El Enigma de Las Esferas * the Enigma of the Spheres

El Enigma de Las Esferas * the Enigma of the Spheres
Author: Eduardo Lince Fabrega
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9789962690566

UNA TIERRA OLVIDADA, UNA TRAICION INMINENTE, UN ENIGMA POR RESOLVER Luego de ofrecernos titulos como El valle prohibido, El bosque escondido y El jardin interior, Eduardo Lince Fabrega entrega ahora a sus lectores El enigma de las esferas, novela pletorica de acciones magicas y dilemas enmarcados en una tierra naciente, donde han de enfrentarse las fuerzas fundamentales que sustentan el mundo. Novela juvenil bilingue en espanol e ingles, con temas para reflexionar, apta para el uso en el salon de clases. A FORGOTTEN LAND, AN IMMINENT BETRAYAL, AN ENIGMA TO BE RESOLVED After offering such titles as The Forbidden Valley, The Hidden Forest and The Inner Garden, Eduardo Lince Fabrega now delivers to his readers The Enigma of the Spheres, a novel brimming with magical actions and dilemmas framed in an emerging land, where the fundamental forces that underpin the world must confront one another. Bilingual juvenile novel in Spanish and English, with Ideas to Think About, suitable for use in the classroom.

Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature

Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Author: Verity Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1781
Release: 1997-03-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 113531425X

A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book

Being There

Being There
Author: Jerzy Kosinski
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802195814

A quirky, brilliant novel starring Chauncey Gardiner, an enigmatic man who rises from nowhere to become a media phenomenon—“a fabulous creature of our age” (Newsweek). One of the most beloved novels by the New York Times–bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of The Painted Bird and Pinball, Being There is the story of a mysterious man who finds himself at the center of Wall Street and Washington power—including his role as a policy adviser to the president—despite the fact that no one is quite sure where he comes from, or what he is actually talking about. Nevertheless, Chauncey “Chance” Gardiner is celebrated by the media, and hailed as a visionary, in this satirical masterpiece that became an award-winning film starring Peter Sellers. As wise and timely as ever, Being There is “a tantalizing knuckleball of a book delivered with perfectly timed satirical hops and metaphysical flutters” (Time).

Bio-Objects

Bio-Objects
Author: Niki Vermeulen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1317174224

Increasing knowledge of the biological is fundamentally transforming what life itself means and where its boundaries lie. New developments in the biosciences - especially through the molecularisation of life - are (re)shaping healthcare and other aspects of our society. This cutting edge volume studies contemporary bio-objects, or the categories, materialities and processes that are central to the configuring of 'life' today, as they emerge, stabilize and circulate through society. Examining a variety of bio-objects in contexts beyond the laboratory, Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century explores new ways of thinking about how novel bio-objects enter contemporary life, analysing the manner in which, among others, the boundaries between human and animal, organic and non-organic, and being 'alive' and the suspension of living, are questioned, destabilised and in some cases re-established. Thematically organised around questions of changing boundaries; the governance and regulation of bio-objects; and changing social, economic and political relations, this book presents rich new case studies from Europe that will be of interest to scholars of science and technology studies, social theory, sociology and law.

World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality

World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality
Author: Gesine Müller
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2019-10-21
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3110641135

From today’s vantage point it can be denied that the confidence in the abilities of globalism, mobility, and cosmopolitanism to illuminate cultural signification processes of our time has been severely shaken. In the face of this crisis, a key concept of this globalizing optimism as World Literature has been for the past twenty years necessarily is in the need of a comprehensive revision. World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise offers a wide range of contributions approaching the blind spots of the globally oriented Humanities for phenomena that in one way or another have gone beyond the discourses, aesthetics, and political positions of liberal cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization. Departing basically (but not exclusively) from different examples of Latin American literatures and cultures in globalized contexts, this volume provides innovative insights into critical readings of World Literature and its related conceptualizations. A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a mustread for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.

Le mouvement

Le mouvement
Author: Osbel Suárez
Publisher: Actar D
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Kinetic art is art that contains moving parts or depends on motion for its effect. The moving parts are generally powered by wind, a motor or the observer. The term kinetic sculpture refers to a class of art made primarily from the late 1950s through 1960s. Kinetic art was first recorded by the sculptors Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner in their Realist Manifesto issued as part of a manifesto of constructivism in 1920 in Moscow. Bicycle Wheel, of 1913, by Marcel Duchamp, is said to be the first kinetic sculpture.

Riders

Riders
Author: Tim Winton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1996-06-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0684822776

Fred Scully searches for his pregnant wife, who disappears without an explanation, leaving him with Billy, his seven-year-old daughter.

Divination on stage

Divination on stage
Author: Folke Gernert
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2021-02-08
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3110695758

Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.