Mariana: 279 books

Un relato trepidante sobre uno de los problemas más inquietantes y preocupantes de nuestro país: la violencia. Además de ayudar a comprender el fenómeno, este texto permite ver cómo en cada ciudadano está una parte de la solución. # En este libro, dirigido a cualquier persona preocupada...

  Toronto prides itself on being “the world’s most diverse city,” and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. Yet this progressive vision of law often falls short in practice, limited by problems inherent in the...

Liebe spielt in einer anderen Liga Vanessa Mazur weiß, dass ihre Kündigung das einzig Richtige war! Schließlich war ihr Job als Assistentin (und Köchin und Putzfrau und Social-Media-Managerin) von Football-Superstar Aiden Graves nur als Übergangslösung gedacht. Doch jetzt steht Aiden...

European cinema not only occupies a dominant place in film history, it is also a field that has been raising more interest with the expanding work on the transnational. Euro-Visions asks what idea of Europe emerges, is represented and constructed by contemporary European film. Adopting a broad...

TRISTAN WOLF IS A FINALIST OF THE 2013 READER'S FAVORITE AWARDS 4TH TO 6TH GRADE CATEGORY. When Tristan was a baby, he was abandoned in the forest. He was discovered and raised by wolves. Even though Tristan loves his wolf familiy, he needs to find where he came from. He sets off on a journey...

In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling author Mariana Enriquez brings contemporary Argentina to vibrant life as a place where shocking inequality, violence, and corruption are the law of the land, while military dictatorship and legions of...

With its unique focus on pacifism, The Big Country was an unusual Western for audiences of the 1950s. Produced in 1958, this epic film featured an all-star cast that included Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, and Oscar-winner Burl Ives. One of the most enduring elements of the film has been Jerome Moross’s...

The Magnificent Seven was a Western reimagining of the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. Despite such stars as Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner, and Charles Bronson, the film was not terribly successful when it premiered. However, in the years since, the film has become recognized as a classic of the genre....

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail Most of us in liberal democratic countries think that...

" BACK IN PRINT WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION The turn of the last century saw a great wave of moral fervour among Protestant social reformers in English Canada. Their targets for moral reform were various: sex hygiene, immigration policy, slum clearance, prostitution, and “white slavery.” Mariana...

In this treatise we find an insightful analysis concerning how monetary debasement and inflation increase prices, which proceeds to illustrate how such increases do not affect everyone equally—in effect, causing a revolution in fortunes. In a parallel argument, Mariana explains how government, if...

Se vi state chiedendo perché il vostro e-commerce non funziona come speravate, perché i vostri post non ricevono tutti i like che avevate immaginato, se cercando in rete non trovate i vostri prodotti, allora questo è il libro che fa per voi. Una guida operativa, oltre che teorica, costruita sul...

Institutional bypass is a reform strategy that creates alternative institutional regimes to give citizens a choice of service provider and create a form of competition between the dominant institution and the institutional bypass. While novel in the academic literature, the concept captures practices...

Siempre se ha considerado que el sector privado es innovador, dinámico y competitivo, mientras que el Estado desempeña un rol más estático, intervinien­do en el mercado tan solo para subsanar posibles fallos en sus actividades. La economista Mariana Mazzucato se encarga de desmontar este falso...