¡No hay para tanto!


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La tragedia de una mujer vendida por sus padres a un rico empresario repercute como eco en las vidas de varias generaciones que presencian el paso de la historia desde principios y hasta finales del siglo XX. En sus cartas, hacen referencia a un pueblo perdido en la montaña, cuyas gélidas paredes de piedra ocultan secretos familiares, intrigas políticas y peligro mortal. Pero si le preguntas a cualquiera de ellos sobre lo que pasó ahí, se limitarán a decir: "¡No hay para tanto!" "Una excelente novela de intriga, pero también un ciclorama sobre el que se proyectan una serie de personajes y situaciones típicas de la sociedad rural –el cacique, el cura, el juez, el rechazo a los forasteros, los odios seculares entre familias...– y una panorámica sobre los hechos que han caracterizado el siglo XX en nuestro país." Joan Josep Isern "Noventa años de nuestro país en una novela orgánica, viva, donde todos los elementos encajan como en un reloj de hora exacta." Andreu Martín "¡No hay para tanto!, una novela que no podéis dejar de leer: corta, intensa y diferente. Por su tratamiento epistolar, por las distintas voces que la habitan, por la intriga tan bien conducida y por su originalidad... ¡Buena lectura!" Gemma Lienas "Conocí bien a Bartomeu Cruells y compartí con él actividades de la lucha clandestina contra la dictadura y ahora descubro su talento literario para, novelando un crimen, hacer un repaso de noventa años de nuestra historia más reciente."Xavier Vinader Tags: misterio, novella histórica




Hispania


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Performing Populism


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Whether or not it constituted a complete break from the past, the 15-M movement’s most important legacy was a more expansive notion of the popular political, one that recognized cultural representation as a mode of political articulation and as part of a political culture. In an effort to understand the populist cycle inaugurated by 15-M, and to do so beyond a series of narrated events, Performing Populism sets out to explain Spanish populism in relation to the performances of its visual politics. The book's first part examines how the 15-M movement created a new way of seeing that in turn led to a new way of doing politics in Spain. Part Two focuses on the multiple ramifications of that new vision once the people stopped marching and the movement became less visible. From electoral posters to fiction films, documentaries, and internet memes, Performing Populism traces the ways that collective Spanish identities evolved from a period when "the people" seemed to have been willingly subsumed under the apathetic ideation of the middle-class consumer to the moment in 2011 when a crisis of representation forced many into political consciousness. This rude awakening kickstarted the reconstruction of a Spanish "us" that staged exhibitions of popular will on par with and parallel to the Arab Spring, but in a European register that embraced the countercultural through art that disremembered its political past but could not escape the ghostly shadow of its history.







Approaches to the Theory of Freedom in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz


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Virginia Aspe’s erudite Approaches to the Theory of Freedom offers a new interpretation of “Primero Sueño”–probably the highest Spanish-written poem–, written by the nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz . Aspe considers the philosophical and theological influences regarding Sor Juana’s development of her concept and ideal of freedom. With vast erudition, Aspe helps advance the field of Sor Juana studies beyond what Paz was able to accomplish. She emphasises the influence of the Jesuit theology of the University of Coimbra. New perspectives and references available to the Spanish speaking world, such as the recent translation of several previously unknown Latin texts from Sor Juana’s Mexican contemporaries, provide insights that help Aspe take our understanding of the poem further and cast new lights on her idea of freedom, as well as her background and references. Approaches to the Theory of Freedom help us to become familiar with the way this magnificent poem becomes a defense of freedom. That is why this book means a significant contribution to our understanding of Sor Juana’s thought and the poetry of Sor Juana’s period.







CliffsStudySolver: Spanish II


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The CliffsStudySolver workbooks combine 20 percent review material with 80 percent practice problems (and the answers!) to help make your lessons stick. CliffsStudySolver Spanish II is for students who want to reinforce their knowledge with a learn-by-doing approach. Inside, you’ll get the practice you need to learn Spanish II with problem-solving tools such as Clear, concise reviews of every topic Practice problems in every chapter—with explanations and solutions A diagnostic pretest to assess your current skills A full-length exam that adapts to your skill level A glossary, thematic vocabulary lists, and situational tasks can help you communicate in a Spanish-speaking environment. This workbook also covers comparisons and superlatives, interrogation and exclamations, and key phrases. Explore other aspects of the language including The parts of speech: Articles, adjectives and adverbs, nouns and pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions. Verbs: Regular and irregular, gerunds, and moods Verb tenses: The progressive, imperfect, and present perfect tenses Gender and the number of nouns Fractions, multiples, dates, and time Negatives and indefinites Practice makes perfect—and whether you're taking lessons or teaching yourself, CliffsStudySolver guides can help you make the grade.




Letter from Rome


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Catholic World


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El astrónomo


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Finalista Premio Planeta Roy Arias, recién nacido, es encontrado entre las ruinas de Córdoba y adoptado por un caballero templario que lo entrega a la abadesa de un convento para que lo críe. Roy estudia en Salamanca y es admitido como aprendiz del astrónomo del rey Alfonso X, que les ordena ir a Persia en busca del sabio Nasir. En su viaje, junto con su maestro ben Fazzam, el fiel esclavo Batani y Manfred, capitán de la guardia del rey, se encontrarán con los mercaderes Polo, convivirán con tribus de las estepas, sufrirán emboscadas, conocerán el Imperio mongol e intimarán con mujeres extraordinarias. Una mezcla trepidante de aventuras, amor, intrigas nobiliarias, astrología, búsqueda de conocimientos y misterios.