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This reproduction of a Victorian birthday reminder book entwines
flowers and their emblems with great poetry. 365 color engravings
grace this little book, which is perfect for keeping track of
birthdays or anniversaries. Each day of the year is beautifully
illustrated with a flower and a quote from a poem.
First published in 1987 (this second edition in 1992), the Handbook
of Latin American Literature offers readers the opportunity to
explore this literary history in the English Language and
constitutes an ideological approach to Latin American Literature.
It provides both concise information concerning particular authors,
works, and literary traditions of Latin America as well as
comprehensive material about the various national literatures of
the area. This book will therefore be of interest to Hispanic
scholars, as well as more general readers and non-Hispanists.
When first published in 1928, Herbert's work enjoyed immediate
success. The narrative is of considerable importance from an
historical point of view, as it gives the only detailed account of
the first English embassy to Persia. It also paints a graphic
picture of the Perisa and the Persians in the early part of the
seventeenth century, with vivid and extensive descriptions of the
towns of Abbas, Lar, Shiraz, Persepolis, Isfahan, Ashraf, Tehran,
Qazvin, Qum and Kashan.
This edition is based on the revised edition of 1677, but has in
turn been edited so that the version reprinted here includes only
what the author actually saw or gleaned at first hand. The notes
include identification of places and a glossary of the strange or
obsolete terms.
First published in 1987 (this second edition in 1992), the Handbook
of Latin American Literature offers readers the opportunity to
explore this literary history in the English Language and
constitutes an ideological approach to Latin American Literature.
It provides both concise information concerning particular authors,
works, and literary traditions of Latin America as well as
comprehensive material about the various national literatures of
the area. This book will therefore be of interest to Hispanic
scholars, as well as more general readers and non-Hispanists.
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The advent of globally networked information is a historic change.
Educational, commercial and industrial institutions depend on its
effective exploitation for their success, but cultural and human
factors are the biggest obstacles. This book looks at the roots of
these problems and how they may be overcome, through understanding
recent developments in technical services, the difference between
service and technical orientation, organizational culture, the role
of subject expertise and the cultural heritage of the information
profession. The book provides guidance and outlines best practice
in: managing converging technologies; supporting change with
organizational models; using cultural audits; the role of focus
groups in implementing change; characterizing a learning
organization; succeeding as a change agent, and managing change
through technical services. Several chapters discuss the Electronic
Libraries programme and the TAPin (Training and Awareness Programme
in networks) model as examples of how cultural change takes place,
particularly in the academic environment; one chapter concentrates
exclusively on the characteristics of special libraries. This
illuminating insight into the evolution of information cultures and
how they do or don't adapt to networked services will help
information and library managers to achieve change with deeper
understanding, and will provide useful advice for senior managers
restructuring IT and information departments. The book is core
reading for students of Information Studies.
The advent of globally networked information is a historic change.
Educational, commercial and industrial institutions depend on its
effective exploitation for their success, but cultural and human
factors are the biggest obstacles. This book looks at the roots of
these problems and how they may be overcome, through understanding
recent developments in technical services, the difference between
service and technical orientation, organizational culture, the role
of subject expertise and the cultural heritage of the information
profession. The book provides guidance and outlines best practice
in: managing converging technologies; supporting change with
organizational models; using cultural audits; the role of focus
groups in implementing change; characterizing a learning
organization; succeeding as a change agent, and managing change
through technical services. Several chapters discuss the Electronic
Libraries programme and the TAPin (Training and Awareness Programme
in networks) model as examples of how cultural change takes place,
particularly in the academic environment; one chapter concentrates
exclusively on the characteristics of special libraries. This
illuminating insight into the evolution of information cultures and
how they do or don't adapt to networked services will help
information and library managers to achieve change with deeper
understanding, and will provide useful advice for senior managers
restructuring IT and information departments. The book is core
reading for students of Information Studies.
For Latin American literature of the second half of the 20th
century, critics have proposed such labels as "new novel" and "new
new novel," boom and post-boom, women's literature, testimonial,
postmodern literature, and the like. Given the fact that none of
these designations is entirely satisfactory for fully charting the
complex map of literary phenomena, this volume features an
arrangement based on the birthdate of the writers represented, with
an emphasis on individuals who have transcended the boundaries of
national literatures and achieved a certain international
recognition.
These critical studies propose innovative readings and overall
reformulations of the texts and authors that stand as
representative of the period for the contemporary reader. The first
group of articles refers to reports, chronicles, and Renaissance
epics, a vast block of texts that fall in most cases halfway
between history and narrative fiction, and examine the experiences
of the discovery, the conquest, and the colonization of the new
territories. The second group concentrates on regionally marked
texts from the Baroque period, especially those of the central
figure of the Mexican nun poet and intellectual, Sor Juana In s de
la Cruz. Finally, there are some essays on representative texts of
the latter part of the colonial period.
The greater body of Spanish American letters stands in somewhat of
an ancillary relationship to the traditions that arose in Europe.
Only at the end of the 19th century, with the emergence of
"modernismo," which was linked to European aesthetic movements such
as French Parnassianism and Symbolism, there emerged a wave of
literary innovations and experimentation that ushered in the modern
era. This volume covers writers whose positions and reputations
were established and consolidated prior to the crucial decade of
the l960s.
This volume brings together papers on various theoretical questions
that have been raised in recent debates in Spanish American
literary studies. It provides varying perspectives and explores
diverse theoretical approaches to colonial culture, testimonial
writing, gender studies, postmodernism, ethnic issues, politics and
nationalism, and other important subjects.
The 19th century in Latin America begins with the weakening of the
political institutions established by the Spanish Crown, the
emergence of a native consciousness and the diffusion of the ideas
of the French Revolution and the United States. These articles
examine the phenomena that mark the onset of the new century: the
series of revolutions and long military struggles for independence
that placed large areas of territory under arms and resulted in the
formation of strong and independent nation-states.
The City as Photographic Text offers the first comprehensive
presentation of photography on Sao Paulo. But more than just a
study of one city's photographic legacy, this book is a manual for
how to understand and talk about Latin American photography in
general. Focusing on major figures and referencing widely available
books of their work, David William Foster offers a unique analysis
of how photographers have contributed to our understanding of the
megalopolis Sao Paulo has become. Eschewing a conventional
historical approach, Foster explores how best to interpret visual
urban life. In turn, by focusing interest on the photographic text
and the ways in which it creates an interpretive meaning for the
city, rather than rehearsing the circumstances under which the
photographs were taken, this study provides a model for productive
comment on urban photography as a project of visual meaning with
important artistic attributes. As a unique entry in the inventory
of scholarly writing on Sao Paulo, The City as Photographic Text
adds to our understanding of the enormous cultural significance
this city holds as a world-class urban center.
Do you hate your job? Do you hate being told what to do? Do you
hate being dependent on someone else for your wages? Are you in
good health, have a car, and, most importantly, do you love pets?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions then here is a
book that you must read. In this book Bill Foster, fellow pet owner
and lover, outlines the steps you need to take to establish your
own pet sitting business. Bill knows his techniques work because he
uses them every day - he has owned and operated his own pet sitting
business since 1988. From the day he first plugged in his answering
machine, he began making money, and his personal attention to
detail has ensured that he continues making more. His methods can
be applied to any service business and can lead you to a career
that supplies you with enjoyment as well as a wage.
One of the important cultural responses to political and
sociohistorical events in Latin America is a resurgence of urban
photography, which typically blends high art and social
documentary. But unlike other forms of cultural production in Latin
America, photography has received relatively little sustained
critical analysis. This pioneering book offers one of the first
in-depth investigations of the complex and extensive history of
gendered perspectives in Latin American photography through studies
of works from Argentina, Mexico, and Guatemala. David William
Foster examines the work of photographers ranging from the
internationally acclaimed artists Graciela Iturbide, Pedro Meyer,
and Marcos Lopez to significant photographers whose work is largely
unknown to English-speaking audiences. He grounds his essays in
four interlocking areas of research: the experience of human life
in urban environments, the feminist matrix and gendered cultural
production, Jewish cultural production, and the ideological
principles of cultural works and the connections between the works
and the sociopolitical and historical contexts in which they were
created. Foster reveals how gender-marked photography has
contributed to the discourse surrounding the project of
redemocratization in Argentina and Guatemala, as well as how it has
illuminated human rights abuses in both countries. He also traces
photography's contributions to the evolution away from the
masculinist-dominated post-1910 Revolution ideology in Mexico. This
research convincingly demonstrates that Latin American photography
merits the high level of respect that is routinely accorded to more
canonical forms of cultural production.
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