Carlos: 2314 books

This practical guide offers the reader, in a nutshell, ideas and strategies to searching and applying for jobs in an economy that has proven to be more and more competitive. Although the title suggests a niche located in the Oil and Gas sector it can be perfectly applied to any other segment of the...

Historian Carlos A. Schwantes studies the forces that shaped the history of the labor movement on either side of the forty-ninth parallel and the reason for the eventual demise of the socialist movement in Washington State and its continuing vigor in British Columbia.

The world of Sake is unknown to many. While not all people drink or even know of this traditional Japanese beverage, proper understanding of it and all beverages is needed to be a well-rounded Mixologist. Some could argue that Bartenders serve drinks, while “Mixologists” have a fuller understanding...

Tequila. Much can be stated for this spirit. Shots and thoughts of seaside beach resorts may come to mind. Others may think of a worm floating in a bottle and that tequila is only good in a margarita. This book is aimed at correcting all those misconceptions about this wonderful and versatile beverage....

In this luminous first collection, Carlos Hiraldo knocks down the bland edifice of contemporary poetry and replaces it with real poems that resound and shock and illuminate. As Machu Picchu grows from the mountain, gathers itself stone by stone and bursts into the sky, so these poems take the stuff...

Carlos Rojas focuses on the trope of “homesickness” in China—discomfort caused not by a longing for home but by excessive proximity to it. This inverse homesickness marks a process of movement away from the home, conceived of as spaces associated with the nation, family, and individual body, and gives rise to the possibility of long-term health.

In Like Leaven in the Dough: Protestant Social Thought in Latin America, 1920-1950, Carlos Mondragón, offers an introduction to the ideas of notable Protestant writers in Latin America during the first half of the twentieth century. Despite their national and denominational differences, Mondragón...

This book argues for a new reading of the political and ethical through the literatures of Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay from 1970-2000. Carlos Amador reads a series of examples from the last dictatorship and the current post-dictatorship period in the Southern Cone, including works by Augusto Roa...

THE MODERN CONCEPT OF COMMUNICATION explores the meaning of this term in modernity. From the Philosophy of Language, developed by Karl-Otto Apel, progress towards a conception beyond a technical definition, and then, we define the communication to consider human factors, which they were left out of...

Caught between the Lines examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Challenging the conventional approach to the nineteenth-century...

“From his landmark works on nationalism and Southeast Asia to his writings on the Philippines, Anderson has greatly enriched Philippine studies. With work erudite, wide-ranging, and energetically written, he has given to the Philippines visibility in the world of transnational scholarship. His recent...

When preparing for clinical exams, almost all trainees focus exclusively on the content of the examination. This would be the right approach for almost any other type of examination. But knowing your content is not necessarily enough to pass a clinical examination - you also need to communicate clearly...

Educação e Linguagens é uma coletânea que investiga as mais diversas formas de linguagens. Por meio de diferentes vozes e perspectivas são analisados, de forma fundamentada, os conceitos de linguagem verbal e das linguagens não verbais. Nessa medida, cada enfoque, basicamente, procura refletir...

Ao conquistar o direito de sediar a Copa do Mundo 2014 e os Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016, o Brasil aceitou o desafio de realizar dois megaeventos esportivos globais, que ao mesmo tempo despertam paixões e desconfianças. Há argumentos que defendem os eventos como uma janela singular...