Tag: Latin

Free Download The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume 1, 450-1066
English | 2024 | ISBN: 110718651X | 505 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450-1500. Excerpts are taken from Bede and other historians, from the letters of women written from their monasteries, from famous documents such as Domesday Book and Magna Carta, and from accounts and legal documents, all revealing the lives of individuals at home and on their travels across Britain and beyond. It offers an insight into Latin writings on many subjects, showing the important role of Latin in the multilingual society of medieval Britain, in which Latin was the primary language of written communication and record and also developed, particularly after the Norman Conquest, through mutual influence with English and French. The thorough introductions to each volume provide a broad overview of the linguistic and cultural background, while the individual texts are placed in their social, historical and linguistic context.

Free Download The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1108421083 | 947 Pages | PDF | 9.4 MB
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard’s postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future development. The Critical Guide aims to stimulate reflection on how we engage with Latin literature. Texts, tools and territories are the three areas of focus. The Guide situates the study of classical Latin literature within its global context from late antiquity to Neo-Latin, moving away from an exclusive focus on the pre-200 CE corpus. It recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (history, philosophy, material culture, linguistics, political thought, Greek), and takes a fresh look at key tools (editing, reception, intertextuality, theory).

Free Download Renewable Energy Uptake in Urban Latin America: Sustainable Technology in Mexico and Brazil By Alexandra Mallett
2020 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0367184397 | PDF | 7 MB
This book explores the perplexing question of how to increase sustainable energy technology use in the developing world, and specifically focuses on two megacities within Latin America.Renewable Energy Uptake in Urban Latin America examines the market and uptake of two sustainable energy technologies (solar water heaters and biogas to produce electricity) in two locations, Mexico City, Mexico and São Paulo, Brazil in the 2000s. Drawing from three systems-based analytical frameworks – including one developed by the author for the purpose of this study – the book examines the varying factors affecting the implementation of renewable energy technologies (RETs) in urban Latin America. These frameworks emphasize the importance of examining socio-political dimensions; rather than conventional explanations that focus on technical and economic aspects only. By doing so, the research improves explanations about renewable energy technology (RET) adoption in the global South. These findings are useful for scholars, policy makers and practitioners working on RET adoption; resulting in a book which helps to inform wider debates regarding innovation, decarbonization, sustainability transitions and energy system change.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions, energy policy, development studies and science and technology studies.

Free Download Kant and the Problem of Nothingness: A Latin American Study and Critique
by Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla and Addison Ellis
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1350277789 | 211 Pages | True PDF | 2.3 MB

Free Download Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla, "Kant and the Problem of Nothingness: A Latin American Study and Critique "
English | ISBN: 1350277789 | 2024 | 208 pages | EPUB | 311 KB
The Latin American philosopher Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla published the first study of Kant’s concept of nothingness in 1965. This translation of Mayz Vallenilla’s ground-breaking work makes it available in English for the first time.

Free Download Growing up in Latin America: Child and Youth Agency in Contemporary Popular Culture
by Marco Ramírez Rojas, Pilar Osorio Lora
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1666916870 | 300 Pages | True PDF | 3.5 MB

Free Download Francisco Panizza, "The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Latin American Central Administrations "
English | ISBN: 082294720X | 2023 | 284 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Although merit system selection and management of public personnel is thought of as the standard for good governance, public employees frequently are appointed by political officials rather than being members of a career civil service. In fact, there has been an increase in the level of patronage appointments and politicization of public administration over the past several decades as political leaders attempt to impose their control over the public bureaucracy. Although widespread, patronage appointments in the public sector are particularly important in Latin America, where there is a tradition of extensive patronage. The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Latin American Central Administrations seeks to understand the motivations of patrons when they make appointments, the roles appointees play, the skills required to play these roles, and what accounts for different modalities of patronage. It moves beyond the conventional condemnation of patronage to examine the multiple uses of political appointments, which can be crucial for obtaining the services of highly qualified individuals who otherwise might not be willing to work in the public sector.

Free Download V Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering CLAIB 2011 May 16-21, 2011, Habana, Cuba: Sustainable Technologies for the Health of All by José Folgueras Méndez
English | 2013 | ISBN: 3642211976 | 1318 Pages | PDF | 66.4 MB
This volume presents the proceedings of the CLAIB 2011, held in the Palacio de las Convenciones in Havana, Cuba, from 16 to 21 May 2011.

Free Download From Latin to Italian: An Historical Outline of the Phonology and Morphology of the Italian Language by C. H. Grandgent, Charles H. Grandgent
English | 1927 | ISBN: 0674281136 | 200 Pages | PDF | 8.4 MB
Grandgent, a professor at Harvard from 1896-1932, pens a fascinating account of the early development of the Italian language which will be of particular interest to linguists and medievalists.

Free Download Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature by Antonio D. Tillis
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0415896274 | 272 Pages | PDF | 2.1 MB
After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation.