Mar: 1984 books
Latin American Perspectives on Globalization
Ethics, Politics, and Alternative Visions
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution is defined not as a temporalized march of progress or takeover...
Housing Policy in Latin American Cities
A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "irregular" settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas...
by José María Maravall
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Why are representative democracies extensively criticised, yet remain widely aspired to throughout the world? Many citizens believe that democratic politicians operate with privileged information that allows them autonomy from genuine democratic controls, a phenomenon reinforced by the opacity of...
by San Juan Bautista María Vianney
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Reciedumbre, sinceridad y afán por la salvación de las almas brotan de estas homilías escogidas, que el Santo Cura de Ars predicaba a sus feligreses. Palabras sencillas, pero de doctrina clara y penetrante. Durante cuarenta y dos años, Juan Bautista María Vianney regentó la parroquia de Ars...
Beyond "Understanding Canada"
Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by popular and academic audiences alike. Twenty scholars...
The Gold Mines of Blackhawk Canyon
San Bernadino - Big Bear
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Walter Del Mar’s memories of the Blackhawk mines go beyond just historical events – they encompass the personal experiences of him and his family as they lived and grew up amidst the beauty and excitement of Blackhawk Canyon.
Identities on the Move
Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The development of new sexualities and gender identities has become a crucial issue in the field of literary and cultural studies in the first years of the twenty-first century. The roles of gender and sexual identities in the struggle for equality have become a major concern in both fields. The legacy...
by María Isabel Sánchez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
En algunos cuentos y películas infantiles, los zapallos se convierten en majestuosas carrozas, las varitas mágicas logran desbaratar malignos hechizos, un bello y joven príncipe se enamora perdidamente de una sufriente princesa –o también de una hermosa plebeya– a la que rescata y con la cual...
by María Oruña
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Este ebook incluye Puerto escondido, Un lugar a donde ir y* Donde fuimos invencibles*.
Puerto escondido
Oliver, un joven londinense con una peculiar situación familiar y una triste pérdida, hereda una casona colonial, Villa Marina, a pie de playa en el pueblecito costero de Suances,...
Aurality
Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In this audacious book, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life. Drawing primarily from nineteenth-century Colombian sources, Ochoa Gautier locates sounds produced by different...
by Barry Pennock-Speck, María M. del Saz-Rubio
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The Multimodal Analysis of Television Commercials by Barry Pennock-Speck y María M. del Saz-Rubio. El objetivo básico de Publicacions de la Universitat de València (PUV) es la difusión de la producción científica, e intelectual en sentido más general, generada en la Universitat de València...
Gregory Rabassa's Latin American Literature
A Translator's Visible Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
This book is a critical study of the work of Gregory Rabassa, translator of such canonical novels as Gabriel Garcìa Márquez's Cien años de soledad, José Lezama Lima's Paradiso, and Julio Cortàzar's Rayuela. During the past five decades, Rabassa has translated over fifty Latin American novels...
The Spanish-Speaking World
A Practical Introduction to Sociolinguistic Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
This accessible textbook offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the Spanish language and its role in societies around the world. It is written for undergraduate students who have a sound practical knowledge of Spanish but who have...
Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing
Beyond Trishanku
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This anthology of essays, deliberates chiefly on the notion of locating home through the lens of the mythical idea of Trishanku, implying in-between space and homing, in diaspora women’s narratives, associated with the South Asian region. The idea of in-between space has been used differently in...