I imprint: 1291 books
by Carlos Silveyra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Las mejores adivinanzas, según Carlos Silveyra.
"Las adivinanzas son más viejas que la carabelas de Colón", suele decir muy serio Carlos Silveyra, escritor, docente, periodista y autor de esta obra. Y tiene razón. Silveyra preguntó a los chicos cuáles conocían, consultó diversas fuentes y así reunió las mejores adivinanzas de este libro.
Tainted Love
Screening Sexual Perversion
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This is the first critical anthology to offer extended analysis of the representation of sexual perversion on screen. Interrogating the recent shift towards the mainstream in the cinematic representation of previously marginalised sexual practices, Tainted Love challenges the discourses and debates...
Travel and Artisans in the Ottoman Empire
Employment and Mobility in the Early Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities - since peasants needed the permission of their local administrators before they could legitimately leave their villages. However Suraiya Faroqhi's extensive archival research shows that...
Stars in World Cinema
Screen Icons and Star Systems Across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Deflecting the attention from Hollywood, Stars in World Cinema fills an important gap in the study of film by bringing together Star Studies and World Cinema. A team of international scholars here bring their expertise and in-depth knowledge of world cultures and cinema to the study of stars and stardom...
Greece in Crisis
The Cultural Politics of Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Since 2010 Greece has been experiencing the longest period of austerity and economic downturn in its recent history. Economic changes may be happening more rapidly and be more visible than the cultural effects of the crisis which are likely to take longer to become visible, however in recent times,...
Traditional Buildings
A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Based on a lifelong professional and personal interest, "Traditional Buildings" presents a unique survey of vernacular architecture across the globe. The reader is taken on a fascinating tour of traditional building around the world, which includes the loess cave homes of central China,...
Sweet Delights from a Thousand and One Nights
The Story of Traditional Arab Sweets
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Which dessert is named after the heroic third-century Queen Zenobia of Palmyra? Which luscious rice pudding shares its name with the eighth-century Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun? How does one make the perfect Baqlawah? Blending cookery with culture and recipes with history, this is the fascinating and...
Adorno Reframed
Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Dismissed as a miserable elitist who condemned popular culture in the name of 'high art', Theodore W. Adorno (1903-1969) is one of the most provocative and important yet least understood of contemporary thinkers. This book draws on new translations into English to challenge this popular image and...
Youth and Education in the Middle East
Shaping Identity and Politics in Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The uprisings that were seen throughout the Middle East during 2010 and 2011, make it difficult to over-state the role of educated youth in the region's politics. Daniele Cantini combines an analysis of young people in Jordan, of its relevance and of its perceived crisis, with one which looks at education...
Nip/Tuck
Television That Gets Under Your Skin
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Promoted as a 'disturbingly perfect' and 'deeply shallow' television drama and created by Ryan Murphy, who is also behind the teen musical show Glee, Nip/Tuck has been one of the most popular and controversial shows on cable TV. The misadventures and soap opera-esque entanglements of the lives of...
The State of Algeria
The Politics of a Post-Colonial Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Algeria's current politics are influenced by its colonial period under the French to an extent not seen in other North African and Middle Eastern states. Indeed, Malika Rebai Maamri argues that Algeria's postcolonial history and politics are, in fact, a series of attempts to come to terms with the...
Killing the Enemy
Assassination Operations During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
During World War II, the British formed a secret division, the 'SOE' or Special Operations Executive, in order to support resistance organisations in occupied Europe. It also engaged in 'targeted killing' – the assassination of enemy political and military leaders. The unit is famous for equipping...
Edmund
In Search of England's Lost King
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines? The ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds are a memorial to the largest Romanesque church ever built. This Suffolk market town is now a quiet place, out of the way, eclipsed by its more...
Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England
A History of Sorcery and Treason
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed...