Alejandro: 698 books

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Smash the Pillars

Decoloniality and the Imaginary of Color in the Dutch Kingdom

by Artwell Cain, Antonio Carmona Báez, Jessica de Abreu
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018

Smash the Pillars builds on the efforts by scholars and activists to decolonize Dutch history and memory, as they resist the epistemological violence imposed by the state, its institutions, and dominant narratives. Contributions offer an unparalleled glimpse into decolonial activism in the Dutch kingdom...
Book cover of El alma del mundo
by Alejandro Palomas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2017

Otto Stephens y Clea Ross ingresan en un asilo para ancianos ricos y solicitan que una cuidadora en particular, Ilona, se ocupe de ambos. Clea, de noventa años, en su juventud una brillante violonchelista, sacrificó su carrera para permanecer a la sombra de su marido, un célebre director...
Book cover of Una madre
by Alejandro Palomas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 12, 2019

Faltan unas horas para la medianoche. Por fin, después de varias tentativas, Amalia ha logrado a sus 65 años ver cumplido su sueño: reunir a toda la familia para cenar en Nochevieja. Una madre cuenta la historia de cómo Amalia entreteje con su humor y su entrega particular una red de hilos invisibles...
Book cover of Un perro
by Alejandro Palomas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 12, 2016

«R estaba sentado en la alfombra, junto a la cama, exactamente como le había visto la noche de la tormenta que un año antes nos había cambiado la vida a los dos. Me miraba fijamente y jadeaba, inmóvil, como cuando en verano se tumba al sol en la terraza, envuelto en calor.» Sentados en...
Book cover of Un hijo
by Alejandro Palomas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 18, 2015

Una novela llena de ternura e intriga para los lectores de Una madre y El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche. Guille es un niño introvertido, con una sonrisa permanente. Tiene solo una amiga. Hasta aquí, todo en orden. Pero esta apariencia de tranquilidad esconde un mundo fragilísimo...
Book cover of Un secreto
by Alejandro Palomas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 19, 2019

Es que como Nazia es mi amiga y desde Navidad vive con papá y conmigo porque es mejor, ahora es mi hermana de acogida, que es como si fuera una hermana de verdad pero sin transfusión y eso quiere decir que nos lo tenemos que contar todo, hasta los secretos más secretos. Aunque el secreto más...
Book cover of Agua cerrada
by Alejandro Palomas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 26, 2019

Cuando Elsa invita a su hijo Isaac a un fin de semana en Venecia para confesarle una impactante verdad que lleva décadas callando, un inesperado suceso lo cambiará todo. Serena, la mujer de Isaac, tendrá que volar de improviso desde Barcelona al rescate de madre e hijo. Las dos mujeres se enfrentan...
Book cover of Morphodynamics of Mediterranean Mixed Sand and Gravel Coasts
by Miguel Ortega-Sánchez, Rafael J. Bergillos, Alejandro López-Ruiz
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2017

This book describes recent advances in the morphodynamics of mixed sand and gravel Mediterranean coasts, and provides updates and new methods for their study and management. It assesses how the differences in the geomorphic setting, in comparison with traditional sandy beaches, result in distinctive...
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Sugar and Railroads

A Cuban History, 1837-1959

by Alejandro Garcia, Oscar Zanetti
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017

Though Cuba was among the first countries in the world to utilize rail transport, the history of its railroads has been little studied. This English translation of the prize-winning Caminos para el azucar traces the story of railroads in Cuba from their introduction in the nineteenth century through...
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Mapping the Megalopolis

Order and Disorder in Mexico City

by María Claudia André, Charlotte Blair, Jennifer L. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017

Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City brings the humanities and the social sciences into a conversation about Mexico City in its social, political, and aesthetic manifestations. Through a shared exploration of the order and disorder that mutually constitute the city, contributing...
Book cover of Argentine Indian Art
by Alejandro Eduardo Fiadone
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012

This stunning collection of 284 rare designs is a bonanza for artists and craftspeople seeking distinctive patterns with a South American Indian flavor. The carefully adapted, authentic motifs include animal and totemic designs, geometric and rectilinear figures, abstracts, grids, and many other styles in a wide range of shapes and sizes.
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Sex and Nothing

Bridges from Psychoanalysis to Philosophy

by Alejandro Cerda-Rueda
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018

From its etymological roots, sex is related to a scission, Latin for sectus, secare, meaning "to divide or cut." Therefore, regardless of the various studies applied to defining sex as inscribed by discursive acts, i.e. merely a 'performatively enacted signification,' there is something...
Book cover of Spanish Legacies

Spanish Legacies

The Coming of Age of the Second Generation

by Alejandro Portes
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016

Much like the United States, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an immigrant-exporting country to one receiving hundreds of thousands of new immigrants. Today, almost 13 percent of the country’s...
Book cover of Immigrant America

Immigrant America

A Portrait

by Alejandro Portes, Rubén G. Rumbaut
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014

This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides readers with a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume. Updated with the latest available data, Immigrant America explores the economic, political,...
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