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

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Book The Insubordination of Photography

Download or read book The Insubordination of Photography written by Ángeles Donoso Macaya and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American Studies Association Visual Culture Section Best Book Prize  Latin American Studies Association Historia Reciente y Memoria Section Best Book Prize  The role of documentary photography in exposing and protesting the crimes of a dictatorship After Augusto Pinochet rose to power in Chile in 1973, his government abducted, abused, and executed thousands of his political opponents. The Insubordination of Photography is the first book to analyze how various collectives, organizations, and independent media used photography to expose and protest the crimes of Pinochet’s authoritarian regime.  Ángeles Donoso Macaya discusses the ways human rights groups such as the Vicariate of Solidarity used portraits of missing persons in order to make forced disappearances visible. She also calls attention to forensic photographs that served as incriminating evidence of government killings in the landmark Lonquén case. Donoso Macaya argues that the field of documentary photography in Chile was challenged and shaped by the precariousness of the nation’s politics and economics and shows how photojournalists found creative ways to challenge limitations imposed on the freedom of the press.  In a culture saturated by disinformation and cover-ups and restricted by repression and censorship, photography became an essential tool to bring the truth to light. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and other archival material, this book reflects on the integral role of images in public memory and issues of reparation and justice.  A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez  Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Book La Etica de Spinoza

    Book Details:
  • Author : Atilano Domínguez
  • Publisher : Univ de Castilla La Mancha
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9788477291138
  • Pages : 534 pages

Download or read book La Etica de Spinoza written by Atilano Domínguez and published by Univ de Castilla La Mancha. This book was released on 1992 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish Literature

Download or read book Spanish Literature written by David William Foster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered to meet the rising upsurge of interest in Spain, this collection features major critical articles dealing with the authors and texts customarily taught in colleges and universities in the United States. The articles are in English and Spanish, with a predominance of the former. The material is organized to reflect the common chronological and period divisions of the academic curriculum, and is clustered around major literary figures, with a mix of general articles on the writers and texts that are most commonly included in anthologies. Spanish literature and culture have attracted a renewed interest since the return to constitutional democracy in the mid-1970s and the growing participation of Spain in the world economy and its incorporation into the European common market. Spanish literature balances a participation in the major literary movements of European literature in general with unique features of Hispanic culture that are a consequence of the special circumstances of its geography,especially the ways in which it historically served as a conduit to Europe of Arabic and Jewish cultures. Figures of international acclaim like Federico Garc'a Lorca, Miguel de Unamuno, and Jose Ortega y Gasset, Nobel prizewinners like Vicente Aleixandre and Camilo Jose Cela, the universality of Miguel de Cervantes, without whom the modern novel would not have been possible, the uniqueness of the Hispanic ballad tradition, mystic poets like San Juan de la Cruz and Santa Teresa Jesus, and the picaresque tradition are some of the major reference points for the singularity of Spanish literary culture. All of this literary activity has inspired innumerable dissertations, theses, and books, published by academic and trade presses, as well as articles in journals traditionally devoted to literary history and philosophy, along with new specialized journals and the organization of national and international congresses on national and cultural issues, writers, and schools of writing. These three volumesselect the most seminal works on Spanish literature and collect them in one place for scholars and students alike. This three volume collection of reprinted articles is also available as individual volumes priced at $80.00/Y [Can. $120.00/Y]: * Volume 1.Theoretical Debates0815335636 Volume 2.From Origins to the 18th Century0815335644 Volume 3.The Modern Period0185335652

Book Inter American Yearbook on Human Rights

Download or read book Inter American Yearbook on Human Rights written by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights/La Comision Intera, Inter-Amer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The print edition is available as a set of four volumes (9789041115171).

Book Carpe diem

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  • Author : Harry Eyres
  • Publisher : Grupo Planeta Spain
  • Release : 2013-09-10
  • ISBN : 8434409836
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Carpe diem written by Harry Eyres and published by Grupo Planeta Spain. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hay lecturas que nos acompañan a lo largo de la vida. Textos que nos reflejan, iluminan o inspiran hasta el punto de que la emoción que nos producen acaba transformándolos en una «fuente de consuelo y sabiduría». Ése es el acercamiento que propone el prestigioso periodista, escritor y enólogo Harry Eyres a la obra de Horacio, el poeta clásico. Combinando con sutileza su propia deriva biográfica con la del poeta, estableciendo paralelismos entre la Roma del siglo I a.C. y el mundo actual, Eyres retrata al hijo de esclavo liberto que llevaría la lírica latina a su cénit con una vívida riqueza de matices. Horacio se vuelve cercano, sorprendentemente contemporáneo, no sólo por las sentencias que le han hecho popular –«carpe diem», «dulce et decorum est pro patria mori»– sino por su defensa de la amistad –Virgilio y Mecenas se contaban entre sus amigos –, de los pequeños placeres y de la vida tranquila en el campo –«beatus ille»–, por su canto al vino humilde y su disposición a renunciar a prebendas para conservar su libertad..., pero también por su mal genio y su a veces exacerbada ironía. Hombre complejo y leal, puede que Horacio nunca pretendiera ser un maestro, pero es mucho lo que se puede aprender de él, porque, como hace Eyres, siempre se puede recurrir a sus versos, «más duraderos que el bronce», como si se buscaran las palabras de un amigo.

Book   Ufffffff  pobres todos

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  • Author : José Mauricio Díaz Améndola
  • Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
  • Release : 2022-04-26
  • ISBN : 1685174523
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book Ufffffff pobres todos written by José Mauricio Díaz Améndola and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: !Ufffffff, pobres todos! No es "sentir desden", es mas, es un sentir de "poder reconocer" donde estamos, de donde venimos. En este libro, el conscritor pretende exclamar reconocimiento de lo que podemos lograr. Por ende, despues que termines al haberte aventurado y, lograr entender este !Ufffffff! Aprontate a descubrir tu potencial positivo. !Hasta pronto!

Book Battling for Hearts and Minds

Download or read book Battling for Hearts and Minds written by Steve J. Stern and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-25 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battling for Hearts and Minds is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from the 1973 military coup in which he seized power through his defeat in a 1988 plebiscite. Steve J. Stern provides a riveting narration of Chile’s political history during this period. At the same time, he analyzes Chileans’ conflicting interpretations of events as they unfolded. Drawing on testimonios, archives, Truth Commission documents, radio addresses, memoirs, and written and oral histories, Stern identifies four distinct perspectives on life and events under the dictatorship. He describes how some Chileans viewed the regime as salvation from ruin by Leftists (the narrative favored by Pinochet’s junta), some as a wound repeatedly reopened by the state, others as an experience of persecution and awakening, and still others as a closed book, a past to be buried and forgotten. In the 1970s, Chilean dissidents were lonely “voices in the wilderness” insisting that state terror and its victims be recognized and remembered. By the 1980s, the dissent had spread, catalyzing a mass movement of individuals who revived public dialogue by taking to the streets, creating alternative media, and demanding democracy and human rights. Despite long odds and discouraging defeats, people of conscience—victims of the dictatorship, priests, youth, women, workers, and others—overcame fear and succeeded in creating truthful public memories of state atrocities. Recounting both their efforts and those of the regime’s supporters to win the battle for Chileans’ hearts and minds, Stern shows how profoundly the struggle to create memories, to tell history, matters. Battling for Hearts and Minds is the second volume in the trilogy The Memory Box of Pinochet’s Chile. The third book will examine Chileans’ efforts to achieve democracy while reckoning with Pinochet’s legacy.

Book Inter American Yearbook on Human Rights   Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos  Volume 20  2004

Download or read book Inter American Yearbook on Human Rights Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos Volume 20 2004 written by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 1499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Valkirie

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  • Author : Gabriel GARIBAY
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2014-06-20
  • ISBN : 1490731547
  • Pages : 783 pages

Download or read book Valkirie written by Gabriel GARIBAY and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VALKIRIE narra la historia de México durante los últimos dos sexenios dominados por la cruenta guerra contra los carteles del narcotráfico y sus conecciones con importantes políticos, empresarios y corporaciones globales. Vivian camina dentro de una nube púrpura luego de la destrucción de México, entre muertos que no saben que lo están. Es una novela compuesta en capítulos que representan cabezas degolladas, manos mochadas, corazones arrancados. Como dice ella, "me lo dictaron las voces de los desaparecidos que por ahí están". Y es la reacción de las mujeres que cuando se les mete algo en la cabeza, nadie las puede parar. VALKIRIE es un oscuro viaje, un trance, con una mirada profunda, seria, pero también magnética, en otra dimensión, en donde se planea el asesinato de un presidente...o dos. VALKIRIE tells the story of contemporary Mexico ́s history, specially through the last twelve years dominated by an erratic and strange drug war against the cartels and its connections with important politicians, business men and global corporations. Vivian walks inside a purple cloud after Mexico ceased to exist, walking among mexicans who doesn ́t know they are already dead. Its a novel composed in chapters that represent heads, hands, legs and hearts dismembered. VALKIRIE may be a fiction but its well documented in reality. As Vivian, one of its characters, says, "it ́s written by the voices unheard, by the lost ones, the dissapeared: the testimony of the dead that still walk around us". VALKIRIE its a trip, a trance, a dark tour de force inside the mind of a girl induced by a new and powerful illegal drug in a plot that has to do with the attempt to kill the president...or two.

Book Human Rights

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur V. Carrington
  • Publisher : Nova Biomedical Books
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Human Rights written by Arthur V. Carrington and published by Nova Biomedical Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the consternation of the haves, some humans continue to insist that they are entitled to live as humans. While it is perhaps a question of philosophy what constitutes a human right, it is more clear what constitutes an abuse of human rights. The world has never been short on abusers and is surely not now. Only the names and faces have changed over time. The powerful tend to be the abusers and the weak the abused. Being aware of the abuses can at least focus light on them and perhaps serve as a proactive response. This bibliography presents hundreds of citations of human right violations under the categories: Basic Human Rights; North America; Latin America; Europe; Asia; Middle East and Africa. Access is provided via Title, Author and Subject Indexes.

Book El Libro de los Esp  ritus

Download or read book El Libro de los Esp ritus written by Allan Kardec and published by EDICEI of America. This book was released on 2008 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Es el marco inicial de una doctrina que ha ocasionado profundas repercusiones en el pensamiento y la visión acerca de la vida de una considerable porción de la humanidad. Su estructura está compuesta por cuatro partes que contienen 1019 cuestiones formuladas por Allan Kardec, el Codificador del Espiritismo. Aborda en forma lógica y racional las enseñanzas de los Espíritus desde los aspectos científico, filosófico y religioso. Independientemente de toda creencia o convicción religiosa, la lectura de este libro será de inmenso valor, porque trata acerca de Dios, la inmortalidad del alma, la naturaleza de los Espíritus, sus relaciones con los hombres, las leyes morales, la vida presente, la vida futura y el porvenir de la humanidad, todos asuntos de interés general y de gran actualidad.

Book Las mujeres y la   pera

Download or read book Las mujeres y la pera written by Hélène Seydoux and published by Editorial Almuzara. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hélène Seydoux establece brillantemente cómo en la ópera, más que en otras formas artísticas –literatura, teatro o cine–, las mujeres reciben el máximo privilegio al otorgar a las cantantes el mayor espacio lírico. Seydoux analiza las grandes óperas de los grandes compositores y trata de buscar un modelo emblemático femenino que sirva como referente común en el ámbito del bel canto, mientras trata de buscar paralelismos con la época, la sociedad, el momento en el que las óperas fueron creadas intentando establecer hasta que punto estas son reflejo de esas condiciones. Porque la ópera también es una interpretación del mundo. La autora, se aleja de la tesis de la musicología y ayuda al lector a descubrir (o a redescubrir) los placeres de la tragedia lírica, la comedia bufa o el drama jocular.

Book Latin America  the Freedom to Write

Download or read book Latin America the Freedom to Write written by American Center of P.E.N. Freedom to Write Committee and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book   Quo Vadis  Universidad

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  • Author : Esteban Bara, Francisco
  • Publisher : Editorial UOC
  • Release : 2016-12-26
  • ISBN : 8491163921
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Quo Vadis Universidad written by Esteban Bara, Francisco and published by Editorial UOC. This book was released on 2016-12-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durante los últimos años, la educación universitaria vive un proceso de reforma continuo. Cada día que pasa se presenta una nueva metodología pedagógica, una original manera de evaluar, una insólita tecnología que aplicar en el aula, una inédita función del profesorado o una flamante competencia que adquirir. Todo eso está muy bien, especialmente para aquellos que se lamentaban por tener una educación universitaria caduca. Sin embargo, tanta mudanza y restauración ¿no habrán causado una cierta desorientación en torno a los fines y el ethos de dicha educación? La educación universitaria no ha funcionado como debiera si esta consiste en una especie de carrera de obstáculos, que son las asignaturas, para llegar al título, que es la meta. La realidad demuestra, por lo menos a nuestro entender, que año tras año un buen número de estudiantes no se percatan de que son miembros de una comunidad llamada universidad.

Book Ensayos sobre cr  tica literaria

Download or read book Ensayos sobre cr tica literaria written by Antonio Alatorre and published by El Colegio de Mexico AC. This book was released on 2013-08-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonio Alatorre reunió, en 1993, trece artículos en los que expone su manera de ver la literatura y de entender y ejercer la crítica literaria. No formula ninguna "teoría literaria" ni ninguna "metodología" (nada más ajeno a sus afanes), simplemente propone su manera de entender dos fenómenos indisolublemente trabados: la literatura y la lectura. Alatorre muestra que el que lee y, muy importante, siente lo que lee, es ya un crítico literario en potencia: con las herramientas adecuadas será capaz de pensar críticamente y de explicar las razones de la emoción experimentada. El crítico no es sino un lector más "formado", más "instruido", dotado de mayor capacidad de recepción, de mayor sagacidad literaria y de la capacidad y honradez para transmitir elocuente y claramente su experiencia de lector. Este "librito" se publicó originalmente en la colección Lecturas Mexicanas de Conaculta. Actualmente esta edición se encuentra agotada. De 1993 a 2010, Alatorre añadió algunas noticias más, pulió una que otra idea (pocas) y corrigió poquísimas cosillas de estilo. Se ofrece esta nueva edición (algo corregida y añadida) para conmemorar los 90 años del nacimiento de Antonio Alatorre.

Book Despierto  Los 5 Elementos

Download or read book Despierto Los 5 Elementos written by Daniel Chaidez and published by Daniel Chaidez. This book was released on 2024-07-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¡Despierto! La Auto-libertad se refiere a cinco elementos fundamentales: agua, tierra, fuego, metal y viento como una perspectiva simbólica y no una creencia sobre los elementos mismos. Simplemente representan una representación de las características compartidas de las cinco pautas hacia la libertad. Espiritual, Físico, Accional, Mental e Industrial son los cinco aspectos de la condición mental. Tener Auto-libertad es estar Despertado al hecho de que existen confinamientos físicos y mentales, y la libertad vendrá al comprender los elementos del confinamiento. Un encierro puede ser cualquier cosa que tenga control o limitaciones sobre alguien o algo. La base de los 5 Elementos son perspectivas simbólicas y no una creencia en los Elementos mismos. Simplemente representan una representación de las características compartidas de las cinco pautas para la Auto-libertad. La referencia a la libertad es la liberación teórica de los 5 estados de confinamientos institucionales físicos y mentales que se rigen por las tradiciones, la sociedad, los principios, las emociones y la identificación. Los elementos naturales se clasifican en cinco puntos de vista discutibles, que no pretenden ser el punto de vista de otra persona también, ¡sino que pretenden ser el impulso inspirador para comenzar su propio viaje hacia la verdad y vivir la mejor vida posible! ¡Poderoso! Pensamiento filosófico de la Nueva Era que cubre los temas principales utilizando elementos naturales y conceptos estoicos.