Spanish category: 1851 books
Interiors and Narrative
The Spatial Poetics of Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, and Leopoldo Alas
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Interiors and Narrative shows how crucial interiors are for our understanding of the nature of narrative. A growing cultural fascination with interior dwelling so prevalent in the late nineteenth century parallels an intensification of the rhetorical function interior architecture plays in the development...
Figuring the Feminine
The Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in Medieval Hispanic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Figuring the Feminine examines the female body as a means of articulating questions of literary authority and practice within the cultural spheres of the Iberian Peninsula (both Romance and Semitic) as well as in the larger Latinate literary culture. It demonstrates the centrality in medieval literary...
Ferran
The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The first-ever biography of Ferran Adrià, the chef behind Spain's renowned El Bulli restaurant, by one of the world's foremost food authorities.
More than just the most influential chef of the late-twentieth and early-twenty- first century, Ferran Adrià is arguably the greatest culinary revolutionary...
by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Language: French
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo.
Extrait :
La plupart de ces moissonneurs appartenaient à la classe d’émigrants que les propriétaires argentins appellent « hirondelles » : oiseaux humains qui, chaque année, lorsque les premières neiges couvrent leur...
by Jean Dangler
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Nonmodern Iberia was a fluid space of shifting political kingdoms and culturally diverse communities. Scholars have long used a series of obsolete investigative frameworks such as the Reconquista, along with modern ideas of nation-states, periodization, and geography that are inadequate to the study...
After Translation
The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Translation—from both a theoretical and a practical point of view—articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean.
After...
Consensus and Debate in Salazar's Portugal
Visual and Literary Negotiations of the National Text, 1933–1948
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Ellen Sapega’s study documents artistic responses to images of the Portuguese nation promoted by Portugal’s Office of State Propaganda under António de Oliveira Salazar. Combining archival research with current theories informing the areas of memory studies, visual culture, women’s autobiography,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the collection situates medicine as an important and largely overlooked discourse in these literatures,...
by Jared Romey
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Puerto Rican Sayings is an excerpt of Jared Romey’s "Speaking Phrases Boricua". If you already own this title, you will find this material in the book.
This book includes three useful sections that will help you go deeper into the understating of Puerto Rican Sayings or "refranes...
Introducción a la vida y teología de Juan Calvino AETH
Introduction to the Life and Theology of John Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Este libro del Dr. Salatiel P. López nos introduce en el pensamiento de Juan Calvino de una forma profunda y amena; dándonos a entender que Calvino, al igual que el resto de nosotros, "somos afectados por fuerzas y circunstancias históricas que influyen sobre nuestro desarrollo personal, intelectual...
by Justo L. González
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Este libro es una introducción a las doctrinas básicas cristianas, el contexto histórico en que surgieron y la continua importancia que tienen para la creencia y práctica cristiana actual.
El Dr. Justo L. González una vez más nos muestra su habilidad para interpretar las creencias (doctrinas)...
by William J. Purkis
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
For much of the twelfth century the ideals and activities of crusaders were often described in language more normally associated with a monastic rather than a military vocation; like those who took religious vows, crusaders were repeatedly depicted as being driven by a desire to imitate Christ and...
Presentation Zen Design
Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Creating and delivering a successful presentation today often means breaking through the noise and allowing your audience to focus on you and your message. You can have a great impact using simple design choices in your presentations but you just need to know where to start. Here to guide you on your...
Ministerio series (AETH) - Cuidado Pastoral: Ministerio con Inmigrantes
Pastoral Care - The Ministry Series
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
La experiencia migratoria suscita un sinnúmero de situaciones complejas que presentan un reto súbito e inesperado al liderazgo pastoral. En su tarea pastoral el líder se enfrenta diariamente con gran número de personas que reflejan y le recuerdan su propia condición, así como sus conflictos...