Hector: 430 books

This first volume of the Critical Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art series published by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents 168 crucial texts written by influential artists, critics, curators, journalists, and intellectuals...

The story of a torture survivor from Colombia who has dedicated his life to healing the pains of others. Shockingly honest, heartbreaking, and vibrantly told, The Blessing Next to the Wound is a passionate and evocative memoir that, amid enormous suffering and loss, is a full-throated affirmation of life.

Perhaps the finest record of classical architectural detail ever made. Executed in the demanding technique of India ink and water color rendering, the illustrations include the Parthenon, Roman temples, Pantheon, Colosseum, many others. Unparalleled three-dimensionality and effects of scale. Enhanced with Introductory Notes by John Blatteau and Christiane Sears. Notes. Preface. 127 plates.

Extrait: Si comme toi, cher ami, j'avais le culte de la science ; si comme toi je m'étais juré de mener à bonne fin la triangulation de l'Algérie ; si comme toi j'avais parcouru pendant plusieurs années l'Atlas dans l'espérance d'apercevoir les montagnes de l'Espagne, afin de reprendre et d'achever...

Extrait : "De ma position présente, il ne faut pas conclure que j'ai eu la Fortune pour marraine. Mes ancêtres, si le mot n'est pas bien ambitieux, étaient des pêcheurs ; mon père était le dernier de onze enfants, et mon grand-père avait eu bien du mal à élever sa famille, car dans ce métier-là...

Russia, which is blessed with a rich variety of tribes and peoples, the despair of the ethnographical geographer, who can scarcely find enough distinctive colours wherewith to denote them all on his maps, is characterised by a singular uniformity of physical conditions throughout the greater part of...

Rafael Pombo es el máximo exponente de la poesía colombiana. Su prolífica vida literaria abarcó varios tópicos de la vida cultural, política, social colombianas desde la mitad del siglo XIX y primera década del siglo XX. No obstante, con el paso de los años la academia y los centros de educación...

Why does the World Need—Excel Data Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation? When spreadsheets ?rst became widely available in the early 1980s, it spawned a revolution in teaching. What previously could only be done with arcane software and large scale computing was now available to the common-man, on...

Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and...

Coaching para escribir con programación neurolingüística es el primer libro de su tema que se escribe en español. Motivación y potencial son las palabras que lo definen. Trae novedades sobre cómo trabajan las palabras (sustantivos, verbos, adjetivos) en el cerebro y su capacidad de bloquearnos...

This book is written using a practical approach that guides you through different practical scenarios. It provides a brief introduction to the topics; this way you can quickly get to know the main features, start being productive with the tool, and grow with it at a fast pace. You won't have to spend...

The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks.

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...

At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) were equipped with slow, old Korean War generation fighters – a combination of MiG-17s and MiG-19s – types that should have offered little opposition to the cutting-edge fighter-bombers such as the F-4 Phantom II, F-105...