Marcelo: 341 books

El fútbol genera pasiones pero también tristezas. Creo que el fútbol es como una película: A veces solamente vemos lo que pasa en esas dos horas que nos sentamos a disfrutar el filme, pero pocas veces sabemos qué sucedió tras bambalinas. Cada jugador, cada equipo y cada técnico tienen historias...

Winner of the 2019 GLCA New Writers Award An NPR Best Book of 2018

Starting new ventures is risky, there is uncertainty, all kinds of things do not go according to plan. Many new businesses fail. This book is a must read for all those who are starting new businesses in science or technology. Introducing a practical "design" approach to creating new ventures,...

Antigos fantasmas permaneciam encastelados em Brasília. Em meados dos anos 1980, vivíamos sob a ameaça de uma distopia que se eguia com autoridade… Naquele ambiente, poucas bandas do BRock tiveram uma visão tão lúcida quanto a Legião Urbana. Corajosa, poética e visceral, sua música capturou...

El intercambio epistolar entre Freud y Zweig muestra al creador del psicoanálisis en la doble faceta de Dichter (creador de ficciones) y Naturforscher (científico naturalista). Sus cartas nos ofrecen un material inagotable para "poner a trabajar" las propias concepciones psicoanalíticas,...

The author's decision to leave religion, after experiencing a profound growth crisis, founded itself in the free action of one, who after walking tenaciously, has extinguished an existential possibility and reached a new realm of understanding about the realities of the consciousness and the universe....

Somando-se ao debate público sobre a crise política no Brasil, Por que gritamos Golpe? proporciona ao leitor diversas análises sobre a dinâmica do processo de impeachment da presidente Dilma Rousseff, dentro de uma perspectiva multidisciplinar e de esquerda. Os textos que compõem a coletânea...

The global financial crisis of 200809 did not just change the global economic order. It also changed the way we think about that order. Principles and practices that were once accepted wisdom are now in doubt or discredited. New fundamental questions opened. And the search for answers has barely begun....

Changing patterns of energy production and consumption are transforming the geopolitics of the global system. The BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (not discussed in this volume), a loose conglomeration of emerging powers, are part of the change as are Western powers. Variations...

Two decades since the fall of the Berlin wall, Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, is experiencing the deepest contraction and is expected to see the weakest recovery in output among all emerging and developing economy regions a result of the global financial and economic crisis....

Este libro pone la lupa sobre las empresas de servicios públicos cedidas por el Estado al capital privado y hace foco en la trama urdida entre gobernantes y la comunidad de negocios para engañar a la sociedad en base a aquel ilusorio y mendaz slogan que afirmaba que con las privatizaciones los argentinos...

Power electronics, which is a rapidly growing area in terms of research and applications, uses modern electronics technology to convert electric power from one form to another, such as ac-dc, dc-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac with a variable output magnitude and frequency. Power electronics has many applications...

The untold story of the Unification War continues! Stranded on an outer moon and with a price on their heads from Alliance bounty hunters, the crew race against time—and the planet's population—to fix Serenity and hightail it outta there!

Mal and Zoe relive the worst day of the war as they delve deeper into their past and debate an awful truth: Are they war criminals?