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The Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

A Critical Study

By: Guillermo Schmidhuber

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The Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

A Critical Study

By: Guillermo Schmidhuber

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote poetry, prose, and plays and is considered the greatest of Mexican women writers. She was an intellectual prodigy, reportedly mastering Latin in twenty lessons, and at sixteen she entered a convent so that she might continue her learning. One of the most influential early feminists in the New World, she answered a bishop's criticism in a letter that has become a classic defense of the education of women. She collected a private library of 4,000 volumes, but when she was told that her studies were delaying the progress of her spiritual education, she gave away her books and devoted herself to religious studies. Traditionally, scholars have attributed only one complete play to Sor Juana, but in 1989 Guillermo Schmidhuber discovered a lost play, The Second Celestina, which he proved conclusively to be Sor Juana's earliest comedia, co-authored with Agustin Salazar y Torres. Schmidhuber's critical study is the first dedicated exclusively to the secular plays and the first to confirm Sor Juana's authorship of three dramatic pieces. Combining literary history and criticism, Schmidhuber explores the life and originality of Sor Juana's dramas and helps elucidate her enigmatic genius. Though Sor Juana's work as a poet and intellectual has received increasing attention in the last decade, writing about her has rarely taken into account her role as dramatist. Schmidhuber helps correct this critical imbalance by examining Sor Juana's plays in light of dramatic theory. He finds elements of both mannerist and baroque theater in her work, sometimes both within the same play.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813189616

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9780813189611

A Sweet Scent of Death

By: Guillermo Arriaga

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A Sweet Scent of Death

By: Guillermo Arriaga

From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed screenwriter of Amores perros, 21 Grams, and Babel, A Sweet Scent of Death is Guillermo Arriaga's tale of deception, passion, and violence fused together by the tragic killing of a young girl in a small Mexican village. Early one morning in a deserted field, Ramón Castaños is confronted with the dead body of Adela, a lovely young girl, whom he had only admired from afar. Within an hour, rumor of the death of Ramón Castaños's girlfriend has spread to every corner of Loma Grande. This powder-trail of gossip ignites further violence when the villagers, thirsty for revenge, cast about for answers and hit upon the nomadic José Echeverri-Berriozábal, known as "the Gypsy." Honor then demands that Ramón must now live out his imaginary past in a brutal reality and prove his manhood by avenging Adela's cruel fate. Guillermo Arriaga is the author of The Night Buffalo and The Guillotine Squad. He has worked in television, radio, and film. Arriaga is the award-winning screenwriter of Amores perros, 21 Grams, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and Babel.

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161

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Simon and Schuster

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1416539484

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9781416539483

The Chain of Representation

Preferences, Institutions, and Policy across Presidential Systems

By: Brian F. Crisp,Santiago Olivella,Guillermo Rosas

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The Chain of Representation

Preferences, Institutions, and Policy across Presidential Systems

By: Brian F. Crisp,Santiago Olivella,Guillermo Rosas

A comparative analysis of why democratic institutions often produce dissonance between citizens' preferences and public policy in separation-of-powers regimes.

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279

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Cambridge University Press

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1108478018

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9781108478014

The Treasure of the Black Swan

By: Paco Roca,Guillermo Corral

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The Treasure of the Black Swan

By: Paco Roca,Guillermo Corral

This thrilling graphic novel, based on real events and which has been adapted into an AMC Plus miniseries (La Fortuna) starring Stanley Tucci, chronicles the intense legal and political battles sparked by the discovery of a priceless shipwreck.

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224

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1683965787

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9781683965787

An Affaire with God

By: Guillermo Torres

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An Affaire with God

By: Guillermo Torres

An Affaire with God, a commentary from a reader: Reynaldo Pareja I have finished reading your book, An Affaire with God. I will qualify it more like a wrestling match where the rules were established by the respect and the sincerity between you and the Creator. At the end, both attained victory but this outcome was the result of mainly your effort. What a powerful recount you made of what I would consider a titanic trek through the labyrinths of the spirit until you found an anchor, a firm rock, a point of Certainty where the search finally came to an end and the longing ceased. Congratulations. There are not many of us willing to attempt taking the inner path in such a consistent and meticulous manner with such honesty and depth. Many are willing to start the quest, though only a few get to the end, and even fewer are able to find answers to their questions. This happened because they got tired along the way and did throw the towel, yielding when confronted with the many hard tasks to undertake along the journey. Frequently, they became disillusioned and concluded that the sought end of the quest did not justify the effort to be exerted. I never got the impression that through the quest you ever contemplated giving up the search. You always followed your intuitions signals, which were clear and at the same time difficult to read. At no time, did I perceive that you were about to abandon the struggle or the effort that may bring you to the discovery of that unmovable Rock of Gibraltar; that inner place which would open the door to the other dimension: the transcendent world. That world that manifests itself as a continuous state of mind brightening your path, with an ever expanding light, that is bringing you closer to the Source. It is that focal point that illuminates all existence and provides meaning and orientation to everything. It is the primeval essence that permeates all with His own substance because He is the foundation of all. I found in your writings a new freshness; a new vigor of a way to feel and experience God in a direct manner through everything He has given us to communicate with Him: our intuitive and reflexive capacity; our introspection capacity; our analytical capacity; the capacity to feel the Divine presence in a direct manner, directly manifested in that site where our own divine presence resides. Only a few (very few), are able to attain this perception throughout a lifetime. It is a present, a gift from the Universe. It was given by God to whom you can be thankful for and continue enjoying every single day. Of this attainment, you will never get tired or be able to exhaust the flow that connects you with the Transcendent One, with the All, with the Omnipresent. Your way for finding God has been traversed by some. It is the path headed toward illumination. Even though it is different to those followed by the majority, it will bring you to the same destination provided by other valid means: To attain Gods inner experience. Nevertheless, what differentiates your approach from others is that, along the way, you got rid of all attachments received by you as an inculcated inheritance. You disowned any concept or image that was a part of previous indoctrination in order to start afresh an inner dialog, searching through experiences rather than concepts; direct experience instead of dogma; introspection instead of analysis. You have arrived to a degree of firmness and certainty that, without a doubt, there is nothing that could take away your direct and personal experience. Blessed are those that without seeing, understand; that without hearing, listen; that by searching, find; those that by knocking, get the door of the heart and the understanding, open.

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241

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453551573

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9781453551578

The Guillotine Squad

By: Guillermo Arriaga

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The Guillotine Squad

By: Guillermo Arriaga

Full of Arriaga's trademark humor and irony present in his films and novels, The Guillotine Squad takes us back to one of the most exciting times in Mexican history. Feliciano Velasco y Borbolla de la Fuente, a lawyer, sells his famous invention, the guillotine, to Pancho Villa, the renowned insurgent general of the Mexican Revolution. Soon Feliciano finds himself immersed in the logic of this simultaneously bizarre, heroic, and cruel world of Villa's troops.

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196

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Simon and Schuster

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1416538771

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9781416538776

Lecciones elementales de econom?a pol?tica

By: Guillermo Prieto

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Lecciones elementales de econom?a pol?tica

By: Guillermo Prieto

Lecciones elementales de econom?a pol?tica. Dadas en la escuela de jurisprudencia de M?xico en.

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674

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Рипол Классик

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5873475326

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9785873475322

A History of the Bolivian Labour Movement 1848-1971

By: Guillermo Lora

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A History of the Bolivian Labour Movement 1848-1971

By: Guillermo Lora

This book is an abridgement and translation of Guillermo Lora's five-volume history. It deals with the strengthening and radicalisation of Bolivia's organised labour movement, which culminated in the drastic revolutionary changes of the 1950s. The first half offers a reinterpretation of Bolivian history in the century preceding the revolution, viewed from the perspective of the working class. The second half discusses in more detail the major political events and doctrinal issues of a period in which the author, as secretary of the Trotskyist Partido Obrero Revolucionario, himself frequently played an active part. Despite the radical upheaval that occurred in the fifties and the mobilisation of broad sectors of the population around such radical objectives as direct property seizures, union-nominated ministers and union, military and worker control, the labour movement was unable to maintain its conquests in the 1960s. The concluding chapters describe the period of renewed military repression and the continuing efforts of the labour movement to resist.

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430

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Cambridge University Press

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0521100216

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9780521100212

Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners

By: Guillermo W. Rougier,Agustín G. Martinelli,Analía M. Forasiepi

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Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners

By: Guillermo W. Rougier,Agustín G. Martinelli,Analía M. Forasiepi

This book summarizes the most relevant published paleontological information, supplemented by our own original work, on the record of Mesozoic mammals’ evolution, their close ancestors and their immediate descendants. Mammals evolved in a systematically diverse world, amidst a dynamic geography that is at the root of the 6,500 species living today. Fossils of Mesozoic mammals, while rare and often incomplete, are key to understanding how mammals have evolved over more than 200 million years. Mesozoic mammals and their close relatives occur in a few dozen localities from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru spanning from the Mid- Triassic to the Late Cretaceous, with some lineages surviving the cataclysmic end of the Cretaceous period, into the Cenozoic of Argentina. There are roughly 25 recognized mammalian species distributed in several distinctive lineages, including australosphenidans, multituberculates, gondwanatherians, eutriconodonts, amphilestids and dryolestoids, among others. With its focus on diversity, systematics, phylogeny, and their impact on the evolution of mammals, there is no similar book currently available.

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388

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Springer Nature

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3030638626

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9783030638627

Social Urbanism in Latin America

Cases and Instruments of Planning, Land Policy and Financing the City Transformation with Social Inclusion

By: Carlos Leite,Claudia Acosta,Fernanda Militelli,Guillermo Jajamovich,Mariana Wilderom,Nabil Bonduki,Nadia Somekh,Tereza Herling

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Social Urbanism in Latin America

Cases and Instruments of Planning, Land Policy and Financing the City Transformation with Social Inclusion

By: Carlos Leite,Claudia Acosta,Fernanda Militelli,Guillermo Jajamovich,Mariana Wilderom,Nabil Bonduki,Nadia Somekh,Tereza Herling

This book highlights current concepts of Social Urbanism, the contemporary set of multiple and interdisciplinary urban studies that have emerged mainly from the complex realities of Latin American cities. The discussion that follows places special emphasis on public land policy and the innovative urban instruments developed in that region to promote social and territorial inclusion. Critical reflections throughout the pages of this book shed light into the local context of each case-study in order to understand their specific set of challenges and opportunities. Relevant lessons are extracted from the three cities here analyzed, the medium-scale city of Medellin, the large-scale city of Bogota, and the megacity of Sao Paulo, as well as from local innovative experiences in Argentina and Uruguay. These cities underwent promising transformation processes over two decades, applying planning and financing instruments of land policy which have produced significant shifts in the urban development paradigm in the region. The quest for social inclusion has emerged as the common denominator in these cities, awakening growing interest across several fields of urban studies, from public policies and city management to urban law, city financing, urban development, and innovative community participation processes. The book brings implications on urban land policy for transition cities in the Global South. The question of social inclusion in Global South cities is however far from being solved; the analysis presented in this book shows advances and hope, besides a long path still ahead, which can only be faced through a continuous and challenging incremental process. May this book be an incremental step.

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3030160122

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9783030160128

Effects of the Business Cycle on Social Indicators in Latin America and the Caribbean

When Dreams Meet Reality

By: Carlos A. Vegh,Guillermo Vuletin,Daniel Riera-Crichton,Jorge Pablo Puig,José Andrée Camarena,Luciana Galeano,Luis Morano,Lucila Venturi

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Effects of the Business Cycle on Social Indicators in Latin America and the Caribbean

When Dreams Meet Reality

By: Carlos A. Vegh,Guillermo Vuletin,Daniel Riera-Crichton,Jorge Pablo Puig,José Andrée Camarena,Luciana Galeano,Luis Morano,Lucila Venturi

After mediocre growth in 2018 of 0.7 percent. LAC is expected to perform only marginally better in 2019 (growth of 0.9 percent) followed by a much more solid growth of 2.1 percent in 2020. LAC will face both internal and external challenges during 2019. On the domestic front. the recession in Argentina; a slower than expected recovery in Brazil from the 2014-2015 recession, anemic growth in Mexico. and the continued deterioration of Venezuela. present the biggest challenges. On the external front. the sharp drop in net capital inflows to the region since early 2018 and the monetary policy normalization in the United States stand among the greatest perils. Furthermore, the recent increase in poverty in Brazil because of the recession points to the large effects that the business cycle may have on poverty. The core of this report argues that social indicators that are very sensitive to the business cycle may yield a highly misleading picture of permanent social gains in the region.

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World Bank Publications

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1464814139

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9781464814136

Book's by Guillermo Corral

The Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

The Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

A Sweet Scent of Death

A Sweet Scent of Death

The Chain of Representation

The Chain of Representation

The Treasure of the Black Swan

The Treasure of the Black Swan

An Affaire with God

An Affaire with God

The Guillotine Squad

The Guillotine Squad

Lecciones elementales de econom?a pol?tica

Lecciones elementales de econom?a pol?tica

A History of the Bolivian Labour Movement 1848-1971

A History of the Bolivian Labour Movement 1848-1971

Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners

Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners

Social Urbanism in Latin America

Social Urbanism in Latin America

Effects of the Business Cycle on Social Indicators in Latin America and the Caribbean

Effects of the Business Cycle on Social Indicators in Latin America and the Caribbean

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