Acosta: 137 books
by Chicas Acosta, Helena Acosta, Andrea Acosta
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Una Navidad con ACOSTA ars comprende una serie de seis cuentos cortos ambientados en esta época del año. Nacen de la pluma de Andrea y Helena Acosta como episodios independientes de obras de ambas, algunas de ellas inéditas.
Si bien unas son historias intimistas y cercanas, otras, salvajes...
by Chicas Acosta, Andrea Acosta, Helena Acosta
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Es tiempo de Halloween reúne seis cuentos inspirados en esta festividad. Piratas, el Jinete sin Cabeza, fantasmas, vampiros, brujas... todos estos personajes tienen cabida en un compendio de relatos repleto de magia, romance y picardía.
Y para hacer aún más especial este recopilatorio,...
The Enemy of the People
A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
A New York Times bestseller.
From CNN’s veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump’s war on truth.
In Mr. Trump’s campaign...
by José de Acosta, Walter D. Mignolo
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2002
The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, the classic work of New World history originally published by José de Acosta in 1590, is now available in the first new English translation to appear in several hundred years. A Spanish Jesuit, Acosta produced this account by drawing on his own observations...
Sanctioning Matrimony
Western Expansion and Interethnic Marriage in the Arizona Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Marriage, divorce, birth, baptism, and census records are the essential records of a community. Through them we see who marries, who divorces, and how many children are born. Sal Acosta has studied a broad base of these vital records to produce the largest quantitative study of intermarriage of any...
The Shadow Catcher
A U.S. Agent Infiltrates Mexico's Deadly Crime Cartels
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Living under an assumed identity and risking his life were all in a day’s work for U.S. Government Agent Hipolito Acosta. He worked regularly in high-stakes undercover operations infiltrating Mexico’s murderous immigrant smuggling rings and drug cartels.
Acosta’s investigations are legendary,...
Le Buen Vivir
Pour imaginer d’autres mondes
Language: French
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Le « Buen Vivir » (« vie bonne » ou « bien vivre ») : un principe central de la vision du monde des peuples indigènes de la région andine.
Véritable philosophie de vie, il est compris comme le vivre ensemble dans la diversité et l'harmonie avec la nature, pour reprendre les mots du...
Amigas y Amantes
Sexually Nonconforming Latinas Negotiate Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Amigas y Amantes (Friends and Lovers) explores the experiences of sexually nonconforming Latinas in the creation and maintenance of families. It is based on forty-two in-depth ethnographic interviews with women who identify as lesbian, bisexual, or queer (LBQ). Additionally, it draws from fourteen...
Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century
From Milton to Mary Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In a reassessment of the long-accepted division between religion and enlightenment, Ana Acosta here traces a tissue of readings and adaptations of Genesis and Scriptural language from Milton through Rousseau to Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Acosta's interdisciplinary approach places these writers...
by Oscar Zeta Acosta
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.
Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's...
by Belinda Acosta
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
All Ana Ruiz wanted was to have a traditional quinceañera for her daughter, Carmen. She wanted a nice way to mark this milestone year in her daughter's life. But Carmen was not interested in celebrating. Hurt and bitter over her father Esteban's departure, she blamed Ana for destroying their happy...
by Soledad Acosta de Samper
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Novelas y cuadros de la vida sur-americana, publicado en 1869, reúne tres novelas y varios relatos cortos de la escritora Soledad Acosta de Samper: Dolores (Cuadros de la vida de una mujer); Teresa la Limeña (Páginas de la vida de una peruana); El corazón de la mujer (Ensayos psicológicos); La...
El cazador de sombras
Un agente de los Estados Unidos infiltra los mortales carteles criminales de México
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The Spanish edition of The Shadow Catcher: a firsthand look inside U.S. undercover operations targeting the immigrant smuggling, counterfeiting, and drug rings of Mexico’s dangerous mafia.
Vivir bajo una identidad ficticia y arriesgar su vida eran parte del trabajo diario de Hipólito Acosta,...
by José de Acosta
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Historia natural y moral de las Indias, cuya primera edición apareció en Sevilla en 1590, es un tratado que contiene siete libros, los cuatro primeros dedicados a la historia natural y los tres últimos a la historia moral, es decir, a las costumbres y hechos de los indios. Para su Historia natural...