Author: George Orwell
Publisher: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 9780395796771
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A textbook reader for young adults features George Orwell's "Animal Farm," plus short stories, poems, and essays designed to build reading comprehension.
Animal Farm : and Related Readings
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 9780395796771
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A textbook reader for young adults features George Orwell's "Animal Farm," plus short stories, poems, and essays designed to build reading comprehension.
Publisher: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 9780395796771
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A textbook reader for young adults features George Orwell's "Animal Farm," plus short stories, poems, and essays designed to build reading comprehension.
La Escuela Rural
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Rural
Languages : es
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Rural
Languages : es
Pages : 458
Book Description
Los cambios en el mundo del trabajo del periodista
Author: Figaro, Roseli
Publisher: Editorial UOC
ISBN: 8491160140
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
El quehacer del periodista se ha modificado sustancialmente. Los materiales periodísticos impresos, televisivos o radiofónicos se producen hoy de manera completamente distinta a la de hace años. Las tecnologías de la comunicación y de la información posibilitaron que se redujera el tiempo y el espacio, lo que ha reducido el tiempo de reflexión y de investigación. El periodismo en línea, en tiempo real, los blogs y las herramientas de las redes sociales digitales constituyen innovaciones en las rutinas profesionales. Pero ¿cómo observa el profesional de la información esos cambios? ¿Qué piensa el periodista sobre su propio trabajo y sobre el periodismo en general? ¿Cómo la actividad laboral le organiza su vida? ¿Qué tipo de consumidor mediático es el periodista?
Publisher: Editorial UOC
ISBN: 8491160140
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
El quehacer del periodista se ha modificado sustancialmente. Los materiales periodísticos impresos, televisivos o radiofónicos se producen hoy de manera completamente distinta a la de hace años. Las tecnologías de la comunicación y de la información posibilitaron que se redujera el tiempo y el espacio, lo que ha reducido el tiempo de reflexión y de investigación. El periodismo en línea, en tiempo real, los blogs y las herramientas de las redes sociales digitales constituyen innovaciones en las rutinas profesionales. Pero ¿cómo observa el profesional de la información esos cambios? ¿Qué piensa el periodista sobre su propio trabajo y sobre el periodismo en general? ¿Cómo la actividad laboral le organiza su vida? ¿Qué tipo de consumidor mediático es el periodista?
Art from a Fractured Past
Author: Cynthia E. Milton
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission not only documented the political violence of the 1980s and 1990s but also gave Peruvians a unique opportunity to examine the causes and nature of that violence. In Art from a Fractured Past, scholars and artists expand on the commission's work, arguing for broadening the definition of the testimonial to include various forms of artistic production as documentary evidence. Their innovative focus on representation offers new and compelling perspectives on how Peruvians experienced those years and how they have attempted to come to terms with the memories and legacies of violence. Their findings about Peru offer insight into questions of art, memory, and truth that resonate throughout Latin America in the wake of "dirty wars" of the last half century. Exploring diverse works of art, including memorials, drawings, theater, film, songs, painted wooden retablos (three-dimensional boxes), and fiction, including an acclaimed graphic novel, the contributors show that art, not constrained by literal truth, can generate new opportunities for empathetic understanding and solidarity. Contributors. Ricardo Caro Cárdenas, Jesús Cossio, Ponciano del Pino, Cynthia M. Garza, Edilberto Jímenez Quispe, Cynthia E. Milton, Jonathan Ritter, Luis Rossell, Steve J. Stern, María Eugenia Ulfe, Víctor Vich, Alfredo Villar
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission not only documented the political violence of the 1980s and 1990s but also gave Peruvians a unique opportunity to examine the causes and nature of that violence. In Art from a Fractured Past, scholars and artists expand on the commission's work, arguing for broadening the definition of the testimonial to include various forms of artistic production as documentary evidence. Their innovative focus on representation offers new and compelling perspectives on how Peruvians experienced those years and how they have attempted to come to terms with the memories and legacies of violence. Their findings about Peru offer insight into questions of art, memory, and truth that resonate throughout Latin America in the wake of "dirty wars" of the last half century. Exploring diverse works of art, including memorials, drawings, theater, film, songs, painted wooden retablos (three-dimensional boxes), and fiction, including an acclaimed graphic novel, the contributors show that art, not constrained by literal truth, can generate new opportunities for empathetic understanding and solidarity. Contributors. Ricardo Caro Cárdenas, Jesús Cossio, Ponciano del Pino, Cynthia M. Garza, Edilberto Jímenez Quispe, Cynthia E. Milton, Jonathan Ritter, Luis Rossell, Steve J. Stern, María Eugenia Ulfe, Víctor Vich, Alfredo Villar
La Vida en Gajos
Author: Manuel Rivera Sandoval
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463313470
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
La Vida en Gajos el autor la define como una mini-autobiografía que tiene como objetivo principal motivar a la niñez, la juventud, a los débiles de espíritu y a las futuras generaciones para que aprendan que todo es posible en la vida. Con sacrificios, limitaciones, esfuerzos, sudor y lágrimas se logran los objetivos. "El ser humano es la creación perfecta de la Naturaleza y el Todo Poderoso nos proveyó fuerza, inteligencia y Don de triunfo en cualquier Ambito sobre la faz de la Tierra. Para el hombre no hay distancias, tampoco imposibles. Se ha logrado cruzar mares y montañas; alcanzar cimas y profundidades; tampoco creo en el diablo o los fantasmas. Para mí sólo existe un Dios y Vida hasta que él nos la quite", declara el autor de La Vida en Gajos, Manuel Rivera Sandoval. El libro lleva este título porque está redactado dividido en capítulos, trozos o gajitos, que definen etapas muy variadas y cortas de la vida del autor. Rivera Sandoval nació en una familia humilde y hoy disfruta de las comodidades de la tecnología moderna. Era analfabeto con dieciséis años, pero con mucho esfuerzo personal sin tener ningún apoyo familiar, terminó los estudios universitarios. Practicó la declamación, la oratoria, el periodismo y aspiró navegar por los senderos de la política. Ahora que ya ha llegado a la tercera edad, plasmar sus experiencias sobre papel y publica La Vida en Gajos con ayuda de la editorial Palibrio, para llegar a los corazones de la gente con la increíble historia de su vida.
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463313470
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
La Vida en Gajos el autor la define como una mini-autobiografía que tiene como objetivo principal motivar a la niñez, la juventud, a los débiles de espíritu y a las futuras generaciones para que aprendan que todo es posible en la vida. Con sacrificios, limitaciones, esfuerzos, sudor y lágrimas se logran los objetivos. "El ser humano es la creación perfecta de la Naturaleza y el Todo Poderoso nos proveyó fuerza, inteligencia y Don de triunfo en cualquier Ambito sobre la faz de la Tierra. Para el hombre no hay distancias, tampoco imposibles. Se ha logrado cruzar mares y montañas; alcanzar cimas y profundidades; tampoco creo en el diablo o los fantasmas. Para mí sólo existe un Dios y Vida hasta que él nos la quite", declara el autor de La Vida en Gajos, Manuel Rivera Sandoval. El libro lleva este título porque está redactado dividido en capítulos, trozos o gajitos, que definen etapas muy variadas y cortas de la vida del autor. Rivera Sandoval nació en una familia humilde y hoy disfruta de las comodidades de la tecnología moderna. Era analfabeto con dieciséis años, pero con mucho esfuerzo personal sin tener ningún apoyo familiar, terminó los estudios universitarios. Practicó la declamación, la oratoria, el periodismo y aspiró navegar por los senderos de la política. Ahora que ya ha llegado a la tercera edad, plasmar sus experiencias sobre papel y publica La Vida en Gajos con ayuda de la editorial Palibrio, para llegar a los corazones de la gente con la increíble historia de su vida.
Perspectives on Contemporary Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Armies
Author: Evelio Rosero Diago
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811218643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
"The Armies by Evelio Rosero, a story of love, violence, and war, is a modern classic." "Ismail, the profesor, is a retired teacher in the small, fictional Colombian town of San Jose. He passes the days pretending to pick oranges while spying on his neighbor Geraldina as she lies naked in the shade of a ceiba tree. The garden burns with sunlight; the macaws laugh sweetly. Otilia, Ismail's wife, is ashamed of him and suggests that he pay a visit to Father Albornoz, who was once his student. Instead the profesor wanders the town visiting old friends, plagued by a tangle of secret memories: Where have I existed these years? I answer myself: up on the wall, peering over." "When guerrillas and paramilitaries suddenly invade the town, Ismail's reveries gradually give way to a living hell. His wife disappears and he must find her. We learn that not only gentle, grassy hillsides surround San Jose, but also land mines and coca. The profesor's voyeuristic ramblings are engulfed by the hallucinatory violence of Rosero's narrative, which is suffused not only with a deep sadness but also with an extraordinary tenderness." --Book Jacket.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811218643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
"The Armies by Evelio Rosero, a story of love, violence, and war, is a modern classic." "Ismail, the profesor, is a retired teacher in the small, fictional Colombian town of San Jose. He passes the days pretending to pick oranges while spying on his neighbor Geraldina as she lies naked in the shade of a ceiba tree. The garden burns with sunlight; the macaws laugh sweetly. Otilia, Ismail's wife, is ashamed of him and suggests that he pay a visit to Father Albornoz, who was once his student. Instead the profesor wanders the town visiting old friends, plagued by a tangle of secret memories: Where have I existed these years? I answer myself: up on the wall, peering over." "When guerrillas and paramilitaries suddenly invade the town, Ismail's reveries gradually give way to a living hell. His wife disappears and he must find her. We learn that not only gentle, grassy hillsides surround San Jose, but also land mines and coca. The profesor's voyeuristic ramblings are engulfed by the hallucinatory violence of Rosero's narrative, which is suffused not only with a deep sadness but also with an extraordinary tenderness." --Book Jacket.
Slightly Dangerous
Author: Mary Balogh
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0440334993
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress. All of London is abuzz over the imminent arrival of Wulfric Bedwyn, the reclusive, cold-as-ice Duke of Bewcastle, at the most glittering social event of the season. Some whisper of a tragic love affair. Others say he is so aloof and passionless that not even the greatest beauty could capture his attention. But on this dazzling afternoon, one woman did catch the duke’s eye—and she was the only female in the room who wasn’t even trying. Christine Derrick is intrigued by the handsome duke…all the more so when he invites her to become his mistress. What red-blooded woman wouldn’t enjoy a tumble in the bedsheets with a consummate lover—with no strings and no questions asked. An infuriating lady with very definite views on men, morals, and marriage, Christine confounds Wulfric at every turn. Yet even as the lone wolf of the Bedwyn clan vows to seduce her any way he can, something strange and wonderful is happening. Now for a man who thought he’d never lose his heart, nothing less than love will do. With her trademark wit, riveting storytelling, and sizzling sexual sparks, Mary Balogh once again brings together two polar opposites: an irresistible, high-and-mighty aristocrat and the impulsive, pleasure-loving woman who shows him what true passion is all about. A man and a woman so wrong for each other, it can result only in the perfect match.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0440334993
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress. All of London is abuzz over the imminent arrival of Wulfric Bedwyn, the reclusive, cold-as-ice Duke of Bewcastle, at the most glittering social event of the season. Some whisper of a tragic love affair. Others say he is so aloof and passionless that not even the greatest beauty could capture his attention. But on this dazzling afternoon, one woman did catch the duke’s eye—and she was the only female in the room who wasn’t even trying. Christine Derrick is intrigued by the handsome duke…all the more so when he invites her to become his mistress. What red-blooded woman wouldn’t enjoy a tumble in the bedsheets with a consummate lover—with no strings and no questions asked. An infuriating lady with very definite views on men, morals, and marriage, Christine confounds Wulfric at every turn. Yet even as the lone wolf of the Bedwyn clan vows to seduce her any way he can, something strange and wonderful is happening. Now for a man who thought he’d never lose his heart, nothing less than love will do. With her trademark wit, riveting storytelling, and sizzling sexual sparks, Mary Balogh once again brings together two polar opposites: an irresistible, high-and-mighty aristocrat and the impulsive, pleasure-loving woman who shows him what true passion is all about. A man and a woman so wrong for each other, it can result only in the perfect match.
A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish
Author: John Butt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461583683
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
(abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461583683
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
(abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.
Friend of My Youth
Author: Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307814599
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A “wickedly funny” (Newsweek) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity.”—Chicago Tribune A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband’s past—and instead discovering unsetting truths about a total stranger. The miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The mastery—the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable—makes Friend of My Youth a genuine literary event.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307814599
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A “wickedly funny” (Newsweek) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity.”—Chicago Tribune A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband’s past—and instead discovering unsetting truths about a total stranger. The miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The mastery—the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable—makes Friend of My Youth a genuine literary event.