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SINOPSIS: El Siglo de las Luces (3 DVDs) (1992) (255 minutos) Sinopsis: La Revolucion Francesa y el mundo magico del Caribe. Un filme de Humberto Solas dividido en tres partes. Tres jovenes aristocratas: Sofia, Carlos y Esteban reciben al misterioso Victor Hugues en su mansion habanera. La belleza de Sofia despierta en el frances una gran pasion que los llevara a vivir insolitos acontecimientos. Una historia acerca de la incidencia de la Revolucion Francesa en el Caribe basada en la novela homonima de Alejo Carpentier. (1992)/ Humberto Solas/ Jacqueline Arenal, Rustam Urazaev, Francois Dunoyer, Frederic Pierrot, Alexis Valdes, Miguel Gutierrez, Omar Valdes, Philippe Caroit, Jean Franval, Elvira Valdes, Eric Deshors, Andre Julien, Francoise Audolient, Patrick Massian, Tito Junco, Mireya Chapman, Dagoberto Gainza, Carlos Padron, Vicente Revuelta, Bernardo Menendez, Nicolas Silberg, Omar Ali, Maria Magdalena, Jean Yves Martinez/ En La Habana del siglo XVIII, tres jovenes aristocratas, llamados Sofia, Carlos y Esteban, descrubren la vida en una epoca plena de singulares acontecimientos. En ello es determinante la presencia de Victor Hugues, comerciante marselles radicado en Port-au-Prince, quien incorporara a los jovenes las ideas del Iluminismo frances y la Revolucion. Y a causa de este encuentro se produciran multiples peripecias, que nos conduciran, del Paris jacobino, a un Caribe que se trastornara con los ecos del derrumbe del ancien regime. Adaptacion de la conocida novela de Alejo Carpentier, con impresionante fotografia de Livio Delgado.

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(2008) SINOPSIS: Duracion: 98 minutos. Con la colaboracion de Juan Carlos Tabio, Jorge Perugorria, Enrique Molina, Paula Ali, Yoima Valdes y Laura de la Uz. Según el diario EL PAÍS, más de 25.000 cubanos mantienen ser los herederos de una fortuna depositada en las arcas del Banco Británico. En un pequeño pueblo de Cuba, una noticia explota como un petardo: los que se apelliden Castiñeiras recibirán una jugosa herencia que unas monjas depositaron en un banco de Inglaterra en el siglo XVIII.Todos los que así se apellidan empiezan entonces con los trámites para hacerse con su parte, pero, como es de imaginarse, muchos obstáculos se cruzan en el camino. Bernardito (Jorge Perugorría) será el líder en esta disparatada búsqueda del tesoro...

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SINOPSIS: Este documental trata sobre la religion Yorua. Tiene sus origenes en el Africa y es exportado a Cuba atraves de los esclavos. Vea como se derivan los distinctos dioses como Ochun (Diosa del Amor), Chango y Ogun (discusion). Vea como los tambores indigenas suenan al son de facinantes rituales con sus bailes de siglos atras.. Identifique algunos de los veinte y un eleguas. Oiga como se pierde el linaje de la familia al llegar los esclavos y al ser separados por grandes distancias y como despues se unen atraves de la religion y los devotos de Yemaya. Vea como los curanderos usan la botanica para curar ciertos males y despues son comprobados cientificamente con sus explicaciones. El papel de la fe y el trabajo mental juegan un papel importante y como el baile estimula la mente. Tambien hay un capitulo que rinde tributo al culto de los antepasados llamado "Moyuba" que muestra como la Historia de Cuba camina al unisono con la Santeria. Tambien esta el capitulo Aña (la Magia del Tambor). Vea la diferencia entre un tambor profano y uno sagrado. Vea las leyes que son denominadas por estos tambores. Se encontrara opiniones de personajes tan prominentes como: Prof. Lazara Menendez (Universidad de La Habana), Julio Abreu (Babalawo), Lic. Clara Pulido, Omo Aña (Babalawo) y Prof. de Percusion, Juan Bencomo (Constructor de tambores), Miguel Barnet (Etnologo y Escritor), Dr. Enrique Grenet (Psicologo), Bebo Pastoriza (Babalawo), Dr. Lazaro Vidal (Babalawo) y el Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler (Historiador de la ciudad de La Habana). Estos dos volumenes duran 150 minutos. y le ayudara a cualquier persona en comprender la historia de las raices de los antepasados cubanos al tiempo moderno.

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Author: Jo Ellen Moore

Brand: EVAN-MOOR
Edition: Pap/Pstr
ISBN: 155799711X
Number Of Pages: 80

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Unknown: English
Original Language: English
Published: English

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Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela -- together they form the richly diverse South American continent. Now, with this one volume, your students can compare and contrast its peoples, customs, regions and political divisions. Topics and activities explored include: Locating South America (it's place on the globe), Name the Hemisphere, Water and Landforms, South America (black & white topographic map), Water Forms of South America, South American Landforms, Geographic Regions of South America, Andes Mountains, Amazon Rainforest, Gran Chaco and Pampas, Atacama Desert (Chile), Altiplano (Bolivia), Region Comparison Chart, Moving to South America, Political Divisions, Countries of South America, Capital Cities, Using a Compass Rose, Longitude and Latitude, Brazil (with map of states showing main cities), How Far Is It? (linear distances between points), Land Area and Population Chart, Population Comparison, Name the Countries, South America's Resources (lists of Manufactured Goods, Natural Resources, Crops and Livestock, Services), Foods from the New World, My Personal Experience with Foods from the New World, Deforestation, Rainforest Deforestation Note Taker, Responsible Tourism, A South American Vacation, South American Plants and Animals, Name that Plant, South American Camels, Amazing Animals of South American (with picture cards), Animals of the Galapagos Islands, Galapagos Quiz, Animal Report Note Taker, The People of South America, The Incas, Indigenous Cultures, Languages of South America, Celebrating Learning, and more. Plus, a full-color fold-out topographic map of South America and the oceans surrounding it. It's just one of seven titles in our all-new series on world geography based on the five themes of geography -- Location -- Position on the Earth's surface, Place -- Physical and Human Characteristics, Relationships within Places -- Humans and the Environment, Movement -- Human Interactions on the Earth, and Regions -- How They Form and Change.

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a different country? Find out as you travel through amazing countries and learn about the cities, the landscapes, the people, and the cultures. Children146s journal entries and postcards add interest

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This High-interest script comes with explicit fluency instructions, a list of key vocabulary, and engaging comprehensive activities. The book describes in simple terms how to direct instruction and coach students. The unit can stand alone as fluency instruction or tie in to a related content-area unit. 96 pages.

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Author: Wendy Kaplan

ISBN: 0500238154
Number Of Pages: 320

Languages:
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Original Language: English
Published: English

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The first assessment of the truly international influence of the Arts and Crafts movement, published to accompany a groundbreaking exhibition.

At the turn of the last century, the Arts and Crafts movement transformed not only how objects looked but also how people looked at objects. It provided a framework for essential issues that are still debated today: the conflict between standardization and individuality, the question of whether a one-of-a-kind handcrafted object is superior to a mass-produced one, and the problem of defining what kind of design most benefits society.

As the most industrialized country, Britain was also the first to generate a movement to counter what was seen as the malevolent effects of mass production. Protagonists such as John Ruskin and William Morris championed "joy in labor"—the moral and spiritual uplift that would come with the revival of making objects by hand. The improvement of working conditions, integration of art into everyday life, and an "honest" aesthetic resulting from the use of indigenous materials and native traditions were also central to the movement's philosophy. At the end of the nineteenth century, these Arts and Crafts ideals were appropriated and adapted by the young avant-garde throughout Europe and the United States.

With 260 objects—furniture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and works on paper—from Britain, Ireland, the United States, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Scandinavia, and Finland, this is a visually stunning, definitive survey. The book features masterworks by the best-known designers of the period, such as William Morris, M. H. Baillie Scott, Henry Van de Velde, Peter Behrens, Josef Hoffmann, Eliel Saarinen, Gustav Stickley, Greene and Greene, and Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as lesser-known examples that have never been displayed together. 360 illustrations, 300 in color.

With contributions by: Alan Crawford, Rüdiger Joppien, Juliet Kinchin Amy F. Ogata. Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark, Christian Witt-Dörring.

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To many, California's social and cultural identity has set it apart from the rest of the nation. Identified almost exclusively with Hollywood and popular culture, the entire region has been denied a meaningful relationship to mainstream twentieth-century modernism. This groundbreaking collection emphatically challenges that assumption. In essays about California art during the first half of the century, the contributors evoke a culture, now recognizable as modernist, that reflects the actual circumstances of contemporary West Coast artistic experience in all its richness. The subjects include painting, murals, sculpture, film, photography, and architecture. The issue of regionalism is central to this remarkable collection. How do we build a cultural portrait of an area that reveals its distinctive character while recognizing its participation in the larger art historical framework? Through the essays runs the theme of an alternative culture that transformed modernism to suit its own regional imperatives. Compelled by a sense of distance and the need for reinvention, California artists created traditions for a new cultural landscape and society. On the Edge of America is an enlightening and visually exciting addition to the growing literature on California art and culture. Through its fresh and expanded view of modernism, it is also well suited to the formulation of a truly national cultural narrative, one that embraces the edges as well as the center of American creative life.

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Author: Mary Schmidt Campbell

Edition: Later prt.
ISBN: 0810981289
Number Of Pages: 200

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Original Language: English
Published: English

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In the 1920s, Harlem was "the capital of Black America" and home to an epochal African-American cultural flowering called the Harlem Renaissance. This book presents the work of the most important visual artists of the day, including Meta Warrick Fuller, Aaron Douglas and Palmer Hayden.

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Author: Bob Raczka

ISBN: 1580138810
Number Of Pages: 32

Languages:
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Original Language: English
Published: English

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What is America? Shape a fascinating image of the United States through the eyes of eighteen artists who have painted, sculpted, and photographed the U.S. landscape and culture. This latest art adventure from Bob Raczka features works from John Trumbull, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jasper Johns, and many more.

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