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The Gas Sector in Latin Europe’s Industrial History


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031366735 | 272 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 13 MB
This volume sheds light on the technical and institutional handicaps that the gas industry had to face since the early 19th century to consolidate its position in the energy market. It traces the history of gas energy use in a European context to understand the reasons for its crucial nature in the region. Going back to the start of gas production in England and France at the turn of the 18th century, the book has a specific focus on Latin Europe: Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy.

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Latin American Politics and Development


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English | August 23, 2022 | ISBN: 1032121564 | 568 pages | PDF | 56 Mb
For over forty years, Latin American Politics and Development has kept instructors and students abreast of current affairs and changes in Latin America. Now in its tenth edition, this authoritative yet accessible introduction has been updated throughout. Organized on a country-by-country basis, Latin American Politics and Development offers instructors maximum flexibility in organizing courses.

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Latin American Digital Poetics


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 303126424X | 186 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
Latin American Digital Poetics seeks to take the pulse of emergent poetic forms whose history is entangled with the computational and its AI dreams and achievements. This study carefully and thoroughly probes the intersection between the literary, the cultural, and the scientific-technological in order to reflect on the ways that digital technology has radically reshaped and reconfigured nearly all aspects of contemporary culture. The main idea of this book, then, is simple: by way of panoramic approaches to digital poetry as well as select case studies, we seek to account for the multi-directional exchange between poetry, technology, and culture via a (primarily) pedagogical approach.

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The Idea of the Theater in Latin Christian Thought Augustine to the Fourteenth Century


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English | 2004 | pages: 204 | ISBN: 0472114239 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
"Through well-informed and nuanced readings of key documents from the fourth through fourteenth centuries, this book challenges historians’ long-held beliefs about how concepts of Greco-Roman theater survived the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages, and contributed to the dramatic triumphs of the Renaissance. Dox’s work is a significant contribution to the history of ideas that will change forever the standard narrative of the birth and development of theatrical activity in medieval Europe."

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Readings in Latin American Modern Art


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English | 2004 | pages: 271 | ISBN: 0300102550 | EPUB | 2,1 mb
This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents―including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by artists―that encompass the broad diversity of this emerging field. Many of these materials are difficult to access and some are translated here for the first time. Together the selections explore the breadth and depth of Latin American modern art as well as its distinctive evolution apart from American and European art history.

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Toontrack Latin Cuban Percussion EZX Library Update v1.0.2


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P2P | 18 September 2023 | 48.6 MB
Toontrack has announced the release of the Latin Cuban Percussion EZX expansion for EZdrummer 2 and Superior Drummer 3, recorded by acclaimed percussionist Richie Flores and Grammy Award-winning engineer Dave Kowalski at Sear Sound Studios in New York.

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