Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia. 39 (SOLO LIBROS/Reseñas)

Presenta las reseñas de los siguientes libros: Eloy Alfaro. Narraciones históricas. Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador / Corporación Editora Nacional, 2012, 368 pp . -- Adolfo León Atehortúa Cruz. Germán Colmenares. Una Nueva Historia. Cali: Universidad del Valle, 2013, 161 pp . -- Fernando Chuquimia Bonifaz. Las Sociedades de Socorros Mutuos y Beneficencia en La Paz, 1883-1920. La Paz: Centro de Estudios para la América Andina y Amazónica, 2013, 255 pp . -- Eliga H. Gould. Among the Powers of the Earth. The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012, 301 pp.

Foro: revista de derecho. 20 (Recensiones)

Presenta las reseñas de los siguientes libros: Cristian J. Billardi, Solve et Repete, Buenos Aires, Ad-Hoc, 2006, 392 pp. -- Marco Morales Tobar, coord., La nueva organización territorial y el nuevo modelo de descentralización en el Ecuador, Quito, Corporación de Estudios y Publicaciones, 2012, 310 pp.

Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia. 40 (SOLO LIBROS/Reseñas)

Presenta las reseñas de los libros: Mauricio Archila, editor. Historia de América Andina, volumen 7. Democracia, desarrollo e integración: vicisitudes y perspectivas /1930-1990). Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador / Libresa, 2013, 490 pp. -- Daniel Gutiérrez Ardila. El reconocimiento de Colombia: diplomacia y propaganda en la coyuntura de las restauraciones (1819-1831). Bogotá: Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2012, 426 pp. -- Beatriz Margarita Conte de Fornés. Gabriel García Moreno: la historia y la historiografía. Mendoza: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 2013, 396 pp. -- Fernando Hidalgo Nistri. La República del Sagrado Corazón. Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador / Corporación Editora Nacional, 2013, 311 pp.

Foro: revista de derecho. 21 (Recensiones)

Presenta las reseñas de los siguientes libros: César Montaño Galarza, Juan Carlos Mogrovejo Jaramillo, Derecho tributario municipal ecuatoriano: fundamentos y práctica, Quito, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar / Corporación Editora Nacional, 2014. -- Álvaro Renato Mejía Salazar, Los medios de impugnación ante el proceso y el procedimiento contemporáneo, Quito, Ed. Legales, 2013, 157 pp. -- Holger Paúl Córdova, Los derechos sin poder popular. Presente y futuro de la participación, comunicación e información , Quito, Centro Andino de Estudios Estratégicos y Centro de Estudios Construyendo Ciudadanía y Democracia- ISPCI-UCE, 2013.

Comentario Internacional: revista del Centro Andino de Estudios Internacionales. 14 (Reseñas)

Reseña del libro de Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers. How Europe Went to War in 1914, Londres: Harper, 2014.

Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia. 41 (SOLO LIBROS/Reseñas)

Presenta las reseñas de los siguientes libros: María Fernanda Cartagena y Christian León. El museo desbordado: debates contemporáneos en torno a la musealidad. Quito: Abya-Yala, 2014, 120 pp. -- María Luisa Soux. Estudios sobre la Constitución, la ley y la justicia en Charcas, entre Colonia y República. Aproximaciones desde la historia del derecho. La Paz: AE CID /IE B, 2013, 124 pp. -- Luís Cláudio Villafañe G. Santos. A América do Sul no discurso diplomático brasileiro. Brasilia: Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão (FUNAG ), 2014, 247 pp.

Sherman Alexie’s "The Toughest Indian in the World": Amalgamating the Oral and the Written Traditions

This article argues that The Toughest Indian in the World (2000) by Native-American author Sherman Alexie combines elements of his tribal (oral) tradition with others coming from the Western (literary) short-story form. Like other Native writers — such as Momaday, Silko or Vizenor — , Alexie is seen to bring into his short fiction characteristics of his people’s oral storytelling that make it much more dialogical and participatory. Among the author’s narrative techniques reminiscent of the oral tradition, aggregative repetitions of patterned thoughts and strategically-placed indeterminacies play a major role in encouraging his readers to engage in intellectual and emotional exchanges with the stories. Assisted by the ideas of theorists such as Ong (1988), Evers and Toelken (2001), and Teuton (2008), this article shows how Alexie’s short fiction is enriched and revitalized by the incorporation of oral elements. The essay also claims that new methods of analysis and assessment may be needed for this type of bicultural artistic forms. Despite the differences between the two modes of communication, Alexie succeeds in blending features and techniques from both traditions, thus creating a new hybrid short-story form that suitably conveys the trying experiences faced by his characters.

Life before ‘The New Biography’: Modernist biographical methods in the Hogarth Press ‘Books on Tolstoi’ 1920-24

In the early 1920s, before Virginia Woolf wrote her now well-known essays “The New Biography” and “The Art of Biography,” the Hogarth Press published four biographies of Tolstoy. Each of these English translations of Russian works takes a different approach to biographical composition, and as a group they offer multiple and contradictory perspectives on Tolstoy’s character and on the genre of biography in the early twentieth century. These works show that Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press took a multi-perspectival, modernist approach to publishing literary lives.

Coherence and Historical understanding in children's Biography and Historical Nonfiction Literature: A Content Analysis of Selected Orbis Pictus Books

The purpose of this study was to investigate a selection of children's historical nonfiction literature for evidence of coherence. Although research has been conducted on coherence of textbook material and its influences on comprehension there has been limited study on coherence in children's nonfiction literature. Generally, textual coherence has been seen as critical in the comprehensibility of content area textbooks because it concerns the unity of connections among ideas and information. Disciplinary coherence concerns the extent to which authors of historical text show readers how historians think and write. Since young readers are apprentices in learning historical content and conventions of historical thinking, evidence of disciplinary coherence is significant in nonfiction literature for young readers. The sample of the study contained 32 books published between 1989 and 2000 ranging in length from less than 90 pages to more than 150 pages. Content analysis was the quantitative research technique used to measure 84 variables of textual and disciplinary coherence in three passages of each book, as proportions of the total number of words for each book. Reliability analyses and an examination of 750 correlations showed the extent to which variables were related in the books. Three important findings emerged from the study that should be considered in the selection and use of children's historical nonfiction literature in classrooms. First, characteristics of coherence are significantly related together in high quality nonfiction literature. Second, shorter books have a higher proportion of textual coherence than longer books as measured in three passages. Third, presence of the author is related to characteristics of coherence throughout the books. The findings show that nonfiction literature offers students content that researchers have found textbooks lack. Both younger and older students have the opportunity to learn the conventions of historical thinking as they learn content through nonfiction literature. Further, the children's literature, represented in the Orbis Pictus list, shows students that authors select, interpret, and question information, and give other interpretations. The implications of the study for teaching history, teacher preparation in content and literacy, school practices, children's librarians, and publishers of children's nonfiction are discussed.

Vocations in biography and fiction; an annotated list of books for young people.

First published in 1953 under title: Vocations in fact and fiction.

Musical biography ; or, Memoirs of the lives and writings of the most eminent musical composers and writers, who have flourished in the different countries of Europe during the last three centuries.

Mode of access: Internet.

The auto-biography of Goethe : Truth and Poetry: from my own life. The concluding books, also letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy /

Lettered on cover: Goethe's works. Autobiography. Vol. I-II.

The university of literature ... : a cyclopædia of universal literature, presenting in alphabetical arrangement the biography, together with critical reviews and extracts, of eminent writers of all lands and all ages /

Mode of access: Internet.