Mario: 2118 books
Sabers and Utopias
Visions of Latin America: Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A landmark collection of essays on the Nobel laureate’s conception of Latin America, past, present, and future
Throughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Examining liberal claims and searching for cohesion,...
The Paperclip Test
A Personality Quiz Like No Other
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
An entertaining and enlightening personality test, using that humblest of objects—a bent paperclip—to pick the lock of your psyche
What does your workspace say about you? The best clues aren’t in your desk or on your computer. Rather, they’re those paperclips in your wastebasket—the...
GARDEN LIGHTING
Enlighten your knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
LIGHT IS A FASCINATING SUBJECT AND ITS USE OR MISUSE CAN CHANGE HOW THINGS APPEAR. THIS PRACTICAL GUIDE FOCUSES ON GARDEN LIGHTING AND REVEALS MANY SOLUTIONS TO GIVE YOUR GARDEN A NEW LEASE OF LIFE AFTER THE SUNSET. YOU WILL SOON SEE YOUR GARDEN UNDER A NEW LIGHT: YOU WILL REALIZE THAT YOUR GARDEN'S...
by Mario V. Farina
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
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The Spiritual Brain
A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Do religious experiences come from God, or are they merely the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on his own research with Carmelite nuns, neuroscientist Mario Beauregard shows that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. He offers compelling evidence that religious...
Islands of Resistance
Puerto Rico, Vieques, and U.S. Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
While 1998 marked the 100th anniversary of the United States' invasion and takeover of Puerto Rico, it wasn't until 1999 that the island's political movements reappeared on the radar screen of the American people. That year, two major developments occurred that transformed the relationship between...
by Romina Boccaletti, Mario Carminati
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Questo libro affronta i temi famiglia, lavoro e festa, sviluppandoli in tre blocchi e indagandoli con racconti, riflessioni e laboratori, nell’intento di unire un’esperienza quotidiana a riflessioni di fede e a proposte di attività concrete, che permettano un approfondimento personale e un fruttuoso...
by Mario Bunge
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The causal problem has become topical once again. While we are no longer causalists or believers in the universal truth of the causal principle we continue to think of causes and effects, as well as of causal and noncausal relations among them. Instead of becoming indeterminists we have enlarged determinism...
Made With Love
The Meals On Wheels Family Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Recipes and personal stories from dozens of celebrities including Martha Stewart, Suzanne Somers, Al Roker, and more!
Celebrating the importance of family, Made With Love: The Meals On Wheels Family Cookbook includes recipes from the tables of well-known actors, chefs, writers, and other celebrities—along...
by Mario Marazziti, Paul Elie
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of “justice”...
Heart of a Game Ranger
Stories from a Wild Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
MARIO CESARE, after decades as warden of Olifants River Game Reserve, has his feet firmly planted in this magnificent slice of Big Five country to the west of the Kruger Park. Cesare recounts some of the hair-raising, heartbreaking and heartwarming moments: a buffalo calf reunited with its pining...
The Eccentric Realist
Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
During the 2008 election season, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates both aspired to be understood as foreign policy "realists" in the mold of Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who is distrusted on the neoconservative right for his skepticism about American exceptionalism and on the liberal...
Colombia and the United States
War, Unrest and Destabilization
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Every year the United States spends millions of dollars to help the war-ravaged country of Colombia. But help it with what? In Colombia and the U.S. Mario Murillo explores the misdirected and devastating impact that U.S. military "aid" continues to have on the war torn-people of Colombia....
Blowout!
Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led...