Mariano: 250 books

Emilio Reyna es periodista y poeta. Su mujer acaba de abandonarlo y él lleva tres meses en Laguna Fría, un pueblo perdido en medio del Chaco. Reyna sigue el rastro de dos integrantes de una Fundación ambientalista a quienes se ha tragado la tierra. En Laguna Fría casi no hay agua y el clima es...

Larra crtiques 19th century Spain in this work, looking deeply into the failures of a nation caught in traditional ways, whose reform efforts didn't effect its foundations. He attacks the rude manners of the time in "El castellano viejo," the indolence of officials in "Vuelva usted...

La personalidad de don Juan de Austria siempre se ha opuesto a la de su hermano Felipe II, saliendo beneficiado el primero. Juan es el vencedor de Lepanto mientras el monarca nos parece un hombre huraño y triste, encerrado en El Escorial. Don Juan era hijo natural del emperador Carlos V y Bárbara Blomberg. Estudió en Alcalá de Henares, junto a Alejandro Farnesio y el príncipe Carlos.

This volume explores intergenerational practices and their impact on social sustainability, with an emphasis on developing programmatic efforts to address profound social challenges such as underperforming educational and work-related systems, failing support systems for dependent or vulnerable populations,...

This is a cookbook and you may read the chapters in any order. The recipes need not be read sequentially. There are a good amount of code examples and relevant screenshots to ease learning pains. The target audience are Python developers with basic knowledge of web2py who want to gain further knowledge of web2py

Written in cookbook style, this book offers learning and techniques through recipes. It contains step-by-step instructions for CakePHP developers to create unique web applications. The book is designed in such a way that you can refer to things chapter by chapter, and read them in no particular order....

If you are a Java developer or architect who needs to have a better understanding of how Business Process Management frameworks behave in real-life implementations, this book is for you. This book assumes that you know the Java language well and are familiar with some widely used frameworks such as Hibernate. You should also know the basics of relational databases and Maven-based applications.

A practical hands-on tutorial including multiple examples on application management using Citrix XenApp 6.5. Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials is intended for IT architects and system administrators who work with Citrix XenApp and who need an agile, practical guide to tune and optimize the performance.

This collection of essays discusses modernization, democratization, and economic and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can be accomplished through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions. The contributors—which include three Nobel Laureates—strive...

(ARTICLE DÉROBÉ.) Me voici ; je suis ce qu’on appelle dans le monde un bon enfant, une tête creuse, un pauvre petit, comme on le verra du reste en mes écrits ; je n’ai pas d’autre défaut, c’est assez, dira-t-on, que de parler beaucoup, le plus souvent sans que personne me demande...

In spite of their differing rhetorics and cognitive strategies, sociology and literature are often concerned with the same objects: social relationships, action, motivation, social constraints and relationships, for example. As such, sociologists have always been fascinated with fictional literature....