Gustavo: 403 books

Are you an over 30 year-old Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner who is interested in getting involved in competitions but no idea how to go about it?Competing for the first time can be a stressful experience if you don't know how to properly prepare yourself for this new challenge, especially when competition...

Poetski zapisi U osami manastira prvo su Bekerovo delo prevedeno na srpski jezik i, ujedno, prilika da se i naši čitaoci upoznaju s do sada neprevođenom španskom postromantičarskom književnošću listajući njene najblistavije stranice. Delo U osami manastira čini desetak lirskih zapisa u omiljenoj...

Ideal para quem almeja seguir uma carreira pública; o material apresenta os conteúdos mais cobrados de Administração Pública pelas principais bancas organizadoras.

Called by destiny, with soccer as his heritage, Javier Hernández Balcázar was born to shine on the pitch. The grandson and son of players selected for their country's national team in the World Cup, el Chicharito represents a new generation of Mexican soccer stars whose field of play is the globe....

What does a professor Brazilian or otherwise think and do on the first day of class, standing before a group of “foreign” students to talk about Brazilian literature? This apparently simple question that gave rise to the essays gathered in this book opens a series of other questions: Who is...

Three months to live. José Maria, a contemplative engineer in late middle age, and now a victim of leukemia, has received a death sentence from his doctor. His life has been a frustrating nonfulfillment of his early hopes, and his musings are many and varied as his life wanes. The Brazilian writer Corção's...

Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) has long been known and celebrated in Europe and Brazil primarily as a media theorist. Only recently have other facets of his accomplishments come to light, clearly establishing Flusser as a key thinker. An accessible and thorough introduction to Flusser’s thought, this...

The "idle fictions" of the vanguard novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain and Spanish America represented a kind of interlude of playfulness--a vacation or parenthetical insertion--in what was perceived as the established course of the modern Hispanic novel's development. Yet, as Pérez...

Our 24/7 lives are saturated with round-the-clock fear. Scare-tactic headlines fill our homes and our public spaces. If it’s not the war on terror, it’s the new war on the middle class. Crisis is the new black, as catastrophe after casualty after crash shape the order of the day. Nothing to Lose...

Pilar Hogan Closkey and John Hogan have brought together the annual Archbishop Oscar Romero Lectures (2001-2007) to consider the life and death of Archbishop Romero and the daily struggles of the poor in our world, especially in the city of Camden, New Jersey-one of America's poorest cities. Romero's...

The young and talented Uruguayan soccer star Luis Suárez has been a perennial focus of the international press. It's not hard to understand why. Suárez has something to offer just about anyone who follows the game: controversy, brash talk, inspired play, and, above all, goals. This indomitable forward,...

Iván Ramiro Córdoba se elevó desde orígenes humildes. Nacido en una familia pobre, creció jugando al fútbol en las calles de Rionegro, Colombia. Después de un par de años con el equipo local de Rionegro, se trasladó al club Atlético Nacional de Medellín. Luego jugó para San Lorenzo, un...

Se recoge en esta obra el análisis y diagnósticos sobre mipymes de algunos sectores económicos con mucha tradición en Bogotá, que se han visto afectados por los TLC: las fábricas de muebles del barrio Doce de Octubre, las de calzado en el Restrepo, las de prendas de vestir en Policarpa Salavarrieta...

La transformación del sistema argentino de educación superior, iniciada en la década de los noventa, se sustentó en un cambio relevante de las relaciones institucionales entre las universidades y el Estado. En la búsqueda de la consecución de los fines de la nueva agenda política del gobierno,...