Miguel: 1889 books

The relatively new field of organizational improvisation is concerned with the pressures on organizations to react continually to today's ever-changing environment. Organizational improvisation has important implications for such subjects as product innovation, teamworking and organizational renewal,...

In The Secret Love Letters: A Family History, the author delves into the history of her Spanish ancestors, the once-illustrious San Miguels, and uncovers the forbidden love affair that tore the family apart. Fay Johnston told her daughter of a collection of letters she had kept hidden away...

Durante sus años de exilio en la Unión Soviética, José Miguel Varas (Premio Nacional de Literatura 2006) entró en un forzado y largo paréntesis que lo mantuvo alejado de la ficción para concentrarse como nunca antes en su trabajo como periodista y locutor radial, aceptando dirigir el programa...

Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centered on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice...

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...

En la Nochebuena de 1995, el mejor amigo de Miguel Ángel Hernández asesinó a su hermana y se quitó la vida saltando por un barranco. Ocurrió en un pequeño caserío de la huerta de Murcia. Nadie supo nunca el porqué. La investigación se cerró y el crimen quedó para siempre en el olvido. Veinte...

Using the city of Puebla de los Ángeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico (viceroyalty of New Spain), Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva investigates Spaniards' imposition of slavery on Africans, Asians, and their families. He analyzes the experiences of these slaves in four distinct urban...

In Front Lines, Miguel Martínez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. Against all odds, these Spanish soldiers produced, distributed, and consumed a remarkably innovative set of works on war that have been almost completely neglected in literary and historical scholarship....

This book describes recent advances in the morphodynamics of mixed sand and gravel Mediterranean coasts, and provides updates and new methods for their study and management. It assesses how the differences in the geomorphic setting, in comparison with traditional sandy beaches, result in distinctive...

During the 1980s the Mexican regime faced a series of economic, social, and political disasters that led many to question its survival. Yet by 1992 the economy was again growing, with inflation under control and the confidence of international investors restored. Mexico was now touted as an example...

Dom Quixote de La Mancha (Don Quijote de la Mancha em castelhano) é um livro escrito pelo escritor espanhol Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra (1547-1616). O título e ortografia originais eram El ingenioso hidalgo Don Qvixote de La Mancha, com sua primeira edição publicada em Madrid no ano de 1605....

La ilustre fregona Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra En La ilustre fregona se desgarran dos mozos que pretenden cortejar a la muy bella moza de una posada. Uno logra su propósito, el otro no y es humillado por una serie de chiquillos que le gritan por la calle y le siguen a todas partes.

Sandor Ferenczi, Sigmund Freud's brilliant pupil as well as an innovative psychoanalyst, was silenced by various generations of his contemporaries until, in the past decades, his work began to be rediscovered. Certain aspects of his trauma theory, in fact, had never been thoroughly addressed, particularly,...

This collection is born from a strange event, because it comes after contact with a follower of social networks, who without even knowing me tells me a personal and profound history. A secret and painful story, a story of death and love.