Rodrigo: 258 books

All Dogs are Blue is a fiery and scurrilously funny tale of life in a Rio de Janeiro insane asylum. Our narrator is upset by his ever-widening girth and kept awake by the Rio funk blaring from a nearby favela - fair enough, but what about the undercover agents infiltrating the asylum? He misses the...

Leading scholars chart the future of studies on technology and journalism in the digital age. The use of digital technology has transformed the way news is produced, distributed, and received. Just as media organizations and journalists have realized that technology is a central and indispensable...

A través de la investigación y análisis de los riesgos relevantes y el punto hasta el cual el control vigente los neutraliza se evalúa la vulnerabilidad del sistema de control interno. El establecimiento de objetivos relacionados con las operaciones, con la información financiera y con el cumplimiento,...

Orthodox international relations theory considers foreign affairs to be the exclusive purview of national governments. Yet as Rodrigo Tavares demonstrates, the vast majority of leading sub-states and cities are currently practicing foreign affairs, both bilaterally and multilaterally. Subnational...

Este livro não nasceu do nada. Em 2010, criamos o espaço Zona Digital, uma experiência on-line, que pretende investigar as possibilidades narrativas abertas pelas novas tecnologias. Em seu conjunto, o site Zona Digital é um agregador de links, notícias, arte, experiências e artigos, tanto nacionais...

La historia de un país se torna sorprendente cuando hallamos en sus páginas aquellos episodios que la rutina historiográfica suele dejar de lado, olvidar o desconocer. Son hechos que podrían ser considerados de tono menor pero que, sin embargo, al revelarse, adquieren una vitalidad tan distinta a...

“Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn’t take anything. . . . I knew she’d be back,” the narrator/bookseller of Severina recalls in this novel’s opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is dangerous. Imagine the mesmerized bookseller...

Este volumen es una muestra de la vitalidad cultural y poética de Zapotlán el Grande a través de la organización y premiación del certamen de los juegos florales, la jovial justa provenzal que los zapotlenses —entre ellos Juan José Arreola, de quien celebramos el centenario— comenzaron a...

«El gran tema secreto de la literatura chilena es ese abismo entre lo que se dice y lo que se escribe. Así somos en Chile» escribe Alejandro Zambra con una visión casi antropológica, «desconfiamos de la fluidez, de la facilidad de palabra». Es quizá por esa desconfianza que esta antología...

In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cuba's most influential writers settled in U.S. cities and published a variety of newspapers, pamphlets, and books. Collaborating with military movements known as filibusters, this generation of exiled writers created a body of literature demanding Cuban independence...

Rodrigo Ratero es un escritor y guionista mordaz y subversivo como pocos, que se atreve a explorar mas allá de los límites que otros temen, creando situaciones llenas de desgarradora aspereza. Los tres relatos que componen esta obra fueron concebidos para llevarse a la pantalla en forma de...

  　Written by some major contributors to the development of this class of graphical models, Chain Event Graphs introduces a viable and straightforward new tool for statistical inference, model selection and learning techniques. The book extends established technologies used in the study...

«Hay multitud de variedades de verduras, hortalizas, raíces, hojas, flores, frutos, frutas y semillas. Y cada cual con su sabor, textura, frescura y temporalidad. Por eso he escrito este libro: para daros las claves para disfrutar de la gran variedad de vegetales que existe y que podáis variar...

Modernity has entrusted technology with such power that it is treated as an autonomous entity, with its own manners and morals. Technological disruptions are also socially disruptive: technological failures reveal both the constituents of the technology itself and the social fabric woven by this technology....