The Adventures Of Don Roberto

Author : Roger G. Pendley
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468501346

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The Adventures of Don Roberto by Roger G. Pendley Pdf

The Adventures of Don Roberto is a book of action, mystery, friendship and fun. Roberto is a gringo who meets Chapo, the son of a Mexican migrant worker, when his uncle brings Chapo's family from Mexico to work his cotton fields in West Texas. At the tender age of seven, Robert takes the Spanish version of his name. In his mind, the only thing he lacks to be a real Mexican is a Green Card. The boys are friends for life, and the story revolves around their antics when they are young and their adventures, together and separately on both sides of the border, as they become men. Roberto accidentally discovers an international drug smuggling operation and drags a reluctant Chapo into the middle of it. Things get serious when Chapo has to choose between the lives of his wife and children or the life of his friend.

Author : Jean Cunninghame Graham,Murray Grigor
Publisher : Long Riders Guild Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1590481798

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Gaucho Laird by Jean Cunninghame Graham,Murray Grigor Pdf

There once rode a man whose life could not be compared to ordinary mortals. This gentleman roamed the world, saddled every breed of horse, lived through a hundred adventures, went to prison to defend his beliefs and wrote like an angel. They called him Don Roberto Cunninghame Graham and the world was a sadder place for having lost sight of his great soul. Yet how do you encapsulate such a gigantic existence onto the cramped pages of a single book? And who could possibly understand the life and times of a mounted literary legend? This stunning new biography is the answer to both questions, for the book has been written by the person who learned first hand from the Gaucho Laird himself. Don Roberto s great-niece, Jean Cunninghame Graham, (Jean, Lady Polwarth) has written a striking biography of the man who rode with the gauchos and battled social injustice as a Member of Parliament in London. First-hand knowledge, a treasure trove of family documents, unexpected discoveries, and a delightful writing style all combine to bring the author s famous uncle to life. Jean s Gaucho Laird is readable and lively, with lots of new material. It is a distinctly vivid tribute to a great man, said Professor Cedric Watts, an expert on the life and accomplishments of the man who championed Scottish home rule. Regardless of where he was, or what great adventure he was involved in, Don Roberto could be counted on to turn his keen eye and quick pen to recording the colourful life swirling around him. His great-niece has now followed in his footsteps, by bringing the Scottish Don Quixote to life at last.

Author : Monty Adkins,Michael Russ
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781443874816

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Essays on Roberto Gerhard by Monty Adkins,Michael Russ Pdf

For much of the mid-twentieth century, Roberto Gerhard found himself an outsider. He was airbrushed from much writing on contemporary music in Spain during the Franco regime, and was known in England more for his ‘commercial’ music for theatre, film and radio than his concert works. However, his significance as a musical innovator in developing serial technique and in the field of electro-acoustics is now being gradually recognised in both Spain and England, as well as further afield. The volume explores an extensive range of Gerhard’s work from the early Wind Quintet and the Spanish ballets Pandora and Don Quixote with their overt political overtones, through to the late period Metamorphoses and a newly discovered chance-based composition Claustophilia written in response to a request by John Cage for his book Notations. One of the key themes presented throughout the book is Gerhard’s innovative use of serialism. Gerhard’s development of Schoenberg’s technique led him to explore the serialization of both pitch and time. This volume suggests evidence for the first time that situates Gerhard’s idiosyncratic experiments alongside rather than after the total serialist works of his European counterparts Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Author : Monty Adkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317017233

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The Roberto Gerhard Companion by Monty Adkins Pdf

More than forty years after the composer's death, the music of Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) continues to be recorded and performed and to attract international scholarly interest. The Roberto Gerhard Companion is the first full length scholarly work on this composer noted for his sharp intellect and original, exploring mind. This book builds on the outcomes of two recent international conferences and includes contributions by scholars from Spain, the USA and UK. The essays collected here explore themes and trends within Gerhard’s work, using individual or groups of works as case studies. Among the themes presented are the way Gerhard’s work was shaped by his Catalan heritage, his education under Pedrell and Schoenberg, and his very individual reaction to the latter’s teaching and methods, notably Gerhard’s very distinctive approach to serialism. The influence of these and other cultural and literary figures is an important underlying theme that ties essays together. Exiled from Catalonia from 1939, Gerhard spent the remainder of his life in Cambridge, England, composing a string of often ground-breaking compositions, notably the symphonies and concertos composed in the 1950s and 1960s. A particular focus in this book is Gerhard's electronic music. He was a pioneer in this genre and the book will contain the first rigorous studies of this music as well as the first accurate catalogue of this electronic output. His ground-breaking output of incidental music for radio and the stage is also given detailed consideration.

Author : Chris Dolan
Publisher : Saraband
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781912235797

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Everything Passes, Everything Remains by Chris Dolan Pdf

How would any of us feel if we could meet our teenage selves, a ghost on the road? Everything Passes, Everything Remains is a confluence of journeys, made by Chris Dolan, his friends, and writers before him. It’s a bit about cycling, a bit about walking, and a bit about buses. It’s a kind of travelogue, over time, and through some lesser-known parts of Spain. It’s an obsession with Spain’s writers and its history, from the Inquisition to the Civil War to the questions it faces as a country today. What makes a nation, or a family for that matter, or a group of friends? In many ways it’s as much about Dolan’s native Scotland as Spain. But mostly, it’s about the highs and lows of growing up and growing older – how the past plays merry hell with the present. About friendship, loss, music, memory, and the demons that follow us as we try to make sense of our history and our place in the world.

Author : Bob Holman
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780745957302

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Keir Hardie by Bob Holman Pdf

Keir Hardie was a founder and the first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party. At the turn of the 19th century he was Labour's most famous face. But despite being voted Labour's 'Greatest Hero' at the 2008 Party Conference, in recent years his extraordinary story seems all but forgotten. Born illegitimate just outside Glasgow in 1856, his life didn't start gently. Before the age of 10, he was the sole wage earner in his working class, atheist family. He never went to school but was self-taught, avidly reading books lent him by a kind young clergyman. This led to two major conversions in his life: first to Christianity, and then to socialism. While earlier biographies have neglected the former, pointing out his experience of hardship as the source of his passion for social justice, the role of Christianity in Hardie's life was profound. It shaped his involvement in many of the greatest social changes of the time.

Author : William Vincent Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Central America
ISBN : HARVARD:32044043065341

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Explorations and Adventures in Honduras by William Vincent Wells Pdf

Author : John Gimlette
Publisher : Random House
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781446494479

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At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig by John Gimlette Pdf

Paraguay - the name conjures up everything most exotic and extreme in South America. It's a place of hellish jungles, dictators, fraudsters and Nazis, utopian experiments, missionaries and lurid coups. It's not a place for the timid tourist. It doesn't even have its own guidebook. But Paraguay, as revealed in this outstanding new travel book, is among the most beautiful and captivating countries in the world. The beguiling Paraguayans, despised and feared by their neighbours, are unfathomable. They adore Diana, Princess of Wales, as if she were still alive and hundreds volunteered to fight for Britain in the Falklands War. Their politics are Byzantine but when the Vice-President is murdered, they call in Scotland Yard. Discover more about the unique traditions of South American culture through this fascinating piece of travel journalism.

Author : Robert Blakeney
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066167042

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A Boy in the Peninsular War by Robert Blakeney Pdf

A Boy in the Peninsular War is an autobiographic memoir by Robert Blakeney who served in the Peninsular War at the tender age of fifteen, this was the armed skirmish fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invasive and conquering forces of the First French Empire throughout the Napoleonic Wars.

Author : Tag Gallagher
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015045699074

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The Adventures Of Roberto Rossellini by Tag Gallagher Pdf

Continually enmeshed in controversy, perhaps no other figure in the history of world cinema has been so reviled - and so revered.

Author : Maria DiBattista,Lucy McDiarmid
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780195082661

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High and Low Moderns by Maria DiBattista,Lucy McDiarmid Pdf

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Author : Girvan McKay
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781326289126

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THE LION AND THE SALTIRE A Brief History of the Scottish National Party by Girvan McKay Pdf

For most of the time that the Scottish National Party (SNP) has existed, public attitudes towards it have ranged from indifference to hostility or bafflement. Until fairly recently it was hardly taken seriously as a political grouping and was largely ignored. All this changed in May, 2015, when in the General Election for the Westminster Parliament, the SNP won 56 of 59 seats in a historic landslide. It is generally acknowledged that much of the credit for this victory goes to Scotland's chief minister, Nicola Sturgeon, who far outmatched any of the other political leaders in pre-election debates. Paradoxically, it appears to have been the campaign and the aftermath of the previous referendum on Scottish Independence in which the "no's" won, that led to a phenomenal rise in SNP membership. With the defeat of the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties, the SNP now replaces the latter as the third force in Westminster politics. Scottish Independence now seems nearer than ever.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Adventure stories, American
ISBN : UCAL:B3057297

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Adventure by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Schoell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786471966

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Al Pacino by William Schoell Pdf

One of our most passionate and gifted actors, Al Pacino has been riveting audiences for decades with performances in everything from The Godfather to Angels in America to Danny Collins. He has also appeared on the stage, tackling such difficult roles as Richard III, King Herod and Shylock, along with parts in contemporary dramas like Glengarry Glen Ross. Pacino has also directed two documentaries and two feature films. Aspects of Pacino's private life and film choices can be controversial. Often accused of a lack of subtlety or of "chewing the scenery," his mesmeric intensity galvanizes fans and divides critics, as do his Shakespearean interpretations. In its completely revised second edition, this book critically reevaluates his many onscreen and onstage roles. Pacino is an actor who cannot be ignored.

Author : Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2258 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135455293

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Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies by Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.