Huellas de Una Reina Sin Corona


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Huellas de una Reina sin Corona, representa en sí, la labor poética más importante en la incipiente carrera literaria del autor. Escrito entre algunos inigualables rincones de Canadá y sus alrededores: British Columbia, Québec y Ontario, éste libro ha sido la mayor muestra de inspiración, admiración y amor desenfrenados por la vida y la mujer, que el poeta ha desarrollado a través de las letras plasmadas, y donde las metáforas se disgregan con el más solemne canto perdido entre palabras. Surgida de un romance repentino entre largas horas de nevadas soledades, ésta poesía logrará entre sus sonidos y cadencias, desdoblar al lector hacia una súbita revolución emocional, donde no habrá cabida a la lógica, y la muerte pretende no importar ya más, sino inspirar y enaltecer hasta el fifi nal, porque es a través del lenguaje del alma que realmente entendemos nuestra existencia... El amor es parecido al cigarro del poeta, suele ser inspirador y casi siempre mata, su ausencia desespera, puede tirarlo y pisarlo, o disfrutarlo hasta que apagado desvanezca...




Hispania


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Vol. 1 includes "Organization number," published Nov. 1917.




The Queens Regnant of Navarre


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The five queens of Navarre were the largest group of female sovereigns in one European realm during the Middle Ages, but they are largely unknown beyond a regional audience. This survey fills this scholarly lacuna, focusing particularly on issues of female succession, agency, and power-sharing dynamic between the queens and their male consorts.




Kings of the Grail


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“Stand down, Indiana Jones: these two historians say the holy grail has been discovered . . . A ride rich in historical detail” (Publishers Weekly). Recently discovered parchments in the Egyptian University of Al-Azhar have finally made it possible to identify where the Holy Grail has been kept for the past one thousand years. Their discovery led Margarita Torres Sevilla and José Miguel Ortega del Río on a three-year investigation as they traced the Grail’s journey across the globe and discovered its final resting place in the Basilica of San Isidoro in León, Spain. Translated by Rosie Marteau, this is the definitive guide to one of history’s most sought-after treasures, the object of both Arthurian myth and Christian legend. Kings of the Grail presents new historical and scientific facts that have come to light, unraveling the mystery that has surrounded the Holy Grail and taking the reader on a compelling and thought-provoking journey back through time. “The writers make a convincing case . . . This book is a fascinating look at a mystery which has caught the Western imagination via books, poems and movies.” —The Historical Novels Review “An academic exposé on the famed cup of Christ. Torres Sevilla and Ortega del Río claim to have proven the identity of the true grail, the cup with which Jesus Christ and his Apostles shared wine at the Last Supper . . . [An] intriguing glimpse at one of Christianity’s great treasures.” —Kirkus Reviews




Footprints of the Queen Without a Crown


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Footprints of the Queen without a Crown, represents itself, the most important poetic work in the incipient literary career of the author. Written among some unique corners of Canada and surrounding areas: British Columbia, Quebec and Ontario, this book has been the greatest display of unrestrained inspiration, admiration and love for life and women, that the poet has embodied through letters and, where metaphors are broken with the solemn chant lost among words. Emerging from a sudden romance within long hours of snowy solitudes, this poetry will achieve, between sounds and cadences, to unfold the reader to a sudden emotional revolution, where there will be no space for logic, and where death does not matter anymore, but inspire and praise to the end, because it is through the language of the soul in which we really understand our existence Love is like the cigarette of the poet, often inspiring and almost always kills, its absence tend to exasperate, you can throw and tread on it, or enjoy it until it fades off




Genealogía de la Familia Montealegre


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El presente libro, "Genealogía de la familia MONTEALEGRE" es el Primer Tomo de tres, expone en sus páginas el origen del apellido, el lugar que dio origen al mismo, sus antepasados en España, Francia, Inglaterra, Italia, Alemania y Kiev. Entre esos antepasados, entre los más importantes, podemos mencionar al rey David, al Profeta Mahoma, a los Duques de Anjou y Aquitania, a los Plantegenet que son el origen de casi todas las monarquías europeas. Expone los antepasados del rey don Fernando III "el Santo" y su esposa Elizabeth Hohenstaufen, y sus descendientes, que a través de sus hijos don Alfonso X "el Sabio" y el Infante don Manuel, llegaron hasta América. De los descendientes del rey David, por Theodoric Makhir I, principe de de Narbona y marqués de Tolouse, cuyos descendientes contrajeron nupcias con los descendientes de Carlomagno, el linaje se extiende hasta Nicaragua, Costa Rica y Guatemala. La familia cuenta entre sus antepasados importantes conquistadores, tal como Juan Vázquez de Coronado y Anaya, que dejó descendencia en Costa Rica y Nicaragua. Al final del libro se ofrece una extensa iconografía de la familia, de todas sus ramas: Montealegre, Sacasa, Solórzano, Somoza, Rivera y otros miembros que pasaron a formar parte de la familia. Finalmente, ofrece una valiosa bibliografía de donde los lectores podrán ampliar sus conocimientos sobre esta familia importante en el desarrollo social, político, cultural y económico en Nicaragua, Costa Rica y Guatemala.







Beauty Queens on the Global Stage


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Modern beauty contests were invented by P.T. Barnum in the United States, but in the 20th century pageants and contests have spread across the entire world from Nepal to Tierra Del Fuego. Why are women (and sometimes men in drag) parading on stage such a universally appealing spectacle, attracting an audience in the billions? This book is the first global comparison of pageants from different parts of the world, at the ways each contest is both intensely local and unique, and simultaneously global and remarkable repetitious. The authors use the latest tools of feminist, ethnographic, and literary scholarship to unpack and interpret one of the greatest and most universal spectacles of modern times.




Literatura Hispanoamericana


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This Spanish-language anthology contains selections by 45 Latin-American authors. It is intended as a text for upper division Latin American literature survey courses. The anthology presumes a high level of linguistic command of Spanish, and it contains footnotes to allusions and cultural references, as well as words and phrases not found in standard bilingual dictionaries used in the US. Emphasis is on major 20th-century writers, while important works from colonial and 19th-century literature as also included. The diverse selections of Literature Hispanoamericana will enable students to have a more sustained exposure to major voices of Latin American literature than possible in anthologies built around fragments. By focusing on fewer authors but more significant selections from their writings, students will have a greater grasp of major canonical figures as well as emergent voices.




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