Cuadernos de viaje. Vagar por Asia
Author : Alberto de la Madrid
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
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ISBN : 1291047689
Foundation
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 055390034X
Book Description
The first novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire—both scientists and scholars—and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are among the most influential in the history of science fiction, celebrated for their unique blend of breathtaking action, daring ideas, and extensive worldbuilding. In Foundation, Asimov has written a timely and timeless novel of the best—and worst—that lies in humanity, and the power of even a few courageous souls to shine a light in a universe of darkness.
Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
Author : Sofronio G. Calderon
Publisher :
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 1915
Category : English language
ISBN :
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Picturing the Bronze Age
Author : Johan Ling
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 1782978801
Book Description
Pictures from the Bronze Age are numerous, vivid and complex. There is no other prehistoric period that has produced such a wide range of images spanning from rock art to figurines to decoration on bronzes and gold. Fourteen papers, with a geographical coverage from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, examine a wide range of topics reflecting the many forms and expressions of Bronze Age imagery encompassing important themes including religion, materiality, mobility, interaction, power and gender. Contributors explore specific elements of rock art in some detail such as the representation of the human form; images of manslaughter; and gender identities. The relationship between rock art imagery and its location on the one hand, and metalwork and networks of trade and exchange of both materials and ideas on the other, are considered. Modern and ancient perceptions of rock art are discussed, in particular the changing perceptions that have developed during almost 150 years of documented research. Picturing the Bronze Age is based on an international workshop with the same title held in Tanum, Sweden in October 2012.
The Dissonant Legacy of Modernismo
Author : Gwen Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0520329805
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Ozu
Author : Donald Richie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 1977-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520032774
Book Description
"Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting for: a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his notebooks and shooting scripts, numerous quotes from co-workers and Japanese critics, a great many stills and an unusually detailed filmography."—Sight and Sound Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one major theme, its dissolution. The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films. In his later pictures, the whole world exists in one family, the characters are family members rather than members of a society, and the ends of the earth seem no more distant than the outside of the house.
Mother Ireland
Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : 9780452280502
Book Description
"Mother Ireland" includes seven essays seamlessly woven into an autobiographical tapestry. In her lyrical, sensuous voice, O'Brien describes growing up in rural County Clare, from her days in a convent school to her first kiss to her eventual migration to England. Weaving her own personal history with the history of Ireland, she effortlessly melds local customs and ancient lore with the fascinating people and events that shaped he young life. The result is a colorful and timeless narrative that perfectly captures the heart and soul of this harshly beautiful country.
Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks
Author : Lesley Wylie
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1846311950
Book Description
This volume offers a new reading of the Spanish-American novela de la selva genre, often interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. Arguing against the commonly held opinion of the genre’s derivative nature, Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks examines how novela de la selva fiction reimagined the tropics from a Latin American perspective and redefined tropical landscape aesthetics and ethnography through parodic rewritings of European perspectives. Analyzing four emblematic novels of the genre, this book considers the crucial place of the jungle as a locus for the contestation of national and literary identity by post-independence Latin American writers.
Makoto Sei Watanabe
Author : Makoto Sei Watanabe
Publisher : L'Arcaedizioni
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Book Description
The works of Makoto Sei Watanabe combine the functionality of aesthetic experience and the calculated organization of structures with the evocation of deep ancestral memories.
Antarctica
Author : Claire Keegan
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802189717
Book Description
Compassionate, witty, and unsettling, Antarctica is the debut collection of one of Ireland's most exciting and versatile new talents. Claire Keegan, winner of several prestigious awards including the William Trevor Prize, writes stories that have a razor-sharp narrative style and unembellished tone, and move from the cruel, hard life of rural Ireland to the hot landscape of the southern United States. From the title story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind—to sleep with another man—Antarctica draws you into a world of obsession, betrayal, and fragile relationships. In "Love in the Tall Grass," Cordelia wakes on the last day of the twentieth century and sets off along the coast road to keep a date, with her lover, that has been nine years in the waiting. In "Passport Soup," Frank Corso mourns the curious disappearance of his nine-year-old daughter and tries desperately to reach out to his shattered wife who has gone mad with grief. Keegan's characters inhabit a world where dreams, memory, and chance can have crippling consequences for those involved. Moving in its quiet intensity, the award-winning Antarctica is a rare and arresting debut.
