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The present volume collects the updated versions of several contributions already published elsewhere and some new chapters on the history of education in Spain and Germany which have been brought together in this form f...

Today, thanks to the efforts of Bernardo Reyes, great-nephew of the poet, meticulous researcher and tenacious chronicler of his stage in Temuco, this album is published, made up of photographs and documentation from that...

Subjects / keywords: Crítica Literaria /Estadounidense; Afroamericana y Negra

Subjects / keywords: Fotografía; General

Este libro refleja la evolución en el campo de los estudios diaspóricos. Los artículos han sido agrupados en dos secciones. La primera tiene como objetivo las experiencias de los africanos diaspóricos; la segunda sec...

The reality of dissociative amnesia has been debated at length. From a clinical perspective, there is support for the existence of this phenomenon, with attempts to extrapolate it to legal contexts. However, there is lit...

Subjects / keywords: Ciencias Sociales; Antropología; General

This volume presents a set of texts that address the problem of the construction of Roman identity from the archaeological perspective, These texts cover a wide temporal arc, since they deal with elements remaining from ...

Este libro fue oríginalmente publicado en Buenos Aires bajo el título Cita con la memoria, traducido al inglés como Encounter with Memory (Bloomington, Indiana, Estados Unidos) y ahora publicado en la ciudad de Méxic...

This thesis, entitled €High Performance Computing for solving large sparse systems. Optical Diffraction Tomography as a case of study€ investigates the computational issues related to the resolution of linear systems o...

¿Qué es la cultura FAIL? ¿Por qué hablar de fallar y aprender para innovar y liderar? ¿Qué tienen en común la explosión del Apolo 13, un paquete mal entregado de FedEx y una aspiradora a la que se le atasca todo ...

This collection of essays brings together an international group of scholars who discuss various facets of the American South in popular culture, literature, the arts, and throughout history. It includes reflections on p...

This collection of essays brings together an international group of scholars who discuss various facets of the American South in popular culture, literature, the arts, and throughout history. It includes reflections on p...

In an impatient and reconfiguring world, diplomacy reveals its best face: the exercise of dialogue, reason, and negotiation as pathways to resolve conflicts and build the future. This book brings together the reflec­tio...

“Ár nthandu̲ximha̲i ya ñäñho. Honja da thandi, da ts’a̲ ne da ‘bede ar ximha̲i. Otomi worldview. A way of seeing, feeling and telling the world”, is a book that approaches us to the original culture of th...

Ancient Egyptian mortuary cult is one of the most fascinating subjects for whoever approaches ancient Egypt and a recurrent topic in previous and current research on ancient Egyptian beliefs and practices. One key aspect...

El presente libro tiene una clara vocación didáctica, se dirige a todas las personas que quieren adentrarse en el apasionante campo del aprendizaje automático combinando la teórica con la práctica para que sea senci...

This article is not going to limit itself to presenting the traditional dualist view of good versus bad (the good is repre sented by average citizens manipulated by the bad, which is the capitalist media-driven society)....

Sixty years after fighting in Israel's War of Independence, Yoram Kaniuk tries to remember what exactly did and did not happen in his time as a teenage soldier in the Palmach. The result is a touchingly poignant and haun...

Through the years, said Günter von Gropius, more than once have I felt certain feelings of anxiety, of a silent melancholy. Even though the motive may look foolish, tackiness very own of young women, it has always been...

Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town -- Little Wing -- and are now coming into their own (or not) as husbands and fathers. One of them never left, still farming the family's lan...

Residents on both sides of the Rio Grande, or the Rio Bravo as it's known in Mexico, have suffered horrific violence as numerous peoples have sought control of the land. In 1836, in what is now Texas, a young girl named ...

Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, a...

This work investigates the convoluted relationship between memory and justice in Spain and the Southern Cone as it is portrayed in political documentaries and detective fiction from Spain and the Southern Cone.