The Mind of Leonardo da Vinci

"Examina el desarrollo de las artes plasticas puertorriquenas en busca de aquellos rasgos que afirman su identidad como pueblo diferenciado. Contiene mas de 100 fotos a color y otras tantas en blanco y negro."--Amazon.

Con el descubrimiento de los escritos de Ferdinand de Saussure en 1996, su pensamiento -hasta entonces conocido a través del Curso de lingüística general editado por sus discípulos- adquiere una nueva luz. En esta prospectiva del pensamiento saussureano, Rastier identifica detalladamente los defectos de apreciación del CLG, con lo que logra enfrentar las críticas de las que ha sido objeto el lingüista suizo. En 2016 se cumple el centenario de la publicación del Curso, y ahora que el mundo académico celebra la obra que catapultó a Saussure como padre de la lingüística, es el...

In the early 1980s, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea was going through a very traumatizing socio-political period and for the people, for all those who survived or could not escape exile, television was a way to escape and get to know that other reality of the world. Thus Cantinflas, the character created by the illustrious Mexican actor Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes, born in Mexico City on August 12, 1911 and died in Ibidem on April 20, 1993 at the age of 81. Cantinflas' films were a whole montage of moral and ethical, socio-political and civic learning, much needed for a country eager ...

"Pocket version synthesis of other books by the author on the same subject. In four chapters (precolumbian, colonial, republican, and 20th century), author gives a capsulated summary of what Ecuadorian art has been, from the past to the present, in a simple style intentionally suitable for high school students, hence its interest. Complemented with a short bibliography and a glossary of terms for those unfamiliar with the artistic and architectural field"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.