This joint OECD and World Bank review explores a range of helpful policy measures and institutional reforms to mobilise higher education for the development of the Bío Bío Region.
"Este es un libro definitivo sobre la verdad de lo ocurrido en el sur chileno y argentino conquistado por la civilización de origen europeo. El reparto de las tierras y el genocidio consumado con los pueblos originarios. Ya nadie —después de este acopio de pruebas— podrá señalar que las versiones críticas que surgieron a medida que se producían esos hechos eran exageradas o de pura imaginación. El autor nos presenta en especial lo que ocurrió en Chile, principalmente, pero también de su eco en la Argentina, o viceversa, en esta biografía exhaustiva del aprovechado español José Menéndez. También está aquí la historia del imperio económico de Menéndez-Braun, todo el proceso de cómo se cambia la vida de la fauna natural de la región y el capítulo de los “cazadores de indios”, crimen de los peores de nuestra historia conjunta chileno-argentina en ese verdadero paraíso de paisajes que es Tierra del Fuego y la Patagonia continental. Hasta se llegó al colmo: al “remate de indios”, como se había hecho durante la colonización española, con el remate de esclavos de origen africano. La “civilización” europea, occidental y cristiana. Aquí hay años...
A biting satire about the downfall of a businessman-polygamist who assumes the role of the colonialist in French-speaking Africa.
One of the most influential figures in the Latin American literary boom of this century, this highlights the Argentine writer's superb stories, taking into account other works of fiction, miscellanea, and nonficiton to give a balanced overview of Cortazar's lasting accomplishments.
Comprised of 25 original essays by the parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered children--accompanied by commentary from their sons and daughters--"Conversaciones" furthers the dialogue among Latinos and Latinas on sexuality, acceptance, and family life.
A novel of Venezuelan Jewish life told in two voices: one depicting immigrant life and the other sharing a journey of self-discovery.
Esteban Vicente is the first book devoted to the life and work of the distinguished Spanish-born painter who, at age ninety-two, remains the only one of the original Abstract Expressionists still working at the peak of his powers. His luminous paintings and collages acknowledge the great Spanish tradition of Velazquez and Goya while simultaneously exploring the legacy of such modernist masters as Cezanne, Picasso, Mondrian, and Matisse. This magnificent volume reproduces all of Vicente's most important works from nearly a half century of constant evolution between cycles of austere painterly classicism and a passionate, explosive baroque. Oversize plates, including 84 in full color, present Vicente's paintings, collages, and drawings, capturing his rich, brilliant palette, elegant compositions, economy of means, and passionate clarity of feeling. Esteban Vicente is further enriched by extensive quotations from the artist's writings and interviews; rare documentary photographs; a chronology; lists of solo and group exhibitions and public collections; bibliography; and index. 89 colour & 48 b/w illustrations
Translation of Buero-Vallejo's play that draws on the painting of the same name by Diego Velasquez.
The surrealistic tale of a man who lives in two worlds, one real, the other unreal. The unreal one is of his invention and is populated by interesting people such as Zenobia, a woman who infatuates him. By contrast the real world is boring, but he realizes its value in keeping him sane. By a Rumanian writer.
Realia, Kate Camp's second collection of poetry, comfirms her place amongst the best and brightest poets in New Zealand. Her seemingly lighthearted poems offer a sharp and often wry perspective on life's big issues - life, love and lime milkshakes.
The greatest managers in the world seem to have little in common. They differ in sex, age, and race. They employ vastly different styles and focus on different goals. Yet despite their differences, great managers share one common trait: They do not hesitate to break virtually every rule held sacred by conventional wisdom. They do not believe that, with enough training, a person can achieve anything he sets his mind to. They do not try to help people overcome their weaknesses. They consistently disregard the golden rule. And, yes, they even play favorites. This amazing book explains why. Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the remarkable findings of their massive in-depth study of great managers across a wide variety of situations. Some were in leadership positions. Others were front-line supervisors. Some were in Fortune 500 companies; others were key players in small, entrepreneurial companies. Whatever their situations, the managers who ultimately became the focus of Gallup's research were invariably those who excelled at turning each employee's talent into performance. In today's tight labor markets, companies compete to find and keep the best...
This monograph on the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta provides the most comprehensive overview of her career available in English. From her early performances to her Land Art works, sculptures, and drawings, examples from all phases of her career--from the late 1960s to her death in 1985-- are considered here in extensive color plates, several in-depth essays, and writings by the artist.
Delmira Agustini nace y publica en un período de crisis de valores que extiende las inquietudes del final de siglo XIX a las primeras décadas del XX. Su condición de mujer complica e ilustra al mismo tiempo la multiplicidad del fenómeno del modernismo hispánico. El presente volumen propone nuevas alternativas de aproximación al modernismo a través del análisis de la obra de Delmira Agustini, una autora integrada a los valores fetichistas de su época al tiempo que los amplia y supera con un virtuosismo sin precedentes. La implicación estética de Agustini en el modernismo y la modernidad convive, por lo tanto, con la relativización de esos mismos conceptos al presentarse el objeto tradicional femenino como sujeto hablante susceptible de univocidad y trascendencia. Así sucede en la utilización e implícita corrección de ciertos mitos como Pigmalión, Salomé, Leda y el cisne, mitos que la autora personaliza y subvierte al articularlos desde una voz lírica que explicita su condición deseante de mujer. Con su propuesta transgresora, Delmira Agustini plantea una modernidad discrepante de las nociones del poder que resultan ineficaces al abordar la problemática de la...
Revised edition of a Latin American classic in a tour-de-force translation.
Blends fact and fiction about the legendary Eva Peron, wife of the Argentinian dictator.
Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the publication of such satire in its original form, but hundreds of copies were made by hand and circulated widely. In 1993 a critical edition of all of the surviving manuscripts was published. Crosby's work compares this version with all of the 43 extant manuscripts, and for the first time identifies those groups of manuscripts from which the publishers of the first edition derived their text. This text can now be seen as a version not only censored, but corrupted successively by copyists and editors who did not understand Quevedo's satire. The result is hardly what Spain's most famous satirist...
A collection of poems, including The Massacre, No Harm Shall Come, Touched, Evensong, and Amberose Triste.
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