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Book Quisqueya la Bella

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Cambeira
  • Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
  • Release : 1996-11-26
  • ISBN : 9780765633057
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Quisqueya la Bella written by Alan Cambeira and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1996-11-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Dominican Republic from pre-Columbian times to the present. The book focuses on the merger of three cultures across time - the indiginous cultures of the Caribbean, the Iberians of southern Europe and the Africans.

Book La bella durmiente

Download or read book La bella durmiente written by Charles Perrault and published by BiBook. This book was released on with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta es una edición bilingüe del fascinante cuento de Charles Perrault, para disfrutarlo en versión original y sin necesidad de diccionarios. - Gracias a la tecnología BiBook podrás leer cómodamente en inglés, consultando la versión traducida al español cada vez que lo necesites. - Olvídate del diccionario. Una traducción párrafo por párrafo está disponible pulsando un enlace sobre la primera letra de cada párrafo. - Aprende inglés mientras disfrutas de la lectura. La mayoría de expertos coinciden en que la mejor forma de aprender un idioma es leer. - Disfruta de este libro desde un ereader o también en tu móvil o tableta y tus desplazamientos en metro nunca volverán a ser aburridos. Palabras clave: libro, ebook, bilingüe, dual, version original, traducción, lengua, idioma, elearning, educación, aprender, practicar, leer, inmersión.

Book El Retorno de la Feminidad Sagrada y el Alma del Mundo

Download or read book El Retorno de la Feminidad Sagrada y el Alma del Mundo written by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and published by The Golden Sufi Center. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lo femenino contiene el misterio de la creación. Esta verdad simple y primordial a menudo pasa desapercibida. Sin embargo, en estos tiempos de crisis global, que a su vez portan las semillas de una transformación global, es necesario que redespertemos al poder espiritual y al potencial de lo femenino. Las cualidades femeninas forman parte tanto del hombre como de la mujer y nos empujan hacia las profundidades de nuestro ser, hasta los misterios del alma, cuya sabiduría se denomina Sofía. Sin lo femenino nada nuevo puede nacer, nada nuevo puede llegar a la existencia; quedaríamos atrapados en las imágenes materialistas de la vida que están contaminando nuestro planeta y profanando nuestras almas. Tenemos que volver al centro de nuestro ser, al lugar donde lo sagrado se manifiesta en la existencia. Y la feminidad mística contiene la clave para poder llevar a cabo esta labor de redención y de transformación. En las últimas dos décadas Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee ha impartido enseñanzas sobre lo femenino y el anima mundi, el Alma del Mundo, que por primera vez han sido recopiladas en este libro.

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  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 3368046322
  • Pages : 405 pages

Download or read book written by and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book El Rey David  El Valiente Urias Y La Bella Betsabe

Download or read book El Rey David El Valiente Urias Y La Bella Betsabe written by Pastor Gilberto Juarez and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Causas y consecuencias de la relacion extramatrimonial (la infidelidad en el matrimonio) Cuando lei el contenido del presente libro, me percate de lo importante de este tema. Ademas observo con gusto la capacidad de Gilberto para dialogar con los textos biblicos, la historia de David, Betsabe, Urias y las experiencias de la vida de muchas personas hoy dia, de tal manera que me es un honor el ser invitado por Gilberto a escribir el prologo para el presente libro. Pastor de Semillero de Ministerios Rev. Samuel Aguilar, MDiv. Fuller Theological Seminary

Book Women and Power in Argentine Literature

Download or read book Women and Power in Argentine Literature written by Gwendolyn Díaz and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing talent of Argentine women writers belies the struggles they have faced—not merely as overlooked authors, but as women of conviction facing oppression. The patriarchal pressures of the Perón years, the terror of the Dirty War, and, more recently, the economic collapse that gripped the nation in 2001 created such repressive conditions that some writers, such as Luisa Valenzuela, left the country for long periods. Not surprisingly, power has become an inescapable theme in Argentine women's fiction, and this collection shows how the dynamics of power capture not only the political world but also the personal one. Whether their characters are politicians and peasants, torturers and victims, parents and children, or lovers male and female, each writer explores the effects of power as it is exercised by or against women. The fifteen writers chosen for Women and Power in Argentine Literature include famous names such as Valenzuela, as well as authors anthologized for the first time, most notably María Kodama, widow of Jorge Luis Borges. Each chapter begins with a "verbal portrait," editor Gwendolyn Díaz's personal impression of the author at ease, formed through hours of conversation and interviews. A biographical essay and critical commentary follow, with emphasis on the work included in this anthology. Díaz's interviews, translated from Spanish, and finally the stories themselves—only three of which have been previously published in English—complete the chapters. The extraordinary depth of these chapters reflects the nuanced, often controversial portrayals of power observed by Argentine women writers. Inspiring as well as insightful, Women and Power in Argentine Literature is ultimately about women who, in Díaz's words, "choose to speak their truth regardless of the consequences."

Book Latin American Women Writers  An Encyclopedia

Download or read book Latin American Women Writers An Encyclopedia written by María Claudia André and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 1653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies. Focusing on drama, poetry, and fiction, this work includes authors who have published at least three literary texts that have had a significant impact on Latin American literature and culture. Each entry is followed by extensive bibliographic references, including primary and secondary sources. Coverage consists of critical appreciation and analysis of the writers' works. Brief biographical data is included, but the main focus is on the meanings and contexts of the works as well as their cultural and political impact. In addition to author entries, other themes are explored, such as humor in contemporary Latin American fiction, lesbian literature in Latin America, magic, realism, or mother images in Latin American literature. The aim is to provide a unique, thorough, scholarly survey of women writers and their works in Latin America. This Encyclopedia will be of interest to both to the student of literature as well as to any reader interested in understanding more about Latin American culture, literature, and how women have represented gender and national issues throughout the centuries.

Book Kissing the Wild Woman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Nissen
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1442643404
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Kissing the Wild Woman written by Christopher Nissen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giulia Bigolina's (ca. 1516-ca. 1569) Urania (ca. 1552) is the oldest known prose romance to have been written by an Italian woman. In Kissing the Wild Woman, Christopher Nissen explores the unique aesthetic vision and innovative narrative features of Bigolina's greatest surviving work, in which she fashioned a new type of narrative that combined elements of the romance and the novella and included a polemical treatise on the moral implications of portraiture and the role of women in the arts. Demonstrating that Bigolina challenged cultural authority by rejecting the prevailing views of both painting and literature, Nissen discusses Bigolina's suggestion that painting constituted an ineffectual, even immoral mode of self-promotion for women in relation to the views of the contemporary writer Pietro Aretino and the painter Titian. Kissing the Wild Woman's analysis of this little-known work adds a new dimension to the study of Renaissance aesthetics in relation to art history, Renaissance thought, women's studies, and Italian literature.

Book The Tenth Muse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fanchon Royer
  • Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Release : 2018-09-03
  • ISBN : 1789122414
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The Tenth Muse written by Fanchon Royer and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this well-rounded study, which was first published in 1952, author Fanchón Royer vividly presents Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz (1648-1695), a seventeenth-century Hieronymite nun of New Spain, known in her lifetime as “The Tenth Muse”, “The Phoenix of America”, or the “Mexican Phoenix”. A famous and controversial figure of her time, Sor Juana was a self-taught scholar, student of scientific thought, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque school. She lived during Mexico’s colonial period, making her a contributor both to early Mexican literature as well as to the broader literature of the Spanish Golden Age. She began her studies at a young age and, being fluent in Latin and also writing in Nahuatl, became known for her philosophy in her teens. Sor Juana educated herself in her own library and, after joining a nunnery in 1667, began writing poetry and prose dealing with such topics as love, feminism, and religion. Sister Juana’s criticism of misogyny and the hypocrisy of men led to her condemnation by the Bishop of Puebla, and in 1694 she was forced to sell her collection of books and focus on charity towards the poor. This fascinating book includes a translation of the nun’s famous La Carta Atenagorica, and her refutation of Father Vieira’s theological proposition, together with her substitute proposition and its sound theological defense, are cited to prove Juana’s remarkable grasp of theology. This disputation is the only one of Sor Juana’s works to be given in translation. A rich selection of her poetry in the original Spanish are also included in an appendix, and the book is beautifully illustrated throughout.

Book Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains

Download or read book Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains written by Ruth Hill and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sceptres and Sciences argues convincingly that previous research on the Hispanic Late Baroque has underweighted the ideologies of ethnicity and empire embedded in Cartesianism and French neoclassicism. "... a masterful work of scholarship... should become essential reading in the field of Colonial and Spanish Enlightenment Studies."—Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

Book Historia de los musulmanes de Espa  a Libro I   Libro II

Download or read book Historia de los musulmanes de Espa a Libro I Libro II written by Reinhart Dozy and published by Turner. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fruto de largos años de trabajo y de una prodigiosa labor de investigación original, la "Historia de los musulmanes de España", obra cumbre del filólogo e historiador holandés Reinhart P. Dozy, provocó de inmediato una verdadera revolución en el campo de los estudios arábigos. La utilización de fuentes y documentos de primera mano, hasta entonces inexplorados, un estilo literario de gran belleza y una estructura narrativa impecable la convirtieron en un clásico de la historiografía moderna. Pasado más de un siglo desde su primera edición, continúa siendo la obra de referencia erudita a la que recurren los estudiosos del tema y una lectura cautivante para todos aquellos interesados en un a de las facetas más apasionantes de la historia de España. Publicada ahora en dos tomos, "La historia de los musulmanes de España" comprende el período que media entre los años 711 y 1110, o sea, hasta la conquista de Andalucía por los almorávides.

Book Modern Mexican Culture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stuart A. Day
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2017-10-31
  • ISBN : 0816537534
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Modern Mexican Culture written by Stuart A. Day and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diego Rivera’s mural Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central is a fascinating critique of high society and wealthy elites. It also offers a multitude of other stories that intersect in a web of historical memory. The massive mural, the histories it depicts, and even its physical journey after a devastating earthquake, hold answers to many of the questions readers might ask about Mexico. It also demonstrates how cultural artifacts explain the world around us and expose intersections and entanglements of specific power dynamics. Modern Mexican Culture offers an enriching and deep investigation of key ideas and events in Mexico through an examination of art and history. Experts in Mexican cultural and literary studies cover the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre, the figure of the charro (cowboy), the construct of the postrevolutionary teacher, the class-correlated construct of gente decente, a borderlands response to the rhetoric of dominance, and the “democratic transition” in late twentieth-century Mexico. Each essay is a rich reading experience, providing teachers and students alike with a deep and well-contextualized sense of Mexican life, culture, and politics. Each chapter provides a historical grounding of its topic, followed by a multifaceted analysis through various artistic representations that provide a more complex view of Mexico. Chapters are accompanied by lists of readily available murals, political cartoons, plays, pamphlets, posters, films, poems, novels, and other cultural products. Modern Mexican Culture demonstrates the power of art and artists to question, explain, and influence the world around us. Contributors: Rafael Acosta Morales Jacqueline E. Bixler Marta Caminero-Santangelo Debra A. Castillo Christopher Conway David S. Dalton Stuart A. Day Emily Hind Robert McKee Irwin Ryan Long Dana A. Meredith Magalí Rabasa Luis Alberto Rodríguez Cortés Fernando Fabio Sánchez Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Analisa Taylor Oswaldo Zavala

Book Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews  Vol  III

Download or read book Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews Vol III written by Samuel G. Armistead and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Book Epistolario Espa  ol

Download or read book Epistolario Espa ol written by Eugenio de Ochoa and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La Venganza de Renata

    Book Details:
  • Author : Abraham DeSantander
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2008-12-15
  • ISBN : 142515672X
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book La Venganza de Renata written by Abraham DeSantander and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Me instruyeron para un destino y entrenaron para matar, desenmascare a los traidores... !Monta y paga carajo, tu cabeza, el precio de mi venganza!

Book Too Dearly Bought  Town Strike

Download or read book Too Dearly Bought Town Strike written by Agnes Giberne and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great number of noisy little boys came trooping on ahead, with shrill cries, to announce this important fact. Hardly one among them understood exactly what the procession was about; but flags and banners are the delight of a boy's heart. Not seldom this particular form of affection for coloured bunting lasts on into manhood. The wives and mothers, who turned out of their doorways to enjoy the sight, were, however, more learned than their little boys as to the cause of the stir. And everybody was aware that Peter Pope was to be at its head. Peter Pope, a smooth-tongued and comfortably-dressed individual, had been very busy lately in the town. Most of his business had been in the way of talk; but what of that? There was a committee, of course, behind him, which did a good deal of work while Pope did the talk. He had been sent down, as a delegate from London, for the express purpose of teaching the inhabitants of the town; and teaching commonly means a certain amount of talk. Peter Pope had come to teach the men of the town to appreciate their degraded and enslaved condition. With this object in view he had talked vigorously for many weeks; and the men were becoming fast convinced of the truth of his words. They had not dreamt before what a melancholy thing it was to be a British working-man; but now their eyes were opened. If you want to convince the British Public about anything,—especially that part of the British Public which reads very few books, and knows very little of history, and never goes out of England, just remember this! There is not the least need that you should be clever or learned yourself, or even powerful in speech. You only have to go on saying the same thing over and over and over again, with dogged pertinacity; and in time you are sure to be believed. The British Public is wonderfully easy of belief, and will swallow anything,—if only you give it time! Peter Pope had done this. He had talked on, with a resolute and dogged pertinacity; he had given his hearers plenty of time; and now he was rewarded by seeing the biggest boluses he could offer, meekly gulped down. It was a dingy and smoky town enough to which he had come; one of the crowded manufacturing towns, of which England owns so many. Not a clean or pretty town, but a prosperous one hitherto, with a fair abundance of work for willing toilers. Those who were unwilling to toil did badly there as elsewhere; and these were the men who first swallowed Peter Pope's bait. Pleasant Lane was not the least narrow and dingy of many narrow dingy streets. The houses on either side were small, and for the most part not over clean. One little home near the centre formed a marked exception as to this last point; boasting dainty muslin blinds, windows filled with plants, and a spotless front doorstep. On that step stood Sarah Holdfast, in her clean print gown, watching like others for the coming procession. Not that she had the least idea of seeing her husband figure in it. She was only dandling her baby, and lifting it up to be amused with the stir.