Behind the Curtains
Author : Carmen Martín Gaite
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780231068888
Author : Carmen Martín Gaite
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780231068888
Author : Camilo José Cela
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564783413
Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Set against a backdrop of an Arizona influenced by the Mexican Revolution and the westward expansion of the United States, the story is a bravura performance by the 1989 Nobel Prize-winning author. A monologue by the naive, unreliable, and uneducated Wendell L. Espana, the book weaves together hundreds of characters and a torrent of interconnected anecdotes, some true, some fabricated. Wendell s story is a document of the vast array of ills that welcomed the dawning of the twentieth century, ills that continue to shape our world in the new millennium."
Author : Nalini M. Nadkarni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 2000-03-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0195133102
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve has captured the worldwide attention of biologists, conservationists, and ecologists and has been the setting for extensive investigation over the past 30 years. Roughly 40,000 ecotourists visit the Cloud Forest each year, and it is often considered the archetypal high-altitude rain forest.This volume brings together some of the most prominent researchers of the region to provide a broad introduction to the biology of the Monteverde, and cloud forests in general. Collecting and synthesizing vital information about the ecosystem and its biota, the book also examines the positive and negative effects of human activity on both the forest and the surrounding communities. Ecologists, tropical biologists, and natural historians will find this volume an indispensable resource, as will all those who are fascinated by the magnificent wonders of the tropical forests.
Author : Camilo José Cela
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780871133793
Awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, Camilo José Cela has long been recognized as one of the preeminent Spanish writers of the twentieth century. Journey to the Alcarria is the best known of his vagabundajes, Cela's term for his books of travels, sketchbooks of regions or provinces. The Alcarria is a territory in New Castile, northeast of Madrid, surrounding most of the Guadalajara province. The region is high, rocky, and dry, and is famous for its honey. Cela himself is "the traveler," an urban intellectual wandering from village to village, through farms and along country roads, in search of the Spanish character. Cela relishes his encounters with the simple, honest people of the Spanish countryside--the blushing maid in the tavern, the small-town shopkeeper with airs of grandeur lonely for companionship, the old peasant with his donkey who freely shares his bread and blanket with the stranger. These vignettes are narrated in a fresh, clear prose that is wonderfully evocative. As the New York Times wrote, Cela is "an outspoken observer of human life who built his reputation on portraying what he observed in a direct colloquial style."
Author : The Editors of Think Spanish
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1259836320
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Your first-class ticket to building key Spanish language skills From the bestselling Read & Think series, this fully-illustrated third edition of Read & Think Spanish brings the Spanish language to life! In addition to introducing, developing, and growing key vocabulary, this book gives you an insider’s look at the enchanting diversity of Hispanic life and culture—from the art of eating tapas in Spain to a walk along Cuba’s white sand beaches, and from biographies on luminaries such as Andrés Segovia, the father of the classical guitar, to lessons on Argentinian soccer. Including more than 100 engaging articles written by native Spanish-speakers, each one provides a bilingual glossary on the same page, allowing you to learn without stopping to look up new or unfamiliar words. Each chapter contains several exercises to reinforce comprehension and the new premium edition features streaming audio recordings of more than 40 readings (90 minutes) and over 7,000 vocabulary items by flashcard, easily accessible online or on any mobile device, through the unique McGraw-Hill Language Lab app.
Author : Lucinda A. McDade
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 1994-03-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226039527
Abiotic environment and ecosystem processes; The plant community: Composition, dynamics, and life-history processes; The animal community; Plant-animal interactions; La selva's human environment.
Author : Thomas Stadtmüller
Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : 9789280806700
Author : Michelle Engmann
Publisher : HelpMate Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0984849327
Author : Frances R. Aparicio
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252051556
Longstanding Mexican and Puerto Rican populations have helped make people of mixed nationalities—MexiGuatamalans, CubanRicans, and others—an important part of Chicago's Latina/o scene. Intermarriage between Guatemalans, Colombians, and Cubans have further diversified this community-within-a-community. Yet we seldom consider the lives and works of these Intralatino/as when we discuss Latino/as in the United States.In Negotiating Latinidad, a cross-section of Chicago's second-generation Intralatino/as offer their experiences of negotiating between and among the national communities embedded in their families. Frances R. Aparicio's rich interviews reveal Intralatino/as proud of their multiplicity and particularly skilled at understanding difference and boundaries. Their narratives explore both the ongoing complexities of family life and the challenges of fitting into our larger society, in particular the struggle to claim a space—and a sense of belonging—in a Latina/o America that remains highly segmented in scholarship. The result is an emotionally powerful, theoretically rigorous exploration of culture, hybridity, and transnationalism that points the way forward for future scholarship on Intralatino/a identity.
Author : Barbra Streisand
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1476823839
(Piano Vocal). This sheet music features an arrangement for piano and voice with guitar chord frames, with the melody presented in the right hand of the piano part as well as in the vocal line.