Guillermo: 360 books
Okinawan Martial Traditions, Vol. 2.2
Te, Tode, Karate, Karatedo, Kobudo
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
NOTE: Volume 2 of the print edition was dividend into Vols. 2.1 and 2.2 to make two e-book editions.
What would you like to obtain from your research and practice of an Okinawan martial art? For an academic, it would be to obtain historical and cultural facts and details. For a practitioner,...
by Tomás Straka, Guillermo Guzmán Mirabal, Alejandro E. Cáceres
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
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...
Rethinking Transit Migration
Precarity, Mobility, and Self-Making in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Questioning the notion of transit migration, the book examines factors that shape Central American migrants' mobility and immobility in the transnational space, comprised on Central American countries, Mexico, and the US.
by Guillermo Rosales
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The “prequel” to Rosales’s “tragically beautiful and unforgettable” (Los Angeles Times) Cuban-American novel The Halfway House
Leapfrog depicts one summer in the life of a very poor young boy in Havana ofthe late ’50s. He has superhero fantasies, hangs around with the neighborhood...
Filosofía y vocación
Seminario de filosofía moderna de José Gaos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Textos inéditos rescatados y analizados por Aurelia Valero —especialista en el pensamiento de Gaos— se reúnen en esta obra, producto de un fructífero seminario realizado en 1958 por José Gaos con sus discípulos Ricardo Guerra, Alejandro Rossi, Emilio Uranga y Luis Villoro, en el que las preocupaciones...
by Guillermo A. Osorio ÁLvarez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Novela basada en un hecho real, difícil de creer, pero aún más difícil de vivir. Acontecimiento que estremeció a una comunidad de pescadores, donde seviven momentos de tristeza e incapacidad y por otro lado, alegoría y milagro salvífico.Aunque el telón de la muerte había sido recorrido por...
Never Broken
Become The Person God Created You To Be
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Never Broken is, in part, a true life story of a man who spent much of his life searching for his purpose. It is a journey of ups and downs, loss, depression, anger, self-degradation, and ultimately, happiness, purpose, and fulfillment. It is a spiritual journey and a story of finding one’s purpose...
El poder y la sangre
Guerra, estado y nación en la década de 1860
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Esta obra compila las miradas de 20 historiadores sobre la "revolucionaria" década de 1860. Enfocando tres regiones distintas -América del Norte, del Sur y Europa- explora las formas en que sociedades diferentes enfrentaron una serie de transformaciones compartidas, que dislocaron y reconstituyeron el mundo que conocían
Image of U.S. Presidential Administrations
The Cases of George W. Bush and Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
This book analyzes the image of the U.S. presidential administrations from 2001 to 2011 and their political image in foreign countries. The authors focus on the European perception of U.S. presidencies, specifically during the terms of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Political image is decisive in...
The Governor's Suits
A Psychiatric Perspective of Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2007
Puerto Rico is a non-incorporated territory that belongs to the United States of America since the US military invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898. With these 108 years of colonization by the United States plus the 405 years of colonization by Spain, Puerto Rico is entitled to be called The Worlds Oldest...
Amigos de sor Juana
Sexteto biográfico
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 10, 2014
El autor nos presenta seis rigurosos estudios sobre igual número de personajes que influyeron notablemente en la vida de sor Juana, aunque de diversa manera; mientras unos la alentaron a seguir sus inquietudes intelectuales y creadoras, otros intentaron fortalecer su vocación religiosa. Esta obra...
by Juan Guillermo Gómez García
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Al ensayista peruano Manuel González Prada (1844-1918) se le considera uno de los pensadores más influyentes de la vida intelectual de su país, al lado de José Carlos Mariátegui. La inagotable fuente de su pensamiento radical es estudiada en esta obra en forma innovadora. Las preguntas por la...
Años de vértigo
Baldomero Sanín Cano y la revista Hispania (1912-1916)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 19, 2016
La revista Hispania fue más que un impreso de divulgación porque fue un proyecto politico-cultural de algunos colombianos, como Baldomero Sanín Cano, que se propusieron construir desde el exilio una patria común, un hogar fraterno y un entorno de diálogo entre los ciudadanos de América, revitalizando...
by Guillermo Martínez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 1, 2019
En una tensa partida de ajedrez, un adolescente es derrotado por un muchacho de su misma edad, recién llegado al pueblo.
Roderer, el vencedor, se va revelando poco a poco como un genio oscuro, inmerso en una búsqueda extraordinaria.
El relato empieza narrando en contrapunto la vida de los dos...