Imágenes y Paisajes: El Arte Rupestre del Noreste de Catamarca, Argentina

The proceedings assemble some 240 papers covering eight sections: 1. phonetics and phonology, 2. morphology, 3. syntax, 4. lexical semantics, 5. editing and textual criticism, 6, rhetoric, poetics and literary theory, 7. applied linguistics, 8. history of linguistics. In addition, they include four plenary lectures and two round table discussions. The papers provide a panorama view of old and new concerns in Romance studies illustrated from various theoretical perspectives and providing an example of what this sector has to contribute to the development of linguistics and literary studies in...

"La figura del hombre moderno está marcada por el sueño de Prometeo". Así da comienzo esta obra en la que Hans Graf Huyn ofrece al lector una extensa mirada a la sociedad moderna en todas sus manifestaciones. A modo de admonición, el autor resalta las consecuencias negativas que para el hombre de nuestro tiempo ha tenido su pretensión de total autonomía. La crisis que padece Occidente viene así a revelarse como la propia del hombre autónomo, pretendida criatura de sí mismo. Escrito en un estilo directo y atractivo, pero huyendo del comentario banal, Seréis como dioses detalla,...

"Commemorative edition celebrating the reopening in 2005 of the patrimonial building that houses the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile. The book examines the history of the museum and of the building, the architectonic restoration, while also is an historic document of the museum's reopening ceremony celebrated December 16, 2005. Includes brief reviews on MAC's personages, collection and historical exhibitions"--Provided by vendor.

"Arreguín's palpitations of color and light and arrested movement awaken our sublimated vision. His paintings seem to force our entire being to experience its livingness as an insatiable yearning and questing of the eyes." - from the Foreword by Tess GallagherBorn in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguín has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native Michoacán; the lush rainforests of his...