Diccionario Espasa filosofía

An effort to determine the origin of the African slaves brought to the central region of Cuba through a linguistic study that analyzes the speech of practitioners of the Palo Monte Afro-Cuban religion which contains remnants of Bantu languages.

Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists in South America. Architecture, theater, music and cartography play a central role in his work, where maps and blueprints are condensed into a world of poetic and territorial fantasies, and reality and fiction overlap. Whether depicting an "Acoustic Mass" at the Old Vic or a constellation map of "Heaven," in each painting or drawing collected here, Kuitca measures the world anew, shedding light on complex spatial contexts and intertwined social processes. This...

Contiene los libros: La brújula dorada, La Daga y El catalejo lacado. Muchos mundos, una historia. Las aventuras de Lyra en la trilogía La Materia Oscura te llevarán a un universo muy particular: Luces del norte se sitúa en un mundo como el nuestro, pero a la vez muy diferente, en el que el extraño aletiómetro que Lyra posee la obligará a emprender un increíble viaje por las gélidas tierras árticas, donde reinan los clanes de las brujas y luchan los osos polares. En La daga se transforma el universo conocido, y Lyra llega a una ciudad misteriosa donde conoce a un enigmático...

The manuscripts were begun in Milan while Leonardo da Vinci was in the service of Ludovico Sforza. He continued the work during the last 25 years of the artist's life. The works were subsequently published in the collection and based on Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini. After Leonardo's death, those notebooks passed into the hands of his pupil and heir Francesco Melzi, and he published them later. It was a task of overwhelming difficulty due to its scope and Leonardo's idiosyncratic writing.