Carlos: 2314 books

Love and betrayal, sex and greed spin out of control in this playful yet unflinching dissection of a visa marriage gone bad. Cultures clash and dreams collide with reality on a stage of smoke and mirrors where nothing is what it seems. Conscience is a Cheshire cat, fading in and out of random scenes...

Practiced in community centers and psychiatric hospitals throughout Brazil, Spiritist therapies are gaining increasing recognition internationally for their ability to complement conventional medicine. This pioneering text is the first comprehensive account of the philosophy, theory, practical applications...

Lactose-Derived Prebiotics: A Process Perspective is the first scientific reference to provide a comprehensive technological overview of the processes to derive oligosaccharides from dairy for use in functional foods. With their combined 90+ years in industry and research, the authors present the...

Nanostructured materials have been largely studied in the last few years. They have great potential of applications in different fields such as materials science, physics, chemistry, biology, mechanic and medicine. Synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials is a subject of great interest...

The third and final in a series, this text bridges the conceptual foundations of capacity development and the difficulties and practical realities in the field. It demystifies the process of capacity development to make it more user-friendly. The book has two parts. The first shows how long-standing...

The author of this paper is to try to expose the historical events that postulated the creation of a large state, called Latin American Union, then perform a series of tests that may indicate why did not materialize and a group of countries was formed, with its border and cultural rivalries. In the...

Hubo una época en la que el rock’n’roll marcó el ritmo de los sueños de Francis, Mr. Frankie. esa vida hace tiempo que se esfumó. ahora Francis quiere empezar de nuevo en el barrio donde creció. Quiere hacer las cosas bien. pero ni él ni el barrio son los mismos. Y las cuentas pendientes tarde o temprano alguien tiene que pagarlas.

Un ambicioso plan urbanístico en la Costa de la Muerte genera graves conflictos entre los constructores y los alcaldes de los municipios afectados. Amenazas, extraños secuestros y muertes accidentales en las obras complican la investigación del cabo Holmes, paralela a la que lleva por su cuenta...

Hace cerca de un año que el cabo Holmes investiga sin éxito el triste caso del asesinato de un joven aristócrata local, que ha conmocionado a la bonita localidad de Corcubión, en la Costa de la Muerte gallega. La llegada de su amigo Julio César Santos, el millonario e irónico detective madrileño...

Los pintorescos pueblos de Cee y Corcubión, en la bella y salvaje Costa de la Muerte gallega, se ven sacudidos por un atraco millonario en una caja de ahorros local, de cuya investigación se hará cargo el cabo de la Guardia Civil José Souto, conocido por todos como cabo Holmes. El guardia volverá...

“Armiño: Simbolismo” es un estudio sobre el simbolismo del armiño en la historia de la humanidad. Durante la Edad Media se realizó la construcción cultural de la pureza de sangre como fundamento para el gobierno de la monarquía. La sangre azul como se la llama en los cuentos de hadas, se...

The Condor Legion was the expeditionary force of soldiers and airmen sent by Hitler to aid Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. The Germans used the war as an opportunity to develop equipment and tactics, and their force included not only instructors, but also combat units of artillery,...

Bastou a chegada da família real portuguesa e o início do nosso sistema financeiro para já começarem as falcatruas com nosso dinheiro. Os golpistas e maus administradores foram percebendo que o Brasil era um verdadeiro paraíso. A regra sempre foi clara: bolso cheio para quem promoveu o desfalque,...

Unilateral preferences granted by OECD countries introduced an inevitable tension between "more preferred" developing countries -- typically beneficiaries from pre-existing colonial regimes -- and other developing countries with respect to the effects of most-favored-nation liberalization by preference-granting...