Todos estos ensayos y entrevistas son un recopilatorio de mi trabajo realizado hasta la fecha procedente de varias publicaciones de contenido cultural, soci logo y art stico. La principal de todas ellas es el ltimo proyecto en el que participo, donde estoy como redactor jefe de la revista cultural Atenea XXI. Espero que disfrut is y que sea de vuestro agrado.
Los dioses desterrados de la H lade, representados en esta historia por Dionisos, conviven otra vez con los mortales, navegando por los mismos mares, recorriendo campos, cruzando r os y monta as, caminando por los senderos que anta o recorr an los dioses antes de ser destronados. Los protagonistas de esta historia, Prota y Kalixta, pudieron ser con Teocl meno, Euriloco y muchos otros, personajes de los tiempos mitol gicos, cuando los dioses fraternizaban con los hombres, y las mujeres conceb an de ellos h roes y semidioses que cortaban cabezas de Gorgonas, cegaban c clopes, peleaban contra monstruos y venc an ej rcitos enemigos. Quiz alg n lector esc ptico objetar que Prota y Kalixta no existieron en los tiempos mitol gicos ni en ninguna otra poca, o parte alguna de la Tierra. Y qu importa que no hayan existido? Si Prota y Kalixta no existieron nunca, hoy empiezan a vivir en el mundo de la fabulaci n. Dejo, pues, al lector en manos de Mart n Soto, el escritor simplista y responsable de esta historia, para que lo conduzca por los m gicos senderos de la fantas a a la legendaria e inmortal H lade de los dioses ol mpiicos.
Sublime y seductor, poemas que fascinan, logra dar con ese af n de amar y sentirse amado, el nombre agradecimiento, la simpat a, est n tan llenas de pasi n que hacen vibrar, las siente en lo m s profundo de su ser, incita y hace palpitar en lo m s profundo las emociones encontradas que incitan a lo prohibido.
A professional actor with a promising career, Cesar Perez was on a meteoric rise until a drunk driver slammed into his car head-on. He coded on the paramedics more than once on the way to the hospital, and coded again when he arrived. It's a miracle he even survived. Still, he wouldn't have called it miraculous at the time. In one devastating blow, all his dreams had been ripped away.A severe brain injury had left him almost entirely incapacitated. His right arm was paralyzed. His femur had snapped in two. His face was shattered. He spent months learning how to breathe, eat, walk, and talk all over again. In the midst of it all, his girlfriend left him-the same girlfriend he had been on his way to see that fateful night.But life, ultimately, is a gift. Fragile, firm, and beautiful. Throughout the course of Cesar's long, often tortuous recovery, Chase the Light shines with courage, grace, and the resilience of the human spirit-reminding us that every life has meaning and every soul has a purpose, always, even in our darkest moments.
A professional actor with a promising career, Cesar Perez was on a meteoric rise until a drunk driver slammed into his car head-on. He coded on the paramedics more than once on the way to the hospital, and coded again when he arrived. It's a miracle he even survived. Still, he wouldn't have called it miraculous at the time. In one devastating blow, all his dreams had been ripped away.A severe brain injury had left him almost entirely incapacitated. His right arm was paralyzed. His femur had snapped in two. His face was shattered. He spent months learning how to breathe, eat, walk, and talk all over again. In the midst of it all, his girlfriend left him-the same girlfriend he had been on his way to see that fateful night.But life, ultimately, is a gift. Fragile, firm, and beautiful. Throughout the course of Cesar's long, often tortuous recovery, Chase the Light shines with courage, grace, and the resilience of the human spirit-reminding us that every life has meaning and every soul has a purpose, always, even in our darkest moments.
This book isolates and dissects long-overlooked architectural typologies to unveil political aesthetics and protocols along geographic boundaries shaping contemporary society. Exclusions, Edges, and Ecologies is an investigation for identifying and documenting the infrastructural and architectural typologies along political boundaries. By revisiting building typology as a method, this project purposefully meets the entanglement between architecture and power structures. The study of the architectural type and the interrogation of architecture's role becomes its call for social and political change. New architectural imagination can be formed by revealing some of the most overlooked and dismissed spaces at the edges of architecture. Citizenry edges do not only begin and end at nation-state borders but expand from within the interior of common social junctures. City is no longer boundary by fortified walls or defined through the old binary--rural to urban, country to city, etc. Planetary grounds includes the imagination for breaching the edge of the atmosphere and a vast ecology of infrastructure to support the launch complex for leaving earth entirely. Exclusions, Edges, and Ecologies catalogs an architectural type across diverse historical and geopolitical scales, from the interior to vast territories of remote land, to reveal the edges of architecture and delaminate the boundaries of our contemporary design discourse.
Concerns about environmental, social, economic, health, and other impacts in the building industry have led to the development of a number of environmental and sustainability assessment approaches, strategies, models, appraisals, and methodologies. Green technology and practices have been implemented to improve sustainable development performance and yield economic, social, and environmental benefits and a series of environmental and sustainability rating systems (ESRSs) have been developed around the world and used extensively with unquestionable benefits to stakeholders in the building industry. Such systems beg to be adapted and implemented in other industry contexts still seeking suitable tools with which to effectively communicate their commitment to a sustainable future and gain the “social license” to operate. Sustainability Assessment: A Rating System Framework for Best Practices shows how this can be done. It makes the case for the development and implementation of ESRSs in new industry contexts ranging from , manufacturing and transportation to mining and energy putting forward a new project sustainability rating system framework to assess the sustainability of a wide variety of organizations and projects. This assessment framework includes but is not limited to regulatory requirements, and includes approaches for measuring sustainability on social, economic, environmental, and health grounds. This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners across a wide range of disciplines and industries. Scientists will find technical insights here that can further research while practitioners will find that they can implement the framework in any type of organization or project in order to address stakeholders’ needs and expectations while achieving their short, mid, and long term sustainability vision and goals.
This work explores current IT applications that allow the design and construction of information systems for cultural resources management. The author analysis a range of information systems that have been developed and which seem to indicate that they are often set up by non-specialists with insufficient technical support. The projects that result, irrespective of their success of failure, often call for excessive resources - time, manpower, and cost. To address this, the author looks at a widetheoretical framework that allows for the insertion, at a mid-abstraction level, of appropriate structural and functional models relevant to the daily working needs of cultural resources managers. Also proposed is a methodological format capable ofsupporting theprocesses of information systems design and construction, as well as a number of technological developments of particular help to the IT practitioner.
VENDAVAL es la historia de un escritor que cree haber nacido en una poca inapropiada para l y en un planeta equ voco. Novela que por su trama hace pensar en un mundo cr tico de sobrevivencia, conflictivo y ego sta. Una obra que provoca hondos interrogantes en el lector de mente inquisitiva. En ella se percibe una llamada de atenci n y un reto a la psiquis del hombre de hoy y de siempre. Es tambi n una novela de forma y contenido divergentes de una literatura momificada y de temas viciados. Por su contenido esot rico y filos fico encuadra en cualquier poca y lugar. VENDAVAL es una novela compleja. Adem s de su contenido ideol gico puede ser apreciada en el concepto de su belleza de estilo, colorido po tico, ritmo y melod a de su prosa. En s ntesis, es una obra profunda, dram tica y bella. Aparte de la novela que hoy presentamos, el autor ha escrito otras dos: "El rapto de Kalixta" e "Historias cortas, cuentos y remembranzas"
Este libro es una gran ayuda para las personas e investigadores hist ricos que buscan sus antepasados en el rea suroeste de Puerto Rico y sirve como referencia para reconstruir las familias que vivieron en esa rea durante la primera parte del siglo XIX. El libro incluye partidas de bautismos y datos esenciales sobre las familias. El per odo estudiado abarca desde 1814 a 1820 y un total de 993 partidas de bautismo. Incluye datos estad sticos y comparativos con otras fuentes examinadas e informaci n sobre familias, extranjeros, y personajes hist ricos. Tambi n presenta datos adicionales para cada familia, incluyendo la fecha en que se casaron los padres del bautizado/a. El car cter religioso y familiar de los bautismos presentados en este libro es una ventana a la vida religiosa y personal de nuestros antepasados y tambi n nos presenta el panorama hist rico y social de la poca. A la misma vez, la informaci n contenida en este libro nos puede ayudar a analizar informaci n demogr fica de un sector significativo de la poblaci n caborroje a durante un preciso periodo de tiempo.
Juan Almonte es un joven caprichoso y esta es su historia, historia de amor e injusticia, marcada por la ambici n, el soborno y la traici n. Juan sobrevive a contantes intentos de asesinatos, experiencias brutales que conmueven y atrapan. Logra codearse con empresarios influyentes, cosecha buenas amistades con informantes confidenciales. Disfruta del lujo y el confort y toda la protecci n de un gobierno corrupto. Tras las pesquisas sale a colaci n algo revelador, surge un mal entendido, lo nunca visto ni o do en la ciudad.
Sustainable and Resilient Cities: Insights into Urban Planning in US Cities and Communities offers an in-depth analysis of sustainability, climate change and resilience planning across 200 US population centers. Drawing on an analysis of over 600 urban plans, the book evaluates the progress and effectiveness of sustainable urban planning practices in the US, and provides actionable policy recommendations to enhance urban sustainability and resilience in the face of climate change. Coverage includes: the extent to which US cities design and implement strategies to become more sustainable whether these plans include criteria and indicators to measure progress how closely these plans follow established guidelines like ISO standards the relationship between a city's climate, proximity to water, population size, and the elements included in their sustainability plans an overall preparedness score to assess how well cities and communities are equipped to face current sustainability, climate change, and resilience challenge broader conclusions, including common characteristics and performance patterns of the 200 population centers, and policy recommendations to enhance urban sustainability and resilience. Sustainable and Resilient Cities addresses the rapidly growing academic and professional interest in urban sustainability, resilience and climate adaptation. With insights spanning multiple fields, it is an essential resource for researchers, practitioners and policymakers.
L'archipel de KRAKATOA n'est pas cette le de l'Indon sie, dans le d troit de la Sonde, partiellement d truite en 1883 par l'explosion de son volcan, le PERBUATAN. C'est ici le symbole d'un pays imaginaire aux richesses fabuleuses et aux soleils ternels, situ quelque part en Afrique au nord ou au sud de l'Equateur et vaincu par la dictature, l'aristocratie, la magouille, le pillage, le gaspillage, la torture, la corruption, les viols, la prostitution, les prouesses sexuelles, l'injustice, l'ins curit g n ralis e, les distraction, les complaisances, les folies de grandeur, le grotesque, la rationalit marchande du capital, l'oppression, la fraude, la tricherie, le mensonge, la violence mat rielle et symbolique, la destruction, la d linquance juv nile, le ch mage, l'alcool, le chanvre, la drogue, les danses d'ivresse et de vertige, la famine, la pauvret , le d nuement, la mendicit , les maladies diverses, la mis re noire, la mortalit ...; les t n bres et la guerre de lib ration.C'est un pays tristement c l bre ou tout est par terre: les hommes, les femmes, les enfants, les valeurs traditionnelles, la culture, les libert s fondamentales, les droits de l'homme, la d mocratie, l' conomie, la monnaie... etc.C'est donc la v rit la fois historique, psychologique, psychanalytique et po tique qui soutien de bout en bout cette pi ce.
