Catálogo de libros: Literatura y estudios literarios

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  • Communication Technology for Students in Special Education and Gifted Programs
    Communication technology provides new opportunities for individuals with special needs, facilitating assistive communication, increasing mobility, offering a different model of engagement, and allowing new forms of exploration. However, many people learn about these new technologies haphazardly through teachers, social workers, therapists, and networks of people who have simila...
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    256,19 €

  • A Rugged Nation
    Marco Armiero
    Landscape, politics and history: the Italian mountains as a crucible of national and natural identity.This book is part of a wider current in environmental history, that explores the links between nature and nation. It uncovers how Italian identity and mountains have constituted one another. It argues that state regimes since unification in 1861 have made mountains into nationa...
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    92,22 €

  • identity Who Are You?
    Jr. Russell D. Blackman
    Identity is to know that you are in the will of God. There is a place in God that will cause you and I to cry Holy, Holy, Holy, if we just press into the realm of our true identity. Learn your true identity! In this insightful book, Russell D. Blackman, Jr. gives you a clear path to learning who you are, and the power you possess by knowing it. This book will change the way you...
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    8,73 €

  • Dreaming of Kaleidoscopes
    Chris Wind
    Poetry from the poet’s late teens in the 1970s to her early thirties in the 1990s-sensitive, passionate, and most of all, illuminating.   scabs and scars blowing across the snowstanding on a cliffin a silent blizzard crumblingand dreaming of kaleidoscopesall of the pieces always fit'dreaming of kaleidoscopes is a top pick of poetry and is very much worth considering.' Midwe...
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    12,03 €

  • Bonded by Blood
    Cash
    From her deathbed, where HIV is choking away her last breaths, Black Girl, an infamous ex-prostitute of Atlanta's Auburn Avenue 'ho stroll, exacts two promises from her three young teen-aged sons, Khalil, B-Man, and Quantavious. She does not try to fool herself that the boys will be anything but hustlers. Hustling is in their blood from both ends, hers and her father...
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    29,17 €

  • Basotho Oral Poetry At the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century
    William Moruti Tsiu
    This book contains a major research into, and deep investigation of Basotho language oral poetry in Lesotho at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The classical form, the dithoko, which was inspired by tribal wars or battles fought by the Basotho, is explored fully, but the absence of wars, and urbanisation with the economic and social imperatives of modernism, have insp...
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    43,16 €

  • Dumped
    John W. Reaves
    Dumped is a coming of age novel set in Florida from 1944 to 1952. Lying in bed at night, Billy struggles to picture his mother's face, but can only envision her back as she walks away. With only the love and compassion of his grandmother's maid to support him, Billy is forced to find any way possible to survive abandonment, abuse, and unimaginable cruelty until an unexpected ev...
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    16,62 €

  • Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic
    Amy Horowitz
    The relocation of North African and Middle Eastern Jews to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s brought together communities from Egypt, Iraq, Kurdistan, Yemen, and many other Islamic countries, as well as their unique music styles. In the unstable, improvisatory spaces of transit camps, development towns, and poor neighborhoods, they created a new pan-ethnic Mizrahi identity and a ho...
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    46,99 €

  • Educational Gameplay and Simulation Environments
    Games and simulations are not only a rapidly growing source of entertainment in today’s world; they are also quite beneficial. They enable players to develop quick-reaction and motor skills, engage cognitive processes, and interact with peers around the globe, thereby enhancing social skills. However, as a result of the rise of games and simulations, educators are struggling to...
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    236,93 €

  • Questions of Fire
    Greg Mosson
    Questions of Fire is a poet's response to the complex 21st century environment, from work to home to war, in an age dawning with violence. This book offers not quick solutions to dilemmas, but discoveries won through experience, and illuminating observations of contemporary life. Meditation on Washington D.C. in April 2003 During the war, winter thawed in a ...
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    13,93 €

  • In the Beginning
    Michael Lienesch
    The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States. In the Beginning investigates the movement that has ignited debate in state legislatures and at school board meetings. Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion of int...
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    47,60 €

  • The Grandmother Poems
    Marcia Katz Wolf
    Marcia Katz Wolf's The Grandmother Poems operates at the fulcrum of her family's history. Some of the poems concern her parents after World War II, inscrutably altered by the Holocaust - her mother fresh from a nose job, 'Queen Celeste with her trunk cut off;' her father in the cellar darkroom, 'his hands rising ghostly from the developing fluid / retrieving something I could ...
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    13,58 €

  • The Great Hunger
    Karen Douglass
    'It's my job to remember things I never saw,' Karen Douglass says in one poem, and she does - remember and see through the imagination's eye. In beautifully detailed poems, succinct and meditative at once, she shows us food as delight and weapon, necessity and art, gift and punishment. The many dynamics of hunger, both physical and spiritual, what we need to be nourished and to...
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    13,58 €

  • Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica
    Valerius Flaccus / Michael Barich
    Swollen seas, erotic monsters, Greek passion gone Latin, deftlyThis 1st-century AD Latin version of the earlier Greek epic features exotic lands, wondrous monsters and a sea voyage over swells of young love. Valerius Flaccus lent sharp Roman refinements and erotic passion to the tale, which are skillfully sustained in this careful and appealing modern translation in English ver...
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    19,29 €

  • They Speak of Fruit
    Gary McDowell
    Gary McDowell's 2009 chapbook is a collection of construction, destruction, and how the things of this world are born and ash away. This chap has poems which originally appeared in such wonderful journals as New England Review, Anti-, Copper Nickel, Bat City Review and others. ...
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    9,25 €

  • Color
    Kenneth A. McClane / Kenneth AMcClane
    In 1991, acclaimed poet Kenneth A. McClane published Walls: Essays, 1985-1990, a volume of essays dealing with life in Harlem, the death of his alcoholic brother, and the complexities of being black and middle-class in America. Now, in Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History, McClane contributes further to his self-described 'autobiographical sojourn' with a second collectio...
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    28,20 €

  • Beautiful Feet
    Kathryn M. Graves
    Enjoy a spiritually refreshing stay at the spa . . . What woman doesn't benefit from the cleansing refreshment of a pedicure--a treat for the feet that not only beautifies but rejuvenates as well? Popular women's retreat speaker Kathryn Graves contends that learning to have a power-filled prayer life can do for the spirit what an appointment at the spa does for a woman's ove...
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    15,63 €

  • Wordsworth's Political Writings
    This compilation by Richard Gravil of texts edited by W J B Owen and J W Smyser presents the four major political texts in Wordsworth’s prose oeuvre and illustrates both the detail of the poet’s political grasp, and the remarkable swerves he made between 1793 and 1835. The first text, A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (1793) is severely Jacobinical. Had Wordsworth published it...
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    25,27 €

  • The Colemans
    Glenn Rogers
    The Colemans saga continues in Book 3, The Kinfe. With Caleb in jail sentenced to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, Zack is on his own in his quest to find the truth and save his brother. ...
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    18,73 €

  • Church of the Holy Spirit, The
    Nicholas Afanasiev / Vitaly Permiakov
    The Church of the Holy Spirit, written by Russian priest and scholar Nicholas Afanasiev (1893-1966), is one of the most important works of twentieth-century Orthodox theology. Afanasiev was a member of the 'Paris School' of émigré intellectuals who gathered in Paris after the Russian revolution, where he became a member of the faculty of St. Sergius Orthodox Seminary. The Churc...
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    179,55 €

  • Down to the Quick
    Nancy Scott
    From the battles for civil rights and equal rights, to war and its aftermath, to the enduring tragedies of drugs, racism, poverty and disease that play out daily in American cities, to the interior dramas of her life, Nancy Scott opens our eyes through the compassionate lens of her poetry. With a deceptively stoical tone, Down to the Quick reveals a sharp-eyed poet's sensibilit...
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    12,22 €

  • Tracing the Essay
    G. Douglas Atkins
    The essay, as a notably hard form of writing to pin down, has inspired some unflattering descriptions: It is a greased pig, for example, or a pair of baggy pants into which nearly anything and everything can fit. In Tracing the Essay, G. Douglas Atkins embraces the very qualities that have moved others to accord the essay second-class citizenship in the world of letters.Drawing...
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    30,56 €

  • So Great a Salvation
    Ron Partain
    This book reveals a revelation of God the Father as well as Heaven and Hell. It leads right into end time events. Concluding it’s writing, eighttornados ravaged the USA in ways, which says, take note of this compelling book! ...
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    20,32 €

  • Ponder and Pray
    Victor A. Shepherd
    In an age with so many distractions it is not enough to tell Christians they should pray. Most of us need help. Our prayer life needs rails to run on. Our Scripture reading needs to be structured. In Ponder and Pray Victor Shepherd offers us seven weeks of biblical, thought-provoking and relevant devotions. Appropriate for any season of the year, this book is a helpful resourc...
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    11,03 €

  • The Yellow Wallpaper
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental....
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    5,26 €

  • HEARTcore
    Antar Muhammad
    Leadership and servitude can be both rewarding and fulfilling. Both can be quite demanding of you, emotionally, mentally and sometimes physically; however, the thing that is required to be effective at either is HEART! In this book, you will be able to take what is in your HEART and cultivate it to become more effective in your service and leadership role. Neither longevity nor...
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    10,86 €

  • Peripheral Vision
    Martin Dolan
    The main obsession was, and remains, with that moment when we know beyond doubt that something significant has changed, but we are not yet sure exactly what it is. For me, that is the lyric moment —and one that should stand alone, without further explanation. 3 ...
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    10,84 €

  • Reading 5X5
    Meryl Stenhouse
    Five stories, five times    Five science fiction and fantasy themes, each explored five times by five different authors.    Twenty-five great authors demonstrating just how varied and interesting SF&F can be, and how each author's style and approach make all the difference. Contents Contemporary Fantasy Dreaming in Other Colours — Meryl Stenhouse Letters to the Eart...
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    13,88 €

  • Speaking In Tears
    Grace Andren
    "Memories saturate my heart and the story of you spills from my eyes."Speaking In Tears is the poetic journey of a heartbroken mother to find the Poetry in Grief and the Beauty in Sorrow as she mourns the death of her young daughter.Our tears speak for themselves and in a language we can all decipher—Joy, Sorrow, Anger, and Love—no interpretation is needed for their presence or...
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    24,00 €

  • Black Magic Women
    Crystal Connor / Nicole Givens Kurtz
    Imagine horror where black characters aren’t all tropes and the first to die; imagine a world written by black sisters where black women and femmes are in the starring roles. From flesh-eating plants to flesh-eating bees; zombies to vampires to vampire-eating vampire hunters; ghosts, revenants, witches and werewolves, this book has it all. Cursed drums, cursed dolls, cursed pal...
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    10,41 €


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