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¿Fue Galicia un país celta? ¿Cómo y cuándo nace Galicia? ¿Cuándo surge el idioma gallego y su literatura? ¿Qué impacto tuvieron las peregrinaciones medievales a Compostela? ¿Por qué se separó Portugal de Galicia? ¿Por qué se produjeron las Guerras Irmandiñas? ¿Qué consecuencias tuvieron las políticas de los Reyes Católicos? ¿Qué repercusiones tuvo la introducción del cultivo del maíz? ¿Cuáles fueron las causas del subdesarrollo...
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Since the foundation of the Au Lac kingdom three centuries ago—famous for their bronze drums and their magnificent artilleries—until the works of the painters from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Indochina, created in Hanoi in 1925, the arts of Vietnam have been marked by its profoundly original cultures and the fusion between Asia and the Occident. The modern Vietnamese civilization has therefore inherited a very rich and multifaceted history.
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A collection of interviews featuring Irish poets, artists, fiction writers, and playwrights, this record chronicles how these cultural leaders viewed their country in the first decade of the new millennium as economic collapse gathered pace and recurrent concerns gained a new urgency. Answering questions such as What are Irish values? How have they changed? and How do new cultural realities affect the old arts of language and image that have been...
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La conmemoración de eventos traumáticos supone la voluntad de crear una "memoria colectiva", pero la idea misma de recordar colectivamente da lugar a una serie de preguntas que este libro intenta contestar.
Por medio del análisis de imágenes, recursos metonímicos, espacios de memoria e intervenciones digitales, Margarita Saona presenta algunos de los mecanismos cognitivos y emocionales que nos ayudan a incorporar el sufrimiento pasado de los...
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Une étude des coiffes bretonnes basée sur une analyse ethnologique.
Qu'est-ce qu'une représentation religieuse? L'auteur chemine sur les traces des coiffes bretonnes pour contribuer à résoudre ce problème. Il prend ses exemples dans un art dont l'originalité a retenu l'attention de photographes, d'ethnographes et d'écrivains, et qui s'est déployé dans une région du territoire européen à une époque o régnait la tradition religieuse...
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The pub has been at the heart of English life for centuries, evolving from elegant coaching houses and humble alehouses through Victorian backstreet beerhouses and 'fine, flaring' gin palaces to the drinking establishments of the twenty-first century.
In this new and revised edition, historian Paul Jennings takes us on a fascinating journey over three centuries of pub life. Set within the wider context of social change, Jennings delves into the lives...
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Atlantic Canada is renowned for its lengthy coastlines, rural expanses, a reputedly slower pace and its welcoming, warm and friendly people. But for immigrants especially, how much of this is rhetoric, and how much is reality? Atlantic Canada is renowned for its lengthy coastlines, rural expanses, a reputedly slower pace and its welcoming, warm and friendly people. But for immigrants especially, how much of this is rhetoric, and how much is reality?...
28) Four Sisters
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This book traces the development of the four coastal villages - often referred to as 'the Four Sisters' - that make up the eastern part Dublin 4 from their foundation to the present day. Richly illustrated with modern and historic images, this work looks at the social, political, religious and economic history of Ringsend, Irishtown, Sandymount and Merrion, recalling the significant events, vanished industries and local characters.
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"Korea and Her Neighbors" is a travelogue written by Isabella Lucy Bird, a renowned Victorian-era explorer and writer. Published in 1898, the book details Bird's extensive travels throughout Korea and neighboring regions during the late 19th century.
Isabella Bird's writings are characterized by her vivid descriptions of the places she visited and the people she encountered. In "Korea and Her Neighbors," she offers an insightful account of Korean...
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Once largely confined to the biggest cities in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, philanthropic foundations now play a significant role in nearly every state. Wide-ranging and incisive, the essays in American Philanthropic Foundations: Regional Difference and Change examine the origins, development, and accomplishments of philanthropic foundations in key cities and regions of the United States. Each contributor assesses foundation efforts...
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San Vicente del Caguán ha sido un municipio azotado por la violencia y uno de los focos de asentamiento de las FARC.
En este contexto, y por la importancia del municipio en el conflicto armado colombiano, San Vicente del Caguán. Experiencias significativas en construcción de paz territorial es una apuesta por construir horizontes metodológicos que nazcan a partir de las experiencias de las comunidades.
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En varias regiones de Michoacán se vive hoy una violencia crónica. El autor advierte en esta obra que de no revertirse los problemas que han puesto a esa entidad en un camino de agresiones, impunidad y violaciones a los derechos humanos, se perderá la ya débil capacidad del Estado para mantener la paz, el bienestar y la seguridad de sus ciudadanos. Se trata de una amplia investigación apoyada en fuentes primarias y secundarias, etnografía y...
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In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she's visited in this country, as well as the daily rituals of Jews and Palestinians who live in the war-torn Middle East. The DayI missed the day on which it was said others should...
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The book explores the complex and shifting geographies of rural Wales in the twenty first century. It draws on a broad range of recent academic and policy research to provide the most comprehensive and critical account of the spaces, places and environments of rural Wales to date. The book highlights recent processes of change as well as important continuities with the past. It also indicates the ways in which the contemporary geographies of rural...
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En México, el primer semestre de 2014 se vio marcado por los esfuerzos del Ejecutivo por controlar un país que, por momentos, parece escapársele de las manos. Muestra de ello es el envío de un comisionado plenipotenciario, fuerzas federales y una inversión multimillonaria para la intervención en el estado de Michoacán en un intento por frenar la inseguridad, restituir el estado de derecho, impulsar el desarrollo de la entidad y detener el crecimiento...
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Overlooking Ballymena, Slemish Mountain was believed to be the first home of St Patrick in Ireland. His footprint is said to be indented in a stone close to Skerry churchyard.
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The 'sport' of rat racing thrived on the shores of Lough Neagh in the 1960s, with the annual championships taking place in Norman Wilson's bar in the main street of Crumlin.
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In January 1998, a 16-year-old Glengormley schoolgirl became one of the...
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Este libro busca contribuir a la formación de profesionales en estudios del futuro y prospectiva, en el contexto de América Latina y el Caribe. Se trata de una reflexión acerca del desarrollo de las capacidades prospectivas que requiere la región sobre anticipación, pensamiento estratégico, innovación y solución de problemas complejos, con miras a fortalecer un Estado activo y una sociedad responsable. Este conocimiento es esencial para la...
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Este libro recoge artículos publicados desde los años noventa que dan cuenta de dos de las grandes pasiones de su autor: el fútbol y la ciencia política, en un ejercicio desafiante para indagar en la realidad política y futbolera de Colombia, de la selección de fútbol de Colombia y aquellos factores que forjan de diversas maneras la identidad nacional. Este libro se suma así a varias publicaciones sobre el tema que han llevado al autor a una...
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