Las Edades Atlantes Perdidas

José María Balcells Doménech es Catedrático de Literatura Española de la Universidad de León. Obtuvo el doctorado por la Universidad de Barcelona (1979) con la tesis titulada Las obras ascéticas y morales de Quevedo. Ha sido profesor titular de Literatura Española de la Universidad de Barcelona, y de la Universidad “A. Rovira i Virgili”, de Tarragona. Es Académico correspondiente por León de la Real Academia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona, y de la Real Academia Alfonso el Sabio de Murcia. Ha participado en numerosos Congresos Nacionales e Internacionales, realizados en...

La expresión Art Nouveau hace referencia a un estilo decorativo y arquitectónico desarrollado en Occidente en las décadas de 1880 y 1890. Nacido como reacción a la revolución industrial y al vacío creativo que dejó tras de sí, el Art Nouveau fue el núcleo de un “renacimiento” de las artes decorativas. El objetivo fundamental del movimiento era la creación de una nueva estética de la Naturaleza a través de un retorno al estudio de los temas naturales. Para lograrlo, artistas como Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Antoni Gaudí, Jan Toorop y William Morris favorecieron la innovación ...

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...

STORIES AND SKITS “IN GREEN" - Environment, Ecology and other values This book which contains 14 stories and 14 theatrical scripts, is an eco-environmental project that has as objective the diffusion and sensitization of values related with environment, ecology and the protection of all the resources that surround us, in order to throw a challenge to everyone, to take care of the present and thus to achieve a better future. The author uses a double technique: stories and the theater, or similarly, individual or group reading through caring and amusing narrations, and theatrical scripts,...