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  • Fulcrum and Torsion of the Helical Myocardium

    Series series Salud
    In this new book, Trainini and his team attempt a step forward and make a series of proposals that come to complete cardiac anatomy, physiology and mechanics. Reading this new investigation is a pleasure that demands continuous attention, so that our "neuronal boxes" do not rebel against the effort it means to sometimes destroy what we have firmly installed in them. The text should be read slowly, ... Read more

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  • Historic Cookery

    Authentic New Mexican Food

    The classic collection of heirloom recipes featuring more than one hundred authentic dishes from New Mexico.Traditional New Mexican cuisine isn't the same as Mexican or Tex-Mex—instead, it's a unique fusion of various Native American, Mexican, Spanish, European, and even North American cowboy chuckwagon foods and cooking techniques. The more than one hundred authentic New Mexican dishes in ... Read more

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    Finding Me

    A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

    Unabridged

    7 hours 13 min

    Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world. Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle ... Read more

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  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Read more

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  • Diary of a Thirtysomething Guy... and Gay... and Blind (preview)

    by Hache Cabezas ...
    Series series Diary of a Thirtysomething Guy... and Gay... and Blind
    Santi is thirtysomething years old, gay and blind guy with a complicated sentimental life: a break-up from the past that marked him, a sexy co-worker that seems to be straight (despite Santi's wishes), a friend that is in love with him (and unrequited), an extra-horny ex-boyfriend...“Diary of a Thirstysomething Guy... and Gay... and Blind” appeared a few years ago in the Spanish blog “Historias ... Read more

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  • Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition

    Translated by Fanny Bandelier ...
    The New World story of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca in his own wordsThis riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. In ... Read more

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  • The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca

    This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a ... Read more

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  • Approaches to Teaching Cabeza de Vaca's Account and Other Texts

    Series Book 181 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    In 1527 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca journeyed from Spain to Florida with the ill-fated Pánfilo de Narváez expedition--and ended up wandering by land for years with a small band of survivors before reaching Spanish outposts in modern-day Mexico. He later traveled to South America as an appointed provincial governor, only to be sent back to Spain in chains some years after his arrival. His written ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Innovation and Research – Smart Technologies & Systems

    Proceedings of the CI3 2025, Volume 2

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book compiles the research papers presented at the VI International Conference on Smart Technologies and Systems (CI3 2025), held on September 18 and 19, 2025, at the Oro Verde Hotel in Cuenca, Ecuador. The conference was organized by the Research, Innovation, and Technology Transfer Network (RIT2), comprised of Ecuador's most prominent university institutes, including American College, Argos ... Read more

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  • Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition

    In 1526 Carlos I of Spain granted Pánfilo de Narváez a license to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States. Pánfilo de Narváez set sail in 1527 to conquer and settle present day Florida. Setting out with a crew of approximately 600 members ultimately only four members would survive the ill-fated expedition. The journey would take these four survivors from Spain to Hispaniola and Cuba ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • A Land So Strange

    The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

    From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, the gripping tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century.**“Once you start this book, it's nearly impossible to put it down.” -**Washington PostIn 1527, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane and knocked off course by a colossal error of ... Read more

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  • The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555)

    Enriched edition. Voices of Conquest: Explorers' Tales of the River Plate Region

    The anthology "The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555)" provides an intricate exploration of early European encounters with the South American continent, specifically focusing on the River Plate region. Through a diverse assemblage of documents, the collection traverses a range of literary styles from detailed navigational logs to vivid travel memoirs, offering a multifaceted view of the ... Read more

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