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Más de ochenta años transcurrieron desde que la sublevación militar de julio de 1936 y los tres años de la guerra civil consecuentes interrumpieron el proceso de construcción de la democracia española y descarriaron hacia otra vía, la historia de España. El conflicto se propagó por Europa y el mundo como una onda de choque máxima, con crisis y violencias que involucrarían al resto del mundo y durarían hasta 1945. Como ningún otro acontecimiento, la guerra civil y la dictadura afectaron a la totalidad de la sociedad española y en particular a su vida intelectual, cultural y artística con la desaparición trágica de algunas figuras emblemáticas y el destierro masivo de numerosos intelectuales. Si la crítica ha estudiado en profundidad la amplia producción artística e intelectual de ese momento así como los procesos de transculturación, aculturación y transferencia que se verifican en relación con ella, nuestro libro propone completar este corpus literario y crítico internacional investigando la producción menos conocida de autores que no lograron un reconocimiento tan importante, de figuras y actores inexplorados de la cultura por ubicarse en la «segunda fila». Nos parece esencial rescatarlos para comprender, desde el punto de vista de los eslabones, la trama de redes y relaciones que se han formado entre Europa y las Américas y su peso en la mutación del paisaje cultural de los dos continentes.

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Women’s Rights and the Continuing Fight for Equality An inspirational gift for women.  In her book  Victory for the Vote , Women’s history expert Doris Weatherford offers an engaging and detailed narrative history of women’s seven-decade fight for the vote, and the continuing current-day struggle for human rights and equality. Foreword by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.   Victory for the Vote  puts the fight for suffrage into contemporary context by discussing key challenges for women in the decades that followed 1920, such as reproductive rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and political power. Celebrate the Centennial of women’s right to vote in the U.S.   Victory for the Vote  is an expansion and update of Doris Weatherford’s  A History of the American Suffragist Movement , published in 1998 in honor of the 150th anniversary of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, considered to be the beginning of the women’s rights movement in the United States. Read Doris Weatherford’s  Victory for the Vote  and: Take pride in the struggles and accomplishments of strong womenUnderstand and appreciate the Women’s Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth AmendmentCelebrate feminism and recognize the challenges that still remain on the road to human rights for all If you enjoyed books such as Maya Angelou’s  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ,  The Woman’s Hour ,  Rad Women Worldwide ,  Warriors Don’t Cry , or  The Book of Awesome Women ; you will want to read and be inspired by  Victory for the Vote .

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Words of Wisdom from Wild Women In  Wild Words from Wild Women , author and feminist August Stephens compiles words of wisdom from much loved famous feminists. Hilarious, inspiring, and empowering, this pocket book of quotes is the perfect gift for all the nasty women with something to say. Some tongues just can’t be tamed.  This ribald compilation of powerful women quotes everything from bras to babies, menopause to men, and politics to parties. Featuring historically nasty women like Jane Austen and Billie Jean King, these famous feminists knew how to read between the lines─and now you can too. Strong women have something to say.  These words of wisdom─from strippers, CEOs, poets, senators, and every woman in between─make delectable reading for sassy, untamable, and fabulous ladies everywhere. Inside, find powerful women quotes from famous feminists like: Billie HolidayVirginia WolfeCoco ChanelAnd more! If you enjoyed books like  Badass Affirmations ,  That's What She Said , or  Great Quotes from Great Women , then you’ll love  Wild Words from Wild Women .

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Following in the footsteps of music history/biography texts such as the infamous Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, From the Basement details the rise in popularity of rock in the early 2000s. From cult loves like The Early November to giants like My Chemical Romance,From the Basement explores what it was that made indie & emo touch the hearts of so many people. Using first-hand accounts and interviews, the narrative content will be analytical and exploratory. From the Basement starts off by examining the mainstream and then grows into the sub-genres such as street political punk (Anti Flag), screamo, the more aggressive emo offshoot that got popular at around the same time, as well as the labels and the key figures that helped make this era what it was.
Lastly, From the Basement will go into the cultural, social and psychological factors surrounding the genre; what ‘emotional’ music really is and the simultaneous admiration and mocking of the sad content therein. You were a black sheep if you listened to those bands, but they also made it onto MTV and now their music is on everyone’s best throwback playlists. The fashion and aesthetic of the time also follows that same storyline. You were a weirdo if you wore black nail polish, but then it became a fashion craze. People thought this type of rock was whiny, and a good part of it was. People thought it was immature, and a good part of it was. People thought those adjectives were negative, but From the Basement will explain why they’re not—the beauty of the gritty, wailing music that evolved into indie, alternative and emo.

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• Malone has over 1 million views on YouTube • TedTalk #GirlsinFilm has been seen over 25,000 times • Gender Inequality in Film by the numbers: o In the top 500 movies of all time: 70% of all speaking roles go to men // 2 to 1 ratio of nudity // teenage females depicting nudity has risen by 33% since 2007 • The gender gap for cinematic and film majors does not exsist. Women represent 51 percent of graduate students at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts and 46 percent at the USC School of Cinematic Arts



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Named one of “the year's best gardening books” by The Spectator (UK, Nov. 2014) The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories—in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America’s Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy businessmen and a growing American middle class eager to buy their products. It’s also the story of the beginnings of the modern garden industry, which seduced the masses with its images and fixed the English garden in the mind of the American consumer. Seed and nursery catalogs delivered aspirational images to front doorsteps from California to Maine, and the English garden became the look of America.

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In 2011, Myanmar embarked in a democratic transition from a brutal military rule that culminated four years later, when the first free election in decades saw a landslide for the party of celebrated Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet, even as the international community was celebrating a new dawn, old wars were raging in the northern borderlands. A crisis was emerging in western Arakan state where the regime intensified its oppression of the vulnerable Muslim Rohingya community. By 2017, the conflict had escalated into a military onslaught against the Rohingya that provoked the most desperate refugee crisis of our times, as over 750,000 of them fled their homes to neighbouring Bangladesh. In The Burmese Labyrinth , journalist Carlos Sardiña Galache gives the in depth story of the country. Burma has always been an uneasy balance between multiple ethnic groups and religions. He examines the deep roots behind the ethnic divisions that go back prior to the colonial period, and so shockingly exploded in recent times. This is a powerful portrait of a nation in perpetual conflict with itself.

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China’s emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation’s “great rejuvenation,” a story narrated as the return of China to its “rightful” place at the center of the world. In China’s Revolutions in the Modern World , historian Rebecca E. Karl argues that China’s contemporary emergence is best seen not as a “return,” but rather as the product of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activity and imaginings. From the Taipings in the mid-nineteenth century through nationalist, anti-imperialist, cultural, and socialist revolutions to today’s capitalist-inflected Communist State, modern China has been made in intellectual dissonance and class struggle, in mass democratic movements and global war, in socialism and anti-socialism, in repression and conflict by multiple generations of Chinese people mobilized to seize history and make the future in their own name. Through China’s successive revolutions, the contours of our contemporary world have taken shape. This brief interpretive history shows how.

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