Have you ever wished you could travel back to ancient Egypt? To a world of mighty pharaohs and mysterious hieroglyphics? When grand pyramids were built and the Great Sphinx of Giza gleamed in colour?

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Throughout the twentieth century, the Chilean business elite has played a central role in the country, not just as entrepreneurs but also as political and social actors. The chapters in this book, the first in English on the history of Chilean business, focus on the importance of diversified family business groups in twentieth-century Chile, their dynamics, organisation, and management, and their interaction with foreign investors and the state. Using a range of company and government archives, as well as other contemporary sources in Chile, Britain, and the United States, the individual authors pay particular attention to many key topics: the evolution of the Edwards family businesses, those of Pascual Baburizza, Chilean corporate networks, British firms in the nitrate industry, the Anglo South American Bank, the Copec group, Compania Explotadora de Tierra del Fuego, the energy sector, SOFOFA (the industrialists' association), and the recent growth of Chilean multinationals.

In this volume the team of the research group CIRCULA jointly addresses one of the topics of greatest interest to understand the relations between language and society: the representation of authority in discourses on language. And it does so through the analysis of the columns on language, a journalistic genre in which opinions of the language are accepted or rejected according to the criteria of some type of authority. The panromanic scope of the works - Latin America, Spain, Canada (Quebec), France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy - and the wide range of dates - XIX and XX centuries, which cover the entirety of its existence - allow a contrastive, diatopic and diachronic approach to the relations between language and power through this particular type of metalinguistic discourses in the press.

This book received the Enrique Alcaraz research award in 2010. This volume derives from the COMINTER-SIMULNEG research project which aims at designing a pragmatic model for the analysis of intercultural communication between Spaniards and Britons, as well as developing a teaching methodology for cultural awareness based on computer simulation of real business settings. Contributions to this volume focus on three main issues: (a) explaining intercultural communication; (b) research on intercultural business communication; (c) the use of simulation and gaming methodology for the acquisition of communicative and cross-cultural competence in business settings. This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the study and practice of intercultural business communication, borrowing concepts from social anthropology, social cognition, cognitive linguistics, and intercultural pragmatics.

London merchant bankers emerged during the 1820s in the wake of financial turmoil caused by the wars of American Independence, the Napoleonic campaigns and the Anglo-American war of 1812. Though the majority of merchant bankers remained cautious in their affairs, Huth & Co established an impressive global network of trade and lending, dealing with over 6,000 correspondents in more than seventy countries. Based on archival research, this comparative study provides a new chronology of early nineteenth-century commercial and financial expansion. Huth & Co. were truly market-makers and key intermediaries of commodities and capital flows in the international economy. This is an important example of a firm shaping globalisation well before the transport and communication revolution of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. But rather than a case study, this is a comparative study concerned with the commercial and financial activities of the leading merchant-bankers of the period This book will be of great interest to business and economic historians interested in the nature of the early decades of the first globalization.

The idea for this book came out of the EURESCO Conference on High Performance Fibers: Euroconference on Fiber Fracture in 2000. Many of the books that are currently available look at different aspects of fiber processing, properties, or applications, but none are focussed on the fracture behaviour of fibers. This book presents the mechancisms and models of fiber fracture currently available for both natural and synthetic fibers, and it is expected that increasingly there will be cross fertilization between the fields, opening new frontiers in academic research and more competitive products for industry. It covers the following areas of fiber fracture: ceramic fibers; glass fibers; carbon filters; metallic fibers and thin wires; polymeric fibers; and carbon nanotubes.

For those who loved Little People, BIG DREAMS, this new series showcases the lives and achievements of amazing men and women. From the Renaissance to the present day, this inspiring book paints a vivid picture of the lives and works of eleven artists who stood out from the crowd and changed how we see the world. Beginning with Giotto in Renaissance Florence and ending with Banksy's international street art, including Picasso in the Spanish Civil War and Frida Kahlo in 1920s Mexico, Art is a beautiful and entertaining book for budding artists everywhere.

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London merchant bankers emerged during the 1820s in the wake of financial turmoil caused by the wars of American Independence, the Napoleonic campaigns and the Anglo-American war of 1812. Though the majority of merchant bankers remained cautious in their affairs, Huth & Co established an impressive global network of trade and lending, dealing with over 6,000 correspondents in more than seventy countries. Based on archival research, this comparative study provides a new chronology of early nineteenth-century commercial and financial expansion. Huth & Co. were truly market-makers and key intermediaries of commodities and capital flows in the international economy. This is an important example of a firm shaping globalisation well before the transport and communication revolution of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. But rather than a case study, this is a comparative study concerned with the commercial and financial activities of the leading merchant-bankers of the period This book will be of great interest to business and economic historians interested in the nature of the early decades of the first globalization.

Les idees que les locuteurs, et non seulement les linguistes, se font des langues influencent leur usage, les transforment et contribuent a definir leurs normes. Ce volume aborde, dans une perspective comparative, des debats sur les langues romanes: des manifestations anciennes et actuelles du purisme a la recherche d'une langue commune, de la langue journalistique a celle utilisee dans la traduction et des commentaires des experts aux doutes des locuteurs et scripteurs. L'analyse discursive et textuelle appliquee aux textes vehiculant les ideologies linguistiques revele des questionnements negliges dans les grammaires ou dans les publications linguistiques traditionnelles.

This is the first work on British textile exports to South America during the nineteenth century. During this period, textiles ranked among the most important manufactures traded in the world market and Britain was the foremost producer. Thanks to new data, this book demonstrates that British exports to South America were transacted at very high rates during the first decades after independence. This development was due to improvements in the packing of textiles; decreasing costs of production and introduction of free trade in Britain; falling ocean freight rates, marine insurance and import duties in South America; dramatic improvements in communications; and the introduction of better port facilities. Manuel Llorca-Jana explores the marketing chain of textile exports to South America and sheds light on South Americans' consumer behaviour. This book contains the most comprehensive database on Anglo-South American trade during the nineteenth century and fills an important gap in the historiography.

"The Dark Side," monodrama for mezzosoprano or baritone and piano is an early work of Llorca. It was premiered by Nancy Fabiola Herrera and the composer at the piano on October 4th, 1995 at Lincoln Center in New York City. In "The Dark Side" Llorca experiences for the first time with the voice, which alternates systematically between spoken and sung, a resource that will be a constant in his later opera "Las Horas Vacias/The Empty Hours." "The Dark Side," with a duration of twelve minutes, is divided into six parts: Recitative, Prayer, Recitative, Monologue, Recitative, and "Thread." The text, written by the composer himself, is an argument against fanaticism with certain touches of humor most pronounced in the recited parts Other performances: Concierto: Paul Recital Hall (The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center, Nueva York) Mezzosoprano: Cheryl Marshall. Piano: Ricardo Llorca. (4 de octubre, 1995) Concierto: "Contemporary Chamber Music" (The Miller Theater at Columbia University) Mezzosoprano: Cheryl Marshall. Piano: Ricardo Llorca. (10 de Mayo 1996) Concierto: "A Journey into the Spanish Music" (The Spanish Institute, Nueva York) Mezzosoprano: Nancy Herrera. Piano: Mac McClure. (23 de abril, 2001) Concierto: "Ricardo Llorca y la musica de Cataluna" (The Florence Gould Hall-Alliance Francaise, NY) Mezzosoprano: Cindy Sanner. Piano: Mac McClure. (29 de octubre, 2004) Concierto: "Espanoles en los Estados Unidos" Auditorio Nacional de Musica / Centro para la Difusion de la Musica Contemporanea Solistas de la ORCAM ( Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid ) (Madrid. Lunes, 2 de febrero de 2009) Concierto: "Sounds of Spain: Music for Guitar and Song Cycles by Ricardo Llorca at Reina Sofia NYC" Queen Sofia Spanish Institute de Nueva York 16 de Octubre de 2009 6 PM Concierto: "Lucero Nuestro: concierto homenaje a Victoria de los Angeles" Mezzosoprano: Nancy Fabiola Herrera Piano: Mac Maclure Auditorio de Sant Cugat (Domingo 20 de Noviembre de 2011) Teatro Perez Galdos de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Teatro de la Zarzuela de Madrid Palau de la Musica de Valencia Concierto: XIII Festival Internacional de Musica Contemporanea - Ano 2013 Sabado, 5 de octubre, 19:00 h - Auditorio MARTA KNORR (Mezzosoprano) AURELIO VIRIBAY (Piano) Concierto: Sounds of Spain: Music for Guitar and Song Cycles by Ricardo Llorca at the Chicago Cultural Center Salon Series. Location: Chicago Cultural Center Sunday, October 18, 2009 Baritone: Gustavo Ahualli Piano: Alan Darling

"The Empty Hours"" - an opera/monodrama for soprano, actress, chorus, piano and strings orchestra- is a work about a lonely woman, addicted to the internet, who lives in her own fantasy world. "The Empty Hours" is an attempt to explore a psychological process, so common in our contemporary world: the loneliness and the increasing feeling of emptiness of the developed Western societies. The compositional techniques in the score have already ample abstractions symbolizing the fragmentation of society, the isolation, the loss of identity that accompanies technology and the dark side of modernity. "The Empty Hours" arose from Ricardo Llorca's growing interest in juxtaposing and combining traditional techniques with elements of contemporary music. Italian and Spanish Renaissance music and 17th Century operatic recitatives blended with a more contemporary language have served as the principal source of thematic and structural inspiration for this work. Building upon these ideas Llorca has created recognizable melodic cells and poly rhythmic combinations within a stable structure and bitonal harmonies over a traditional foundation. The score is complex, as one would expect in a contemporary opera, but not indecipherable. Similarly, the timbre possibilities of the soprano have been thoroughly exploited, in some cases supported by the orchestration and in others opposed by it, but always within the limits of conventional writing for each instrument. '"The Empty Hours" thus acquires a dual character, at once traditional and contemporary, maintaining a coherent narrative which is elaborated over a harmonic and melodic foundation that may be called non-atonal. According to Llorca: "In order to shed light on the ideas behind this opera and my motivations for composing it, it may help to mention certain factors and subjective phenomena which I believe define the work. In my opinion, there is a great deal of confusion today about the objectives of contemporary music and the elements it has at its disposal. In the absence of a single unifying tendency or a specific defining style, young composers have been forced to choose between continuing along the path of experimentation or returning to a classical framework. Some of us have felt unable to continue conforming to the aesthetic models that have dominated classical music in recent decades. Looking back is perhaps the only viable alternative: reexamining the past, working with classical (horizontal and vertical) structures and concepts, and rehabilitating traditional views of musical expressiveness. When I began writing this opera, I wanted to create a dual work in the sense that it would be a both a product of instinct and a result of formal reflections on structure and development. I have chosen to give the opera a classical formal character, with defined structure and development, as well as cadenzas. I have also made use of traditional techniques such as counterpoint, fugues, and functional-harmonic development. Above all, I have taken care to avoid the impression of randomness, ensuring that the sounds conform to a plan and follow an organization that reflects their inherent relationships and correspondences. Without this previous organization, the music would lack all expressive power and would amount to little more than haphazard forms in space. In short, I have attempted to create a solid musical structure that governs the piece from beginning to end." "The Empty Hours" was premiered at the "XII Setmana de Musica Sacra de Benidorm," and later performed at the Berlin Cathedral on September 7th 2007; at the Dag Hammarskjold Theater at the United Nations in New York City on November 17th 2008; and at Alice Tully Hall (Lincoln Center, New York City) on November 19th 2010. A CD recording of "Las Horas Vacias/The Empty Hours" has been released by Columna Musica on September 2011.

Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez Ae Frans J. M. Rietmeijer Ae Jordi Llorca Ae Diego Janches Originally published in the journal Earth, Moon, and Planets, Volume 102, Nos 1-4. DOI: 10. 1007/s11038-008-9228-0 Springer Science+Business Media B. V. 2008 This volume is a compilation of articles that summarize the most recent results in meteor, meteoroid and related ?elds presented at the Meteoroids 2007 conference held in the impressive CosmoCaixa Science Museum in Barcelona, Spain. The conference took place between 11 and 15 of June and was organized by the Institute of Space Sciences (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient?'?cas, CSIC) and the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC). Researchers in meteor science and supporting ?elds representing more than 20 countries participated at this international conference where 126 presentations were delivered in oral and poster forms. The 69 papers included in this volume represent the work of 154 authors from about 70 different institutions across the globe. The Me- oroids conference is an international meeting that takes place every 3 years since the ?rst one held in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1994. The 2007 meeting was the ?rst one where samples of a comet, 81P/Wild 2, were available from the NASA Stardust mission, and results from laboratory characterizations were presented and discussed. Seemingly aware of the upcoming meeting a bolide was observed over La Mancha, Spain, on May 10.