Garcia: 1017 books

"A flashy, satirical style keeps the narrative fresh, entertaining and eminently readable throughout" – Publishers Weekly. "Like Hunter S. Thompson meets Russ Meyer's Under the Valley of the Supervixens meets Daft Punk – wearing a press pass and a smiley badge to a San Francisco...

In early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely a cultural remnant from the Islamic period, but an artefact that conditioned discourses of nobility and social preeminence. In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources: archival, legal, literary,...

The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape—northern New Mexico’s Española Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. In a luminous narrative, Angela Garcia chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts,...

BOOKPLATES: THE ART OF THIS CENTURY is a new annual directory of the world's top artists, engravers, and printmakers. The bookplate or "ex libris" is a personal mark of ownership that has been used by individuals and libraries for over 5.5 centuries. The bookplate is a label that shows pride...

Improvising Blues Harmonica, by authors David Barrett and John Garcia, is a groundbreaking method explaining the mysterious world of improvising. This book and recording cover: chorus forms; what licks, riffs, melodies and phrases are made of; scale and chord theory; concepts for soloing (focus notes);...

Blues Guitar Level 1, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is about learning the art of playing rhythm guitar and its various grooves pertaining to the blues. Areas covered are: major scales, chord construction, Chicago-type shuffles, uptown swing & jump, cut time, slow blues, rhumba,...

The Existence of the Mixed Race Damnés is an interdisciplinary and intersectional study of the mixed-race subject in the Americas and the rise of oppositional consciousness with a consideration of not only race, but also colonialism. Daphne V. Taylor-Garcia examines the construction of race, gender,...

Disobeying the rules of a frighten vegetable village, Corny Cornswab and his friends sneak out of the cornfields to prove to the other crops that the crows that had dominion over the barn were no longer there, but their actions result in Pop Cornswab (Corny's grandfather) being kidnapped by the crows....

Undocumented and authorized immigrant laborers, female workers, workers of color, guest workers, and unionized workers together compose an enormous and diverse part of the labor force in America. Labor and employment laws are supposed to protect employees from various workplace threats, such as poor...

Manual para la formación de manipuladores de alimentos es un texto de apoyo didáctico para la formación de trabajadores y aspirantes a empleos que implican la manipulación segura de alimentos. El manual recorre los aspectos generales de la manipulación de alimentos, sus riesgos y medidas preventivas,...

How many happenstances were needed so that Omara, Ibrahim, Compay, Eliades, Rubén, Cachaito and Juan de Marcos, among others, would come together in Amsterdam’s Carré Theater and Carnegie Hall in NewYork? How much musical genius and how much of chance was needed to make the Buena Vista Social...

Last Halloween, I had a party. One of the things I wanted to do was to have guests tell ghost stories around a fire. This was a great idea in my head, but then I realized I needed a ghost story to tell. I did the usual Google search, but didn't find anything I was happy with. Most of what I found...

Alkaline Soup Recipes- Beat Inflammation, Stimulate Healing and (if desired) Start Losing Weight without Feeling Deprived... It’s all about*** healthy and nutritious alkaline recipes*** that are super easy to prepare and will give you the energy you deserve. They are perfect for all occasions,...

These are the things Ramon Garcia has learned from his research and trying new things in his personal struggle with Multiple Sclerosis. He calls it the puzzle disease because he firmly knows that no two MS people are the same, so we need to find what fits to help us make our own picture clearer, hence...