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Remote Beyond Compare: Letters of Don Diego de Vargas to His ...

Remote Beyond Compare: Letters of Don Diego de Vargas to His ...

Diego de Vargas

Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, "Noticias de Madrid y de las familias madrilenas de su tiempo," Revista de la ... In the prolog to his eighteenth-century work, Joseph Antonio Alvarez y Baena certified that: "The Zapata and Coello ...
Good Night San Diego

Good Night San Diego

Adam Gamble

From whale watches to Balboa Park, this charming board book captures the true spirit of San Diego, taking young readers on a memorable tour that includes the San Diego Zoo, waterparks, San Diego Air and Space Museum, fishing boats, surfer ...
The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

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Analyses Vargas Llosa's career as a writer and as an important cultural and political figure in Latin America and beyond.
Mario Vargas Llosa: A Collection of Critical Essays

Mario Vargas Llosa: A Collection of Critical Essays

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Ariel Dorfman, “José María Arguedas y Mario Vargas Llosa: dos visiones de una sola América,” Homenaje a Mario Vargas Llosa, ed. Helmy F. Giacomán and José Miguel Oviedo (New York: Las Américas, 1971), p. 150. 6. José Miguel Oviedo ...
The Cubs and Other Stories

The Cubs and Other Stories

Mario Vargas Llosa

In a candid and perceptive foreword to this collection of early writing, Vargas Llosa provides background to the volume and a unique glimpse into the mind of the artist.
San Diego's Hilarious History

San Diego's Hilarious History

Herbert Lockwood

From the story of Dora, San Diego's last slave, to an exploration of how camels were used to carry the mail across the desert, this book unearths the wacky world of San Diego history that's never been taught in school.
Who Killed Palomino Molero?

Who Killed Palomino Molero?

Mario Vargas Llosa

Deftly, unobtrusively, the book takes up some of the great themes of all of Vargas Llosa's novels: guilt and innocence, the impossibility of justice in a society grounded in inequality and the eternally elusive nature of the truth.
Las Relaciones de México con Estados Unidos y Canadá: Una ...

Las Relaciones de México con Estados Unidos y Canadá: Una ...

Rosío Vargas

Una Mirada al Nuevo Milenio Rosío Vargas, Remedios Gómez Arnau, Julián Castro Rea.
Filipinos in San Diego

Filipinos in San Diego

Judy Patacsil

Filipinos have been a part of the history of the United States and San Diego for over 400 years. The Manila-Acapulco galleon trade ships included Filipinos on sailing expeditions to California, including the port of San Diego.
In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

Mario Vargas Llosa

"We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist," Vargas Llosa writes.
Child and Adolescent Development: A Behavioral Systems Approach

Child and Adolescent Development: A Behavioral Systems Approach

Gary Novak

Their disappointment would be even greater were they to learn that the foregoing passage was writren by Skinner's other daughter, Julie Skinner Vargas. Dr. Vargas is a highly respected behavioral psychologist who has wriuen extensively on ...
All Together Now

All Together Now

Ricardo Viana Vargas

Director of the Sustainable Project Management Group at the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Ricardo Viana Vargas shares his two-part plan for effectively managing multicultural teams.
Diego Rivera: A Biography: A Biography

Diego Rivera: A Biography: A Biography

Manuel Aguilar-Moreno

This revealing biography covers the life and art of painter Diego Rivera. • Citations of many fragments of primary source material • Photographs of important moments and persons in the life of Diego Rivera
Leading in Tough Times

Leading in Tough Times

Ricardo Viana Vargas

Discussing the efforts of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in post-earthquake Haiti in 2010, columnist Ricardo Viana Vargas recommends that leaders understand the feelings of the local team and directly serve the real ...
Never Meant to Survive: Genocide and Utopias in Black ...

Never Meant to Survive: Genocide and Utopias in Black ...

Joao H. Costa Vargas

Costa Vargas approaches his analysis of anti-black genocide in these cities through discussion of past conflicts and the work of groups like the Black Panther Party.
The California Legal Directory

The California Legal Directory

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Loa Angeles (816) 914-2791 Stetzel Gary L - Carlsbad, San Diego Stetzer. Dorothy H. ... Gary D. - Laguna Niguel, Orange Stevens. .... Garry 0. - Pasadena, Los Angeles Stewart, Gaykxd L. - San Diego. San Diego Stewart, Gerald H • Tarzana.
Complete Works of Diego Velázquez (Delphi Classics):

Complete Works of Diego Velázquez (Delphi Classics):

Diego Velázquez

This volume presents Velázquez’ complete works in beautiful detail, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * The complete paintings of Diego Velázquez — over 120 ...
Making Waves: Essays 1962-93

Making Waves: Essays 1962-93

Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa has been making waves in cultural and political spheres for over thirty years.
Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society

Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society

Mario Vargas Llosa

Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation - penned by none other than the Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work ...
Broadcast/cable programming: strategies and practices

Broadcast/cable programming: strategies and practices

Susan Tyler Eastman

Wall Print Buyer: Barbara Britton Art Editor: Nancy Spellman Permissions Editor: Robert Kauser Designer: Juan Vargas, Vargas/ Williams/Design Copy Editor: Stephen McElroy Technical Illustrator: Marilyn Krieger Cover Design: CloyceJ.
Re-Imagining Community and Civil Society in Latin America ...

Re-Imagining Community and Civil Society in Latin America ...

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... transtextual de la guerra del fin del mundo de Mario Vargas Llosa. New York: Peter Lang. Birns, Nicholas. 2010. “Appropriation in the Backlands: Is Mario Vargas Llosa at War with Euclides da Cunha?” In N. Birns & J. De Castro (Eds.).
Diego Velázquez's Early Paintings and the Culture of ...

Diego Velázquez's Early Paintings and the Culture of ...

Tanya J. Tiffany

"Explores the early works of seventeenth-century Spanish painter Diego Velâazquez.
Dos modelos de integración energética: América del ...

Dos modelos de integración energética: América del ...

Rosío Vargas

América del Norte/América del Sur Rosío Vargas José Luis Valdés-Ugalde. LA POLÍTICA ENERGÉTICA Y CLIMÁTICA EN CANADÁ LECCIONES QUE SE DEBEN APRENDER Mel Kliman* Cuando el gobierno de Estados Unidos anunció, ...
Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

Sarah Tieck

Describes the life story of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, discussing his paintings' social and political significance and his marriage to artist Frida Kahlo.
Diego Rivera Tattoos

Diego Rivera Tattoos

Diego Rivera

Four eye-catching tattoos based on works by one of Mexico's greatest and most popular artists.
Access San Diego 5e

Access San Diego 5e

Richard Saul Wurman

With Access San Diego, your visit will be an easy, enjoyable experience.
Diego Rivera: An Artist's Life

Diego Rivera: An Artist's Life

Sarah Vázquez

Through the ups and downs of his artistic career, Diego Rivera remained true to his own style, leaving a legacy of murals that depict the bold shapes, bright colors, and beauty of everyday lives.
Cemeteries of San Diego

Cemeteries of San Diego

Seth Mallios

The story of San Diego's cemeteries is a telling narrative that offers remarkable insight into the evolution of "America's Finest City."
50 Best Short Hikes San Diego

50 Best Short Hikes San Diego

Jerry Schad

50 Best Short Hikes: San Diego is the first book in a new version of a series Wilderness Press initially launched in the 1990s.
Louis Rose, San Diego's First Jewish Settler and Entrepreneur

Louis Rose, San Diego's First Jewish Settler and Entrepreneur

Donald H. Harrison

The life of Louis Rose, who came to San Diego, California in 1850 and helped shape the city's government, development, and planning.

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