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Red Social (Hardcover)
Alejandro Garcia-Lemos, Cynthia Boiter
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R780
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About Red Social Red Social by Alejandro Garcia-Lemos and Cynthia
Boiter is a visual and literary art book that evolved from a 2012
art exhibition of work by Garcia-Lemos at the Goodall Gallery at
Columbia College in Columbia, SC. The title of the book and
exhibition, Red Social, translates to Social Network in
Garcia-Lemos's native Spanish. As he approached this body of work,
which is made up of 24 unique portraits, Garcia-Lemos who is a
native of Bogota, Colombia, focused on relationship-building and
the community of fellow artists and arts lovers he had become
enmeshed in in his new home of Columbia, SC. The sitters for each
portrait, almost all of whom were close members of his newly formed
community, were asked to bring symbolic icons for their sitting and
many went so far as to collaborate on their specific portraits.
(Several fellow-artists made actual artistic contributions to their
portraits.) "The creative space that opened during these sessions
provided an atmosphere of candor which mimicked that of the
therapist," the artist says. "I came to realize the importance of a
comfort level between the artist and subject and I chose people who
have been supportive of me and are truly friends and family." Once
the series was complete and had been exhibited, Garcia-Lemos hoped
to continue in the collaborative spirit so he approached local
writer and editor, Cynthia Boiter. It was his idea to have Boiter
create short fictional stories about the characters in the
portraits-whether she was personally familiar with the characters
or not-based on nothing but the title of the portrait and the
various icons represented. Boiter says that, "Many of the friends
about whom I wrote had to become strangers before they could become
subjects about whose inner lives-their worries, fantasies, and
insecurities-I could write. But as unconnected as these stories are
to the portrait models who inspired them, they are still real
stories, I'm sure, that belong to someone else out there." The
result is a fascinating reverse-process of illustration. Based upon
Garcia-Lemos's paintings, Boiter uses fiction to illustrate the
portrait subjects. Each piece of short fiction-few are over 250
words in length-tells the tale of a unique individual with subject
matters ranging from love to loss to issues of gender roles, new
roles, and throwing off the roles society attempts to impose upon
all of us.
HIV Affected and Vulnerable Youth: Prevention Issues and Approaches
provides suggestions for support of vulnerable youth who must face
chronic disease or death, poverty, drug abuse, and racism, as well
as the tribulations that accompany adolescence. Social workers,
case managers, psychologists, and nurses who work with HIV-affected
and vulnerable youth and their families will find unique
recommendations on how to assist these individuals in resisting
risky behaviors. This unique collection of research studies expands
on the current knowledge while informing us of how much more there
is to be learned. This informative book will enlighten you about
the children and mothers who are most likely to be affected by the
HIV disease, the poor people of color living in substandard housing
who are subjected to discrimination and social isolation. The
multiple losses experienced by these women and children because of
infection, crime, and substance abuse are included in this valuable
book but most importantly you will discover how you can alleviate
some of the stresses caused by these losses. Through HIV Affected
and Vulnerable Youth, you will discover multiple ways to
successfully help the adolescents in your practice deal with the
challenges inherent to HIV, economic hardships, and substance
abuse.Comprehensive and intelligent, this important book will help
you address the needs of HIV-affected children or families with
humanity, sensitivity, and ethnically sensitive interventions. With
HIV Affected and Vulnerable Youth, you will find unique
interventions to help the youth and family in your community by:
discovering how facing the mortality of an HIV-infected family
member has profound psychological effects on a child or adolescent
and how you can help ease this crisis for your clients
understanding why many youth who must cope with the eminent death
of a family member deal with this crisis by engaging in risky
behaviors which may result in HIV infection for themselves
realizing that the lack of education about HIV, how it is
transmitted, and how to prevent transmission may be part of the
problem for high-risk youth learning how some HIV-positive children
exhibit stable functioning and resilience in coping with their
health, but have difficulties exhibiting the same stability in
other aspects of their lives realizing that the social stigma
surrounding HIV has not lost its intensity and that this stigma is
a part of the everyday reality for HIV-affected children and their
families HIV Affected and Vulnerable Youth: Prevention Issues and
Approaches brings to light the daily heartache and struggles of
HIV-affected children and their families. The day-to-day challenges
of families and youths due to HIV-infection, crime, substance
abuse, and sometimes where and how they live pose problems to the
well-being of these individuals and are significant obstacles to
mental-health therapy and health care services. This helpful book
offers you several intervention techniques in order to improve the
lives of HIV-affected individuals and families in your community.
This book is the outcome of more than a decade of research and
technical development activities at Spain's Geological Survey
(IGME) concerning shallow geothermal energy, which were pursued in
collaboration with other public bodies and European entities. It
presents a compilation of papers on the theoretical foundations of,
and practical aspects needed to understand the thermal regime of
the topmost subsoil, up to 400 m deep, and the exceptional
properties that this underground environment offers, which make it
the ideal thermal reservoir for heating, ventilation, and air
conditioning (HVAC). In the book's first section, the basic theory
of thermodynamics as applied to shallow geothermal energy, heat
transfer and fluid mechanics in the geological porous medium is
developed. The nature of the subsoil's thermal regime in general
and in the urban environment in particular is described. The second
section introduces readers to the fundamental aspects of thermal
installations equipped with geothermal heat pumps, describes the
types of geothermal exchangers most commonly used, and reviews the
techniques used to obtain the thermal parameters of the terrain. It
also discusses the potential environmental impacts of shallow
geothermal activity and corresponding management strategies, as
well as the legal aspects of its regulation for the governance of
shallow geothermal resources in the EU in general and Spain in
particular. In closing, the book highlights examples of the
methodologies' applications, developed by IGME in the city of
Zaragoza and the Canary Islands. The theoretical foundations,
systematics and concrete applications make the book a valuable
reference source for hydrogeologists, engineers and specialized
technicians alike.
This book explains how Genoese entrepreneurs transformed the
structures of global trade during the second half of the
seventeenth century. The author reconstructs the business network
built by the Genoese merchant Domenico Grillo between the 1650s and
the 1680s. Grillo's business interests stretched from the
Mediterranean to Pacific South America, traversing and joining the
Spanish, Dutch, and English Atlantics. He and his associates
created a new business model that was to be emulated by Dutch,
French, and English traders in subsequent decades: the monopolistic
asientos for the exploitation of the trans-imperial and
intra-American slave trade to Spanish America. Offering a connected
history of capitalism across trans-continental geographies and
different empires, this book challenges established views of a
period which has traditionally been interrogated from a northern
European mercantile perspective. Cutting across the histories of
the slave trade in the Atlantic world, early modern capitalism, and
early modern empire, this study has much to offer to students and
scholars interested in the agents, economic practices, and
geographies of trade that do not easily fit into and therefore
disrupt the traditional narratives of the Rise of the West. Chapter
6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access
PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com
The first comprehensive study of Tirso de Molina and his work in
English Tirso de Molina (c.1583-c.1648) may not have written El
Burlador de Sevilla, but the works of this prolific author, one of
the three pillars of Golden Age Spanish theatre, are notable for
their erudition, complex characters, and wit. Informed by a
multidisciplinary critical perspective, this volume sets Tirso's
plays and prose in their social, historical, literary, and cultural
contexts. Contributors from the United States, Canada, the United
Kingdom, and Spain offer a state of the art in current scholarship,
considering such topics as gender, identity, spatiality, material
culture, and creative performativity, among others. The first
volume in English to provide a richly detailed overview of Tirso's
life and work, Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from
the Twenty-First Century grounds the reader in canonical theories
while suggesting new approaches, attuned to contemporary interests,
to his legacy.
What Was the Islamic Conquest of Iberia? Understanding the New
Debate brings together leading scholars to offer an introduction to
a recent debate with far-reaching implications for the study of
history, as well as our understanding of the present. In the year
711 CE, Islamic armies conquered the Iberian Peninsula. This
seemingly uncontroversial claim has in fact been questioned,
becoming an object of intense scholarly debate, debate that has
reached a fevered pitch in recent decades within Spain. This volume
introduces an anglophone audience to the terms and contours of this
controversy, from its emergence in the late nineteenth century to
its contemporary recrudescence. It suggests that far from an
abstract discussion, this dispute reveals methodological and moral
questions that remain vital to the study of the distant past,
questions than cannot be easily resolved and have far-reaching
consequences for the present. This volume offers novel perspectives
on, not only the controversy, but also the latest research on the
events of 711. These exemplary studies of historical, literary, and
material cultural evidence demonstrate the promise and challenges
for a new generation of scholarship. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Medieval
Iberian Studies.
This is the solutions manual for many (particularly odd-numbered)
end-of-chapter problems in Subatomic Physics, 3rd Edition by Henley
and Garcia. The student who has worked on the problems will find
the solutions presented here a useful check on answers and
procedures.
This is the third and fully updated edition of the classic textbook
on physics at the subatomic level. An up-to-date and lucid
introduction to both particle and nuclear physics, the book is
suitable for both experimental and theoretical physics students at
the senior undergraduate and beginning graduate levels.Topics are
introduced with key experiments and their background, encouraging
students to think and empowering them with the capability of doing
back-of-the-envelope calculations in a diversity of situations.
Earlier important experiments and concepts as well as topics of
current interest are covered, with extensive use of photographs and
figures to convey principal concepts and show experimental data.The
coverage includes new material on:Detectors and acceleratorsNucleon
elastic form factor dataNeutrinos, their masses and
oscillationsChiral theories and effective field theories, and
lattice QCDRelativistic heavy ions (RHIC)Nuclear structure far from
the region of stabilityParticle astrophysics and cosmology
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A Companion to Lope de Vega (Hardcover)
Alexander W Samson, Jonathan W. Thacker; Contributions by Alejandro Garcia Reidy, Alexander W Samson, Ali Rizavi, …
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R4,081
Discovery Miles 40 810
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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An assessment of the life, work and reputation of Spain's leading
Golden Age dramatist A Companion to Lope de Vega brings together
work by leading international scholars on the life and writing of
Lope de Vega Carpio, the 'fenix de los ingenios', a 'monstruo de la
naturaleza', as he was described by his rival, Miguel de Cervantes.
Spain's foremost Golden Age playwright was in addition a major
artist in prose and poetry, genres also covered by the Companion.
The contributions evaluate current critical debates and issues in
Lopede Vega studies, as well as providing new readings of key
texts. The volume attempts to do justice to the variety, profusion
and originality of Lope's output, and to outline the contours of
his reputation as an artist in literaryhistory, as well as firmly
contextualising his life and work. The variety of critical
perspectives reflects the liveliness of debate surrounding this
enduringly popular figure whose drama has recently enjoyed a
renaissance in theatres around the globe. ALEXANDER SAMSON lectures
in Golden Age literature at University College London and JONATHAN
THACKER is a Fellow in Spanish at Merton College, Oxford.
Contributors: Frederick De Armas, ElaineCanning, Geraldine Coates,
Victor Dixon, Geraint Evans, Tyler Fisher, Edward H. Friedman,
Alejandro Garcia Reidy, Esther Gomez, David Johnston, Arantza Mayo,
David McGrath, Barbara Mujica, Ali Rizavi, Jose Maria Ruano de la
Haza, Alexander Samson, Jonathan Thacker, Isabel Torres, Xavier
Tubau, Duncan Wheeler.
The first comprehensive study of Calderon in English Pedro Calderon
de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists -
many would say the single most important dramatist - of the Spanish
Golden Age. Spain's dominant and most prestigious playwright for
much of the seventeenth century, his work is still regularly staged
and translated, influential in more recent times on writers as
diverse as Schiller, Shelley and Lorca. The author of around 120
plays (not counting his numerous Corpus Christi autos) in a variety
of styles, Calderon is most famous for his stirring dramas,
characterized by rhetorically powerful poetry, dramatic structures
carefully calibrated to produce poignant echoes, and the fizzing
intellectual energy they apply to the age's ontological,
eschatological and political preoccupations. His plays succeed in
combining these perennial concerns with compelling plots subtle
enough to defy definitive interpretation. As this volume seeks to
show, however, Calderon's comedies deserve equal recognition. Too
long stereotyped as a dour, cerebral conservative, this
playwright's comic works are as amusing as they are clever. This
Companion is the first comprehensive study of Calderon in English.
It provides a rigorous but readable introduction to the man, his
work and its legacy. Its chapters - written by leading
international comedia specialists - provide an overview of his
life, explain his intellectual, social, moral, and literary
contexts, and examine his stagecraft, his corpus, and his reception
both within and without the Hispanic world up to the twenty-first
century. Specific chapters are devoted to La vida es sueno, his
most famous work, which appears on many a university syllabus, and
to his infamous wife-murder plays.
This work investigates the time series properties of the
unemployment rate of the Spanish regions over the period 1976-2011.
For that purpose, the authors employ the PANIC procedures of Bai
and Ng (2004), which allows to decompose the observed unemployment
rate series into common factor and idiosyncratic components. This
enables the authors to identify the exact source behind the
hysteretic behaviour found in Spanish regional unemployment.
Overall, the analysis with three different proxies for the excess
of labour supply renders strong support for the hysteresis
hypothesis, which appears to be caused by a common stochastic trend
driving all the regional unemployment series. In the second part of
the analysis the authors try to determine the macroeconomic and
institutional factors that are able to explain the time series
evolution of the common factor, and in turn help us shed light on
the ultimate sources of hysteresis. The reader shall see how the
variables that the empirical analysis emphasises as relevant
closely fit into the main causes of the Spanish unemployment
behaviour. Finally, some policy considerations drawn from the
results are presented.
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A Companion to Lope de Vega (Paperback)
Alexander W Samson, Jonathan W. Thacker; Contributions by Alejandro Garcia Reidy, Alexander W Samson, Ali Rizavi, …
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R890
Discovery Miles 8 900
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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An assessment of the life, work and reputation of Spain's leading
Golden Age dramatist A Companion to Lope de Vega brings together
essays by leading international scholars on the life and works of
Lope de Vega Carpio, the 'fenix de los ingenios', or, as his rival
Miguel de Cervantes dubbed him, 'monstruo de la naturaleza'.
Spain's foremost Golden Age playwright excelled in all literary
genres, including prose and poetry, also covered here. The
contributors evaluate current critical debates and issues in Lope
de Vega studies, as well as providing new readings of key texts. It
has been the aim of the editors to do justice to the variety,
profusion and originality of Lope's work, placing the writer and
his output firmly in their historical context as well asassessing
his reputation in literary history. The wide variety of critical
perspectives found in the volume reflects the liveliness of the
debate surrounding this enduringly popular figure whose drama is
enjoying a renaissance intheatres around the globe. Alexander
Samson lectures in Golden Age literature at University College
London. Jonathan Thacker is Fellow in Spanish at Merton College,
Oxford. Other Contributors: Elaine Canning, Geraldine Coates,
Frederick A de Armas, Victor Dixon, Geraint Evans, Tyler Fisher,
Edward H. Friedman, Alejandro Garcia Reidy, David Johnston, Arantza
Mayo, David McGrath, Barbara Mujica, Ali Rizavi Jose Maria Ruano de
la Haza,Isabel Torres, Xavier Tubau, Duncan Wheeler.
This is the third and fully updated edition of the classic textbook
on physics at the subatomic level. An up-to-date and lucid
introduction to both particle and nuclear physics, the book is
suitable for both experimental and theoretical physics students at
the senior undergraduate and beginning graduate levels.Topics are
introduced with key experiments and their background, encouraging
students to think and empowering them with the capability of doing
back-of-the-envelope calculations in a diversity of situations.
Earlier important experiments and concepts as well as topics of
current interest are covered, with extensive use of photographs and
figures to convey principal concepts and show experimental data.The
coverage includes new material on:Detectors and acceleratorsNucleon
elastic form factor dataNeutrinos, their masses and
oscillationsChiral theories and effective field theories, and
lattice QCDRelativistic heavy ions (RHIC)Nuclear structure far from
the region of stabilityParticle astrophysics and cosmology
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