Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar
When the Soviet Union dissolved, so did the easy credit, cheap oil, and subsidies it had provided to Cuba. The bottom fell out of the Cuban economy, and many expected that Castro's revolution-the one that had inspired the Left throughout Latin Ame...
Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book 2024 Release
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book 2024 Release contains 15 lessons that use real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips ...
Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book (2023 release)
Learn to create and edit images using Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book (2023 release) uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more...
Spooky Tapestry Crochet
Any crocheter looking for haunting patterns that match their alternative, dark vibe will die for these tapestry crochet designs These macabre patterns, from the creator of Crochet or Cry, are designed with absolute beginners in mind. Using only ba...
Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book 2025 Release
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book 2025 Release contains 15 lessons that use real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips ...
Five Generations of a Mexican American Family in Los Angeles
Despite their citizenship and English monolingualism, Mexican Americans have long been known to remain largely working class, which, academically, has meant that they tend to be mostly high school graduates, with low rates of college attendance an...
Latino Threat
News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, particularly Mexicans, are an invading force bent on reconquering land once their own and destroying the American way of life. In this book, Leo R. Chavez contests this assu...
Border Lives
Although Tijuana has historically been one of the primary crossing points between Mexico and the United States for undocumented migrants, representations of the city primarily focus on its reputation for sex, drugs, and crime, excluding its signif...
Brand Love
The best brands evoke the emotions of their customers by tapping into their hearts and minds. Individuals connect with brands the same way they connect with people. As a marketer, it's your responsibility to cultivate that relationship with your c...
How to Read a Suit
Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for ea...
Routledge Intermediate Russian Reader
The Routledge Intermediate Russian Reader has been specially designed for intermediate, upper intermediate and advanced learners of Russian and comprises a wide range of graded readings. The materials include authentic extracts from mass media and...
Early Franciscan Theology
Franciscan theology before Bonaventure has long been regarded as a relatively unoriginal attempt to systematize the tradition of Augustine, which prevailed in the West for most of the earlier Middle Ages. In this book, Lydia Schumacher aims to dem...
Elective Affinities
As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerful relationships that crystallize under changing conditions. In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on the history of elective affinities between philosophy and...
Lalylala'S Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies
Hello bug lovers and crochet adventurers! Grab your research equipment (magnifying glass, flask of tea, crochet hook, scissors and yarn) and follow us into a world full of magic and science, a microcosm of tiny creatures and big dreams! In this bo...
Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe
The legend of Mélusine examined in a pan-European context. Readers have long been fascinated by the enigmatic figure of Mélusine - a beautiful fairy woman cursed to transform into a half-serpent once a week, whose part-monstrous sons are the ances...
How to Read a Dress
Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for ea...
Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar
This authoritative 2003 textbook provides an overview and analysis of current second language acquisition research conducted within the generative linguistic framework. Lydia White argues that second language acquisition is constrained by principl...
Los Demonios del Eden / The Demons of Eden
El libro presenta c mo la cadena comienza con el abuso sexual infantil, la explotaci n sexual, el turismo sexual con menores, el comercio sexual con hombres de poder, la protecci n tanto polic aca como pol tica de los pederastas, la pornograf a, el lavado de dinero, el tr fico de influencias. Todos ellos englobados en una poderosa y peligrosa red mundial de crimen organizado. El libro se centra en el famoso caso de Jean Succar Kuri, un hotelero de origen liban s, residente norteamericano, que comete abuso sexual de menores en Canc n y es protegido tanto por autoridades locales como por pol ticos de gran envergadura, que incluso participan del delito de corrupci n de menores. Protegidos de las autoridades en un Refugio para V ctimas del delito de una ONG en Canc n, los menores denuncian los hechos que, contra toda predicci n, prueban los delitos ante la Procuradur a General de Justicia. Gracias a su valiente testimonio Succar Kuri es arrestado en Arizona y actualmente est pendiente de
Godnattboken
Godnattboken innehåller dikter med positiva ord inför natten och passar bra för högläsning. "Jag tycker om de återkommande ordens närhet, med tankar som bekräftar en innerlig närvaro. Orden öppnar ögonblick. Det blir en fin stund för de...
Fatigue Book
The Fatigue Book is a practical guide to managing chronic fatigue, whatever its cause, in order to enable recovery at a pace that works for the individual. It outlines 100 proven fatigue management tips drawn from the author's personal and profess...
The Monstrous Kind
'GORGEOUSLY EVOCATIVE' AVA REID 'ROMANTIC, CLEVER, DEEPLY EMOTIONAL' ALLISON SAFT 'HAUNTING AND TENDER' KYLIE LEE BAKER The darkest secrets lie closest to home . . . An untpownable gothic historical fantasy romance, set in an Regency-inspired world and inspired by Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Merrick Darling's life is better than most. As the daughter of a powerful lord, she wants for nothing - yet she will never inherit her family's Manor. Her only options are a smart marriage, or to live at the kindness of her practical and regimented elder sister, Essie. Until the day her father dies in mysterious circumstances, and Merrick is torn from her glamorous New London society life to Norland House, her family's mist-shrouded ancestral home. But the Manor has changed while Merrick has been away. Once strong and capable, Essie is withdrawn and frightened, and with good reason. The borders - their main defence against the toxic mist that has claimed much of their nation, and the
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
The author of Almost No Memory presents an inventive collection of short fiction that explores the various ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves, from a couple that suspects their friends think them boring to a funeral home that receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Into the Weeds
An illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis "Reporting from the slipstream of her reading life, [Davis] offers less a new way to think than perhaps an old one, pushing...
New Knitting Stitch Dictionary
Inspiration at your fingertips! Within the pages of The New Knitting Stitch Dictionary you will find not only 500 innovative knitting stitch patterns, but dozens of ideas popping through your mind. Cables may inspire designs for sweaters or blanke...
Cross-Border Trade Secret Disputes in the European Union
In today's data-driven economy, it is essential for companies to protect their trade secrets against unlawful acquisition,use and disclosure; with the ease of digital communications, employee migration and international trade, trade secret violati...
Daily Life of Victorian Women
Explores the complexities of the lived experiences of Victorian women in the home, the workplace, and the empire as well as the ideals of womanhood and femininity that developed during the 19th century. Contrary to popular misconception, many Vict...
