Download or read book The Lure Of Secretos written by J.R. Alxander and published by J.R. Alexander. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a small quiet town called Bokenston Georgia. A young man named Donald Monroe is living the American dream with his beautiful wife Bella and their lovely daughter Grace. This is until one day, shortly after returning home from a mini-vacation at his dad’s place in Terrell Hills, Texas. He begins to notice the seams of his once picture-perfect secretive life beginning to unravel. The unraveling plunges Donald into the epic battle of his life, for his life! Are the mind-boggling events that Donald is witnessing, happening only on the screen of his mind? Or, are they actual events being orchestrated by a heartless messenger of hell? Either way, be it a dream, an illusion, or actual reality. Donald has but a small window of time to either win this battle to find out the truth, or perhaps die trying!
Download or read book The Lure Of Secretos written by J.R. Alexander and published by J.R. Alexander. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a small quiet town called Bokenston Georgia. A young man named Donald Monroe is living the American dream with his beautiful wife Bella and their lovely daughter Grace. This is until one day, shortly after returning home from a mini-vacation at his dad's place in Terrell Hills, Texas. He begins to notice the seams of his once picture-perfect secretive life beginning to unravel. The unraveling plunges Donald into the epic battle of his life, for his life! Are the mind-boggling glitches that Donald is witnessing, happening only on the screen of his mind? Or, are they actual events being orchestrated by a messenger of hell? Either way, be it a dream, an illusion, or actual reality. Donald has but a small window of time to either win this battle to find out the truth, or, perhaps die trying!
Download or read book China on the Sea written by Zheng Yangwen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume challenges the “Walled Kingdom” perspective. China reached out to the seas far more actively than historians have allowed, while the maritime world shaped China, Qing China in particular, much more than the continental world. It gave birth to and defined Chinese modernity.
Download or read book Domesticating Empire written by Karen Stolley and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has the work of writers in eighteenth-century Latin America been forgotten? During the eighteenth century, enlightened thinkers in Spanish territories in the Americas engaged in lively exchanges with their counterparts in Europe and Anglo-America about a wide range of topics of mutual interest, responding in the context of increasing racial and economic diversification. Yet despite recent efforts to broaden our understanding of the global Enlightenment, the Ibero-American eighteenth century has often been overlooked. Through the work of five authors--Jose de Oviedo y Banos, Juan Ignacio Molina, Felix de Azara, Catalina de Jesus Herrera, and Felix de Arrate--Domesticating Empire explores the Ibero-American Enlightenment as a project that reflects both key Enlightenment concerns and the particular preoccupations of Bourbon Spain and its territories in the Americas. At a crucial moment in Spain's imperial trajectory, these authors domesticate topics central to empire--conquest, Indians, nature, God, and gold--by making them familiar and utilitarian. As a result, their works later proved resistant to overarching schemes of Latin American literary history and have been largely forgotten. Nevertheless, eighteenth-century Ibero-American writing complicates narratives about both the Enlightenment and Latin American cultural identity.
Download or read book Achieving Nuclear Ambitions written by Jacques E. C. Hymans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the global spread of nuclear hardware and knowledge, at least half of the nuclear weapons projects launched since 1970 have definitively failed, and even the successful projects have generally needed far more time than expected. To explain this puzzling slowdown in proliferation, Jacques E. C. Hymans focuses on the relations between politicians and scientific and technical workers in developing countries. By undermining the workers' spirit of professionalism, developing country rulers unintentionally thwart their own nuclear ambitions. Combining rich theoretical analysis, in-depth historical case studies of Iraq, China, Yugoslavia and Argentina and insightful analyses of current-day proliferant states, Achieving Nuclear Ambitions develops a powerful new perspective that effectively counters the widespread fears of a coming cascade of new nuclear powers.
Download or read book Reflections on Spanish American Poetry written by Jorge Carrera Andrade and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these five essays the Ecuadorian poet Jorge Carrera Andrade traces the evolution of Spanish-American poetry from the sixteenth century to the present. The author shows how Spanish-American literature grew out of the special conditions produced when the New World environment totally transformed Old World culture and society. Initially, the brilliance of the land and its extraordinary peoples inspired European interest in exotic travel and utopianism; later, Old World literary currents came to have distinctive expression in Spanish-American writing. "Poetry and Society in Spanish-America" follows the historic commitment of the New World poets to social issues, particularly such unique ones as the endeavor to bring the Indians into national life, while "Trends in Spanish-American Poetry" dwells on the more purely aesthetic concerns that have stimulated the poets of the twentieth century. Throughout, Carrera Andrade ties his analysis to specific poems and poets. In the last two essays the author presents a clear perspective of his poetic development from 1930 to 1960. "A Decade of My Poetry" and "Poetry of Reality and Utopia" will especially interest readers of Carrera Andrade's poetry, for not only do they elucidate the personal history and philosophy informing his poems, they also reveal how truly his inspiration springs from that unique Spanish-American world he has so clearly delineated.
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Download or read book Comparing Peace Processes written by Alpaslan Özerdem and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comparative survey of 18 contemporary peace processes conducted by leading international scholars. There is no standard model of peace processes and all will vary according to the context, type of conflict, timing, national and global economic climate, and factors like natural disasters. Therefore, making comparisons between peace processes is difficult, but it is beneficial – indeed, imperative – and is the principal motivation behind this volume. What works in one context may not work in another, but it can be modified and adapted to fit another context. The book is structured to maximise comparison between processes, and the case studies chosen are topical and span the major regions of the world. The concluding chapter systematically compares the case studies around 11 variables that cover the conflict context, peace process procedures, the responsiveness of the peace process to demands, and levels of participation and inclusion. Each peace process is then given a numeric score according to each of these variables, and the book thereby reaches judgements on whether each case can be termed a ‘success’ or a ‘failure’. This book will be essential reading for students of peace studies, conflict resolution, war and conflict studies, security studies, and IR.
Download or read book Brazil and the United States during World War II and Its Aftermath written by Frank D. McCann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military alliance between the United States and Brazil played a critical role in the outcome of World War II, and yet it is largely overlooked in historiography of the war. In this definitive account, Frank McCann investigates Brazilian-American military relations from the 1930s through the years after the alliance ended in 1977. The two countries emerge as imbalanced giants with often divergent objectives and expectations. They nevertheless managed to form the Brazilian Expeditionary Force and a fighter squadron that fought in Italy under American command, making Brazil the only Latin American country to commit troops to the war. With the establishment of the US Air Force base in Natal, Northeast Brazil become a vital staging area for air traffic supplying Allied forces in the Middle East and Asian theaters. McCann deftly analyzes newly opened Brazilian archives and declassified American intelligence files to offer a more nuanced account of how this alliance changed the course of World War II, and how the relationship deteriorated in the aftermath of the war.
Download or read book Bilingual New Testament with Psalms Proverbs Nuevo Testamento con Salmos y Proverbios biling e NLT NTV written by Tyndale and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¡Una Biblia perfecta para los que están descubriendo la Palabra de Dios en dos idiomas! El Nuevo Testamento con Salmos y Proverbios bilingüe NTV/NLT [Bilingual New Testament with Psalms & proverbs NLT/NTV] tiene los textos del Nuevo Testamento con Salmos y Proverbios de la Nueva Traducción Viviente en español y de la New Living Translation en inglés en un formato paralelo. Sus características incluye: Tapa rústica de diseño único Barniz UV (Spot-gloss) en la portada Medidas: 5.5 x 8.25 Tamaño ligero y fácil de llevar Esta porción de la Biblia presenta la Palabra de Dios en un lenguaje claro, cálido, y de fácil comprensión para una buena experiencia de nuestras dos increíbles traducciones. A perfect Bible for those who are discovering God´s Word in two languages! The Bilingual New Testament with Psalms & Proverbs NLT/NTV [Nuevo Testamento con Salmos y Proverbios bilingüe NTV/NLT] provides the New Testament texts along with Psalms and Proverbs of the New Living Translation in English and the Nueva Traducción Viviente in Spanish in a parallel format. Its features include: Unique softcover design Spot-gloss on the cover 5.5 x 8.25 trim size Lightweight and easy to carry size This Bible portion presents God’s Word in a warm and easy to understand language, providing a great reading experience of our two wonderful translations side by side.
Download or read book Within Our Gates written by Alan Gevinson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Download or read book Religion in Latin American Life and Literature written by Lyle C. Brown and published by Baylor University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Invisible Work written by Efraín Kristal and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that Jorge Luis Borges was a translator, but this has been considered a curious minor aspect of his literary achievement. Few have been aware of the number of texts he translated, the importance he attached to this activity, or the extent to which the translated works inform his own stories and poems. Between the age of ten, when he translated Oscar Wilde, and the end of his life, when he prepared a Spanish version of the Prose Edda , Borges transformed the work of Poe, Kafka, Hesse, Kipling, Melville, Gide, Faulkner, Whitman, Woolf, Chesterton, and many others. In a multitude of essays, lectures, and interviews Borges analyzed the versions of others and developed an engaging view about translation. He held that a translation can improve an original, that contradictory renderings of the same work can be equally valid, and that an original can be unfaithful to a translation. Borges's bold habits as translator and his views on translation had a decisive impact on his creative process. Translation is also a recurrent motif in Borges's stories. In "The Immortal," for example, a character who has lived for many centuries regains knowledge of poems he had authored, and almost forgotten, by way of modern translations. Many of Borges's fictions include actual or imagined translations, and some of his most important characters are translators. In "Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote," Borges's character is a respected Symbolist poet, but also a translator, and the narrator insists that Menard's masterpiece-his "invisible work"-adds unsuspected layers of meaning to Cervantes's Don Quixote. George Steiner cites this short story as "the most acute, most concentrated commentary anyone has offered on the business of translation." In an age where many discussions of translation revolve around the dichotomy faithful/unfaithful, this book will surprise and delight even Borges's closest readers and critics.
Download or read book A Comparative Vocabulary Study Guide Spanish to Portuguese to English to Chinese written by Robert D. O'Brian and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comparative Vocabulary Study Guide: Spanish to English to Portuguese to Chinese is a four language vocabulary guide highlighting over 5,000 selected Spanish words that have either the same spelling and meaning as their English and Portuguese language counterparts or contain easily recognizable English and Portuguese meanings with a comparison to their Chinese language equivalents. Spanish is the language base for this guide. All Spanish words are given the general or specific meanings of Spanish currently spoken in Argentina. Spanish is the language to which the English definitions and the Portuguese equivalents are compared. The Chinese is matched to English definitions. This guide is designed after the "vocabulary first" method of language instruction as advocated by the author. It teaches a basic vocabulary by word association.
Download or read book The Evening office of the Church According to the Roman Breviary written by Catholic Church and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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