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Martín Rivas

By: Alberto Blest Gana

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Widely acknowledged as the first Chilean novel, Martin Rivas (1862) by Alberto Blest Gana (1830-1920) is at once a passionate love story and an optimistic representation of Chilean nationhood. Written shortly after a decade of civil conflict, it is an indispensable source for understanding politics and society in nineteenth-century Chile. The hero of the story is Martin Rivas, an impoverished but ambitious youngster from the northern mining region of Chile, who is entrusted by his late father to the household of a wealthy and influential member of the Santiago elite. While living there, he falls in love with his guardian's daughter. The tale of their tortuous but ultimately successful love affair represents the author's desire for reconciliation between Chile's antagonistic regional and class interests. Indeed, many critics have interpreted Martin Rivas as a blueprint for national unity that emphasizes consensus over conflict. In addition to providing commentary about the mores of Chilean society, Blest Gana documents the enormous gap that existed between the rich and poor classes. An invaluable text for its portrayal of contemporary social, political, and class conditions, Martin Rivas illustrates the enriching influence that romanticism had on nineteenth-century Chilean literature.

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Oxford University Press

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0198026684

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9780198026686

But It Is Not So Among You

Echoes of Power in Mark 10.32-45

By: Alberto de Mingo Kaminouchi

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But It Is Not So Among You

Echoes of Power in Mark 10.32-45

By: Alberto de Mingo Kaminouchi

Power is an issue that is attracting increased interest among philosophers, theologians and social scientists. The gospel of Mark, especially in 10:32-45, contains teachings attributed to Jesus about the use and abuse of power. This book applies a combination of different methods and approaches: mainly orality, criticism, literary criticism and a sensitivity for the social and cultural environment of the text, showing the centrality of Jesus's message on the issue of power both for the plot and for the theology of Mark. This message is a call to practice leadership in a way that is subversive toward the networks of power of the empire.

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256

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A&C Black

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0826466656

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9780826466655

Simon Magus in Patristic, Medieval and Early Modern Traditions

By: Alberto Ferreiro

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Simon Magus in Patristic, Medieval and Early Modern Traditions

By: Alberto Ferreiro

This book is an exploration of the post-New Testament figure of Simon Magus spanning the patristic era, Middle Ages, and the early modern period as found in art, vernacular literatures, heresiologies, theological texts, hagiographies and homilies.

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383

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BRILL

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9047415469

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9789047415466

The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia

A Supplemental Bibliography, 1984-2003

By: Alberto Ferreiro

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The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia

A Supplemental Bibliography, 1984-2003

By: Alberto Ferreiro

This bibliography is a supplement to the one previously published by Brill in 1988. This one covers material from 1984 to 2003. The chronology has been expanded to begin in the fourth century. Numerous Iberian Church Fathers not represented in the first one are now incorporated. The book contains author and subject indexes and is cross-referenced throughout.

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943

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BRILL

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9047408187

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9789047408185

Uncanny Rest

For Antiphilosophy

By: Alberto Moreiras

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Uncanny Rest

For Antiphilosophy

By: Alberto Moreiras

In Uncanny Rest Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation. Focusing on his personal day-to-day experiences of the “shelter-in-place” period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Moreiras engages with the limits and possibilities of critical thought in the realm of the infrapolitical—the conditions of existence that exceed average understandings of politics and philosophy. In each dated entry he works through the process of formulating a life’s worth of thought and writing while attempting to locate the nature of thought once the coordinates of everyday life have changed. Offering nothing less than a phenomenology of thinking, Moreiras shows how thought happens in and out of a life, at a certain crossroads where memories collide, where conversations with interlocutors both living and dead evolve and thinking during a suspended state becomes provisional and uncertain.

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114

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Duke University Press

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1478023651

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9781478023654

Education, Power, and Personal Biography

Dialogues With Critical Educators

By: Carlos Torres Alberto

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Education, Power, and Personal Biography

Dialogues With Critical Educators

By: Carlos Torres Alberto

In dialogues with eleven key thinkers in the area of critical education, this book documents how a tradition of study grew in the United States. Through in-depth interviews these thinkers talk about their personal experiences and their work.

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Routledge

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1136788352

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9781136788352

Raspberries at Dawn

By: Alberto Aranda De La Gala

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Raspberries at Dawn

By: Alberto Aranda De La Gala

September 26, 1984 In that town the mornings were cold, and, although they were still in the autumn, that fresh and freezing air that penetrated the bones began to be noticed, wanting to immobilize you for a few moments. The surroundings of the town were immensely vast fields, thousands and thousands of cornfields covered with ice and snow. From the window of the old institute of "Santa Teresa", Martin could see the odd little bird hovering alone beneath the black and sad sky. - Ringg! -. The siren sounded, when she did it all the students knew very well that they had fifteen minutes to have lunch or chat with friends, and, who carelessly arrived late to Miss Tood's class, “language teacher”, knew that I would have the subject suspended throughout the semester. Only two days left to finish the evaluation (the penultimate opportunity, they called her), Martín and Javi went to the copy shop when that unpleasant and frightening noise that came from the stomach of the institute (youth prison), discharged all their anger in the students. Immediately everyone disappeared, that place had become uninhabited, without people, quiet, it was almost unreal. It rang again. Javi paid no attention, nor did he flinch, to which his friend staring at him exclaimed angrily:

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125

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Babelcube Inc.

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1071529749

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9781071529744

Chora 5

Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

By: Alberto Pérez-Gomez,Stephen Parcell

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Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

By: Alberto Pérez-Gomez,Stephen Parcell

Provocative views on why architecture matters offer vital information for developing a richer architecture.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773577408

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9780773577404

Maintenance for Industrial Systems

By: Riccardo Manzini,Alberto Regattieri,Hoang Pham,Emilio Ferrari

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Maintenance for Industrial Systems

By: Riccardo Manzini,Alberto Regattieri,Hoang Pham,Emilio Ferrari

New, global and extended markets are forcing companies to process and manage increasingly differentiated products with shorter life cycles, low volumes and reduced customer delivery times. In today’s global marketplace production systems need to be able to deliver products on time, maintain market credibility and introduce new products and services faster than competitors. As a result, a new production paradigm of a production system has been developed and a supporting management decision-making approach simultaneously incorporating design, management, and control of the production system is necessary so that this challenge can be effectively and efficiency met. "Maintenance Engineering and its Applications in Production Systems" meets this need by introducing an original and integrated idea of maintenance: maintenance for productivity. The volume starts with the introduction and discussion of a new conceptual framework based on productivity, quality, and safety supported by maintenance. Subsequent chapters illustrate the most relevant models and methods to plan, organise, implement and control the whole maintenance process (reliability evaluation models and prediction, maintenance strategies and policies, spare parts management, computer maintenance management software – CMMS, and total productive maintenance – TPM, etc.). Several examples of problems supported by solutions, and real applications to help and test the reader’s comprehension are included. "Maintenance Engineering and its Applications in Production Systems" will certainly be valuable to engineering students, doctoral and post-doctoral students and also to maintenance practitioners, as well as managers of industrial and service companies.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1848825757

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9781848825758

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Martín Rivas

Martín Rivas

But It Is Not So Among You

But It Is Not So Among You

Simon Magus in Patristic, Medieval and Early Modern Traditions

Simon Magus in Patristic, Medieval and Early Modern Traditions

The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia

The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia

Uncanny Rest

Uncanny Rest

Education, Power, and Personal Biography

Education, Power, and Personal Biography

Raspberries at Dawn

Raspberries at Dawn

Chora 5

Chora 5

Maintenance for Industrial Systems

Maintenance for Industrial Systems

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