Download or read book A Season in Desire written by Eduardo Acevedo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English: The author's voice skirts the limits of poetry, brief tales, and micro essays. With humor, irony or passion, he does not intend to teach anything; just provoke at most. His colloquial register recalls a conversation among friends, deploying a unique style, with distant accents of the River Plate region. In this first volume, you will find desire, love and carried out dreams.Second edition, as a new translation, by Teresa M. Lorenz. Spanish: La voz del autor bordea los límites entre la poesía, el micro ensayo y el relato breve. Con humor, ironía o pasión, lo que no intenta es enseñar algo. Provocar a lo más. Su registro coloquial, hace recordar una conversación entre amigos, en la que despliega un estilo propio con lejanos acentos rioplatenses. En este primer volumen están el deseo, el amor y los sueños cumplidos.Segunda edición, con una nueva traducción realizada por Teresa M. Lorenz.

Download or read book Blood and Capital written by Jasmin Hristov and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia. She conducts an in-depth inquiry into the restructuring of the state’s coercive apparatus and the phenomenon of paramilitarism by looking at its military, political, and legal dimensions. Hristov demonstrates how various interrelated forms of violence by state forces, paramilitary groups, and organized crime are instrumental to the process of capital accumulation by the local elite as well as the exercise of political power by foreign enterprises. She addresses, as well, issues of forced displacement, proletarianization of peasants, concentration of landownership, growth in urban and rural poverty, and human rights violations in relation to the use of legal means and extralegal armed force by local dominant groups and foreign companies. Hristov documents the penetration of major state institutions by right-wing armed groups and the persistence of human rights violations against social movements and sectors of the low-income population. Blood and Capital raises crucial questions about the promised dismantling of paramilitarism in Colombia and the validity of the so-called demobilization of paramilitary groups, both of which have been widely considered by North American and some European governments as proof of Colombian president Álvaro Uribe’s advances in the wars on terror and drugs.

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Download or read book Teaching Translation from Spanish to English written by Allison Beeby Lonsdale and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions this view. In her innovative book, Beeby Lonsdale demonstrates how teachers can guide their students by showing them how insights from communication theory, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and semiotics can illuminate the translation process. Using Spanish to English translation as her example, she presents the basic principles of translation through 29 teaching units, which are prefaced by objectives, tasks, and commentaries for the teacher, and through 48 task sheets, which show how to present the material to students. Published in English.

Download or read book Daily Life of the Aztecs written by Jacques Soustelle and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Mexicans at the beginning of the sixteenth century, focusing on the daily activities of the city-dwellers of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, and discussing society, religion, domestic habits, marriage and family, war, the arts, and other aspects of daily life.

Download or read book Incesto written by Fernando Caballero and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "De cualquier modo, se me era dado revertir todo este proceso, el mío, y aún sin la participación de mi adorada sobrina, iniciar un esbozo de momentos íntimos, pero que pudiera ir configurándose a pedacitos en un gran y completo mosaico de fervoroso acto de amor. Debo buscar (por mi propio y único esfuerzo) un rincón de bienestar y agradable delirio en que Rosa Blanca pudiera participar entre la medianoche que ya se fue y las dispersas brumas que arriban desde las colinas de Hostalric, y que este delirio fuera no simplemente testigo, sino actor en este encuentro entre mi cuerpo erizado de reverberante deseo, y el de ella, incólume aún a las turbulencias que ha desatado en mí... Y ya no la nombro al azar o por rigurosas circunstancias de los verbos, y por ello, digo con oculto regocijo "adorada sobrina", como si tuviera derecho a desbaratar las burdas etiquetas y tabúes impuestos por la ignorancia de los tiempos...De cualquier manera, se me es dado crear ¿qué?, ¿un mundo ficticio en que Rosa Blanca y yo fuéramos un solo cuerpo, una carne dentro de la otra, el vaivén sinuoso del acto que penetra dentro de nosotros?"

Download or read book Closing of the American Mind written by Allan Bloom and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.

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