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Book A Basque Diary

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alex Hallatt
  • Publisher : Moontoon Publishing
  • Release : 2023-10-04
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book A Basque Diary written by Alex Hallatt and published by Moontoon Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to live in the Basque Country, a region that is famous for its food, culture, and language, but also notorious for its weather and politics? In this book, Alex Hallatt, a British cartoonist, shares her experience of living in Hondarribia, a small town on the border with France. She moved there with her partner to learn Spanish, but they also learned a lot about the Basque people, their history, their traditions, and their challenges. They explored the stunning landscapes, enjoyed the delicious pintxos, and loved the amazing wines. They went for a year, but stayed for two, making friends with the locals and immersing themselves in the community. They also faced some difficulties, such as finding a rental apartment, dealing with bureaucracy, and coping with the winter weather. This book is a collection of observations and cartoons that document their adventures in the Basque Country. It is an honest, humorous, and insightful account of what it is like to live in one of the most fascinating regions of Europe. It has been updated since their return visit in 2023, after the Covid pandemic If you are curious about the Basque Country, or if you are planning to visit or move there, this book will give you a glimpse of its beauty, its culture, and its people. Don’t be an ordinary tourist: use A Basque Diary to take you off the beaten track and discover where the locals like to go in and around Hondarribia.

Book A Basque Diary

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alex Hallatt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023-10-09
  • ISBN : 9780473694753
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Basque Diary written by Alex Hallatt and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartoonist Alex Hallatt moved to the Basque Country to learn Spanish. She stayed for two years in a town near San Sebastian. This is her illustrated diary.

Book The Book of Culls  The Best Human Cull Comics

Download or read book The Book of Culls The Best Human Cull Comics written by Alex Hallatt and published by Moontoon Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever been cut off in traffic? Or stepped in something that a dog owner has neglected to pick up? Or held a door open for someone, only to have them to breeze by you without so much as a nod of thanks? What if you could vaporise those responsible so that it was as if they had never existed? Human Cull imagines just that. People from all over the planet have sent in their cull suggestions for a little green alien to remove the really annoying people and leave the world a better place for the rest of us. Don't get mad - cull them!

Book Forget Kids     Get a Dog

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  • Author : Alex Hallatt
  • Publisher : Moontoon Publishing
  • Release : 2020-04-09
  • ISBN : 0473488574
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Forget Kids Get a Dog written by Alex Hallatt and published by Moontoon Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love dogs more than kids? Do you think that dogs are easier, cheaper, and more fun to raise than children? Do you enjoy the unconditional love, loyalty, and companionship that dogs offer? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you. Forget Kids – Get a Dog is a hilarious and heartwarming collection of cartoons by Alex Hallatt, a British cartoonist and dog lover. In this book, she shares her observations and experiences of living with dogs, and compares them with the challenges and joys of parenting. She also pokes fun at the stereotypes and expectations that society has for dog owners and parents. Whether it's about training, feeding, grooming, playing, travelling, or socialising, she shows why dogs are better than kids in every way. This book is a perfect gift for anyone who loves dogs, or anyone who needs a good laugh. It is also a great way to celebrate the bond between humans and their canine friends. Forget Kids – Get a Dog is a book that will make you smile, chuckle, and nod in agreement. It will also make you appreciate your dog even more. Forget kids – get a dog. Forget kids – get a dog.

Book Small Plates and Sweet Treats

Download or read book Small Plates and Sweet Treats written by Aran Goyoaga and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trained pastry chef, blogger, and mother of two Aran Goyoaga turned to gluten-free cooking when she and her children were diagnosed with gluten intolerance. Combining the flavors of her childhood in Bilbao, Spain, with unique artistry and the informal elegance of small-plate dining, Aran has sacrificed nothing. Dishes range from soups and salads to savory tarts and stews to her signature desserts. With delicate, flavorful, and naturally gluten-free recipes arranged by season, and the author's gorgeously sun-filled food photography throughout, Small Plates and Sweet Treats will bring the magic of Aran's home to yours. Fans of Cannelle et Vanille, those with gluten allergies, and cookbook enthusiasts looking for something new and special will all be attracted to this breathtaking book.

Book The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago

Download or read book The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago written by David M. Gitlitz and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2000-07-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The road across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela in the northwest was one of the three major Christian pilgrimage routes during the Middle Ages, leading pilgrims to the resting place of the Apostle St. James. Today, the system of trails and roads that made up the old pilgrimage route is the most popular long-distance trail in Europe, winding from the heights of the Pyrenees to the gently rolling fields and woods of Galicia. Hundreds of thousands of modern-day pilgrims, art lovers, historians, and adventurers retrace the road today, traveling through a stunningly varied landscape which contains some of the most extraordinary art and architecture in the western world. For any visitor, the Road to Santiago is a treasure trove of historical sites, rustic Spanish villages, churches and cathedrals, and religious art. To fully appreciate the riches of this unique route, look no further than The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago, a fascinating step-by-step guide to the cultural history of the Road for pilgrims, hikers, and armchair travelers alike. Organized geographically, the book covers aspects of the terrain, places of interest, history, artistic monuments, and each town and village's historical relationship to the pilgrimage. The authors have led five student treks along the Road, studying the art, architecture, and cultural sites of the pilgrimage road from southern France to Compostela. Their lectures, based on twenty-five years of pilgrimage scholarship and fieldwork, were the starting point for this handbook.

Book The Basque Witch Hunt

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jan Machielsen
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2024-10-03
  • ISBN : 1350441511
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book The Basque Witch Hunt written by Jan Machielsen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft, causing a wave of suspects to flee into Spain and sparking terror there. Witnesses, many of them children, described lurid tales of cannibalism, vampirism, and demonic sex. One of the judges, Pierre de Lancre, published a sensationalist account of this diabolical netherworld. With other accounts seemingly destroyed, this witch-hunt – France's largest – has always been seen through de Lancre's eyes. The narrative, re-told over the centuries, is that of a witch-hunt caused by a bigoted outsider. Newly discovered evidence paints a very different, still darker picture, revealing a secret history underneath de Lancre's well-known tale. Far from an outside imposition, witchcraft was a home-grown problem. Panic had been building up over a number of years and the region was fractured by factionalism and a struggle over scarce resources. The Basque Witch-Hunt reveals that de Lancre was no outsider; he was a local partisan, married into the Basque nobility. Living at the Franco-Spanish border, the Basques were victims of geography. Geo-politics caused a local conflict which made the witch-hunt inevitable. The same forces eventually sent thousands of religious refugees from Spain to France where they, in turn, became new objects of popular fear and anger. The Basque witch-hunt is justly infamous. This book shows that almost everything historians thought they knew about it is wrong.

Book The Spanish Craze

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  • Author : Richard L. Kagan
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2019-03-01
  • ISBN : 1496207726
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book The Spanish Craze written by Richard L. Kagan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of the origins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic to the New Deal. As Spanish power and influence waned in the Atlantic World by the eighteenth century, her rivals created the “Black Legend,” which promoted an image of Spain as a dead and lost civilization rife with innate cruelty and cultural and religious backwardness. The Black Legend and its ambivalences influenced Americans throughout the nineteenth century, reaching a high pitch in the Spanish-American War of 1898. However, the Black Legend retreated soon thereafter, and Spanish culture and heritage became attractive to Americans for its perceived authenticity and antimodernism. Although the Spanish craze infected regions where the Spanish New World presence was most felt—California, the American Southwest, Texas, and Florida—there were also early, quite serious flare-ups of the craze in Chicago, New York, and New England. Kagan revisits early interest in Hispanism among elites such as the Boston book dealer Obadiah Rich, a specialist in the early history of the Americas, and the writers Washington Irving and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He also considers later enthusiasts such as Angeleno Charles Lummis and the many writers, artists, and architects of the modern Spanish Colonial Revival in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Spain’s political and cultural elites understood that the promotion of Spanish culture in the United States and the Western Hemisphere in general would help overcome imperial defeats while uniting Spaniards and those of Spanish descent into a singular raza whose shared characteristics and interests transcended national boundaries. With elegant prose and verve, The Spanish Craze spans centuries and provides a captivating glimpse into distinct facets of Hispanism in monuments, buildings, and private homes; the visual, performing, and cinematic arts; and the literature, travel journals, and letters of its enthusiasts in the United States.

Book Living in Monaco

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zsolt Szemerszky
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-05
  • ISBN : 9782493007001
  • Pages : 638 pages

Download or read book Living in Monaco written by Zsolt Szemerszky and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, objective and brutally honest book about the Principality of Monaco and its living environment. The author intended to hunt down the myth around Monaco and to go beyond gossips. It is not a travel book, it is an ultimate guideline to those who are aiming to get a glimpse about the real Monaco and who have the desire to relocate their personal or business life to the Principality. Traps, frauds, socialite games, benefits, advantages are all covered in this book. Reading the "Living in Monaco" book you will face the really important questions, such as the required funds to relocate your family versus the small amount shortcuts toward your aims. The author discloses some of his personal experiences regarding how you can relocate from 20 000 Euros or how people use the label "Monaco" to collect multi-million Euro funds. Through the previously untold stories, the aim of the book is to raise attention to the most typical frauds and moral hazards usually committed by non-Monaco-based gold diggers and fortune hunters.

Book Women and ETA

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carrie Hamilton
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2007-07-15
  • ISBN : 9780719075452
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Women and ETA written by Carrie Hamilton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when conflicts in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere are highlighting women's roles as armed activists and combatants, Women and ETA offers the first book-length study of women's participation in Spain's oldest armed movement.

Book The Art of Cartooning   Illustration

Download or read book The Art of Cartooning Illustration written by Maury Aaseng and published by Walter Foster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inclusive resource, The Art of Cartooning & Illustration introduces artists to the basics of traditional cartooning and animation, as well as how to develop their own unique cartooning style, write storylines, and create gags, using both traditional media and digital imaging software.

Book The Bombing of Gernika

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  • Author : Xabier Irujo
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-04-26
  • ISBN : 9780996781077
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Bombing of Gernika written by Xabier Irujo and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The episode of Guernica, with all that it represents both in the military and the moral order, seems destined to pass into History as a symbol. A symbol of many things, but chiefly of that capacity for falsehood possessed by the new Machiavellism which threatens destruction to all the ethical hypotheses of civilization. A clear example of the use which can be made of untruth to degrade the minds of those whom one wishes to convince.(Foreign Wings over the Basque Country, 1937)Just after 4 p.m. aeroplanes threw nine bombs in the centre of the town. We were looking after the wounded when more aeroplanes appeared, which began to drop all kinds of bombs, incendiary and explosive. The wild beasts who piloted those aeroplanes, whenever they saw in the streets or outside the town a human figure, turned their machine-guns on it, sowing terror and death and killing not a few, among whom were women children, and old people. Such was the tragedy of Guernica, the truth of which I, Mayor of Guernica, affirm be-fore the whole world.Guernica has been burnt, but Guernica will not die. The tree will put out new green leaves every spring; her sons will return to her once more; once more her houses will be rebuilt, her churches hear again their hymns and prayers, and happy life abound in her streets. Guernica, the symbol of our national liberties, and the symbol too of the ferocity of international Fascism, cannot die for Euzkadi will not die."(Jose Labauria, Mayor of Gernika)

Book Basque Literary History

Download or read book Basque Literary History written by Mari Jose Olaziregi and published by Center for Basque Studies Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the history of Basque literature from its oral origins to present-day fiction, poetry, essay, and children's literature

Book Discriminatory Bullying

    Book Details:
  • Author : Esoh Elamé
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-06-20
  • ISBN : 8847052351
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Discriminatory Bullying written by Esoh Elamé and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the relation between bullying at school and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and disability. In examining the interactions between bullying and discrimination, the authors set out from the premise that the current practice of intercultural education does not systematically address the issue of bullying, as evidenced by the lack, within schools, of intercultural education projects. The starting point for the work is a survey conducted in ten European countries on a sample of about 9,000 students including immigrants and natives. The research provides important information on which factors deserve special attention when formulating interventions in the classroom with the aim of preventing or combating discriminatory bullying. If intercultural education is called upon to handle the fight against any form of discrimination, it cannot shirk from addressing the issue of bullying discrimination. The results represent a sound, stimulating basis for broad and realistic reflections on discriminatory bullying and intercultural education, and show that intercultural pedagogy needs to be appropriately equipped theoretically. This book will be an indispensable tool for those seeking a thorough understanding of the new challenges facing intercultural education and the means of overcoming them. On that basis, innovative education practices should be developed with the aim of spreading a culture of non-violence and intercultural dialogue.

Book Basque and Romance

Download or read book Basque and Romance written by Ane Berro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of articles describing and analyzing several of the most important morphosyntactic features for which the formal comparison between Basque and its surrounding Romance languages is relevant, such as word order, inflection, case, argument structure and causatives. In the context of a language virtually all of whose speakers are bilingual in either Spanish or French, the theoretically informed in-depth description offered in this volume focuses on the fine grain of linguistic structures from languages typologically quite apart but coexisting and probably interacting in the minds of speakers. It therefore aims at shedding some light on the types of interactions between different systems and on the systems themselves.

Book Modern Accordion Perspectives

Download or read book Modern Accordion Perspectives written by Claudio Iacomucci and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reasons to be Cheerful

Download or read book Reasons to be Cheerful written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: