A Big Dream

A thematic exploration of the work of the Colombian sculptor Luis Fernando Peláez, this book spans the artist’s career from his earliest graphic design and drawings to his unique installations and large-scale works for public areas. Full-color photographs illustrate the wide variety of languages and techniques employed by the sculptor and demonstrate the exceptional quality of his creations, which can be organized into groups joined together by the slightest thread of meaning but retain their individual significance and identity. This is an excellent introduction to a little-known but...

Narrates how Julius Caesar conquered the Gauls. Includes games and documentation pages that supply additional facts about life in the Roman Empire.

En este estudio convergen ciencia, naturaleza y arte. Se describe la psicofisiología del actor a partir de la investigación y el análisis del sistema de actuación de Stanislavski y sus principales influencias científicas: las teorías de Darwin, Sechenov, Pavlov, William James, Ribot y Von Hartman. Pues en su momento —siglo xix— la ciencia se volvió un modelo para otras disciplinas —tanto humanas como sociales— que buscaban legitimidad y autonomía. Un libro para todos los interesados en indagar el contexto histórico, filosófico y científico que permearon el, hoy bien...

This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other s contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora of task-oriented dialogues between dyads of native speakers of English and Spanish. The framework of the investigation is the analysis of speech genres and their staging; the analysis shows that each stage in the dialogues exhibits different thematic, rhetorical, and cohesive relations. The main...