Los secretos de la exposición fotográfica

The object of this volume is the study of missionary translation practices which occur within a colonial context of political domination and spiritual conquest. Missionary translation becomes especially manifest in bilingual ethnographic descriptions, in (bilingual) catechisms and in the missionaries' lexicographic condensation of bilingual dictionaries. The study of these instances permits the analysis and interpretation of their guiding principles, their translation practice and underlying reasoning. It also permits the modern linguist to discern semantic changes that can be revealed in...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by...

Bomarzo, Carnac, Chartres, Lago Ness, Stonehenge, Isla de Pascua, Nazca, Gizeh, Ayers Rock... Se trata de lugares misteriosos de la Tierra que, a pesar de que hay estudios cada vez más detallados sobre ellos, siguen asombrándonos con preguntas sin aparente respuesta. ¿Quiénes y por qué construyeron las pirámides? ¿Para qué servían las gigantescas figuras trazadas en el suelo en diversas partes del mundo? ¿Qué se esconde tras el mito de la Atlántida? ¿Es posible la presencia de extraterrestres en los desiertos africanos? ¿Qué hay de cierto en las maldiciones de los faraones?...

Presents a letter written in verse from a father to his son, telling him about the challenges that he will face in his life, which will help him to become a better man, with illustrations that enhance the meaning of the text. PP.