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  • Power Query for Excel Users

    A practical guide to cleaning, transforming, and automating Excel data with Power Query

    by Oscar Martínez Valero ...
    Learn Power Query in Excel to clean and automate business data: repeatable workflows for business users, with tips for using AI tools. No coding required Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\*Key FeaturesLearn Power Query step by step, starting from everyday Excel tasks and building up graduallyOrganize messy data and combine files from common business ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Violence

    Living and Dying in Central America

    by Oscar Martinez ...
    Translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz, John B. Washington ...
    **“A necessary read.” —Los Angeles Review of Books“A chilling portrait of corruption, unimaginable brutality and impunity.” —Financial TimesThis revelatory and heartbreaking immersion into the lives of people enduring extreme violence in Central America is a powerful call for immigration policy reform in the United States.**El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • The Beast

    Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

    by Oscar Martinez ...
    Translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz, John Washington ...
    An Economist and Financial Times “Best Book of the Year”“Harrowing” true stories from two years of immersion reporting on the migrant trail from Chiapas to Arizona—an “honorable successor to enduring works like George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier” (New York Times)One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Hollywood Kid

    The Violent Life and Violent Death of an MS-13 Hitman

    by Oscar Martinez, Juan Martinez ...
    Translated by John B. Washington, Daniela Maria Ugaz ...
    The compelling story of the life and death of a Salvadoran gangsterAs a boy, Miguel Ángel Tobar’s small town in El Salvador was torn apart by guerrillas and US- backed death squads. Still a preteen, he joined a different kind of death squad—the Hollywood Locos Salvatrucha—a clique of the Mara Salvatruchas, better known as MS-13. This international criminal organization began on the streets of Los ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Progressions and Innovations in Model-Driven Software Engineering

    Edited by Vicente García Díaz, Juan Manuel Cueva Lovelle, B. Cristina Pelayo García-Bustelo, Oscar Sanjuán Martínez ...
    Users increasingly demand more from their software than ever before—more features, fewer errors, faster runtimes. To deliver the best quality products possible, software engineers are constantly in the process of employing novel tools in developing the latest software applications. Progressions and Innovations in Model-Driven Software Engineering investigates the most recent and relevant research ... Read more

    $206.39 CAD

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  • Advances and Applications in Model-Driven Engineering

    Edited by Vicente García Díaz, Juan Manuel Cueva Lovelle, B. Cristina Pelayo García-Bustelo, Oscar Sanjuán Martinez ...
    As organizations and research institutions continue to emphasize model-driven engineering (MDE) as a first-class approach in the software development process of complex systems, the utilization of software in multiple domains and professional networks is becoming increasingly vital. Advances and Applications in Model-Driven Engineering explores this relatively new approach in software development ... Read more

    $206.39 CAD

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    The Beast

    Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

    by Oscar Martinez ...
    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 15 min

    One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

    Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

    Edited by Oscar J. Martinez ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    The U.S.-Mexican borderlands form the region where the United States and Latin America have interacted with the greatest intensity. In U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Oscar Martinez has brought together both scholarly essays and primary documents that address the protracted conflict rooted in the vast difference in power between Mexico and its northern neighbor. Each of the seven parts of this new reader ... Read more

    $50.79 CAD

  • Mexico's Uneven Development

    The Geographical and Historical Context of Inequality

    by Oscar J. Martinez ...
    Mexico and the United States may be neighbors, but their economies offer stark contrasts. In Mexico’s Uneven Development: The Geographical and Historical Context of Inequality, Oscar J. Martínez explores Mexico’s history to explain why Mexico remains less developed than the United States. Weaving in stories from his own experiences growing up along the U.S.-Mexico border, Martínez shows how the ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Border People

    Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

    by Oscar J. Martínez ...
    While the U.S.-Mexico borderlands resemble border regions in other parts of the world, nowhere else do so many millions of people from two dissimilar nations live in such close proximity and interact with each other so intensely. Borderlanders are singular in their history, outlook, and behavior, and their lifestyle deviates from the norms of central Mexico and the interior United States; yet ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Troublesome Border, Revised Edition

    by Oscar J. Martínez ...
    Series series PROFMEX
    “U.S. residents are largely unaware that Mexicans also view their northern border with concern, and at times even alarm. Border communities, such as Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana, have long been subjected to heavy criticism from Mexico City and other interior areas for their close ties to the United States, a country viewed with apprehension and suspicion by the Mexican citizenry.”Oscar Martínez’s ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Ciudad Juárez

    Saga of a Legendary Border City

    by Oscar J. Martínez ...
    Juárez is no ordinary city. Its history is exhilarating and tragic. Part of the state of Chihuahua and located on the border with the United States opposite El Paso, Texas, Juárez has often captured the world’s attention in dramatic fashion.In Ciudad Juárez: Saga of a Legendary Border City, Oscar J. Martínez provides a historical overview of the economic and social evolution of this famous ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD