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David Roberts, nacido en Denver (Colorado) y graduado en al Universidad de Harvard, es autor de siete libros, entre los que destacan The Mountain of My Fear y Jean Stafford. A Biography. Es colaborador habitual de las revistas Men ́s Journal, Outside, American Photo, Smithsonian, Atlantic y National Geographic, entre otras publicaciones.

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The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic philosophies, Higley examines how the "Unknown Language" makes arid signifiers green again. This text, however, is too often seen in too narrow a context: glossolalia, angelic language, secret code. Higley provides an edition and English translation of its glosses in the Riesencodex (with assistance from the Berlin MS) , but also places it ...

La presente antología reúne discursos y declaraciones del general Plutarco Elías Calles que van de 1913 a 1936. La organización cronológica de estos documentos permite reconstruir el ambiente político de la época, y seguir el desarrollo del modelo gubernamental mexicano que logró asentarse firmemente durante los años de la jefatura máxima (1929-1934) con la creación y consolidación del Partido Nacional Revolucionario.