Federico: 752 books

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the intersection between Roman politics, culture and divination in the late Republic. It discusses how the practice of divination changed at a time of great political and social change and explores the evidence for a critical reflection and debate on...

Este libro recoge los trabajos presentados por un grupo de especialistas estudiosos y analistas de la nueva circunstancia que enfrenta la nación de cara a los acontecimientos que protagonizará la sociedad en el arranque del milenio.

El jardín japonés como construcción cultural del paisaje natural no es un fenómeno aislado, pese a tratarse de un hecho de cultura que ha conservado su individualidad en el transcurso de los siglos desde su implantación en Japón procedente de China. Más bien al contrario, la necesidad de comprenderlo...

This book is about the representations - both visual and linguistic - which people give of their own places of origin. It examines the drawings of interviewees who were asked to draw their own place of origin on a white A3 sheet, using pencil or colour, according to their choice. If they were born...

The late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries witness significant advancement in the production and, crucially, the consumption of culture in Italy. During the long process towards and beyond Italy becoming a nation-state in 1861, new modes of writing and performing – the novel, the self-help...

Heaven is here, with us, all the time and we can access it at any moment. The only problem is that we are not aware of that possibility. Everybody would like to get in Paradise and spend the rest of the existence over there but, we dont have to go anywhere because Paradise is right here and we can...

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) loved more than anything to talk about the craft of writing and the pleasure of reading good books. His dedication to the creative impulse manifests itself in the extraordinary amount of work he produced in virtually every literary genre—fiction, poetry, travel...

This book presents an overview of new approaches to the study of social movements emerging out of Latin America, based on original and innovative analyses of the recent changes in collective action across the region. Over the past decade, new repertoires of contention have emerged in parallel to changes...

«Desperté envuelto en una bruma de confusión, como solía sucederme cada vez que me emborrachaba y caía rendido en otro sitio que no fuera mi propia cama. Esta vez estaba en el salón de mi casa, y al abrir los ojos descubrí el cadáver de una chica.» A sus veintisiete años, John Brenner...

"O engenhoso fidalgo Dom Quixote de La Mancha", obra-prima de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, é o romance mais importante da literatura em língua espanhola. Grandes críticos, historiadores e leitores fizeram dele a segunda obra mais traduzida e editada do mundo, depois da Bíblia. Dom Quixote,...

Il volume fa il punto sul fenomeno dell’abusivismo edilizio nel Mezzogiorno, dopo un periodo di relativo silenzio degli studiosi sul tema, e avanza alcune proposte per l’innovazione dei progetti e delle politiche a esso rivolti. Alla base ci sono le riflessioni sviluppate nell’ambito di una...

Electronic texts and text analysis tools have opened up a wealth of opportunities to higher education and language service providers, but learning to use these resources continues to pose challenges to scholars and professionals alike. Translation-Driven Corpora aims to introduce readers to corpus...

The use of language corpora as a resource in linguistics and language-related disciplines is now well-established. One of the many fields where the impact of corpora has been growing in recent years is translation, both at a descriptive and a practical level. The papers in this volume, which grew...

In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been characterized by debates about collective and historical memory, stemming from a national obsession with the past that has seen an explosion of novels and films about the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship. This growth of so-called memory...