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90 Años de Derecho Laboral
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 350

90 Años de Derecho Laboral

  • Categories: Law

Obra colectiva en dos tomos, grandes plumas expertas analizan y reflexionan sobre el Derecho del Trabajo con una visión histórica y actual, un destacado y experimentado grupo de autores comparten profundas y puntuales reflexiones sobre temas diversos del mundo juridico-laboral en al ámbito nacional (tomo I) e Iberoamérica (tomo II).

Velázquez
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 244

Velázquez

  • Categories: Art

Visión de conjunto de la vida y la obra de Velázquez a la luz de su evolución biográfica, amparada en destacadas fuentes documentales, y el contexto social, histórico y cultural, que tanto determinó su genial creación pictórica.

Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-12-06
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book examines the effects of Jewish conversions to Christianity in late medieval Spanish society. Ingram focuses on these converts and their descendants (known as conversos) not as Judaizers, but as Christian humanists, mystics and evangelists, who attempt to create a new society based on quietist religious practice, merit, and toleration. His narrative takes the reader on a journey from the late fourteenth-century conversions and the first blood purity laws (designed to marginalize conversos), through the early sixteenth-century Erasmian and radical mystical movements, to a Counter-Reformation environment in which conversos become the advocates for pacifism and concordance. His account ends at the court of Philip IV, where growing intolerance towards Madrid’s converso courtiers is subtly attacked by Spain’s greatest painter, Diego Velázquez, in his work, Los Borrachos. Finally, Ingram examines the historiography of early modern Spain, in which he argues the converso reform phenomenon continues to be underexplored.

As If She Were Free
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 529

As If She Were Free

A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.

Trout Belly Up
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 62

Trout Belly Up

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-02-07
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  • Publisher: Charco Press

In seven interconnected short stories, the Guatemalan countryside is ever-present: a place of timeless peace, and the site of sudden violence. Don Henrik, a good man struck time and again by misfortune, confronts the crude realities of farming life, family obligation, and the intrusions of merciless entrepreneurs, hitmen, drug dealers, and fallen angels, all wanting their piece of the pie. Told with precision and a stark beauty, Trout, Belly Up is a beguiling, disturbing ensemble of moments set in the heart of a rural landscape in a country where brutality is never far from the surface.

Hyperborder
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Hyperborder

Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.

La Guera Rodriguez
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

La Guera Rodriguez

"La Güera Rodríguez (1778-1850) is a fascinating Mexican woman who has become an icon of the nation's popular culture. She has been--erroneously--portrayed as a courtesan who seduced Simón Bolívar, Alexander von Humboldt, and Agustín de Iturbide; a major independence heroine; and a feminist who defied the conventions of her day. This book reconstructs her true life story and then shows when and why false facts and apocryphal stories appeared to create her legendary figure. It thus illuminates both the neglected social history of her day and the degree to which historical memory reflects ever-changing worldviews and concerns"--

Vaya! Nuevo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Vaya! Nuevo

This three-stage new edition of this Spanish course for beginners leads to public examinations. Experienced practitioners and users of !Vaya! have been consulted and their suggestions have been incorporated into this new edition. It has been written to meet the requirements of the National Curriculum and the 5-14 Guidelines. Stages 1, 2 and 3 of !Vaya! Nuevo should prepare students for GCSE/Key Stage 4 examinations and Standard Grade.

Self Portrait in Green
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 81

Self Portrait in Green

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-02-25
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  • Publisher: Influx Press

'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.

Empire of Eloquence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 315

Empire of Eloquence

This exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world places the renaissance revival of letters within a global context.