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Arquitectos Españoles Exiliados en México
En 1996, cuando se cumplían 65 años de la proclamación de la Segunda República Española (1931) y 60 del inicio de la Guerra Civil (1936), presenté en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona, de la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, mi tesis doctoral "Arquitectos españoles exiliados en México. Su labor en la España republicana (1931-1939) y su integración en México", dirigida por Josep Maria Montaner y aprobada cum laude por un jurado presidido por Oriol Bohigas. El trabajo obtuvo el Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado en Arquitectura, curso 1995-96. Hoy, cuando se cumple el 75 aniversario del final de aquella guerra y del inicio de la diáspora republicana (1939), se convierte en el libro que tiene el lector en sus manos. A sugerencia de varios colegas que la conocían, acepté publicarla admitiendo la opinión de que tiene plena vigencia como aportación a la historia de la arquitectura del siglo XX en ambos países, y que podrá servir como base a trabajos posteriores que aborden temáticas similares.
Ruimte en leren
In het omvangrijke oeuvre van Herman Hertzberger is de bouw van scholen een van de belangrijkste opgaven. Hij bouwde tot op heden ruim dertig scholen. Volgens Hertzberger is scholenbouw vandaag de dag een van de weinige deelgebieden binnen de architectuur waarbij de ontwerper nog de menselijke condities kan bepalen en beïnvloeden. Hij stelt dat er evenwicht moet zijn tussen gebruik, functionaliteit en de architectuur van schoolgebouwen, waarbij de architectuur geïnspireerd wordt door het onderwijs. Juist met de huidige ontwikkelingen in het onderwijs, van klassikaal naar meer individueel gericht onderwijs, dienen de gebouwen steeds opnieuw bedacht te worden. De wisselwerking tussen onderwijs, onderwijssystemen en architectuur is evident. In Ruimte en Leren legt Hertzberger zijn ruime ervaring, kennis en opvattingen vast in een theoretische beschouwing over de ruimtelijke condities van leren.
Home Reading Service
In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the “City of Eternal Spring” is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad ...
Self Portrait in Green
'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.
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Minor Detail
From a young Palestinian writer comes this compelling look at the Israel/Palestine conflict, from both the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1949 as well as that of a young Palestinian woman.
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The Italian
An emblematic story of the shipwreck of the Arab Spring At his father's funeral, to the great consternation of all present, Abdel Nasser beats the imam who is celebrating the funeral rite. The narrator, a childhood friend of the protagonist, retraces the story of "the Italian" from his days as a free and rebellious adolescent spirit to the leader of a student movement and then affirmed journalist. Those were crucial years in Tunisia, years of great tension, change, and repression. Against this background full of revolutionary ferments stands the tormented love story between Abdel Nasser and Zeina, a brilliant and beautiful philosophy student. Their dreams will unfortunately end up being wrecked under the ruthless gears of a corrupt and chauvinist society. Abdel Nasser's transformation from a young idealist with high hopes to a successful, but disillusioned and tired journalist is masterfully narrated in a stream of stories, digressions and flashbacks in which the narrative tension is always high. Winner of the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Empty Wardrobes
A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese feminist literature originally published in 1978, Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and underappreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzburg, Ingeborg Bachmann, Silvina Ocampo, and Armonia Somers. Empty Wardrobes is a tightly plotted, highly entertaining read, that, thanks to an ingenious detached narrative technique (one that makes the plot all the more fun to revisit and rethink), is both darkly humorous and devastatingly true.
