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Free Download Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek (Studies in Language Companion Series) edited by Camille Denizot, Olga Spevak
English | November 1, 2017 | ISBN: 9027259550 | True EPUB | 325 pages | 0.7 MB
Pragmatics forms nowadays an integral part of the description not only of modern languages but also of ancient languages such as Latin and Ancient Greek. This book explores various pragmatic phenomena in these two languages, which are accessible through corpora consisting of a broad range of text types. It comprises empirical synchronic studies that deal with three main topics: (i) speech acts and pragmatic markers, (ii) word order, and (iii) discourse markers and particles.

Free Download Latin-Ish: More Than 100 Recipes Celebrating American Latino Cuisines by Marisel Salazar
English | August 20th, 2024 | ISBN: 1682688267 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 161.02 MB
Savor the boundary-breaking dishes and rich tastes of Alta California, Tex-Mex, Floribbean, and other quintessentially American culinary traditions.

Free Download Ashley Carter, "Latin Language Tests for Levels 1 and 2 and GCSE"
English | ISBN: 1853997498 | 2011 | 160 pages | AZW3 | 401 KB
This collection of tests provides practice for students preparing to take the new Latin language examinations at the WJEC examination board Levels 1 and 2. It also includes tests similar to those used in the OCR examination board GCSE examinations. The book is divided into five sections, each devoted to a different format or level of tests. Words that are not expected to be known at each level are glossed. The range of grammatical and syntactical features is similar to that found in the public examinations. The tests are designed to cover translation and comprehension of specially constructed stories in Latin.

Free Download S. E. Winbolt, "Key to Latin Hexameter Verse: An Aid to Composition"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367142112, 0367142120 | EPUB | pages: 68 | 0.1 mb
Originally published in 1903. Samuel Edward Winbolt (1868-1944) spent his entire working life from 1892 to 1926 teaching classics at his old school, Christ’s Hospital. In his later years, he was best known for his work on Romano-British history and archaeology; but Latin Hexameter Verse, published in 1903, is the book by which he deserves to be remembered and which has earned him his place in the history of classical scholarship. Its subtitle and its stated aim of offering ‘help to fifth and sixth forms, and undergraduates at universities’ belie its true and continuing importance. Winbolt’s detailed, sensitive and copiously illustrated analysis of the technique of Latin verse-writing still provides the most accessible and illuminating guide to a just appreciation of the craftsmanship which went to the formation of the Latin hexameter, ‘ the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man’.

Free Download Andrés Mejía Acosta, "Informal Coalitions and Policymaking in Latin America: Ecuador in Comparative Perspective"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0415993547, 0415648548 | PDF | pages: 193 | 2.0 mb
This book explains how presidents achieve market-oriented reforms in a contentious political environment. Using an impressive amount of quantitative and qualitative empirical evidence, most of which is reported for the first time, Mejía Acosta argues that presidents in Ecuador adopted significant reforms by crafting informal yet functional coalitions with opposition parties in congress. This pattern of success is particularly relevant in a country known for its chronic political fragmentation and deep regional and ethnic divisions. Paradoxically, the adoption of constitutional reforms to promote governance undermined the success of informal coalitions and directly contributed to greater regime instability after 1996. Mejía Acosta’s work offers a compelling analysis of how formal and informal political institutions contribute to policy change. His far-reaching conclusions will capture the attention of political scientists and scholars of Latin America.

Free Download Epigrams: With parallel Latin text (Oxford World’s Classics) by Martial, translated by Gideon Nisbet
English/Latin | August 1, 2015 | ISBN: 0199645450 | True PDF | 336 pages | 4.2 MB
"If you’re one of those terribly serious readers, now is a good time to leave."

Free Download Philip Kelly, "Assessing Democracy In Latin America: A Tribute To Russell H. Fitzgibbon"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0813334446, 036716051X | EPUB | pages: 344 | 0.9 mb
Based on fifty years’ worth of data, Assessing Democracy in Latin America examines and compares the progress of Latin American countries toward democracy. The essays in this volume, all written by contributors to the Fitzgibbon Democracy Survey, focus their analyses on those factors most germane to the growth, maintenance, or failure of democratic systems. For example, in his initial chapter, Philip Kelly identifies two variables, mechanized agriculture and per-capita newspaper circulation, as the best statistical indicators of democracy in Latin America. Other contributors explore a variety of new topics such as the connection between democracy and environmental movements (Kathryn Hochstetler and Steven Mumme), political parties (John D. Martz), and social dynamics (Robert L. Peterson).Initiated in 1945 as a method of measuring and ranking Latin American democratic systems, the Fitzgibbon Democracy Survey’s longevity and scope provide an unparalleled wealth of scholarly research. This volume offers what few others like it can: a longitudinally deep data set (eleven surveys over the past fifty years) and closely coordinated coverage of the complete range of Latin American countries by specialists assembled expressly for that purpose.

Free Download Leslie Lockett, "Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions "
English | ISBN: 1442642173 | 2011 | 472 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Old English verse and prose depict the human mind as a corporeal entity located in the chest cavity, susceptible to spatial and thermal changes corresponding to the psychological states: it was thought that emotions such as rage, grief, and yearning could cause the contents of the chest to grow warm, boil, or be constricted by pressure. While readers usually assume the metaphorical nature of such literary images, Leslie Lockett, in Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions, argues that these depictions are literal representations of Anglo-Saxon folk psychology.

Free Download Pilar Hernández-Wolfe, "A Borderlands View on Latinos, Latin Americans, and Decolonization: Rethinking Mental Health"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1442247754, 0765709317 | PDF | pages: 150 | 1.0 mb
Latinos in the U.S. and Latin Americans are a combination of diverse populations that differ on a range of factors including length of time in the country, migration background, ethnicity, geographical location, socio-economic status, and so on. The reader will find perspectives of those of us who live in the borderlands-that is, those of us whom Gloria Anzaldúa identified as Mestizas, who inhabit the intersticios, the spaces in between souls, minds, identities, and geographies. This book assists new generations of Latino/as and of those involved in Latino Culture and Latin America in understanding how the colonization of the Americas is still tied to current issues of migration from the South to the North and how mental health practices have been created and maintained from the wound of coloniality. It offers a rich and alternative foundation for approaching trauma, identity, and resilience through the integration of a decolonization paradigm, borderlands theory, and social justice approaches in couple and family therapy.

Free Download The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War By Greg Grandin
2011 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0226306909 | PDF | 4 MB
After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing communist totalitarianism, and prompting both revolutionary violence and a right-wing backlash. Through unprecedented archival research and gripping personal testimonies, Greg Grandin powerfully challenges these views in this classic work. In doing so, he uncovers the hidden history of the Latin American Cold War: of hidebound reactionaries holding on to their power and privilege; of Mayan Marxists blending indigenous notions of justice with universal ideas of equality; and of a United States supporting new styles of state terror throughout the region.With Guatemala as his case study, Grandin argues that the Latin American Cold War was a struggle not between political liberalism and Soviet communism but two visions of democracy-one vibrant and egalitarian, the other tepid and unequal-and that the conflict’s main effect was to eliminate homegrown notions of social democracy. Updated with a new preface by the author and an interview with Naomi Klein, The Last Colonial Massacre is history of the highest order-a work that will dramatically recast our understanding of Latin American politics and the role of the United States in the Cold War and beyond."This work admirably explains the process in which hopes of democracy were brutally repressed in Guatemala and its people experienced a civil war lasting for half a century."-International History Review"A richly detailed, humane, and passionately subversive portrait of inspiring reformers tragically redefined by the Cold War as enemies of the state."-Journal of American History