Castro: 596 books

El 28 de noviembre de 1911, en las montañas de Ayoxuxtla fue proclamado el Plan Libertador de los Hijos del Estado de Morelos, mejor conocido como “Plan de Ayala”, redactado por Otilio Montaño bajo la dirección de Emiliano Zapata. En él se plasmaron los ideales de la revolución campesina...

In May 1888 the Brazilian parliament passed, and Princess Isabel (acting for her father, Emperor Pedro II) signed, the lei aurea, or Golden Law, providing for the total abolition of slavery. Brazil thereby became the last “civilized nation” to part with slavery as a legal institution. The freeing...

Linda was born in El Salvador and her parents left her to search for a better life in the United States. Linda's grandparents take care of her and send her to the U.S. Linda recalls her childhood memories including when she crossed the border to the U.S.

Idiomas espectrales: Lenguas imaginarias en la literatura latinoamericana es un acercamiento original a la presencia de lenguas inventadas en la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XX. Desde un enfoque que vincula exégesis literaria con crítica cultural y reflexión teórica con estudio de las...

Even not having a “deceased author”, like in The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Saint Mary From The West develops, with much talent, the elements of the great novel by Machado de Assis, by placing them in a contemporary living that invites the reader to follow the reflections of a narrator character...

El interés de este libro es el de estudiar la relación del Estado colombiano y la Iglesia católica en un ámbito preciso: la asistencia social, que si bien se encuentra ubicada en las decisiones políticas del Estado colombiano dentro de un marco legal, su exploración nos muestra otro tipo de...

Focusing on innovation management, the authors explore the role of knowledge stocks or intellectual capital blocks such as human, social, technological, organizational and regional capitals, on technological innovation process typologies and firm performance, absorptive capabilities and organizational learning.

ANDREA CORT. War criminal. Genius. Outcast. Heroine. Sent to the home-world of the Zinn, a once-powerful race now on the long path to extinction, she’s expected to sign the approval for a simple prisoner transfer -- but why are the Zinn so eager to take custody of an unremarkable human...

Fluorescence Microscopy is a precise and widely employed technique in many research and clinical areas nowadays. Fluorescence Microscopy In Life Sciences introduces readers to both the fundamentals and the applications of fluorescence microscopy in the biomedical field as well as biological research....

The dramatic recent expansion in genomic information has motivated the development of new approaches to characterize gene expression and function. A critical issue for both basic and clinical endocrinologists is the physiological role of genes involved in regulating endocrine functions. Transgenic...

This atlas provides a comprehensive description of normal anatomy of the internal structures of the heart (natives valves, interatrial septum, left atrial appendage, left atrium etc..) as seen by this revolutionary ultrasound technique. Normal TEE cardiac structures are described and compared with...

This book provides essential information on the higher mathematical level of approximation over the gradually varied flow theory, also referred to as the Boussinesq-type theory. In this context, it presents higher order flow equations, together with their applications in a broad range of pertinent...

This book gathers case studies presented at the International Conference on Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Innovation and Society (RRI-SIS2017). It highlights European initiatives and projects in various domains and contexts, each of which explores how to create guidelines and good...

Entre 1961 e 1974, centenas de milhares de portugueses combateram em Angola, em Moçambique e na Guiné. Mas, como acontece em todos os conflitos, só alguns combatentes se destacaram. Heróis do Ultramar traça o retrato de um punhado de homens que se distinguiram nos campos de batalha da Guerra Colonial...