Nofel seicolegol gyfoes gref am Gabriela, menyw ifanc drawiadol o Frasil sy'n dilyn ol traed ei mam ar bererindod i Santiago de Compostela yn Sbaen. Dyma ddeunydd anarferol i nofel Gymraeg, ac mae'r stori'n afaelgar iawn.
Gabriela Mistral es la primera latinoamericana en ganar un Premio Nobel de Literatura y la única mujer de esta región que ha alcanzado ese galardón. Una vida difícil, condicionada por la pobreza de su infancia, el abandono del padre, las dificultades para lograr acceder a una educación, los celos que desataban su creatividad y dedicación intelectual. Desde su nacimiento hasta su consagración en Estocolmo, Mistral enfrentó desafíos monumentales que moldearon su destino y legado. Este relato, meticulosamente investigado a partir de fuentes primarias y una amplia revisión bibliográfica, ofrece una visión íntima y completa sobre la vida de la poeta a través de sus propios recuerdos, reflexiones y conversaciones con diferentes personas, teniendo como hilo conductor el período que va desde que se entera de la distinción, hasta que deja Estocolmo, camino a la eternidad. Su estancia en Suecia no solo la consagró como una figura literaria de renombre, sino que desencadenó una auténtica “Mistralmanía”, revelando un impacto mundial. Mistral se transformó en la mujer más importante en la historia de Chile y, al menos en ese entonces, de toda América Latina. Una...
Los ensayos más personales de Gabriela Wiener, la cronista de sí misma, regresan en una nueva edición para celebrar su décimo aniversario. «Un libro insolente y divertido, a la vez periodístico y lírico, a veces tristísimo, otras veces delirante y siempre inolvidable». Alejandro Zambra «Lo cierto es que nunca he podido narrar –ni opinar– desde un lugar discreto, nunca he podido hacerme invisible, y para ser sincera tampoco lo he intentado. Amo la realidad que desenmascaramos en cada uno de nuestros actos. Amo la voluntad de asombro. Creo que lo más honesto que puedo hacer literariamente es contar las cosas como las veo, sin artificios, sin disfraces, sin filtros, sin mentiras, con mis prejuicios, obsesiones y complejos, con las verdades en minúscula y por lo general sospechosas. Hacerlo de otra manera seria presuntuoso por mi parte. Estaría engañándome y engañándolos». Gabriela Wiener reúne en Llamada perdida una selección de sus textos autobiográficos más destacados: ensayos, relatos breves, viñetas, observaciones y reflexiones que emergen de experiencias cotidianas tan singulares como la maternidad, la migración, el miedo a la muerte, la soledad en...
Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya summarizes archaeological researchers’ current views on the adoption and first use of pottery across the Maya lowlands. Covering the early Middle Preclassic period, when communities began using and producing pottery for the first time (roughly 1000–600 BC), through to the establishment of a recognizably Maya tradition, termed the Mamom ceramic sphere (about 600–300 BC), the book demonstrates that the adoption was broadly contemporary, with variation in how the new technology was adapted locally. Analyzing ceramics found at sites in Belize, Petén (Guatemala), and Mexico, the contributors provide evidence that the pre-Mamom expansion of pottery resulted from increased dependence on maize agriculture, exploitation of limestone caprock, and greater reliance on a preexisting system of long-distance exchange. The chapters describe the individual experiences of new potting communities at various sites across the region. They are supplemented by appendixes presenting key chronological data as well as the principal types and varieties of pre-Mamom ceramic complexes across the various spheres: Xe, Eb, Swasey,...
Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as “The Girl from Ipanema” (the fifth most frequently played song in the world), “The Waters of March,” and “Desafinado” are known around the world. Bossa Nova—a number-one bestseller when originally published in Brazil as Chega de Saudade—is a definitive history of this seductive music. Based on extensive interviews with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jo+o Gilberto, and all the major musicians and their friends, Bossa Nova explains how a handful of Rio de Janeiro teenagers changed the face of popular culture around the world. Now, in this outstanding translation, the full flavor of Ruy Castro’s wisecracking, chatty Portuguese comes through in a feast of detail. Along the way he introduces a cast of unforgettable characters who turned Gilberto’s singular vision into the sound of a generation.
A fresh examination of variable social and economic processes, Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica explores nascent social complexity during the Preclassic/Formative period in Mesoamerica and addresses broader social questions about egalitarian and transegalitarian prehispanic Mesoamerican cultural groups. Contributors present multiple lines of evidence demonstrating the process of social complexity and reconsider a number of traditionally accepted models and presumed tenets as a result of the wealth of empirical data that has been gathered over the past four decades. Their chapters approach complexity as a process rather than a state of being by exploring social aggregation, the emergence of ethnic affiliations, and aspects of regional and macroregional variability. Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica presents some of the most recent data—and the implications of that data—for understanding the development of complex societies as human beings moved into urban environments. The book is an especially important volume for researchers and students working in Mesoamerica, as well as archaeologists taking a comparative approach to questions of complexity....
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the most comprehensive annual bibliography in Latin American Studies. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas. Subject categories for the Social Sciences editions include anthropology; geography; government and politics; international relations; political economy; and sociology.
New understandings of how Maya people expressed timekeeping in daily life This book discusses the range of ways the ancient Maya people made time tangible through their architecture, arts, writing, beliefs, and practices. These chapters show how the Maya incorporated cyclicality and expanded dimensionality into the built environment, embedding notions of time in shared political and economic institutions, religious and philosophical traditions, and mythology. Beginning several millennia ago, the Maya observed and calculated the solar year cycle and scheduled collective activities that integrated cities, towns, and villages over great distances. Their timekeeping approaches evolved from commemorative ceremonial architectural complexes starting around 1000 BCE to the formal public inscription of calendar jubilees on stone monuments, the use of calendar almanacs, written prophetic and historical accounts, and the customs of modern priest shamans. Contributors to this volume discuss everyday examples of how the Maya kept time through these practices, including divining with snail shells, laying out center designs with creation stories and star patterns, singing those stories while...
Gabriela Whitley's life as a college senior is both ordinary and enviable. Blessed with beauty, brains, good friends, and a handsome, athletic boyfriend who adores her, Gabriela is looking toward a future filled with success and happiness. She has no idea that she is being watched by someone who longs for her-that is, until she hears a strange, distinctively seductive voice in her head one evening while searching the local bookstore for another great book about vampires. She is terrified and runs into the night, but finds herself inexplicably drawn to the handsome and mysterious stranger, whose name is Maddox. Unable to resist the lure of Maddox and his world of vampires, Gabriela learns that he knows even more about her than she knows herself, such as her true past and the circumstances around her mother's death years earlier. She discovers that she is no ordinary young woman but heir to the throne in a place that she thought existed only in dreams. But danger lurks there, too. For instance, Maddox tells her of his sister, Madison-but who is Madison really, and how far will she go to get what she wants? As more and more is revealed, Gabriela is torn between fulfilling her destiny ...
El manual que tienes en tus manos está dirigido a profesores de nivel C1 y a estudiantes que acaban de terminar el nivel B2. Al terminarlo, el aprendiz de E/LE será capaz de comprender textos extensos con cierto nivel de exigencia y reconocer en ellos sentidos implícitos. Sabrá expresarse de forma fluida y espontánea sin muestras muy evidentes de esfuerzo para encontrar la expresión adecuada. Podrá hacer un uso flexible y efectivo del idioma para fines sociales, académicos y profesionales. Podrá producir textos claros, bien estructurados y detallados, mostrando un uso correcto de los mecanismos de organización, articulación y cohesión del texto.Punto C/ELE cubre los contenidos funcionales y gramaticales que el MCER estipula para el nivel C1 y está orientado al conocimiento de la cultura chilena, especialmente para aquellos aprendientes que estudian E/LE en un contexto de inmersión en Chile o en América Latina.Cada unidad está organizada por funciones comunicativas específicas asociadas a temas culturales que revisten vocabulario específico y usos sociopragmáticos concretos. Las unidades incluyen actividades de audición que están disponibles en una nube, para...
This book investigates marriage and divorce in the nineteenth-century European territories of the Russian Empire. It uncovers the way a peasant community employed unsanctioned marital behaviour, such as cohabitation and bigamy, among others, in order to respond to the external factors that had an impact on the family life, including transmission of inheritance and household structure. Lithuania was part of the Tsarist Empire until 1914. This case study reveals how under often restrictive laws and policies – serfdom up to 1861, and the pervasive role of the Church, in addition to deep-rooted customary practices – women and men manage to normalize their family life. The volume is based on a wide range of archival sources and uncovers familial behaviour both from an individual and community perspectives.
Language Brokering in Immigrant Families: Theories and Contexts brings together an international group of researchers to share their findings on language brokering—when immigrant children translate for their parents and other adults. Given the large amount of immigration occurring worldwide, it is important to understand how language brokering may support children’s and families’ acculturation to new countries. The chapter authors include overviews of the existing literature, insights from multiple disciplines, the potential benefits and drawbacks to language brokering, and the contexts that may influence children, adolescents, and emerging adults who language broker. With the latest findings, the authors theorize on how language brokering may function and the outcomes for those who do so.
Special issue of the Anales de la Universidad de Chile dedicated to Gabriela Mistral.
Focuses on the activities of Hillel Kook, a Palestinian Jew who spent World War II in the USA, under the adopted name of Peter Bergson, trying to convince the USA and Britain that saving Jewish lives should be a war aim. After failing to persuade the Allies to establish a Jewish army, in 1943 Bergson founded the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, which used high visibility tactics like newspaper ads and lobbying to attempt to arouse the reluctant U.S. government to action. The Bergson Group was fiercely opposed by assimilated American Jews who feared antisemitism, including the American Zionist establishment led by Rabbi Stephen Wise. Another antagonist was Jewish congressman Sol Bloom, whose position was close to that of the State Department, which opposed allowing Jewish refugees into the U.S. Reveals how the Emergency Committee used political pressure to get President Roosevelt to establish the War Refugee Board, which is credited for saving between 50,000-200,000 Jewish lives. Argues that many more could have been saved if the Jewish establishment had been less concerned with attacking Bergson and less preoccupied with exclusively Zionist goals.
Data Science for Business and Decision Making covers both statistics and operations research while most competing textbooks focus on one or the other. As a result, the book more clearly defines the principles of business analytics for those who want to apply quantitative methods in their work. Its emphasis reflects the importance of regression, optimization and simulation for practitioners of business analytics. Each chapter uses a didactic format that is followed by exercises and answers. Freely-accessible datasets enable students and professionals to work with Excel, Stata Statistical Software®, and IBM SPSS Statistics Software®. - Combines statistics and operations research modeling to teach the principles of business analytics - Written for students who want to apply statistics, optimization and multivariate modeling to gain competitive advantages in business - Shows how powerful software packages, such as SPSS and Stata, can create graphical and numerical outputs
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This duet contains both books of the Collateral Damage Duet! Gabriela Stefan Sabbioni showed up uninvited in my bedroom on my birthday. He stood in the shadows smelling of whiskey and death and wrapped a broken, blood-crusted necklace around my neck. I thought he’d strangle me with it. That night, he left a message for my father. He said he’d be back to take something precious. I never delivered that message, though. I wonder if things would be different if I had because now, two years later, he’s back. And he’s not hiding in any shadows. He’s come to make good on his promise. He’s back to take that something precious. Me. Stefan Marchese is the manipulator of my family’s tragedy. I won’t just bring him to his knees. I’ll bury him for what he did. Taking his daughter is only the beginning. I’ll do it knowing I’m starting a war. I’ll do it knowing my enemies will become his allies. They’ll stop at nothing to destroy me and he’ll stop at nothing to get her back. I’ve never shied away from war, though. I’m not one to play nice and I don’t share my toys. I’ll demolish you if you touch what’s mine. And she is most definitely mine.
We’re a match made in hell, Stefan and I. He took me to exact his revenge. I went from being a pawn to my father to being a pawn to Stefan. The only difference is I have a ring the size of a boulder on my finger and a husband I don’t want. And the hardest part is I thought he was different. I thought I was falling in love. I guess my father was right. I’m not a very smart girl. Stefan is a powerful man. He doesn’t play nice, not if you’re his enemy. But I’ve learned one thing about my husband. He takes care of what’s his. And I am his. His enemies have become my enemies, but he’ll never let anyone hurt me. He’s fiercely protective. It’s the predator inside that scares me.
This project addresses the contexts of Practice as Research and how to undertake it. This second iteration updates thinking and practices but sustains a direct and clear approach on how to become a practitioner-researcher. New features include an extension of range “beyond” the arts and a case for intra-disciplinarity in Practice Research as an influence in the formation of the “future university”. A comparison is made between Artistic Research and Practice Research recognizing that research through practices with being-doing-knowing is central to both. Acknowledging the current crisis in legitimation, a broad view is taken of how things might be known by an onto-epistemology for the twenty-first century foregrounding the bodymind but sustaining rationality and community by way of Other/other dialogic exchange. Perspectives from around the world in Part II offset the more Eurocentric emphasis in Part I.
The aim of this book is to present a readable account of butterfly behaviour, based on field observations, great photographs and the latest research. The main focus is on courtship and mating – including perching, searching and territorial behaviour – but to understand these subjects it is necessary to explain how mates are chosen and this requires sections on wing colours and patterns. A chapter on butterfly vision is also essential in terms of how butterflies see the world and each other. There have been exciting discoveries in all of these fields in recent years, including: butterfly vision (butterfly photoreceptors), wing patterns (molecular biology), wing colouration (structural colours and nano-architecture), mating strategies and female choice (ecology and behaviour).
Agricultural biocatalysis is of immense scientific interest nowadays owing to its increasing importance in the efforts for more sustainable agriculture while optimizing environmental impacts. Plant compatibility is essential for developing eco-friendly and sustainable microbial products. Therefore, our search for novel technologies ought to be in the foreground, for which a thorough understanding of biochemical processes, application of agricultural enzymes, traits, and viruses get the highest priority. Volumes 8 to 10 in this series compile the recent research on agricultural biocatalysis by interdisciplinary teams from international institutes for chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology, and materials and chemical engineering, who have been investigating agricultural-biocatalytic topics related to biochemical conversions or bioremediation, and modern biological and chemical applications exemplified by the use of selected and highly innovative agricultural enzymes, traits, and viruses. The editors are prominent researchers in agrochemistry and theoretical biophysical chemistry, and these three volumes are useful references for the students and researchers in the fields of...
Gabriela Stefan Sabbioni showed up uninvited in my bedroom on my sixteenth birthday. He stood in the shadows smelling of whiskey and death and wrapped a broken, blood-crusted necklace around my neck. I thought he’d strangle me with it. That night, he left a message for my father. He said he’d be back to take something precious. I never delivered that message, though. I wonder if things would be different if I had because now, two years later, he’s back. And he’s not hiding in any shadows. He’s come to make good on his promise. He’s back to take that something precious. Me. Stefan Marchese is the manipulator of my family’s tragedy. I won’t just bring him to his knees. I’ll bury him for what he did. Taking his daughter is only the beginning. I’ll do it knowing I’m starting a war. I’ll do it knowing my enemies will become his allies. They’ll stop at nothing to destroy me and he’ll stop at nothing to get her back. I’ve never shied away from war, though. I’m not one to play nice and I don’t share my toys. I’ll demolish you if you touch what’s mine. And she is most definitely mine.
Autora de piezas teatrales insignes, además de una breve pero sustancial obra poética, el nombre de Gabriela Roepke yace anclado a la historia del teatro chileno de mediados del siglo XX. Como secretaria general y una de las fundadoras del Teatro de Ensayo de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Roepke fue activa participante de la llamada conformación de nuestra modernidad teatral, proceso asentado en la década de los cuarenta y cincuenta, en la que Chile tuvo para sí un teatro comparable con las mayores muestras del entretenimiento dramático. Ganadora de dos becas Fullbright y una Guggenheim, durante la década de los sesenta, Roepke persiguió el camino de una de sus más altas pasiones: la ópera. Así, instalada en los Estados Unidos, ejerció la docencia en distintas universidades, colaborando periódicamente en revistas especializadas como lo son The Juilliard News Bulletin, The Opera Journal, Opera News, entre otras. En homenaje a los ochenta años desde la fundación del Teatro de Ensayo y diez desde el fallecimiento de la autora, se publican por primera vez sus obras reunidas, incluyendo algunas estrenadas, pero jamás publicadas, además de su poesía,...
Trzy przyjaciółki, jeden stary dom pośrodku lasu. I tajemnica... Czy wszystkie życiowe porażki i niegodziwości można tłumaczyć trudnym dzieciństwem? Jeśli tak, to trzej bracia Prado – Wiktor, Marcin i Patryk – mogliby się stoczyć na samo dno i obwiniać tego, który zamienił pierwsze lata ich życia w piekło: swojego ojczyma. Trzy przyjaciółki – Gabrysia, Majka i Julia – też nie miały najłatwiej. O Majce i Julii rodzice zapomnieli, a Gabriela od najmłodszych lat musiała dbać o siebie i o przybranego ojca, którego ubeckie tortury pozbawiły zdrowia i sił. Pierwszy tom Leśnej Trylogii opowiada o dramatycznych losach Gabrieli i Wiktora, których łączy miłość, ale dzieli Zło bezwzględne i okrutne, nie cofające się przed niczym... Jest jednak zakątek, w którym ich drogi muszą się przeciąć: mały domek, ukryty gdzieś w lesie, w otoczeniu wiekowych świerków: Leśna Polana. Są już tak blisko tego miejsca... Tak blisko odnalezienia powtórnie siebie i swojej miłości... Ale Zło nie odpuszcza. Nigdy.
Pierwszy tom młodzieżowej trylogii pełnej romantycznych uczuć, przygód, poświęcenia i przyjaźni. Czy istnieje miłość od pierwszego wejrzenia? Taka prawdziwa, bezgraniczna i nieprzemijająca? Trzy dziewczyny, na drodze których zjawiają się mężczyźni skrywający tajemnice. Trzy niezwykłe historie, które przyspieszą bicie Twojego serca i rozbudzą wyobraźnię. Każdy z tomów – Larista, Guerra, Cedyno – to emocjonująca walka dobra ze złem, gdzie miłość gra pierwsze skrzypce. Czy jesteś gotowa wziąć w niej udział, stając ramię w ramię z Wysłannikami?
Życie młodego filmowca, Evana Cashera, nigdy nie układało się lepiej. Przynosząca sukcesy i satysfakcję praca, wspaniała dziewczyna, Carrie, kochający rodzice... Niespodziewany telefon od matki, która prosi go o natychmiastowy przyjazd do domu sprawia, iż jego rzeczywistość rozsypuje się w drobne kawałki. Evan znajduje matkę na kuchennej podłodze – brutalnie zamordowaną. Nim zdąży ogarnąć sytuację, sam ledwie unika śmierci. Nieznajomy mężczyzna ratuje mu życie, ale tajemnicza organizacja pozbawionych skrupułów zabójców nie odstępuje go ani o krok. Ojciec przepada bez wieści, Carrie przechodzi na stronę tajemniczych prześladowców. Evan staje twarzą w twarz z przerażającą prawdą – całe jego dotychczasowe życie było tylko iluzją, przemyślnie wyreżyserowaną fikcją, pajęczyną kłamstw. Dlaczego? Odpowiedź na to pytanie kryje się w przeszłości rodziny, ale dotarcie do niej nie będzie proste...