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In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd

By: Ana Menéndez

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In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd

By: Ana Menéndez

Eleven short stories of the Cuban immigrant experience as characters adjust to life in the United Sates, from an award-winning author. From the prize–winning title story—a masterpiece of humor and heartbreak—unfolds a collection of tales that illuminate the landscape of an exiled community rich in heritage, memory, and longing for the past. In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd is at once “tender and sharp-fanged” as Ana Menéndez evocatively charts the territory from Havana to Coral Gables, Florida, and explores whether any of us are capable, or even truly desirous, of outrunning our origins (LA Weekly). “With the grace of Margaret Atwood and the sensuality of Laura Esquivel,” Menéndez makes an unforgettable debut “rich in metaphor, wisdom, and delicious subtlety” (St. Petersburg Times).

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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1555847870

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Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain

By: Ana P Sánchez-Rojo

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Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain

By: Ana P Sánchez-Rojo

By showing how music intersected with wider cultural affairs, such as philosophy and criticism, this book connects music and the modern in eighteenth-century Spain within the context of Enlightenment thought. Histories of modern Europe often present late eighteenth-century Spain as a backward place, haunted by the Inquisition and struggling to keep pace with modernity. While Spain under Charles III (1759-1788) pushed for economic and cultural modernization, many elites and the public at large resisted Enlightenment ideas. For conservatives, the modern would in time show its fragility, and Spain would withstand the collapse thanks to its firm grounding in the pillars of monarchy, religion, and traditional forms of knowledge. One source of this solid foundation was long-established musical knowledge based on the rules of counterpoint. In contrast, modernizers argued that Spain could be true to its essence, yet modern and cosmopolitan at the same time: they favoured cosmopolitan genres, such as Italian opera and artistic expression rather than counterpoint rules. At other times, ambivalence toward modernity produced creative uses of music, such as reinterpretations of pastoral and sentimental topics to accommodate reformist political trends. To both sides, music was crucial to the integrity of the Spanish nation. Whether and how Spain became modern would in many ways be defined and reinforced by the kinds of music that Spaniards composed and witnessed on stage. Through the study of press debates, opera and musical theatre productions, this book shows how music intersected with wider cultural affairs, such as philosophy and criticism, medicine and the human body, civilization, Bourbon policy and sentimentality. Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain for the first time connects music and the modern in eighteenth-century Spain within the context of Enlightenment thought.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1837651159

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9781837651153

The Poetry of Ana Maria Fagundo

A Bilingual Anthology

By: Ana María Fagundo

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The Poetry of Ana Maria Fagundo

A Bilingual Anthology

By: Ana María Fagundo

This anthology includes translations of a number of original poems from each of the ten collections of poetry published to date by Spanish poet Ana Maria Fagundo. Its goal is to provide a representative sample of Fagundo's work for an English audience. With the basic tenet of phenomenology as scaffold, the introduction of this anthology elucidates Fagundo's poetic writing as a process whereby the abstract is transformed into a concrete experience through the speaker's own self and body. From Brotes/Buds in 1965 until Trasterrado Marzo/March Beyond in 1999, Fagundo's poetry is an ongoing dialogue with the poetic word. Fagundo's poetic speaker looks into essences, but only in order to reintegrate them into existence. There is no Truth or Beauty or Good out there for which this poet strives, but a truth that each poet articulates in his or her own way. Hers is an aesthetic enterprise, which implies the ethical obligation to affirm life. Candelas Gala is Professor and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages at Wake Forest University.

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252

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Bucknell University Press

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0838755984

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9780838755983

The Torments of Aristarco

By: Ana García Bergua

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The Torments of Aristarco

By: Ana García Bergua

In this building you will meet an ex-soldier and a woman in love, some dogs and a cat, a man who goes to a psychoanalyst, another man who doesn't open his eyes, and an angelic blonde, even its own super who keeps pet rabbits on the flat roof. And these stories are also a mental, literary building, equipped with stories that always go a little out of the way to end up somewhere else, as it would happen if you peeked through the windows and tried to decipher the world hidden behind the gestures of its inhabitants.

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113

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Black Rose Writing

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1684333431

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Books and Periodicals in Brazil 1768-1930

By: Ana Claudia Suriani Da Silva

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Books and Periodicals in Brazil 1768-1930

By: Ana Claudia Suriani Da Silva

Before the Portuguese Royal Court moved to its South-American colony in 1808, books and periodicals had a very limited circulation there. It was only when Brazilian ports were opened to foreign trade that the book trade began to flourish, and printed matter became more easily available to readers, whether for pleasure, for instruction or for political reasons. This book brings together a collection of original articles on the transnational relations between Brazil and Europe, especially England and France, in the domain of literature and print culture from its early stages to the end of the 1920s. It covers the time when it was forbidden to print in Brazil, and Portugal strictly controlled which books were sent to the colony, through the quick flourishing of a transnational printing industry and book market after 1822, to the shift of hegemony in the printing business from foreign to Brazilian hands at the beginning of the twentieth century. Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Sao Paulo.

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Routledge

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1351573314

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9781351573313

Mapping the Seas and Skies

By: Ana Deboo

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Mapping the Seas and Skies

By: Ana Deboo

Modern life depends on travel, and travel depends on accurate maps. How did we learn to map the waters and skies? This book helps explain the history and modern use of maps of water and air.

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Heinemann-Raintree Library

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1403467935

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Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction

Second International Conference, ACII 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 12-14, 2007, Proceedings

By: Ana Paiva

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Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction

Second International Conference, ACII 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 12-14, 2007, Proceedings

By: Ana Paiva

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2007. The 57 revised full papers and 4 revised short papers presented together with the extended abstracts of 33 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 151 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on affective facial expression and recognition, affective body expression and recognition, affective speech processing, affective text and dialogue processing, recognising affect using physiological measures, computational models of emotion and theoretical foundations, affective databases, annotations, tools and languages, affective sound and music processing, affective interactions: systems and applications, as well as evaluating affective systems.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540748881

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9783540748885

The Torments of Aristarco

By: Ana García Bergua

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By: Ana García Bergua

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Black Rose Writing

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So Far From God

By: Ana Castillo

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So Far From God

By: Ana Castillo

A delightful novel...impossible to resist." —Barbara Kingsolver, Los Angeles Times Book Review Sofia and her fated daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love in the sleepy New Mexico hamlet of Tome, a town teeming with marvels where the comic and the horrific, the real and the supernatural, reside.

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257

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WW Norton

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0393326934

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9780393326932

Quinceañera

By: Ilan Stavans

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Quinceañera

By: Ilan Stavans

This volume compiled by Ilan Stavans examines the importance of ritual and celebration and the quinceañera celebration's growing social importance to in the Latino community, particularly in the United States. The essays explore the quinceañera and the coming-of-age ritual from various angles. Prior to 2007, the quinceañera received no formal ritual through the Catholic Church, which has since issued one. As such, the role of religion and the Catholic Church in the quinceañera celebration is given extensive consideration. Gender, family status, class, race, as well as the aspects of performance are all discussed as central themes of the celebration. Delving through myriad perspectives, Quinceañeras illuminates the festivities' form and function in creating social and personal identity within the family and the larger Latino community.

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220

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216134893

Amira

By: Ana Schein

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Amira

By: Ana Schein

Una novela valiente y sin prejuicios. Dos hermanas que deben abandonar su mundo para no perder la vida. En un humilde barrio de Beirut, Amira convive a diario con noticias de secuestros y un riguroso toque de queda, explosiones y coches bomba; pero ella no tiene miedo, recorre las calles polvorientas de su ciudad, observando el verde de las moreras, los carros de frutas y las cúpulas de las mezquitas. Por las noches, en el dormitorio que comparte con su hermana Rayzel, escribe cartas para su novio, enlistado en el ejército. Una mañana, accediendo a los pedidos de su madre, Amira se convierte en cómplice de algo que nunca se perdonará: haber empujado a Rayzel a casarse con un médico extranjero al que no ama. Tiempo después, llegará también su momento de emigrar. Una hermana en París; la otra en Connecticut . Amira es la historia de dos mujeres que debieron abandonar el mundo pequeño que conocían y en el que, a pesar de todo, se sentían seguras. Aterrizar en un horizonte lejano y transformarlo poco a poco, hasta convencerse de que lo han hecho suyo.

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261

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Booket

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8408296426

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9788408296423

The Island

By: Ana María Matute

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The Island

By: Ana María Matute

This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds' Expelled from her convent school for kicking the prioress, and abandoned by her father when her mother dies, rebellious teenager Matia is sent to live with her domineering grandmother on the scorching island of Mallorca. There she learns to scheme with her cousin Borja, and finds herself increasingly drawn to the strange outsider Manuel. But civil war has come to Spain, tearing communities apart, and it will teach Matia about the adult world in ways she could not foresee. This feverish 1959 coming-of-age novel by one of the greatest Spanish writers of the 20th century depicts Mallorca as an inferno, a lost Eden and a Never Land combined, where ancient hatreds and present-day passions collide.

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180

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Penguin UK

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0241374294

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9780241374290

Anastasia

The Complete Collection

By: Ana Vela

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Anastasia

The Complete Collection

By: Ana Vela

The complete collection of the Anastasia series!This boxed set includes every Anastasia story! Follow her journey from beginning to end. You'll get to read the following:Her First Position - Vol. 1Pretty, naive, 21-year-old Anastasia Nabokov moved to the big city desperate to prove herself at her new internship with one of the giants of the banking industry. She's hoping this is the break she needs to really live the life she's always wanted.But living out of a hotel, with no friends to speak of, she's an easy target for her grumpy boss and the other male interns. Thing are not going as she had planned...Luckily for her, she makes a new friend in the confident, sexy, and slightly older executive assistant to one of the junior partners.And the adventurous Victoria is more than happy to show Anastasia the ropes - both at work and at play. It turns out, for Anastasia, the luscious Victoria is a good person to know - both professionally and personally.No Strings Attached - Vol. 2With the help of her new friend (and roommate) the adventurous and sexy Victoria, Anastasia is quickly making a place for herself in the big city. But when her girl-next-door looks catch the eye of the gorgeous market analyst Bryce McCormick, everyone warns her off the office Lothario. Even Victoria.Despite the warnings, Anastasia is sure, since she knows his game, she'll remain immune. However, Bryce's dimpled smiles, hard body, and teasing flirtations are hard to resist.This wouldn't be the first time since coming to the big city that she'd given in to surprising temptations.Where's the harm in having a little fun - no strings attached?Executive Perks - Vol. 3Anastasia's only been interning at Edgeworth, Epstein, and Kendrick for six months, so when she gets assigned the plum position of filling in as assistant to one of the most powerful Junior Partners, she can't believe her luck. Robert Benning is a giant in the world of investment banking, and Anastasia can't wait to observe him at work and learn from the best.But it turns out Robert is more than just savvy and hardworking. The older man is commanding and incredibly sexy too. Now, Anastasia is determined to not only study her mentor's moves, but to teach him a few of her own. It turns out there are quite a few perks to being an executive's assistant.Whatever It Takes - Vol. 4With only two months left on her internship at Edgeworth, Epstein, and Kendrick Investments, Anastasia really needs to parlay her knowledge, expertise and abilities into a long-term position at the company. So, when the opportunity presents itself to help reel in billionaire CEO Parker Willis as a new client, Anastasia jumps at the chance. This could be the break that guarantees she'll join the permanent ranks of E, E, and K employees.Willis is arrogant, cocky, and not all that interested in making an investment, but he is interested in making Anastasia his plaything. The wealthy businessman proposes a bargain: be his sexual slave, and he'll sign on the dotted line.With her dream job almost within reach, is Anastasia willing to do whatever it takes to seal the deal?This boxed set includes every Anastasia story! Follow her journey from beginning to end. Get started today!

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Createspace Independent Pub

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1490464298

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9781490464299

The Apartment

A Novel

By: Ana Menéndez

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The Apartment

A Novel

By: Ana Menéndez

From the critically acclaimed author of In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd comes a new novel about the search for freedom and the power of community that spans decades of residents in one Florida apartment The Helena is an art deco apartment building that has witnessed the changing face of South Miami Beach for seventy years, observing the lives housed within. Among those who have called apartment 2B home are a Cuban concert pianist who performs in a nursing home; the widow of an intelligence officer raising her young daughter alone; a man waiting on a green card marriage to run its course so that he can divorce his wife and marry his lover, all of whom live together; a Tajik building manager with a secret identity; and a troubled young refugee named Lenin. Each tenant imbues 2B with energy that will either heal or overwhelm its latest resident, Lana, a mysterious woman struggling with her own past. Examining exile, homesickness, and displacement, The Apartment asks what—in our violent and lonely century—do we owe one another? If alone we are powerless before sorrow and isolation, it is through community and the sharing of our stories that we may survive and persevere.

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Catapult

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1640096485

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Book's by Ana Clavel

In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd

In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd

Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain

Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain

The Poetry of Ana Maria Fagundo

The Poetry of Ana Maria Fagundo

The Torments of Aristarco

The Torments of Aristarco

Books and Periodicals in Brazil 1768-1930

Books and Periodicals in Brazil 1768-1930

Mapping the Seas and Skies

Mapping the Seas and Skies

Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction

Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction

The Torments of Aristarco

The Torments of Aristarco

So Far From God

So Far From God

Quinceañera

Quinceañera

Amira

Amira

The Island

The Island

Anastasia

Anastasia

The Apartment

The Apartment

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