Rafael: 815 books
Beyond Imported Magic
Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
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...
Fiesta Latina
Fabulous Food for Sizzling Parties
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
For people who like to salsa like they like their salsa mucho! Here are more than 60 recipes in a Latin-inspired cookbook guaranteed to get the party started. With three of the hottest Latin restaurants on the east coast to his credit, Rafael Palomino knows how to throw a proper fiesta. His vibrant,...
Venezuela: 1498-1728
Conquista y urbanización
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Este tomo se inicia con la llegada fortuita de Cristóbal Colón a América y, en especial, con su incursión por la desembocadura del Orinoco en su tercer viaje, donde por primera vez pisó tierra continental. Continúa con el período de conquista del territorio por parte de los españoles. Atiende...
Empresas venezolanas
Nueve historias titánicas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Este nuevo libro de Rafael Arráiz Lucca recoge nueve historias empresariales escritas entre 2001 y 2012. Tres de ellas trabajan panoramas generales («Historia esencial de la banca en Venezuela»; «Breve historia de la ganadería en Venezuela»; «El ferrocarril en Venezuela: una historia sobre...
La navaja de Ockham
Colombia, Venezuela y otros ensayos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 21, 2016
En este conjunto de ensayos de Rafael Arráiz Lucca, organizados bajo la hipótesis de la navaja de Ockham («no debe presumirse Ia existencia de más cosas que las necesarias»), el autor abre la puerta del mundo colombiano, tanto en su historia política como en su literatura, así como Ia del venezolano,...
Comfort Measures Only
New and Selected Poems, 1994–2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
In Comfort Measures Only, Rafael Campo bears witness to the unspeakable beauty bound up with human suffering. Gathered from his over twenty-year career as a poet-physician, these eighty-nine poems—thirty-one of which have never been previously published in a collection—pull back the curtain in...
by rafael emilio rodriguez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 14, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 14, 2014
by Jeffery Farnol, Stephen W. Meader, Benjamin Barker
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
A collection of some of the world's most beloved pirate stories with an active table of contents.Works include:"Black Bartlemy's Treasure" by Jeffery Farnol"The Black Buccaneer" by Stephen W. Meader "Blackbeard" by Benjamin Barker"Blackbeard: Buccaneer" Ralph D. Paine"Captain Blood" by Rafael...
Understanding Cuba as a Nation
From European Settlement to Global Revolutionary Mission
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Since 1959, the government of the Caribbean island of Cuba, 90 miles away from the United States of America, has defied its powerful neighbor. The story of the improbable survival of the Cuban Revolutionary Government in its struggle against the most powerful country in the world has kept international...
Colonel Henry Theodore Titus
Antebellum Soldier of Fortune and Florida Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Henry Theodore Titus (1822–1881) was the quintessential adventurer, soldier of fortune, and small-time entrepreneur, a man for whom any frontier—geographical, cultural, social—was an opportunity for advancement. Although born in Trenton, New Jersey, and raised in New York and Pennsylvania, Titus...
Años de vértigo
Baldomero Sanín Cano y la revista Hispania (1912-1916)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 19, 2016
La revista Hispania fue más que un impreso de divulgación porque fue un proyecto politico-cultural de algunos colombianos, como Baldomero Sanín Cano, que se propusieron construir desde el exilio una patria común, un hogar fraterno y un entorno de diálogo entre los ciudadanos de América, revitalizando...
by Rafael Echeverria
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 28, 2013
En esta obra Rafael Echeverría nos ofrece una nueva interpretación de lo que significa ser humano, no desde los antiguos parámetros que nos han servido de base para observar la vida, sino desde fuera de ellos. Se trata de una propuesta posmoderna y posmetafísica que ha recibido la influencia de...
by Rafael Coira
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Here is an updated version of the classic tale of the Headless Horseman, written in the same style but crafted to suit a modern audience.
Philosophy of Finitude
Heidegger, Levinas and Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Examining the legacies of Heidegger, along with Derrida, Levinas and Nietzsche, Rafael Winkler argues that it is not the search for truth or even contradictions that stimulates philosophical thought. Instead, it is our exposure to the unthinkable or the impossible – to thought's own limits.
An...