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Boix () is a Catalan surname, literally meaning "box", often referring to the plant genus '' Buxus''. People with the name * Carles Boix (born 1962), Spanish political scientist * Emili Boix-Fuster (born 1956), Spanish sociolinguist * Francisco Boix (1920–1951), Spanish photographer * Leo Boix, Argentine-British poet, translator, journalist * Montserrat Boix (born 1960), Spanish journalist * Vicente Boix Vicente Boix y Ricarte (27 April 1813 – 7 March 1880) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and historian from Xàtiva, Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valenc ... (1813–1880), Spanish playwright, poet, and historian References {{Surname Catalan-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalan Language
Catalan (; autonym: , ), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as ''Valencian'' (autonym: ), is a Western Romance language. It is the official language of Andorra, and an official language of three autonomous communities in eastern Spain: Catalonia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands. It also has semi-official status in the Italian comune of Alghero. It is also spoken in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of France and in two further areas in eastern Spain: the eastern strip of Aragon and the Carche area in the Region of Murcia. The Catalan-speaking territories are often called the or "Catalan Countries". The language evolved from Vulgar Latin in the Middle Ages around the eastern Pyrenees. Nineteenth-century Spain saw a Catalan literary revival, culminating in the early 1900s. Etymology and pronunciation The word ''Catalan'' is derived from the territorial name of Catalonia, itself of disputed etymology. The main theory suggests that (Latin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychology Press
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals. Its parts include Taylor & Francis, Routledge, F1000 (publisher), F1000 Research or Dovepress. It is a division of Informa, Informa plc, a United Kingdom–based publisher and conference company. Overview The company was founded in 1852 when William Francis (chemist), William Francis joined Richard Taylor (editor), Richard Taylor in his publishing business. Taylor had founded his company in 1798. Their subjects covered agriculture, chemistry, education, engineering, geography, law, mathematics, medicine, and social sciences. Francis's son, Richard Taunton Francis (1883–1930), was sole partner in the firm from 1917 to 1930. In 1965, Taylor & Francis launched Wykeham Publications and began book publishing. T&F acquired Hemisphere Publishing in 1988, and the company was renamed Taylor & Francis Group to reflect the growing number of Imprint (trade name), imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buxus
''Buxus'' is a genus of about seventy species in the family Buxaceae. Common names include box or boxwood. The boxes are native to western and southern Europe, southwest, southern and eastern Asia, Africa, Madagascar, northernmost South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean, with the majority of species being tropical or subtropical; only the European and some Asian species are frost-tolerant. Centres of diversity occur in Cuba (about 30 species), China (17 species) and Madagascar (9 species). They are slow-growing evergreen shrubs and small trees, growing to 2–12 m (rarely 15 m) tall. The leaves are opposite, rounded to lanceolate, and leathery; they are small in most species, typically 1.5–5 cm long and 0.3–2.5 cm broad, but up to 11 cm long and 5 cm broad in ''B. macrocarpa''. The flowers are small and yellow-green, monoecious with both sexes present on a plant. The fruit is a small capsule 0.5–1.5 cm long (to 3 cm i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carles Boix
Carles Boix i Serra (born 29 June 1962, in Barcelona) is a Spanish and American political scientist specializing in comparative politics, currently teaching at Princeton University. He is a leading scholar in empirical democratic theory and comparative political economy. Boix attended the University of Barcelona in his hometown, and earned his master's degree and doctorate from Harvard University. He taught at Ohio State University and the University of Chicago before joining the Princeton University Department of Politics faculty, where he is Robert Garrett Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Boix has published ''Political Parties, Growth and Equality'' (Cambridge University Press, 1998), ''Democracy and Redistribution'' (Cambridge University Press, 2003), ''Political Order and Inequality'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and ''Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads'' (Princeton University Press, 2019). H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emili Boix-Fuster
Emili Boix-Fuster (born 1956 in Barcelona) is a sociolinguist. His main academic interests are sociolects, intergenerational language transmission and linguistic ideologies in Catalan-speaking territories. Education Boix-Fuste studied Catalan Philology (1974–1979) and Hispanic Philology (1980–1983) at the University of Barcelona. From 1983 to 1985 he did his PhD courses in Sociolinguistics Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and society's effect on language. It can overlap with the sociology of l ... at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, USA). Career Boix taught Catalan Linguistics at the School of Education at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1980–1983, and 1985–1989); since 1989, he has taught Sociolinguistics, Language Planning, Catalan Language, History of Catalan and Discourse analysis at the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Boix
Francesc Boix Campo '' ʃ'' ''campo">Close-mid central unrounded vowel">ɘnsɛsc bɒVoiceless postalveolar fricative">ʃ'' ''campo' (31 August 1920 in Barcelona – 7 July 1951 in Paris), known by his official Spanish first name "Francisco", was a Catalan veteran of the Spanish Civil War and photographer who was imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp. At the Nuremberg and Dachau trials he presented photographs that played a role in the conviction of Nazi war criminals. Biography As a Spanish republican he was exiled in France in 1939. He was recruited by the French Foreign Legion and French Army and captured in 1940 by the Germans. Boix, like over 7,000 Spaniards, was an inmate in the Mauthausen concentration camp between January 1941 and May 1945. From the end of August 1941 he worked in the ''Erkennungsdienst'', the photography department of the camp administration, taking ID photos of inmates and documenting events in the camp. He was able to hide and preserv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Boix
Leo Boix is an Argentine-British poet, translator and journalist based in the UK. He is the author of an English collection, ''Ballad of a Happy Immigrant'' (Chatto & Windus, 2021) and two Spanish collections, ''Un lugarpropio'' (2015) and ''Mar de noche'' (2017). Boix has won the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize Award and the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry. Biography Boix was born in Argentina and moved to the UK, aged twenty. Writing In 2021, Boix's debut English collection, ''Ballad of a Happy Immigrant'' (Chatto & Windus, 2021), was selected by the Poetry Book Society as Wild Card Choice for Summer. Boix’s poetry has been included in several anthologies such as ''Ten: Poets of the New Generation'' ( Bloodaxe, 2017), ''Why Poetry?'' (Verve Poetry Press, 2018), ''Un Nuevo Sol: British Latinx Writers'' ( Flipped Eye, 2019), ''100 Poems To Save The Earth'' (Seren, 2021) and ''The Best New British and Irish Poets Anthology 2019–2020'' (The Black Group Press, 2021). His poetry was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montserrat Boix
Montserrat Boix Piqué (born 26 January 1960) is a Spanish journalist, considered among the most influential women in her country. In early 2000, she created and developed the concepts of social cyberfeminism, and a year later those of feminist hacktivism. Another of her main areas of work is gender violence and communication. She has also stood out as a defender of the right to communication and citizenship rights for women. Since 1986, she has been a journalist for the Information Services of Televisión Española (TVE), in the international section. Biography and career Montserrat Boix holds a licentiate in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In the early 1980s she began her professional career at in Barcelona. She later moved to Madrid to join the program ''Encarna de noche'', directed by Encarna Sánchez on COPE Madrid. In 1983 she worked on the production of TV3's year-end special directed by Abili Roma. In 1986 she joined TVE's information ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicente Boix
Vicente Boix y Ricarte (27 April 1813 – 7 March 1880) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and historian from Xàtiva, Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, Valencia and the Municipalities of Spain, third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is .... Works Boix wrote ''El encubierto de Valencia'' in 1852 and earlier he wrote ''Historia de la ciudad y reino de Valencia'' in three volumes in 1845. His ''Obras poéticas'' appeared in two volumes in 1850 and 1851, ''Poesías históricas y caballerescas'' and ''Poesías líricas y dramáticas''. A much broader selection of his work is in ''Obras literarias selectas'' which was written in 1880. ''El encubierto de Valencia'' was based on the life of El Encubierto, a mysterious rebel who claimed to be the rightful king of Spain who had been hidden away. References External links Soundscapes: A Historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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