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      • Trusted Partner
        September 1980

        Stegreif und Kunstgriff

        Essays zur Literatur, Musik und Architektur in Lateinamerika

        by Alejo Carpentier, Paolo Gasparini, Anneliese Botond

        Alejo Carpentier wurde 1904 als Sohn eines französischen Architekten und einer Russin in Havanna geboren. Zweisprachig mit Französisch und Spanisch erzogen, ging er in Havanna und Paris zur Schule, studierte Architektur, Literatur und Musikwissenschaften. Er war Mitarbeiter und Herausgeber verschiedener Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, organisierte sich in der Opposition und kam 1927 wegen rebellischer Aktivitäten für ein halbes Jahr ins Gefängnis. Kurze Zeit später ging Carpentier für 11 Jahre ins Exil nach Paris, wo er als Musikkritiker, Komponist und Journalist arbeitete. Das Exil machte ihn mit aktuellen Strömungen, vor allem mit dem Surrealismus, und mit vielen spanischen und lateinamerikanischen Schriftstellern vertraut und sensibilisierte ihn für seine lateinamerikanischen Wurzeln. Das Aufeinanderprallen von moderner Zivilisation und mythischen Kulturen Lateinamerikas bestimmte schon seinen ersten, dokumentarischen Roman ¡Ecué-Yamba-O! von 1933. Von 1939 an lebte Carpentier wieder in Havanna. Er fand schnell Anschluß an die intellektuellen Kreise, lehrte als Professor für Musikwissenschaft an der Universität, schrieb Zeitungsbeiträge und arbeitete für eine staatliche Rundfunkanstalt. 1945 floh er vor dem Terror der Batista-Diktatur ins venezolanische Exil nach Caracas, wo ihm eine gut bezahlte Stelle bei einer Werbeagentur finanzielle Unabhängigkeit sicherte; gleichzeitig hatte er den Lehrstuhl für Kulturgeschichte an der dortigen Kunsthochschule inne. Die Eindrücke und Erfahrungen einer Haiti-Reise verarbeitete er in dem Roman El reino de este mundo von 1949 (dt. Das Reich von dieser Welt, 1964) über den Aufstand der Haitianer gegen die französischen Unterdrücker in Napoleonischer Zeit. Zu einem Manifest lateinamerikanischer Kultur wurde das Vorwort zu diesem Buch, in dem Carpentier sein Konzept des »Wunderbar Wirklichen« darlegte. Mit La música en Cuba von 1946 machte er sich einen Namen als einer der führenden Musikwissenschaftler Lateinamerikas. Musik spielte in seinem Leben und in seinen Büchern eine große Rolle, so in den Romanen Los pasos perdidos von 1953 (dt. Die verlorenen Spuren, 1982) und El acoso von 1956 (dt. Finale auf Kuba, 1960; Hetzjagd, 1989). In den 50er Jahren gehörte Carpentier schon zu den bekanntesten Schriftstellern Lateinamerikas. Nach Castros Sieg kehrte er 1959 nach Kuba zurück, wo ihm viele hohe Ämter übertragen wurden. Er war außerdem Professor für Literatur an der Universität Havanna und von 1967 an Leiter des Staatsverlages. 1962 erschien der historische Roman El siglo de las luces (dt. Explosion in der Kathedrale, 1964) über die Folgen der französischen Revolution auf Kuba. Von 1966 an lebte Carpentier als Kulturattaché der kubanischen Regierung in Paris. 1974 erschienen der Roman El recurso del método, (dt. Staatsraison, 1976; Die Methode der Macht, 1989) - eine sarkastische Charakterisierung eines lateinamerikanischen Diktators - und die Novelle Concierto barroco (dt. Barockkonzert, 1976). La consagración de la primavera von 1978 (dt. Le Sacre du Printemps, 1993) gilt als eine Bilanz des 20. Jahrhunderts und trägt deutlich autobiographische Züge. 1979 erschien sein letztes Buch El arpa y la sombra (dt. Die Harfe und der Schatten, 1979). Carpentier war ein enzyklopädisch gebildeter Autor, dessen Werk als monumentales literarisches Geschichtsfresko Lateinamerikas bezeichnet wird. Es ist bestimmt von einer engagierten Verbindung von Literatur, Politik und Geschichte und dem Bekenntnis zur menschlichen und gesellschaftlichen Freiheit. Carpentier hat mit seinem Konzept des »Wunderbar Wirklichen« die Heterogenität lateinamerikanischer Kulturen in einer Konstante zusammengefaßt und den Weg geebnet für eine künstlerische und kulturelle Selbstbestimmung Lateinamerikas. Alejo Carpentier starb am 24. 04. 1980 in Paris. Anneliese Botond (1922-2006) studierte und promovierte in Paris. Sie war als Lektorin und Übersetzerin für Französische und Lateinamerikanische Literatur tätig.

      • Trusted Partner
        March 1999

        Die Geburt des Mondes

        Schwarze Geschichten aus Kuba

        by Lydia Cabrera, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Susanne Lange

        Guillermo Cabrera Infante wurde 1929 in Gibara, Kuba, geboren. Mit 12 Jahren kam er nach Havanna und nach einem kurzen Studium an der Escuela de Periodismo, der Journalistenschule, arbeitete er als Journalist. Er war Mitgründer der Cinemateca de Cuba und leitete diese von 1951 bis 1956. Ab 1954 schrieb er, unter dem Pseudonym "G. Caín", Filmkritiken für die Wochenzeitschrift Carteles. Er kämpfte gegen das diktatorische Regime Batistas, und seine Eltern waren Mitgründer der kubanischen Kommunistischen Partei. Nach der kubanischen Revolution war er einige Jahre Direktor des nationalen Filminstituts und Chefredakteur der Literaturbeilage Lunes de Revolución, die 1962 eingestellt wurde. Guillermo Cabrera Infante wurde im gleichen Jahr zum Kulturattaché der kubanischen Botschaft in Belgien ernannt. 1965 legte er sein Amt nieder und ging ins freigewählte Exil. Der Autor brach damals, noch vor dem berühmten Padilla-Fall, mit dem Regime Fidel Castros, das die Intellektuellen auf Kuba immer stärker verfolgte und zensierte. Seit 1967 lebte Cabrera Infante in London. Der Autor wurde mit seinem Roman Tres tristes tigres, 1967, (dt. Drei traurige Tiger, 1987) bekannt, der den Preis Biblioteca Breve in Spanien 1964 gewann. Dieser Roman gilt als eines der Hauptwerke der lateinamerikanischen Literatur. Zu den bedeutenden Werken Cabrera Infantes gehören außerdem: Holy smoke (dt. Rauchzeichen, 1990), Vista del amanecer en el trópico (dt. Ansicht der Tropen im Morgengrauen, 1995), Así en la paz como en la guerra (dt. Wie im Kriege also auch im Frieden, 1996), La Habana para un Infante difunto und Cine o sardina (dt. Nichts als Kino, 2001), eine mitunter giftige Liebeserklärung an das Kino. 1997 erhielt Guillermo Cabrera Infante den renommierten Premio Cervantes. Guillermo Cabrera Infante starb am 21. Februar 2005 in London.

      • Trusted Partner
        Technology, Engineering & Agriculture
        November 2019

        Biotechnology of Fruit and Nut Crops

        by Richard E Litz, Fernando Pliego-Alfaro, Jose Ignacio Hormaza, Stephen W Adkins, Nuria Alburquerque, Maria Luisa Badenes, Luciana Baldoni, Araceli Barceló-Muñoz, Pedro M. Barros, A.T. Basford, Muhammad Ajmal Bashir, Diego Silva Batista, J. Biddle, Manuel Blasco, J. R. Botella, Patrick Brown, Lorenzo Burgos, John E. Carlson, Luis A. Cañas, Elisabeth Carmona, David Chagné, Rekha Chaudhury, Elisabeth Chevreau, V. E. Chhatre, Yelda Özden Çiftçi, C. Claflin, Yuval Cohen, Elena Corredoira, Valerio Cristofori, Niccolò Cultrera, Abhaya Dandekar, Maurecilne Lemes da Silva, Sadanand A. Dhekney, Leo D’Souza, Ofere Francis Emeriewen, Kate Evans, M. Faize, Fábio Gelape Faleiro, Ana Paula Farinha, Vicente Febres, Yolanda Ferradás, Antonio Figueira, Maureen M.M. Fitch, Henryk Flachowsky, M. Foale, Svetlana Y. Folimonova, María Victoria González, Isabel María González-Padilla, Julie Graham, Dennis J. Gray, Magda-Viola Hanke, Smitha Hegde, Jose Ignacio Hormaza, Uma Jaiswal, Nikki Jennings, Hülya Akdemir

        This book covers the biotechnology of all the major fruit and nut species, with persimmon, pomegranate and loquat included for the first time and colour illustrations illustrating the crop species and their wild relatives. Family by family, it details well-established techniques such as protoplast culture, in vitro mutagenesis and ploidy manipulation, but also newer approaches such as genomics, genetic transformation and marker-assisted selection.

      • Fiction

        BEAUTIFUL MORNING BIRD

        by Zoé Valdés

        Arsenio, a Cuban exile close to the dictator Batista, and his friend Elbio who never left the Cuban countryside, meet again after many years. Arsenio is gathering testimonies to support his granddaughter’s thesis on Batista, who lingers in people’s memories as a criminal and a traitor. He spends some days with Elbio: through memories and conversations between them and other characters, the book sketches a nuanced and polyphonic portrait of Batista and breathes new life into the collective memory of Cuba.

      • June 2023

        What the shadows reveal

        by Iñaki Martinez

        Havana has never been so fascinating…Nor so dangerous. An intrigue with the flavor of classic spy novels. A kaleidoscope of characters who are moved by interests that are not always lawful. "What the shadows reveal" portrays a city in which power relations are in a fragile balance. In 1953 Stanley Mortimer, a CIA analyst is torn between life and death in a hospital while his boss tries to find out who shot him. Time is running out, the assassin can try again and in the shadows the dictator Batista, the New York mobsters installed in Havana and the opposition rebels play their cards. In Stanley's inner circle, a couple who shared days of complicity and danger years ago in Tangier meet again. The love between the ex-priest Martín Ugarte and the famous writer Joan Alison, scriptwriter for Casablanca, which seemed to have died out, ignites the spark again. The author recovers the charm and nostalgia of a city and the icons of an era: from the colorful convertibles to the romantic sunsets on the Malecón. Dances, casinos, and sophisticated cocktails; elegant men who conceal pistols under their well-cut suits and seductive women who may use their charm to observe and spy. But, above all, "What the Shadows reveal" is the story of a deep friendship and a passion that transcends time and the disagreements between its protagonists.  Can Stanley survive the web that has been woven around him? How many rules are you willing to break to get your lost love or life back? Maybe you are not so different from the protagonists of this story…

      • Biography & True Stories
        July 2018

        TARSILA DO AMARAL, THE MODERNIST

        by Nádia Battella Gotlib

        In this engaging and reader-friendly biography, the professor and essayist Nádia Batista Gotlib recreates the libertarian trajectory of Tarsila do Amaral, focusing on her private life, her training in art, the modernist circuit and the Pau-brasil and Anthropophagic movements, detailing the painter’s active commitment to defending the diversity of both her art and her affective and personal life. A paradigm of rupture in visual arts and literature, Tarsila do Amaral influenced Brazilian art production and played a leading role in the social mobility of women. This book offers readers a full picture of her intense life and work, deciphering their complexity, originality and worldview.

      • Graphic novels

        Arde Cuba

        by Agustín Ferrer Casas

        Accompany Errol Flynn and Frank Spellman along to do the only interview that Fidel Castro allowed before he took La Habana. HISTORICAL ADVENTURE HUMOUR When photographer Frank Spellman travels to Cuba accompanied by Hollywood star Errol Flynn, he doesn’t expect that a simple shooting location for a movie will soon transform into a tropical nightmare. Mafia thugs, CIA agents, careless representatives of multinational companies and military intelligence officers all fight to save the remains of the corrupt and violent regime of Fulgencio Batista against the advancing Castro guerrillas. José Sanchis award winner for the Best Graphic Novel 2018 Award winner for the Best Script 2018 (Salón Internacional del Cómic de Donostia)

      • Fiction
        September 2020

        Poly

        by Paul Dalgarno

        Chris Flood – a married father of two with plummeting self-esteem and questionable guitar skills – suddenly finds himself in the depths of polyamory after years of a near-sexless marriage. His wife, Sarah – a lover of the arts, avid quoter of Rumi, and always oozing confidence – wants to rediscover her sexuality after years of deadening domesticity.   Their new life of polyamory features late nights, love affairs and rotating childcare duties. While Sarah enjoys flings with handsome men, Chris, much to his astonishment, falls for a polydactylous actor and musician, Biddy.   Then there’s Zac Batista. When Chris and Sarah welcome the Uruguayan child prodigy and successful twenty-two-year-old into their lives they gratefully hand over school pick-up and babysitting duties. But as tensions grow between family and lovers, Chris begins to wonder if it’s just jealousy, or something more sinister brewing…   A searing and utterly engrossing debut, Poly is a raw, hilarious, and moving portrait of contemporary relationships in all their diversity, and an intimate exploration of the fragility of love and identity.

      • Combat sports & self-defence
        June 2010

        Wrestling's 101 Strangest Matches

        by Oliver Hurley

        There’s nothing else in the world of sport or pantomime to compare with the manic mat mayhem of pro wrestling, which amalgamates high-flying stunts with melodrama, spandex, bodybuilding and blood – and sometimes it gets really weird. Wrestling’s 101 Strangest Matches scours 100 years of history to reveal bouts that bordered on the unbelievable. Take the grappler who lost his foot in the middle of a match, the bout that took place in an exploding swimming pool, or the baroque carnage of ultraviolent deathmatches – and then sprinkle liberally with double-crosses, drunkenness, riots, time travel, broken rings and broken bones. Boasting an impressive breadth of coverage which takes in old-school British wrestling and present-day WWE, the bill features Hulk Hogan, Kendo Nagasaki, Muhammad Ali, a wrestling robot and a monkey. Many of the stars and bizarre attractions submit to revealing interviews in a celebration of the grap game at its very strangest.

      • Animal breeding
        August 2023

        Artificial Insemination in Goats

        by Chetna Gangwar, S.D.Karche, R.Pourouchottamane & Ravi Ranjan

        Artificial Insemination (AI) permits intense selection of sires with exceptional merits and provides opportunity to exploit the value of superior sires. This book constitutes an update of recent developments in the field of assisted reproductive technology and includes selection and management of breeding buck, semen collection, processing and cryopreservation, estrous synchronization and Artificial insemination, pregnancy diagnosis, and quality control in Artificial Insemination has been included. The book covers all the basic knowledge related to artificial insemination in goats and to increase goat productivity and as a result meet the needs and demands of human communities. The work will be useful veterinary students as well as new entrants to this entrepreneurship.

      • Health & Personal Development

        Ventura Press

        by Books From Australia

        Ventura Press is one of Sydney’s leading independent publishers and has become synonymous with high quality titles and internationally respected authors. Our list covers a unique and specific market – books to enhance life. The Ventura mission is to provide boutique, innovative and exciting publishing in Australia and world wide – with particular focus on bringing strong, female Australian voices to the global stage.

      • Literary studies: general
        February 2018

        LAS ESCRITORAS ESPAÑOLAS DE LA EDAD MODERNA. HISTORIA Y GUÍA PARA LA INVESTIGACIÓN.

        by BARANDA LETURIO, Nieves; CRUZ, Anne J.

        Aunque ignoradas en las historias literarias y culturales, durante los siglos XVI y XVII existieron en España decenas de mujeres que buscaron un espacio en el territorio de las letras. Después de más de treinta años de estudios especializados durante los cuales se han exhumado innumerables documentos y se han desarrollado y probado metodologías específicas para entender a las escritoras como mujeres integradas en su tiempo, es posible llegar a producir un libro como este. Esta historia y guía de investigación representa un avance radical en el conocimiento de las escritoras del Siglo de Oro, porque recoge los resultados más relevantes y los utiliza para configurar un panorama en el que la literatura escrita por las mujeres se plantea, por fin, bajo unos perfiles específicos. Se prescinde de la historia de las individualidades para mostrar en qué medida las escritoras dialogaron con su entorno y modularon los temas, los géneros o la retórica para responder a sus necesidades expresivas.

      • The Arts
        April 2018

        NEW HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN CINEMA I

        by Fernão Pessoa Ramos and Sheila Schvarzman (editors)

        In this series, a compilation of texts by researchers and specialists seeks to sketch an updated and detailed panorama of Brazilian cinema. In this first volume, Brazilian cinema is analyzed from the 1910s onwards, addressing silent movies, the beginning of sound film, the chanchada (musical comedies) and the independent cinema of Rio de Janeiro in the 1930s-1950s, and the educational role of cinema in Getúlio Vargas’s government. The book concludes with an essay on Companhia Cinematográfica Vera Cruz, an important Brazilian film studio of the 1950s. Ebook version brings aditional texts: “Cinema in Rio Grande do Sul (1918-1934), by Glenio Povoas, and “Massaini, producer and distributor (1935-1992): a lesser known aspect of Brazilian cinema”, by Luciano Ramos.

      • The Arts
        April 2018

        NEW HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN CINEMA II

        by Fernão Pessoa Ramos and Sheila Schvarzman (editors)

        This second volume of New History of Brazilian Cinema covers Brazilian cinema from the postwar period up to the present, discussing the Cinema Novo and Cinema Marginal movements, the state-owned producer Embrafilme, pornochanchada (soft-core sex comedies) and the crisis and revival of Brazilian film production from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, ending with an overview of experimental filmmaking, documentary film and contemporary film fiction up to 2016. Ebook version brings additional texts: “Brazilian New Cinema (1960-1972)”, by Bertrand Ficamos, and the extensive filmography “Brazilian films released from 1969 to 2016”, by Luiz Felipe Miranda

      • Computer games: strategy guides
        August 2012

        The Games of the Decade

        The Games of the Decade

        by The Cheat Mistress

        Cheats Unlimited are the specialists when it comes to video game cheats, walkthrough guides, reviews and fetures. Fronted by the glamorous and gorgeous Cheatmistress, Cheats Unlimited has helped over five million gamers worldwide over the last 12 years. Through phone lines, fax machines, the Web and WAP sites and now eBooks, we have been there for gamers when they've needed us the most.With EZ Guides we aim to help you through the top games on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, DS and PSP, step by step from beginning to end in an easy and entertaining way. Along the way we'll teach you about the game's top secrets and the best way to unlock that Achievement / Trophy. EZ Guides are written by dedicated gamers who are here to help you through the difficult times in gaming.EZ Guides: The Games of the Decade covers the past ten years of gaming, including the Playstation 2, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, DS and PSP. The book contains detailed insights into the best games of the past ten years, plus numerous retrospectives and entertaining features. Take a trip down nostalgia lane, or perhaps even learn a thing or two about the past 10 years of video games. Games of the Decade is the literal alternative to taking your handheld gaming console on that long journey.Formats Covered:Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PSP, DS, PS2.

      • Photography & photographs
        July 2013

        GERALDO DE BARROS: THAT’S IT

        by Fabiana de Barros (author)

        Geraldo de Barros (1923-1998) was one of the most important representatives of Brazilian’s Modernism. He learned the principles of the Ulm Superior School of Design (Germany), brought them to South America and encouraged many of his colleagues to join the movement of concrete art. He cultivated contacts with the European artistic avant-garde and, in Brazil, was a pioneer in developing and experiencing new trends such as pop art and happening. This book presents an overview of his life and work, chrono-logically arranged and covering all aspects of his production with an emphasis in photography.

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