Seeing Jesus in East Harlem: What Happens When Churches Show Up and Stay Put, Humphreys Josae

Автор: Sender, Ramon J Sender, Ramaon Josae
Название: Iman
ISBN: 193476874X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781934768747
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Описание: To read Iman (1930) by Ramon J. Sender is to sail into a vertiginous trip within the darkest aspects of the human being. A man, a soldier striving to survive along endless days and nights in a desert landscape, without further protection besides his scarce strengths, surrounded by death, violence, horror. A shockingly compelling novel, both harsh and beautiful, written in a prose that attains lyricism heights seldom seen in war novels, that has the power to immerse the reader into the nameless world that lies beyond the madness frontier. With this, his first novel Ramon J. Sender (Spain 1901- USA 1982) immediately became one of the most important XX Century Spanish novelists. Iman, a novel full of aggravation provoked by the senseless powers that ruled Spain, sympathetic towards those who died, accuser against those who took advantage of the young lives of the Spanish people, played a key role in the Spanish monarchy fall and the subsequent arrival of the Republic. But its literary and universal claim values make it stand as the chronicle of the unleashed barbarism inherent to each and every war. Almost a century after the narrated episodes it still makes for a reading that leaves no room for indifference. In this edition the introductory study by Borja Rodr guez Guti rrez and the footnotes allow the modern reader to grasp and enjoy the Sender text in its full masterpiece magnitude.

Автор: Saramago Josae, Saramago Jose, Costa Margaret Jull
Название: Skylight
ISBN: 0544570375 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544570375
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Описание: "The inklings of Saramago's style swell throughout . . . Skylight shines." -- New York Times

"Unmistakably Saramago . . . There is no shortage of wonders to be found in Skylight]." -- Washington Post

"A fascinating and startlingly mature work . . . The book is a gem." -- Boston Globe

Lisbon, late 1940s. The inhabitants of a faded apartment building are struggling to make ends meet: Silvio the cobbler and his wife take in a disaffected young lodger; Dona Lidia, a retired prostitute, is kept by a businessman with a roving eye. Humble salesman Emilio's Spanish wife is in a permanent rage; beautiful Claudinha's boss lusts for her; Justina and her womanizer husband live at war with each other. Happy marriages, abusive relationships, jealousy, gossip, love--Skylight is a portrait of ordinary people painted by the master of the quotidian, a great observer of the immense beauty and profound hardship of the modern world.

"The gifted young Saramago makes these characters click together in a way that's extremely sympathetic." -- NPR, All Things Considered

"It was only a matter of time before a work of such extraordinary honesty and perception would make its way into the world." -- San Francisco Chronicle

Автор: Alaniz Josae, Alaniz Jose
Название: Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
ISBN: 1628461179 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628461176
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the humanities--disability studies, death and dying studies, and comics studies-- José Alaniz seeks to redefine the contemporary understanding of the superhero. Beginning in the Silver Age, the genre increasingly challenged and complicated its hypermasculine, quasi-eugenicist biases through such disabled figures as Ben Grimm/The Thing, Matt Murdock/Daredevil, and the Doom Patrol.Alaniz traces how the superhero became increasingly vulnerable, ill, and mortal in this era. He then proceeds to a reinterpretation of characters and series--some familiar (Superman), some obscure (She-Thing). These genre changes reflected a wider awareness of related body issues in the postwar U.S. as represented by hospice, death with dignity, and disability rights movements. The persistent highlighting of the body's ""imperfection"" comes to forge a predominant aspect of the superheroic self. Such moves, originally part of the Silver Age strategy to stimulate sympathy, enhance psychological depth, and raise the dramatic stakes, developed further in such later series as The Human Fly, Strikeforce: Morituri, and the landmark graphic novel The Death of Captain Marvel, all examined in this volume. Death and disability, presumed routinely absent or denied in the superhero genre, emerge to form a core theme and defining function of the Silver Age and beyond.

Автор: Dijck Josae Van, Poell Thomas
Название: The Platform Society
ISBN: 0190889772 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190889777
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In The Platform Society, Van Dijck, Poell and De Waal offer a comprehensive analysis of an online world where platforms have penetrated the heart of societies. The book analyzes intense struggles in four sectors - news, urban transport, health, and education - asking who is responsible for anchoring public values and the common good in a platform society?

Автор: Jesus Josae Manuel Duarte
Название: Eduardo Mondlane: Hope Destroyed
ISBN: 1535257075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781535257077
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Описание: Eduardo Mondlane was an extremely promising, able, well-educated, charismatic scion of an impoverished aristocratic Tsonga family in southern Mo ambique. He was strongly backed by the Kennedys, "the best and the brightest" of their State Department, their CIA, and the Ford Foundation. He enjoyed significant support in Portugal and was universally supported by the Western Democracies and by influential Africans like Nyerere and Bourguiba. How could Mondlane lose control, and the West lose its influence, in the nationalist movement he had so capably founded? The letter bomb Mondlane opened on Feb. 3, 1969 ended his campaign for a moderate, democratic, prosperous, socially responsible, unaligned Mozambique and swept his unfortunate country, as he had feared, into the destitution of a proxy Cold War. How could this happen? Jos Duarte explains the national and international factions surrounding Mondlane that led to his destruction and the destruction of his country.