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Book A New Friend on Mafalda Island

Download or read book A New Friend on Mafalda Island written by Debora Vecchio and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mafalda

    Book Details:
  • Author : Isabella Cosse
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2019-12-23
  • ISBN : 1478005130
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Mafalda written by Isabella Cosse and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its creation in 1964, readers from all over the world have loved the comic Mafalda, primarily because of the sharp wit and rebellious nature of its title character—a four-year-old girl who is wise beyond her years. Through Mafalda, Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado explores complex questions about class identity, modernization, and state violence. In Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic—first published in Argentina in 2014 and appearing here in English for the first time—Isabella Cosse analyzes the comic's vast appeal across multiple generations. From Mafalda breaking the fourth wall to speak directly to readers to express her opposition to the 1966 Argentine coup, to Spanish students' protest signs bearing her face, to the comic's cult status in Korea, Cosse provides insights into the cartoon's production, circulation, and incorporation into social and political conversations. Analyzing how Mafalda reflects generational conflicts, gender, modernization, the Cold War, authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and much more, Cosse demonstrates the unexpected power of humor to shape revolution and resistance.

Book Capone

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laurence Bergreen
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-05-21
  • ISBN : 1439128456
  • Pages : 726 pages

Download or read book Capone written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of Chicago where Al Capone forged his sinister empire. Bergreen shows the seedy and glamorous sides of the age, the rise of Prohibition, the illicit liquor trade, the battlefield that was Chicago. Delving beyond the Capone mythology. Bergreen finds a paradox: a coldblooded killer, thief, pimp, and racketeer who was also a devoted son and father; a self-styled Robin Hood who rose to the top of organized crime. Capone is a masterful portrait of an extraordinary time and of the one man who reigned supreme over it all, Al Capone.

Book The Killing of Lira

    Book Details:
  • Author : Manuela DaCosta
  • Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
  • Release : 2023-10-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book The Killing of Lira written by Manuela DaCosta and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome back to Hawk Island and the village of Two Brooks. Hawk Island is plunged into crisis when a series of daring break-ins target the island's most wealthy and powerful families. The Sacristy--a group of unconventional women from the village of Two Brooks--tries to get to the bottom of the burglaries, while also bent on solving the murder of an old foe. Always performing a balancing act between truth and justice, Monsignor Inocente prods the villagers to accept newcomers as well as a prodigal son coming home to either ask for forgiveness or settle an old score.

Book Hawk Island

    Book Details:
  • Author : Manuela DaCosta
  • Publisher : Archway Publishing
  • Release : 2018-02-15
  • ISBN : 148085641X
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Hawk Island written by Manuela DaCosta and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawk Island stands in the middle of the Atlantic, small and defiant, like its people. Two Brooks is the most isolated village in Hawk Island, surrounded by high cliffs and flanked at each end by a brook. It is a village of tenacious people, hardened by isolation and punished by nature with crude winters and burning droughts. It is also a place forsaken by God and men that boasts a long history of civil disobedience and defiance of social norms. The village priest, Monsignor Inocente, is doing his best to keep his parishioners on a path of moral rectitude. Unfortunately, he is also fighting forces he cannot control. When three young men disappear, the villagers diligently search for a plausible explanation. While the villagers grapple with their seemingly justifiable fears, the monsignor asks for help from the mainland. But what no one knows is that his decision will set off a chain of events that will forever change life in Two Brooks. In this spiritual tale, a priest living in an island town plagued by dark secrets and strange occurrences must attempt to keep the peace among terrified villagers after three men mysteriously disappear.

Book The Film Archipelago

Download or read book The Film Archipelago written by Antonio Gómez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema? Comprising 15 essays and a critical introduction, The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema addresses this question by examining a series of intersections between insular spaces and filmmaking in Latin America. The volume brings together international scholars and filmmakers to consider a diverse corpus of films about islands, films that take place on islands, films produced in islands, and films that problematise islands. The book explores a diverse range of films that extend from the Chilean documentaries of Patricio Guzmán to work on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, and films by Argentine directors Gustavo Fontán and Lucrecia Martel. Chapters focus on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the Mexican Islas Marías, and the Panamanian Caribbean; on ecocritical, environmental and film historical aspects of Brazilian and Argentine river islands; and on Cuban, Guadeloupean, Haitian, and Puerto Rican contexts. The Film Archipelago argues that the islands and archipelagos of Latin American cinema constitute a critically interesting, analytically complex, and historically suggestive angle to explore issues of marginality and peripherality, remoteness and isolation, and fragility and dependency. As a whole, the collection demonstrates to what extent the combined insular and archipelagic lens can re-frame and re-figure both longstanding and recent discussions on the spaces of Latin American cinema.

Book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich written by William L. Shirer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the Nazi's rise to power, conquest of Europe, and dramatic defeat at the hands of the Allies.

Book Sauces   Shapes  Pasta the Italian Way

Download or read book Sauces Shapes Pasta the Italian Way written by Oretta Zanini De Vita and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the International Association of Culinary Association (IACP) Award The indispensable cookbook for genuine Italian sauces and the traditional pasta shapes that go with them. Pasta is so universally popular in the United States that it can justifiably be called an American food. This book makes the case for keeping it Italian with recipes for sauces and soups as cooked in Italian homes today. There are authentic versions of such favorites as carbonara, bolognese, marinara, and Alfredo, as well as plenty of unusual but no less traditional sauces, based on roasts, ribs, rabbit, clams, eggplant, arugula, and mushrooms, to name but a few. Anyone who cooks or eats pasta needs this book. The straightforward recipes are easy enough for the inexperienced, but even professional chefs will grasp the elegance of their simplicity. Cooking pasta the Italian way means: Keep your eye on the pot, not the clock. Respect tradition, but don’t be a slave to it. Choose a compatible pasta shape for your sauce or soup, but remember they aren’t matched by computer. (And that angel hair goes with broth, not sauce.) Use the best ingredients you can find—and you can find plenty on the Internet. Resist the urge to embellish, add, or substitute. But minor variations usually enhance a dish. How much salt? Don’t ask, taste! Serving and eating pasta the Italian way means: Use a spoon for soup, not for twirling spaghetti. Learn to twirl; never cut. Never add too much cheese, and often add none at all. Toss the cheese and pasta before adding the sauce. Warm the dishes.Serve pasta alone. The salad comes after. To be perfectly proper, use a plate, not a bowl. The authors are reluctant to compromise because they know how good well-made pasta can be. But they keep their sense of humor and are sympathetic to all well-intentioned readers.

Book Encyclopedia of Pasta

    Book Details:
  • Author : Oretta Zanini De Vita
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2019-09-17
  • ISBN : 0520322754
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Pasta written by Oretta Zanini De Vita and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated throughout with original drawings by Luciana Marini, this will bethe standard reference on one of the world's favorite foods for many years tocome, engaging and delighting both general readers and food professionals.

Book Longings Are Purple Black

    Book Details:
  • Author : Manuela DaCosta
  • Publisher : Archway Publishing
  • Release : 2021-11-11
  • ISBN : 1665711221
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Longings Are Purple Black written by Manuela DaCosta and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome back to Hawk Island and the village of Two Brooks. While the sea slowly kisses the sand on the small beach of Saint Carlos, preparations for an Episcopal retreat begin while members of the Sacristy, a group of unconventional women who live in Two Brooks, set down a new path lined with quandaries and challenges. Angela Matias is a cunning, intelligent, and persistent spitfire who feels compelled to choose just one of the three men she loves. While Ascendida struggles with the concept of forgiveness and her desire to love a man not a boy, Nascimento continues to grapple with her voyeurism. As Madalena must either forget Saul and move on with her life or bring him back, Dona Mafalda yearns to be loved, but cannot trust love to be kind. As the women take it upon themselves to solve a centuries-long mystery, they once again find themselves questioning the rules and norms of their island and inescapably facing the consequences. In this third book of the Hawk Island series, members of the Sacristy must come to terms with decisions and actions that profoundly affect their lives.

Book The Best Simple Recipes

    Book Details:
  • Author : America's Test Kitchen
  • Publisher : America's Test Kitchen
  • Release : 2010-03-01
  • ISBN : 1933615591
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book The Best Simple Recipes written by America's Test Kitchen and published by America's Test Kitchen. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best Simple Recipes offers more than 200 full-flavored easy-to-prepare recipes that can be on the table in 30 minutes or less in an easy-to-read paperback format. Just because time is short, it doesn't mean you have to settle for a can of soup or a sandwich for dinner, or making one of the many boring and flavorless fast recipes (which often aren't even as fast as they promise). Our test cooks have created more than 200 recipes that keep the ingredients and cooking time to a minimum and offer tons of flavor and plenty of variety. By combining steps, minimizing pans, and employing a little test kitchen trickery, our test cooks have made naturally fast recipes even faster, and they've made recipes that traditionally take hours ready for the table in half an hour. And while they used a minimum of ingredients, one thing they didn't minimize was flavor.

Book Axel Munthe

Download or read book Axel Munthe written by Bengt Jangfeldt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele' tells for the first time the riveting life-story of an extraordinary individual, who came to define the times he lived in. The precociously bright son of a Swedish pharmacist, Axel Munthe worked under Jean Martin Charcot, and in 1880, became the youngest doctor in French history. By the 1890s, he was world-famous for his healing powers, believed by some to be supernatural. He moved in the most colourful and exalted circles of fin de siecle Europe, counting amongst his friends Henry James, Howard Carter, Rainer Maria Rilke, Lady Ottoline Morrell and Count Zeppelin. Though physician to the Swedish court, where he became the lover of the Crown Princess Victoria, Munthe was more at home with nature than with people. He travelled through remotest Lapland, as well as across Europe, and his great love was animals, whom he went to great lengths to protect. In 1929 he published 'The Story of San Michele', an account of his life, shot through with his love for Italy and Capri, where he built a bird sanctuary and the house of his dreams, the Villa San Michele. The book became an international best seller, translated into 40 languages, and has become one of the classics of the last century. Bengt Jangfeldt is the first person to have gone through Munthe's diaries, letters and notebooks to produce this definitive account of one of 20th Century Europe's most vibrant figures. Written with the verve and exuberance of its subject, 'Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele' evokes a lost time, a life of passions, and a man who believed in every sense in the power of dreams.

Book The Brief New Century Handbook

Download or read book The Brief New Century Handbook written by Christine A. Hult and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first brief handbook to put technology front and center, The Brief New Century Handbookcontinues to offer unparalleled coverage of using computers in writing, grammar, and research-and now offers superior coverage of writing across the curriculum as well. Highly lauded for its concise writing style, student-friendly grammar explanations, and outstanding research, this is a handbook made for today's students.

Book The Macrolepidoptera of the World

Download or read book The Macrolepidoptera of the World written by Adalbert Seitz and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robert the Rose Horse

Download or read book Robert the Rose Horse written by Joan Heilbroner and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1962 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert's allergic reaction to roses causes much commotion for everyone in town and saddens the horse

Book An English Dakota school dictionary

Download or read book An English Dakota school dictionary written by John Poage Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bessie Series   Books 1 3

Download or read book The Bessie Series Books 1 3 written by Jody Overend and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books 1-3 in 'The Bessie Series' by Jody Overend, now available in one volume! Missing Bessie: Ravenspond, Canada, 1972. Fifteen-year old Bessie has just broken up with her boyfriend Jason. Hitchhiking to Vancouver, she plans to catch her hero, Chris Lisacker, in concert. Instead of ending up on the West Coast, Bessie and Ash find themselves in Heaven, with no idea how they got there. As her memories begin to recover and her fate is about to be revealed, does she really want to know the truth? Surviving Bessie: After a tragic loss, Bessie feels responsible. How is she supposed to go on living with all this grief and guilt? Somehow, with the help of Angel Mel, her loving family, and unexpected new friendships, she is able to find her inner strength - and discover that even after all the rain, there will be sunshine. Forgiving Bessie: Bessie is on the verge of womanhood, with one more year of home-schooling to go. It’s time to choose a path into the future but Bessie feels lost and alone, unable to trust herself. When the alluring stranger, Arturo Rodrigues, arrives in Ravenspond, Bessie is drawn to her. What is it about him that feels so familiar? The truth is something she could have never imagined, even in a million lifetimes.