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Essays eBook Series

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  • Unveiling Stories

    Writers in the General Archive of the Indies

    Edited by Erna von der Walde ...
    Series series Essays
    In Sevilla, Spain, the General Archive of the Indies has, for 240 years, been a repository for centuries of materials and documents gathering a record of the daily life of empire. Now ten writers from Spain and Latin America have a chance to respond to this 80-million-page trove.With contributions from:Carlos Fonseca (Costa Rica)Carlos Granés (Colombia)Cristina Bendek (Colombia)Juan Bonilla (Spain ... Read more

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    by O-O Happiness ...
    The companion to our Languages Fast and Easy ~ Portuguese ebook, this Phrasebook provides you with a collection of the most common phrases as well as specialist phrases for when you are at the hotel/ restaurant, travelling and out and about. ... Read more

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  • The Solitudes

    A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text

    by Luis de Gongora, Edith Grossman ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one of the most acclaimed translators of our time.A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as "the Prince of Darkness." The Solitudes, his magnum opus, is an intoxicatingly lush novel-in-verse that ... Read more

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  • The Incas

    by Hiram Bingham, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, William Prescott ...
    This volume contains three complete works by Hiram Bingham, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, and William Prescott.Bingham’s “Inca Land” provides fascinating insights into the ancient and more modern cultures of the Incas and Peru, all in the context of his discovery of Machu Picchu.Sarpiento de Gamboa’s “History of the Incas” describes the history of this interesting civilization.Prescott’s “The History ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • The Slaughteryard

    by Esteban Echeverria ...
    Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni ...
    The first English translation of an Argentinean classic.Argentina, 1839. A young man dies for his political beliefs when attacked by a mob in a slaughteryard used to butcher cattle.The story takes place at the height of Juan Manuel de Rosas’ reign of terror. Though fictional, it is an open indictment of that brutal regime and the first masterwork of Latin-American literature, orginally published ... Read more

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  • Learn Portuguese: Idiomatic Expressions ‒ Everyday Phrases ‒ Proverbs & Sayings

    by Linda Milton ...
    Learn Portuguese fast: Aprenda Português de maneira rápida.As you may already know, Portuguese is not an easy-to-learn language.The best way to try to master Portuguese is to learn by heart its most popular idiomatic expressions.In this book, you will find the corresponding English version above every Portuguese Expressão idiomática. This will help you catch its full meaning in no time.Learn 250 ... Read more

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  • Basic Portuguese For Beginners.

    Foreign Languages., #7

    by Kerry Butters ...
    Series Book 7 - Foreign Languages.
    Basic Portuguese For Beginners. Basic Portuguese for Travel in Portugal, Everyday words and useful phrases, words for Greetings, Shopping, eating out, Directions and lots more. English to Portuguese. ... Read more

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  • Jose Bonifacio De Andrada E Silva

    The Greatest Man in Brazilian History

    by Ricardo C. Amaral ...
    Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva "The Greatest Man in Brazilian History" This book will introduce to the United States the founding father of Brazil. He is one of the greatest statesman in world history, but he is unknown to the American public. He is the Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison and George Washington of Brazil embodied in one person. This book will cover some of the ... Read more

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  • Songs of Life and Hope/Cantos de vida y esperanza

    by Rubén Darío ...
    Renowned for its depth of feeling and musicality, the poetry of Rubén Darío (1867–1916) has been revered by writers including Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. A leading figure in the movement known as modernismo, Darío created the modern Spanish lyric and permanently altered the course of Spanish poetry*.* Yet while his output has inspired a great deal of critical analysis and ... Read more

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  • Brazil's Folk-Popular Poetry – a Literatura De Cordel

    A Bilingual Anthology in English and Portuguese

    by Mark J. Curran ...
    Brazil's folk-popular poetry – "a literatura de cordel," – is perhaps the most important and vibrant variant of poetry of the masses in western culture. But not many people in the English-speaking world know much about it.Written by a recognized scholar on the subject, Brazil’s Folk-Popular Poetry — A Literatura De Cordel notes the craft’s origins in Portugal in the 17th and 18th centuries and ... Read more

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  • From Lisbon to Goa, 1500-1750

    Studies in Portuguese Maritime Enterprise

    by C.R. Boxer ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    These articles deal with the functioning, and malfunctioning, of the Carreira da India, the round voyages made between Portugal and its possessions in India that began after Vasco da Gama had opened up the route round the Cape of Good Hope in 1497-99. On such voyages was the Portuguese colonial empire built, and these studies illustrate the conditions under which they operated - the ships, the ... Read more

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  • A Texas-Mexican Cancionero

    Folksongs of the Lower Border

    by Américo Paredes ...
    The folksongs of Texas's Mexican population pulsate with the lives of folk heroes, gringos, smugglers, generals, jailbirds, and beautiful women. In his cancionero, or songbook, Américo Paredes presents sixty-six of these songs in bilingual text—along with their music, notes on tempo and performance, and discography. Manuel Peña's new foreword situates these songs within the main currents of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD