Santiago: 439 books
by Danish Sheikh, Jeton Neziraj, Amahl Khouri
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
A unique anthology bringing together stories of queer life from international playwrights, these seven plays showcase the dazzling multiplicity of queer narratives across the globe: the absurd, the challenging, and the joyful.
From the legacy of colonialism in India to the farcical bureaucracy...
Massacre at the Yuma Crossing
Spanish Relations with the Quechans, 1779-1782
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The quiet of the dawn was rent by the screams of war. Scores, perhaps hundreds, of Quechan and Mohave warriors leaped from concealment, rushing the plaza from all sides. Painted for battle and brandishing lances, bows, and war clubs, the Indians killed every Spaniard they could catch.
The route...
Hermeneutic Communism
From Heidegger to Marx
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Having lost much of its political clout and theoretical power, communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism. In its original Marxist formulation, communism promised an ideal of development, but only through a logic of war, and while a number of reformist governments still...
by Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2004
An anecdotal guide for the perplexed new investigator as well as a refreshing resource for the old pro, covering everything from valuable personality traits for an investigator to social factors conducive to scientific work.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a mythic figure in science. Hailed as...
En busca de la tumba de Trajano
Una evocadora ruta para encontrar el último atardecer de Trajano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 28, 2017
«Muchos creen que Trajano murió en la lejana Partia durante sus campañas en Oriente, pero eso no es exacto. Tampoco falleció en Roma ni en su Hispania natal. Es cierto que murió entre el 9 y el 10 de agosto del año 117 en el este del imperio, pero cuando ya se encontraba de regreso hacia Roma...
by Santiago Roncagliolo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 18, 2016
El ganador del premio Alfaguara de novela y del Independent Foreign Fiction Prize vuelve con un thriller apasionante ambientado en la Lima de los años noventa.
«¿Por qué ahora? ¿Después de tanto tiempo? ¿Y por qué recordar todo el horror? Me he pasado la vida tratando de olvidarlo.»
Beto,...
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation
The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation offers a new perspective on black political life in Cuba by analyzing the time between two hallmark Cuban events, the Aponte Rebellion of 1812 and the Race War of 1912. In so doing, this anthology provides fresh insight into the ways in which Cubans practiced...
by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, Beth A. Conklin, Les W. Field
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole.
In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume...
The Remains of Being
Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
In Basic Concepts, Heidegger claims that "Being is the most worn-out" and yet also that Being "remains constantly available." Santiago Zabala radicalizes the consequences of these little known but significant affirmations. Revisiting the work of Jacques Derrida, Reiner Schürmann,...
Puerto Rico and the Origins of U.S. Global Empire
The Disembodied Shade
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Drawing on a postcolonial legal history of the United States’ territorial expansionism, this book provides an analysis of the foundations of its global empire. Charles R. Venator-Santiago argues that the United States has developed three traditions of territorial expansionism with corresponding...
When I Walk Through That Door, I Am
An Immigrant Mother's Quest
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Poet-activist Jimmy Baca immerses the reader in an epic narrative poem, imagining the experience of motherhood in the context of immigration, family separation, and ICE raids on the Southern border.
Jimmy Santiago Baca sends us on a journey with Sophia, an El Salvadorian mother facing a mountain...
Small Matters
How Churches and Parents Can Raise Up World-Changing Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Children have always been close to the heart of God and as followers of Jesus it is our responsibility to protect, nurture, and pass our faith to children. In Small Matters: Why Children are Such a Big Deal, authors Greg Nettle and Santiago “Jimmy” Mellado offer a model of discipleship that encourages...
La felicidad en la vida y en el trabajo
La positividad como inspiración laboral y personal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Malas caras, jornadas imposibles, estrés, incomprensión, ordeno y mando, incomunicación… Este suele ser el ambiente que domina en las empresas tóxicas. ¿El resultado? Un empleado infeliz y nada motivado, así como una pobre cuenta de resultados y una baja productividad.¿Qué pasaría si en...
by Santiago R.y Cajal
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book, together with the next two volumes to follow, offers the scientific community the works and thoughts of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. The text is a faithful rendition of the original Spanish version, with additional facts taken from the French translation. Both of these are currently quoted...