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El violento Far-West y sus armas

Autor: Miguel Ángel Navarro Crego

Número de Páginas: 580

Esta obra nos presenta cómo fue la violenta conquista del Oeste. El Far-West representa la esencia de lo que desde su inicio fue Estados Unidos, pues su naturaleza y su carácter amalgama muchas de las peculiaridades identitarias, aspiraciones y contradicciones que hay en el origen de esta nación. Centrándose en las armas utilizadas y su desarrollo, en algunos personajes históricos notables que hicieron uso de ellas, en los hechos y en los mitos creados principalmente por la cinematografía, el autor nos devela no solo la historia, sino también la negra intrahistoria de los Estados Unidos, del Far-West, que ha quedado blanqueada posteriormente a través del wéstern.

Life So Far

Autor: Betty Friedan

Número de Páginas: 404

At last Betty Friedan herself speaks about her life and career. With the same unsparing frankness that made The Feminine Mystique one of the most influential books of our era, Friedan looks back and tells us what it took -- and what it cost -- to change the world. Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, started the women's movement it sold more than four million copies and was recently named one of the one hundred most important books of the century. In Life So Far, Friedan takes us on an intimate journey through her life -- a lonely childhood in Peoria, Illinois salvation at Smith College her days as a labor reporter for a union newspaper in New York (from which she was dismissed when she became pregnant) unfulfilling and painful years as a suburban housewife finding great joy as a mother and writing The Feminine Mystique, which grew out of a survey of her Smith classmates and started it all. Friedan chronicles the secret underground of women in Washington, D.C., who drafted her in the early 1960s to spearhead an "NAACP" for women, and recounts the courage of many, including some Catholic nuns who played a brave part in those early days of NOW, the National...

El far de Løndstrup

Autor: Antoni Martí Monterde

Número de Páginas: 189

Guardonat amb el Premi d'Assaig «Càtedra Blasco», el punt de partida d'aquest llibre és una reflexió sobre la relació entre l'escriptura (el relat, l'assaig autobiogràfic) i el seu entorn físic. Des d'aquesta consciència de l'espai, que implica consideracions també sobre el paisatge i el desplaçament -viatge, migració, exili, la mirada del flàneur-, es mostra com la possibilitat d'escriure un relat autobiogràfic és transformada per la intensificació de la relació amb un entorn concret, amb els llocs. Des d'aquest prisma altament revelador i original, s'analitzen aspectes de l'obra d'autors com Patrick Modiano, Josep Pla, Marcel Proust, Xavier de Maistre, Goethe, Walter Benjamin, Joseph Brodsky o W.G. Sebald. Un viatge a la cruïlla entre paisatge i literatura, entre autobiografia i història, a les fonts d'on raja la memòria moral dels espais.

The Far-Right in World Politics

Autor: Alexander Anievas , Richard Saull

Número de Páginas: 160

This book addresses the reasons why the contemporary far-right has gained political resonance in a variety of states across both the Global North and South. The rise of far-right forms of politics in recent years throughout a range of geopolitical locales suggests the emergence of a distinct conjuncture in world politics, indicating a common set of enabling conditions and characteristics. It is this unprecedented context in the history of the post-war liberal international order that this edited volume aims to address. In doing so, it brings together a diverse range of scholars, many of whom have developed an internationally recognized expertise in the study of the far-right and International Relations (IR). Reflecting a plurality of methodological and theoretical perspectives, the chapters cover a variety of theoretical and conceptual issues, including analyses of different geopolitical and national expressions of the contemporary far-right. Notwithstanding such diversity, the primary analytical focus of the book is to situate and explain the far-right as a distinct part of the history of modern international relations especially with respect to the development of and crises...

FAR Horizons

Número de Páginas: 164

Far-flung Lines

Autor: Greg Kennedy , Keith Neilson

Número de Páginas: 236

These studies show how the British Empire used its maritime supremacy to construct and maintain a worldwide defence for its imperial interests. They rebut the idea that British defence policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was primarily concerned with the balance of power in Europe.

The Far Northeast

Autor: Kenneth R. Holyoke , M. Gabriel Hrynick

Número de Páginas: 648

The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact is the first volume to synthesize archaeological research from across Atlantic Canada and northern New England for the period spanning from 3000 years ago to European contact. Recently, notions of the “Woodland period” in the broader Northeast have drawn scrutiny from experts due to increasing awareness that its hallmarks—such as horticulture, village formation, mortuary ceremonialism, and the advent of various technologies—appear to be less synchronous than once thought. By paying particular attention to the Far Northeast and its unique (yet sometimes marginal) position in Woodland discourse, this work offers a much-needed in-depth look at one of the best-documented cases of hunter-gatherer persistence and adaptation at the eve of European contact. Penned by academic, government, and cultural-resource-management archaeologists, the seventeen chapters in The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact draw on decades of research in considering this period, both in terms of variability within the region, and integration with broader cultural patterns in the Northeast and beyond.

Joyce Wieland's The Far Shore

Autor: Johanne Sloan

Número de Páginas: 145

The Far Shore (1976), made under the direction of celebrated visual artist and experimental filmmaker Joyce Wieland, is one of Canada's most innovative contributions to cinema. The film borrows elements from the life of Canadian painter Tom Thomson, who is represented by the character of Tom McLeod. The main character, however, is not Tom, but the fictional creation of Eulalie de Chicoutimi, the married Québécoise woman who loves him. Using Eulalie's perspective, Wieland was able to re-frame Thomson's life and story as a romantic melodrama while infusing it with subversive commentary on gender, nature and nationalism, and ultimately, on the value of art. Here, Wieland specialist Johanne Sloan offers a fascinating new perspective on The Far Shore, making it more accessible by discussing Wieland's utopian fusion of art and politics, the importance of landscape within Canadian culture, and the on-going struggle over the meaning of the natural environment.

The Far Left: Killing American Capitalism and Raising of Socialism with More Enslavement of the Citizenry

Autor: Gaines Bradford Jackson Bs Ms Drph

Número de Páginas: 115

This book was written to inform the reader that a few selected far left ideas of today’s Democratic Political Party is simply poison for America or any nation for that matter. As it leads to mass demonstrations and active shooter situations that are horrible in today’s society – in the mind of the author. Hopefully the reading of this book will turn one’s mind away from the far left back to the moderate right and rational sanity, smaller Federal government, and peace and tranquility for the American people.

Seven excellent new songs. Viz.-Sae far awa' [&c.].

Autor: Seven Excellent New Songs

United States Policy in the Far East

Autor: United States. Congress. House. Committee On Foreign Affairs

Número de Páginas: 560

Not Far Enough

Número de Páginas: 42

In 1904, a woman was arrested on Fifth Avenue for smoking a cigarette, while a procession of bemused smoking males passed by unharassed. For the next 50 years, with the creative encouragement of the emerging giants of the cigarette industry, the right to smoke became a symbol of women's liberation and equality. That liberation came at a terrible price. As the lung cancer rate for women soared, passing breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer in women in 1985, women achieved a grisly equality. On February 4, 1987, a group of women leaders active both in public health and in a wide diversity of women's organizations-gathered together in Washington to take stock of the common effort. A series of papers-on smoking's role in women's disease and death, on women's smoking behavior, on the role of the tobacco industry-set the stage for an intensive effort by the participants, working in small groups, to hammer out together an agenda of strategies to combat smoking among women. The highlights of those papers, and a synthesis of the most favored strategies, form the body of this report. For 50 years, smoking reigned as a symbol of women's freedom. Now we know that smoking only...

Far Frontiers Ironside

Autor: Philip Warnes

Número de Páginas: 20

Far Frontiers Ironside is an abbreviated world supplement for you to drop into a science fiction interstellar spanning campaign setting. Ironside is a human populated water world with a pacific flavour. It contains a full colour world map of the main world and its largest moon, details of the characteristics of the world, its people, culture, general history and provides maps of the main island groups. Use this supplement to add some detail to your campaign with another world that adds some colour to the travels of your adventurers through the vastness of space. This supplement is suitable for use with Traveller, Space Opera, Star Wars, Star Trek, FSpaceRPG and a myriad of other scifi settings. Written by a long standing fan of the Traveller RICE paper concept. For more details about how this world might fit into specific game campaign settings, check out the various For Use With articles for this product at the FSpaceRPG.com website.

U.S. Policy in the Far East: U.S. policy and Japan. The Korean War and peace negotiations. South Asian and related problems

Autor: United States. Congress. House. Committee On Foreign Affairs

Número de Páginas: 414

Over the Hills and Far Away

Autor: Ian Colquhoun

Número de Páginas: 188

Fascinating tales of ordinary soldiers who have served since World War Two. 50% of all author royalties go to the Poppy Appeal.

Over the Hills and Far Away

Autor: Rob Collister

Número de Páginas: 293

'The whole trail has been orchestrated to make it possible for each one of us, in different ways, to be "touched" by wilderness' Over the Hills and Far Away is a collection of essays that demonstrates Rob Collister's thirty-year experience in mountaineering. From solo climbing in the hills of the Carneddau in Wales, to small group expeditions to Carn Etchachan, Forbes ridge and Grosshorn, Rob Collister can be found in the hills, whether it be running, climbing or skiing, inspired by the words of H.W. Tilman and Henry David Thoreau. This collection of essays tackles the theme of self-sufficient small group expeditions compared to the organised larger-sized ones, as well as displaying the timeless subject of litter disposal in summits by a fresh invasion of the mountains in Snowdonia and the conservation of the wilderness by the creation of schools such as Wilderness Leadership School. His sense of adventure is shown through his words and passionate descriptions, climbing out of conditions and finding a challenge in Alpine climbing. In Over Hills and Far Away we understand the importance of nature and appreciation of it. This book will expand your knowledge of modern world issues...

Life in the Far West

Autor: Ruxton

Número de Páginas: 312

Enough to Say It's Far

Autor: Chaesam Pak

Número de Páginas: 171

This is the first English translation of selected poems by one of the most important and unusual modern poets of South Korea. In contrast to the strident political protests found in the poetry of many of his contemporaries, Pak Chaesam's work is characterized by intimate portraits of place, nature, childhood, and human relationships, and by indirection, nostalgia, and reflectiveness. Often focused upon the border of this world and some other, Pak writes with a spareness of presentation but a cornucopia of imagery, meticulously exploring objective and subjective realms of existence and memory. Encouraging the reader to see and listen, and to allow the sensory to reshape the analytical, Pak's poetry opens up new realms of experience. A fellow Korean poet described Pak's poetry as being "the most exquisite expression of the Korean sense of han," or melancholy.

Cerca Y Lejos/Near and Far

Autor: Tami Johnson

Número de Páginas: 18

"Simple text and color photographs introduce basic concepts of near and far--in both English and Spanish"--Provided by publisher.

A Study Guide for Thomas Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd"

Autor: Gale, Cengage Learning

Número de Páginas: 31

A Study Guide for Thomas Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Employment and Cost of Living for Americans in the Far East. 1927

Autor: United States. Foreign And Domestic Commerce Bureau

Número de Páginas: 40

“IL DOLCE FAR NIENTE”

Autor: Irais Romero Rios

Número de Páginas: 31

Un suspiro exquisito para el corazòn.

Far Away Is Here. Lejos es aquí

Autor: Luigi Giuliani , Leonarda Trapassi , Javier Martos

Número de Páginas: 410

Far Away Is Here/Lejos es aquí ofrece miradas cruzadas sobre los fenómenos de escritura que radican en las migraciones contemporáneas. En las secciones del volumen –Taxonomías y ontologías, Imágenes, Diásporas, Lenguas– se presentan cuestiones teóricas y case studies sobre la escritura migratoria tanto en países tradicionalmente receptores (EE. UU. y Canadá), como en antiguas potencias coloniales (Francia y Reino Unido), en actuales gigantes económicos (Alemania) o en naciones que han pasado de ser países de inmigración a países de emigración (Argentina) o a la inversa (España, Italia, Portugal). Allí viven los escritores cuya producción suele encasillarse como ethnic literature, ‘literatura migrante’, littérature-monde, Interkulturelle Literatur y que aquí se considera desde una perspectiva comparatista.

En las Fronteras del Far-West

Autor: Emilio Salgari

Número de Páginas: 170

—¡Nos espera una mala noche, muchachos! —dijo poco antes de ponerse el sol el coronel Devandel, a quien el Gobierno americano había mandado con gran premura al frente de cincuenta hombres apenas a perseguir a los cowboys en las montañas de Laramie—. ¡Mucha vigilancia o, de lo contrario, los indios aprovecharán la ocasión para atravesar la garganta del Funeral! El bravo soldado, que había conquistado sus galones primero en la guerra contra Méjico y después peleando denodadamente en las fronteras del Far- West contra los indómitos pieles rojas, no se engañaba en sus predicciones. Las altas cimas de las montañas que se extienden entre los confines meridionales del Wyoming y los septentrionales del Colorado habíanse cubierto de densas nubes, y el trueno no tardó en hacer oír su voz poderosa. A los pocos instantes comenzó a caer sobre el campamento una lluvia torrencial, que obligó a los centinelas a replegarse más que de prisa hacia los furgones dispuestos en cruz de San Andrés para defender las tiendas de una sorpresa probable. Sólo los soldados jóvenes, que hasta pocos días antes habían estado dedicados a recorrer praderas y que se hallaban, por tanto,...

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge

Número de Páginas: 604

El señor de Far Island

Autor: Victoria Holt

Número de Páginas: 285

Una isla salvaje en la costa inglesa. Una joven en busca de respuestas. Un oscuro secreto familiar. Descubre este clásico del suspense romántico de Victoria Holt. Cuando Ellen Kellaway recibió la carta de Far Island, estaba pasando por un momento crucial en su vida. Se encontraba abatida y hundida en la incertidumbre a raíz del suicidio de su prometido. Nadie le había hablado de aquel lugar, el hogar de su padre, que se encontraba en la costa salvaje de Cornualles. Ha aceptado la misteriosa invitación de Jago Kellaway, el señor de Far Island, y ha emprendido el viaje a aquella isla... la misma de la que había huido su madre. Poco a poco irá desvelando los secretos de su pasado hasta que, al fin, conocerá el sentido del sueño que la ha atormentado toda su vida... Pero ¿era una promesa de felicidad o, quizá, una siniestra premonición? Reseñas: «Consigue mantener el interés del lector hasta el final, con unos protagonistas que atrapan y secundarios estupendamente descritos. Sobre todo, con un cierre emocionante que no te esperas.» Teresa en rnovelaromantica.com «En este libro el romance se mezcla con el misterio. Desde la primera página Ellen te atrapa con su...