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Author : Gonzalo Santonja
Publisher : Evergraficas Editorial
ISBN 13 : 9788444110967
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Por los albores del toreo a pie written by Gonzalo Santonja and published by Evergraficas Editorial. This book was released on 2012 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giuseppe Pontiggia
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307425088
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Born Twice written by Giuseppe Pontiggia and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a breach birth leaves Paulo severely disabled, his father, the articulate, unsentimental Professor Frigerio, struggles to come to terms with his son’s condition. Face to face with his own limitations, Frigerio confronts the strange way society around him handles Paolo’s handicaps and observes his surprising gifts. In spare, deeply affecting episodes, the professor of language explores the nuanced boundaries between “normal” and “disabled” worlds. A remarkable memoir of fathering, winner of the 2001 Strega Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary honor, Born Twice is noted Italian author Guiseppe Pontiggia’s American debut. Sometimes meditative, often humorous, and always probing, Pontiggia’s haunting characters linger and resound long after the book is done.
Author : Rogers McVaugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Flora Novo-Galiciana written by Rogers McVaugh and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Carpenter Standley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1721 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Trees and Shrubs of Mexico written by Paul Carpenter Standley and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kent V. Flannery
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Maya Subsistence written by Kent V. Flannery and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1982-02-28 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya Subsistence: Studies in Memory of Dennis E. Puleston presents studies on the history and development of Maya subsistence in honor of Maya archaeologist Dennis E. Puleston (1940-1978). The discussions are organized around four themes: ecological models for early Maya adaptations; archaeological investigations of Pre-classic and classic Maya subsistence; contributions of geography and soil science to an understanding of ancient Maya subsistence; and Maya subsistence in the post-classic, colonial, and modern eras. Comprised of 15 chapters, this book begins with an analysis of Puleston's career and a review of the history of inquiry into Maya subsistence. Maya subsistence from the earliest Pre-classic period up to the present day is then examined, with emphasis on agriculture, hunting, wild plant collecting, animal husbandry, and trade. In particular, cultural development in the Valley of Guatemala from 1500 B.C. to the Spanish Conquest is discussed, along with the resources of the tropical lowlands and actual prehistoric cornfields miraculously preserved by volcanic ashfall in El Salvador. The book also presents evidence for Maya soil and water conservation over the entire area from Yucatan to Chiapas and central Guatemala, and looks at the traditional role of women and animals in lowland Maya economy. This monograph will be of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists.
Author : Brian D. Bunk
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389568
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Ghosts of Passion written by Brian D. Bunk and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of what caused the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) is the central focus of modern Spanish historiography. In Ghosts of Passion, Brian D. Bunk argues that propaganda related to the revolution of October 1934 triggered the broader conflict by accentuating existing social tensions surrounding religion and gender. Through careful analysis of the images produced in books, newspapers, posters, rallies, and meetings, Bunk contends that Spain’s civil war was not inevitable. Commemorative imagery produced after October 1934 bridged the gap between rhetoric and action by dehumanizing opponents and encouraging violent action against them. In commemorating the uprising, revolutionaries and conservatives used the same methods to promote radically different political agendas: they deployed religious imagery to characterize the political situation as a battle between good and evil, with the fate of the nation hanging in the balance, and exploited traditional gender stereotypes to portray themselves as the defenders of social order against chaos. The resulting atmosphere of polarization combined with increasing political violence to plunge the country into civil war.
Author : Roberta Johnson
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826514370
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Gender and Nation in the Spanish Modernist Novel written by Roberta Johnson and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a fresh, revisionist analysis of Spanish fiction from 1900 to 1940, this study examines the work of both men and women writers and how they practiced differing forms of modernism. As Roberta Johnson notes, Spanish male novelists emphasized technical and verbal innovation in representing the contents of an individual consciousness and thus were more modernist in the usual understanding of the term. Female writers, on the other hand, were less aesthetically innovative but engaged in a social modernism that focused on domestic issues, gender roles, and relations between the sexes. Compared to the more conventional--even reactionary--ways their male counterparts treated such matters, Spanish women's fiction in the first half of the twentieth century was often revolutionary. The book begins by tracing the history of public discourse on gender from the 1890s through the 1930s, a discourse that included the rise of feminism. Each chapter then analyzes works by female and male novelists that address key issues related to gender and nationalism: the concept of intrahistoria, or an essential Spanish soul; modernist uses of figures from the Spanish literary tradition, notably Don Quixote and Don Juan; biological theories of gender prevalent in the 1920s and 1930s; and the growth of an organized feminist movement that coincided with the burgeoning Republican movement. This is the first book dealing with this period of Spanish literature to consider women novelists, such as Maria Martinez Sierra, Carmen de Burgos, and Concha Espina, alongside canonical male novelists, including Miguel de Unamuno, Ramon del Valle-Inclan, and Pio Baroja. With its contrasting conceptions of modernism, Johnson's work provides a compelling new model for bridging the gender divide in the study of Spanish fiction.
Author : Peter Besas
Publisher : Arden Press Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Behind the Spanish Lens written by Peter Besas and published by Arden Press Incorporated. This book was released on 1985 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Spanish cinema since the death of Franco
Author : Justin Crumbaugh
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438426895
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Destination Dictatorship written by Justin Crumbaugh and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the right-wing military dictatorship of Francisco Franco decided in 1959 to devalue the Spanish currency and liberalize the economy, the country's already steadily growing tourist industry suddenly ballooned to astounding proportions. Throughout the 1960s, glossy images of high-rise hotels, crowded beaches, and blondes in bikinis flooded public space in Spain as the Franco regime showcased its success. In Destination Dictatorship, Justin Crumbaugh argues that the spectacle of the tourist boom took on a sociopolitical life of its own, allowing the Franco regime to change in radical and profound ways, to symbolize those changes in a self-serving way, and to mobilize new reactionary social logics that might square with the structural and cultural transformations that came with economic liberalization. Crumbaugh's illuminating analysis of the representation of tourism in Spanish commercial cinema, newsreels, political essays, and other cultural products overturns dominant assumptions about both the local impact of tourism development and the Franco regime's final years.
Author : Santiago Fouz-Hernandez
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474400485
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Spanish Erotic Cinema written by Santiago Fouz-Hernandez and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive scholarly study of Spanish erotic cinema, from the 1920s until the present dayThis book covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until the present day. Starting with a study of the kiss in silent films, the volume explores homoerotic narratives in the crusade films of the 1940s, the commodification of bodies in the late Franco period, and the so-called destape (literally aundressing) period that followed the abolition of censorship during the democratic transition.Reclaiming the importance of Spanish erotic cinema as a genre in itself, a range of international scholars demonstrate how the explicit depiction of sex can be a useful tool to illuminate current and historic social issues including ageism, colonialism, domestic violence, immigration, nationalisms, or women and LGBT rights. Covering a wide range of cinematic genres, including comedy, horror and melodrama, this book provides an innovative and provocative overview of Spanish cinema history and society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.ContributorsBrad Epps, Cambridge UniversitySally Faulkner, University of ExeterSantiago Fouz-HernA!ndez, Durham UniversityAntonio LA!zaro-Reboll, University of KentAnnabel MartA-n, Dartmouth CollegeAlejandro Melero Salvador, Universidad Carlos III in MadridJorge PA(c)rez, University of Texas, AustinCarolina Sanabria, University of Costa Rica Rob Stone, University of BirminghamTom Whittaker, University of LiverpoolEva Woods PeirA Vassar CollegeSarah Wright, Royal Holloway, University of LondonBarbara Zecchi, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Author : Gonzalo Santonja
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788444110387
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Luces sobre una época oscura written by Gonzalo Santonja and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despierta, toro: esgrime, desencadena, víbrate Levanta, toro: truena, tono, abalánzate. Atorbellínate, toro: revuélvete Sálvate, denso toro de emoción y de España. Sálvate. Honestos versos de Miguel Hernández que prologan el libro de Gonzalo Santonja. De la época oscura. El toreo a pie en el siglo XVII narra los orígenes del arte del toreo a pie, sus sempiternos detractores y defensores, gloria de monarcas y papas, astados rebeldes o enjutos, plazas de toros que consolidaron glorias y luces. Los grabados de Goya y fotografías dan fe de todo ello.
Author : Shibu Jose
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789400730489
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Agroforestry for Ecosystem Services and Environmental Benefits written by Shibu Jose and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agroforestry systems are believed to provide a number of ecosystem services; however, until recently evidence in the agroforestry literature supporting these perceived benefits has been lacking. This volume brings together a series of papers from around the globe to address recent findings on the ecosystem services and environmental benefits provided by agroforestry. Specifically, this volume examines four major ecosystem services and environmental benefits: (1) carbon sequestration, (2) biodiversity conservation, (3) soil enrichment and (4) air and water quality. Past and present evidence clearly indicates that agroforestry, as part of a multifunctional working landscape, can be a viable land-use option that, in addition to alleviating poverty, offers a number of ecosystem services and environmental benefits. This realization should help promote agroforestry and its role as an integral part of a multifunctional working landscape the world over. The book should be particularly useful to students, professionals, researchers and policy makers involved in natural resource management, agroforestry, biodiversity conservation, and environmental management. Reprinted from Agroforestry Systems, Volume 76, No. 1 (2009)
Author : Aurora Morcillo
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875809977
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (99 download)
Download or read book True Catholic Womanhood written by Aurora Morcillo and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the tension between expectations for the traditional woman, whose primary value to the state was reproductive, and those for the modern consumer-housewife ideal that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. This book offers insights to the gender dynamics of authoritarian states.
Author : Civakāmi
Publisher : Penguin India
ISBN 13 : 9780143104100
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Taming of Women written by Civakāmi and published by Penguin India. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Anandhayi gives birth to her fifth child downstairs, with only her ancient mother-in-law for help, upstairs her husband Periyannan sleeps with a woman he has summoned to spend the night with him. Women of many generations live in that house at the end of the road, with the tyrannical and charismatic Periyannan always trying to bring them under his control. Voracious in his appetites, for both power and sex, Periyannan is a domineering antagonist to the tender but tenacious Anandhayi. In her most celebrated novel, Sivakami vividly evokes a world where women and men are in constant conflict, scrambling for the little power to which they can hold on. It is her superb satiric eye capturing in comic vignettes of exquisite detail the life of women in a village transforming into a small town that brings relief to this bleak, blistering vision of humanity, leaving the reader simultaneously amused and devastated.
Author : David T. Gies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521574297
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture written by David T. Gies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide analyses of the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of the major autonomous regions (notably Castile, Catalonia, and the Basque Country), and the country's literature: narrative, poetry, theatre and the essay. Spain's recent development is divided into three main phases: from 1868 to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War; the period of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco; and the post-Franco arrival of democracy. The concept of 'Spanish culture' is investigated, and there are studies of Spanish painting and sculpture, architecture, cinema, dance, music, and the modern media. A chronology and guides to further reading are provided, making the volume an invaluable introduction to the politics, literature and culture of modern Spain.
Author : Stanley G. Payne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Franco's Spain written by Stanley G. Payne and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough look at social, political and economic aspects of Spain between 1939 and the sixties.
