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Terra Nostra

Carlos Fuentes
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Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564782875

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One of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction, Terra Nostra is concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America, with the Indian Gods and with Christianity, with the birth, the passion, and the death of civilizations. Fuentes skillfully blends a wide range of literary forms, stories within stories, Mexican and Spanish myth, and famous literary characters in this novel that is both a historical epic and an apocalyptic vision of modern times. Terra Nostra is that most ambitious and rare of creations--a total work of art.

Terra Nostra

Jeffrey S. Murray
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Author : Jeffrey S. Murray
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780773586178

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Maps have been invaluable throughout Canada's history. They promised fame and fortune to early merchant-adventurers and guided army commanders. They legitimized a politician's dominion and allowed businessmen to stake new claims. And they helped ordinary citizens build communities.

God's Philosophers

James Hannam
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Author : James Hannam
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848311589

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This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilized behavior. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution. In "God's Philosophers", James Hannam debunks many of the myths about the Middle Ages, showing that medieval people did not think the earth is flat, nor did Columbus 'prove' that it is a sphere; the Inquisition burnt nobody for their science nor was Copernicus afraid of persecution; no Pope tried to ban human dissection or the number zero. "God's Philosophers" is a celebration of the forgotten scientific achievements of the Middle Ages - advances which were often made thanks to, rather than in spite of, the influence of Christianity and Islam. Decisive progress was also made in technology: spectacles and the mechanical clock, for instance, were both invented in thirteenth-century Europe. Charting an epic journey through six centuries of history, "God's Philosophers" brings back to light the discoveries of neglected geniuses like John Buridan, Nicole Oresme and Thomas Bradwardine, as well as putting into context the contributions of more familiar figures like Roger Bacon, William of Ockham and Saint Thomas Aquinas.

On Common Ground

John Emmeus Davis,Line Algoed,María E. Hernández-Torrales
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Author : John Emmeus Davis,Line Algoed,María E. Hernández-Torrales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734403004

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On Common Ground by John Emmeus Davis,Line Algoed,María E. Hernández-Torrales Pdf

Land that is owned and managed for the common good is a hallmark of community land trusts. CLTs are locally controlled, nonprofit organizations that steward permanently affordable housing (and other assets) for people of modest means. This book explores the global growth of CLTs in twenty-six original essays by authors from a dozen countries.

Terra Nostra

Roberto Scarpinato,Sean O'Hagan (Journalist)
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Author : Roberto Scarpinato,Sean O'Hagan (Journalist)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Landscape photography
ISBN : 1911306111

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Terra Nostra by Roberto Scarpinato,Sean O'Hagan (Journalist) Pdf

Sicilian born photographer Mimi Mollica explores the effects of the Mafia on his homeland - documenting the scars inflicted on both the physical and social landscape as a result of a system strongly rooted in both fear and corruption. For Mollica the biggest challenge was to convey the legacy that Cosa Nostra has imposed both on the Sicilian people and on the land itself, with its coastline blighted by illegal speculative building. Here is a system based on extortion and the corruption of public office, and an unsustainable economy overseen by the capitalist monopoly of the crime families.

The Crystal Frontier

Carlos Fuentes
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Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408837498

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_______________________ A DRAMATIC FICTIONAL PORTRAIT OF THE US-MEXICO BORDER, MIGRATION, AND ITS IMPACT ON PEOPLE'S LIVES _______________________ Through this network of nine personal stories, Carlos Fuentes sets out to explain Mexico and America to each other – and to the rest of the world. He presents a dramatic fictional portrait of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, as played out in a Mexican dynasty led by a powerful Mexican oligarch with complex ties north of the border. It is the story of Mexican families who send their sons north to provide for whole villages with dollars and of Mexican tycoons who exploit their own people. Young Jose Francisco grows up in Texas, determined to write about the border world – the immigrants and illegals, Mexican poverty and Yankee prosperity – stories to break the stand-off silence with a victory shout, to shatter at last the crystal frontier.

Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers

Henry Jenkins
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Author : Henry Jenkins
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780814742846

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Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers by Henry Jenkins Pdf

Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video) Henry Jenkins“s pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though marginal and largely invisible to the general public at the time, today, media producers and advertisers, not to mention researchers and fans, take for granted the idea that the success of a media franchise depends on fan investments and participation. Bringing together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumers,Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers takes readers from Jenkins's progressive early work defending fan culture against those who would marginalize or stigmatize it, through to his more recent work, combating moral panic and defending Goths and gamers in the wake of the Columbine shootings. Starting with an interview on the current state of fan studies, this volume maps the core theoretical and methodological issues in Fan Studies. It goes on to chart the growth of participatory culture on the web, take up blogging as perhaps the most powerful illustration of how consumer participation impacts mainstream media, and debate the public policy implications surrounding participation and intellectual property.

Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity

Maarten Van Delden
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Author : Maarten Van Delden
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 082651345X

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Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity by Maarten Van Delden Pdf

In Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity, Maarten van Delden argues that there is a fundamental paradox at the heart of Fuentes's vision of Mexico and in his role as novelist and critic in putting forth that vision. This paradox hinges on the tension between national identity and modernity. A significant internal conflict emerges in Fuentes's work from his attempt to stake out two different positions for himself, as experimental novelist and as politically engaged and responsible intellectual. Drawing from the fiction, literary essays, and political journalism, van Delden places these tensions in Fuentes's work in relation to the larger debates about modernity and postmodernity in Latin America. He concludes that Fuentes is fundamentally a modernist writer, in spite of the fact that he occasionally gravitates toward the postmodernist position in literature and politics. Van Delden's thorough command of the subject matter, his innovative and sometimes iconoclastic conclusions, and his clear and engaging writing style make this study more than just an interpretation of Fuentes's work. Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity offers nothing less than a comprehensive analysis of Fuentes's work. Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity offers nothing less than a comprehensive analysis of Fuentes's intellectual development in the context of modern Mexican political and cultural life.

The Hydra Head

Carlos Fuentes
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Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466840133

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The Hydra Head by Carlos Fuentes Pdf

Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's leading novelist, author of The Old Gringo, Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz, has produced what is probably the first Third World spy thriller, an action-filled, quick-paced novel of intrigue as contemporary as a headline. The Hydra Head has a constant political reality as backdrop: the permanent tension in the Middle East and the vast new oil resources of Mexico, the setting for a brilliant attempt to portray the diversity of one man's experience.

The Old Gringo

Carlos Fuentes
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Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466840140

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The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes Pdf

In The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes brings the Mexico of 1916 uncannily to life. This novel is wise book, full of toughness and humanity and is without question one of the finest works of modern Latin American fiction. One of Fuentes's greatest works, the novel tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American writer, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Villa's soldiers, particularly his encounter with General Tomas Arroyo. In the end, the incompatibility of the two countries (or, paradoxically, their intimacy) claims both men, in a novel that is, most of all, about the tragic history of two cultures in conflict.

Photographers' Sketchbooks

Stephen McLaren,Bryan Formhals
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Author : Stephen McLaren,Bryan Formhals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Documentary photography
ISBN : 0500544344

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Photographers' Sketchbooks by Stephen McLaren,Bryan Formhals Pdf

From blogs to Instagram and photo-zines to contact sheets: how 43 photographers approach their work

Carlos Fuentes

Robert Brody,Charles Rossman
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Author : Robert Brody,Charles Rossman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292762329

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Carlos Fuentes by Robert Brody,Charles Rossman Pdf

Carlos Fuentes is a master of modern world literature. With the translation of his major works into English and other languages, his reputation has surpassed the boundaries of his native Mexico and of Hispanic literature and has become international. Now each new novel stimulates popular and scholarly reviews in periodicals from Mexico City and Buenos Aires to Paris and New York. Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View is the first full-scale examination in English of this major writer's work. The range and diversity of this critical view are remarkable and reflect similar characteristics in the creative work of Carlos Fuentes, a man of formidable intellectual energy and curiosity. The whole of Fuentes' work is encompassed by Luis Leal as he explores history and myth in the writer's narrative. Insightful new views of single works are provided by other well-known scholars, such as Roberto González Echevarría, writing on Fuentes' extraordinary Terra Nostra, and Margaret Sayers Peden, exploring Distant Relations, for which she served as authorized translator. Here too are fresh approaches to Fuentes' other novels, among them Where the Air Is Clear, Aura, and The Hydra Head, as well as an examination by John Brushwood of the writer's short fiction and a look by Merlin Forster at Fuentes the playwright. Lanin Gyurko reaches outside Fuentes' canon for his fascinating study of the influence of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane on The Death of Artemio Cruz. Manuel Durán and George Wing consider Fuentes in his role as critic of both literature and art. Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View has been prepared with the writer's many English-speaking readers in mind. Quotations are most frequently from standard, readily available English translations of Fuentes' works. A valuable chronology of the writer's life rounds off the volume.

Encyclopedia of the Novel

Paul Schellinger
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Author : Paul Schellinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135918262

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Encyclopedia of the Novel by Paul Schellinger Pdf

The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual writers assess the place of that writer within the development of the novel form, explaining why and in exactly what ways that writer is importnant. Similarly, an entry on an individual novel discusses the importance of that novel not only form, analyzing the particular innovations that novel has introduced and the ways in which it has influenced the subsequent course of the genre. A wide range of topic entries explore the history, criticism, theory, production, dissemination and reception of the novel. A very important component of the Encyclopedia of the Novel is its long surveys of development of the novel in various regions of the world.

The Buried Mirror

Carlos Fuentes
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Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0395924995

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The Buried Mirror by Carlos Fuentes Pdf

An exploration of Spanish culture in Spain and the Americas traces the social, political, and economic forces that created that culture.

Nuk Tessli

Chris Czajkowski
Nuk Tessli Book PDF

Author : Chris Czajkowski
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1551431335

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Nuk Tessli by Chris Czajkowski Pdf

At once a riveting adventure story and a testament to one woman's resourcefulness, Nuk Tessli is also a heartfelt elegy to the true wilderness and a cry for it's sensible use.