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To Play the Game
13th October 1972: A Uruguayan Air Force plane, commissioned for a civilian flight, crashes in the Andes. Among the forty passengers are a first-division rugby team, accompanied by family and friends. Hindered by treacherous conditions, the search and rescue efforts cannot locate the wreckage, and are abandoned after eight days. Ten weeks later, two unkempt boys are spotted by a muleteer high in the Chilean foothills. One throws a note to him, across a mountain torrent: I come from a plane that fell in the mountains... In the plane there are still fourteen injured people... Drawing on extensive original research, the author sheds new light on this extraordinary story from a perspective of fi...
Chicano Narrative
In struggling to retain their cultural unity, the Mexican-American communities of the American Southwest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have produced a significant body of literature. Chicano Narrative examines representative narratives--including the novel, short story, narrative verse, and autobiography--that have been excluded from the American canon.
The Rolando Hinojosa Reader
This collection of critical essays addresses the complex relationship between contemporary literature theory and Chicano literaturea literature that is not part of the traditional literary cannon. The contributors, including Yolanda Julia Broyles, H?ctor CalderÑn, Margarita Cotà-Càrdenas, Lauro Flores, Patricia de la Fuente, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Leal, Jos? David SaldÕvar, RamÑn SaldÕvar, MarÕa I. Duke dos Santos, and Rosaura Sànchez, draw upon a diverse array of theoriesMarxist, feminist, post-structuralistto make fresh, critical comments, not only on Rolando HinojosaÍs work, Klail City Death Trip series, but also on literary theory today.
Ghosts of Spain
The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalísimo Francisco Franco? The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of General Franco's death squads has finally broken what Spaniards call 'the pact of forgetting'. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around Spain - and through Spanish history. As well as a moving exploration of Spanish politics, Tremlett's journey was also an attempt to make sense of his personal experience of the Spanish. Why do they dislike authority figures, but are cowed by a doctor's white coat? How had women embraced feminism without men noticing? What binds gypsies, jails and flamenco? Why do the Spanish go to plastic surgeons, donate their organs, visit brothels or take cocaine more than other Europeans? 'Lively and well-informed . . . at once a history, a journalistic inquiry and a travel book.' Sunday Telegraph
A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies
An exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies. From the scars left by Franco's dams and mines to the toxic waste dumped in Equatorial Guinea, from the cruelty of the modern pork industry to the ravages of mass tourism in the Balearic Islands, this book delves into the power relations, material practices and social imaginaries underpinning the global economic system to uncover its unaffordable human and non-human costs. Guiding the reader through the rapidly emerging field of Spanish environmental cultural studies, wit...
Biomaterials in Clinical Practice
This book covers the properties of biomaterials that have found wide clinical applications, while also reviewing the state-of-the-art in the development towards future medical applications, starting with a brief introduction to the history of biomaterials used in hip arthroplasty. The book then reviews general types of biomaterials – polymers, ceramics, and metals, as well as different material structures such as porous materials and coatings and their applications – before exploring various current research trends, such as biodegradable and porous metals, shape memory alloys, bioactive biomaterials and coatings, and nanometals used in the diagnosis and therapy of cancer. In turn, the bo...
Revolting Indolence
"Through the use and study of photography, archives, literature, television, film, and installation art, Marcos Gonsalez makes a case for the role that indolence plays in challenging a neoliberal capitalist economy that is deeply embedded with cis-heteronormative and white supremacist values. By focusing on the ways in which queer/trans Latinx people find ways to demonstrate their lack of willing participation in these systems, he finds that dozing, slacking, daydreaming, partying, and lounging revolt against these systems and in turn are treated as being "revolting." Everything from the trans ur-text that is Paris is Burning, and the subsequent controversies, conversations, and evaluations of it in the decades since its debut, to RuPaul's Drag Race, to documentary photography of queer and trans life in Chicanx Los Angeles to writings and remembrances of the Pulse nightclub shootings, visuality, memory, racial and sexual identity merge together to shape alternative paths of resistance and ways of living within this culture and its economy"--
No soc un dels vostres
Un cuiner allunyat dels estereotips de l’altra gastronomia i un restaurant que va passar per les pàgines de la història de Barcelona com un estel fugaç. L’Àlex Montiel i el restaurant L’Aram són peces imprescindibles per entendre la nostra cultura gastronòmica i, tanmateix, han viscut fins ara en una penombra buscada. Comptant amb el testimoni d’Àlex Montiel, la seva família, i d’alguns dels noms més importants de la cuina catalana i europea —Adrià, Santamaria, Gagnaire, Abellán, Berasategui—, Marc Casanovas ens ofereix el relat inaudit i sense filtres de l’enfant terrible dels fogons que va capgirar l’escena gastronòmica de Barcelona. Aquest no és un llibre de cuina, ni una biografia edulcorada: és un llibre sobre un xef nascut per a trencar motlles.
Basabe
¿Que pensarías si tu pasado no es el que crees? Tu niñez no es lo que recuerdas.Tu entorno no es lo que parece. Y de pronto tu vida normal da un vuelco inesperado. Novela de intriga, aventura, pasión, amistad SINOPSIS: En los comienzos del siglo XXI, en Bizkaia Ane, una joven historiadora que trabaja para una fundación dedicada al estudio y conservación de piezas arqueológicas se ve envuelta en una aventura de la que, sin saberlo, ella misma es protagonista. Tras una infancia poco clara y una juventud marcada por la muerte de quienes ella cree son sus padres, la protagonista consigue llevar una vida normal, en la que su pareja, su trabajo y, su gran pasión, la montaña lo ocupan todo. Tras la muerte en un accidente de escalada de su novio, todo empieza a venirse abajo, nada de lo que ella cree conocer es cierto, ya que su verdadera familia está emparentada con la estirpe de Basabe, rama directa de una dinastía cuyo origen se remonta al siglo IX cuando una princesa escocesa arribó a las costas de Mundaka y Busturia. Mas sobre el autor y sus otras novelas: oskarbenegas.com
