This is the inexpensive paperback edition of the book on the past, present and future of astronomy in the Philippines and other countries: investigating why Rizal did not construct an astronomical telescope when he had the know-how and the materials to do so. The title of this book, "A Sky as Clear as Sapphire" in English, comes from a phrase used by Rizal in the 60th chapter of his first novel, Noli Me Tangere. Many astro-photographs converted from full color to black-and-white and gray scale, surprisingly turned out extraordinarily beautiful.
¿Cómo la gente en la biblia adoraba a su Creador? ¿Cómo Él respondió a ellos? Conectándose a la adoración verdadera contesta estas preguntas e identifica las ventajas que el Dios amoroso da cuando Él responde. Descubran el poder de transformación de la adoración. Trágicamente por desgracia, muchas personas hoy en día viven sus vidas privadas de las bendiciones que vienen de una vida de adoración a Dios Todopoderoso. Afortunadamente hay un remanente de creyentes que habitualmente disfrutan de este aspecto de su vida cristiana. Este libro puede proveer algo de inspiración adicional a esas personas, pero ese no era el propósito primordial. En lugar de eso, este libro identifica los beneficios de la adoración para aquellos que no la practican habitualmente. Es la esperanza del autor de que el lector desarrolle una vida consistente de adoración después de que termine de leer este libro. El libro también proporciona un conocimiento profundo para los líderes de adoración y pastores concerniente a la adoración.
The paperback edition of J.Fadul's English translation of Jose Rizal's prize-winning play, El Consejo de los Dioses. The annotations and accompanying figures and pictures reveal the showy side of Rizal in his most sensuous of his early works, where he brought to remembrance the gods of the Greek and Roman mythologies along with the lives and works of Homer, Virgil, and Cervantes.Included are short but insightful, multidisciplinary biographies of Cervantes and Rizal.
A fresh translation of Jose Rizal's 1879 allegorical play, El Consejo de los Dioses to contemporary English. With plenty of illustrations and annotations, revealing Rizal's showy side as Hispanist and classicist, as he creatively brought to life Homer, Virgil, and Cervantes. Included are Fadul's short but insightful biographies of Miguel Cervantes and Jose Rizal.
Francisco de la Torre has long been praised as an outstanding poet in the mould of Garcilaso de la Vega and his simplicity of style and soft, gentle, Arcadian environment of his poetry have been emphasized. In this volume Professor Hughes attempts to define more accurately the position of Francisco de la Torre's verse in the evolution of Spanish poetry in the sixteenth century, revealing that Torre's vision of the pastoral world and his poetic language show him to be a transitional poet of considerable quality and substance and not merely an imitator of Garcilaso. Hughes demonstrates that while some of Torre's poetry follows a general pastoral pattern, his descriptions are characterized by a sense of movement through a shifting perspective and that even in poems with a traditional pastoral setting, the descriptions sometimes negate the pastoral qualities. The author also shows that Torre, rather than looking back towards Garcilaso and his contemporaries, is already anticipating – especially in his stylistic technique and in his view of nature – the attitude of the seventeenth century.
The marriage of philosophy and fiction in the first third of Spain's twentieth century was a fertile one. It produced some truly notable offspring—novels that cross genre boundaries to find innovative forms, and treatises that fuse literature and philosophy in new ways. In her illuminating interdisciplinary study of Spanish fiction of the "Silver Age," Roberta Johnson places this important body of Spanish literature in context through a synthesis of social, literary, and philosophical history. Her examination of the work of Miguel de Unamuno, Pio Baroja, Azorin, Ramon Perez de Ayala, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Gabriel Miro, Pedro Salinas, Rosa Chacel, and Benjamin Jarnes brings to light philosophical frictions and debates and opens new interpersonal and intertextual perspectives on many of the period's most canonical novels. Johnson reformulates the traditional discussion of generations and "isms" by viewing the period as an intergenerational complex in which writers with similar philosophical and personal interests constituted dynamic groupings that interacted and constantly defined and redefined one another. Current narratological theories, including those of Todorov, Genette, Bakhtin, and Martinez Bonati, assist in teasing out the intertextual maneuvers and philosophical conflicts embedded in the novels of the period, while the sociological and biographical material bridges the philosophical and literary analyses. The result, solidly grounded in original archival research, is a convincingly complete picture of Spain's intellectual world in the first thirty years of this century. Crossfire should revolutionize thinking about the Generation of '98 and the Generation of '14 by identifying the heterogeneous philosophical sources of each and the writers' reactions to them in fiction.
El ministerio de la palabra escrita constituye una guía práctica para todas las personas que estén contemplando la idea de escribir y publicar un libro. De una manera amena y entretenida, Justo González nos introduce en el mundo del escritor y las dinámicas de publicación. El autor ofrece en este volumen sus años de experiencia como escritor y editor, y anima al lector a participar en la producción de material escrito para el pueblo hispano-latino con afán de solventar su escasez. This title, translated as "the ministry of the written word" constitutes a practical guide for all who contemplate writing and publishing a book. In a practical, and easy-to-understand manner, Justo González introduces to the world of the writer and the dynamics of publication. The author offers in this volume his many years of experience as the writer and publishing, and encourages readers to participate in the production of material written for the Hispanic-latino American communities where there is a shortage of quality ministerial books.
A textbook for an introductory course in sociology that is experiential, participative, image-driven, and connected (EPIC). Emphasis is given to history, sociological methodology, and applications in related fields. Timeline is especially image-rich and illustrative of the development of sociology through interactions. Theoretical consideration are each accompanied by diagrams and illustrations from actual experience with suggested participative activities.
En estos relatos se encuentran verdades que parecieran mentiras, pollos en Asturias con gafas, queso de leche de mujer en un restaurante que se llama Chez Mauleon y muchas otras cosas fantásticas que son reales, así como también algunos ensayos. La antropofagia de uno de los muralistas más grandes de México y el mundo, y por Dios que esto es verdad! Y a los Catalanes les brindamos la mejor cargolada del mundo. Por supuesto que este libro es para tomarse en serio, pues el realismo está precisamente en lo insólito. ¿Qué sería del mar sin sus fantásticos moradores? Esta inigualable imaginación creadora, vestida con colores que no conoció Rafael de Urbino, pues no penetra la profundidad de los mares y su insólito colorido.
