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Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that represent the complex processes of political, economic, and cultural modernization in the twentieth century. The number and types of projects varied greatly from country to...

A forty-year-old Brazilian journalist reduced to living in a dilapidated building inhabited by a bizarre human fauna—fortune-tellers, transvestites, tango-loving Argentinean hustlers—is called upon to track down and write the story of Dulce Veiga, a famous singer who disappeared twenty years earlier...

Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture—and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature—few scholarly collections have examined the complex relationships...

Forget functionality, a luxury watch attached to a wrist just always seems to be a major enhancement to any wardrobe. Brands like Rolex and Cartier carry an air of prestige that truly exhibit the extent of a person’s success, as well as command respect and admiration for the perfected craftsmanship in which these items are created. Grab a copy of this ebook today.

Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy, even the cat. But if he left them all tomorrow and discarded the suit of clothes he wears, what else...

With its astounding hardcover reviews Richard Zenith's new complete translation of THE BOOK OF DISQUIET has now taken on a similar iconic status to ULYSSES, THE TRIAL or IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME as one of the greatest but also strangest modernist texts. An assembly of sometimes linked fragments, it is a mesmerising, haunting 'novel' without parallel in any other culture.

Silvio Santos nunca teve tantas falas suas reunidas em uma só publicação.Nascido no Rio de Janeiro em 1930, Senor Abravanel começou a trabalhar aos 14 anos de idade como camelô. Pouco tempo depois, ingressou no rádio e, mais tarde, na televisão, onde se tornou sinônimo de domingo.Formou um grupo...

Al transformar el más nimio de sus actos en escritura, Guillermo Prieto logró hacer el gran mural de sus tiempos. En él confluyen las diversas facetas del héroe laico y civil surgido tanto de la lucha militar y política como en la cruzada cultural para consolidar la victoria. Sus textos constituyen un autorretrato y una biografía del México del siglo XIX.

No matter how much Spanish you study, it’s nearly impossible to fully convince the native-speakers that you’ve got it. Even those estudiantes perfectos who have seemingly mastered speaking a foreign language in a classroom run into problems in real-life situations. 3,000 Spanish Words and Phrases...

Well, Im a person who loves to fight for his/her flags. Im the kind of person who would do anything to achieve his/her dreams and is willing to share his/her thoughts with the rest of the people who wants to hear it. As of yet, I have shown recognition about myself, but I must; everyone might want...

This carefully crafted ebook: “THE GOLDEN BOOK OF WORLD'S GREATEST MYSTERIES – 60+ Detective Stories, Whodunit Tales, Suspense, Occult & Supernatural Stories in One Premium Volume (Mystery & Crime Anthology)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents....

Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema explores different representations of dreams, visions, hallucinations, and hypnagogic states in Italian film culture, covering the works of some of the most significant auteurs in the history of Italian cinema (Fellini, Pasolini, Moretti, Bellocchio, among others). Dreams...

This book is a narrative study of four main discourses of national identity in Spain, with a special focus on Catalonia as disseminated in the Spanish press in the period between 1993-1996. The narrative analysis of the discourses of national identity is contained within two sections. The first deals...