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The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America

Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies

by Rachel C. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014

Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors,...
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La Argentina ansiolítica

Medicados y automedicados: cómo nos están cambiando la vida las pastillas

by Valeria Shapira
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 1, 2012

La medicalización de la vida cotidiana es un fenómeno que se repite en cada vez más países, pero la forma en que los argentinos se relacionan con pastillas de todo tipo presenta sus particularidades. Shapira las aborda sin prejuicios y con humor. Un hombre que llega a la guardia de una...
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by Orlando Carrió
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 21, 2016

Los amigos de Cuba que llegan a La Habana se sienten de nuevo como en casa. Cualquiera te da una palmadita en el hombro y te dice: «Vamos, yo te llevo». En una esquina la abuela se encapricha en darte un buchito de café y en la otra un cubano gritón y desparramado te habla de la belleza sin par...
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by José María Ballester Sansano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 12, 2013

San Fulgencio y la vaca murciana pretende contar la bella historia de un pueblo y una gente maravillosa. Asimismo, mediante el recuerdo se intenta agradecer el encomiable trabajo y ayuda prestada por la vaca murciana. Es un homenaje de gratitud a sus antepasados, y a su tierra, de la que los autores se sienten muy orgullosos.
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by Grace Ikirimat
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

This book is a collection of over 10,000 proverbs and wise sayings from all over the world and across different cultures. Proverbs and wise sayings are as old as mankind. They exist to give us advice and can sometimes also serve a humorous purpose. Proverbs have always served as part of our daily...
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by Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010

The Mississippi Cookbook was prepared in an attempt to collect, make available, and thus preserve the favorite recipes of fine cooks throughout Mississippi. Over 7,000 recipes were collected from all areas of the state. From this total, the home economists of the state Cooperative Extension Service...
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by Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015

THE IMAGINARY OF EXAGGERATION is a cultural essay on the culture of Antioquia, Colombia. Mental mechanisms are used by the man of Antioquia to create new cultural products. In particular, they are analyzed the imaginary processes and processes of exaggeration. The oral tradition becomes the source...
Cover of EMANCIPADOS & MEDÍOCRES
by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 29, 2014

(A5, 180 P.) - Esse livro nasceu a partir de um momento de náuseas, caos existencial, no qual todo ser pensante, mais cedo ou mais tarde, tende a passar, e onde todos os valores são postos em xeque, sendo passíveis de quebras, a marteladas, como nos diria Nietzsche. Depois das náuseas e do caos...
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by Maria Savi Lopez
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Un altro saggio di Maria Savi Lopez dedicato al folklore e all'immaginario fantastico.
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La dura legge di Baywatch

Tutto quello che abbiamo amato negli anni ’90

by Mattia Bertoldi
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 3, 2017

Accendiamo la televisione ed ecco i remake di X-Files, Beverly Hills 90210, Twin Peaks e (presto) di Xena – Principessa guerriera e Baywatch. Sul telefono abbiamo l'app di Pokémon Go, sulla console sogniamo il rifacimento di Final Fantasy VII che presto sarà realtà. Al cinema attendiamo le nuove...
Cover of Las mejores frases y citas célebres
by VV. AA.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 9, 2017

He aquí una excelente colección de las denominadas "Frases y citas célebres", pronunciadas en las más diversas épocas y países por personajes en general importantes como emperadores, reyes, escritores, filósofos y artista.
Cover of Los mejores refranes de la lengua castellana
by VV. AA.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 8, 2017

Los refranes constituyen sentencia de carácter didactico o moral transmitidos oralmente durante siglos. En su origen fueron considerados como la expresión popular de la sabiduría divina. A lo largo de los años han sido conservados en colecciones escritas que han llegado hasta la actualidad, sin perder ni un ápice de su vigencia en nuestro lenguaje cotidiano.
Cover of Mitos, Leyendas y Dioses Chibchas
by Jesús Arango Cano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 19, 2018

La etnia muisca más conocida como los chibchas, fue una agrupación de tribus aborígenes colombianas que alcanzó importante nivel cultural en el entorno, con énfasis en técnicas de orfebrería con oro, agricultura, comercio de esmeraldas y medicina. Además de estos adelantos científicos...
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Popobawa

Tanzanian Talk, Global Misreadings

by Katrina Daly Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017

Since the 1960s, people on the islands off the coast of Tanzania have talked about being attacked by a mysterious creature called Popobawa, a shapeshifter often described as having an enormous penis. Popobawa’s recurring attacks have become a popular subject for stories, conversation, gossip, and...
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