The Object of the Atlantic
The Object of the Atlantic

Author: Rachel Price

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2014-11-30

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0810130130

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The Object of the Atlantic is a wide-ranging study of the transition from a concern with sovereignty to a concern with things in Iberian Atlantic literature and art produced between 1868 and 1968. Rachel Price uncovers the surprising ways that concrete aesthetics from Cuba, Brazil, and Spain drew not only on global forms of constructivism but also on a history of empire, slavery, and media technologies from the Atlantic world. Analyzing Jose Marti’s notebooks, Joaquim de Sousandrade’s poetry, Ramiro de Maeztu’s essays on things and on slavery, 1920s Cuban literature on economic restructuring, Ferreira Gullar’s theory of the “non-object,” and neoconcrete art, Price shows that the turn to objects—and from these to new media networks—was rooted in the very philosophies of history that helped form the Atlantic world itself.

Dictionary of Chemistry and Chemical Technology
Dictionary of Chemistry and Chemical Technology

Author: Z. Sobecka

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 1334

ISBN-13: 1483284433

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Dictionary of Chemistry and Chemical Technology presents approximately 12,000 terminologies wherein these terms and their corresponding equivalents have been checked in literature in each of the six languages, including English, Spanish, German, French, Polish, and Russian. Each separately numbered English term in this book refers to a distinct concept as determined from the existing literature of the subject. The entries in this book are arranged in alphabetical order of the English terms and are numbered consecutively. This book provides as well an index of English synonyms for chemical compounds, to which the reader should refer in case a wanted term cannot be found in the main text. This book is a valuable resource for chemists. Readers of foreign literature seeking the exact corresponding equivalent of a scientific expression will also find this book extremely useful.

Coal Tar Creosote
Coal Tar Creosote

Author: C. Melber

Publisher: WHO

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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On cover: IPCS International Programme on Chemical Safety. Published under the joint sponsorship of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Labour Organization and the World Health Organization, and produced within the framework of the Inter-organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC)

Los Hijos del SOL
Los Hijos del SOL

Author: Constantino Jiménez

Publisher: RubySerrano

Published:

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13:

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Es una obra que plantea la tesis, del porque somos hijos del Sol, ya que el 99.85% de la materia existente en nuestro sistema solar la conforma el Sol y el porcentaje restante que incluye a los planetas, satélites naturales, cometas y asteroides son tan solo una pequeña parte de su emanación. Es decir, que todo lo que absolutamente nos rodea es materia solar y por consecuencia se ve afectada en las diferentes etapas por la cercanía o lejanía de nuestro planeta al sol. Así como en la primavera la naturaleza reverdece debido a esta influencia solar, vemos que en el invierno las mismas personas son más susceptibles a enfermedades e incluso a la muerte, pues de ahí proviene el dicho popular “en enero y febrero desviejadero”. ADQUIERELO AQUI Después de hacer un breve análisis de nuestro sistema solar, de nuestra naturaleza terrestre y considerar las diferentes culturas ancestrales como la Maya, Azteca, Inca y Egipcia donde consideraban al Sol como el centro de sus vidas, surge la investigación del primer monarca en la historia de la humanidad que establece el monoteísmo en la XVIII dinastía faraónica egipcia. Encontrándose involucrados los nombres de Tutmois IV, Amenosis III y Amenosis IV, que posteriormente cambiara su nombre por el de Akhenatón, en una relación muy interesante con los personajes bíblicos que conforman la trinidad mosaica, donde las coincidencias rebasan en gran medida la casualidad, marcándose la posibilidad de que dichos personajes del antiguo testamento en realidad sean tan solo una alegoría de los hechos que se presentaron en Egipto

Crossfire
Crossfire

Author: Roberta Johnson

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0813149673

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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.

Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill
Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill

Author: Cirilo Villaverde

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-09-29

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 0199725233

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Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.