Torres: 690 books

Sixty-four days from now, Senior Chief Brendan O'Reilly will retire after 30-years in the US Navy, but today he's working on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier—the most dangerous 4.5 acres on the planet. Today, he has to stop daydreaming about visiting National Parks with his lovely wife, Diane,...

Negotiating the Complexities of Qualitative Research in Higher Education illuminates the complex nature of qualitative research, while attending to issues of application. This text addresses the fundamentals of research through discussion of strategies, ethical issues, and challenges in higher education....

Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from specific artifacts, ancient rock art, and features of the built environment and modified landscapes. As a region of multiple independent nations and...

Existential risk studies is a growing field that attempts to understand the greatest dangers to humanity from a scientific perspective. This book offers the first scholarly survey of existential risks, from asteroid impacts and climate change to molecular nanotechnology and machine superintelligence....

Before conclusions about Spanish in the United States can be drawn, individual communities must be studied in their own contexts. That is the goal of Puerto Rican Discourse. One tendency of previous work on Spanish in the United States has been an eagerness to generalize the findings of isolated studies...

Unveiling the Soul presents a compilation of verses that seek to inspire and ignite our spirit, imagination, and inner knowledge. Peering into the deeper possibilities of life and their connection to the bigger picture. These poems offer insight into the countless wonders and mysteries that surround...

The End centers on five friends in Rio de Janeiro who, nearing the end of their lives, are left with memories—of parties, marriages, divorces, fixations, inhibitions, bad decisions—and the physical indignities of aging. Alvaro lives alone and spends his time going from doctor to doctor and bemoaning...

A coming of age novel set in post-war France by an author who ”launched the modern genre of the lesbian paperback” (Susan Stryker, author of Queer Pulp).   When eighteen-year-old Cecile is orphaned at the end of World War II, the curious and adventurous Catholic student finds refuge in Paris,...

Peter un entrenador de caballos quien para ayudar a salvar la vida su esposa Sandra, sacrifica el vivir junto a ella e hija, para ir a trabajar a los Estados Unidos con el propósito de reunir una importante suma de dinero. Lo que el no sabe, es que intenta trabajar con el equipo de un empresario...

La bruja, poema, cuento, pequeña obra en cuarenta y dos instantáneas, es la historia de cómo la maldad toca tres vidas y las maldice. La bruja sale de su casa para marcar, ultrajar con su pestilente paso todo lo que toca, hiriendo al cuerpo, secuestrando al alma. La bruja es una metamorfosis que...

Of Panamanian nationality, Dr. José E. Torres Ábrego, is a master's degree in Economics on Universidad de la Amistad de los Pueblos (Patricio Lumumba) from Moscow, a doctoral candidate for specialty in Theory of Development and History of Economics of University of Paris, and doctor in Political...

In the Land of Mirrors is a journey through the politics of Cuban exiles since the 1959 Cuban Revolution. It explores the development of Cuban exile politics and identity within a context of U.S. and Cuban realities, as well as within the broader inquiry of the changing nature of nation-states and...

The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico. The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and...

Addressing the use of geoinformatics in Caribbean archaeology, this volume is based on case studies drawn from specific island territories, namely, Barbados, St. John, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Nevis, St. Eustatius, and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as inter-island interaction and landscape conceptualization...