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Terrific Tees

By: Roberta De Luz

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Terrific Tees

By: Roberta De Luz

Give new life to favorite T-shirts by making them into quilts you'll be proud to display or give.

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C&T Publishing Inc

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1607050757

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9781607050759

Gender and Nation in the Spanish Modernist Novel

By: Roberta Johnson

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Gender and Nation in the Spanish Modernist Novel

By: Roberta Johnson

Offering a fresh, revisionist analysis of Spanish fiction from 1900 to 1940, this study examines the work of both men and women writers and how they practiced differing forms of modernism. As Roberta Johnson notes, Spanish male novelists emphasized technical and verbal innovation in representing the contents of an individual consciousness and thus were more modernist in the usual understanding of the term. Female writers, on the other hand, were less aesthetically innovative but engaged in a social modernism that focused on domestic issues, gender roles, and relations between the sexes. Compared to the more conventional--even reactionary--ways their male counterparts treated such matters, Spanish women's fiction in the first half of the twentieth century was often revolutionary. The book begins by tracing the history of public discourse on gender from the 1890s through the 1930s, a discourse that included the rise of feminism. Each chapter then analyzes works by female and male novelists that address key issues related to gender and nationalism: the concept of intrahistoria, or an essential Spanish soul; modernist uses of figures from the Spanish literary tradition, notably Don Quixote and Don Juan; biological theories of gender prevalent in the 1920s and 1930s; and the growth of an organized feminist movement that coincided with the burgeoning Republican movement. This is the first book dealing with this period of Spanish literature to consider women novelists, such as Maria Martinez Sierra, Carmen de Burgos, and Concha Espina, alongside canonical male novelists, including Miguel de Unamuno, Ramon del Valle-Inclan, and Pio Baroja. With its contrasting conceptions of modernism, Johnson's work provides a compelling new model for bridging the gender divide in the study of Spanish fiction.

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Vanderbilt University Press

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0826514375

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9780826514370

Federico García Lorca, Selected Suites

By: Roberta Ann Quance

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Federico García Lorca, Selected Suites

By: Roberta Ann Quance

A generous selection and fresh translation of Lorca’s suites, work that might have taken its place beside Songs (1927) and Poem of the Deep Song (1931) as a trilogy of Lorca’s early modernist lyric. More personal than the other two works, Lorca’s suites explore a ‘heart without echo’ in his time.

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Liverpool University Press

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1800345267

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9781800345263

In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States

By: Roberta Fernàndez

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In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States

By: Roberta Fernàndez

Roberta Fernàndez has gathered the best and most representative examples of fiction, poetry, drama and essay currently being written by Latina writers of the United States. The work is arranged by genre, and topics are as varied as the voices and styles of the writers: the challenge of living in two cultures; experiencing marginality as a result of class, ethnicity, and/or gender; Latina feminism; the celebration of oneÍs culture and its people. Most of the pieces are in English and some are presented bilingually in English and Spanish. A preface and an introduction by the editor and a foreword by the noted critic of Latin American literature, Jean Franco, serve to contextualize the writers and their work; a primary and secondary bibliography serves as an appendix.

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Arte Publico Press

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1611921821

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9781611921823

Crossfire

Philosophy and the Novel in Spain, 1900-1934

By: Roberta Johnson

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Crossfire

Philosophy and the Novel in Spain, 1900-1934

By: Roberta Johnson

The marriage of philosophy and fiction in the first third of Spain's twentieth century was a fertile one. It produced some truly notable offspring—novels that cross genre boundaries to find innovative forms, and treatises that fuse literature and philosophy in new ways. In her illuminating interdisciplinary study of Spanish fiction of the "Silver Age," Roberta Johnson places this important body of Spanish literature in context through a synthesis of social, literary, and philosophical history. Her examination of the work of Miguel de Unamuno, Pio Baroja, Azorin, Ramon Perez de Ayala, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Gabriel Miro, Pedro Salinas, Rosa Chacel, and Benjamin Jarnes brings to light philosophical frictions and debates and opens new interpersonal and intertextual perspectives on many of the period's most canonical novels. Johnson reformulates the traditional discussion of generations and "isms" by viewing the period as an intergenerational complex in which writers with similar philosophical and personal interests constituted dynamic groupings that interacted and constantly defined and redefined one another. Current narratological theories, including those of Todorov, Genette, Bakhtin, and Martinez Bonati, assist in teasing out the intertextual maneuvers and philosophical conflicts embedded in the novels of the period, while the sociological and biographical material bridges the philosophical and literary analyses. The result, solidly grounded in original archival research, is a convincingly complete picture of Spain's intellectual world in the first thirty years of this century. Crossfire should revolutionize thinking about the Generation of '98 and the Generation of '14 by identifying the heterogeneous philosophical sources of each and the writers' reactions to them in fiction.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813184495

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9780813184494

El pájaro que tenía miedo de volar

By: Diana Drexler,Roberta Di Paolo

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El pájaro que tenía miedo de volar

By: Diana Drexler,Roberta Di Paolo

Changuito tiene miedo. Prefiere que nadie lo vea y que no se den cuenta de que está allí. Vive mirando el mundo a través de las rejas de su jaulita. Por suerte tiene grandes amigos que lo invitan a salir, a cantar y a… ¿volar?

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Malena Arcucci

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9878844005

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9789878844008

The Soviet Union and Terrorism

By: Roberta Goren

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The Soviet Union and Terrorism

By: Roberta Goren

The Soviet Union and Terrorism (1984) examines the extent of Soviet involvement in international terrorism, and the aims and objectives of Soviet foreign policy. It looks at the evidence of changing Soviet attitudes to terrorism from 1917 to the 1980s evidenced in official and semi-official pronouncements, and it brings together evidence from the field of terrorist operations which points to a high degree of Soviet involvement. The Soviet Union is shown to be playing a dangerous game, sponsoring activities which it cannot hope to control, and leading to effects which it cannot predict. Nevertheless, it continues to play because it gains from the political and military disruption to the countries affected by terrorist activities.

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Taylor & Francis

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104000637X

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9781040006375

Violence Against Latina Immigrants

Citizenship, Inequality, and Community

By: Roberta Villalon

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Violence Against Latina Immigrants

Citizenship, Inequality, and Community

By: Roberta Villalon

A meaningful documentation of the ways in which structural and cultural conditions in current immigration and violence against women laws in the United States reinforce the hierarchies and intersections of race, class, and heterosexuality that impact on the lives of battered Latina immigrants."---Natalie J. Sokoloff, author of Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings in Race, Class, Gender, and Culture --

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NYU Press

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0814788246

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9780814788240

Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory

By: Roberta Johnson

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Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory

By: Roberta Johnson

First book in English to offer a thorough introduction to key concepts and figures in Spanish feminist thought. Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory is the first book in English to offer a substantial overview of Spanish feminist thought. It focuses on six concepts—solitude, personality, social class, work, difference, and equality—and distinguishes Spanish feminist theory from that of other countries. Roberta Johnson employs a chronological format to highlight continuity and polemics in Spanish feminist thinking from the eighteenth century to the present. She brings together arguments from well-known names such as Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, Concepción Arenal, Emilia Pardo Bazán, María Martínez Sierra, Carmen de Burgos, and Carmen Laforet, as well as less familiar figures such as the Countess Campo Alange María Laffitte and Lilí Álvarez, who defied restrictions on feminist activity during the Franco dictatorship to publish feminist books. The topics of difference and equality are explored, and the book recounts the long tension between theorists of each persuasion—a tension that erupted publicly during Spain’s democratic era. Each theorist’s arguments are laid out in straightforward, non-jargonistic prose, making this book a useful classroom tool for courses on Spanish women writers, Spanish culture, and cross-cultural feminist studies. “This book is a significant overview of the theoretical concepts and authors that make up the history of Spanish feminism from the eighteenth century to the present. The organization of the book around concepts is not only its great strength but is also refreshing—a novel approach to a chronological history of Spanish feminism.” — Alda Blanco, San Diego State University

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SUNY Press

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1438473699

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In the Light of Contradiction

Desire in the Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca

By: Roberta Ann Quance

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In the Light of Contradiction

Desire in the Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca

By: Roberta Ann Quance

In 1926, as a young man of 28 with a growing reputation as an oral poet, Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) toyed with the idea of proving his worth in writing by bringing out a boxed set of three volumes of his verse. Because the Suites , Canciones , and the Poema del cante jondo eventually came out singly (in the case of the Suites , posthumously), readers have not always realised that they formed a single body of work -- one which, Lorca himself was surprised to note, has 'una rarisima unidad', an odd unity of aims and accomplishment. This is poetry which takes up the question of desire in progressively depersonalizing ways, and shows modernism coming into being. Through renunciation, by cutting away the personal and the taboo, Lorca created a poetry that, like no other in Europe, stood between the avant-garde and oral traditions, making their contradictions his truth. Roberta Ann Quance is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Queen's University, Belfast.

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Routledge

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1351563084

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9781351563086

Bacterial Degradation of Organic and Inorganic Materials

Staphylococcus aureus Meets the Nanoworld

By: Marziale Milani,Roberta Curia,Natalia Vladimirovna Shevlyagina,Francesco Tatti

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Bacterial Degradation of Organic and Inorganic Materials

Staphylococcus aureus Meets the Nanoworld

By: Marziale Milani,Roberta Curia,Natalia Vladimirovna Shevlyagina,Francesco Tatti

This interdisciplinary work deals with the bacterial degradation of organic and inorganic materials such as prosthetic devices and the consequent production of non-engineered nanoparticles (NPs). Focus is put on the interaction of these, often toxic, NPs with the environment, the microorganisms and the host human body. Electron Microscopy is the method of choice to investigate bacterial colonization and degradation of plastic polymers. Hence one section of the book is fully dedicated to the most recent and interesting microscopy technologies in microbiology and soft matters. The final chapter of the book on the complex and multivariate relationships between a microscopist and electron microscopy images is dedicated to Lyubov Vasilievna Didenko (1958 – 2015), a passionate researcher who contributed substantially to the field of Electron Microscopy research and its applications in studying bacterial-polymer interactions. The book addresses researchers and advanced students working in general and clinical microbiology, nanobiology, materials sciences and image analysis fields.

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Springer Nature

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3031269497

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9783031269493

Chemical Oceanography

Element Fluxes in the Sea

By: Steven R. Emerson,Roberta C. Hamme

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Chemical Oceanography

Element Fluxes in the Sea

By: Steven R. Emerson,Roberta C. Hamme

Chemical Oceanography: Element Fluxes in the Sea focuses on the use of chemical distributions to understand mechanisms of physical, chemical, biological, and geological processes in the ocean. After an introduction describing observed chemical concentrations, chapters focus on using chemical tracers to determine fluxes on a variety of time scales. Long-term chemical cycles are dominated by exchanges between seawater and land, sediments, and underwater volcanoes. Biological and ocean mixing processes dominate internal chemical cycles that respond to changes on hundred- to thousand-year time scales. Stable and radioactive isotopes trace the fluxes of nutrients and carbon to quantify the rates and mechanisms of chemical cycles. Anthropogenic influences - which have grown to be of the same magnitude as some natural cycles - are a specific focus throughout the book. Discussion boxes and quantitative problems help instructors to deepen student learning. Appendices enhance the book's utility as a reference text for students and researchers.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316846229

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9781316846223

Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War

By: Maryellen Bieder,Roberta Johnson

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Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War

By: Maryellen Bieder,Roberta Johnson

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) pitted conservative forces including the army, the Church, the Falange (fascist party), landowners, and industrial capitalists against the Republic, installed in 1931 and supported by intellectuals, the petite bourgeoisie, many campesinos (farm laborers), and the urban proletariat. Provoking heated passions on both sides, the Civil War soon became an international phenomenon that inspired a number of literary works reflecting the impact of the war on foreign and national writers. While the literature of the period has been the subject of scholarship, women's literary production has not been studied as a body of work in the same way that literature by men has been, and its unique features have not been examined. Addressing this lacuna in literary studies, this volume provides fresh perspectives on well-known women writers, as well as less studied ones, whose works take the Spanish Civil War as a theme. The authors represented in this collection reflect a wide range of political positions. Writers such as Maria Zambrano, Mercè Rodoreda, and Josefina Aldecoa were clearly aligned with the Republic, whereas others, including Mercedes Salisachs and Liberata Masoliver, sympathized with the Nationalists. Most, however, are situated in a more ambiguous political space, although the ethics and character portraits that emerge in their works might suggest Republican sympathies. Taken together, the essays are an important contribution to scholarship on literature inspired by this pivotal point in Spanish history.

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Taylor & Francis

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1134777167

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9781134777167

Migration, Health, and Inequalities

Critical Activist Research Across Ecuadorean Borders

By: Roberta Villalón

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Migration, Health, and Inequalities

Critical Activist Research Across Ecuadorean Borders

By: Roberta Villalón

This interdisciplinary activist research project shows the health and well-being impacts of transnational migration on Ecuadorean families. Roberta Villalón documents the intersection of social inequalities and migration and health policies, and how individual and collective action challenges marginalising structures and fosters social justice.

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Policy Press

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1529207118

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Quality of Life in Urban Landscapes

In Search of a Decision Support System

By: Roberta Cocci Grifoni,Rosalba D'Onofrio,Massimo Sargolini

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Quality of Life in Urban Landscapes

In Search of a Decision Support System

By: Roberta Cocci Grifoni,Rosalba D'Onofrio,Massimo Sargolini

This volume introduces an innovative tool for the development of sustainable cities and the promotion of the quality of life of city inhabitants. It presents a decision-support system to orient public administrations in identifying development scenarios for sustainable urban and territorial transformations. The authors have split the volume into five parts, which respectively describe the theoretical basis of the book, the policies in question and indicators that influence them, the decision-support system that connects indicators to policies, the case study of Ancona, Italy, and potential future directions for this work. This volume is based on transdisciplinary research completed in May 2016 that involved about 40 researchers at The University of Camerino, Italy and other European universities. With purchase of this book, readers will also have access to Electronic Supplementary Material that contains a database with groups of indicators of assessment of urban quality of life and a toolkit containing the data processing system and management information system used in the book’s case study.

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Springer

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3319655817

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9783319655819

Crossing Boundaries

By: Roberta Wright,Lynda William

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Crossing Boundaries

By: Roberta Wright,Lynda William

This text is designed to help students to integrate the processes of reading, writing and thinking. It crosses boundaries by combining reading pedagogy, rhetorical strategies and the writing process. It provides a range of collaborative and editing activities and writing assignments that require full development and specific skills.

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McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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0070720738

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9780070720732

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Terrific Tees

Terrific Tees

Gender and Nation in the Spanish Modernist Novel

Gender and Nation in the Spanish Modernist Novel

Federico García Lorca, Selected Suites

Federico García Lorca, Selected Suites

In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States

In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States

Crossfire

Crossfire

El pájaro que tenía miedo de volar

El pájaro que tenía miedo de volar

The Soviet Union and Terrorism

The Soviet Union and Terrorism

Violence Against Latina Immigrants

Violence Against Latina Immigrants

Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory

Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory

In the Light of Contradiction

In the Light of Contradiction

Bacterial Degradation of Organic and Inorganic Materials

Bacterial Degradation of Organic and Inorganic Materials

Chemical Oceanography

Chemical Oceanography

Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War

Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War

Migration, Health, and Inequalities

Migration, Health, and Inequalities

Quality of Life in Urban Landscapes

Quality of Life in Urban Landscapes

Crossing Boundaries

Crossing Boundaries

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