Alejandro: 698 books
Distant Thunder
The U.S. Artillery from the Spanish-American War to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2001
The twentieth century was a time of near total transformation of artillery and the U.s. Army has been at the forefront of artillery use and development throughout that century. American troops fighting the Spanish in Cuba during the Spanish-American War were equipped with the 1885-model field gun;...
by Alejandro Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Psychic powers are among the most well-described plot devices in fiction. They work a certain way, without fail, every time. They let you move things with your mind and see the future. Most importantly, they are fictionright?
The life of Tom Edwards couldnt be more ordinary. A recent graduate...
by Dr Kenton Dashiell, Dr P. Lava Kumar, Dr Georg Goergen
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Plant health covers topics such as the safe handling and movement of germplasm and seed, as well as the range of biotic threats faced by crops and the ways they can be managed to optimise yields and ensure safety and quality in crop production. These threats include viral, bacterial and fungal diseases...
by Virginia García-Cañas, Alejandro Cifuentes, Carolina Simó
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
The book contains contributions concerning the application of the new instrumental and methodological developments in omics technologies, including those related to Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Peptidomics and Metabolomics, Lipidomics and Foodomics. The16 chapters discuss in detail: innovative...
Un amor (Edició en català)
Premi Nadal 2018
Language: Catalan
Release Date: February 7, 2018
L’únic anhel de l’Amàlia, una dona entranyable de més de setanta anys, albina, despistada i amb un ús del llenguatge una mica peculiar, és vetllar, «costi el que costi», per la felicitat de les seves dues filles, la Sílvia i l’Emma, i especialment per la d’en Fer, el menor dels tres...
Musical Mobilities
Son Jarocho and the Circulation of Tradition Across Mexico and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
How do musical practices move? Though technology increasingly plays a great part in establishing different degrees of spatial proximity, music making still seems to be tied to specific geographical locations, cultures or communities. The identity of musical traditions, in particular, is often demarcated...
by Gallup John Luke; Gaviria Alejandro; Lora Eduardo
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
Customers in the US and Canada please order from Stanford University Press at (800) 621-2736 or visit their website at www.sup.org. For decades, the prevailing sentiment was that since geography is unchangeable, there is no reason why public policies should take it into account. In fact, charges that...
by Alejandro PALOMAS
Language: French
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Laissez-vous gagner par cette famille fantaisiste digne d'Almodóvar.
Réunion de famille impromptue dans un café. Fernando, sa mère, Amalia, ses deux sœurs, Emma et Silvia.
Tous espèrent un coup de téléphone qui tarde à arriver.
L'attente, fébrile, est ponctuée de scènes savoureuses, de...
by Alejandro G. Marangoni
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This text provides a comprehensive and thorough overview of kinetic modelling in food systems, which will allow researchers to further their knowledge on the chemistry and practical use of modelling techniques. The main emphasis is on performing kinetic analyses and creating models, employing a hands-on...
by Alejandro Alberto Téllez Vargas
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Disability and Music Performance examines discriminatory social practices in music conservatoria, orchestras, music festivals and music competitions, which limit disabled people’s access to music performance at a professional level. Of particular interest are the disabling barriers that musicians...
Food, Politics, and Society
Social Theory and the Modern Food System
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Food and drink has been a focal point of modern social theory since the inception of agrarian capitalism and the industrial revolution. From Adam Smith to Mary Douglas, major thinkers have used key concepts such as identity, exchange, culture, and class to explain the modern food system. Food, Politics,...
Ser soldado en las guerras de independencia
La experiencia cotidiana de la tropa en el Río de la Plata, 1810 - 1824
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2013
La vida cotidiana de los soldados en los ejércitos de la Independencia,
por primera vez investigada a fondo y relatada de modo accesible y
ameno: cómo comieron, cómo durmieron, cómo lucharon. Para recuperar una
parte del sentido con el que una generación se sacrificó en los campos
de batalla.
Gracias...
Tiempo de guerra
Estado, nación y conflicto armado en el Perú, siglos XVII-XIX
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 11, 2019
La dislocación del vasto virreinato peruano colonial y la construcción, sobre sus ruinas, de la moderna República del Perú constituye uno de los grandes nudos de la historia sudamericana. Este nudo está compuesto por varios hilos: los cambios profundos en la economía global, la influencia de...
by Alejandro Dumas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 11, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 11, 2019
La novela Creación y redención fue publica en 1870 como una sola obra, y
luego en 1872, postumamente, fue separada por los editores en dos
volúmenes con títulos distintos: El médico misterio y La hija del marques.
Dejamos a Jacques Mérey, El médico misterioso en los albores...