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Mr. G's Battle Cry! La Causa De La Raza Wants You

By: Javier Gomez

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Mr. G's Battle Cry! La Causa De La Raza Wants You

By: Javier Gomez

A wave of revolution swept across the United States in the sixties and the seventies. And across California, Cesar Chavez sparked the Chicano civil rights movement in the barrio, giving prominence to new leaders, new voices, and new demands for freedom from injustice and oppression. For young Javier Gomez, this battle cry would be the beginning of a fight to stand up to injustice in his home of East LA. In Mr. Gs Battle Cry!, author and civil rights activist Javier Gomez chronicles his march into the streets of East LA and beyond as he and his Chicano and Chicana brothers and sisters take up the cause of the civil rights movement and create hope for a better futureagainst great odds. Gomez also explores the history of his people, showing how their culture and their spirit was renewed during this historic era of equality and justice. Javier Gomez was inspired by the Chicano civil rights movement, and today his battle cry endures. Mr. Gs Battle Cry! gives voice to the enlightened individuals who fought, side by side, at protests, and in the streets, against the institutions of injustice that sought to keep the people silent. And today, this cultural revolution has left a living legacy of change, progress, and hope.

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1546248501

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The Impostor

A True Story

By: Javier Cercas

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The Impostor

A True Story

By: Javier Cercas

MAN BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the acclaimed author of Outlaws • For decades, Enric Marco was revered as a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a crusader for justice, and a Holocaust survivor. But in May 2005, at the height of his renown, he was exposed as a fraud. Marco was never in a Nazi concentration camp. And perhaps the rest of his past was fabricated, too, a combination of his delusions of grandeur and his compulsive lying. In this hypnotic narrative, which combines fiction and nonfiction, detective story and war story, biography and autobiography, Javier Cercas sets out to unravel Marco’s enigma. With both profound compassion and lacerating honesty, Cercas probes one man’s gigantic lie to explore the deepest, most flawed parts of our humanity.

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Vintage

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0525434232

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Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha

By: Juan Javier Pescador

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Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha

By: Juan Javier Pescador

In this thoroughly researched work, Juan Javier Pescador traces the history of popular devotion to the Santo Niño de Atocha, one of the the most prominent religious figures for households between Zacatecas, Mexico, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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University of New Mexico Press

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082634710X

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La sociedad que no amaba a las mujeres

By: Javier Fenández Aguado,Lourdes Molinero

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La sociedad que no amaba a las mujeres

By: Javier Fenández Aguado,Lourdes Molinero

¿Qué tienen en común Isabel la Católica, Teresa de Jesús, Clara Campoamor, Frida Khalo y Coco Chanel? Todas fueron mujeres excepcionales y vencieron las trabas de una sociedad que no favorecía el desarrollo de su talento por el mero hecho de ser mujer. Esta obra recoge los perfiles de 60 mujeres que vivieron entre el siglo XIV a. C: y 1978, muchas de ellas grandes desconocidas para el gran público. Todas ellas tenían condición de líderes, pero ejercieron ese liderazgo de manera muy diferente y no siempre de forma positiva. De cada una de ellas se extraen numerosas enseñanzas de completa actualidad para los profesionales de hoy, al margen de su sexo.

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Editorial Almuzara

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8483566699

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9788483566695

Mi Patria Desconocida

By: Javier Rodriguez

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Mi Patria Desconocida

By: Javier Rodriguez

Mi patria desconocida: es mensaje de amor, amistad, una aventura que tiene mucho humor y diversion, con un lenguaje simple. Disfrutalo. De repente se transportaron a un mundo de placer y ya no lo pudieron evitar, ya que los dos lo deseaban, consumar su amor en una entrega total de dos almas y dos cuerpos que se aman. El exquisito embeleso los llevo a un extasis de amor, desconocido, pero placentero para los dos. En el rostro de Mary se veia un color hermoso y resplandeciente. Pedro la acariciaba como queriendo detener el tiempo, que ese momento sublime se quedara ahi entre ellos, para siempre y por toda una eternidad. --No Javi, yo tengo mas de lo que necesito, el dinero no es las vida. Con el abrazo que me dieron ayer, me basto para sentirme bien pagado, les aseguro que yo los quiero igual. --Asi se habla Pachito --dijo David emocionado--, la amistad entre los hombres es lo que mas cuenta en las vida. La amistad no tiene credos, limites, ni nacionalidades, cuando nace una amistad no importa de donde seas, que creas, o que posicion tienes, a una amistad sincera no le importa si eres rico o pobre, siempre perdura toda una vida.

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Fulton Books, Inc.

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1638602468

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9781638602460

Dystopias of Infamy

Insult and Collective Identity in Early Modern Spain

By: Javier Irigoyen-García

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Dystopias of Infamy

Insult and Collective Identity in Early Modern Spain

By: Javier Irigoyen-García

Insults, scorn, and verbal abuse—frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter—are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and reinforce the collective identity of those perceived to be a threat to an idealized society. In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Spain. Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary works, archival research, religious and political literature, and iconographic documents, Dystopias of Infamy traces how the production of insults haunts the imaginary of power, provoking latent anxieties about individual and collective resistance to subjectification. Of particular note is Cervantes’s tendency to parody regulatory fantasies about infamy throughout his work, lampooning repressive law for its paradoxical potential to instigate the very defiance it fears.

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Rutgers University Press

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1684484022

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Fixing Democracy

Why Constitutional Change Often Fails to Enhance Democracy in Latin America

By: Javier Corrales

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Fixing Democracy

Why Constitutional Change Often Fails to Enhance Democracy in Latin America

By: Javier Corrales

The study of institutions, a core concept in comparative politics, has produced many rich and influential theories on the economic and political effects of institutions, yet it has been less successful at theorizing their origins. In Fixing Democracy, Javier Corrales develops a theory of institutional origins that concentrates on constitutions and levels of power within them. He reviews numerous Latin American constituent assemblies and constitutional amendments to explore why some democracies expand rather than restrict presidential powers and why this heightened presidentialism discourages democracy. His signal theoretical contribution is his elaboration on power asymmetries. Corrales determines that conditions of reduced power asymmetry make constituent assemblies more likely to curtail presidential powers, while weaker opposition and heightened power asymmetry is an indicator that presidential powers will expand. The bargain-based theory that he uses focuses on power distribution and provides a more accurate variable in predicting actual constitutional outcomes than other approaches based on functionalism or ideology. While the empirical focus is Latin America, Fixing Democracy contributes a broadly applicable theory to the scholarship both institutions and democracy.

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Oxford University Press

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0190868899

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9780190868895

Miguel Blesa. El lobo de Caja Madrid

Gestión, lujo y ruina de un depredador financiero

By: Javier Castro-Villacañas Pérez,Luis Suárez Jordana de Pozas

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Miguel Blesa. El lobo de Caja Madrid

Gestión, lujo y ruina de un depredador financiero

By: Javier Castro-Villacañas Pérez,Luis Suárez Jordana de Pozas

El lobo de Caja Madrid es la historia del paso depredador de Miguel Blesa al frente de la que fuera la cuarta entidad financiera de nuestro país. La Caja de Ahorros de Madrid fue la más antigua de todas las españolas. Fundada en 1702, su finalidad inicial fue atender las necesidades de los sectores sociales más desfavorecidos, dándoles protección y apoyo financiero a través de préstamos gratuitos, garantizados con alhajas, prendas y otros bienes. Comoentidad financiera sin ánimo de lucro funcionó a la perfección hasta que en 1996, de la mano del entonces presidente del Gobierno José María Aznar y gracias al apoyo de CC.OO., llegó a su presidencia Miguel Blesa. La suya ha quedado como muestra de una de las más desastrosas gestiones de nuestro sistema bancario, puesto que nos ha costado a todos los españoles 22.424 millones de euros para evitar la quiebra de Bankia.A lo largo de estas páginas, los autores diseccionan a un personaje, Miguel Blesa, y su vida desaforada (llena de cacerías, cruceros, lujo...), sus ruinosos negocios en Miami, Iberia, Martinsa o SosCuétara, el escándalo de las preferentes, la expansión del ladrillo y, en definitiva, la ruina de Caja Madrid por los abusos y desmanes de un depredador y de su entorno político, que queda aquí al descubierto

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La Esfera de los Libros

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8490602220

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Calidad en sitios web

Método de análisis general, e-commerce, imágenes, hemerotecas y turismo

By: Pedraza-Jiménez, Rafael,Codina Bonilla, Lluís,Guallar Delgado, Javier

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Calidad en sitios web

Método de análisis general, e-commerce, imágenes, hemerotecas y turismo

By: Pedraza-Jiménez, Rafael,Codina Bonilla, Lluís,Guallar Delgado, Javier

Calidad, evaluación, análisis, sitios web? ¿Qué tienen en común todas estas palabras clave para que merezcan la atención del público de esta colección? El punto que lo une todo es la necesidad de un amplio y a la vez muy diverso colectivo profesional de saber qué es lo que hace que un sitio web responda a criterios de calidad. Pongamos el ejemplo de un profesional de la web que recibe el encargo de auditar los sitios web de una empresa de comercio electrónico: quiere estar segura de que está a la altura de sus competidores internacionales; o el de un equipo de investigadores académicos que se pregunta cómo están incorporando las webs de turismo las más recientes posibilidades de interacción debidas a la web 2.0. Lo que tienen en común escenarios y objetivos tan diversos es que, en todos ellos, sus protagonistas necesitarán disponer de alguna herramienta que los ayude a determinar qué necesitan saber en relación con una web determinada o un conjunto de sitios web. Este libro intenta aportar esos instrumentos.

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Editorial UOC

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8491162992

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9788491162995

The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Political Economy

By: Javier Santiso,Jeff Dayton-Johnson

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The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Political Economy

By: Javier Santiso,Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Understanding Latin America's recent economic performance calls for a multidisciplinary analysis. This handbook looks at the interaction of economics and politics in the region and includes a number of contributions from top academic experts who have also served as key policy makers (a former president, ministers of finance, a central bank governor), reflecting upon the challenges of reform.

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OUP USA

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0199747504

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9780199747504

The Superfamily Mactroidea (Mollusca:Bivalvia) in American Waters

An Illustrated Catalogue of Recent Species

By: Javier H. Signorelli

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The Superfamily Mactroidea (Mollusca:Bivalvia) in American Waters

An Illustrated Catalogue of Recent Species

By: Javier H. Signorelli

This book identifies all valid species belonging to the superfamily Mactroidea living in American waters, distributed across fourteen biogeographical provinces. It also provides an updated classification of the widely occurring Mactroidea superfamily, which comprises eight subfamilies grouped into four families: Mactridae (Lamarck, 1809); Anatinellidae (Deshayes, J.Gray 1853); Cardiliidae (Fischer, 1887) and Mesodesmatidae (J. Gray, 1840). The species included in this superfamily are known to have existed in North America since the Early Cretaceous.

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Springer Nature

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3030290972

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9783030290979

Central Catalan and Swabian

A Study in the Framework of the Typology of Syllable and Word Languages

By: Javier Caro Reina

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Central Catalan and Swabian

A Study in the Framework of the Typology of Syllable and Word Languages

By: Javier Caro Reina

In contrast to previous approaches to phonological typology, the typology of syllable and word languages relates the patterns of syllable structure, phoneme inventory, and phonological processes to the relevance of the prosodic domains of the syllable and the phonological word. This volume proves how useful this kind of typology is for the understanding of language variation and change. By providing a synchronic and diachronic account of the syllable and the phonological word in Central Catalan (Catalan dialect group) and Swabian (Alemannic dialect group), the author shows how the evolution of Old Catalan and Old Alemannic can be explained in terms of a typological drift toward an increased relevance of the phonological word. Further, the description of Central Catalan and Swabian allows to identify common strategies for profiling the phonological word and thus makes an important contribution to research on prosodic phonology.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110573067

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9783110573060

Coyame Es Mi Pueblo

By: Francisco Javier Morales Natera

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Coyame Es Mi Pueblo

By: Francisco Javier Morales Natera

Coyame is the wide-ranging account of a small town in Mexico. The author provides readers with a panoramic view of history from the Mayans to the Villa revolutionaries and beyond. The history of the region is brought into stark detail with the inclusion of the tales, legends, and family histories of Coyame’s colorful residents. Morales presents the information with great care and passion; both historians and casual readers will benefit from the candor and whimsy that mark this unique contribution.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479734551

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Repensar la sostenibilidad

By: ENRÍQUEZ SÁNCHEZ José María ,DUCE DÍAZ Carmen ,MIGUEL GONZÁLEZ Luis Javier

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Repensar la sostenibilidad

By: ENRÍQUEZ SÁNCHEZ José María ,DUCE DÍAZ Carmen ,MIGUEL GONZÁLEZ Luis Javier

La sostenibilidad, cualidad de lo sostenible, hace referencia a un proceso que puede alargarse en el tiempo. Cuando este proceso lo referimos a cuestiones socio-ecológicas, comprobamos cómo, desde hace ya largo tiempo, no son pocas las voces acreditadas que han puesto sobre aviso del progresivo deterioro ecológico y sus consecuencias perjudiciales para la vida humana. Nuestra obra parte de estas negatividades para repensar la idea de sostenibilidad en sus justos términos, y así dar cabida a una variedad de aportaciones que ayuden a restituimos dentro de los límites ecosistémicos.

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Editorial UNED

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8436276566

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9788436276565

United States-Venezuela Relations Since the 1990s

By: Javier Corrales,Carlos A. Romero

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United States-Venezuela Relations Since the 1990s

By: Javier Corrales,Carlos A. Romero

Oil makes up one-third of Venezuela's entire GDP, and the United States is far and away Venezuela's largest trading partner. Relations between Venezuela and the United States, traditionally close for most of the last two centuries, began to fray as the end of the Cold War altered the international environment. U.S.-Venezuela Relations since the 1990s explores relations between these two countries since 1999, when Hugo Chavez came to office and proceeded to change Venezuela's historical relation with the United States and other democracies. The authors analyze the reasons for rising bilateral conflict, the decision-making process in Venezuela, the role played by public and private actors in shaping foreign policy, the role of other powers such as China, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia in shaping U.S.-Venezuelan relations, the role of Venezuela in Cuba and Colombia, and the impact of broader international dynamics in the bi-lateral relations.

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Routledge

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0415895243

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9780415895248

Ella lo quiso

By: Javier Martín Betanzos

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Ella lo quiso

By: Javier Martín Betanzos

¿Un psicópata o un psiquiatra con demasiada ambición? ¿Quién es el autor de los crímenes? En la sala de espera de la consulta de un psiquiatra se hallan varias personas. El protagonista de la novela, Bruno Zambrano, una persona educada en un entorno problemático, muerde el pezón de una de las pacientes. A partir de ahí se narran los acontecimientos que hacen que el protagonista se encuentre aguardando a que llegue el psiquiatra. Una serie de incidentes va marcando la vida de Bruno. Paralelamente, ocurren unos asesinatos que, aunque al principio parecen conectados, solo al final se descubren sus protagonistas y motivaciones. Hay una serie de hechos que dificulta que se aclaren estos acontecimientos, coincidiendo y divergiendo en ocasiones sus aparentes causas y escenarios. El autor de algunos de los asesinatos se ve acorralado, por lo que tiene que tomar algunas decisiones que no había previsto. El final imprevisto de la historia, así como distintos hechos novedosos que ocurren en una ciudad pequeña, algo impensable para sus habitantes, solo puede aclararse gracias a la perseverancia y determinación de la investigadora. Esto permitirá al lector conocer los detalles que llevan a la solución del caso y a provocarle una tensión sostenida hasta el final.

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Caligrama

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8417505792

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9788417505790

Process Analysis and Simulation in Chemical Engineering

By: Iván Darío Gil Chaves,Javier Ricardo Guevara López,José Luis García Zapata,Alexander Leguizamón Robayo,Gerardo Rodríguez Niño

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Process Analysis and Simulation in Chemical Engineering

By: Iván Darío Gil Chaves,Javier Ricardo Guevara López,José Luis García Zapata,Alexander Leguizamón Robayo,Gerardo Rodríguez Niño

This book offers a comprehensive coverage of process simulation and flowsheeting, useful for undergraduate students of Chemical Engineering and Process Engineering as theoretical and practical support in Process Design, Process Simulation, Process Engineering, Plant Design, and Process Control courses. The main concepts related to process simulation and application tools are presented and discussed in the framework of typical problems found in engineering design. The topics presented in the chapters are organized in an inductive way, starting from the more simplistic simulations up to some complex problems.

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Springer

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3319148125

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Hombre Despierto, Hombre Dormido

By: Javier Solana

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Hombre Despierto, Hombre Dormido

By: Javier Solana

De cómo tomar consejo de un Hombre Despierto para sobrevivir en México, del Carnaval al Apocalipsis, pasando por las Fiestas Patrias del Bicentenario, mientras llega la Navidad (el nacimiento de Dios en cada uno de nosotros) sin perder el optimismo. Y de cómo hacer un viaje maravilloso al corazón de ti mismo, y descubrir tesoros que te permitirán no solamente sobrevivir sino vivir en plena Armonía con el Universo, a pesar de la catástrofe. Amén.

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Palibrio

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1617645672

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Even the Darkest Night

A Terra Alta Novel

By: Javier Cercas

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Even the Darkest Night

A Terra Alta Novel

By: Javier Cercas

INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER • WINNER OF SPAIN’S BIGGEST LITERARY PRIZE • The first book in the acclaimed series: Barcelona detective Melchor Marín is sent to the countryside to investigate a horrific double murder. Before long, it becomes clear that nothing about the case is quite as it seems. Melchor, the son of a prostitute, went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that changed his life: Les Misérables. Then his mother was murdered. He decided to become a cop. This new case, in Terra Alta, a remote region of rural Catalonia—the murder of a wealthy local man and his wife—will turn Melchor’s life upside down yet again. Even the Darkest Night is a thought-provoking, elegantly constructed thriller about justice, revenge, and, above all, the struggles of a righteous man trying to find his place in a corrupt world.

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0593318811

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El idioma del liderazgo

By: Javier Fernández Aguado

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El idioma del liderazgo

By: Javier Fernández Aguado

En tiempos de una profunda crisis que ha llevado a la incertidumbre a las organizaciones, es necesario que los líderes que las dirigen reúnan una serie de habilidades imprescindibles para llevarlas a buen puerto. Como defiende el autor, el liderazgo es un idioma que algunas personas son capaces de aprender mientras a otras les resulta muy complicado lograrlo. En este libro, Javier Fernández Aguado sintetiza en 1.000 breves consejos todo aquello que debe reunir un directivo para ser un verdadero líder. Para ello, los agrupa en 51 bloques temáticos que tocan todos los aspectos necesarios para desarrollar su talento y poder dirigir personas y organizaciones en momentos de máxima dificultad. En esas 1.000 píldoras, el autor sintetiza sus años de estudio y de trabajo como reconocido experto internacional en el gobierno de personas y organizaciones. Son breves enseñanzas llenas de profundidad, de conocimiento y, a la vez, de un gran sentido práctico, válidas para cualquier tipo de directivo que quiera mejorar su rendimiento y el de los que tiene a su alrededor.

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8483566982

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9788483566985

Manual prático de escrita em português

Developing Writing Skills in Portuguese

By: Javier Muñoz-Basols,Yolanda Pérez Sinusía,Marianne David,Clélia F. Donovan

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Manual prático de escrita em português

Developing Writing Skills in Portuguese

By: Javier Muñoz-Basols,Yolanda Pérez Sinusía,Marianne David,Clélia F. Donovan

Manual prático de escrita em português/Developing Writing Skills in Portuguese provides intermediate- and advanced-level students with the necessary skills to become competent and confident writers in the Portuguese language. With a focus on writing as a craft, Manual prático de escrita em português offers a rich selection of original materials including narrative texts, expository essays, opinion pieces and newspaper articles. Each chapter covers a specific kind of writing and is designed to help tackle the material in small units. The book aids students in crafting clear, coherent and cohesive texts by means of guided practice and step-by-step activities. Suitable for use as a classroom text or as a self-study course, this book is ideal for students at level B2 – C2 of the Common European Framework for Languages or at Intermediate High – Advanced High on the ACTFL proficiency scales.

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Routledge

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1351969277

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Developing Writing Skills in Spanish

By: Javier Muñoz-Basols,Yolanda Pérez Sinusía,Marianne David

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Developing Writing Skills in Spanish

By: Javier Muñoz-Basols,Yolanda Pérez Sinusía,Marianne David

Developing Writing Skills in Spanish provides intermediate and advanced level students with the necessary skills to become competent and confident writers in the Spanish language. With a focus on writing as a craft, Developing Writing Skills in Spanish offers a rich selection of original materials including narrative texts, expository essays, opinion pieces and newspaper articles. Each chapter covers a specific kind of writing and is designed to help tackle the material in small units. The book aids students in crafting clear, coherent and cohesive manuscripts by means of guided practice and step-by-step activities. Key features: Guidance on how to structure a variety of texts: narrative, descriptive, expository, argumentative, academic, journalistic, legal and scientific. Sequenced exercises on style, writing conventions, word choice, syntax and grammar. Reference lists and tables with specialized vocabulary, transition words and other useful expressions. Strategies and tips for planning manuscripts, brainstorming ideas, vocabulary enrichment, editing and proofreading. Includes original samples, as well as fragments from newspapers, well-known literary works and essays by notable Hispanic authors and journalists. Website with additional activities to reinforce the content of each chapter and a teacher's guide with valuable support materials at: www.developingwritingskills.com Designed as a classroom text, self-study material or simply as a resource on writing, Developing Writing Skills in Spanish is the ideal supplement for all intermediate to advanced students of Spanish.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136342001

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9781136342004

Iberian Military Politics

Controlling the Armed Forces during Dictatorship and Democratisation

By: José Javier Olivas Osuna

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Iberian Military Politics

Controlling the Armed Forces during Dictatorship and Democratisation

By: José Javier Olivas Osuna

By applying the nodality, authority, treasure and organisation public policy framework and neo-institutional theory to the dictatorship of Salazar and Franco respectively, this study explores the instruments that governments used to control the military and explains the divergent paths of civil-military relations in 20th Century Portugal and Spain.

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1137325380

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La Huida

By: Javier Duhart

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La Huida

By: Javier Duhart

La Huida una novela de Acción continua que atrapa. Manuel el protagonista, un joven acusado injustamente purga una larga condena, pero logra huir del penal de alta seguridad. Aprovechando un motín de presos que se forma al estar colectando piedras a las orillas del río cercano al penal necesarias para aumentar la altura de bardas. Corre desesperadamente en compañía de José otro reo, peligroso, un verdadero asesino, convirtiéndose en incómodo compañero, que mata por solo el placer de hacerlo. Después que logran evadirse de los custodios que los persiguen encuentran al paso a tres alpinistas en una cabaña a quienes sorprenden y José asesina a sangre fría. Más tarde llegan a un poblado llamado Pueblo Seco, en donde José pretende violar a una pueblerina y desconoce a Manuel por oponerse a sus deseos e intenta matarlo; pero con la ayuda del abuelo de la muchacha logra vencer a José. Resultando esta una de muchas aventuras que corre Manuel, Finalmente cae enamorado, aunque también encuentra obstáculos para conseguir a su mujer.

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1617648426

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Environmental Innovation and Firm Performance

A Natural Resource-Based View

By: Javier Amores Salvadó,Gregorio Martín de Castro,Miriam Delgado Verde,José Emilio Navas López

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Environmental Innovation and Firm Performance

A Natural Resource-Based View

By: Javier Amores Salvadó,Gregorio Martín de Castro,Miriam Delgado Verde,José Emilio Navas López

The links between a firm's competitiveness and the natural environment have been studied since the mid 90's. This volume explores, both theoretically and empirically, the relationships between environmental product innovation, green image and firm performance.

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1137264047

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¿Trabajar fuera?

By: Javier Arribas,Jorge Cagigas

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¿Trabajar fuera?

By: Javier Arribas,Jorge Cagigas

Con un mercado laboral agónico, no es de extrañar que la expatriación sea una de las mayores preocupaciones en el mundo de los Recursos Humanos. Por primera vez, muchísimas compañías españolas, hasta ahora solo activas en el mercado doméstico, ven su salida a otros países como la mejor opción para seguir creciendo y desarrollándose. Ante esta situación tanto los profesionales de Recursos Humanos como toda aquella persona interesada en conocer las implicaciones de una asignación internacional necesitan estar al tanto de cuáles son los aspectos críticos a la hora de gestionar de manera eficaz la movilidad internacional. Para ello RED EXPAT, iniciativa española nacida en 2001, en la que participan los equipos de Recursos Humanos de más de 100 compañías, aproximadamente 450 profesionales de dicho sector, especializados en la gestión de movilidad internacional, se ha encargado de la coordinación de este manual práctico. En ¿Trabajar fuera? se encontrarán las mejores respuestas a preguntas tales sobre cómo llevar a cabo con éxito la expatriación de los empleados de una empresa a un puesto de trabajo en otro país, qué obligaciones fiscales, laborales y de Seguridad Social tienen la empresa y el trabajador, qué retribuciones, beneficios y seguros son los más apropiados, cómo encontrar una vivienda adecuada, qué problemas presenta si se muda con su familia o si hacen falta visados o documentos especiales, así como los aspectos claves en la incorporación a España de nacionales de otros países.

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Preguntas sin respuesta

By: Javier Sedano

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Preguntas sin respuesta

By: Javier Sedano

Preguntas sin respuesta resuelve las dudas que despierta en Jaime el apasionante relato autobiográfico que le narra Alejandro, protagonista de Tras las puertas del corazón, en la primera parte de esta sensacional trilogía. La segunda novela de Javier Sedano explora los distintos caminos que nos llevan hasta el verdadero amor. Mostrándonos, con excelente maestría, las distintas formas de amar y entender el amor. Jaime viajará a Nueva York para descubrir más sobre su recién descubierto pasado. Allí conocerá a la familia de su padre y explorará su sexualidad sin tapujos, mostrándonos abiertamente sus más profundos sentimientos, viviendo una relación que le llevará a plantearse su verdadera sexualidad. Preguntas sin respuesta es la obra más mística e intimista de Javier Sedano en la que continua su defensa al nudismo y al amor libre. ¿Es posible amar y ser amado por dos personas a la vez? ¿Serías capaz de entregar todo tu amor a dos personas distintas? Éstas son algunas de las preguntas que Javier Sedano se hace y a las que sólo tú mismo podrás dar una respuesta. “El amor no se comparte, se entrega”

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8415294824

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In Harm's Way

The Dynamics of Urban Violence

By: Javier Auyero,María Fernanda Berti

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In Harm's Way

The Dynamics of Urban Violence

By: Javier Auyero,María Fernanda Berti

A harrowing look at violence among Argentina's urban poor Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides—often involving young people—continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or knifings are an all-too-common sight. In Harm's Way takes a harrowing look at daily life in Arquitecto Tucci, examining the sources, uses, and forms of interpersonal violence among the urban poor at the very margins of Argentine society. Drawing on more than two years of immersive fieldwork, sociologist Javier Auyero and María Berti, an elementary school teacher in the neighborhood, provide a powerful and disarmingly intimate account of what it is like to live under the constant threat of violence. They argue that being physically aggressive becomes a habitual way of acting in poor and marginalized communities, and that violence is routine and carries across various domains of public and private life. Auyero and Berti trace how different types of violence—be it criminal, drug related, sexual, or domestic—overlap, intersect, and blur together. They show how the state is complicit in the production of harm, and describe the routines and relationships that residents, particularly children, establish to cope with and respond to the constant risk that besieges them and their loved ones. Provocative, eye-opening, and extraordinarily moving, In Harm's Way is destined to become a classic work on violence at the urban margins.

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Princeton University Press

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0691173036

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A Light in the Darkness: The Music and Life of Joaquín Rodrigo

By: Javier Suárez-Pajares,Walter Aaron Clark

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A Light in the Darkness: The Music and Life of Joaquín Rodrigo

By: Javier Suárez-Pajares,Walter Aaron Clark

A composer of singular vision. Joaquín Rodrigo (1901–1999) is best known as the composer of one of the most popular works of music in the twentieth century—the Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra. It’s been featured in movies and television commercials and remains a staple of concert programs for orchestras around the world. Miles Davis said, “After listening to it for a couple of weeks…I couldn’t get it out of my mind,” and he used it as inspiration for his album Sketches of Spain. But as Javier Suárez-Pajares and Walter Aaron Clark reveal in this musical biography—the first complete study in English—Rodrigo’s work and influence extend far beyond that singular composition. A Light in the Darkness takes us through Rodrigo’s childhood in Valencia, the onset of blindness at the age of three, and the beginnings of his musical education. He achieved some early success in Spain as a composer before moving to Paris in 1927 to advance his studies, following in the footsteps of other eminent Spanish composers like Isaac Albéniz, Joaquín Turina, and Manuel de Falla. There he enrolled in courses with composer Paul Dukas, met the woman who would become his wife, and earned the respect and friendship of Falla, who became his champion. Along the way, Rodrigo’s musical voice developed and matured as his horizons widened. Suárez-Pajares and Clark present a definitive account of the making of Rodrigo’s celebrated guitar concerto, even as they capture the breadth of Rodrigo’s compositional output, from solo works for piano and guitar through chamber music and vocal works to concertos and orchestral pieces. As they demonstrate, Rodrigo’s music is unmistakably Spanish, but with his own unique accent. Rodrigo’s life and career spanned a period of great tumult in Spain, and he had to navigate strong, shifting political and cultural currents—before, during, and after Franco. An authoritative life of one of the twentieth century’s great musical geniuses, A Light in the Darkness becomes a stunning tale of how art gets made under even the most challenging circumstances.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324004460

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Latino Image Makers in Hollywood

Performers, Filmmakers and Films Since the 1960s

By: Frank Javier Garcia Berumen

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Latino Image Makers in Hollywood

Performers, Filmmakers and Films Since the 1960s

By: Frank Javier Garcia Berumen

Latinos have been part of the Hollywood film industry for more than 100 years, yet beyond the remarkable success of a few, their visibility and clout have generally not reflected their significance in American society. Worse, the Latino image has suffered from widespread stereotyping in film, and performers face unjustified constraints in the kinds of roles available to them. Decade by decade from 1960 onward, this book analyzes important films made by or about Latinos, details the careers of Latino performers and filmmakers of the time, and analyzes how film portrayals of Latino characters and subjects connect with political and social trends of each decade. It discusses the role of gender, social class, and ethnicity in film portrayals and provides an overview of the diverse and dynamic Latino community in the United States, while celebrating a substantial and enduring contribution to Hollywood film history.

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McFarland

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1476614113

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The Anatomy of a Moment

By: Javier Cercas

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The Anatomy of a Moment

By: Javier Cercas

In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Franco's dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for a new prime minister - Colonel Tejero and a band of right-wing soldiers burst into the Spanish parliament and began firing shots. Only three members of Congress defied the incursion and did not dive for cover,: Adolfo Suarez the then outgoing prime minister, who had steered the country away from the Franco era, Guttierez Mellado, a conservative general who had loyally served democracy, and Santiago Carillo, the head of the Communist Party, which had just been legalised. In The Anatomy of a Moment, Cercas examines a key moment in Spanish history, just as he did so successfully in his Spanish Civil War novel, Soldiers of Salamis. This is the only coup ever to have been caught on film as it was happening, which, as Cercas says, 'guaranteed both its reality and its unreality'. Every February a few seconds of the video are shown again and Spaniards congratulate themselves for standing up for democracy, but Cercas says that things were very quiet that afternoon and evening while all over Spain people stayed inside waiting for the coup to be defeated .... or to triumph.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408822105

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Traducción y accesibilidad audiovisual

By: Talaván Zanón, Noa,Ávila Cabrera, José Javier,Costal Criado, Tomás

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Traducción y accesibilidad audiovisual

By: Talaván Zanón, Noa,Ávila Cabrera, José Javier,Costal Criado, Tomás

Traducción y accesibilidad audiovisual ofrece un breve pero riguroso recorrido a través de la historia de la traducción audiovisual, que va ganando cada vez más fuerza en el mundo académico conforme se consolidan sus líneas de investigación y va adquiriendo mayor relevancia pública, gracias a su valiosa contribución a la accesibilidad universal y al diseño para todos. Este manual sintetiza los conceptos básicos, así como los últimos avances de la literatura especializada en el campo de la traducción audiovisual, procurando acercarlos a cualquier lector interesado, empleando un tono divulgativo y describiendo de forma pormenorizada en qué consisten técnicas como el subtitulado, el doblaje y la accesibilidad en los medios. Además de un apartado bibliográfico muy completo y actualizado, todos aquellos que deseen profundizar en esta materia tan apasionante encontrarán en esta obra una serie de capítulos de lectura amena que vienen acompañados de actividades formativas y de tareas de aplicación práctica.

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8491164707

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Moors Dressed as Moors

Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia

By: Javier Irigoyen-García

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Moors Dressed as Moors

Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia

By: Javier Irigoyen-García

In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources to reveal the currency of Moorish clothing in early modern Iberian society.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487501609

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9781487501600

Modernizing the Nation

Spain During the Reign of Alfonso XIII, 1902-1931

By: Javier Moreno-Luzon

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Modernizing the Nation

Spain During the Reign of Alfonso XIII, 1902-1931

By: Javier Moreno-Luzon

Offers a short history of Spain during a crucial period, the reign of Alfonso XIII (1902-1931). This book provides fresh insight into the period as one that was actually characterised by extensive modernisation in Spanish society and politics.

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Liverpool University Press

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1837641358

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9781837641352

Rozando las estrellas

By: Javier Sedano

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Rozando las estrellas

By: Javier Sedano

Javier Sedano completa con Rozando las estrellas su alegato a favor del modelo de vida naturista y del amor libre en una novela impregnada de misticismo y arrebatadoramente sincera donde el autor desnuda su corazón para descubrir su humilde manera de entender la vida. “Las estrellas recogen la esencia del ser humano, cuando nuestro cuerpo nos abandona una nueva estrella aparece en el firmamento”. La muerte de Alejandro inicia esta última parte de la trilogía en la que el autor nos presenta al Alejandro Ray, primogénito de la tercera generación, que ha heredado de sus abuelos, además de su porte, su respeto por la naturaleza y la lucha por las causas justas. El joven Álex y su pareja Daniel viajarán por todo el mundo descubriendo fascinantes lugares y aprendiendo de las experiencias que les sucedan que desembocarán en la revelación de un gran secreto que pondrá en peligro la vida de Álex y cambiará para siempre el destino de la humanidad. Rozando las estrellas es la novela más íntima y onírica del autor cántabro. En ella refleja la importancia del mundo de los sueños y la energía de la que estamos compuestos. Una novela mágica que te descubrirá que el amor es más fuerte que la razón y llega más allá del mundo que conocemos. Rozando las estrellas cierra la trilogía que Javier Sedano (Torrelavega, Cantabria, 1961) iniciara con Tras las puertas del corazón, novela revelación del 2009, y continuó con Preguntas sin respuesta (2010). Presidente y fundador de la Asociación Naturista de Cantabria, Sedano expone en su trilogía un conmovedor y bello argumento en defensa de la vida naturista y del amor libre.

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Odisea Editorial

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8415294832

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Tenue est mendacium

Rethinking Fakes and Authorship in Classical, Late Antique, & Early Christian Works

By: Javier Martínez

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Tenue est mendacium

Rethinking Fakes and Authorship in Classical, Late Antique, & Early Christian Works

By: Javier Martínez

Many new and fruitful avenues of investigation open up when scholars consider forgery as a creative act rather than a crime. We invited authors to contribute work without imposing any restrictions beyond a willingness to consider new approaches to the subject of ancient fakes, forgeries and questions of authenticity. The result is this volume, in which our aim is to display some of the many possibilities available to scholarship. The exposure of fraud and the pursuit of truth may still be valid scholarly goals, but they implicitly demand that we confront the status of any text as a focal point for matters of belief and conviction. Recent approaches to forgery have begun to ask new questions, some intended purely for the sake of debate: Ought we to consider any author to have some inherent authenticity that precludes the possibility of a forger's successful parody? If every fake text has a real context, what can be learned about the cultural circumstances which give rise to forgeries? If every real text can potentially engender a parallel history of fakes, what can this alternative narrative teach us? What epistemological prejudices can lead us to swear a fake is genuine, or dismiss the real thing as inauthentic? Following Splendide Mendax and Animo Decipiendi?, this is the latest installment of an ongoing inquiry, conducted by scholars in numerous countries, into how the ancient world-its literature and culture, its history and art-appears when viewed through the lens of fakes and forgeries, sincerities and authenticities, genuine signatures and pseudepigrapha. How does scholarship tell the truth if evidence doesn't? But fabula docet: The falsum does not simply make the great, annoying stone before the door of the truth (otherwise this here would really be a "council of antiquarians and paleographers"). The falsum makes a delicate, fine tissue. It allows the verum to shine through, in nuances and reliefs that were less noticeable without its counterpart, really tied at the head. And, treated differentiated, it becomes even itself perlucidum, shines out with "hidden values.

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9493194361

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