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Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity The Encounter Between Classical and Christian Strategies of Interpretation


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English | 2007 | pages: 379 | ISBN: 9004160698 | PDF | 2,0 mb
This volume presents a broad variety of specifically Christian approaches to poetry and analyses modes of interpreting the Bible that are new in poetry compared with prose exegesis. Both theoretical statements on poetry by Christians and concrete poetic works from roughly 300 to 1250 AD are taken into account.

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Democracy in Latin America Between Hope and Despair


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English | 2013 | ISBN: 026801972X | EPUB | pages: 280 | 0.7 mb
In 2009, Ignacio Walker―scholar, politician, and one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals―published La Democracia en América Latina. Now available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair contributes to the necessary and urgent task of exploring both the possibilities and difficulties of establishing a stable democracy in Latin America.

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The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse


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English | March 28, 2024 | ISBN: 0241567440 | True EPUB | 977 pages | 3.7 MB
The poems in this lively, wide-ranging and richly enjoyable anthology are the work of priestesses and warriors; of philosophers and statesmen; of teenage girls, concerned for their birthday celebrations; of drunkards and brawlers; of grumpy old men, and chic young things. Their authors write – or sing – about hopes, fears, loves, losses, triumphs and humiliations. Every one of them lived and died between 1,900 and 2,800 years ago.

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LATIN ’95 Theoretical Informatics Second Latin American Symposium Valparaíso, Chile, April 3-7, 1995 Proceedings


Free Download LATIN ’95: Theoretical Informatics: Second Latin American Symposium Valparaíso, Chile, April 3-7, 1995 Proceedings By James Abello, Krishna Kumar (auth.), Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Eric Goles, Patricio V. Poblete (eds.)
1995 | 530 Pages | ISBN: 3540591753 | PDF | 9 MB
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Symposium, Latin American Theoretical Informatics, LATIN ’95, held in Valparaiso, Chile in April 1995.The LATIN symposia are intended to be comprehensive events on the theory of computing; they provide a high-level forum for theoretical computer science research in Latin America and facilitate a strong and healthy interaction with the international community. The 38 papers presented in this volume were carefully selected from 68 submissions. Despite the intended broad coverage there are quite a number of papers devoted to computational graph theory; other topics strongly represented are complexity, automata theory, networks, symbolic computation, formal languages, data structures, and pattern matching.

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Pretext Anti-Communism in Latin America


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English | 2020 | ISBN: 9389620740 | EPUB | pages: 226 | 0.5 mb
The spectre of ‘Communism’ was used to justify the expansion of American global leadership throughout the twentieth century. This timely reinterpretation of the origins of the Cold War in Latin America seeks to explain the continuing power imbalance between the US and the Latin American republics.

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The Politics of Technology in Latin America (Volume 1) Data Protection, Homeland Security and the Labor Market


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English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367677881, 0367359413 | EPUB | pages: 244 | 0.8 mb
This book analyses the arrival of emerging and traditional information and technology for public and economic use in Latin America. It focuses on the governmental, economic and security issues and the study of the complex relationship between citizens and government.

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Dependable Computing Second Latin-American Symposium, LADC 2005, Salvador, Brazil, October 25-28, 2005. Proceedings


Free Download Dependable Computing: Second Latin-American Symposium, LADC 2005, Salvador, Brazil, October 25-28, 2005. Proceedings By William H. Sanders (auth.), Carlos Alberto Maziero, João Gabriel Silva, Aline Maria Santos Andrade, Flávio Morais de Assis Silva (eds.)
2005 | 267 Pages | ISBN: 3540295720 | PDF | 4 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing, LADC 2005, held in Salvador, Brazil, in October 2005.The 16 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks, and outlines of 2 workshops and 3 tutorials, were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation, certification, modelling, embedded systems, time, and distributed systems algorithms.

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