Mez: 499 books
by Manuel Gómez Morín
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Este ensayo es el retrato de una de las generaciones más interesantes en la historia moderna de México: la de un grupo de amigos y condiscípulos que se inició a la vida universitaria en medio del fragor de la revolución mexicana. Son sus claves el tono y el temperamento que Manuel Gómez Morín...
Built upon Love
Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
A vision of architecture that transcends concerns of form and function and finds the connections between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society.
The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture—opposing...
by McConnell, Mez
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Since the publication of 'A child called "it"' by Dave Pelzer there hasn't been a story like this. But this is not just another harrowing story about an excruciating childhood and the ravages on a life it produces. The difference is that Mez not only escaped from his 'trial by parent' but...
The Extractive Zone
Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces Gómez-Barris labels extractive zones—majority...
Attunement
Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities.
Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability....
Geopolitics in Health
Confronting Obesity, AIDS, and Tuberculosis in the Emerging BRICS Economies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In recent years, political leaders in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, collectively known as the BRICS, have worked to reformulate international discussions and policies on issues ranging from fair and free trade to human rights. When it comes to health epidemics, however, the BRICS...
Collapse of Dignity
The Story of a Mining Tragedy and the Fight Against Greed and Corruption in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
New York Times bestseller: This story of a disaster that killed dozens of workers is “a damning account of how misused power can cost lives and wreak havoc” (Publishers Weekly).
In the early morning hours of February 19, 2006, a sudden blast shook a coal mine in northern Mexico, trapping...
by Ermilo Abreu Gómez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 30, 2014
La leyenda de Canek atrapó la imaginación de Ermilo Abreu Gómez (1894-1971) en su infancia, cuando acompañaba a su padre por tierras de su natal Yucatán. Más adelante, una vez consolidado su prestigio como conocedor de la vida y obra de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y como especialista en temas...
by Juan Gómez-Jurado
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 8, 2018
No has conocido a nadie como ella...
Vuelve el autor español de thriller más leído en todo el mundo.
Antonia Scott es especial. Muy especial.
No es policía ni criminalista. Nunca ha empuñado un arma ni llevado una placa, y, sin embargo, ha resuelto decenas de crímenes.
Pero...
Morality and the Human Goods
An Introduction to Natural Law Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
A concise and accessible introduction to natural law ethics, this book introduces readers to the mainstream tradition of Western moral philosophy. Building on philosophers from Plato through Aquinas to John Finnis, Alfonso Gómez-Lobo links morality to the protection of basic human goods — life, family,...
The Sky Over Lima
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Based on a historic literary hoax, this “charming” novel is “a love letter to the creative process” from one of Spain’s most original authors (Kirkus Reviews).
José Gálvez and Carlos Rodríguez are poets. Or, at least, they’d like to be. Sons of Lima’s elite in the early twentieth...
by Raúl Gómez (Maraton Man)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 21, 2019
«La vida mola es, sin querer, un manual para ser un poco más feliz.»
Dani Rovira
La vida mola es el grito de guerra de Raúl Gómez, viajero, aventurero, y runner. Recorre el mundo a golpe de zapatilla en busca de historias inspiradoras de personas excepcionales con las que comparte carreras...
Menos miedos más riquezas
Para qué caminar si puedes volar
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Uno de los temas más reiterativos que aparecen en Hábitos de ricos es el miedo y cómo vencerlo. Para el autor, el miedo paraliza y por tanto nos frena en la búsqueda de riqueza, no solo material sino espiritual. No nos atrevemos a hacer lo que deseamos, mostrar lo que sabemos hacer, tomar riesgos,...
by Juan Gómez-Jurado
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Una historia de amor y algunas mentiras. Una enigmática cicatriz en la mejilla. ¿Conoces la verdad sobre la persona con la que duermes?
La mejor novela del autor español de thriller más leído en todo el mundo, aclamada antes de su publicación.
Simon Sax podría ser un tipo afortunado....