Mauricio: 172 books
Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids
65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids takes us on a journey through 65 million years, from the aftermath of the extinction of the dinosaurs to the glacial climax of the Pleistocene epoch; from the rain forests of the Paleocene and the Eocene, with their lemur-like primates, to the harsh landscape of...
by Mauricio Antón
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
With their spectacularly enlarged canines, sabertooth cats are among the most popular of prehistoric animals, yet it is surprising how little information about them is available for the curious layperson. What’s more, there were other sabertooths that were not cats, animals with exotic names like...
Games At Work
How to Recognize and Reduce Office Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
AS LONG AS PEOPLE HAVE WORKED together, they have engaged in political games. Motivated by short-term gains—promotions, funding for a project, budget increases, status with the boss—people misuse their time and energy. Today, when many organizations are fighting for their lives and scarce resources...
Lending to the Borrower from Hell
Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Why do lenders time and again loan money to sovereign borrowers who promptly go bankrupt? When can this type of lending work? As the United States and many European nations struggle with mountains of debt, historical precedents can offer valuable insights. Lending to the Borrower from Hell looks at...
by Mauricio Buitrago
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Short stories of love, loss, betrayal and feelings beyond our control. Words inspired on those dark moments when we believed our thoughts could not be more contradictory. A must read for a broken heart.
La trama secreta
Ficciones, 1991-2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Literatura fantástica y exploración en los terrenos de la ficción caracterizan las dos décadas de trayectoria literaria de Mauricio Molina que se encuentran reunidas en estas páginas, como reflejo del talento de un autor ya consolidado en la literatura latinoamericana actual. La lectura de estas...
by Mauricio Segura
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Brad succumbs to the white plague, Oscar too spends his days fighting disease, confined to a hospital. Playing the organ at night for a mysterious sickly girl, he discovers his own talent, although years after recovery, he finds himself desperate, poor, and depressed—until the devil, otherwise known...
Handbook of Contemporary Cuba
Economy, Politics, Civil Society, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Cuban studies is a highly dynamic field shaped by the country's distinctive political and economic circumstances. Mauricio A. Font and Carlos Riobo offer an up-to-date and comprehensive survey offering the latest research available from a broad array of disciplines and perspectives. The Handbook of...
Beyond the Edge of the Sea
Sailing with Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Vikings, and Other Explorers of the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
The story of Jason and the Argonauts and Homer's tales of Ulysses' wanderings are among the greatest of the ancient epics, but they are not merely fiction. Following the clues in the classical texts, Mauricio Obregón here maps the likely routes of these adventurers and reveals the remaining traces...
El futuro que no tuvimos
Crónica del desencanto democrático
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Luego de un breve bono democrático de principios de siglo, en noviembre de 2003 comenzó lo que el autor llama «el periodo del desencanto» que desembocó en las elecciones de julio del 2012 y en el retorno del PRI a la Presidencia de la República. Pero lo que sucedió en esos nueve años no fue...
I Speak of the City
Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
In this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today.
Through a kaleidoscope of expository forms, I Speak of the City connects the realms of literature,...
by Mauricio Tenorio Trillo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 24, 2019
En La paz. 1876 Mauricio Tenorio Trillo explora el concepto de paz y sus implicaciones en la historia moderna tomando el año de 1876 como eje por su relativo orden y estabilidad política. El autor analiza guerras civiles, dictaduras, elecciones y regímenes militares ocurridos hacia 1876, así como...
La izquierda feng-shui
Cuando la ciencia y la razón dejaron de ser progres
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Mauricio-José Schwarz arremete en este libro contra las nuevas tendencias de cierto pensamiento progresista, y se pregunta cómo es posible que un sector de la izquierda política se haya apartado tanto del camino de la razón y el conocimiento que le dieron origen en el siglo xviii, como para...
The Powers of Law
A Comparative Analysis of Sociopolitical Legal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Comparative studies can reveal much about how law is formed out of social reality and political power by exploring these interactions in different national contexts. In this work Mauricio García-Villegas compares ideas about law and society in France and the United States, demonstrating different...