Cervantes's Eight Interludes
Cervantes's Eight Interludes

Author: Miguel Cervantes

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 1495049698

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) is Spain's most famous author, primarily because of his celebrated novel Don Quixote. His first love, however, was the theater, for which he wrote extensively. His Interludes, published 400 years ago in 1615, are short, comic plays that explore the underbelly of Renaissance Spanish society. Their characters include hillbillies and con artists, pimps and prostitutes, adulterous wives and jealous husbands, and an array of other comical figures. Cervantes's treatment of them is simultaneously critical and sympathetic. Although interludes tend to be works of light comedy, Cervantes often imbues his with deeper themes. Charles Patterson, a scholar of Hispanic theater, has created translations of the Interludes that are true to the earthiness of the originals but designed to be readily playable for today's actors and accessible to modern audiences. This book includes an introduction that places the plays in context, briefly describing the life of Cervantes, theater in early modern Spain, Cervantes's interludes, and Patterson's approach to translating them. Casual readers, theater and literature students, and professional actors alike will delight in these comedic gems that reveal a less familiar side of one of history's greatest writers.

Reed Hastings: O Gênio por Trás da Netflix
Reed Hastings: O Gênio por Trás da Netflix

Author: MAX EDITORIAL

Publisher: Max Editorial

Published: 2024-06-27

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1779717830

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Nascido em Boston em 1960, Reed Hastings sempre foi um espírito inquieto e empreendedor. Desde cedo, demonstrava interesse por tecnologia e matemática, o que o levou a cursar graduação em Bowdoin e mestrado em ciência da computação em Stanford. Após sua formação, Hastings mergulhou no mundo do empreendedorismo, fundando a Pure Software, empresa que se tornou um sucesso no mercado de software de gerenciamento de qualidade. Foi durante esse período que a faísca para a Netflix surgiu. Em 1997, frustrado com as multas por atrasos na locadora, Hastings teve a ideia de criar um serviço de aluguel de DVDs por correio. Nascia assim a Netflix, que revolucionaria para sempre a forma como consumimos entretenimento. Saiba Muito Mais...

Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings

Author: Max Editorial

Publisher: Blurb

Published: 2024-07-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Nascido em Boston em 1960, Reed Hastings sempre foi um espírito inquieto e empreendedor. Desde cedo, demonstrava interesse por tecnologia e matemática, o que o levou a cursar graduação em Bowdoin e mestrado em ciência da computação em Stanford.

So Shall Ye Reap
So Shall Ye Reap

Author: Joan London

Publisher: New York : Crowell

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The story of the farm labor movement from its roots in the nineteenth century to the conclusion of the graps strike.

Vlad
Vlad

Author: Carlos Fuentes

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Published: 2012-07-18

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 156478780X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Where, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern-day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a police force who won’t mind a few disappearances? “Vlad” is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In this sly sequel, Vlad really is undead: dispossessed after centuries of mayhem by Eastern European wars and rampant blood shortages. More than a postmodern riff on “the vampire craze,” Vlad is also an anatomy of the Mexican bourgeoisie, as well as our culture’s ways of dealing with death. For—as in Dracula—Vlad has need of both a lawyer and a real-estate agent in order to establish his new kingdom, and Yves Navarro and his wife Asunción fit the bill nicely. Having recently lost a son, might they not welcome the chance to see their remaining child live forever? More importantly, are the pleasures of middle-class life enough to keep one from joining the legions of the damned?

Zero Frequency
Zero Frequency

Author: Mabel Katz

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781733331722

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

We are living in a time when many people are feeling the weight of the world on their shoulders, in the form of global and personal stress--financial challenges, illness, loneliness, depression, and lack of purpose. "Zero Frequency", by Mabel Katz, is an illuminating book that offers all struggling citizens of this planet a path out of turmoil and towards a life of happiness, peace, and abundance. As a lifelong practitioner and leading authority on Ho'oponopono, the ancient Hawaiian art of problem-solving, Mabel Katz's new book presents wisdom in a more practical and modern way--one that simultaneously speaks to the mind and heart, while also cutting through many of the mind traps and illusions that prevent us from experiencing truth. In this book, you will come to understand that "Zero Frequency" is a direct pipeline back to who we are--to our true essence. "Zero Frequency" is also a suspension of mind and thought that would allow us to return to the fullness of the Present Moment. Mabel calls this a return to our natural state of Zero--the limitless state that comes when we live in the Now--present, conscious, free of judgment--allowing our hearts to open to the wisdom that already lives within each of us. This book will lay down a concrete path to help its readers wake up and realize their potential. It is a book that is written with the unwavering belief that the more we help (and heal) ourselves, the more we help (and heal) the planet. Living from who we are is at the core of "Zero Frequency", a combination of gratitude, letting go, and practicing peace. "Zero Frequency" is like returning to our childhood, and the joy and innocence we have lost as time and age have buried who we are. Rediscovering this part of ourselves--our true self--is the pathway back to opening our hearts to abundance, peace, and joy. It is where all the answers to life's problems will be found. It is the heart and soul of "Zero Frequency".--Publisher.

Border Boss
Border Boss

Author: J. Gilberto Quezada

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2001-05

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781585441532

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

On January 1, 1937, Manuel B. Bravo was sworn in as county judge of Zapata County, a post he would hold for twenty years. In Border Boss: Manuel B. Bravo and Zapata County, J. Gilberto Quezada delineates Bravo’s political career in the Democratic Party and examines his role in some of the important issues of his day, especially Falcon Dam. During Bravo’s years in office, he worked and corresponded with many Texas and national politicians, including James Allred, Lloyd Bentsen, Kika de la Garza, Ralph Yarborough, and, most prominently, Lyndon Johnson. The association between Bravo and Johnson began with the special Senate election of 1941 and is reflected in the more than fifty letters between the two in Bravo's personal papers. In Johnson's 1948 Senate runoff against Coke Stevenson, voting irregularities were alleged in Zapata County when the election returns from Precinct No. 3 were reported missing. Quezada analyzes the Bravo papers for any evidence that Bravo and Johnson had arranged the disappearance and offers possible alternative explanations. From the 1930s to the 1950s Zapata County was one of six South Texas counties where the Tejano majority dominated local politics and held most public offices. Bravo became known as one of the "Mexican bosses" of South Texas, but Quezada draws a more nuanced picture of bossism than has been presented previously, analyzing the role of influential leading families but looking as well at the degree of economic integration into the state and nation as factors in how bossism developed. Those interested in Mexican-American studies and politics and bossism in South Texas will appreciate the window onto South Texas politics and Tejano culture this biography gives.