Geografías culinarias

Accompanying an exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemsiza museum, this book reveals the double facet of the artist and his legacy by detailing a series of successive encounters between Gauguin and his masters, his contemporaries, and his pupils. One of the key paradoxes concerning Paul Gauguin is the fact that he was both a profound individualist and at the same time the founder of an artistic school. For the young artists collectively known as the Nabis, Gauguin's personal version of symbolism became the canonical route to modern art. Acompañando una exhibición en el Museo Thyssen-Bornemsiza,...

Companion to the 2009 science fiction movie, Avatar. "This report details Pandora's alien ecosystem; its mining mother lode and topography; its flora and fauna; and the culture, language, and physiology of the native population, the aggressive hunter-gatherer race called the Na'vi. ... Also included in this manual are highly confidential and detailed descriptions of RDA [the "enemy" -- the Resources Development Administration] technology and weapons systems deployed to suppress the indigenous hostiles and defend employees agingst the dangerous Pandoran environment"--P. [4] of cover.

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the conference »Palenque, Cartagena y Afro-Caribe conexiones históricas y lingüísticas, Cartagena, Colombia«, held at the University of Cartagena in late 1996. The volume features 17 articles by leading figures in the fields of Afro-Hispanic linguistics, creolistics, history, and anthropology. It reflects the state of the art on Palenquero research, and is representative of scholars' special interests in Palenquero.

Este libro será el gran consejero para los actores y actrices que piensan orientar su carrera hacia el teatro musical y, en este empeño, tendrán que pasar una y otra vez por las temidas «audiciones». Esta práctica recurrente e ineludible es siempre un momento de enorme tensión que pone a prueba la preparación y el temple de los aspirantes. Cómo prepararse para una audición de teatro musical propone recomendaciones sobre la elección de las canciones, los textos, la forma de presentarse, etcétera, que son válidos para cualquier actor o actriz. Hace además un repaso a la historia...