Historia De La Mafia / The History of the Mafia

Antologia de la Literatura Espanola: Siglos XVIII y XIX challenges traditional concepts of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish literature by providing exciting new material never before available in modern editions. It includes examples of popular dramatic genres, such as the sainete and the zarzuela usually excluded from anthologies, and recognizes the contributions of women writers such as Gertrudis Hore, Carolina Coronado, Gertrudis G—mez de Avellandeda, Rosal'a de Castro, Concepci—n Arenal, Cecilia Bšhl de Faber (Fern‡n Caballero), and Emilia Pardo Baz‡n. Siglos XVIII y...

En este libro se compilan proyectos de investigación que fueron presentados como casos de estudios o ponencias en congresos a nivel nacional e internacional. Este libro fue elaborado por los compiladores para empresarios de la zona como para estudiantes que les servirán las recomendaciones de cada uno de los capítulos presentados ya que se analizan diferentes proyectos de investigación en donde se utilizan otras metodologías para su análisis. Los capitulo que integran este libro tratan de mostrar las diferentes formas de llevar a cabo un proyecto de investigación que por su diversidad...

Directs the reader to 6000 organizations throughout the world concerning women and women's issues. Coverage includes groups focusing on such topics as breast cancer, divorce, reproductive rights and right-to-life, rape, domestic violence, and family, parent and infant issues.

As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In Afro-Cuban Tales this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate. Here readers will find a vibrant, imaginative record of African culture transplanted to Cuba and transformed over time, a passionate and subversive alternative to the dominant Western...