Download or read book Expedici n en la selva maldita written by Xavier Alcalá and published by Xavier Alcalá. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaño, fingimiento y traición alimentados por la codicia. Angelika, una belleza nórdica –rubia de ojos celestes–, reina en Angelika's Cocktail Bar, donde canta y encanta a sus clientes. Todos son presos de la selva amazónica, inmensa cárcel verde cortada por venas de agua marrón. Celso Andrade, piloto de hidroavión, y João Rocha, buscador de uranio, no comprenden qué se le pudo haber perdido a tal mujer el aquel fin de mundo. Nunca llegarán a saber el secreto que oculta Angelika aunque van a comprobar que se comporta como el más avezado explorador de la jungla. Una observación casual de Andrade en vuelo desviado por una tormenta, un libro escrito por misioneros que guarda Rocha y los recuerdos infantiles de Angelika unen a los tres en una expedición llena de peligros y con un esplendoroso descubrimiento: El Abrigo del Sol, buscado durante décadas por arqueólogos y etnógrafos. Pero lo que allí encuentran trastorna a los personajes principales y a sus servidores en la expedición, que se irá a convertir en huida extenuante, con la muerte a las espaldas. Xavier Alcalá nos desenmascara magistralmente a todos los que huyen, muestra sus pensamientos y sentimientos en el espacio cruel de la fronda cuyos habitantes primitivos –humanos o criaturas salvajes– nada perdonan a los intrusos. Como probado narrador realista, nos lleva de la mano de Angelika a un imprevisible final de la historia, demostración de que lo verosímil puede superar con creces a lo fantástico.
Download or read book Expedici n Mortal written by Iñaki Santamaría and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una expedición, comandada por Davidd Fox, Kate Lomax y Mariah Llams aterriza en el Amazonas para investigar una extraña epidemia que ha estallado allí. Sin embargo, esa misión ordinaria se transformará en una lucha por la supervivencia.
Download or read book The Visions of Quevedo written by Francisco de Quevedo and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A satirical masterpiece, "The Visions of Quevedo" offers a glimpse into Spanish literature through the lens of Francisco de Quevedo. With sharp wit and keen observations, Quevedo critiques society, human nature, and the world around him, making this work a significant contribution to classic literature. His perspective offers a fresh take on traditional themes.
Download or read book Life and Death in the Andes written by Kim MacQuarrie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thoughtfully observed travel memoir and history as richly detailed as it is deeply felt” (Kirkus Reviews) of South America, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to Charles Darwin, all set in the Andes Mountains. The Andes Mountains are the world’s longest mountain chain, linking most of the countries in South America. Kim MacQuarrie takes us on a historical journey through this unique region, bringing fresh insight and contemporary connections to such fabled characters as Charles Darwin, Che Guevara, Pablo Escobar, Butch Cassidy, Thor Heyerdahl, and others. He describes living on the floating islands of Lake Titcaca. He introduces us to a Patagonian woman who is the last living speaker of her language. We meet the woman who cared for the wounded Che Guevara just before he died, the police officer who captured cocaine king Pablo Escobar, the dancer who hid Shining Path guerrilla Abimael Guzman, and a man whose grandfather witnessed the death of Butch Cassidy. Collectively these stories tell us something about the spirit of South America. What makes South America different from other continents—and what makes the cultures of the Andes different from other cultures found there? How did the capitalism introduced by the Spaniards change South America? Why did Shining Path leader Guzman nearly succeed in his revolutionary quest while Che Guevara in Bolivia was a complete failure in his? “MacQuarrie writes smartly and engagingly and with…enthusiasm about the variety of South America’s life and landscape” (The New York Times Book Review) in Life and Death in the Andes. Based on the author’s own deeply observed travels, “this is a well-written, immersive work that history aficionados, particularly those with an affinity for Latin America, will relish” (Library Journal).
Download or read book Cecilia Vald s or El Angel Hill written by Cirilo Villaverde and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.
Download or read book Solitudes Galleries written by Antonio Machado and published by Durham : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love in the Time of Cholera Illustrated Edition written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
Download or read book Revista de estudios hisp nicos written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold of the Andes The Andean camelids Man s relationship with the camelids written by Jorge A. Flores Ochoa and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theorizing Myth written by Bruce Lincoln and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Theorizing Myth, Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others. He begins by showing that mythos yielded to logos not as part of a (mythic) "Greek miracle," but as part of struggles over political, linguistic, and epistemological authority occasioned by expanded use of writing and the practice of Athenian democracy. Lincoln then turns his attention to the period when myth was recuperated as a privileged type of narrative, a process he locates in the political and cultural ferment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Here, he connects renewed enthusiasm for myth to the nexus of Romanticism, nationalism, and Aryan triumphalism, particularly the quest for a language and set of stories on which nation-states could be founded. In the final section of this wide-ranging book, Lincoln advocates a fresh approach to the study of myth, providing varied case studies to support his view of myth—and scholarship on myth—as ideology in narrative form.
Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112044669122 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 2762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tul n Zuiv written by Josep Piqueras and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El 18 de abril de 1988 Luis Trévelez desapareció sin dejar rastro en espesor de la pluviselva yucateca. Su hermana Mari Luz, que tenía motivos para creer que seguía vivo, decidió emprender su búsqueda. En su viaje a México la acompañaron Fermín Ceballos, médico aficionado al estudio de las culturas primitivas, y Pablo Guerreiro, su ayudante. Se sumaron también a la expedición el profesor César Felices y el matrimonio Ortigosa, amantes entusiastas del arte antiguo. Una vez en México contaron con la ayuda inestimable del guía Aureliano, y de don Arcadio Botín, famoso arqueólogo retirado. Siguiendo sus consejos, en las semanas siguientes los expedicionarios se vieron embarcados en un emocionante trayecto que les fue llevando a lugares cada vez más recónditos, hasta que alcanzaron un lugar misterioso, oculto y casi inaccesible. Con ello descubrieron un secreto santuario y hallaron respuestas a cuestiones que intrigan desde hace años a historiadores y estudiosos de las antiguas civilizaciones mesoamericanas.
Download or read book Hispanic Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Tale of the Dispossessed La Multitud Errante written by Laura Restrepo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of "The Dark Bride" comes a new novella published in a bilingual English/Spanish edition.
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Download or read book Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicine written by Gerard Bodeker and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to address public health issues in traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM). It presents state-of-the-art reviews of TCAM research in a range of priority public health areas such as malaria and HIV and in such common ailments as skin conditions and orthopedic injury in developing countries. Contributions analyze policy trends in areas such as financing of TCAM and education and training in this field as well as selected case studies of model TCAM projects. Important chapters on research methodology, ethical and safety issues, and intellectual property rights pertaining to traditional medicine are also presented. Public financing for TCAM is a test of the commitment of governments, and the book includes an analysis from the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Atlas data of the worldwide trends in this area. With safety concerns foremost in the minds of both policy makers and the public, the book offers a global overview of policy and legislative trends in this field as well as an important set of guidelines for pharmacovigilance and TCAM products. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Introduction (1,729 KB). Contents: Foreword (Allan Rosenfield); Policy: Introduction (Gerard Bodeker & Gemma Burford); Policy and Public Health Perspectives on Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: An Overview (Gerard Bodeker, Fredi Kronenberg & Gemma Burford); Financing Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Health Care Services and Research (Gemma Burford, Gerard Bodeker & Chi-Keong Ong); Training (Gerard Bodeker, Cora Neumann, Chi-Keong Ong & Gemma Burford); Safety: Issues and Policy (Gilbert Shia, Barry Noller & Gemma Burford); Pharmacovigilance of Herbal Medicines: A United Kingdom Perspective (Joanne Barnes); Medicinal Plant Biodiversity and Local Healthcare: Sustainable Use and Livelihood Development (Gerard Bodeker & Gemma Burford); Home Herbal Gardens OCo A Novel Health Security Strategy Based on Local Knowledge and Resources (G Hariramamurthi, P Venkatasubramanian, P M Unnikrishnan & D Shankar); Humanitarian Responses to Traditional Medicine for Refugee Care (Cora Neumann & Gerard Bodeker); Public-Private Partnerships: A Case Study from East Africa (Patrick Mbindyo); Public Health Issues: Priority Diseases and Health Conditions: Malaria (Merlin L Willcox & Gerard Bodeker); HIV/AIDS: Traditional Systems of Health Care in the Management of a Global Epidemic (Gerard Bodeker, Gemma Burford, Mark Dvorak-Little & George Carter); An Overview of Clinical Studies on Complementary and Alternative Medicine in HIV Infection and AIDS (Jianping Liu); Skin and Wound Care: Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Public Health Dermatology (Gemma Burford, Gerard Bodeker & Terence J Ryan); Traditional Orthopaedic Practices: Beyond OCyBonesettingOCO (Gemma Burford, Gerard Bodeker & Jonathan Cohen); Research: Clinical Trial Methodology (Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Urmila Thatte & Jianping Liu); Ethical Issues in Research (Merlin L Willcox, Gerard Bodeker & Ranjit Roy Chaudhury); Intellectual Property Rights (Gerard Bodeker); Epilogue (Gerard Bodeker & Gemma Burford). Readership: Public health specialists and departments; health policy departments in ministries of health and universities; colleges of traditional and complementary medicine; World Health Organization and affiliated institutions; medical schools as a background text on TCAM."
Download or read book A week of kindness or the seven deadly elements written by Max Ernst and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great surrealist's collage masterpiece was printed in 1934 in a limited edition of five now-priceless pamphlets. This single-volume edition contains all of the original publication's 182 bizarre, darkly humorous scenes of violent dreams and erotic fantasies. "One of the clandestine classics of our century." — The New York Times.
