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Book Synopsis La Española - Isla de Encuentros / Hispaniola - Island of Encounters by : Jessica Barzen
Download or read book La Española - Isla de Encuentros / Hispaniola - Island of Encounters written by Jessica Barzen and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zwei Staaten unterschiedlicher sprachlicher und kultureller Prägung - Haiti und die Dominikanische Republik - teilen sich heute die Karibikinsel Hispaniola. In der Kolonialzeit war sie Schauplatz der ersten Begegnungen zwischen Indigenen und Spaniern und Spielball der Auseinandersetzungen zwischen europäischen Kolonialmächten. Plantagensystem und Sklaverei gelangten hier zu ihrer höchsten Blüte, bis die Haitianische Revolution und die Gründung des ersten unabhängigen Staats in Amerika das Kolonialsystem erschütterten. Die wechselvolle Geschichte der Insel spiegelt sich in vielschichtigen Sprach- und Kulturkontakten wider, die die karibische Sprachenlandschaft bis heute prägen und den Gegenstand des vorliegenden Bandes bilden. Die Beiträge beleuchten die frühesten indianisch-spanischen Sprachkontakte ebenso wie das Phänomen der Kreolisierung in Haiti, historische und aktuelle Austauschprozesse zwischen Spanisch und Kreol und die Weiterentwicklung dieser Sprachen in der Diaspora.
Book Synopsis World Englishes Volumes I-III Set by : Tometro Hopkins
Download or read book World Englishes Volumes I-III Set written by Tometro Hopkins and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of English as it is spoken throughout the world.
Book Synopsis The Course of Mexican History by : Michael C. Meyer
Download or read book The Course of Mexican History written by Michael C. Meyer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still the leading book on Mexican history from the pre-Columbian periods to the present, this thoroughly updated sixth edition of The Course of Mexican History introduces a new co-author, Susan Deeds, and features a new emphasis on social and cultural history. It offers a new understanding of indigenous cultures, including revised discussions of pre-Columbian central Mexico and the Spanish conquest of Mexico, as well as an examination of new trends in the fast-changing field of Mayan studies. Using recent scholarship and discoveries, the authors have expanded the sections on the historical background of Spanish conquistadors and the social, religious, and cultural history of Mexico's colonial period, with a particular emphasis on its impact on women and indigenous cultures. New research on the events and social grievances which led up to the independence movement are examined as well.
Book Synopsis Oh-Di-Seas de Un Mar-Ino by : No-É Dream
Download or read book Oh-Di-Seas de Un Mar-Ino written by No-É Dream and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guillermo Gerardo González Zamudio (1931) Nace en tierras Veracruzanas, Ingeniero Mecánico Naval y Arquitecto Naval, fue recopilando a lo largo de su vida anécdotas personales, familiares y profesionales, las cuales describe con un particular sentido enigmático, humorístico, sarcástico, que obliga a la reflexión para poderlas ubicar en contexto, utilizando sobrenombres, algunas veces en idioma Inglés, para hacer difícil la identificación de los personajes y hechos. De pluma ligera e inspirada, relata la forma en que se sucedieron los acontecimientos que en su momento fueron reales.
Download or read book American Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harry's Ark written by David Newcomb and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story begins in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on Friday, March 7, 1947. Charlesville, a financier representing Frances colonial interests in Indo-China, has backed the construction of a large, high capacity helicopter intended for sale to the U.S. Army. He is now on his way to Ponce to close the deal. The aircrafts builder, Harry Baird, is a retired Army aeronautical engineer who relocated from Dayton's Wright Field to Ponce at the end of the war, and took with him several other Wright Field engineers. Since the aircraft these men built is the collateral on Charlesville's loan, the threat Charlesville holds over Harry is to terminate the project and remove the aircraft to France; something Harry will never let happen. In the wake of a mishap during air trials, the sales contract Harry has pursued in Charlesville's behalf fails to materialize. Rather than tell Charlesville, however, Harry decides on a ruse to conceal the failure, and devises a plan to fly the ship from Puerto Rico to Wright Field, a record-setting distance of two thousand miles. His purpose is to use the publicity attending the flight to force the Armys hand in offering him the contract. To help garner publicity, Harry enlists the support of Patty Symms, a twenty-four-year-old photographer who made a name for herself through her work in England during the war. But in Ponce, Patty becomes involved in a story she only set out to report. She falls in love with Harrys pilot, Don Perry. Don is a forty-one-year-old Wright Field veteran who harbors the dream of becoming the Negro Lindbergh. Already he has become Americas first African American test pilot, and already suffered the abuse of the Armys racial prejudice. Recognizing this prejudice, and seeing its effects on Don, Patty realizes that Don, more than Harry or Harrys ruse, is the true focus of her story. But her burgeoning love for Don is poignant, premised in part on the excitement of taboo, for she is white. Unable to resist caving in, Don, too, falls in love. Patty has brought out of him qualities long held in abeyance. She has humanized the man, and he has emboldened her. In their affair, each recognizes that, while the worlds stage may be set for the appearance of a black hero (Jackie Robinson arrived at the majors exactly at this time), the world is far from ready to accept them as an item. But the flight to Wright Field drives the story. By the time the flight occurs, we have seen the death of Harry Baird. We have seen the jealousy his authority and obsessive ambition invoked. The relationships between Harry and his men involve hostility, quitting, blaming, economic exploitation of minorities, and the certain theme that dreams have a price often measured in pain. And by the time the aircraft arrives at Wright Field, the men have faced the challenge that freedom entails. The flight to Wright Field raises the novel to its climax, recording the movement of the story from common resentment, through a transforming ordeal, to a common bond of compassion and love. In the sense that something happens to us all on the way, HARRY'S ARK could be likened to a pilgrimage, or an odyssey, or a homecoming, or a voyage, like Noah's, for which it is named, for it celebrates the second chance that deliverance implies. To Patty and Don, there occurs by the end of their journey a bond uniquely theirs, that we have been privileged to share, and we, too, come away with the same second chance, to keep faith with how we got to where we are.
Download or read book Yankee Come Home written by William Craig and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yankee Come Home explores one family's history in Cuba, and through it, the intense, complex, smoldering relationship between the island nation and its leviathan neighbor. In Cuba's most entrancing, storied landscape, William Craig is searching for a history that his family has lost-and now needs to recover. He's looking for the truth about his mysterious great-grandfather, Thomas O'Brien, a self-proclaimed hero of the "splendid little war" who left a legacy of glorious, painful lies. Living a dream that haunts American hearts-the dream of escaping the past, of becoming who we say we are-"Papa" died leaving his own children wondering who he'd really been. Along the way, Craig searches for the place where Gilded Age America abandoned republican ideals in favor of imperial ambition-and where his own generation of Americans now preside over arbitrary imprisonment and systematized torture. "I needed to see Guantánamo the way some Americans needed to drive through the night to kneel at JFK's coffin, and others are drawn to Ground Zero," he writes. "Sometimes, we don't know what we've lost until we trace the scars." Traveling with Craig, readers will join in present-day adventures: spirit-possession rituals, black market odysseys, roots-music epiphanies, and discovering the continuing impact of the war in 1898 on both Cuba and America. The story of the United States in Cuba is fascinating, but none too flattering. Like the reality of "Papa" O'Brien's identity, it reflects more hubris than heroism, more avarice than sacrifice. In the end, however, Craig's journey in Yankee Come Home is a transformation from disillusionment to redemption.
Download or read book The Art of Far Cry 6 written by Ubisoft and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the vibrant island of Yara, a nation trapped in time. Dark Horse Books and Ubisoft have joined forces to create The Art of Far Cry 6, a beautiful volume that is perfect for any fan of the Far Cry adventures. Welcome to Yara. Viva Libertad!
Book Synopsis Sosa! Baseball's Home Run Hero by : Patricia J. Duncan
Download or read book Sosa! Baseball's Home Run Hero written by Patricia J. Duncan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ésta es la historia de un exitoso jugador de béisbol. Nació el 12 de Noviembre del año 1968, en San Pedro de Macorís, República Dominicana. Empezó a jugar desde muy temprana edad llegando a ser lo que es hoy, uno de los más grandes jonroneros de todos los tiempos. Sosa es toda una leyenda en su país y también en los Estados Unidos, gracias a su destacadísima participación en las grandes ligas y por ser, además, un dominicano de muy buen corazón. Existe una Fundación que bajo su nombre desarrolla una hermosa labor de apoyo a personas en situación de riesgo social, en su pueblo. Se sabe, también, de la ayuda que prestó para paliar las consecuencias de la devastación provocada por el huracán George. También colabora permanentemente haciendo donaciones de computadores para las escuelas con menos recursos. Todo un ejemplo de hombre, y deportista. Conózcalo mejor en esta breve semblanza suya.
Book Synopsis The Echoing Green by : Joshua Prager
Download or read book The Echoing Green written by Joshua Prager and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the untold story of the secret scandal behind baseball's most legendary moment:The Shot Heard Round the World. A Washington Post Best Book of the Year. At 3:58 p.m. on October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson hit a home run off Ralph Branca. The ball sailed over the left field wall and into history. The Giants won the pennant. That moment—the Shot Heard Round the World—reverberated from the West Wing of the White House to the Sing Sing death house to the Polo Grounds clubhouse, where hitter and pitcher forever turned into hero and goat. It was also in that centerfield block of concrete that, after the home run, a Giant coach tucked away a Wollensak telescope. The Echoing Green places that revelation at the heart of a larger story, re-creating in extravagant detail and illuminating as never before the impact of both a moment and a long-guarded secret on the lives of Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca.
Book Synopsis Anti-Americanism in the Third World by : Alvin Z. Rubinstein
Download or read book Anti-Americanism in the Third World written by Alvin Z. Rubinstein and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays, originally presented at a conference held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1984, show that particular U.S. policies have played an important role in engendering resentment of the United States in the so-called Third World. The first chapter presents an overview of the problem and proposes the structure of an approach to it, including a typology of anti-Americanism. This is followed by essays which are country-specific or regional in scope (Mexico, Latin America, the Arab World, Turkey, South Asia, Malaysia, Africa) in which the contributors flesh out some of the cultural, ideological, and historical factors which have influenced the particular expressions of anti-Americanism in various parts of the third world. Finally, three contributors analyze the phenomenon in functional areas (the multinational corporations, the United Nations) and in terms of implications for the United States.
Download or read book El Béisbol written by John Krich and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2002 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quirky, wry, and often hilarious odyssey through the baseball fields of Latin America--both sports book and travelogue, political reportage and meditation on New World identity. With wit and style, John Krich evokes a world where barefoot kids perfect their swings with stalks of sugar cane, midget mascots dance the merengue atop dugouts, and wily scouts compete with dictators for the souls of promising shortstops. "El Beisbol sparkles with keen observation and irreverent humor."--Washington Post Book World
Book Synopsis Prefixes and Other Word-Initial Elements by : Urdang Staff
Download or read book Prefixes and Other Word-Initial Elements written by Urdang Staff and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anglicisms in Spanish by : Richard V. Teschner
Download or read book Anglicisms in Spanish written by Richard V. Teschner and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Children's Book Review, 1994 by : Beverly Baer
Download or read book Children's Book Review, 1994 written by Beverly Baer and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides access to reviews of children's books and periodicals that are indexed by Book Review Index.
Book Synopsis Buñuel and Mexico by : Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz
Download or read book Buñuel and Mexico written by Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Luis Buñuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The only book-length English-language study of Buñuel's Mexican films, this book is the first to explore a significant but neglected area of this filmmaker's distinguished career and thus to fill a gap in our appreciation and understanding of both Buñuel's achievement and the history of Mexican film. Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz considers Buñuel's Mexican films—made between 1947 and 1965—within the context of a national and nationalist film industry, comparing the filmmaker's employment of styles, genres, character types, themes, and techniques to those most characteristic of Mexican cinema. In this study Buñuel's films emerge as a link between the Classical Mexican cinema of the 1930s through the 1950s and the "new" Cinema of the 1960s, flourishing in a time of crisis for the national film industry and introducing some of the stylistic and conceptual changes that would revitalize Mexican cinema.
Book Synopsis Subject Guide to Children's Books In Print, 1996 by : R R Bowker Publishing
Download or read book Subject Guide to Children's Books In Print, 1996 written by R R Bowker Publishing and published by Reed Reference Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
