Antonio: 3500 books
by Antonio Paganelli
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Emma, una donna frustrata e insoddisfatta, trova in un cassetto segreto di un mobile antico dei “foglietti ingialliti, corrosi dal tempo e dagli insetti”. Sono le memorie di un signore vissuto nel XV secolo. Incomincia a leggere quelle carte che raccontano la metamorfosi di un solido uomo di potere...
Die letzten Dinge
Lebensendgespräche
Language: German
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Blickt man anders auf das durchlebte Zeitalter, wenn der Tod näher rückt? Wird das, was früher wichtig war, unwichtig? Wo hat man geirrt? Was hat man bewirken können – und was ist geblieben? Seit vielen Jahren führt ZEIT-Feuilletonchefin Iris Radisch Gespräche mit Schriftstellern und Philosophen...
Caribbean Paleodemography
Population, Culture History, and Sociopolitical Processes in Ancient Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Important information on prehistoric island populations and migrations.
According to the European chronicles, at the time of contact, the Greater Antilles were inhabited by the Taino or Arawak Indians, who were organized in hierarchical societies. Since its inception Caribbean archaeology has...
Greening Media Education
Bridging Media Literacy with Green Cultural Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Media are a powerful educational force that teaches about the relationship between humans and living systems while also physiologically impacting the environment. However, although long considered a tool for promoting critical thinking and cultural citizenship, media literacy does not adequately address...
Volver
A Persistence of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Born on the eve of World War II into a family of Mexican immigrants in El Paso, Antonio C. Márquez remains a child of the border, his life partaking of multiple cultures, countries, and classes. Here he recounts his life story, from childhood memories of movies and baseball and friendship with his...
Militarizing the Border
When Mexicans Became the Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
As historian Miguel Antonio Levario explains in this timely book, current tensions and controversy over immigration and law enforcement issues centered on the US-Mexico border are only the latest evidence of a long-standing atmosphere of uncertainty and mistrust plaguing this region. Militarizing...
by Antonio Soler
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 12, 2018
En el amanecer de un día tórrido de agosto de 2016, en uno de los descampados de la ciudad de Málaga, aparece el cuerpo de un hombre moribundo cubierto de hormigas. Este hecho marginal de la crónica de sucesos da origen a la narración del día de una ciudad y su abigarrada realidad: policías...
by Antonio Manzini
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 28, 2015
A consecuencia de un turbio incidente con el hijo de un poderoso político, Rocco Schiavone, subjefe de la policía de Roma, ha sido «desterrado» a una pequeña ciudad del valle de Aosta, en los Alpes italianos. Para un romano sofisticado y amante de la buena vida, no es la mejor noticia. El frío,...
by Antonio Pérez Henares
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Hubo un tiempo en que sobre la tierra coexistían dos especies humanas: sapiens y neandertales.
¿Qué ocurrió para que una de ellas desapareciera sin dejar rastro?
Con la llegada de la desoladora glaciación, ambas especies se enfrentaron en la primera y más terrible guerra de la...
by Antonio Moretti
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
‘Open Heart Surgery’ is the latest accretion of poetry (480 poems) by retired academic Antonio Moretti (pseudonym). In this book of poems we find varying structures, forms, styles, spans and subjects. This variety is by fortuitous design. In other words the hope was for diversity and diversity was...
by Antonio Cabanas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Una familia dedicada al expolio de tumbas en el Antiguo Egipcio, el peor crimen que se podía cometer en aquella época.
«Ésta es la historia de Shepsenuré, el ladrón de tumbas, hijo y nieto de ladrones, y de su hijo Nemenhat, digno vástago de tan principal estirpe, quienes arrastraron...
Colonel Henry Theodore Titus
Antebellum Soldier of Fortune and Florida Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Henry Theodore Titus (1822–1881) was the quintessential adventurer, soldier of fortune, and small-time entrepreneur, a man for whom any frontier—geographical, cultural, social—was an opportunity for advancement. Although born in Trenton, New Jersey, and raised in New York and Pennsylvania, Titus...
Five Masters of International Law
Conversations with R-J Dupuy, E Jiménez de Aréchaga, R Jennings, L Henkin and O Schachter
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
This book consists of interviews with five distinguished international lawyers from the UK, USA, Uruguay and France, conducted by the editor, Antonio Cassese, between 1993 and 1995. Each interview is preceded by a brief 'intellectual portrait' of the interviewee. In his general introduction Cassese...
Toppling the Melting Pot
Immigration and Multiculturalism in American Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The catalyst for much of classical pragmatist political thought was the great waves of migration to the United States in the early twentieth century. José-Antonio Orosco examines the work of several pragmatist social thinkers, including John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Josiah Royce, and Jane Addams,...