Alejandro: 698 books

The book is like a sniper's log, a register of events for the purpose of accumulating experience for future missions, be it academic or professional, trying to identify tendencies and to assess performances, rather than to establish truth. Written for different media and formats (professional magazines,...

Uruguay has experienced a remarkable recovery since the 2002 crisis, supported by sound policies and favorable external conditions. With the framework put in place in 2002, Uruguay abandoned an exchange rate peg in favor of a free float, adoped a monetary regime initially based on money targets, improved...

The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...

This new study shows how the American-led ‘war on terror’ has brought about the most significant shift in the contours of the international system since the end of the Cold War. A new ‘imperial moment’ is now discernible in US foreign policy in the wake of the neo-conservative rise...

This book details the uniforms and weapons of the American, Spanish, Cuban and Filipino forces involved in the United States Army's first overseas war. In 1898 the USA took the decision to intervene in the Cuban war of independence against Spain, and to expel the last vestige of European colonial...

Che cosa succede quando la vita decide di dare una seconda opportunità a chi ha sofferto l’infelicità per una perdita indimenticabile o per il sottile male di stare al mondo? In un pomeriggio di fine giugno, Otto Stephens e Clea Ross fanno il loro ingresso alla residenza per anziani «Buenavista»,...

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This book addresses the linear and nonlinear two-phase stability of the one-dimensional Two-Fluid Model (TFM) material waves and the numerical methods used to solve it. The TFM fluid dynamic stability is a problem that remains open since its inception more than forty years ago. The difficulty is formidable...

Venezuela is the seventh largest oil producer and holder of the largest proven reserves in the world. It’s also a country full of problems, as evidenced by having the biggest inflation rates and, by some estimates the highest crime rates worldwide. Despite having an oil boom between 2004 through...

Historia ambientada en el año 1585. Enrique III sigue siendo rey de Francia, es el día de la ejecución del señor de Salcede acusado de atentar contra la vida del príncipe el Duque de Anjou. Todo parece indicar que fue enviado por la casa de Guisa.

El tulipán negro es una película que narra las aventuras y desventuras de un defensor enmascarado que roba a los ricos para entregárselo a los pobres. Situada en la Francia previa a la revolución de 1789.

 La dama de Monsoreau constituye el segundo volumen de la trilogía de Alexandre Dumas centrada en las guerras de religión, al que precede La reina Margot y sigue Los Cuarenta y Cinco. De el incipit del libro: El domingo de carnaval del año de 1578, después de la fiesta del pueblo, y en tanto...

La dama pálida (Histoire de la Dame pâle), también traducido como La bella vampirizada y El vampiro de los Cárpatos, es un relato corto de Alexandre Dumas escrito en 1849 como parte de su recopilación de cuentos de terror Les Mille et un fantômes (Los mil y...

En 1811 ingresó en la Escuela del Abad Gregorie y permaneció en ella hasta 1813. Puede decirse que de la escuela pasó a ser pasante de notario (1816) en Villers-Cotterets. Dedicaba entonces, más energía en la caza que al estudio de leyes. En 1819 conoce a Adolphe de Leuven con quien escribiría su primer trabajo literario.