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A beautiful book of simple yet powerful wisdom for anyone who loved THE SECRET or THE CELESTINE PROPHECY, by the author of THE ALCHEMIST. 'Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.' After lying undiscovered for over 700 years, a manuscript holding the answers to a city's final questions is unearthed. Centuries before, on the eve of the invasion of Jerusalem, the citizens gathered. A man stood before them and invited the people...
2) The tango war: the struggle for the hearts, minds and riches of Latin America during World War II
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"The gripping and little known story of the fight for the allegiance of Latin America during World War II The Tango War fills an important gap in WWII history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of the need to control not just the hearts and minds but also the resources of Latin America. The fight was often dirty: residents were captured to exchange for U.S. prisoners of war and rival spy networks shadowed each other across the...
3) The Aeneid
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"A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil's Aeneid restores the epic's spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of the west. For two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas' dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil's telling, Aeneas' heroic journey...
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1999
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The history of Rome is essentially the history of one nation imitating another, namely Greece. The Romans invented only one genre, the satire. Roman writers borrowed their subject matter from the Greeks in all but one respect, history. Several of these Roman authors were slaves or came from slave families. It was the Greek-speaking early-freed slaves that taught the Romans to give their literature subjectivity.
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1992
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Contains essays on important early authors, many of whom set the foundation for Latin-American narrative and whose works reflect the local conditions of Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Cuba, and Colombia but which also narrate themes which transcend the concerns of any one country and appeal to a broader audience.
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1994
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Contains essays on younger writers who are leaving or will leave a lasting mark in Latin-American literature and whose works reflect the local conditions of Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Cuba, and Colombia but which also narrate themes which transcend the concerns of any one country and appeal to a broader audience.
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"Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood. Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood. It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together . . . until first a band and then a ballroom broke the rules. Machito and His Afro-Cubans hit the scene with a brand-new sound, blending jazz trumpets and saxophones with Latin maracas and congas creating Latin jazz, music for the head, the heart, and the hips....
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2013
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Covers the music, the musicians, the instruments, and music's place in cultural history. Presents a history of each musical style, from its roots to its expression along with glimpses of the lives of leading composers and musicians. This volume focuses on the style of Latin music.
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Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants. A world of cultural production, in the form of literature, poetry, art, music, and eventually film, would often simultaneously contravene or cooperate with the newly established order of Latin American nations negotiating independence and a new political and cultural...
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Memorias de una isla es un libro de ensayos de Calvert Casey en que se mezclan la crítica literaria y textos de remembranza. Con profundo espíritu literario en Casey evoca sus recuerdos de infancia en Cuba.
Calvert Casey es un peculiar escritor cubano, nacido en Estados Unidos de padre estadounidense. Conoció y se llenó de influencias literarias norteamericanas y relató en su obra un universo insular. Interesado por las novelas que fraguaron...
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Combining intellectual and social history, Teresita Martinez-Vergne explores the processes by which people in the Dominican Republic began to hammer out a common sense of purpose and a modern national identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Hoping to build a nation of hardworking, peaceful, voting citizens, the Dominican intelligentsia impressed on the rest of society a discourse of modernity based on secular...
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Con la colaboración de especialistas de diversas disciplinas, este libro propone pensar América centrando el análisis en textos e imágenes desconocidos o poco transitados por la crítica especializada. Los resultados obtenidos de las investigaciones que forman este volumen fortalecieron nuevamente la presunción de que lo que hoy "es" América, o como quiera llamársele, lo que hoy "somos", no puede entenderse sin la comprensión profunda de esta...
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Esta revista fue realizada clandestinamente por un colectivo de cristianas y cristianos que se asumía "en constante nacimiento". En razón de su fe, el colectivo tuvo el coraje de arriesgar su propia vida para modular una voz política disidente. El primer número de la revista explicita que la "simple proclamación explícita de la verdad, asumir sus riesgos pero también su eficacia liberadora es la tarea de NO PODEMOS CALLAR". Los integrantes...
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Con Breve historia de Hernán Cortés se acercará a la figura del genial conquistador que, para unos, llevó la semilla del Evangelio a tierras mexicanas y que para otros, en cambio, fue un bárbaro y un genocida. Más allá de la leyenda rosa y de la leyenda negra, una obra que permite descubrir los claroscuros del imperio español en América, con matices a veces sorprendentes. Conozca al héroe que llevó a cabo casi en solitario una gran gesta,...
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¿Por qué la sociedad española siempre ha creído en las bondades de la llamada conquista de América? ¿Fue en realidad un proceso civilizador, altruista y liberador? ¿Es justo considerar el imperialismo propio como un acto cualitativamente diferente al de otras naciones? ¿Debemos calificar a los conquistadores como héroes desde la óptica actual?
Tras el desembarco de Cristóbal Colón en las Indias se inició la explotación de un vasto continente...
19) Obras
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Manuel Díaz Rodríguez (1868-1927) es un novelista venezolano. Su narrativa constituye uno de los momentos de mayor vigor y robustez en la literatura de su país. Aunque no cultivó la lírica, Manuel Díaz Rodríguez figuró entre los más militantes modernistas de Venezuela.
Sus primeros libros, como Confidencias de Psiquis (Caracas, 1896), Sensaciones de viaje(París, 1896) donde se incluye el artículo «Alrededor de Nápoles», publicado anteriormente...
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Este libro introduce una mirada esencial sobre la historia de la democracia en Chile y la suma de esfuerzos tendientes a construir un estado de derecho moderno, cuyo desarrollo económico y social nos encamine efectivamente a la igualdad de oportunidades.
Frente a la idea común de que el país ha tenido instituciones excepcionales en la región, o de aquella otra, opuesta, que considera su democracia como una simple máscara de autoritarismo, el...
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