Las piedras que hablan

Set in a Middle Eastern town, this culturally sensitive tale tells of a grandmother who predicts her own death. In preparation, Grandma Sara decides to give away her most treasured possessions. She leaves her horse to her favorite grandchild, Liana, who learns about responsibility as well as the hardships of facing death. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.

This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from...

Cuaderno escrito a mano con pautas de caligrafía para aprender a escribir con la letra Gótica Rotunda del siglo XIV.

"Arreguín's palpitations of color and light and arrested movement awaken our sublimated vision. His paintings seem to force our entire being to experience its livingness as an insatiable yearning and questing of the eyes." - from the Foreword by Tess GallagherBorn in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguín has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native Michoacán; the lush rainforests of his...

La construcción social de un espacio mediterráneo -entendido como un proceso de integración regional- depende, en gran medida, del papel que juegan los medios de comunicación en la conformación de la opinión pública. Esta obra trata algunos de los principales resultados de una investigación (2009-2012) que analizó, desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria, la información emitida por canales públicos de TV de Argelia, Egipto, España, Francia, Italia, Marruecos, Reino Unido y Siria. Los contenidos corresponden a un contexto previo a las llamadas revoluciones árabes, por lo que...