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Mitos políticos en las sociedades andinas

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 349

El uso político del mito no es una novedad. Lo que sí es nuevo en América Latina es la potente emergencia de mitos históricos y su utilización como fuente de legitimidad política. Se cuestiona así la "racionalidad" que había venido sustentando los procesos democráticos del continente. ¿Es que basta con invocar el inasible concepto de "populismo" (militarista o civilista), hoy cada vez más extendido, para dar cuenta de los complejos y diversos procesos en el subcontinente? ¿No se funda ese populismo en creencias desarrolladas a lo largo de la construcción, reelaboración y hasta invención de nuestras respectivas historias nacionales? ¿Cuánta fuerza ejerce aún el pasado hispánico y prehispánico en la forja de nuestra cultura política? Si en todas partes el pasado sirve para construir el presente, si toda historia nacional ha estado siempre al servicio de un propósito retórico más allá de sí misma, ¿cómo y por qué se desarrollan esas prácticas constructoras de prestigio y legitimación? Desde la singularidad de sus miradas nacionales, una veintena de investigadores de Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Francia, Inglaterra, Perú y Venezuela elabora y propone...

Bollettino

Autor: Club Alpino Italiano

Número de Páginas: 314

Hearings

Autor: United States. Congress. House. Committee On Agriculture

Número de Páginas: 1734

Grande Traversata Delle Alpi

Autor: Iris Kürschner

Número de Páginas: 260

Italy's Grande Traversata delle Alpi

Autor: David Jordan

Número de Páginas: 352

A guidebook to trekking the Grande Traversata delle Alpi (GTA) from the Nufenen Pass on the Swiss border to Ventimiglia on the Mediterranean coast. Covering 809km (503 miles), this often overlooked long-distance trek through the western Italian Alps takes around 2 months to hike and is suitable for experienced alpine trekkers. The route is described from north to south in 55 stages, each between 7 and 26km (4–16 miles) in length. The route is divided into 3 sections with transport options given for those wanting to break the trek into shorter sections. GPX files available to download 1:100,000 maps included for each stage Handy route summary tables help you plan your itinerary Refreshment and accommodation information given for each trek stage

Singer's Typewriter and Mine

Autor: Ilan Stavans

Número de Páginas: 370

A cultural critic of extraordinary erudition, encyclopedic knowledge, and boundless curiosity, Ilan Stavans, an Ashkenazic Jew who grew up in Mexico, negotiates wildly varied topics as effortlessly and deftly as he manages the multiple perspectives of a dual national, religious, and ethnic identity. In Singer’s Typewriter and Mine, a follow-up to The Inveterate Dreamer (Nebraska, 2001), Stavans interweaves his own experience with that of other Jewish writers and thinkers, past and present, to explore modern Jewish culture across the boundaries of language and nation. Juxtaposing the personal and the analytical, these essays and conversations take up the oeuvres of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Mario Vargas Llosa, translation and God’s language, storytelling as midrash, anti-Semitism in Hispanic America, Yiddish and Sephardic literatures, the connection between humor and terror, impostors as cultural agents, the creators of the King James Bible, and the encounter between Jewish and Latino civilizations, to name but a few of Stavans’s topics here. Funny, engaging, and provocative, this collection continues Stavans’s project of opening new vistas in our cross-cultural...

LE LVRE

Número de Páginas: 722

Souvenirs d’une vie d'engagements

Autor: Magda Trocmé

Número de Páginas: 348

Magda Trocmé (1901-1996) a partagé sa vie d’engagement entre les cités ouvrières du Nord de la France dans les années 1920-1930, l’organisation du sauvetage de centaines d’enfants juifs au Chambon-sur-Lignon, sous l’occupation nazie, et, après-guerre, une intense activité militante au service de la paix et des droits de l’homme. Écrits d’une plume alerte, ces souvenirs font suite à ceux de son enfance (Souvenirs d’une jeunesse hors normes, Strasbourg, PUS, 2017). Ces deux volumes rendent compte d’un itinéraire exceptionnel, marqué par une vive sensibilité à l’arbitraire et par l’impérieuse nécessité de toujours porter secours aux victimes de l’injustice, de la violence — économique ou morale — et de la barbarie. Le témoignage de Magda Trocmé est ici éclairé par trois spécialistes du contexte historique et religieux, sur la théologie du christianisme social, l’histoire des mouvements non violents entre les deux guerres, le plateau Vivarais-Lignon sous l’Occupation, et les voyages de solidarité internationale dans les années 1950.

Hugo!

Autor: Bart Jones

Número de Páginas: 765

Hugo! is the remarkable biography of Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela and leader of the Bolivian Revolution. Ex-paratrooper and outspoken socialist, Chávez is known for his stance against big business, fearless threats to the Bush administration, social reforms that have violently polarized his country, and also for providing a model for new governments and social movements across South America. Bart Jones was eyewitness to Chávez' rise to power, and describes his life in extraordinary detail, creating a comprehensive portrait of a man who has affected the most radical transformation of Venezuela for half a century, and dramatically affected the political debate throughout Latin America.

The Alpine Journal

Número de Páginas: 436

In the Shadow of the Liberator

Autor: Richard Gott

Número de Páginas: 268

In a first-hand report from Venezuela, veteran correspondent Richard Gott places the county's controversial president in historical perspective. Examining Chavez's plans and programmes and the support these attract, Gott argues that this unique experiment may prove a new way forward for Latin America.

Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era

Autor: Luis Fleischman

Número de Páginas: 305

Hugo Chavez passed away in March 2013 after a two-year battle with cancer, prompting much speculation about the impact of his death. What will a post-Chavez future look like, not only in Venezuela but also in the region? In Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era, Luis Fleischman examines Chavez's highly controversial Bolivarian revolution, which has expanded beyond Venezuela to other countries in South America and whose sphere of influence also extends to Central America and the Caribbean. In this context, the author systematically shows how an emerging authoritarianism in the region plays an important role in defining the geo-political context of the region.

Comparative Politics of Latin America

Autor: Daniel C. Hellinger

Número de Páginas: 668

This text offers a unique balance of comparative politics theory and interdisciplinary country-specific context, of a thematic organization and in-depth country case studies, of culture and economics, of scholarship and pedagogy. No other textbook draws on such a diverse range of scholarly literature to help students understand the ins and outs of politics in Latin America today. The insightful historical background in early chapters provides students with a way to think about how the past influences the present. However, while history plays a part in this text, comparative politics is the primary focus, explaining through detailed case studies and carefully paced analysis such concepts as democratic breakdown and transition, formal and informal institutions, the rule of law, and the impact of globalization. Concepts and theories from comparative politics are well integrated into country-specific narratives and vice versa, leading to a richer understanding of both. Several important pedagogical aids foster student learning: Learning objectives at the start of every chapter "Learning checkpoints" interspersed in chapters to ensure comprehension Bolded key terms focus attention on...

French Vernacular Books / Livres vernaculaires français (FB) (2 vols.)

Autor: Andrew Pettegree , Malcolm Walsby , Alexander Wilkinson

Número de Páginas: 1638

This work offers for the first time a complete list of all books published wholly or partially in the French language before 1601. Based on twelve years of investigations in libraries in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere, it provides an analytical short-title catalogue of over 52,000 bibliographically distinct items, with reference to surviving copies in over 1,600 libraries worldwide. Many of the items described are editions and even complete texts fully unknown and re-discovered by the project. French Vernacular Books is an invaluable research tool for all students and scholars interested in the history, culture and literature of France, as well as historians of the early modern book world. For vols. III & IV please go to French Books III & IV.

Bibliothèque universelle et revue suisse

Autor: Marc Auguste Pictet , Charles Pictet De Rochemont , Frédéric Guillaume Baron Maurice

Número de Páginas: 804

Bibliothèque universelle et revue suisse

Número de Páginas: 680

Bulletin des acquisitions étrangères de la Bibliothèque nationale

Número de Páginas: 378

Bulletin des acquisitions du département des imprimés de la Bibliothèque nationale : livres étrangers, livres anciens et cartes. Acquisitions, dons, dépôt international

J.J. Rousseau à Venise

Autor: Victor Cérésole

Número de Páginas: 184

Cinq milliards d'otages

Autor: Gérard Lecha

Número de Páginas: 337

Dans ce livre, aussi intempestif qu’intemporel, Gérard Lecha fait émerger — de façon abrupte — de l’Histoire de ce siècle quelques leçons anthropologiques majeures. Des leçons qui nous mettent crûment en garde contre un aveuglement qui pourrait nous être fatal. Gérard Lecha ose, en effet, stigmatiser sans euphémisme le monstre anthropophage préhominien qui semble toujours sommeiller en chacun des dirigeants de ce monde, et en chacun de nous-mêmes. Monstre qu’il devient urgent de maîtriser si l’on tient à contrarier l’acheminement lent mais apparemment inexorable de l’espèce vers quelque holocauste final, généralisé et... définitif.

Redentores

Autor: Enrique Krauze

Número de Páginas: 528

Una épica historia intelectual de América Latina escrita por uno de sus más influyentes pensadores. Las ideas son las protagonistas de este libro, pero no las ideas en abstracto sino las ideas encarnadas en personas con vidas tocadas por la pasión del poder, la historia y la revolución; y también por el amor, la amistad, la familia. Vidas reales, no ideas andantes. Por este libro desfilan profetas de la redención como el heroico Martí, el idealista Rodó, el educador Vasconcelos o el indigenista Mariátegui. Los sigue, como figura central, el poeta y ensayista Octavio Paz, cuya vida abarca el siglo entero y cuyas raíces familiares recogen toda la tradición revolucionaria moderna. A la manera de Plutarco y sus Vidas paralelas, el autor dibuja enseguida los perfiles de Eva Perón y el Che Guevara, pone en contrapunto las actitudes políticas y morales de los novelistas Gabriel García Márquez y Mario Vargas Llosa, y explica la conexión histórica entre el teólogo Samuel Ruiz y el guerrillero Subcomandante Marcos. Finalmente, conecta a Hugo Chávez con la tradición caudillista y el culto carlyleano al héroe. A través de estas doce biografías sutilmente entrelazadas,...

Revue médicale de la Suisse romande

Número de Páginas: 768

Reduction of Extra-long Staple Cotton Quota

Autor: United States. Congress. House. Committee On Agriculture

Número de Páginas: 88

Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress

Autor: United States. Congress. House. Committee On Agriculture

Número de Páginas: 966

Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Agriculture

Autor: United States. Congress House. Committee On Agriculture

Número de Páginas: 1464

Le Livre

Autor: Octave Uzanne

Número de Páginas: 714

Curiosités littéraires, études singuliéres, lettres inedites, dissertations bibliographiques, comptes rendus de livres nouveau, d'événements bibliophiliques, d'enchères à sensation ...

Le Folk-Lore de la France

Autor: Paul Sébillot

Número de Páginas: 823

BnF collection ebooks - "La nature du ciel, considéré dans son ensemble, c'est-à-dire comme l'enveloppe du monde et de l'espace où brillent les astres, tient une petite place dans les préoccupations actuelles des paysans, et même des marins. S'ils remarquent ses aspects pour en tirer des prévisions météorologiques, leur curiosité va rarement plus loin ..."

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

Autor: Library Of Congress , American Library Association. Committee On Resources Of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee

Número de Páginas: 712

Zeta

Número de Páginas: 900

Conway and Coolidge's Climbers' Guides

Número de Páginas: 416

Twenty-Eighth International Congress on Large Dams/Vingt-Huitième Congrès International des Grands Barrages

Autor: Icold / Cigb

Número de Páginas: 2761

The International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) held its 28th International Congress in Chengdu, China (16 May – 23 May 2025). The proceedings of the congress focussed on four main questions (Questions108-111): 1. Dams and reservoirs for climate change adaptation; 2. Dams and levees fit for the future; 3. Safety of dams and levees facing extreme hydrological events, and 4. Earthquake performance and safety of dams. The book thoroughly discusses these questions and is indispensable for academics, engineers and professionals involved or interested in engineering, hydraulic engineering, and related disciplines. La Commission Internationale des Grands Barrages (CIGB) a tenu son 28e Congrès International à Chengdu, Chine (16 mai - 23 mai 2025). Les actes du congrès portent sur quatre questions (Questions 108-111) principales : 1. Barrages et réservoirs: adaptation aux changements climatiques; 2. Des barrages et des digues prêts pour l’avenir; 3. Sécurité des barrages et des digues lors des évènements météorologiques extrêmes, et 4. Performance sismique et sécurité des barrages. Le livre traite en profondeur de ces questions et est indispensable pour les...

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italy

Número de Páginas: 674

The DK Eyewitness Italy Travel Guide is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns. The new-look guide is also packed with photographs and illustrations leading you straight to the best attractions on offer. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel guide will help you to discover everything region-by-region; from local festivals and markets to day trips around the countryside. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars and shops for all budgets, whilst detailed practical information will help you to get around, whether by train, bus or car. Plus, DK's excellent insider tips and essential local information will help you explore every corner of Italy effortlessly. DK Eyewitness Italy Travel Guide - showing you what others only tell you. Now available in PDF format.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Italy

Autor: Dk

Número de Páginas: 674

Discover the best places to visit in Italy with the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italy 2017, your indispensable companion to this diverse country. The best things to do in Italy - from taking a gondola ride down Venice's Grand Canal, to exploring the porticoed medieval streets of Bologna or marvelling at the treasures displayed at Florence's Uffi zi gallery - are showcased with fantastic photography, illustrations and detailed descriptions. In-depth reviews of shops, restaurants and hotels, plus detailed information from expert insiders, including food and wine guides for each area, will help you plan the perfect trip. Winner of the Top Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards 2017.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Italy

Autor: Dk Travel

Número de Páginas: 674

Discover the best places to visit in Italy with the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Italy 2018, your indispensable companion to this diverse country. The best things to do in Italy - from taking a gondola ride down Venice's Grand Canal, to exploring the porticoed medieval streets of Bologna or marvelling at the treasures displayed at Florence's Uffizi gallery - are showcased with fantastic photography, illustrations and detailed descriptions. In-depth reviews of shops, restaurants and hotels, plus detailed information from expert insiders, including food and wine guides for each area, will help you plan the perfect trip.

Sonic Life

Autor: Thurston Moore

Número de Páginas: 656

A Sunday Times, Times, Irish Times and Mojo Book of the Year Rough Trade #1 Book of the Year Resident Music #1 Book of the Year 'Were you there? Well this is as close as it gets! Thurston Moore's compelling and spirited account of the streets, the songs, the clothes, the clubs and the contenders! A sensitive and authentic testimony to Moore's life lived through art and music. Beats with the heart of a true artist and mutineer.' Viv Albertine 'Downtown scientists rejoice! For Thurston Moore has unearthed the missing links, the sacred texts, the forgotten stories, and the secret maps of the lost golden age. This is history-scuffed, slightly bent, plenty noisy, and indispensable.' Colson Whitehead A music-obsessed retrospective, beginning with his childhood epiphany of rock 'n' roll in the early 1960s into an infatuation with the subversive world of 1970s punk and no wave blasting forth from New York City - where he eventually runs off to join a band in 1978. By 1981 Moore would form the legendary and notorious experimental rock group Sonic Youth, who proceeded to record and tour relentlessly for almost 30 years, always progressing, always exploring. Along the way we meet a...

Decline of the U.S. Hegemony?

Autor: Bruce M. Bagley , Magdalena Defort

Número de Páginas: 461

This book analyzes ALBA’s structure and dynamics, its practicality, its medium and long-term sustainability, and its capacity to influence regional and international affairs. The work examines ALBA’s possible economic and security consequences for neighboring non-member states in the region, particularly the United States, as well as other key actors such as China, Russia, and Iran. The volume analyzes the origins, ideological orientation, structure, internal dynamics, and evolution of the ALBA initiative and its regional and international implications during its first decade of existence. It is the first comprehensive work on the subject with a multi-disciplinary perspective and it provides an analysis of the new regional, Bolivarian Alliance initiative in Latin America and its relation to the international system. The volume includes studies on the Bolivarian Alliance and Chavismo under Hugo Chávez Frías’ leadership. As a whole, this volume weaves together such crucial issues as oil politics, drug-trafficking, hemispheric security, and trade.

The Seventh Heaven

Autor: Ilan Stavans

Número de Páginas: 418

Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher Columbus’s arrival. In the tradition of V.S. Naipaul’s explorations of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab World, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aires, to “Indian Jews,” and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of “secret Jews,” and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Along the way, he looks for the proverbial “seventh heaven,” which, according to the Talmud, out of proximity with the divine, the meaning of life in general, and Jewish life in particular, becomes clearer. The Seventh Heaven is a masterful work in Stavans’s ongoing quest to find a convergence between the personal and the historical.

Proceedings of the Conference in Honour of Murray Gell-Mann's 80th Birthday

Autor: H. Fritzsch

Número de Páginas: 730

The Conference on Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Cosmology and Complexity was held in honour of Professor Murray Gell-Mann''s 80th birthday in Singapore on 24-26 February 2010. The conference paid tribute to Professor Gell-Mann''s great achievements in the elementary particle physics. This notable birthday volume contains the presentations made at the conference by many eminent scientists, including Nobel laureates C N Yang, G ''t Hooft and K Wilson. Other invited speakers include G Zweig, N Samios, M Karliner, G Karl, M Shifman, J Ellis, S Adler and A Zichichi.

Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution

Autor: Richard Gott

Número de Páginas: 385

The authoritative first-hand account of contemporary Venezuela, Hugo Chávez places the country’s controversial and charismatic president in historical perspective, and examines his plans and programs. Welcomed in 1999 by the inhabitants of the teeming shanty towns of Caracas as their potential savior, and greeted by Washington with considerable alarm, this former golpista-turned-democrat took up the aims and ambitions of Venezuela’s liberator, Simón Bolívar. Now in office for over a decade, President Chávez has undertaken the most wide-ranging transformation of oil-rich Venezuela for half a century, and dramatically affected the political debate throughout Latin America. In this updated edition, Richard Gott reflects on the achievements of the Bolivarian revolution, and the challenges that lie ahead.

Mountain Higher

Autor: Daniel Friebe , Pete Goding

Número de Páginas: 224

The hidden gems of Europe's best roads and passes, from the authors of the hugely successful Mountain High. Following the success of Mountain High: Europe's Greatest Cycle Climbs comes a volume focusing on the continent's lesser-known, challenging and spectacular mountain roads and passes. From the heights of the Ötztal Glacier Road in Austria to the 'secret' side of the legendary Alpe d'Huez, Mountain Higher: Europe's Extreme, Undiscovered and Unforgettable Cycle Climbs explores 50 soon-to-be cult locations and captures stunning scenery from off the beaten track. Featuring the technical details (maps, profiles, lengths, heights) that made Mountain High an indispensable reference book, as well as dynamic descriptions of the routes themselves and Pete Goding's breathtaking photography, this book is a stylish and practical guide to the hidden gems that every true cycling enthusiast needs to know about.