or read book El jaguar es un sueño de ámbar y otros cuentos (1986-1990) written by Manuel Gayol Mecías and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne S. Dowd
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1457193752
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica written by Anne S. Dowd and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica is an interdisciplinary tour de force that establishes the critical role astronomy played in the religious and civic lives of the ancient peoples of Mesoamerica. Providing extraordinary examples of how Precolumbian peoples merged ideas about the cosmos with those concerning calendar and astronomy, the volume showcases the value of detailed examinations of astronomical data for understanding ancient cultures. The volume is divided into three sections: investigations into Mesoamerican horizon-based astronomy, the cosmological principles expressed in Mesoamerican religious imagery and rituals related to astronomy, and the aspects of Mesoamerican calendars related to archaeoastronomy. It also provides cutting-edge research on diverse topics such as records of calendar and horizon-based astronomical observation (like the Dresden and Borgia codices), iconography of burial assemblages, architectural alignment studies, urban planning, and counting or measuring devices. Contributors—who are among the most respected in their fields— explore new dimensions in Mesoamerican timekeeping and skywatching in the Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacano, Zapotec, and Aztec cultures. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of anthropology, archaeology, art history, and astronomy.
Author : Donald Richie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520032774
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Ozu written by Donald Richie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1977-03-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting for: a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his notebooks and shooting scripts, numerous quotes from co-workers and Japanese critics, a great many stills and an unusually detailed filmography."—Sight and Sound Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one major theme, its dissolution. The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films. In his later pictures, the whole world exists in one family, the characters are family members rather than members of a society, and the ends of the earth seem no more distant than the outside of the house.
Author : Carlos Fonseca
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374719861
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Natural History written by Carlos Fonseca and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realities Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator’s fascination with the secrets of the animal kingdom—with camouflage and subterfuge—and she proposes that they collaborate on an exhibition, the nature of which remains largely obscure, even as they enter into a strange relationship marked by evasion and elision. Seven years later, after the designer’s death, the curator recovers the archive of their never-completed project. During a long night of insomnia, he finds within the archive a series of clues about the true history of the designer’s family, a mind-bending puzzle that winds from Haifa, Israel, to bohemian 1970s New York to the Latin American jungles. As he follows this trail, the curator discovers a cast of characters whose own fixations interrogate the unstable frontiers between art, science, politics, and religion. An aging photographer, living nearly alone in an abandoned mining town where subterranean fires rage without end, creates miniature replicas of ruined cities. A former model turned conceptual artist becomes the star defendant in a trial over the very soul and purpose of art. A young indigenous boy receives a vision of the end of the world. Reality is a curtain, the curator realizes, and to draw it back is to reveal the theater of the obsessed. Natural History is a portrait of a world trapped between faith and irony, tragedy and farce. An urgent and impressively ambitious novel in the tradition of Italo Calvino and Ricardo Piglia, it confirms Carlos Fonseca as one of the most daring writers of his generation.
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Total Pages : 990 pages
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Download or read book LEV written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2762 pages
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Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112044669122 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 2762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A L (Alfred Louis) 1876-1 Kroeber
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014456519
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Proto-Lima written by A L (Alfred Louis) 1876-1 Kroeber and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Susan Helen Ellison
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822371782
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Domesticating Democracy written by Susan Helen Ellison and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Domesticating Democracy Susan Helen Ellison examines foreign-funded alternate dispute resolution (ADR) organizations that provide legal aid and conflict resolution to vulnerable citizens in El Alto, Bolivia. Advocates argue that these programs help residents cope with their interpersonal disputes and economic troubles while avoiding an overburdened legal system and cumbersome state bureaucracies. Ellison shows that ADR programs do more than that—they aim to change the ways Bolivians interact with the state and with global capitalism, making them into self-reliant citizens. ADR programs frequently encourage Bolivians to renounce confrontational expressions of discontent, turning away from courtrooms, physical violence, and street protest and coming to the negotiation table. Nevertheless, residents of El Alto find creative ways to take advantage of these micro-level resources while still seeking justice and a democratic system capable of redressing the structural violence and vulnerability that ADR fails to treat.
Author : Andrés Barba
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 132858934X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)
Download or read book A Luminous Republic written by Andrés Barba and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.
Author : Federico Andahazi
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802138262
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (382 download)
Download or read book The Merciful Women written by Federico Andahazi and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel from the best-selling Argentine author of The Anatomist, The Merciful Women is a brilliant retelling of the birth of the Gothic novel. In the summer of 1816, Percy and Mary Shelley, Mary's sister, and Lord Byron hid themselves away in a Swiss villa, whiling away rainy afternoons with the Gothic novel contest that would produce Frankenstein. Andahazi's reimagining focuses on the fifth competitor: John Polidori, Byron's manservant, a talentless hack resentful of the ease of his master's life. Through a Faustian pact with an unseen intercessant, Polidori obtains the most compelling vampire story ever written. But The Vampyre has striking similarities to Polidori's benefactor and to what she asks of him in return. Opium, erotica, and decadence meld into a sly and stylish novel about literary ambition, talent, and inspiration. A hoot ... a Voltaire-like skewering of the myth of genius. Andahazi can remind you of vintage Terry Southern. -- Richard Wallace, The Seattle Times Playful, satiric, erotic, sometimes savage, sometimes slapstick ... something completely different, and well worth reading. -- San Francisco Chronicle As a piece of mock-scholarly, wickedly ironic entertainment, it is an utter delight. -- Publishers Weekly This literary tour de force cum vampire tale will leave the reader gasping-from laughter and horror by turns. -- The Baltimore Sun
Author : Eduardo Machado
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559367008
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)
Download or read book The Floating Island Plays written by Eduardo Machado and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa, Fabiola, In the Eye of the Hurricane and Broken Eggs.
Author : Elvira Navarro
Publisher : Hispabooks
ISBN 13 : 9788494094897
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (948 download)
Download or read book The Happy City written by Elvira Navarro and published by Hispabooks. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two nouvelles form this award-winning book by a writer featured in Granta's 2010 issue "The Best of Young Spanish-language Novelists."
Author : Cristina Cubas
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720619548
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Nona's Room written by Cristina Cubas and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner:Premio Nacional de Narrativa (2016)Premio de la Critica Española (2016)Premio Dulce Chacón (2016) Book of the Year 2015:La Vanguardia, El Cultural, Babelia and ABC An award-winning collection of Gothic and uncanny stories from one of Europe's most celebrated contemporary writers of short fiction. In Nona's Room the everyday fantasies of women slowly turn into nightmare, delusion and paranoia. A young girl who is envious of the attention given to her sister has a brutal awakening. A young woman, facing eviction, misplaces her trust in an old lady who invites her into her home. A mature woman spends the night in a hotel in Madrid and falls into a time warp... Cubas's stories are suffused with the chilling tones of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and the psychological intensity of Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train.
Author : Patricia de Santana Pinho
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469645335
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Mapping Diaspora written by Patricia de Santana Pinho and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the black Atlantic diaspora. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research as well as textual, visual, and archival sources, Patricia de Santana Pinho investigates African American roots tourism, a complex, poignant kind of travel that provides profound personal and collective meaning for those searching for black identity and heritage. It also provides, as Pinho's interviews with Brazilian tour guides, state officials, and Afro-Brazilian activists reveal, economic and political rewards that support a structured industry. Pinho traces the origins of roots tourism to the late 1970s, when groups of black intellectuals, artists, and activists found themselves drawn especially to Bahia, the state that in previous centuries had absorbed the largest number of enslaved Africans. African Americans have become frequent travelers across what Pinho calls the "map of Africanness" that connects diasporic communities and stimulates transnational solidarities while simultaneously exposing the unevenness of the black diaspora. Roots tourism, Pinho finds, is a fertile site to examine the tensions between racial and national identities as well as the gendered dimensions of travel, particularly when women are the major roots-seekers.
Author : Laura Alcoba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rabbit House written by Laura Alcoba and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura was 7 years old when her parents' political sympathies began to draw the attention of the dictator's regime. Before long, her father was imprisoned and Laura and her mother were forced to leave their apartment in the capital of Buenos Aires to go into hiding in a small, run-down house on the outskirts. This is the 'rabbit house' where the resistance movement is building a secret printing press, and setting up a rabbit farm to conceal their activities. Laura now finds herself living a clandestine existence - crouching beneath a blanket in the car on her way to school, forbidden from talking to friends or neighbours, and only half understanding the conversations she overhears between the adults in the house. Intensely remembered and powerfully portrayed, this is a compelling account of growing up under a dictatorship, depicting a world hedged in by secrecy and the danger of discovery, where bonds of trust are forged and then violently betrayed.
Author : Andrés Barba
Publisher : Hispabooks
ISBN 13 : 9788494365812
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (658 download)
Download or read book August, October written by Andrés Barba and published by Hispabooks. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very adult novel about adolescence written in a crafted, sensual prose that resonates hauntingly in the mind.
Author : Maria Sonia Cristoff
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ISBN 13 : 9781945492303
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Include Me Out written by Maria Sonia Cristoff and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interpreter takes a vow of silence in order to re-define the terms on which she lives.
