La coca prohibida : producción, transformación y persecución a fines del siglo XX
Author: Gregorio Lanza
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13:
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Coca, Cocaine, and the Bolivian Reality
Author: Madeline Barbara Léons
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780791434819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the impact of coca and the cocaine trade on the Latin American country most affected by it, Bolivia.
Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies 1996
Author: G K HALL
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Published: 1997-07
Total Pages: 1086
ISBN-13: 9780783817644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJuan de la Rosa
Author: Nataniel Aguirre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999-04-29
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0199938873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, the novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. Juan recreates his childhood in the rebellious town of Cochabamba, and with it a large cast of full bodied, Dickensian characters both heroic and malevolent. The larger cultural dislocations brought about by Bolivia's political upheaval are echoed in those experienced by Juan, whose mother's untimely death sets off a chain of unpredictable events that propel him into the fiery crucible of the South American Independence Movement. Outraged by Juan's outspokenness against Spanish rule and his awakening political consciousness, his loyalist guardians banish him to the countryside, where he witnesses firsthand the Spaniards' violent repression and rebels' valiant resistance that crystallize both his personal destiny and that of his country. In Sergio Gabriel Waisman's fluid translation, English readers have access to Juan de la Rosa for the very first time.
A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish
Author: Mark Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-12
Total Pages: 1457
ISBN-13: 1134874537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and full English translation. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguistics. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way.
Territory
Author: David Delaney
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1405153059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author’s strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective.
Leopard in the Sun
Author: Laura Restrepo
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2000-09-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0375705082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Laura Restrepo's stunning novel, a feud between two Colombian drug families escalates into a bloody, high-stakes war that will leave no one in its path untouched. The Barragáns and the Monsalves are rival clans, each steeped in wealth and power, each subject only to laws of their own making. The similarities end there. While the Barragáns, headed by the brutal Nando, remain tied to the ancient traditions, the Monsalves grapple with whether or not to follow Mani, their charismatic and conflicted leader, into a modern age in which even fewer rules apply. As both clans ponder the profits they might reap from an expanding global cocaine trade, Nando and Mani are faced with the consequences of their violent pasts--and forced, by their disillusioned women and the prices on their heads, to reckon with the possibility that nothing will be left once all their bullets have found their targets. Rife with sensual detail, this epic story of lust, betrayal, and revenge is as timeless as interfamily conflict and as immediate as today's news.
Transmedia Archaeology
Author: C. Scolari
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-11-04
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 1137434376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, the authors examine manifestations of transmedia storytelling in different historical periods and countries, spanning the UK, the US and Argentina. It takes us into the worlds of Conan the Barbarian, Superman and El Eternauta, introduces us to the archaeology of transmedia, and reinstates the fact that it's not a new phenomenon.
Writing Across Cultures
Author: Angel Rama
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012-05-29
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0822352931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKÁngel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments about the innovative nature of regionalist literature, and it foregrounds his thinking about the close relationship between literary movements, such as modernism or regionalism, and global trends in social and economic development. In Writing across Cultures, Rama extends the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz's theory of transculturation far beyond Cuba, bringing it to bear on regional cultures across Latin America, where new cultural arrangements have been forming among indigenous, African, and European societies for the better part of five centuries. Rama applies this concept to the work of the Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist José María Arguedas, whose writing drew on both Spanish and Quechua, Peru's two major languages and, by extension, cultures. Rama considered Arguedas's novel Los ríos profundos (Deep Rivers) to be the most accomplished example of narrative transculturation in Latin America. Writing across Cultures is the second of Rama's books to be translated into English.
The Andes
Author: Onno Oncken
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-11-22
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 3540486844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides the first comprehensive overview of a complete subduction orogen, the Andes. To date the results provide the densest and most highly resolved geophysical image of an active subduction orogen.
