Juan: 2368 books
Napoleon's Egypt
Invading the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
In this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient, Cole delves into the psychology of the military titan and his entourage....
En busca del orden perdido
La idea de la Historia en Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 30, 2014
La historia de la sociedad andina antes de la Conquista ha sido un reto para los investigadores, ya que no existen testimonios directos de la época. Juan Ossio, historiador y antropólogo peruano, aborda este tema en el libro En busca del orden perdido trabajo que fuera presentado por primera vez...
Blogging the Revolution
Caracas Chronicles and the Hugo Chávez Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
For more than ten years, Caracas Chronicles (CaracasChronicles.com) has distilled Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela for English-speaking readers, providing both context and a home for lively discussion. This compilation by its editors, Toro and Nagel, brings together their best work.
With...
Comediantes y mártires
Ensayo contra los mitos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Tras deslumbrar a los lectores y la crítica con su análisis de la filosofía del siglo XX en El olvido de la razón, Juan José Sebreli dedica su nueva y brillante obra a la figura del héroe en la sociedad contemporánea, a partir de cuatro mitos universales de origen argentino: Evita, Gardel,...
We the People
The Modern-Day Figures Who Have Reshaped and Affirmed the Founding Fathers' Vision of America
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
What would the Founding Fathers think about America today? Over 200 years ago the Founders broke away from the tyranny of the British Empire to build a nation based on the principles of freedom, equal rights, and opportunity for all men. But life in the United States today is vastly different from...
Taking a Stand
The Evolution of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Juan Méndez has experienced human rights abuse first hand. As a result of his work with political prisoners in the late 1970s, the Argentinean military dictatorship arrested, tortured, and held him for more than a year. During that time, Amnesty International adopted him as a "Prisoner of Conscience."...
The Shape of the Ruins
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vásquez.**
The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and...
by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
From the author of The Sound of Things Falling, a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist.
Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country’s most influential political cartoonist, the conscience of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws, overturning judges’ decisions,...
by Lydia Cacho, Anabel Hernández, Juan Villoro
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, t****his is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows.
Supported the Arts Council Grant's...
by Juan Cole
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
With clarity and concision, Juan Cole disentangles the key foreign policy issues that America is grappling with today--from our dependence on Middle East petroleum to the promotion of Islamophobia by the American right--and delivers his informed advice on the best way forward. Cole's unique ability...
Treasury's War
The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Finalist for the 2015 William E. Colby Award
For more than a decade, America has been waging a new kind of war against the financial networks of rogue regimes, proliferators, terrorist groups, and criminal syndicates. Juan Zarate, a chief architect of modern financial warfare and a former senior...
by Juan Eslava Galán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 4, 2017
El triunfo de la Revolución rusa transformó el mundo y fue trascendental para la historia de la política contemporánea. Este libro, riguroso y ameno, nos ayudará a entender los motivos que provocaron el derrocamiento de los Románov y el triunfo de la Revolución.
Fiel al estilo divulgativo...
Reclaiming Gotham
Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End Americas Tale of Two Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
How Bill de Blasio’s mayoral victory triggered a seismic shift in the nation’s urban political landscape—and what it portends for our cities in the future
In November 2013, a little-known progressive stunned the elite of New York City by capturing the mayoralty by a landslide. Bill de...
by Juan Villoro
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
“The literature of Juan Villoro…is opening up the path of the new Spanish novel of the millennium.” Roberto Bolano
A brilliant, prize-winning collection of stories by Mexico’s most important living writer. From the semiotics of pet iguanas to the disillusionment of mariachi singers,...