Hernan: 27 books

Alaska, fine Ottocento. Coperti di pellicce e incerate, gli uomini dell’Impeccable scrutano dal ponte della nave l’infinita distesa bianca che si spalanca davanti ai loro occhi. Il giovane e inesperto capitano li ha condotti in uno stretto dove grandi lastre di ghiaccio galleggianti hanno inevitabilmente...

Over the last century mankind has irrevocably damaged the environment through the unscrupulous greed of big business and our own willful ignorance. Here are the strikingly poignant accounts of disasters whose names live in infamy: Chernobyl, Bhopal, Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Love Canal, Minamata...

The Unfinished Song of Francisco Urondo: When Poetry is Not Enough is a comprehensive, well-written, documented, and carefully developed study of the literary work and life of Francisco Urondo, an Argentine poet, intellectual, activist, cultural promoter, revolutionary, and clandestine guerilla member...

Glaxo is a chilling novel of betrayal, romance, and murder, from a major Latin American writer being published in English for the first time. In a derelict town in Argentina's pampa, a decades-old betrayal simmers among a group of friends. One returns from serving time for a crime he didn't...

Internal auditors are expected to perform risk-based audits, but do so partially because they focus on financial and compliance risks at the expense of operational, strategic and technological ones. This limits their ability to evaluate critical risks and processes. This book merges traditional internal...

Many people of all ages today continue to be attracted to sociology and other social sciences because of their promise to contribute to better political, social, and moral understandings of themselves and their social worlds-and often because they hope it will help them to build a better society....

The Agony of Education is about the life experience of African American students attending a historically white university. Based on seventy-seven interviews conducted with black students and parents concerning their experiences with one state university, as well as published and unpublished studies...

In this book, the authors provide insights into the basics of adaptive filtering, which are particularly useful for students taking their first steps into this field. They start by studying the problem of minimum mean-square-error filtering, i.e., Wiener filtering. Then, they analyze iterative methods...

Jonathan, the middle Terzetto brother, meets Samantha and forms a deep connection with her, something he never had with his former wife. Though his older brother Peter doesn't believe in love and cautions him against it, Jonathan falls madly in love with Samantha. Their love and passion for each other deepen as they cook, bake, and explore New York, until a tragic twist of fate intervenes.

Internal auditors must know many concepts, techniques, control frameworks, and remain knowledgeable despite the many changes occurring in the marketplace and their profession. This easy to use reference makes this process easier and ensures auditors can obtain needed information quickly and accurately....

Harold, the youngest of the Terzetto brothers, struggles with his confidence when dealing with beautiful women. He continues to make similar mistakes that plague him from advancing to second dates. Peter, his older brother, comes to his rescue and guides him through the dating process.

LARA EST UNE FEMME EN CRISE. Son mari l'a abandonnée pour une femme plus jeune qu'elle. Désespérée, elle quitte Milan et part, sur le conseil d'un ami, pour le Pérou. Au contact d'une culture nouvelle, elle apprend à se redécouvrir, en devenant plus forte, plus indépendante, plus féminine...

Zitilchén (1981) est un des premiers livres de Hernán Lara Zavala. Il s’agit d’un recueil de neuf nouvelles qui ont toutes pour cadre un village du sud-est du Mexique, Zitilchén. Comme le Comala de Rulfo ou le Macondo de García Márquez, Zitilchén est un village imaginaire, même si la présence...