Claudia, aprendiz de bruja

Claudia, aprendiz de bruja
Author: María Carmen de la Bandera
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Apprentices
ISBN: 9788466747066

Claudia vive en Madrid. Con su hermano de 12 años no se lleva demasiado bien, y muchas veces sus padres tienen que intervenir cuando discuten. En Leganés viven sus abuelos Fermín y Paloma, pero su abuela Pepa, la de Sevilla, es distinta a todos: tiene el pelo azul y es bruja. De ella quiere aprender Claudia sus artes de brujería, por eso se considera a sí misma aprendiz de bruja.

156. Claudia y el mago Leopoldo

156. Claudia y el mago Leopoldo
Author: María Carmen de la Bandera
Publisher: Anaya Infantil
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2008-04
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9788466777179

Después de Claudia, aprendiz de bruja, continúa la historia de esta joven aficionada a la magia y su peculiar abuela, la Bruja Azul. Esta vez conoceremos la historia de su abuelo, el mago Leopoldo, pero también sabremos lo que Claudia cuenta de sí misma: sus sentimientos, la relación con sus amigas, las peleas con su hermano, el chico de clase que le gusta, las nuevas compañeras de la escuela que han venido de otros países... Y, por supuesto, asistiremos a un espectáculo de magia.

Mexican Sorcery

Mexican Sorcery
Author: Laura Davila
Publisher: Weiser Books
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2023-02-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1633412687

Spell work, spiritual cleansing, herbal magic, how to protect against the Evil Eye, and cast, break, and avert hexes and curses. Mexican witchcraft, or brujeria, has long been an integral part of traditional Mexican culture that permeates all strata of social hierarchy, ethnicity, or level of education. “Brujeria de Rancho” refers to brujeria as it is practiced in the rural areas of Mexico. There, the brujos de Ranch offer their healing and divinatory powers, acting as advisors, and even meting out justice through the use of cursing and hexing for people who are often not able to pay lawyers’ fees. Davila, a practicing bruja de Rancho and for whom this is a multi-generational family tradition brings this tradition to light in this comprehensive guide to Brujeria and Hechiceria (sorcery), presenting the beliefs and practices to today’s readers. The tradition includes a component of folk Catholicism that will be accessible to Pagans, non-Catholics, and practitioners of Hoodoo and Conjure. Topics included in the book are spell work, cleansings (limpias), herbs, talismans, how to protect against the Evil Eye, and also how to cast, break, and avert hexes and curses.

The Yes of the Girls

The Yes of the Girls
Author: Leandro Fernández de Moratín
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre:
ISBN:

The Yes of the Girls is a comedy about Doña Paquita, a 16-year-old girl forced by her mother Doña Irene to marry Don Diego, a sensitive and wealthy 59-year-old gentleman. However, he ignores that Doña Paquita is in love with a certain 'Don Felix', who is actually called Don Carlos, and is Don Diego's nephew. With this love triangle as an argument, the play is developed, whose main theme is the oppression of girls forced to obey their mother and enter into an unequal marriage and in this case with a great age difference between the spouses.

The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature

The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature
Author: Ileana Rodríguez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-11-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 131641910X

The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of women's writing in Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it explores women's literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically and written by a host of leading scholars, this History offers an array of approaches that contribute to current dialogues about translation, literary genres, oral and written cultures, and the complex relationship between literature and the political sphere. Covering subjects from cronistas in Colonial Latin America and nation-building to feminicide and literature of the indigenous elite, this History traces the development of a literary tradition while remaining grounded in contemporary scholarship. The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature will not only engage readers in ongoing debates but also serve as a definitive reference for years to come.

Introduction to Programming in Python

Introduction to Programming in Python
Author: Robert Sedgewick
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Total Pages: 1487
Release: 2015-05-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0134076524

Today, anyone in a scientific or technical discipline needs programming skills. Python is an ideal first programming language, and Introduction to Programming in Python is the best guide to learning it. Princeton University’s Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne, and Robert Dondero have crafted an accessible, interdisciplinary introduction to programming in Python that emphasizes important and engaging applications, not toy problems. The authors supply the tools needed for students to learn that programming is a natural, satisfying, and creative experience. This example-driven guide focuses on Python’s most useful features and brings programming to life for every student in the sciences, engineering, and computer science. Coverage includes Basic elements of programming: variables, assignment statements, built-in data types, conditionals, loops, arrays, and I/O, including graphics and sound Functions, modules, and libraries: organizing programs into components that can be independently debugged, maintained, and reused Object-oriented programming and data abstraction: objects, modularity, encapsulation, and more Algorithms and data structures: sort/search algorithms, stacks, queues, and symbol tables Examples from applied math, physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science—all compatible with Python 2 and 3 Drawing on their extensive classroom experience, the authors provide Q&As, exercises, and opportunities for creative practice throughout. An extensive amount of supplementary information is available at introcs.cs.princeton.edu/python. With source code, I/O libraries, solutions to selected exercises, and much more, this companion website empowers people to use their own computers to teach and learn the material.

Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World

Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World
Author: Ilka Kressner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2019-11-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000753069

Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World brings together critical studies of Latin American and Latinx writing, film, visual, and performing arts to offer new perspectives on ecological violence. Building on Rob Nixon’s concept of "slow violence," the contributions to the volume explore processes of environmental destruction that are not immediately visible yet expand in time and space and transcend the limits of our experience. Authors consider these forms of destruction in relation to new material contexts of artistic creation, practices of activism, and cultural production in Latin American and Latinx worlds. Their critical contributions investigate how writers, cultural activists, filmmakers, and visual and performance artists across the region conceptualize, visualize, and document this invisible but far-reaching realm of violence that so tenaciously resists representation. The volume highlights the dense web of material relations in which all is enmeshed, and calls attention to a notion of agency that transcends the anthropocentric, engaging a cognition envisioned as embodied, collective, and relational. Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence measures the breadth of creative imaginings and critical strategies from Latin America and Latinx contexts to enrich contemporary ecocritical studies in an era of heightened environmental vulnerability.

Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project

Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
Author: Beatrice Hanssen
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2006-07-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1847144594

One of the most significant cultural documents of the Weimar Republic and Nazi era, Walter Benjamin's unfinished Arcades Project has had a remarkable impact on present-day cultural theory, urban studies, cultural studies and literary interpretation. Originally designed as a panoramic study chronicling the rise and decline of the Parisian shopping arcades, Benjamin's work combines imaginative peregrinations through the changing city-scape of nineteenth-century Paris with passages that read like a blueprint for a new cultural theory of modernity. Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project provides the first comprehensive introduction to this extraordinary work accessible to English-language readers. The diverse range of issues explored include the nature of collecting, the anatomy of melancholy, the flâneur, the physiognomy of ruins, the dialectical image, Benjamin's relation to Baudelaire, the practice of history-writing, and modernity and architecture. Contributors include Susan Buck-Morss, Stanley Cavell, Jonathan Culler, Brigid Doherty, Barbara Johnson, Esther Leslie, Gerhard Richter, Andrew Benjamin, Howard Caygill, Beatrice Hanssen, Detlef Mertins, Elissa Marder, Tyrus Miller, and Irving Wohlfarth

The Connector Manager

The Connector Manager
Author: Jaime Roca
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2019-09-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0753554194

The best managers work smarter, not harder After conducting a unique global study of over 9,000 people, analysts at the world-leading sales research firm Gartner identified four distinct types of manager. Incredibly, they found one type consistently performs far better than the rest, and it wasn’t the one they were expecting. Connector Managers understand that it’s not enough for managers to just encourage and teach employees themselves, and that providing constant coaching to employees can actually be detrimental to their independent development. Instead, by connecting employees to others in the team or organisation, Connector Managers can help their employees develop a range of skills beyond their own areas of expertise. Although the four types of managers are more or less evenly distributed, employees with Connector Managers perform significantly better than others. Employees with Always-on Managers who provide constant feedback and coaching perform significantly worse. Drawing on their ground-breaking data-driven research, as well as in-depth case studies and extensive interviews with thousands of managers, you’ll discover what behaviours define Connector Managers and how you can use them yourself to build brilliant, powerhouse teams.