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Book El eterno Joseph

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rubén Amaro Soriano
  • Publisher : Palibrio
  • Release : 2013-11
  • ISBN : 1463369247
  • Pages : 103 pages

Download or read book El eterno Joseph written by Rubén Amaro Soriano and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Es la historia de un anciano que fue abandonado por su familia en un asilo para que muriera de soledad. Agobiado por las enfermedades y el abandono de sus hijos desea morir lo más pronto posible. Un día, se le presenta la muerte y lo atormenta, le avisa que pronto va a ir por él, y le muestra una ficha de marfil en donde aparece el día de su muerte. En una lucha poco usual con la muerte, y sin que ella se dé cuenta le roba la ficha. Con este acto el anciano esta privado de morir, pues ha adquirido el don de la eternidad. El saber que es eterno lo obligó a meditar profundamente en su actual forma de vida, pero sobre todo, en la forma que él debería de morir. Fue tanto el pesar que el anciano padeció al final de su vida, que parecía que el destino se había vuelto implacablemente hostil, y buscó a la muerte como última alternativa para poner fin a su sufrimiento. E ignorado por la muerte, y revolcándose de dolor se resignó a seguir viviendo. Entonces, él tuvo que aceptar los fenómenos sobrenaturales que acontecían a su alrededor como parte de su vida cotidiana. Y comenzó a ver la figura terrible de la muerte como algo cotidiano y familiar pues debido al don de la eternidad, él pronto se iba a convertir también en muerte, una raza especial de seres que no mueren.

Book Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum written by Pascual De Gayangos and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Book The Manufactories and Manufacturers of Pennsylvania of the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book The Manufactories and Manufacturers of Pennsylvania of the Nineteenth Century written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-08 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Book American Stationer and Office Manager

Download or read book American Stationer and Office Manager written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transcript of the Enrollment Books

Download or read book Transcript of the Enrollment Books written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Elections and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Stationer and Office Outfitter

Download or read book The American Stationer and Office Outfitter written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Directory and Instrumentation

Download or read book Directory and Instrumentation written by American Federation of Musicians. Local 802 and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transcript of Enrollment Books

Download or read book Transcript of Enrollment Books written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Elections and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest

Download or read book Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest written by John Donald Robb and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1980 and now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, this classic compilation of New Mexico folk music is based on thirty-five years of field research by a giant of modern music. Composer John Donald Robb, a passionate aficionado of the traditions of his adopted state, traveled New Mexico recording and transcribing music from the time he arrived in the Southwest in 1941.

Book Collections of Painting in Madrid  1601   1755  Parts 1 and 2

Download or read book Collections of Painting in Madrid 1601 1755 Parts 1 and 2 written by Marcus B. Burke and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 1810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-part book on collections of paintings in Madrid is part of the series Documents for the History of Collecting, Spanish Inventories 1, which presents volumes of art historical information based on archival records. One hundred forty inventories of noble and middle-class collections of art in Madrid are accompanied by two essays describing the taste and cultural atmosphere of Madrid in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Book Pasatiempo para Lectores

Download or read book Pasatiempo para Lectores written by Jamie Munos and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El libro trata sobre historias basadas en la politica y sexualidad, donde los estudiantes de posgrado aprenden sobre historias en diferentes idiomas, para comprender la ficcion en los Estados Unidos. Todas las historias tienen un tema en el que la mayoria de ellas involucran relaciones masculinas y femeninas de la misma edad. Estas relaciones se basan en la Biblia, donde Dios creo a Adan y Eva en el sexto dia, lo que significa la misma edad y el sexo opuesto. Hay otros temas biblicos que incluyen la ciencia, entre otros mensajes, para que el lector se centre en cada palabra utilizada en estas historias. Los objetivos para escribir estas historias es lograr que las personas lean y desarrollen la lectura como un pasatiempo. Leer ficcion puede ser un escape de la realidad, para adentrarse en una imaginacion paradisiaca. Aquellos que se especializan en Literatura, probablemente, tendran una gran comprension de las historias cortas en "Pasatiempos para lectores".

Book Ibn Khald  n and the Arab Origins of the Sociology of Civilisation and Power

Download or read book Ibn Khald n and the Arab Origins of the Sociology of Civilisation and Power written by Annalisa Verza and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents Ibn Khaldūn's anticipatory sociology of civilisations and power. Half a millennium before the birth of modern sociology in the West, Ibn Khaldūn—scholar, political counsellor, and Malikite judge—wrote a revolutionary sociological-philosophical treatise, the Muqaddima. This book places his broad, complex, and refined treatise against the background of the Islamo-Greek culture of his time and analyses its main sociological, but also philosophical, historical, and scientific perspectives. Finally, thanks to its "universalisable" core, the author recontextualizes the teachings from the Muqaddima to reveal the deep insights it provides into the society, politics and law of contemporary liberal and multicultural civilisations. A deeper reception of Ibn Khaldūn's perspective is not only important in understanding the Arab contribution to social theory, social history and philosophy, but also diversifies the sociological project beyond the Euro-American standpoint. Given its interdisciplinary appeal, the book addresses a wide readership of students and scholars in sociology, the sociology of law, philosophy of law, philosophy of history, political philosophy, history of civilisations, political sociology, and Arabic studies.

Book Graphite

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book Graphite written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The NYPD Tapes

Download or read book The NYPD Tapes written by Graham Rayman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts NYPD officer Adrian Schoolcraft's 2010 release of secret recordings of corruption and abuse at the highest levels of the police department, and describes how his revelations have rendered him a subject of slander.

Book Handel

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  • Author : Anthony Hicksd
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 1988-03-08
  • ISBN : 1349091391
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Handel written by Anthony Hicksd and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-03-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subtle Subversions

Download or read book Subtle Subversions written by Gwyn Fox and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women across early modern Europe suffered repressive and restrictive patriarchal measures that denied them education and a voice. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Counter-Reformation Iberia. Yet there is increasing awareness of a wealth of cultural activity by women, produced in spite of long-cherished masculine notions of biological determinism, masculine control, and feminine shame. Women proved that given the opportunity and the education they were equal in reason and intelligence to their male counterparts. Subtle Subversions is the first full-length, contextual, and analytical study of the sonnets of five seventeenth-century women in Spain and Portugal: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán, Sor María de Santa Isabel, Leonor de la Cueva y Silva, and Sor Violante del Cielo. Using the sonnets as a basis for inquiry, Gwyn Fox adds significantly to scholarship on women's interpersonal relationships through nuanced and revealing analyses of family and friendship as seen through the sonnets. She deciphers issues of subjectivity, interpersonal relationships, and power structures and engages with patronage as a major issue in women's writing. As a difficult form of poetry requiring wit, artistry and education, sonnets provided the ideal framework to display intellectual skills and education, but they also allowed the women to create a subtext of criticism of contemporary systems of control. Although their criticisms had to be subtle, since these systems still offered them much in terms of social advancement and privilege, these women and their works revise our understanding of women's lives in Baroque Spain and Portugal. English translations accompany the Spanish quotations throughout the book. Gwyn Fox is honorary research fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where she teaches Spanish language and literature. Fox is currently translating Los baños de Argel, a previously untranslated play by Miguel de Cervantes. "Fox demonstrates that the fixed form of the sonnet simultaneously allowed women to showcase their intellectual talents and critique predominant masculine norms in an understated fashion. . . . Recommended." -- P.W. Manning, Choice "In this beautifully written study of five early modern Iberian poets, Gwyn Fox offers a revisionary history of women's poetics as well as a challenge to conventional Renaissance hermeneutics. . . . Fox delves deeply into each theme, not only contextualizing, but also historicizing her analysis by comparing these women's writings with a broad range of examples. Indeed a bonus of this book is that it does not limit itself to the five women specified above or solely to their sonnets. Fox speaks knowledgeably about other women writers, such as Maria de Zayas and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, to name the most well known, and mentions lesser-known figures such as Inarda de Arteaga. . . . [Fox's] close readings of individual poems are themselves subtle and nuanced. . . . She offers original insights into the poems' social purpose. . . . It is a welcome and much-needed addition to early modern Spanish scholarship." -- Anne J. Cruz, Renaissance Quarterly "Fox's contribution adds to prior rediscoveries and assessments of the poetry of five Iberian women of the Baroque about whose lives, in some cases, very little is known. . . . The critical analysis offered in Subtle Subversions present new insights into the interpersonal relationships of women as well as their engagement with structures of social power, affirming that their sonnets were meant to display these authors' intellect, wit, and education. . . . With her skillful readings of their sonnets, Fox offers a fuller picture of these women's poetic production and contributes to an overall understanding of upperclass women's lives in Spain and Portugal." -- Dana Bultman, Caliope

Book Through Cracks in the Wall

Download or read book Through Cracks in the Wall written by Lúcia Helena Costigan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent comparative, interdisciplinary scholarship has underscored the Inquisition’s function in the imperial and colonial Iberian world, particularly in relation to the development of modernity. This book illustrates and enhances these debates on the Inquisition’s relationship to imperialism, colonialism, and modernity through specific case studies of New Christians who became the target of the Inquisition. Drawing on research in the archives of the Spanish and the Portuguese Inquisition in different parts of the Iberian Atlantic World, it analyzes literary writings and inquisitorial testimonies produced by individuals of Jewish heritage who lived in the Iberian Atlantic world during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and brings to light the direct and mediated discourse produced by New Christians, revealing the still veiled contributions of an important but understudied ethnic and social group.