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A Hundred Summers
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 12.99Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island, expecting another placid summer season among the familiar traditions and friendships that sustained her after heartbreak. That is, until Greenwalds decide to take up residence in Seaview. Nick and... more...
Voting for Autocracy
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 22.00This book provides a theory of the logic of survival of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). more...
The International Legal Protection of the Amazon
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 78.00This book examines whether international law has an impact on the protection of the Amazon. more...
In Strangers Arms
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 38.00The tango is easily the most iconic dance of the last century, its images as familiar as an old friend. But are they the whole story? Peeling back the poster propaganda that has always characterized the tango publicly, this intimate study shows the invisible heart of the dance and the culture that raised it. Drawing on direct experience and conversations... more...
Overseas
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 9.99Amiens, France, 1916: Captain Julian Ashford, a British officer in the trenches of the Western Front, is waylaid in the town square by Kate, a beautiful young American. Julian?s never seen her before, but she has information about the reconnaissance mission he?s about to embark on. Who is she? And why did she track him down in Amiens? New York,... more...
The Olympic Games and Cultural Policy
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00This book explores how cultural policies are reflected in the design, management and promotion of the Olympic Games. Garcia examines the concept and evolution of cultural policies throughout the recent history of the Olympic Games and then specifically evaluates the cultural program of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She argues that the cultural relevance... more...
Case-Based Reasoning
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2013; US$ 35.00Case-based reasoning is a methodology with a long tradition in artificial intelligence that brings together reasoning and machine learning techniques to solve problems based on past experiences or cases. Given a problem to be solved, reasoning involves the use of methods to retrieve similar past cases in order to reuse their solution for the problem... more...
Paradise in Ashes
University of California Press 2004; US$ 12.95Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz--an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala--tells the story of the village of Santa Maria Tzeja,... more...
Latina Lite Cooking
Grand Central Publishing 2009; US$ 12.99Entertaining, practical, and informative, "Latina Lite Cooking" provides 200 recipes for low-fat yet delicious fare from the cuisines of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Spain, and all of Latin America, plus the author's state-of-the-art weight reduction plan and her unique message of self-empowerment.A. more...









