Cosmorama

Analyzes the diachronic evolution of various kinds of adverbs and adverbial phrases characterized by having acquired relevant discourse functions in the successive stages of its historical development: focal adverbs, sentence adverbs and modifying adverbial phrases and adverbs.

La televisión se ha convertido en el medio de comunicación que más influye en las campañas electorales. A través de ella, los partidos políticos desarrollan sus estrategias persuasivas. Este libro toma como objeto de estudio la comunicación persuasiva audiovisual explícita y establece un método para su análisis. Para elaborar este método de análisis se parte de la teoría de la argumentación propuesta por Chaïm Perelman, puntal básico de los estudios retóricos en el siglo XX. Esta teoría aporta indudables avances en el estudio de la comunicación persuasiva, pero su...

Creative Projects to Master the Art of Modern Lettering Learn to create stunning hand lettered art with projects that showcase the range of modern calligraphy. With a guide to getting started, tips on avoiding common mistakes and fully illustrated step-by-step instructions, artist Marcella Astore makes it easier than ever to achieve professional-quality effects in your lettering. Master the skill of blending to create smooth gradient effects between colors or add a soft watercolor look inside your letters. Discover the secrets of layering to make realistic ocean waves or add bold patterns...

Against All Odds reproposes Keith Haring as a political artist who incorporated issues around consumerism, drug addiction and AIDS into his concerns, and casts his art as a joyous expression of Nietzsche's "will to power," surmounting cultural malaise with graphic boldness. Haring's relationship with Don and Mera Rubell began early on in his career, when the Rubells visited the Mudd Club (one of New York's earliest discos) in 1981, to see an exhibition of graffiti art which Haring had co-curated. This volume contains the entirety of their collection, much of which is reproduced for the first...