Pedro: 1170 books

Malo is a disgraced police officer. Dismissed from an important murder case in his home city of Lot, he is sent to Madrid as a simple neighborhood inspector. There, he is assigned a case that he initially finds monotonous: investigating the harassment of foreign widows. Malo immerses himself in a...

Ocean of Trade offers an innovative study of trade, production and consumption across the Indian Ocean between the years 1750 and 1850. Focusing on the Vāniyā merchants of Diu and Daman, Pedro Machado explores the region's entangled histories of exchange, including the African demand for large-scale...

An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today. What does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be...

Edição bilíngue (italiano-português) de "A Divina Comédia", obra prima de Dante Alighieri, traduzida para o português por José Pedro Xavier Pinheiro. Com o intuito de facilitar a leitura desta obra em dispositivos móveis, a...

Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South. The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the...

Amor e amizade inspiraram Clarice Lispector dezenas de vezes. Prova disso são as quatro dezenas de textos selecionadas pelo editor Pedro Karp Vasquez para a coletânea Crônicas para jovens: de amor e amizade. Sem prender-se a significados prosaicos, a escritora criou durante anos histórias que...

MARIA, UNBROKEN is the story of a young girl living in Mexico in the 1960s, facing abuse, neglect, and rejection. She’s denied schooling and must instead begin working at fourteen, finding some semblance of happiness through her best friends, all the while dreaming of a better life for herself. This better life proves elusive as she ends up in New York facing the same issues she ran from

Teaching would be easy if there were clear recipes you could follow every time. The Ingredients for Great Teaching explains why this is impossible and why a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work. Instead of recipes, this book examines the basic ingredients of teaching and learning so you...

Originally conceived as a Portuguese-English phrase book, this literary curiosity was written by an author who, remarkably, spoke no English. With the help of a pair of dictionaries, Pedro Carolino translated a series of expressions from his native Portuguese into French and from French into English....

This is the first book in international relations theory entirely devoted to the political thought of Reinhold Niebuhr. Focusing on the existential theology which lies at the basis of Reinhold Niebuhr’s theory of international politics, it highlights the ways in which Niebuhrian realism was not...

Marxismo e Guerra Étienne Balibar Fascismo comum, sonho e história Tales Ab'Sáber Cartas De Gilles Deleuze para Félix Guattari Que horas são? Zuca Sardan e Francisco Alvim Nós não vamos pagar nada Pedro Meira Monteiro Deslocamentos e instabilidades na ficção de Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza Adriano...

¿Tu hijo ha dejado de ser aquel niño con el que te llevabas tan bien? ¿Notas que la relación con él se deteriora sin motivo aparente día tras día? Si detectas en el adolescente que tienes en casa actitudes, respuestas o conductas que te preocupan, que comienzan a ser agresivas y que temes que...

Este ebook presenta Amor, honor y poder (Edición completa), con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Amor, honor y poder es una comedia de Calderón de la Barca, estrenada en 1623. La comedia cuenta la historia del rey Eduardo de Inglaterra y de sus amores con la condesa de Salveric. La Infanta Flérida,...

Durante su gestión como corresponsal del Heraldo de Cuba en Washington, Pedro Henríquez Ureña fue un testigo excepcional de los sucesos ocurridos entre 1914 y 1915: el inicio de la Primera Guerra Mundial o la intervención de las tropas estadunidenses en Veracruz, entre otros sucesos que quedaron...