Beggars in Spain

Beggars in Spain
Author: Nancy Kress
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2009-05-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061931950

In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent ... and one of an ever-growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require sleep. Once considered interesting anomalies, now Leisha and the other "Sleepless" are outcasts -- victims of blind hatred, political repression, and shocking mob violence meant to drive them from human society ... and, ultimately, from Earth itself. But Leisha Camden has chosen to remain behind in a world that envies and fears her "gift" -- a world marked for destruction in a devastating conspiracy of freedom ... and revenge.

The Soul of Spain

The Soul of Spain
Author: Havelock Ellis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1908
Genre: National characteristics, Spanish
ISBN:

Balenciaga and Spain

Balenciaga and Spain
Author: Hamish Bowles
Publisher: Skira
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0847836460

"Published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., on the occasion of the exhibition Balenciaga and Spain, on view at the de Young Museum from March 26 through July 4, 2011"--T.p. verso.

IBN HAZM: THE LIFE AND IDEAS OF THE SPANISH GENIUS

IBN HAZM: THE LIFE AND IDEAS OF THE SPANISH GENIUS
Author: Syed Nooruzuha Barmaver
Publisher: ARRIQAAQ PUBLICATIONS
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2019-03-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9353518334

One of the greatest scholars and geniuses produced by Muslim Spain – indeed, the whole Islamic world – was Imam Ibn Hazm (May Allah have mercy upon him). He has huge and diverse literary works that makes him a Polymath. He was Faqeeh (jurist), Muhaddith (Hadith scholar), Mufassir (exegete of Quran), Adeeb (litterateur), theologian, thinker, psychologist, poet, historian, philosopher, politician and debator. He authored around 400 works in the cities of Islamic Spain like Cordoba, Jativa, Almeria, Majorca, Valencia, Seville and Niebla. A reader of his books will come to realize the smartness of Ibn Hazm and will be impressed by his intellectual voracity, deep knowledge in various sciences, razor-sharp critical analysis, eloquent language and originality of his research. In his outstanding work,“Ibn Hazm Khilal Alf Aam”, Abu Abdul Rahman bin Aqeel al-Zahiri listed the works, including published books and manuscripts, from the 5th century A.H. till 1400 A.H. – a span of a thousand years - which discuss Imam Ibn Hazm. In this book, I have written concisely about his life, ideas, contributions and I have addressed few issues which were wrongly ascribed to him.

Madrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde

Madrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde
Author: Silvina Schammah Gesser
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1836241909

This book explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity which polarized Spanish society prior to the Civil War. The convergence of modern and essentialist discourses and practices, especially in literature and poetry, in what is conventionally called in Spanish letters "The Generation of '27", created fissures between competing views of aesthetics and ideology that cut across political affiliation. Silvina Schammah exposes the paradoxes facing Madrid's cultural vanguards, as they were torn by their ambition for universality, cosmopolitanism and transcendence on the one hand and by the centripetal forces of nationalistic ideologies on the other. Taking upon themselves roles to become the disseminators and populizers of radical positions and world-views first elaborated and conducted by the young urban intelligentsia, their proposed aim of incorporating diverse identities embedded in different cultural constructions and discourse was to have very real and tragic consequences as political and intellectual lines polarized in the years prior to the Spanish Civil War.

Spain

Spain
Author: Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1924
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: