Carnaval

Many of us have long been captivated by images of knights in shining armor evoking the age of chivalry and the ideals of Camelot. In this richly illustrated volume, the beauty and complexity of the actual armor worn by European knights and soldiers comes brilliantly to the fore. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} How to Read European Armor presents a compelling overview of armor in Europe from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century, the period when armor as an art form achieved its highest levels of stylistic beauty and functional perfection. During that...

Bocadillos y viñetas que cuentan una historia: esta es la imagen que nos viene a la mente cuando pensamos en un cómic. Pero en esta descripción nos falta un elemento crucial, un aspecto fraccionado, temporal, que hace que nuestra vida transcurra en paralelo a las vivencias de unos personajes: la serialidad, un elemento que fue inherente al medio durante buena parte de su historia. Es por ello que la visita a la librería o el kiosko se ha convertido, durante generaciones, en un ritual para conocer los avatares de esos niños traviesos, detectives, aventureros, superhéroes...

Eva Peron (1919-1952) was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Often referred to as "Evita," she was never an officially elected political figure, but by her husband's second term as President, she had become the most powerful woman in the history of her nation. By the 1960s, Evita was an international pop-culture icon; in the 1970s, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote the blockbuster musical Evita about her; and in the mid-90s, the musical was adapted to a movie starring Madonna. This small, chunky paperback features all manner of vintage graphic treatments from...

This book offers a clear, simple and effective course that can lead the reader to discover that they have skills they never even thought they had.