El cuarto rey

Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists in South America. Architecture, theater, music and cartography play a central role in his work, where maps and blueprints are condensed into a world of poetic and territorial fantasies, and reality and fiction overlap. Whether depicting an "Acoustic Mass" at the Old Vic or a constellation map of "Heaven," in each painting or drawing collected here, Kuitca measures the world anew, shedding light on complex spatial contexts and intertwined social processes. This...

An effort to determine the origin of the African slaves brought to the central region of Cuba through a linguistic study that analyzes the speech of practitioners of the Palo Monte Afro-Cuban religion which contains remnants of Bantu languages.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary...

Una gran guía que incluye numerosas fotografías de relojes de bolsillo y que nos explica la catalogación y su técnica. Con esta obra podrá disfrutar más si cabe de sus relojes, así como utilizarla para aprender a catalogar sus piezas, valorar su colección, o bien iniciarse en el coleccionismo. Para la selección de los relojes de bolsillo que se presenta, se ha acudido a colecciones de primer nivel tanto públicas como privadas. El autor es Profesor Doctor Honoris Causa por varias universidades, coleccionista de varias generaciones y experto en historia, técnica y peritación...