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Did Spain fall into decline or flourish in the seventeenth century?

Die illustrierte Weltgeschichte der Wissenschaften  In diesem außergewöhnlichen, reich bebilderten Buch über Wissenschaft und Technik stellen die Autoren Fortschritte aus Physik, Chemie, Mathematik, Biologie, Astronomie, Geowissenschaften und Medizin vor. Wissenschaftler*innen wie Albert Einstein, Marie Curie und Stephen Hawking werden porträtiert und ihre legendären Entdeckungen, die unser heutiges Leben maßgeblich beeinflusst haben, verstä...

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This issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine, guest edited by Drs. Joe Hart and Stephen Thompson, will cover a variety of interesting topics surrounding Sports Medicine Statistics. Subjects covered include, but are not limited to: Fundamentals of Sports Analytics, Statistical considerations for injury prevention in sports medicine, Mixed model designs for sports medicine research, Clinical Trials in sports medicine: design and analyses, Novel appr...

This Companion provides a chronological survey of Latin American poetry, analysis of modern trends and six succinct essays on the major figures.

This Companion provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of Latin American poetry from the Colonial period up until the present day, analysis of modern trends ranging from LGBT to Latino/a poetry, and six succinct essays on the major figures, ranging from Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz to Octavio Paz.

This is the first biography of Latin America's most important poet. the Peruvian Cesar Vallejo. It traces the important events of his life and evaluates his poetry, fiction, theatre, political essays and journalism.

A history of Latin American cinema, with detailed analysis of the twenty-five best films.

Why have conservatives fared better than progressives in recent decades, even though polls show no significant move to the right in public opinion? "Cultural Dilemmas of Progressive Politics highlights one reason: that progressives often adopt impoverished modes of discourse, ceding the moral high ground to their conservative rivals. As Stephen Hart shows, however, some progressive groups are pioneering more robust ways of talking about their ...

This new Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of the world. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel Garcma Marquez (in particular his recently published memoirs), Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, I...

The six essays collected in this volume are a selection from a number of papers which were given at a one-day colloquium on 'Art, Literature and the Spanish Civil War' which was held in Westfield College on 18 July 1986, precisely fifty years to the day after Franco's military coup in the Canary Islands, which was destined to have such a decisive effect on the course of Spanish history. Though this date subsequently became a Francoist celebrat...

The evolution of Latin American literature.

Seeks to re-vision the life and work of the Peruvian poet, Cesar Vallejo (1898-1938). This book consists of ten essays grouped into three complementary sections on Politics, Poetics and Affect.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez presents an original portrait of this renowned writer and is a must-read for fans of his work, as well as those interested in magical realism, Latin American fiction and modern literature.

Do you know when Cesar Vallejo was born? Was he a communist or a lapsed Catholic, or both? Do you know what he died of? Did you know that a new collection of hand-written manuscripts has been recently discovered in Montevideo? You may not know the answer to all these questions (some of them may be unanswerable) but this book will help you to identify and compare the competing answers. It describes and evaluates the manuscripts, editions, books...

Offers an analysis of the use made of five structuring devices, or motifs - the Bildungsroman, the patriarchal prison, the fairy tale, sexual politics and gender trouble - in a selection of representative women's novels from Spain and Latin America written since 1936.

The evolution of Latin American literature.

A history of Latin American cinema, with detailed analysis of the twenty-five best films.

A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession.