Leonardo: 518 books

Book cover of Brazil in Twenty-First Century Popular Media

Brazil in Twenty-First Century Popular Media

Culture, Politics, and Nationalism on the World Stage

by Gabriela Antunes, Leonardo Custódio, Aline Frey
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014

This volume examines some of the ways that Brazil has been represented and seeks to represent itself in popular media. It looks at social inequalities, racial divisions, and legacies of political restructuring as it illuminates the challenges and opportunities that the nation faces at present and...
Book cover of Sovereign Debt Crises and Negotiations in Brazil and Mexico, 1888-1914
by Leonardo Weller
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018

This book analyzes the relative balance of bargaining power between governments and the banks in charge of underwriting their debt during the first financial globalization. Brazil and Mexico, both indebted countries that underwent major changes in reputation and negotiating power as they faced financial...
Book cover of Máscaras
by Leonardo Padura
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 25, 2013

En la tupida arboleda del Bosque de La Habana aparece un 6 de agosto, el día en que la Iglesia celebra la transfiguración de Jesús, el cuerpo de un travestí con el lazo de seda roja de la muerte aún al cuello. Para mayor zozobra del Conde –el policía encargado de la investigación–, aquella...
Book cover of Pasado perfecto
by Leonardo Padura
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 25, 2013

El primer fin de semana de 1989 una insistente llamada de teléfono arranca de su resaca al teniente Mario Conde, un policía escéptico y desengañado. El Viejo, su jefe en la Central, le llama para encargarle un misterioso y urgente caso: Rafael Morín, jefe de la Empresa de Importaciones y Exportaciones...
Book cover of Vientos de cuaresma
by Leonardo Padura
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 25, 2013

En los infernales días de la primavera cubana en que llegan los vientos calientes del sur, coincidiendo con la cuaresma, al teniente Mario Conde, que acaba de conocer a Karina, una mujer bella y deslumbrante, aficionada al jazz y al saxo, le encargan una delicada investigación. Una joven profesora...
Book cover of The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867
by Leonardo Marques
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016

An investigation of US participation in the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, from the American Revolution to the Civil War   While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade’s impact within the United States, considerably less has addressed its effects in other parts...
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Manetho

History of Egypt

by Leonardo Paolo Lovari
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018

Our knowledge of Manetho is uncertain, but we can affirm three things that are: his homeland, his priesthood in Heliopolis and his activity for the introduction of the cult of Serapis. The name Manetho can be explained as "The Truth of Thoth", and under the XIX Dynasty it is described as...
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The Sociology of Political Praxis (RLE: Gramsci)

An Introduction to Gramsci's Theory

by Leonardo Salamini
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014

This volume analyses the philosophical nature of Gramsci’s Marxism and its Hegelian source, the radical critique of the economistic tradition and the original analyses of the role of superstructures, ideology, consciousness and subjectivity in the revolutionary process. It relates the central themes...
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The Paradox of Existence

Philosophy and Aesthetics in the Young Schelling

by Leonardo V. Distaso
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006

This book is not a merely historical reconstruction of Schelling’s thought; its main goal is to provide a contribution for a better comprehension of the importance of the philosophical quest of the young German philosopher from within, which represents a turning point for the whole thought of modernity....
Book cover of Exile, Diaspora, and Return

Exile, Diaspora, and Return

Changing Cultural Landscapes in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay

by Luis Roniger, Mario Sznajder, Leonardo Senkman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, dictatorships in Latin America hastened the outward movement of intellectuals, academics, artists, and political and social activists to other countries. Following the coups that toppled democratically elected governments or curtailed parliamentary...
Book cover of Più in forma con Kafka
by Marianna Albini, Leonardo Merlini, Nicola Lagioia
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 13, 2014

Come si addice a un uomo, Franz Kafka, che, nonostante i dubbi riguardo alla propria corporatura gracile, era noto per la resistenza alle lunghe cavalcate e alle camminate in campagna. La sua palestra, i suoi campi d’allenamento, sono ovunque, nel quotidiano traffico della città moderna, come accade...
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Non è tempo di morire

Il ciclo di Bruno Arcieri

by Leonardo Gori
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 9, 2016

«Uno di personaggi più singolari e più amati della narrativa gialla italiana». LA NAZIONE Milano, 1969: Bruno Arcieri indaga tra le macerie di Piazza Fontana. È per fare un piacere a una vecchia amica, e cavarne dai guai una giovane, che Bruno Arcieri, ormai ex colonnello dei Carabinieri...
Book cover of Gli zii di Sicilia
by Leonardo Sciascia
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 12, 2013

Pubblicato nel 1958 nei Gettoni di Vittorini, poi riproposto nel 1960 con l'aggiunta di un importante racconto – "L'antimonio", che è un po' un romanzo interrotto –, "Gli zii di Sicilia" è la prima apparizione di Sciascia come narratore puro, fabulatore di storie che qui...
Book cover of Einstein
by Leonardo Gariboldi
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 2, 2016

Albert Einstein è universalmente noto per la sua teoria della relatività, con la quale ha mostrato che lo spazio e il tempo non sono immutabili, che il tempo può rallentare e lo spazio diventare curvo. E che l’energia e la materia sono la stessa cosa. La relatività ha cambiato radicalmente il...
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