Eduardo: 1120 books

Around 1542, descendants of the Aztec rulers of Mexico created accounts of the pre-Hispanic history of the city of Tetzcoco, Mexico, one of the imperial capitals of the Aztec Empire. Painted in iconic script ("picture writing"), the Codex Xolotl, the Quinatzin Map, and the Tlohtzin Map appear to retain...

The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its “ontological turn,” offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.” After showing that Amazonian and other...

Grito de gloria es la tercera novela de Eduardo Acevedo Díaz escrita en 1893. Allí se narran los episodios de la formación nacional uruguaya teniendo como fundamento histórico a la batalla de Sarandí, donde las caballerías gauchas, con Lavalleja al frente, y blandiendo valientemente sus sables...

Major Jane McMurtry is learning to walk after an IED ripped into her legs. Fitted with a new set of prosthetic legs, Jane can do more now. She can start tracking again with her new dog. She can go for long walks around her Colorado ranch. Even her back and hip pain have diminished.But that’s...

Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work. In this study, José Eduardo González focuses on Rama’s response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg...

On July 5, 1975 the New York Times ran a small article on the front page announcing the Independence of the Republic of Cape Verde. Upon reading that article, I began my journey as a Cape Verdean American. I began to recognize my heritage in a major way and, with great pride, I adopted the attitude...

Após anos pesquisando homens selecionados, com o cuidado de excluir aproveitadores, "moleques" e playboys , o autor captou o desejo de homens em situação economicamente estável, bem posicionados e elegantes, mas com dificuldades em negociar a relação com uma mulher e por isso afirmavam não...

We think we know everything about life until we die, but very few people have the opportunity to remember death before coming back to life. This is the story of one man who survived two Near Death Experiences (NDE) and the transition into higher consciousness activated one scary night at 3:33am. WHO...

La Vida Sacra: Contemporary Hispanic Sacramental Theology is an original, insightful approach to the sacraments from the perspective and actual practice of Latinos over the centuries. It offers a distinctive take on the actual belief and enculturation of the sacraments in the Latino experience and...

From October 28, 1940 until February of 1947, Sotiria Salivaras provided a unique eye-witness account of life in Kalamata, Greece before, during, and after World War II through her meticulous diary entries. In The Kalamata Diary: Greece, War and Emigration, Eduardo D. Faingold carefully analyzes and...

El año de la rebelión por la democracia es una investigación que, en su momento, integró los expedientes de La Fiscalía Especial para Movimientos Sociales y Políticos del Pasado, y que por razones inexplicadas no vio la luz pública como era el compromiso del gobierno federal. Un informe histórico...

'Civil War and Civil Peace. Libertarian Aragon 1936-'37' provides an overall vision of the situation created in the Spanish north-eastern region of Aragon subsequent to the military uprising of July 1936 against the legally constituted republican government of the Second Republic. Supported by the...

In the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was over, eighteen men were dead, four were wounded, and one was missing, never to be found. Valley of the Guns explores the reasons for the violence that engulfed...

"Em um mundo cada vez mais marcado pela presença de câmeras digitais, muitas vezes acopladas a celulares e tablets, discutir a fotografia como uma atividade especializada, pertencente ao mundo das artes, pode parecer, para muitos, fora de contexto. Atualmente, todos nós podemos tirar uma fotografia,...