Andr: 2659 books

Investment claims have exposed the vague nature of the standards by which arbitral tribunals are expected to adjudicate them and the policy reasons which explicitly or implicitly have an influence. The ad hoc nature of the tribunals and the decisions reached on various controversial issues have brought...

Latinos are on the way to being one-third of the U.S. population by 2050. They're changing the country's talent, marketplace, and political landscapes in unprecedented ways. So why is it that there are so few Latino executives and senior leaders? It's what authors Dr. Robert Rodriguez and Andrés...

If the task of constitutional theory is to set out a language in which the discourse of constitutional law may be grounded, a question of the utmost importance is how this terminology is created, defined and interpreted. In this groundbreaking new work, András Jakab maps out and analyses the grammar...

This collection of papers delivered at a seminar, moderated by André Lara Resende, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, addresses the issues considered pertinent to the consolidation of stability, the recovery of growth, and the process of stabilization undertaken in the aftermath of the inflationary crisis in Latin American economies in the 1980s.

Health issues have long occupied top headlines in Canadian media, and no journalist has written on public health with more authority or for as many years as André Picard. Matters of Life and Death collects Picard's most compelling columns, covering a broad range of topics including Canada's right-to-die...

"La razón era clara. Simeón sabía algo que Maurus, en su juventud, todavía ignoraba. Y ese nefasto domingo, 18 de septiembre del año 634, mientras miraba el rostro desconcertado de su hijo, decidió que había llegado la hora de compartir el secreto que la familia había guardado con tanto...

Estirar el dinero parece ser lo que todos desean. Como vivimos en una sociedad donde impera el consumerismo, se hace difícil comprar lo que se necesita no por emociones ni deseos. En su libro ¿Cómo compro inteligentemente?, Andrés Panasiuk presenta siete principios fáciles de aplicar al comprar, así como una guía precisa para hacer mayores inversiones.

Wir alle machen uns von Zeit zu Zeit Sorgen über die Funktionstüchtigkeit unseres Gedächtnisses und unseres Verstandes, insbesondere mit Überschreiten des fünfzigsten Lebensjahres. Wohltuend unaufgeregt und klar verständlich beschreibt der niederländische Neuropsychologe André Aleman, dass...

Une grande saga romanesque au cœur de l'Égypte d'aujourd'hui et d'hier... Elle s’appelle Ella, Ella Mahé. Restauratrice de manuscrits anciens, elle profite d’une commande du musée du Caire pour visiter quelques-uns des hauts lieux historiques de l’Égypte ancienne. Sur le site d’Abou...

Ainsi parla l'Oncle, premier manifeste de la négritude, paru en 1928, est le grand livre sur la condition noire, sur la relation à l'Afrique et à sa culture. Lire aujourd'hui Ainsi parla l'Oncle pour découvrir un geste essentiel. Revisiter l'Oncle Vingt-quatre auteurs relisent Ainsi parla l'Oncle...

Chronover, poursuivant sa longue fuite en solitaire, a rencontré Boris qui l'amène dans son village côtier semblant être enfin un havre de paix. Mais à peine arrivés, ils assistent impuissants à l'assaut de soldats meurtriers à la recherche de Chronover. La mère de Boris est assassinée,...

The author being a true horror-story lover, he takes the reader to the gloomy town of Mirkland, where Robert Denver struggles to find out why the rain is causing him so much trouble and fear. Don't expect the most thrilling of stories; this is just a good idea. Give it a try and let me know if you agree with me: have you ever seen a movie with this plot?

A searing family drama from one of Latin America's most original voices One trip. Two love stories. Three voices. Lito is ten years old and is almost sure he can change the weather when he concentrates very hard. His father, Mario, anxious to create a memory that will last for his son's lifetime,...

In Speculative Blackness, André M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction—including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures—to illustrate the relationship between genre conventions in media and the meanings ascribed to blackness...