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The Cross and the Pear Tree

A Sephardic Journey

By: Victor Perera

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Tracing the dramatic lives, through 500 years, of the old and distinguished Sephardic Jewish family from whom he is descended, Victor Perera brilliantly re-creates the history not only of his own people but of an entire culture. The story he tells begins in Spain in the fifteenth century, when the Sephardim are offered a choice of conversion, exile or death. It is the story of a richly flourishing tradition - intellectual, religious, worldly and spiritual - interrupted by massively cruel events; a story of persecution, escape and renewal, carrying us from the Iberian Peninsula across Europe to the Holy Land and Central America. And the Pere(i)ras whose lives we enter are both fascinating in themselves and emblematic of the Sephardic diaspora created by the Inquisition and the Expulsion - some of them, under threat of torture and execution, capitulating to the Cross or becoming Marranos, crypto-Jews who practiced their ancestral religion in secret; others remaining loyal to the pear tree that became their symbol and crest. Among the Marranos: Ana Pereira, a merchant's daughter, a Sephardic convert in Portugal who, at age fifteen, was sentenced to wear penitential raiment and undergo spiritual penances in prison, where, under torture, she incriminated fifteen of her close relations. Among the reclaimed: the fabulously wealthy magnate and author Abraham Israel Pereira, who participated in the excommunication of philosopher Baruch Spinoza; and the beautiful Maria Nunes, who was abducted to Shakespeare's England, and rejected the marriage proposal of a duke and Queen Elizabeth's entreaties on his behalf, marrying instead a cousin in Amsterdam's first Jewish wedding. In nineteenth-centuryFrance we follow the meteoric rise of the brothers Emile and Isaac Pereire, who founded the French railroads and the Credit Mobilier banking system. Over the centuries, the stories of Pereras in all walks of life - among them rabbis and Kabbalistic scholars in the Holy Land - unfold

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Univ of California Press

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0520206525

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9780520206526

Using History to Teach Mathematics

An International Perspective

By: Victor J. Katz

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Using History to Teach Mathematics

An International Perspective

By: Victor J. Katz

This volume examines how the history of mathematics can find application in the teaching of mathematics itself.

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284

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Cambridge University Press

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0883851636

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9780883851630

Industrial Colonialism in Latin America

The Third Stage

By: Victor Figueroa Sepulveda

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Industrial Colonialism in Latin America

The Third Stage

By: Victor Figueroa Sepulveda

This book confronts critical problems being experienced by Latin America in its quest for development. Special attention is paid to the living conditions of the popular sectors over the last half-century under “industrial colonialism.” The author’s framework of analysis weaves together key structural variables including the neoliberal mode of knowledge creation for material production in order to unveil the actual mechanisms of the reproduction of this system. The decisive role of science in the development of the productive forces forms the basis of explicating the “state development function.” The external and internal manifestations of the main underlying contradictions in Latin America are systematically exposed as they unfold from the region’s particular integration into the imperialist system.

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208

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BRILL

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9004259066

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9789004259065

Introducing Christian Theologies, Volume Two

Voices from Global Christian Communities

By: Victor I. Ezigbo

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Introducing Christian Theologies, Volume Two

Voices from Global Christian Communities

By: Victor I. Ezigbo

Should Christianity's theological face remain largely European and North American in the twenty-first century in the wake of the expansion of Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America? The question about the "theological face" of Christianity cannot be ignored. For too long African, Asian, and Latin American theologians have been left out of mainstream theological discussions. Few standard textbooks on Christian theology acknowledge the unique contributions theologians from these continents have made to global Christianity. Introducing Christian Theologies: Voices from Global Christian Communities is a two-volume textbook that alters the predominantly European and North American "theological face" of Christianity by interacting with voices of Christian communities from across the globe. Introducing Christian Theologies explores the works of key theologians from around the world, highlighting their unique contributions to Christian theology and doctrine.

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383

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1620329794

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9781620329795

Unfinished Conquest

The Guatemalan Tragedy

By: Victor Perera

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Unfinished Conquest

The Guatemalan Tragedy

By: Victor Perera

Spanning the years of civil war in Guatemala, this book portrays an embattled country facing the third cycle of a conquest that began when the conquistadors arrived in the sixteenth century. As personal narrative weaves with reportage and oral testimony, readers are introduced to the victims, champions, and villains of a society torn apart by violence and injustice.

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Univ of California Press

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0520203496

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Cuban Modernism

Mid-Century Architecture 1940–1970

By: Victor Deupi,Jean-Francois Lejeune

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Cuban Modernism

Mid-Century Architecture 1940–1970

By: Victor Deupi,Jean-Francois Lejeune

In the 20th century, modern architecture thrived in Cuba and a wealth of buildings was realized prior to the revolution 1959 and in its wake. The designs comprise luxurious nightclubs and stylish hotels, sports facilities, elegant private homes and apartment complexes. Drawing on the vernacular, their architects defined a way to be modern and Cuban at the same time – creating an architecture oscillating between tradition and avantgarde. Audacious concrete shells, curving ramps, elegant brises-soleils and a fluidity of interior and exterior spaces are characteristic of an airy, often colorful architecture well-suited to life in the tropics. New photographs and drawings were specially prepared for this publication. A biographical survey portraits the 40 most important Cuban architects of the era.

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3035616442

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Book's by Victor Hugo Da Costa

The Cross and the Pear Tree

The Cross and the Pear Tree

Using History to Teach Mathematics

Using History to Teach Mathematics

Industrial Colonialism in Latin America

Industrial Colonialism in Latin America

Introducing Christian Theologies, Volume Two

Introducing Christian Theologies, Volume Two

Unfinished Conquest

Unfinished Conquest

Cuban Modernism

Cuban Modernism

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