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Limpia es una trayectoria devastadora a partir de una mujer que deja su casa en el sur rural chileno y trabaja como empleada doméstica por siete años en una casa de Santiago de Chile. Stella García, Stellita, expone qué vida tiene la adinerada familia Jensen López y cómo la única hija muere en la piscina, en una tragedia que termina absorbiéndola a ella, la nana.

En los años 1942 y 1943, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, buzos de combate italianos hundieron o dañaron catorce barcos aliados en Gibraltar y la bahía de Algeciras. En esta novela, inspirada en hechos reales, sólo algunos personajes y situaciones son

imaginarios. Elena Arbués, una librera de veintisiete años, encuentra una madrugada mientras pasea por la playa a uno de esos buzos, desvane...

This book brings to light the way in which basic ideas of the Enlightenment were invented and how a French aristocrat discovered the foundations of modern democracies. A life devoted to the study of law, science, and the histories of all societies made it possible for Montesquieu to show how liberty was the thing most at stake in political thought.

Organized around eight themes central to aesthetic theory today, this book examines the sources and development of Kant's aesthetics by mining his publications, correspondence, handwritten notes, and university lectures. Each chapter explores one of eight themes: aesthetic judgment and normativity, formal beauty, partly conceptual beauty, artistic creativity or genius, the fine arts, the sublime, ugliness and disgust, and humor. Robert R. Clew...

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This intensive course is expressly designed to help the adult beginner achieve a comprehensive knowledge of the language i.e. an independent user level of competence in Spanish, B1+ according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The course gives balanced attention to the four key language skills: the development of listening comprehension and speaking is supported by quality audio materials recorded by native speakers, ...

The present volume takes the analysis of taxation in Tibetan societies in new directions using hitherto unexploited Tibetan-language sources, allowing a better understanding of both the institutional organisation of taxation and of the experience and representations of taxpayers themselves.

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Furono discoperte le Indie l'anno mille quatrocento novantadue. L'anno seguente andarono ad habitarle Christiani Spagnuoli, di modo che sono quarantanove anni, che quantità di Spagnuoli vi andarono: e la prima Terra nella quale entrarono per habitarvi, fù la grande e felicissima isola Spagnuola, ch'à seicento leghe di circuito. 2 Vi sono altre Isole infinite, e molto grandi all'intorno da tutte le parti, ch'erano tutte, e noi l'habbiamo viste...

Quando donna Mimma col fazzoletto di seta celeste annodato largo sotto il mento passa per le vie del paesello assolate, si può credere benissimo che la sua personcina linda, ancora dritta e vivace, sebbene modestamente raccolta nel lungo «manto» nero frangiato, non projetti ombra su l'acciottolato di queste viuzze qua, né sul lastricato della piazza grande di là. Si può credere benissimo, perché agli occhi di tutti i bimbi e anche dei grandi ...

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Performing Restoration Shakespeare embraces the performative and musical qualities of Restoration Shakespeare (1660¿1714), drawing on the expertise of theatre historians, musicologists, literary critics, and - importantly - theatre and music practitioners. The volume advances methodological debates in theatre studies and musicology by advocating an alternative to performance practices aimed at reviving 'original' styles or conventions, adoptin...

Designed for advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students studying linguistics, applied linguistics, education, or language teaching, this textbook explores how second language and bilingual learners master challenging grammatical areas in English, Spanish, and other languages in the classroom.

Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews Volume 5 supplements and completes the Contemporary Reviews series, whose first four volumes were published in 2012. The reviews collected in this volume span Conrad's career, providing scholars with easy access to hard-to-locate material, including a host of colonial reviews that have recently become available.

Based on classic and cutting-edge research, this textbook shows how grammatical phenomena can best be taught to second language and bilingual learners. Bringing together second language research, linguistics, pedagogical grammar, and language teaching, it demonstrates how linguistic theory and second language acquisition findings optimize classroom intervention research. The book assumes a generative approach but covers intervention studies fr...

These thirty-eight short essays show how Shakespearean drama stages virtue as a capacity for connection within and across distinct environments of belonging. Individual virtues such as hospitality, prudence, wit, and trust enable pluralism while asserting core commitments, channelling strength and yearning into the courage to be seen and heard.

This book focuses on how contestation among elites shapes the legitimacy of international organizations in the eyes of citizens. It offers fresh insights into major issues of our day, such as the rise of populism, the power of communication, the backlash against global governance, and the relationship between citizens and elites"--

Using illustrative examples from a range of jurisdictions, this book demonstrates the various ways in which law and gender interact to shape the legal subject. Organised in thematic chapters that address the legal subject's corporeal, functional, and communal dimensions, it offers an accessible but theoretically ambitious analysis.

Using illustrative examples from a range of jurisdictions, this book demonstrates the various ways in which law and gender interact to shape the legal subject. Organised in thematic chapters that address the legal subject's corporeal, functional, and communal dimensions, it offers an accessible but theoretically ambitious analysis.

This book is a comprehensive, accessible survey of Western philosophy of music from Pythagoras to the present. Five chapters survey philosophy of music in the ancient, medieval, early modern, modern and contemporary periods. It will be valuable for undergraduate and advanced students, and scholars, in philosophy and musicology.