Daniel A : 502 books

The deep oceans and global seafloor are truly Earth's last frontier. They remain largely unexplored, yet are critical to our survival on this planet. This magnificent, full-color volume transports you to bizarre landscapes hosting exotic life forms that rival the most imaginative science fiction....

The Complete, Unified, Up-to-Date Guide to Transport and Separation–Fully Updated for Today’s Methods and Software Tools   Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles, Fifth Edition, offers a unified and up-to-date treatment of momentum, heat, and mass transfer and separations...

How do you like your weirdness? A subtle nudge towards the untoward? A quick zap of zany? Or a full-on assault of aberration? Whatever your taste, you'll find it here, and many more strains of strange that you didn't suspect existed. From magic rain to a talking (severed) head, extraordinary eggs...

Están por todas partes. Cuando hablamos de Argentina, Chile o Uruguay en los setenta, México o Colombia hoy, o si miramos atrás en el tiempo y pensamos en la Guerra Civil Española, la Alemania nazi, La Argelia colonial o la Bosnia en guerra. También cuando reflexionamos sobre un Mediterráneo...

"Cop Doc's Guide to Public Safety Complex Trauma Syndrome" is written in response to the need for an advanced, specialized guide for clinicians to operationally define, understand, and responsibly treat complex post-traumatic stress and grief syndromes in the context of the unique varieties...

The new edition of this popular, evidence-based guide compiles and reviews all the latest knowledge on assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of childhood maltreatment - including neglect and physical, sexual, psychological, or emotional abuse. Readers are led through this complex problem with clear...

There has been growing concern that both intensive agriculture in the developed world and rapid expansion of crop cultivation in developing countries is damaging the health of soils which are the foundation of farming. At the same time we are discovering much more about how complex soils are as living...

Muckraker, el nombre de guerra con que se etiquetó a aquel grupo de narradores que a comienzos de siglo XX se ocupó de "remover la basura" con resultados bastante satisfactorios, es también la nueva colección digital de Capitán Swing dedicada a la no ficción contemporánea, en un formato...

El Tao es el camino para alcanzar el equilibrio físico, mental, emocional y espiritual. Para lograrlo es importante integrar todos estos aspectos, sin obviar ninguno. Este libro profundiza en el estudio del Ser Humano, intentando buscar el origen de los problemas para solucionarlos. Un título dedicado...

Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational. While these formulations produce many insights, they also generate anomalies--most famously, about turnout. The rise of behavioral economics has posed new challenges to the premise of rationality. This groundbreaking...

"Adiós muchachos" offers a masterful interlace of sex, humor, intrigue, quirky characters, death, and money. Chavarría presents an entertaining tale with an exquisite mixture of Cuban cuisine, language, characters, and symbolic motifs –a bicycle, a wig and a mirror— to capture the reader at the very onset. This novel won the Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America.

Alberto Ríos decide esconderse en La Habana ˗bajo la impostura de un técnico extranjero˗, donde gozará de una completa libertad y a ninguno de sus enemigos se le ocurrirá buscarlo. Lo acompaña un pasado infausto que debe ocultar a toda costa. Aquí conoce a Bini, exitosa jinetera quien, a su...

Director and producer Tim Burton impresses audiences with stunning visuals, sinister fantasy worlds, and characters whose personalities are strange and yet familiar. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dalí, Washington Irving, and Dr. Seuss, Burton's creations frequently...

Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism is an innovative collection of essaysexamining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities. Following the golden age of British Gothic in the...