Costa: 926 books
Costa Mesa
1940-2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Perhaps no one could have foreseen the amazing transformation of Costa Mesa from a sleepy rancho to today's bustling "City of the Arts." Along with other Orange County cities, Costa Mesa experienced explosive growth, redevelopment, county bankruptcy, traffic, and environmental issues. While navigating...
by Rebecca D. Costa
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
“There can be no greater advantage than certainty of the future.Not in nature. Not in business. Not in governance.” So begins Rebecca Costa’s much-awaited exploration of foresight: “the crowning achievement of human ambition.” According to Costa, advances in Big Data, predictive analytics,...
by Costa Mesa Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
Three emerging communities from the partitioned Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana formed the improbable start for a city that would eventually proclaim itself the �City of the Arts.� These farming communities�Fairview, Paularino, and Harper�attracted families and businesspeople. Community leaders...
by The Staff and Contributors at A.M. Costa Rica, James J. Brodell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Every weekday for 16 years English-speaking expats and readers all over the world welcome A.M. Costa Rica to their computer to find out the latest about this country. The original news reports compiled here are geared to the needs of foreigners living here and those elsewhere with personal or business...
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History
Essays from the North
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2001
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, one of Latin America’s...
Strange Kingdom
Meditations on the Cross to Transform Your Day to Day Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Experience how the power of the cross unleashes meaning and purpose in the midst of your daily life.
This meditative and spiritual reflection by Ken Costa considers the cross and the king who died upon it. Christ’s work on the cross established a kingdom that is strange indeed, if a king...
The Scent of a Lie
short-stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean & Canada Region) 2002 City of Calgary W. O. Mitchel Book Award 2001 Canongate Prize for short fiction
The Scent of a Lie is a book of fourteen inter-connected stories set in two charismatic towns in Portugal where characters...
by Carol A. Jensen, East Contra Costa Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
San Francisco�s �opposite shore� is showcased for its maritime role in securing the city�s financial preeminence. Located minutes from San Francisco by ferry or automobile, Contra Costa County provided deepwater ports for shipping agricultural, mineral, and manufactured goods around the world....
Break Free!
A Proven Strategy for Discovering and Recognizing Truth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
If what you are believing is not the truth, wouldn't you want to know?
From our early years we are taught what to believe. But often, the actual reasons for believing are left out, and the result is tragic. The what-to can be not-true and misleading, and we miss the maximized life. The Bible...
Dianas tristes
Algunas crónicas de la guerra de los mil días (1898-1902)
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
El escritor santandereano, Enrique Otero D'Costa, excombatiente de la guerra, donde ofició como tambor, fusilero, soldado de caballería, ayudante de campo del general Benjamín Herrera y luego guerrillero, extrañado de su suelo, en forma voluntaria después del conflicto, escribió y publicó ...
Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind
16 Essential Characteristics for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
In Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind, noted educators Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick present a comprehensive guide to shaping schools around Habits of Mind. The habits are a repertoire of behaviors that help both students and teachers successfully navigate the various challenges and problems...
Know Your Why
Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
“Challenging, inspiring and practical.”
Bear Grylls
“I can’t think of anyone more qualified to write about the significance of knowing your purpose than my friend Ken Costa… His new book, Know Your Why, is absolutely foundational to living a purpose driven life.”
Rick...
Social Media in Southeast Turkey
Love, Kinship and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in recent years by urbanisation, neoliberalism and political events.
Elisabetta...
by Shelley Costa
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
“A smart, even sly, tale of relics and rituals, truth and lies, prophecy and forgery that will keep you turning pages late into the night.” — Leslie Budewitz, two-time Agatha Award winning author of the Seattle Spice Shop Mysteries
“In this edgy first in a new cozy series from Costa,...