Carlos: 2314 books
La luz de los lejanos faros
Una defensa apasionada de las humanidades
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Son malos tiempos para el humanismo, para la visión de una educación basada en la cultura antigua o tradicional. Vivimos en un mundo demasiado obsesionado por el presente, lleno de imágenes mediáticas, de una impresionante trivialización y vulgaridad. Todo eso va en contra de una educación basada...
Sirenas
Seducciones y metamorfosis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Puede que Ulises triunfara sobre las sirenas, pero las sirenas han conquistado nuestra imaginación: desde su primera aparición ha estado en la mente de poetas, pintores, exploradores y románticos empedernidos. Esta es la historia de la vida de las sirenas a través de los siglos, de cómo nacieron...
El zorro y el cuervo
Estudios sobre las fábulas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 30, 2017
La fábula fue un género literario de muy larga tradición y muy extensa popularidad. Durante siglos y siglos se narraron y leyeron esas breves ficciones en que los animales parlantes protagonizan ejemplares encuentros de los que podía deducirse una cierta moraleja. En la literatura griega fue Esopo...
Unsettling Science and Religion
Contributions and Questions from Queer Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book borrows from the intellectual labor of queer theory in order to unsettle—or “queer”—the discourses of “religion” and “science,” and, by extension, the “science and religion discourse.” Drawing intellectual and social cues from works by influential theorists such as Michel...
by Carlos Castaneda
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Don Juan concludes the instruction of Castaneda with his most powerful and mysterious lesson in the sorcerer's art—a dazzling series of visions that are at once an initiation and a deeply moving farewell.
Bajo la piel del océano
La vida marina como nunca te la habían explicado
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Hogar de una inabarcable variedad de seres vivos, desde las majestuosas ballenas hasta los incontables microorganismos que viven en cada gota de mar, los océanos, masas de agua que han fascinado y atemorizado a los seres humanos desde siempre, y del que aprendimos a obtener alimentos que forman parte...
by Carlos I Calle
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
The diverse planetary environments in the solar system react in somewhat different ways to the encompassing influence of the Sun. These different interactions define the electrostatic phenomena that take place on and near planetary surfaces. The desire to understand the electrostatic environments...
Moral Argument, Religion, and Same-Sex Marriage
Advancing the Public Good
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
The diverse expert contributors to this volume from the fields of politics and law use moral argumentation with respect to same-sex marriage, gay rights in general, and California's Prop 8. The arguments are advanced in terms of the nation's foundational political and legal principles, extending ethical...
Citizenship and Social Movements
Perspectives from the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective action in the global South. Citizenship and Social Movements seeks to partially redress this imbalance with case studies from Brazil, India, Bangladesh,...
by Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril, Marta Casaús Arzú, Carlos Belvedere
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Racism and Discourse in Latin America investigates how public discourse is involved in the daily reproduction of racism in Latin America. The essays examine political discourse, mass media discourse, textbooks and other forms of text, and talk by the white symbolic elites, looking at the ways these...
Democracy, Education, and Multiculturalism
Dilemmas of Citizenship in a Global World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1998
This important book looks at developments that are changing our understanding of the role of education in citizenship and the possibilities of democratic participation. The first chapter reviews theories of citizenship and education based on the classical contributions to political theory of C.B....
by Ana Sacristán Lucas, Daniel Cassany, Gabriela Fretes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 24, 2014
La irrupción meteórica de las Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación y en especial de Internet, su más notorio vástago, han transformado en apenas treinta años las sociedades contemporáneas con una radicalidad, efectiva y potencial, que no tiene precedentes en la historia de las...
by Charles R. Johnson, Carlos M. Saiago
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The arrangement of nonzero entries of a matrix, described by the graph of the matrix, limits the possible geometric multiplicities of the eigenvalues, which are far more limited by this information than algebraic multiplicities or the numerical values of the eigenvalues. This book gives a unified...
Mestizo
The History, Culture and Politics of the Mexican and the Chicano --The Emerging Mestizo-Americans
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1997
This text covers over 2,000 years, tracing the roots of the contemporary Mexican-American. It utilizes the fields of history, political science, cultural anthropology, folklore, literature, sociolinguistics, Latin American studies and ethnic studies. Thus, it is unique for its multidisciplinary approach...