Calvo: 115 books
The Affinity of the Eye
Writing Nikkei in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
In The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru, Ignacio López-Calvo rises above the political emergence of the Fujimori phenomenon and uses politics and literature to provide one of the first comprehensive looks at how the Japanese assimilated and inserted themselves into Peruvian culture. Through...
Positive Computing
Technology for Wellbeing and Human Potential
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
A case for building a digital environment that can make us happier and healthier, not just more productive, and a theoretical framework for doing so.
On the eve of Google's IPO in 2004, Larry Page and Sergey Brin vowed not to be evil. Today, a growing number of technologists would go further,...
Dragons in the Land of the Condor
Writing Tusán in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in the Land of the Condor Ignacio López-Calvo studies the influence of a Chinese ethnic background in the writing of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sino-Peruvian authors.
While authors like Siu Kam Wen...
Macroeconomics in Times of Liquidity Crises
Searching for Economic Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
An examination of Liquidity Crunch in triggering and characterizing financial crises.
Since the subprime mortgage crisis that began in 2007, advanced economies have felt a nagging sense of insecurity. In parallel, the profession has witnessed phenomena that are alien to mainstream macroeconomic...
by José Calvo Poyato
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Una novela llena de acción, amor y ambición, escrita con la maestría literaria, la claridad de ideas y el exquisito rigor histórico de Jose Calvo Poyato.
Toledo, 1858. Un labriego encuentra de manera fortuita una colección de cruces y piezas que parecen coronas, todas trabajadas en oro...
El Gran Capitán
Una apasionante novela sobre Gonzalo de Córdoba, el soldado que encumbró un imperio
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Con su maestría de narrador y sus profundos conocimientos de historiador, José Calvo Poyato nos introduce en la vida del soldado español más insigne de todos los tiempos: Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, el Gran Capitán.
Tras su paso por la guerra de Granada y las famosas campañas de Italia,...
La fundación de la Semántica
Los espines léxicos como un universal del lenguaje.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2014
La teoría de los espines, concebida por Julio Calvo hace unos veinte años, y aplicada desde el primer momento a la Morfología y a la Semántica, alcanza en este libro su desarrollo más completo, adquiriendo en conjunto la categoría de una nueva fundación de la Semántica desde principios cognitivos...
Decolonize Your Diet
Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
International Latino Book Award winner, Best CookbookMore than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet redefines what is meant by "traditional" Mexican food by reaching back through hundreds of years of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases of development....
Wonderful World
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Javier Calvo’s Wonderful World is a unique, visionary novel: verbally magical, funny, and full of old-fashioned sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. This is the work of a marvelous literary talent.” — Clive Barker
Wonderful World is a bravura performance by a groundbreaking new writer—a...
by Francisco Calvo Serraller, Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurúa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Francisco Calvo Serraller y Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurúa se unen de nuevo para acometer un proyecto realmente ambicioso: la historia del mundo occidental entre los siglos xii y xxi desde una perspectiva general (política, social, económica y cultural) y desde una perspectiva privilegiada (el arte)....
by Francisco Calvo Serraller
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Descubre cuáles han sido los principales cambios y movimientos del arte contemporáneo desde su nacimiento, en el siglo XVIII, hasta las últimas tendencias.
La pregunta más repetida en relación con el arte de nuestra época es fruto de la perplejidad: ¿qué significa? Pues su principal...
by Dylan Calvo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 2, 2017
La dieta para su salud y la pérdida de peso saludable.En este libro encontrará las mejores recetas de la cocina para mantener su buena salud y un peso ideal sin tener que adoptar dietas extrañas y poco saludables para adelgazar.Así que no espere y pulse ahora en el botón de compra...
Over a Cup of Coffee
This Is the Story of My Life, but It Could Be That of Any Other Woman.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Over a Cup of Coffee is the autobiography of a remarkable woman, Amparo Calvo Echeverria. Born at the time of the Spanish Republic, her memoirs cover the period of the Civil War to the present day. Her troubled relationship with her mother pervades the text, made clear from the outset with an outpouring...
Bacardi
The Hidden War
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2002
The Bacardí rum company is one of the most successful and recognisable brands in the world. It spends millions on marketing itself as the spirit of youth and vitality. But behind its image as a party drink lies a very different story.
In this book, investigative journalist Hernando Calvo...