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El Conde Lucanor

By: Juan Manuel (Infante de Castilla, ()

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El Conde Lucanor

By: Juan Manuel (Infante de Castilla, ()

This is one of the major works of prose fiction produced in mediaeval Castile, and the greatest literary achievement of Juan Manuel. He was an important figure, in both literature and history being both the grandson of Castilian monarchs, and a distinguished soldier and politician.

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349

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Liverpool University Press

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ISBN 10

0856683264

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9780856683268

Mea Cuba

By: Guillermo Cabrena Infante

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Mea Cuba

By: Guillermo Cabrena Infante

Quirky, unpredictable, often hilarious, Infante's book tells us much about the effect of the Cuban revolution on Cuban literature." - Publishers Weekly With bitter irony, the author tells a story sadly repeated during this century. A dictatorship that silences the intellectuals, a regime that lies and kills, and a propaganda war that has yet to end. One of the best compilations of documents on recent Cuban history.

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522

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Macmillan

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ISBN 10

0374524467

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9780374524463

The Social Metabolism of Spanish Agriculture, 1900–2008

The Mediterranean Way Towards Industrialization

By: Manuel González de Molina,David Soto Fernández,Gloria Guzmán Casado,Juan Infante-Amate,Eduardo Aguilera Fernández,Jaime Vila Traver,Roberto García Ruiz

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The Social Metabolism of Spanish Agriculture, 1900–2008

The Mediterranean Way Towards Industrialization

By: Manuel González de Molina,David Soto Fernández,Gloria Guzmán Casado,Juan Infante-Amate,Eduardo Aguilera Fernández,Jaime Vila Traver,Roberto García Ruiz

This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more diverse picture to the complex and multidimensional reality of agrarian production. With a clear transdisciplinary ambition, the book applies an original and innovative theoretical and methodological tool, termed Agrarian Social Metabolism, combining Social Metabolism with an agroecological perspective. This integrative analysis is especially interesting for environmental scientists and policy makers being the best way to design sustainable agroecosystems and public policies capable of moving us towards a more sustainable food system. Spanish agricultural production has experienced impressive growth during the 20th century which has allowed it to ensure the supply of food to the population and even to transform some crops into important chapters in foreign trade. However, this growth has had its negative side since it was based on the injection of large amounts of external energy, on the destruction of employment and the loss of profitability of agricultural activity. But perhaps the most serious part is the strong impact of the current industrialised agriculture model on Spanish agroecosystems, exposed to the overexploitation of hydric resources, pollution of the water by nitrates and pesticides, high erosion rates and an alarming loss of biodiversity; damage which in the immediate future will end up reducing production capacity.

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296

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Springer Nature

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ISBN 10

3030209008

ISBN 13

9783030209001

The Arts of EncounterThe Arts of Encounter

Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain

By: Catherine Infante

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The Arts of EncounterThe Arts of Encounter

Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain

By: Catherine Infante

Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers of narrative fiction, theatre, and poetry were attuned to these debates, and religious imagery played an important role in how early modern writers chose to portray relations between Christians and Muslims. Drawing on a wide variety of literary genres as well as other textual and visual sources – including historical chronicles, travel memoirs, captives’ testimonies, and paintings – Catherine Infante traces the references to religious visual culture and the responses they incited in cross-confessional negotiations. She reveals some of the anxieties about what it meant to belong to different ethnic or religious communities and how these communities interacted with each other within the fluid boundaries of the Mediterranean world. Focusing on the religious image as a point of contact between individuals of diverse beliefs and practices, The Arts of Encounter presents an original and necessary perspective on how Christian-Muslim relations were perceived and conveyed in print.

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340

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University of Toronto Press

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ISBN 10

1487509324

ISBN 13

9781487509323

Map Drawn By A Spy

By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Map Drawn By A Spy

By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Found in an envelope in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's house after his death in 2005, Map Drawn by a Spy is the world-renowned writer's autobiographical account of the last four months he spent in his country. In 1965, following his mother's death, Infante returns to Cuba from Brussels, where he is employed as a cultural attaché at the Cuban embassy. When a few days later his permission to return to Europe is revoked, Infante begins a period of suspicion, uncertainty, and disillusion. Unable to leave the country, denied access to party officials, yet still receiving checks for his work in Belgium, Infante discovers the reality of Cuba under Fidel Castro: imprisonment of homosexuals, silencing of writers, the closing of libraries and newspapers, and the consolidation of power. Both lucid and sincere, Map Drawn by a Spy is a moving portrayal of a fractured society and a writer's struggles to come to terms with his national identity.

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394

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Archipelago

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ISBN 10

0914671782

ISBN 13

9780914671787

Three Trapped Tigers

By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Three Trapped Tigers

By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

From the Publisher: Centering around the recollections of a man separated both from his country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates a vision of life and the many colorful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society.

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510

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Dalkey Archive Press

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ISBN 10

1564783790

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9781564783790

Una Vida Plena...y M S

By: Jos Manuel Infante Guevara "Bulganin"

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Una Vida Plena...y M S

By: Jos Manuel Infante Guevara "Bulganin"

Este libro trata de una vida, una vida como pocas, pero al igual que muchas, llena de recuerdos; recuerdos amargos y recuerdos dulces; lágrimas y lamentos, alegrías y tristezas, dolor y regocijo, amor y pasión, ambición, esperanzas y anhelos. Y en fin, todo lo que se tiene que experimentar para forjarse un alma, y conocer la fe. Una vida como pocas, llena de lo anterior, y más aún. Aunque en la realidad, y visto a fondo, ninguna vida es igual a otras, pero el fin de todas, es el mismo... la felicidad. Si un hombre se pasa la vida obsesionado en busca de esta, no es muy seguro que la encuentre, porque normalmente, ella es la que llega a encontrarnos, y todo el mundo sabe que no es exclusiva de los que logran el poder y la riqueza Si no del espíritu que la merezca; Y no dudo que se le entregue al más jodido de los hombres, O al más rico, pero en la proporción, Que a cada quien le corresponde. Igual que con la autorrealización, Que no consiste en tener mucho, tener poco, o tener nada, Porque esta es personal, Y viene siendo la suma de todas las felicidades A lo largo de la vida. Como aquel que vive de la caza y de la pesca, Que la vive constante; O el obrero que de vez en cuando; O del empresario, que la siente a veces; O la del rico, que la tiene tal vez de vez en cuando; O el muy poderoso y millonario, Que siempre se la pasa tratando de encontrarla.

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143

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Palibrio

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1463337736

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9781463337735

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El Conde Lucanor

El Conde Lucanor

Mea Cuba

Mea Cuba

The Social Metabolism of Spanish Agriculture, 1900–2008

The Social Metabolism of Spanish Agriculture, 1900–2008

The Arts of EncounterThe Arts of Encounter

The Arts of EncounterThe Arts of Encounter

Map Drawn By A Spy

Map Drawn By A Spy

Three Trapped Tigers

Three Trapped Tigers

Una Vida Plena...y M S

Una Vida Plena...y M S

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