Ricardo: 953 books
La herencia del pasado
Las memorias históricas de España
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2014
En los últimos años se ha usado y abusado en nuestro país del término memoria histórica para invocar la necesidad de rescatar del presunto silencio u olvido un hito trascendental de nuestra historia reciente: la guerra civil. El propio término y su trasfondo ideológico-político han sido objeto...
Momentos Ilustrados
As viagens de Nick Nipigon
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Neste livro de arte selecionamos para vocês algumas das artes feitas para a coleção de livros Nick Nipigon. Todas as ilustrações são baseadas em locais reais e representam como estes lugares eram na década de 40. As ilustrações fazem parte dos primeiros quatro livros da coleção Nick Nipigon:...
Mirreynato
La otra desigualdad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Las redes sociales y los medios de comunicación dan cuenta de su ostentosa presencia en la realidad mexicana: viajan en aviones particulares con sus perros, celebran con exceso, ordenan cerrar un negocio porque no los atienden como creen merecer, maltratan e insultan con violencia a todo aquel que...
¿Y si comenzamos de nuevo? / Should We Start Again?
Cuando el arrepentimiento se encuentra con el perdón, todo es posible
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 4, 2016
En ¿Y si comenzamos de nuevo? el adorador Ricardo Rodríguez y su esposa Susana exponen cómo Dios restauró su matrimonio en medio de circunstancias que lucían imposibles. Es una conmovedora historia de amor, infidelidad, coraje, divorcio, arrepentimiento, perdón pero sobre todo, fe.
Sin...
by Ricardo Palma
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2004
Peruvian author Ricardo Palma (1838-1919) was one of the most popular and imitated writers in Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As head of the National Library in Lima, Palma had access to a rich source of historical books and manuscripts. His historical miscellanies,...
The Fight to Save Juárez
Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The city of Juárez is ground zero for the drug war that is raging across Mexico and has claimed close to 60,000 lives since 2007. Almost a quarter of the federal forces that former President Felipe Calderón deployed in the war were sent to Juárez, and nearly 20 percent of the country's drug-related...
Wiser in Battle
A Soldier's Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The former commander of coalition forces in Iraq reports back from the front lines of the global war on terror to provide a comprehensive and chilling exploration of America's historic military and foreign-policy blunder.
With unflinching candor, Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez describes...
by Ricardo Pérez Montfort
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Los años que definieron una vida y una idea de patria.
En este segundo tomo de Lázaro Cárdenas. Un mexicano del siglo XX, se relata el periodo central en la vida del General: aquél que transformó nuestro país y lo catapultó a la historia.
Los años de su sexenio (1934-1940) y...
by Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat, James Hardin
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
In Understanding Roberto Bolaño, Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Chilean poet and novelist whose work brought global attention to Latin American literature in the 1960s unseen since the rise of García Márquez and magic realism. Best known for...
by Ricardo Jaurequi
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Ricardo Jaurequi was born in Peru and moved to the United States in 1996. This book is a collection of his views and musings through out the years. Ranging from love to societal issues, there is a poem for every mood. Beginning in 2004 he continues to write. He hopes for more books to come.
Controlling Your Drinking, Second Edition
Tools to Make Moderation Work for You
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Interested in cutting down on your drinking without giving it up altogether? This encouraging, science-based book can help make that goal a reality. Distinguished clinician-researchers William R. Miller and Ricardo F. Muñoz have spent more than 40 years studying whether moderation works, who it works...
El cuaderno del año del Nobel | Un país levantado en alegría
(edición especial por el 20º aniversario del Premio Nobel de Literatura)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Esta edición especial en formato estuche de El cuaderno del año Nobel celebra el vigésimo aniversario de la concesión del Premio Nobel de Literatura a José Saramago. Los diarios del escritor vienen acompañados de Un país levantado en la alegría, una reconstrucción de los días que rodearon...
by Ricardo Mella, Paul Sharkey (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Ricardo Mella Cea (1861–1925), one of the first writers, intellectuals and anarchist activists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Spain, was considered to be one of the deepest, most penetrating and most lucid of the Spanish anarchist thinkers. In this work he addresses the question of...
Literature and Cartography
Theories, Histories, Genres
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq.
Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the...