Torres: 690 books
After Race
Racism After Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
After Race pushes us beyond the old "race vs. class" debates to delve deeper into the structural conditions that spawn racism. Darder and Torres place the study of racism forthrightly within the context of contemporary capitalism. While agreeing with those who have argued that the concept...
by Carlos Alberto Torres
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
This volume by noted critical education scholar Carlos Alberto Torres takes up the question of how structural changes in schooling and the growing impacts of neoliberalism and globalization affect social change, national development, and democratic educational systems throughout the world. The first...
Democracy, Education, and Multiculturalism
Dilemmas of Citizenship in a Global World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1998
This important book looks at developments that are changing our understanding of the role of education in citizenship and the possibilities of democratic participation. The first chapter reviews theories of citizenship and education based on the classical contributions to political theory of C.B....
Chicana Without Apology
The New Chicana Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
By approaching Chicana/o issues from the frames of feminism, social activism, and cultural studies, and by considering both lived experience and the latest research, Torres offers a more comprehensive understanding of current Chicana life. Through compelling prose, Torres masterfully weaves her own...
by Carlos Alberto Torres
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
In the first volume in the Critical Global Citizenship Education series, Torres combines theoretical and empirical research to present an original perspective on global citizenship education as a vitally important way of learning in a globalized world. In examining the requirements for effective global...
Violenza e rivoluzione
Per una sociologia dell'insurrezione popolare
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Noto per l’impegno rivoluzionario nell’Esercito di Liberazione Nazionale della Colombia, Camilo Torres fu anche un pioniere della sociologia, nonché fondatore della prima facoltà dedicata alla materia nel suo paese. In Violenza e rivoluzione, affrontando i temi che lo porteranno a scegliere...
by José Luis Torres
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Jos Luis Torres naci en Ibdes, provincia de Zaragoza, Espaa, en el tiempo de la Repblica. El destino lo llev a Venezuela, donde vivi en Sanare, un pueblecito de las montaas del Estado de Lara, y fund el colegio Santa Rosa de Lima. Pocos aos despus se trasladado al Pao, donde se encuentran las minas...
Kings of the Grail
Tracing the Historic Journey of the Cup of Christ from Jerusalem to Modern-Day Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
“Stand down, Indiana Jones: these two historians say the holy grail has been discovered . . . A ride rich in historical detail” (Publishers Weekly).
Recently discovered parchments in the Egyptian University of Al-Azhar have finally made it possible to identify where the Holy Grail has been...
by Ricardo Almeida, Shakoor Pooseh, Delfim F M Torres
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This book fills a gap in the literature by introducing numerical techniques to solve problems of fractional calculus of variations (FCV). In most cases, finding the analytic solution to such problems is extremely difficult or even impossible, and numerical methods need to be used.
The authors...
O que aprendi em Harvard
Atitudes que aumentam as chances e sucesso e realização na vida pessoal e profissional
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 21, 2017
A história de todo grande empreendedor, líder, cientista ou artista é recheada de dúvidas e tropeços. Mas as dores humanas também geram aprendizados muitos importantes. Em seu próprio percurso Andreia Torres, uma profissional brasileira da área de saúde e educação, relata episódios de...
by ALDIVAN Teixeira TORRES
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Voces de Luz es el primer libro de la serie de niños de luz cuya temática principal es la religión y la relación entre las personas. Su objetivo es informar, reflejar, cuestionar valores y confrontar con hechos históricos.Hago una invitación al lector para que se sumerja en esta aventura...
by Jon Torres
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
From Jon Torres, the author of the Amazon-distributed novel "CHICKENS: A Space Adventure" comes this short story.Quirky action story where a young chicken named Kiku (please do not call her a chick!) runs into trouble without even trying. Includes a rooftoop chase, a wet ladle, a nuclear explosion, and...
Latin American Paleo Cooking
Over 80 Traditional Recipes Made Grain and Gluten Free
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Paleo Recipes as Bold and Flavorful as They are Healthy
Amanda Torres, founder of The Curious Coconut, tells a story of heritage and tradition with her recipes. In collaboration with her Puerto Rican mother-in-law, Milagros, she provides authentic recipes from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Colombia and...
On the Outskirts of Heaven
A Near-Death Tale of Soul Retrieval
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2018
More than twenty years ago, Pep Torres was involved in a catastrophic auto accident in which his heart stopped. He found himself on the outskirts of the afterlife, in a strange limbo he called the Boulevard of the Dead. On the Outskirts of Heaven is the story of Torres’s remarkable and redemptive...