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Los tres paraísos

Autor: Robert Fabbri

Número de Páginas: 400

La súbita e inesperada muerte de Alejandro Magno en Babilonia ha dejado descabezado el mayor y más formidable imperio que el mundo haya visto. Mientras sus posibles herederos luchen por el poder y se sigan sucediendo las más implacables intrigas y las más sangrientas batallas, nadie cercano a Alejandro estará a salvo. Las guerras por el dominio de la tierra y el mar se van perdiendo y ganando, y las promesas y pactos se hacen solo para romperse, al tiempo que ciertos secretos, durante mucho tiempo guardados, comienzan a salir a la luz para desvelar las verdaderas circunstancias que rodean la muerte de Alejandro. ¿Realmente fue asesinado? De ser así, ¿quién lo hizo? ¿Pudo haber plantando Alejandro la semilla de la discordia deliberadamente al no haber nombrado ningún heredero? ¿Y quién se hará finalmente con el poder para gobernar el Imperio, si es que consigue sobrevivir? ¿Podrá uno solo de los candidatos derrotar al resto?

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Poeta en San Francisco

Autor: Barbara Jane Reyes

Número de Páginas: 109

Poetry. Asian American Studies. POETA EN SAN FRANCISCO is the winner of the highly prestigious James Laughlin Award for 2005, awarded annually from the Academy of American Poetry and the only prize for a second book of poetry in the United States. Although Reyes' first book was not as widely known as the first book of many of the other eligible poets, the judges nevertheless courageously chose this risky, radical, and deserving second book put out by an energetic but very small publisher. Reyes received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, where she also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Filipino American literary publication Maganda. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first book, Gravities of Center, was published by Arkipelago Books (SF) in 2003.

Ten One

Autor: Lance Olsen

Número de Páginas: 187

Fiction. You're sitting in a darkened theater, waiting for the movie to begin when American culture explodes all around in I-Max, Sensurround, Technicolor--this is the experience of reading Lance Olsen's brilliant 10:01, a novel in frames that unreels the random thoughts of a random movie audience: a screening of our own moment that Olsen lights with the white heat of a a projector beam. Be sure to check out Lance Olsen's other titles at SPD, including SEWING SHUT MY EYES.

Quipu

Autor: Arthur Sze

Número de Páginas: 101

Sze's poetry is bold and versatile and brings together "disparate realms of experience." -The New Yorker

Suculentas mexicanas

Autor: Carmen Valles Septién

Número de Páginas: 143

Puntos de Partida

Autor: Marty Knorre

Número de Páginas: 614

Puntos de partida offers the most teacher- and student-friendly textbook on the market as well as a host of exciting new features, most notably a state-of-the-art Instructor Edition. This Instructor Edition offers more teaching apparatus than any other introductory Spanish book on the market. An enlarged trim size, extensive annotations, and other special features sets Puntos de partida apart from every book on the market, both physically and because of the breadth and quality of the marginal annotations.

Caramba

Autor: Marie-Louise Gay

Número de Páginas: 40

Caramba is disappointed that he can't fly like other cats, but when his cousins decide to show him how, he discovers that he does have a unique talent that other cats don't have.

La primera revolución industrial

Autor: Phyllis Deane

Número de Páginas: 334

Teresa

Autor: Neera

Número de Páginas: 200

A young woman in 1880s Italy is forbidden to marry a dashing young man because he has no money. Teresa Caccia is put to work by her father, looking after her younger siblings, and only when they grow up is she able to join her love.

Catolicismo

Autor: Robert Barron

Número de Páginas: 384

¿QUÉ ES EL CATOLICISMO? ¿Una tradición viva de dos mil años? ¿Una visión del mundo? ¿Una forma de vida? ¿Una relación? ¿Un misterio? En Catolicismo, el padre Robert Barron examina todas estas preguntas y más, intentando captar el cuerpo, el corazón y la mente de la fe católica. Comenzando desde el cimiento esencial de la encarnación, vida y enseñanza de Jesucristo, el padre Barron se mueve a través de los elementos definitorios del catolicismo — desde los sacramentos, la devoción y la oración, hasta María, los apóstoles y santos, a la gracia, la salvación, el cielo y el infierno— usando su entendimiento dinámico y distintivo del arte, la literatura, la arquitectura, los relatos personales, las escrituras, la teología, la filosofía y la historia para presentar la Iglesia al mundo. De la mano de su serie documental con el mismo título, Catolicismo es un viaje íntimo que captura “lo católico” en toda su profundidad y belleza. Ecléctico, único e inspirador, el padre Barron le devuelve la vida a la fe para una nueva generación, con un estilo fiel a verdades atemporales, pero que a la vez habla en la lengua de la vida contemporánea.

Alba

Autor: Delacorta

Número de Páginas: 208

Once again, Serge Gorodish and his exotic sidekick, Alba, are thrust into thrilling adventure when Alba unwittingly becomes involved with a secret cult and Gorodish determinedly tracks her to the Majave desert.

Viridiana

Autor: Luis Bunuel , Luis Buñuel , Julio Alejandro

Número de Páginas: 96

Luis Bunuel's Viridiana is the story of a young novice who, in the space of a short time, is transformed from fervently pious to worldly as she moves from serving God within the convent to serving people outside the convent. When Luis Bunuel began shooting Viridiana in 1961, he decided he did not want stars for the film ("Stars are always horrible," he once remarked). Two of the twelve beggars in the film were not professional actors: the woman dwarf (she was a lottery ticket vendor in Madrid) and the leper. "I remember in particular the remarkable character who played the leper," Bunuel wrote. "He was half beggar, half madman, and was allowed to live in the studio courtyard during the shooting. The man paid no attention whatsoever to my directions, yet he's marvelous in the movie." - from the foreword by Inga Karetnikova

Mariana Pineda

Autor: Federico García Lorca

Número de Páginas: 175

Mariana Pineda (1925) was Lorca's first success in the theatre. Based on a popular Andalusian ballad, it tells the story of Mariana Pineda who was garrotted in 1831 under the reactionary regime of Ferdinand VII for embroidering a Liberal flag and refusing to betray her lover. Written during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the political message would not have escaped Lorca's audience. But the play is primarily the work of a poet and its appeal lies in the delicate tension that results from a deft blend of lyricism and drama which culminates in an astonishing level of spirituality in the final scenes when Mariana awaits her execution in a prison-convent. The characteristic themes of Lorca's tragedies - love, frustration, fate, freedom, death and womanhood - flourish within the play's appropriate and exquisite romantic mood. Spanish text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.

Borges: Ficciones

Autor: Jorge Luis Borges

Número de Páginas: 194

By common consent, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borge (1899-1986) is one of the greatest writers to have emerged from Latin America. His finest work is Ficciones (Fictions, 1944), a collection of essay-like short stories, which through numerous translations into other languages assures him of his place in western literature as a whole. This edition of Ficciones by Gordon Brotherston and Peter Hulme offers a comprehensive selection of stories from Borges's best volume. An update of an earlier widely respected edition by the same authors (1976), it has a full introduction, detailed notes, a generous vocabulary, and bibliography, as well as chronological and other tables.

Victoria

Autor: Sami Michael

Número de Páginas: 343

A family saga set in the courtyards of Jewish Baghdad before World War I. The book portrays a family exploding with power struggles and intrigue, seductions and betrayals, witches and hunchbacks, ghouls and spirits of flesh and blood. At the centre is Victoria, who is in love with her cousin.

First, Break All The Rules

Autor: Marcus Buckingham , Curt Coffman

Número de Páginas: 271

Explains how good managers can select, focus, motivate, and develop their employees in order to transform talent into performance

Cultivo de tejidos en la agricultura

Autor: William M. Roca , Luis A. Mroginski

Número de Páginas: 969

Principios basicos, metodologias y tecnicas del cutlivo de tejidos vegetales. Aplicaciones del cultivo de tejidos a especies vegetales economicamente importantes. Aplicaciones de tecnicas bioquimicas y moleculares al cultivo de tejidos vegetales.

Bulletin of Spanish Studies

Garcilaso de la Vega and the Italian Renaissance

Autor: Daniel L. Heiple

Número de Páginas: 428

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions. Especially important in these analyses are the poetic practices of Petrarchism as defined by Pietro Bembo and the reaction against them proclaimed by Bernardo Tasso. Heiple studies each of the sonnets, tracing their roots in the Hispanic cancionero poetry through Petrarchism and Neoplatonism to the specific reactions against the Italian Petrarchan mode, ending with the sonnets in imitation of the classical epigram. Several longer poems, Canción IV, Elegy II, and Ode ad florem Gnidi, are discussed within the contexts of Renaissance poetic conventions and ideas, bringing to the fore Garcilaso's...

Esteban Vicente

Autor: Elizabeth Frank , Esteban Vicente , Ellen Russotto

Número de Páginas: 164

Esteban Vicente is the first book devoted to the life and work of the distinguished Spanish-born painter who, at age ninety-two, remains the only one of the original Abstract Expressionists still working at the peak of his powers. His luminous paintings and collages acknowledge the great Spanish tradition of Velazquez and Goya while simultaneously exploring the legacy of such modernist masters as Cezanne, Picasso, Mondrian, and Matisse. This magnificent volume reproduces all of Vicente's most important works from nearly a half century of constant evolution between cycles of austere painterly classicism and a passionate, explosive baroque. Oversize plates, including 84 in full color, present Vicente's paintings, collages, and drawings, capturing his rich, brilliant palette, elegant compositions, economy of means, and passionate clarity of feeling. Esteban Vicente is further enriched by extensive quotations from the artist's writings and interviews; rare documentary photographs; a chronology; lists of solo and group exhibitions and public collections; bibliography; and index. 89 colour & 48 b/w illustrations

Nota

Autor: Martin Corless-Smith

Número de Páginas: 12

Nota is part travelogue and part philosophical examination. Corless-Smith here makes a compendium: layers of reference, of history, of text over text over text. Invented and real figures watch over a Self who admits to a history beyond the moment of simple consumption. The setting is an England in its Golden Age, a homesick construction to be consumed, with pleasure, in the discomfiting knowledge of its artificiality.

Magdalena

Autor: Maureen Gibbon

Número de Páginas: 65

"Gibbon offers a fresh and profound voice to American poetry. . . . I loved it."-Jim Harrison

Ultravioleta

Autor: Laura Moriarty

Número de Páginas: 262

Stella Nemo, the most appealing sort of sophisticated naif, plunges her paper ship, the Nautilus, into deepest, blackest space, crossing into the fraught domains of other planets and other minds, beaming requests for information to Ada Byron (a clone and psychic information scientist), and dreaming of the renaissance poet Thomas Wyatt (who exists as data). Stella's mission: to attempt to think and to write without being disturbed, derailed or killed.

Hymenoptera de la región neotropical

Autor: Paul E. Hanson , Ian David Gauld

Número de Páginas: 994

Amazing Grace

Autor: Mary Hoffman

Número de Páginas: 26

An upbeat story follows the adventures of an optimistic and irrepressible African-American girl who wants to be everything and uses her imagination to make her dreams come true.

La Casa Grande

Autor: Alvaro Cepeda Samudio , Álvaro Cepeda Samudio (romancier).)

Número de Páginas: 109

Eighty-two photographs by an unknown photographer, of unidentified women, taken probably between 1900 and 1915, and originally produced for stereoscope (3-D) viewing. The women were photographed nude, some in a bordello, others outdoors, in a non-pornographic style that evidences considerable rapport between subject and photographer and a naturalness virtually non-existent in European nude photos of the same era. The 1928 massacre of striking banana workers made famous in Garcia Marquez' One hundred years of solitude was recast by the late Cepeda Samudio (1926-1972), a friend of Marquez and member of the legendary Barranquilla Group of Four. Translated from the Spanish by Seymour Menton. Paper edition (unseen), $9.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Ha Ha

Autor: Andrew Jordan

Número de Páginas: 97

These poems explore the remnants of a system of ancient narrative trackways that criss-cross the landscapes of south and south west England. These flows of energy underpin the hermetics of enclosure. They are explored here for the first time. This book might be a strategy - a self help manual for the ontologically dispossessed - or just an encouragement to trespass in the newly enclosed purlieu of the self. Tell it how you want, emblematic landscapes - and how we perceive them - can mirror identity and relationship, creating a cultural space within which both can become tenable.

Afro-Cuban Tales

Autor: Lydia Cabrera

Número de Páginas: 169

As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In Afro-Cuban Tales this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate. Here readers will find a vibrant, imaginative record of African culture transplanted to Cuba and transformed over time, a passionate and subversive alternative to the dominant Western culture of the Americas. In this charmed realm of myth and legend, imaginative flights, and hard realities, Cabrera shows us a world turned upside down. In this domain guinea hens can make dour Asturians and the king of Spain dance; little fat cooking pots might prepare their own meals; the pope can send encyclicals about pumpkins; and officials can be defeated by the shrewdness of turtles. The first English translation of one of the most important writers on African culture in the Americas, the collection provides a fascinating view of how African traditions, myths, stories, and religions...

Pedro Páramo

Autor: Juan Rulfo

Número de Páginas: 124

Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of the author. In one such village of the mind, Comala, he set his classic novel Pedro Páramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a woman who will not be possessed, Susana San Juan.

Realia

Autor: Kate Camp

Número de Páginas: 63

Realia, Kate Camp's second collection of poetry, comfirms her place amongst the best and brightest poets in New Zealand. Her seemingly lighthearted poems offer a sharp and often wry perspective on life's big issues - life, love and lime milkshakes.

Velázquez

Autor: Enriqueta Harris , Diego Velázquez

Número de Páginas: 240

Examines the life and career of the seventeenth-century Spanish painter, featuring all major autograph works and two early biographies of Velazquez in translation

Adicto a la guerra

Autor: Joel Andreas

Número de Páginas: 77

Presents the first Spanish-language edition of a hard-hitting illustrated expos of the world's most powerful and destructive military.

Liuba

Autor: Sam Hunter , Liuba

Número de Páginas: 115

An in-depth essay by art-history luminary Sam Hunter frames the work within the story of the artist's life, and provides a focused analysis of Liuba's sculptures from early in her career to the present day."--BOOK JACKET.

Art of María Izquierdo

Autor: Olivier Debroise , María Izquierdo , Elizabeth Ferrer , Elena Poniatowska

Número de Páginas: 127

Best known for her engaging portraits and sensuous still lifes, Mexican artist Maria Izquierdo (1902-1955) created a remarkable body of work that is deeply personal and profoundly affecting; yet she has often been overlooked amid the muralists who were her contemporaries.While European modernism was important to Izquierdo, Mexico's traditional culture, popular arts, and rural landscapes provided her with a lifelong source of subjects. Her numerous paintings lovingly depict the foods and hand-crafted objects used in popular ritual and devotion. In her later life, she produced a number of hauntingly surreal compositions that show vibrant tableaux of typically Mexican foods before barren, somber-hued landscapes with unusually deep perspectives.This book, based on the first comprehensive presentation of her oeuvre in New York, confirms Izquierdo's place in the history of Mexican art. In addition to bringing together some sixty outstanding paintings and works on paper by the artist, the book features three essays on her life and work: curator Elizabeth Ferrer presents an overview of Izquierdo's oeuvre; art historian Olivier Debroise analyzes the artistic relationship between Izquierdo...

La Lucha Continues

Autor: Ada Mar’a Isasi-D’az

Número de Páginas: 270

A sequel to the popular Mujerista Theology that addresses themes relevant at the beginning of the 21st century.Mujerista theology begins with personal experience and moves toward a theology that advances the dignity and liberation of all Hispanic/Latino women. This collection of essays combining personal narratives and theological discourse brings together important insights into the concerns of Hispanic women, the ways in which they can help shape theology, and the roles they can take on in the church.Divided into two sections, Part 1, The Personal Is Political, presents three essays on the author?s religious-theological experiences, showing how they help form her theology. The eight essays in Part 2, In God?s Image--Latinas and Our Struggles, focus on theological understandings essential for justice.

Inquisitionis hispanicae

Autor: Raimundo González de Montes

Número de Páginas: 364

Cuadros de Familia

Autor: Carmen Lomas Garza , Sandra Cisneros

Número de Páginas: 30

The story of Carmen Lomas Garza's girlhood in Kingsville, Texas, portrays her day-to-day experiences are told through fourteen vignettes of art and a descriptive narrative, each focusing on a different aspect of the traditional Mexican American culture she experienced.