Castro: 596 books

Charys visual expression reveals simultaneously her displacement from and re-encounter with a nation that is marked by a long history of dispossession and cultural intermixing. Her art can perhaps be best understood in the context of the Cuban avant-garde movement, which, in turn, resonates against...

Il Mondo Secreto è un lavoro in IX volumi e tratta della storia delle società segrete e di quelle che potremmo definire “scuole iniziatiche”, parte dai Magi e si dipana nello spazio e nel tempo sino al XIX secolo della nostra era. E’ un lavoro importante e certosino che per completezza, può...

The Bath Fugues is a meditation on melancholy and art, in the form of three interwoven novellas, centred respectively on an ageing art forger; a Portuguese poet, opium addict and art collector; and a doctor, who has built an art gallery in tropical Queensland. These characters are tied by more than...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

Lidar com pessoas é uma das tarefas mais desafiadoras da atualidade. Agora ter a habilidade para resolução de conflitos entre pessoas é o grande anseio entre líderes. Não existe uma fórmula pronta para lidar com essas questões, mas existem princípios que facilitam sua gestão de forma otimizada....

In my memoir I hope to inspire hope in others that no matter how bad life can get at times, there is hope.

Negotiating Group Identity in the Research Process: Are You In or Are You Out? focuses on researcher identity and the role it plays in conducting research, whether as a member of the culture being studied (i.e., an insider) or as an outsider to that culture. Contributors address the problems researchers...

I read in Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human that, to be a writer, one has to “let a person make a hundred or more drafts of short stories, none longer than two pages, yet each of a clarity such that each word in it is necessary." [...] At that time, I was in a state of excitement about reading Machado...

In 1959, the most famous literary figure of his time set out in the twilight of his life to recapture his early success in the 1920s. The experience tested all the credos of bravery and grace under pressure he had lived by. Just months before turning sixty, Ernest Hemingway headed for Spain...

Meet Hannibal Lecter, John Kramer, Patrick Bateman, and many other movie psychopaths in a deep and frightening way: through the psychoanalytic analysis of each one of them! The most famous psychopaths from cinema will be examined and diagnosed by a real psychologist, revealing the details...

Street-Level Sovereignty: The Intersection of Space and Law is a collection of scholarship that considers the experience of law that is subject to social interpretation for its meaning and importance within the constitutive legal framework of race, deviance, property, and the communal investiture...

Modeling spatial and spatio-temporal continuous processes is an important and challenging problem in spatial statistics. Advanced Spatial Modeling with Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Using R and INLA describes in detail the stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) approach for modeling...

Un debut con ecos de Delibes y Chirbes. Una novela que nos conecta con la memoria compartida de todo un país. «Un canto pasional, hondo y antinostálgico a una España extinta y salvaje.» Sergio del Molino «Una excelente novela sobre la historia de la España rural del pasado siglo,...

Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge*,* Henry Fielding started his literary career as a dramatist and eventually transitioned to writing novels. Though vastly different in their approach and subject, there is a common thread...