The Salazar Documents

The Salazar Documents PDF Author: Gustav Henningsen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004131868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 533

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A bilingual edition of eye-witness reports on an early 17th-century witch panic or dream epidemic in the Basque country, written by a Jesuit, a Bishop, and a Spanish Inquisitor who analysed the phenomenon empirically from psychological and anthropological standpoints.

The Salazar Documents

The Salazar Documents PDF Author: Gustav Henningsen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004131868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 533

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A bilingual edition of eye-witness reports on an early 17th-century witch panic or dream epidemic in the Basque country, written by a Jesuit, a Bishop, and a Spanish Inquisitor who analysed the phenomenon empirically from psychological and anthropological standpoints.

Escritos biográficos

Escritos biográficos PDF Author: Marie Curie
Publisher: Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
ISBN: 8493871745
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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«Querido Pierre, a quien nunca volveré a ver aquí, quiero hablarte en el silencio de este laboratorio, donde no pensaba que tendría que vivir sin ti. Y, antes, quiero recordar los últimos días que vivimos juntos». Con estas palabras abre Marie Curie la entrada de su diario (30 de abril de 1906) en la que recoge el terrible pesar por la muerte accidental de su marido Pierre, con quien había compartido pasión científica y descubrimientos cruciales acerca de la radiactividad, por los que fueron galardonados con el Premio Nobel de Física. El desgarro por la pérdida del ser más querido, pero también la evocación de los momentos de plenitud personal y científica, los rigores de la competencia académica o la forma de encajar esos elementos en su condición de mujer son algunas de las facetas que reflejan los extraordinarios escritos reunidos por vez primera en el presente volumen, entre los que descuellan la biografía que escribió sobre su marido y una extensa semblanza autobiográfica, así como las notas de laboratorio redactadas en los años del descubrimiento del radio y el polonio, además de secciones de su diario personal. Estas piezas componen una suerte de «Curie confidencial» que nos permite conocer de primera mano, desde la inmediatez y la intimidad personales, algunos episodios decisivos de la ciencia del siglo xx, y adentrarnos en los anhelos, conquistas y sentimientos de una mujer pionera en casi todos los frentes. Una vida y una vocación a través de su propia voz. (Selección y prólogo de Xavier Roqué.) Autor: Marie Curie (1867-1934), licenciada en Física y Matemáticas, se doctoró en 1903 con un estudio sobre las sustancias radiactivas que la hizo merecedora, junto a su marido Pierre Curie y Henri Becquerel, del Premio Nobel de Física de ese mismo año. Catedrática de Física en La Sorbona en 1906, recibió un segundo Premio Nobel en 1911, en esta ocasión de Química, por el descubrimiento del radio y el polonio. Junto a su eminente papel científico, su vida tuvo un importante sesgo público y se convirtió en uno de los rostros más célebres de la ciencia de principios del siglo xx. Colaboró activamente en mejorar la atención médica a los heridos en los campos de combate de la Primera Guerra Mundial, fundó en París y en su Varsovia natal instituciones científicas para el estudio de la radiactividad y recibió, sobre todo en sus últimos años, homenajes y reconocimientos de todo orden, incluido un viaje a los Estados Unidos en 1921. Sus restos reposan en el Panteón de París, con lo que se ha convertido en la primera mujer en recibir semejante honor. La introducción ha sido redactada por Xavier Roqué, profesor de Historia de la Ciencia de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona y especialista en la historia de la física del siglo xx, a la que ha dedicado trabajos y ediciones de textos sobre radiactividad, relatividad y mecánica cuántica.

The Shroud at Court

The Shroud at Court PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004390502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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The Shroud at the Court analyses, through various essays characterized by a multidisciplinary and diachronic perspective, the strict ties created between the Shroud and the Savoy court from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. Presented as proof of the divine legitimacy of Savoy lineage, the Shroud (of which the Savoy dynasty came into possession in 1453, keeping it first in Chambéry and then from 1578 in Turin) was central to their propagandistic strategies. The court – its spaces, protagonists, and rituals – became the natural setting for a relationship reinforced over time through customs, ceremonies, and images intended to celebrate the excellence of the Savoy, both within their own state and in Europe’s “society of princes”. Contributors are Paola Caretta, Paolo Cornaglia, Paolo Cozzo, Davide De Franco, Bernard Dompnier, Laura Gaffuri, Pierangelo Gentile, Luisella Giachino, Andrea Merlotti, Frédéric Meyer, Andrea Nicolotti, Almudena Pérez de Tudela, Laurent Ripart, Alessandro Serra and Franca Varallo.

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society PDF Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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A New Pronouncing Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages

A New Pronouncing Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 844

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland PDF Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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With appendices.

The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science

The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science PDF Author: Heartsill Young
Publisher: Ediciones Díaz de Santos
ISBN: 9780838903711
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Glossary of library and information.

Butterflies Will Burn

Butterflies Will Burn PDF Author: Federico Garza Carvajal
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292779941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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As Spain consolidated its Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, discourses about the perfect Spanish man or "Vir" went hand-in-hand with discourses about another kind of man, one who engaged in the "abominable crime and sin against nature"—sodomy. In both Spain and Mexico, sodomy came to rank second only to heresy as a cause for prosecution, and hundreds of sodomites were tortured, garroted, or burned alive for violating Spanish ideals of manliness. Yet in reality, as Federico Garza Carvajal argues in this groundbreaking book, the prosecution of sodomites had little to do with issues of gender and was much more a concomitant of empire building and the need to justify political and economic domination of subject peoples. Drawing on previously unpublished records of some three hundred sodomy trials conducted in Spain and Mexico between 1561 and 1699, Garza Carvajal examines the sodomy discourses that emerged in Andalucía, seat of Spain's colonial apparatus, and in the viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico), its first and largest American colony. From these discourses, he convincingly demonstrates that the concept of sodomy (more than the actual practice) was crucial to the Iberian colonizing program. Because sodomy opposed the ideal of "Vir" and the Spanish nationhood with which it was intimately associated, the prosecution of sodomy justified Spain's domination of foreigners (many of whom were represented as sodomites) in the peninsula and of "Indios" in Mexico, a totally subject people depicted as effeminate and prone to sodomitical acts, cannibalism, and inebriation.

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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ESMI

ESMI PDF Author: Linda Quiroz
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1912022257
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Have you ever gotten lost in English, Spanish or literature class because your teacher started using words like, 'onomatopoeia', 'hyperbole', 'alliteration' and so on? Do you get confused with 'making inferences' and 'drawing conclusions'? You're not alone. Many of us tune our teacher out because there are just so many terms! And, if you're learning a second language, your confusion just doubled. With ESMIAA(c), the English Spanish Mini Dictionary of Grammar and Literary Terms, you can get a quick glimpse of simple definitions for 100 terms.English and Spanish are often referred to as 'cousin languages'. You will appreciate the side-by-side lay-out of the terms in both languages. They are remarkably similar. The entries are based on words which beginning students are most likely to encounter and are accompanied by short examples.Start using ESMIAA(c) today! You will:aaA Increase your understanding of English and/or Spanish grammaraaA Develop better comprehension of reading passages and booksaaA Expand your reading selectionsaaA Enrich your vocabulary, andaaA Enhance your writing skills