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Frida Kahlo: Fashion As the Art of Being

Frida Kahlo: Fashion As the Art of Being

Susana Martinez Vidal

Frida Kahlo was not only an iconic artist, she was also a bold beauty and an avant-garde fashionista whose timeless sense of style continues to inspire and influence the worlds of fashion, media, and art today.
Boletâin oficial del estado: Gaceta de Madrid

Boletâin oficial del estado: Gaceta de Madrid

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Martínez Mateos, María Virtudes. Martinez Mayoral, María del Pilar. Martínez Montero, Rosa. Martinez Núñez, Lucas. Martínez Pardavila, María de la Concepción. Martinez Pérez, María Dolores. Martínez Pérez, Pilar. No Martínez Pérez, Sara ...
Conversations with Gore Vidal

Conversations with Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

In this collection of interviews with Gore Vidal, one of America's most prolific authors, the writer, screenwriter, and raconteur proves himself to be a witty, acerbic, and cantankerous conversationalist who defies conventional wisdom and ...
I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with ...

I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with ...

Gore Vidal

This book is made up from four interviews conducted with his long-time interlocutor, the writer and radio host Jon Wiener, in which Vidal grapples with matters evidently close to his heart: the history of the American Empire, the rise of ...
I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with ...

I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with ...

Gore Vidal

This book is made up from four interviews conducted with his long-time interlocutor, the writer and radio host Jon Wiener, in which Vidal grapples with matters evidently close to his heart: the history of the American Empire, the rise of ...
Susana Banana the Fantastic Figure Skater

Susana Banana the Fantastic Figure Skater

Sophia Barragan

Sophia Barragan, Ivy Barragan. eicom^ -to ike, ftancLKa 6pU* Swizzle, Flip That weekend, everyone lined up to buy the banana cream pies that Susana Bananas mother was selling. They made just enough money to send Susana Banana to.
Anales de la Universidad de Chile

Anales de la Universidad de Chile

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Carlos Martínez Herrera, » Emilio Martínez Rioseco, doña Elvira Martínez Ramírez, don Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez, » Juan Andres Meline Leidier, » Bernardo Mellibrsky Wortzmann, » Eugenio Mellibrsky Wortzmann, » Enrique Méndez ...
Homosexuality in the Work of Gore Vidal

Homosexuality in the Work of Gore Vidal

Jörg Behrendt

Since his first novel with a homosexual topic, The City and the Pillar, appeared in 1948, Gore Vidal has been seen as an enfant terrible of American letters.
Gore Vidal's America

Gore Vidal's America

Dennis Altman

Another French scholar of Vidal's works, Nicole Bensoussan, concentrates on his depiction of American “decadence.”2 The central character of The City and the Pillar, Jim Willard, is an athletic tennis player who falls in love with a childhood ...
Comunicar ciencia en México: Tendencias y narrativas

Comunicar ciencia en México: Tendencias y narrativas

Juan Manuel Velázquez Ramírez

... en el tema, los profesores de la UAM Cuajimalpa promovimos un diálogo con nuestros pares del ITESO en octubre de 2007, gracias a la mediación de Raúl Fuentes Navarro, Susana Herrera Lima y el Carlos Enrique Orozco Martínez.
Burr: A Novel

Burr: A Novel

Gore Vidal

Burr is the first novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series, which spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to post-World War II. With their broad canvas and sprawling cast of fictional and historical characters, ...
Gore Vidal's State of the Union: Nation Essays 1958-2005

Gore Vidal's State of the Union: Nation Essays 1958-2005

Gore Vidal

This collection exemplifies his critical vision in great works like “Requiem for the American Empire,” “Monotheism and Its Discontents,” “Notes on Our Patriarchal State,” and the delightful “Birds and the Bees” with its ...
Julian

Julian

Gore Vidal

The remarkable bestseller about the Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, "Julian" is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels.
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

Presents a compilation of twenty-three literary essays that includes political commentaries, memoirs, criticisms, and literary reviews.
Handbook of Latin American Studies

Handbook of Latin American Studies

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... 3412 Barreiros, Lidia, 2166 Barrenechea Lercari, Carlos, 2289, 481 1 Barrera, Manuel, 3827, 4871 Barrera de Martinez, Susana, 2610 Barrett, Elinore M., 2905 Barrett, Jeffrey W., 4272 Barrett, Leonard E., Sr, 757 Barria, Liliana, 4881 Barrig, ...
Anales

Anales

Universidad de Chile

Carlos Martínez Herrera, » Emilio M artinez Riosecov doña Elvira Martínez Ramírez, don Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez, » Juan Andrea Meline Leidier, >> Bernardo Mellibrsky Wortzmann, » Eugenio Mellibrsky Wortzmann, >> Enrique Méndez ...
Literature and Homosexuality

Literature and Homosexuality

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Ch. 3: Frustration and Silence in the Language of Gore Vidal's The City and The Pillar Contrary to much of the criticism of Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar, the novel's protagonist, Jim Willard, demonstrates more than a "normal" man who ...
The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation

The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation

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Cf. Anthony de Costa, The Christianisation of the Goa Islands (Bombay, 1965). 47 Román Álvarez and M. Carmen-África Vidal, 'Translating: A Political Act', in Román Álvarez and M. Carmen-África Vidal (eds), Translation, Power, Subversion ...
Santa Susana

Santa Susana

Bill Appleton

Two plane crashes and an emergency landing contributed to the early start of the Santa Susana Airport. In 1937, Simi resident Glenn Fitzgerald flew his plane from Oxnard and landed in a vacant field north of the railroad depot. His Arrow ...
Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village ...

Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village ...

Susana Herrera

“Californian Susana Herrera spent two years in northern Cameroon in what might be described as the classic Peace Corps assignment: teaching school in a remote African village. 'Jam bah doo nah?' ('Are you in your skin?') her neighbors  ...
Between Philology and Theology: Contributions to the Study ...

Between Philology and Theology: Contributions to the Study ...

Florentino Garcia Martinez

Contributions to the Study of Ancient Jewish Interpretation Florentino Garcia Martinez Hindy Najman, Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar. Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data García Martínez, Florentino. [Essays. Selections] Between ...
Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul: Stories to Celebrate ...

Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul: Stories to Celebrate ...

Jack Canfield

2000 Cathryn Pearse Snyders. The Yellow Birds. Reprinted by permission Karen Garrison.© 2001 Karen Garrison. Keep Your Head Up. Reprinted by permission of Susana Herrera. © 2000 Susana Herrera. How Many Grapes Does It Take?
Teaching the Bible Through Popular Culture and the Arts

Teaching the Bible Through Popular Culture and the Arts

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These three fluid categories are borrowed from the work of Katharine Martinez on the use of images in the field of American history.3 This is a subject that, like ours, has been historically beholden to the textual, and so Martinez's categories are ...
Perspectives for an architecture of solitude: essays on ...

Perspectives for an architecture of solitude: essays on ...

Terryl Nancy Kinder

I would also like to thank Maria-Jose Bacarizo Hidalgo, Avital Heyman, and Julio Martinez for their kindness in looking for illustrations. 1 . For the text of the statutes of the Synod of Elvira, see the critical edition by Gonzalo Martinez Diez and ...
Remaking Kurosawa: Translations and Permutations in Global ...

Remaking Kurosawa: Translations and Permutations in Global ...

D. Martinez

Through the lens of Akira Kurosawa's films, Martinez dissects the human tendency to make connections in a pioneering attempt to build a bridge out of diverse materials: the anthropology of Japan, film studies, and postmodern theory.
The Mysterious Origins of Hybrid Man: Crossbreeding and the ...

The Mysterious Origins of Hybrid Man: Crossbreeding and the ...

Susan B. Martinez

Piecing together the protohistory of humanity through anthropology, genetics, paleolinguistics, and indigenous traditions, Susan B. Martinez offers an entirely original alternative to Darwin’s evolution: Modern humanity did not evolve but ...
Remaking Kurosawa: Translations and Permutations in Global ...

Remaking Kurosawa: Translations and Permutations in Global ...

Dolores Martinez

Through the lens of Akira Kurosawa's films, Martinez dissects the human tendency to make connections in apioneering attempt to build a bridge out of diverse materials: the anthropology of Japan, film studies, and postmodern theory.

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