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  • Sugar and Railroads

    A Cuban History, 1837-1959

    by Alejandro Garcia, Oscar Zanetti ...
    Translated by Franklin W. Knight, Mary Todd ...
    Though Cuba was among the first countries in the world to utilize rail transport, the history of its railroads has been little studied. This English translation of the prize-winning Caminos para el azúcar traces the story of railroads in Cuba from their introduction in the nineteenth century through the 1959 Revolution.More broadly, the book uses the development of the Cuban rail transport system ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    After the Quiet Lanterns

    by ALEJANDRO GARCIA ...
    Narrated by Lily Cherie ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 31 min

    Lila Marlowe returns to Lantern Sound after years away and immediately discovers that home has changed in the one way she feared most. Marlowe House Inn, the aging seaside property her family has cared for for generations, now carries a FOR SALE sign, and a coastal developer already has plans for the pier, private docks, and a future that could erase much of what the place once meant.For Lila, the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • HIV Affected and Vulnerable Youth

    Prevention Issues and Approaches

    by Alejandro Garcia, Susan Taylor-Brown ...
    HIV Affected and Vulnerable Youth: Prevention Issues and Approaches provides suggestions for support of vulnerable youth who must face chronic disease or death, poverty, drug abuse, and racism, as well as the tribulations that accompany adolescence. Social workers, case managers, psychologists, and nurses who work with HIV-affected and vulnerable youth and their families will find unique ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Biosignal Processing and Classification Using Computational Learning and Intelligence

    Principles, Algorithms, and Applications

    Edited by Alejandro A. Torres-García, Carlos Alberto Reyes Garcia, Luis Villasenor-Pineda, Omar Mendoza-Montoya ...
    Biosignal Processing and Classification Using Computational Learning and Intelligence: Principles, Algorithms and Applications posits an approach for biosignal processing and classification using computational learning and intelligence, highlighting that the term biosignal refers to all kinds of signals that can be continuously measured and monitored in living beings. The book is composed of five ... Read more

    $150.99 CAD

  • What Was the Islamic Conquest of Iberia?

    Understanding the New Debate

    Edited by Hussein Fancy, Alejandro García-Sanjuán ...
    What Was the Islamic Conquest of Iberia? Understanding the New Debate brings together leading scholars to offer an introduction to a recent debate with far-reaching implications for the study of history, as well as our understanding of the present.In the year 711 CE, Islamic armies conquered the Iberian Peninsula. This seemingly uncontroversial claim has in fact been questioned, becoming an object ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Palaeohispanic Languages and Epigraphies

    Edited by Alejandro Garcia Sinner, Javier Velaza ...
    In addition to Phoenician, Greek, and Latin, at least four writing systems were used between the fifth century BCE and the first century CE to write the indigenous languages of the Iberian peninsula (the so-called Palaeohispanic languages): Tartessian, Iberian, Celtiberian, and Lusitanian. In total over three thousand inscriptions are preserved in what is certainly the largest corpus of epigraphic ... Read more

    $157.99 CAD

  • Proceedings of the 75th RILEM Annual Week 2021

    Advances in Sustainable Construction Materials and Structures

    Edited by J. Ivan Escalante-Garcia, Pedro Castro Borges, Alejandro Duran-Herrera ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of sustainable construction materials and structures, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 75th RILEM Annual Week (75RW 2021), held in Merida, Mexico on August 29 – September 3, 2021. It covers topics such as supplementary cementitious materials, durability and Life Cycle assessment ... Read more

    $359.99 CAD

  • Ways of Being Bound: Perspectives from post-Kantian Philosophy and Relational Sociology

    Edited by Patricio A. Fernández, Alejandro Néstor García Martínez, José M. Torralba ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses the topic of 'being bound' from a philosophical and a sociological perspective. It examines several ways in which we are bound. We are bound to acknowledge the truth and to follow laws; we are bound to others and to the world. Who we are is partly defined by those bonds, regardless of whether we live up to them – or even of whether we acknowledge them. Puzzling questions arise ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • The Road to PROMESA

    Inside the Largest Public Debt Restructuring in US History

    by Christopher Landau, Javier Rua Jovet, Anne Krueger, Andy Wolfe, Richard J. Cooper, Antonio J. Pietrantoni, Antonio Weiss, Adam Chepenik, Richard Ravitch, Alejandro Garcia Padilla ...
    The inside story of Puerto Rico's municipal debt restructuring and bankruptcy crisis—the largest in US history—and how Congress resolved itCold War tax incentives helped Puerto Rico to develop its economy. However, these incentives were phased out beginning in 1996, and the island slid into a recession a decade later. After years of stagnation, emigration of a large part of its population, and ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

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  • Shallow Geothermal Energy

    Theory and Application

    by Alejandro García Gil, Eduardo Antonio Garrido Schneider, Miguel Mejías Moreno, Juan Carlos Santamarta Cerezal ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is the outcome of more than a decade of research and technical development activities at Spain’s Geological Survey (IGME) concerning shallow geothermal energy, which were pursued in collaboration with other public bodies and European entities. It presents a compilation of papers on the theoretical foundations of, and practical aspects needed to understand the thermal regime of the ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Managing Complex Change in School

    Engaging pedagogy, technology, learning and leadership

    by Alejandro Salcedo Garcia, Keith Morrison, Ah Chung Tsoi, Jinming He ...
    Leading and managing change in schools is a complex topic. In this timely book the authors take the reader through a journey of how to lead and manage multidimensional change in order to create engaged learners, teachers, leaders and managers. They provide a readable and straightforward account of a major, high-profile innovation in one school and draw from it key lessons for leaders and managers ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Living Beauty

    The Art of Liturgy

    by Alejandro García-Rivera, Thomas Scirghi ...
    Series series Celebrating Faith: Explorations in Latino Spirituality and Theology
    The Christian mystery, celebrated in the Roman Catholic liturgy, is a sensible mystery, and calls out for artistic expression. Living Beauty explores the Christian mystery and points to the need for a liturgical aesthetic as a means to encounter the divine mystery. A liturgical aesthetic gives an account of Christian worship in terms of a new set of categories that includes divine beauty, a ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD