30 mandalas para pintar / 30 Mandalas for Painting

Mandalas, concentric designs that originated in ancient India, are growing ever more popular in therapy, meditation, and relaxation exercises. Coloring the mandalas in this book offers more than a mere artistic pastime--working with mandalas helps increase self-knowledge and interior peace.

A new take on an eclectic and controversial director James Morrison's critical study offers a comprehensive and critically engaged treatment on Roman Polanski's immense body of work. Tracing the filmmaker's remarkably diverse career from its beginnings to 2007, the book provides commentary on all of Polanski's major films in their historical, cultural, social, and artistic contexts. Morrison locates Polanski's work within the genres of comedy and melodrama, arguing that he is not merely obsessed with the theme of repression, but that his true interest is in the concrete—what is out in the...

Miguel, es un joven vampiro que vive en un viejo edificio en el centro de la ciudad. A pesar de su apariencia física, tiene casi sesenta años y su existencia es de lo más monótona. Mata el tiempo leyendo en los coffee shops por las noches y paseando por las calles próximas a su hogar. Junto a él, vive su familia vampírica, una familia de lo más peculiar. Sus padres son dos aburridos vampiros y sus primos se dedican a remendar zapatos, negocio que gestionan a través de internet. Por otro lado está Carlos, el responsable comercial de Fragua’s Textil. Una empresa dedicada a los...

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...

Como el propio título adelanta, estamos ante un estudio lingüístico cuyo ámbito de reflexión es la interacción entre la gramática y la textualidad, sistemas de organización de la comunicación verbal regidos por principios profundamente diversos, y que son analizados en el presente volumen.