Aline and the Blue Bottle, Ugaz-Morбn Carolina

Автор: Gonzбlez John Morбn
Название: The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels
ISBN: 0814256368 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814256367
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Описание: In The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels, John Mor n Gonz lez traces the imperialist imaginings behind literary efforts to reunite the United States after the trauma of the Civil War and Reconstruction. This innovative study explores how the U.S. historical romance attempted to rebuild a national identity by renovating Manifest Destiny for the twentieth-century imperialist future through courtship and marriage plots. Yet even as these literary romances promised expansive national futures, the racial and gender contradictions of U.S. democracy threatened to result in troubled unions at home and fractious ventures abroad. Canonical authors such as Henry James, popular authors such as Helen Hunt Jackson, and rediscovered authors such as Mar a Amparo Ruiz de Burton provide the dramatic narratives examined in this book. Employing theoretical perspectives drawn from American Studies and Latin American Studies, Gonz lez highlights the importance of the "domestic"-understood as both the domestic boundaries of the nation and of the home-as a key site within civil society that maintained and renewed imperialist national subjectivities. The Troubled Union combines the formal analysis of literary genre with interdisciplinary cultural studies to elucidate just how the imperial national allegory deeply structured the U.S. cultural imagination of the late nineteenth century.

Автор: Ugaz-Moran Carolina
Название: Aline and the Blue Bottle
ISBN: 1734072822 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781734072822
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In the beginning there was only One World, where creatures with white magic, with black magic, and with no magic lived. As their powers grew, so did the thirst for power until it all ends during the War of Magic. The One World is divided into 8 worlds: 7 with magic and 1 with no magic--the human world.

For thousands of years, the 8 worlds live in peace. But secrets begin to brew to either protect or to threaten the peace. One secret, was Aline, who lives in the human world with no awareness of the other seven magical worlds. Where nothing special ever happens to her. She lives a plain life with horrible school mates where she has no friends.

On her 12^thbirthday, on Halloween, she has to flee to a new magical world. In this world she learns that she has magical powers and must figure out how to use them in order to defend herself from a horrible warlock named Dashiok. She meets two sisters, Cristina, a nature sylph, and Sofia, a sense sylph, who become her best friends. Together they receive powers from magical meteors in an Endowing Ceremony.

During her training sessions with the sisters, she discovers that a magical blue bottle needs Aline's help. Dashiok wants to use the powerful blue bottle to take over the 8 worlds. This leads Aline to go on her first quest. Some of the members of the High Wizard Council join Aline and her friends and they become the quest carriers.

The quest carriers travel through the Winding Forest, the Bleak forest, and finally the Southern Shores where they fight an army of hobgoblins, enchanted colossals, and yawares to find the blue bottle. Here Aline faces Yakar, the first and only vampire.

Aline finds out that before she was born, when Dashiok was trying to take her, he transfers some of Yakar's powers to Aline and this creates the only real connection Yakar ever had to another leaving being.

The link between the Yakar and Aline secures her safety, and the quest carriers are able to take the blue bottle away from Dashiok.

See if you can uncover all of the secrets hidden in the magical worlds where Aline and her friends have their adventures...

Автор: , Morбn Уscar
Название: Strength Training: Exercises
ISBN: 8416740046 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788416740048
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Описание: It contains: - 300 videos Online- More than 400 exercises, including explanations of technique and detailed illustrations for each- Explanations to help you organize your weekly workout routine and decide which muscles to train together and in what order- Advice on proper breathing technique, common mistakes to avoid and tips for beginners and advanced strength training practitioners alike- Descriptions of the main muscles worked in the exercises and their variants- Explanations of weight lifting theory and the best way to plan and organize your workouts and training season- Anatomical descriptions of the main muscle groups Glossary of technical terms- Descriptions of bodily movements and the mus- cles involved- Table of training percentages and repetitions- Tips, advice and recommendations to overcome stagnation- Description, prevention and treatment of common injuriesWho is this book for?Anybody who wants to learn about strength training and improve their technique and results.Beginners, for the clarity of the graphicsIntermediate and advanced practitioners, for its help in polishing technique and overcoming stagnationDoctors and physiotherapists for its scientific rigorTeachers, trainers and gym monitors for its didactic approachGym owners and manufacturers of fitness appa- ratus for its constructive criticism of machine