Bringing Genius Hour to Your Library

"Annotated catalogue of the collection of antique pieces of Mesopotamian, Egyptian,Greek, Etruscan and Roman art from the private collection of Dr. Joaquín GumáHerrera, Count of Lagunillas (b. Cuba 1909-1980), some donations of the Cuban ScienceAcademy and Dr. Antonio Nieto and at present part of the holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts.The catalogue includes scientific research contributions from three prestigious specialists: AymeChcuri for the section devoted to Egypt; doctor Maria Castro Miranda for the Greek classicobjects and philologist Ana Vilma Castellanos Bisset with texts on the...

Sandra Angelo teaches you the basics of drawing in colored pencil and beyond! Inside this gorgeously illustrated how-to-draw book, you will find numerous step-by-step demonstrations that will teach you how to create beautiful drawings in colored pencil. First you'll learn about the tools and materials you need to get started, with tips about choosing amongst various types of textured and colored papers. Then you'll discover a series of colorful demonstrations with easy-to-follow progressions and clear instructions. As you follow along, you'll also glean important information about colored...

This volume sheds light upon one of the most emblematic constructions in Ibero-Romance: adverbial infinitives with specified subjects (e.g. al entrar Juan (Sp), para eles verem o resultado (Ptg)). The study attempts to fill an empirical gap and offers a cognitive-functional and comparative account on these constructions. The first part provides an overview of the notions of infinitive, subject and adverbial clauses. The second part consists of two empirical case studies. First, the use of the Portuguese inflected infinitive is shown to be sensitive to factors as the mental accessibility of...

Cuando se piensa en el proceso y los resultados de la "mediación editorial", es decir, en la intervención sucesiva de varios editores en la construcción colectiva de un conjunto de obras, se piensa más en el papel que puede desempeñar una casa editora en esa construcción, y menos en el rol que cumplen una serie de editores individuales en ella. En este libro se considera el alcance, la hondura, la dimensión y la delicadeza de la mediación editorial, para destacar el lugar de la edición en la historia de un texto y defender que esta historia no se limita a la publicación, la...