Pilar: 233 books

This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that characterise a wide range of generic and linguistic/cultural contexts, including dating shows in China and Spain, docudramas in Argentina and New Zealand, and talent shows in the UK and USA.

L’Albert Corner i Espiga fa temps que va deixar enrere la guerra de Cuba. L’àvia Mariona li havia demanat que tornés viu i va complir la promesa. Però ja mai més no seria aquell soldat de lleva rebregat per la pobresa i la dissort, sinó un home nou, un supervivent. I amb l’instint de...

The book represents a basic support for a master course in electromagnetism oriented to numerical simulation. The main goal of the book is that the reader knows the boundary-value problems of partial differential equations that should be solved in order to perform computer simulation of electromagnetic...

Mexican figures like La Virgen de Guadalupe, la Malinche, la Llorona, and la Chingada reflect different myths of motherhood in Mexican culture. For the first time, Melero examines these instances of portrayed motherhood as a discursive space in the political, cultural, and literary context of early twentieth century Mexico.

Dwellers of Memory is an ethnographic study of how urban youth in Colombia came to be at the intersection of multiple forms of political, drug-related, and territorial violence in a country undergoing forty years of internal armed conflict. It examines the ways in which youth in the city of Medellin...

Mind mapping is a technique for visually displaying and organizing information. Mind mapping has a scientific basis. Do you want…• to understand mind mapping? • a concise introduction to the possible applications of mind mapping in the field of Health Sciences? • to understand the possibilities...

Este libro es el producto de las investigaciones de 2014 que se socializaron en el Congreso Nacional de Política Criminal y "Prevención" en el que se presentaron diferentes posturas y críticas al concepto de "prevención" del delito. La primera parte del libro la hemos denominado...

Gloria P. Totoricagüena presents a thorough comparative examination of the remarkable endurance of Basque identity and culture in six countries of the far-flung Basque diaspora. Using the results of interviews and extensive anonymous surveys with more than eight hundred informants in the diaspora,...

Human Strengths and Resilience is intended to serve as a bridge between these two rapidly expanding disciplines by focusing on the critical issue of human strengths and resilience in cross-cultural and international perspective. To achieve these ambitious goals the editors have assembled an international...

Una noche de febrero de 1578, Louis de Clermont, señor de Bussy, es emboscado en un callejón de París por los favoritos del rey Enrique III. Diana de Meridor, que está retenida por el señor de Monsoreau, le acoge en su casa y el señor de Bussy, en medio del delirio por las heridas recibidas,...

Cinema has always been a vital medium for articulating the Basque region's unique identity and politics. The first definitive study of Basque cinema, this book provides a systematic analysis of the key Basque films, directors and cinematic institutions. Its narrative moves from the romanticised Basque...

The book includes a range of poems to entertain the average citizen commuting to work every day. Some poems will help soothe your anger but some, filled with the frustrating experience of travel, might just fuel your rage a little more. Most will entertain you or take you to a different world....

In the field of seventeenth-century English drama, women participated not only as spectators or readers, but more and more as patronesses, as playwrights, and later on as actresses and even as managers. This study examines English women writers' tragedies and tragicomedies in the seventeenth century,...

This book is the result of a number of people´s work and dedication, and who together have made it possible to hold the Building Universities´ Reputation conference at the University of Navarra on April 22nd, 23rd and 24th 2015.