The Revolutionary War Quiz and Fact Book

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More than 600 intriguing questions and answers about not only the American Revolutionary War, but also about all aspects of political, social, and military history of the period.

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An Entertaining Resource for Studying the Revolutioany War.......2000-05-09

Did you know that in the colonies, prior to the Revolutionary War, every man from age 16 to 60 was required to possess a gun, ammunition, and proper accessories? Or that, Lewis and Clark were not the first white men to reach the Pacific from the North American Continent? What was a dragoon, shirtman, tricorn, or jaeger? Near which major city was the battle of Bunker Hill fought? A thoroughly researched book, the Revolutionary War Quiz & Fact Book, provides an entertaining way to get a look at life in America before the Revolutionary War through the War of 1812. This book pays tribute to the many individuals that helped our country gain its freedom. Facts are presented about famous and lesser known individuals giving the reader a sense of the American spirit that has made our country so great. As a home schooling family, we have used (and continue to use) this book to generate many thought provoking discussions. It's also great to take on family vacations to pass the time in the car while traveling throughout our wonderful country. The Appendixes and Chronology listing also serve as a handy reference. As an educational tool or just for fun, this is an excellent book for the trivia and history lover!

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The son of a Buenos Aires Congressman is switched from his cradle before the house is burned down. While the impostor baby stays in the house, the Congressman's legitimate son is given to slaves so that he is raised in a world of submission, whips and insults. This novel contains all the ingredients of a typical romantic novel with obsessive and desperate characters whose main objectives are the fight for freedom and independence for their country.

Description in spanish: Baltasar Bustos, un estudiante de derecho y empleado de la Audiencia de Buenos Aires, se introduce en la recámara del presidente de esa Audiencia y reemplaza a su hijo recién nacido por un niño negro, hijo de una prostituta enferma y azotada públicamente en el puerto de Buenos Aires. Horas más tarde el edificio se incendia, y deja irreconocible el cadáver del niño negro. Por su parte, el hijo legítimo es entregado a esclavas negras para que, el hijo del poderoso funcionario español, se críe en "un mundo de cocinas, azotes e injurias".

Con este hecho arranca esta novela que contiene todos los ingredientes de una típica novela romántica: amores imposibles, pasiones desenfrenadas, personajes obsesivos y desesperados que se mueven sobre un escenario de luchas por la libertad y la independencia de la patria.

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Argentina: A Short History
Colin M. Lewis
Manufacturer: Oneworld Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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Buenos Aires: A Cultural History (Cultural Histories Series)

ASIN: 1851683003

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With special focus on political intrigue, military power, and such key figures as Eva Peron and Videla, this is a engaging survey of the driving forces behind Argentina, its dramatic rise, and recent problems.

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The Argentine Novel
Myron I. Lichtblau
Manufacturer: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover

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A comprehensive bibliography of the Argentine novel from its beginnings in 1788, the year Miguel Learte wrote Las aventuras de Learte, until 1990, when such authors as Osvaldo Soriano and Luisa Valenzuela published their popular novels.

The Birds in Langfoot's Belfry (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

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The Birds in Langfoot's Belfry (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Paul Zech
Manufacturer: Camden House
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ASIN: 1571130071

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Paul Zech is best known as a representative of German literary movements such as Worker's Poetry and Expressionism. However, his novel Die VÃ¶gel des Herrn Langfoot, detailing the adventures of a foot-loose German adventurer in Argentina, shows him equally at home in the medium of prose. Contemporary critics hailed Zech as the first author to capture the exotic flavour of South America; during his exile, he continually explored the country of his asylum in his writings, describing the colourful aspects of South American life and retelling Indian folk tales for a European audience. Nevertheless, this novel failed to make much impact in Germany; first published posthumously in the 1950s, its author's reputation, established during the first quarter of the century, had been forgotten, and it was not until the 1970s that a resurgence of interest in the work occurred. Elena Odio's translation now makes this important work available in English for the first time.

Cape Horn and Other Stories from the End of the World (Discoveries)

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A collection of stories for a different hemisphere

Cape Horn and Other Stories from the End of the World (Discoveries)
Francisco Coloane
Manufacturer: Latin American Literary Review Press
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ASIN: 0935480501

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stories, Chile, tr David A Petreman

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A collection of stories for a different hemisphere.......1998-10-16

Just before the funeral for Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, Francisco Coloane walked up to the open coffin and buttoned his deceased compatriot's shirt. Such an attention to the details of human existence flow through Dave Petreman's translation of Coloane's short stories, "Cape Horn and Other Stories from the End of the World."

Coloane, a respected and award-winning writer in Chile whose works have been published around the world in Spanish and other languages, is introduced to a greater American readership in this collection of sixteen intense and thoughtful short stories. Petreman's translation pays homage to the language of the original stories and manages to cross the barriers that face any translator of prose and poetry.

Coloane's stories describe a world of the essentially human. He introduces us in "Cape Horn," for example, to people "whose hearts were nothing more than another clenched fist" and shows how the natural world inhabited by such people has its own way of imposing an unmerciful justice on them. The recurring theme in Latin American literature that poses commonality of civilization and barbarity forms the basis for "Gulf of Sorrows," where a small boat filled with struggling sailors prefers to head on against the storm rather than face being declared shipwrecked. In the story "Bottle of Caña" Coloane introduces the reader to the inner lives of two characters who meet and share for a while a path through the cold patagonian tundra. One of the characters is headed home to get married. The other remembers how, on the same trail a year earlier, he had killed another man just like this momentary companion. The innocent future of one man is juxtaposed with the violent past of the other, with the reader discovering in the story how closely each of us lives blissfully unaware of the violence hiding in the deepest recesses of the human heart.

It is just these collocations of opposites that make Coloane's stories so gripping and unstoppable. The fire of life and the iceberg cold of hidden death, control and violence, obstinacy and honor, plunder and compassion are part of every one of these stories. Coloane's perception of the essential relationship between the world of man and the world of nature makes each of these confrontations more than just one in another in a collection of stories. The stories present human nature as natural, the anima of compulsion and unexpected submission behind our sense of human importance.

David Petreman, associate professor of Spanish language & Latin American literature at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, translated these stories from other collections of Coloane's work previously published in Chile. Petreman, who specializes in Chilean literature, is a long-time friend of Coloane, a relationship that is evident in the careful rewriting of these stories for another hemisphere.

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Leopoldo Marechal has become a chosen precursor of many contemporary Argentine writers, cineastes, and intellectuals, and so his novels - universally recognized but rarely studied - demand treatment from a contemporary critical sensibility. This study departs from the line of criticism that reads Marechal as a Christian apologist, arguing instead that Marechal's `metaphysical' novels are really metafictional, ludic exercises informed by ironic scepticism. AdÃ¡n Buenosayres (1948) inverts the Christian-Platonist narrative of redemption through the Logos; in El Banquete de Severo ArcÃ¡ngelo (1965) Marechal, tongue firmly in cheek, leads his readers on a metaphysical wild-goose chase; and in MegafÃ³n, o la guerra (1970) he finally lays apocalypticism to rest. The close readings of his novels presented in this book help to lay the theoretical groundwork underpinning Marechal's reinscription in contemporary Argentine culture.

Postmodernity in Latin America: The Argentine Paradigm (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

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Postmodernity in Latin America: The Argentine Paradigm (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Santiago Colás , and Santiago Colás
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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ASIN: 0822315084

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Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While European and North American theorists of postmodernity generally view Latin American fiction without regard for its political and cultural context, Latin Americanists often either uncritically apply the concept of postmodernity to Latin American literature and society or reject it in an equally uncritical fashion. The result has been both a limited understanding of the literature and an impoverished notion of postmodernity. Santiago Colás challenges both of these approaches and corrects their consequent distortions by locating Argentine postmodernity in the cultural dynamics of resistance as it operates within and against local expressions of late capitalism.
Focusing on literature, Colás uses Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch to characterize modernity for Latin America as a whole, Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman to identify the transition to a more localized postmodernity, and Ricardo Piglia’s Artificial Respiration to exemplify the cultural coordinates of postmodernity in Argentina. Informed by the cycle of political transformation beginning with the Cuban Revolution, including its effects on Peronism, to the period of dictatorship, and finally to redemocratization, Colás’s examination of this literary progression leads to the reconstruction of three significant moments in the history of Argentina. His analysis provokes both a revised understanding of that history and the recognition that multiple meanings of postmodernity must be understood in ways that incorporate the complexity of regional differences.
Offering a new voice in the debate over postmodernity, one that challenges that debate’s leading thinkers, Postmodernity in Latin America will be of particular interest to students of Latin American literature and to scholars in all disciplines concerned with theories of the postmodern.

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Relato breve en Argentina
Eduardo Tijeras
Manufacturer: Cultura Hispanica
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Streams of Silver: Six Contemporary Women Writers from Argentina

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Streams of Silver: Six Contemporary Women Writers from Argentina
Monica R. Flori
Manufacturer: Bucknell University Press
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Let me Inject Some Reality into Discussion

From the Earth to the stars

outstanding

Rare - a well written book about math

Definition Dump from Freshman Abstract Algebra Course

Fearless Symmetry: Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers
Avner Ash , and Robert Gross
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Mathematicians solve equations, or try to. But sometimes the solutions are not as interesting as the beautiful symmetric patterns that lead to them. Written in a friendly style for a general audience, Fearless Symmetry is the first popular math book to discuss these elegant and mysterious patterns and the ingenious techniques mathematicians use to uncover them.

Hidden symmetries were first discovered nearly two hundred years ago by French mathematician Évariste Galois. They have been used extensively in the oldest and largest branch of mathematics--number theory--for such diverse applications as acoustics, radar, and codes and ciphers. They have also been employed in the study of Fibonacci numbers and to attack well-known problems such as Fermat's Last Theorem, Pythagorean Triples, and the ever-elusive Riemann Hypothesis. Mathematicians are still devising techniques for teasing out these mysterious patterns, and their uses are limited only by the imagination.

The first popular book to address representation theory and reciprocity laws, Fearless Symmetry focuses on how mathematicians solve equations and prove theorems. It discusses rules of math and why they are just as important as those in any games one might play. The book starts with basic properties of integers and permutations and reaches current research in number theory. Along the way, it takes delightful historical and philosophical digressions. Required reading for all math buffs, the book will appeal to anyone curious about popular mathematics and its myriad contributions to everyday life.

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Let me Inject Some Reality into Discussion.......2007-08-05

In spite of some of the comments posted already and in spite of what is on the book's back cover - this is a math book - this is a serious math book. I personally don't see that average person getting anything out of this if they hadn't had say Linear Algebra in particular. Calculus is not required but higher alegra is.

The reason I bought this book is that I read Ian Stewert's book on Symmetry and Beauty and found it lacking as it was not very mathematical.
I was not dissapointed in the level of math in this book. If anything, I got overwhelmed by the end.

I call this type of book "drill deep" but not wide. I like that idea.

The author's have a real ambitious goal. It's laid out on pages 11 and 12:
"in this book we explore ..representations...we consider sets, groups, matrices and functions between them. We show you in detail in one particular case that we develop throughout the book that sets us to our goal: mod p linear representations of Galois groups."

THIS IS THE GOAL OF THIS BOOK. They are not kidding this is what the book sets out to do and I belive accomplishes.

The authors are true to this goal in the "drill deep" mode. Example: Chapter 2 is Groups - not everything about Group Theory is presented but enough that is needed for the rest of the book. In a similar manner one chapter is on so called reciprocity laws. Chapter 4 is on Modular Arithmetic a crucial aspect to this book.

One prior reviewer indicated that each chapter is far more difficult than the last; this is sortof the general tenure of the book - but with exceptions if you know that material. Example, Chapter 5, Complex Numbers, for me was a relief sandwiched in between Modular Artimetic and Equations and Varieties. I can attest that for the subject "Complex numbers" - that they treated it at a relativley elementary level and focused on just those aspects needed later on. I am sure that for all subjects like "Quadratric reciprocity" that was the case. However, if you hadn't been exposed to quadratic reciprocity and Legendre symbols it is a tough slog.

For me the high point of the book was Chapter 8, I felt that I understood the difficult concept of the the Absolute group of the field of algebraic numbers by the end of the chapter. It is an infinite group that only elements can really be enumerated - Identity and complex conjugation. It fills in some (but not all) of the points in the number line between the group of rational numbers and the line with no gaps the field of real numbers.

Chapters 13 to 22 my ability to follow went way downhill and I just skimmed to get some highpoints.

I might return to this book in the future. I like the idea of not having to learn every aspect of something like alebraic ring theory , then every aspect of permutation theory etc. but just learning enough to accomplish some higher level of understanding like ultimatley how Fermat's Last Therom was solved.

I would recomend Stwert's book on Symmetry and Beauty first if you feel you want a more general understanding of this subject as opposed to a real math book which this is.

From the Earth to the stars.......2007-07-29

The book has a goal which is very difficult to reach: introducing people without every mathematical background to the contemporary research in Galois Theory, Number Theory and Diophantine Geometry. In such a situation it is always very hard to choose the best proofs to be written in the book, the best examples and the best way... Maybe, if was the author, I would have made more proofs in the second part of the book, and have chosen other examples for this part. However --- it is so light to criticize --- and the author achieved his goal in proportion of at least 80%, which is not less for an impossible goal!

outstanding.......2007-06-27

This is a very good introduction to arithmetic that everyone wanting to be initiated in this important branch of mathematics should read.

The authors achieved something remarkable: they were able to communicate with accuracy the deepest concepts of arithmetic without the boring style of many mathematics textbooks. The book is very engaging, with nice reflections about the nature of mathematical thought, as well as the motivations behind the concepts.

The authors managed to have a gradual build up of difficulty of topics all the way
to the proof of Fermat's last Theorem. Unlike other introductory texts that let you down
because in their effort to be more engaging, end up too elementary, this one is perfectly balanced. I will also recommend the "Calculus Gallery" as a second outstanding book introducing Analysis.

It would be great if other branches of mathematics like mathematical physics, algebra, mathematical informatics etc had the privilege of such well balanced and insightful introductions.

Well done!

Rare - a well written book about math .......2007-05-30

Unlike most math books, Fearless symmetry is well written. Key concepts from prior chapters are reemphasized in subsequent chapters so readers are less likely to get lost. This is the first book on groups and representation theory that made clear sense to me. I can see where galois therory is going and now have an understanding of the basic form of the proof of Fermat's last theorem.

Definition Dump from Freshman Abstract Algebra Course.......2007-05-16

The book is simply a compilation of definitions from a second rate textbook for Abstract Algebra 101 pasted together with high-five chit-chat from the mathematics-is-really-neat school of math edutainment. There are only a handful of illustrations in the book, none of which have anything to do with symmetry or patterns of numbers. The book Number Theory in Science and Communication: With Applications in Cryptography, Physics, Digital Information, Computing, and Self-Similarity by M.R.Schroeder is a much better choice for the subject.

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