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After the Arab Uprisings
A seasoned expert on the Maghreb offers a fine-grained analysis of the region's politics in a time of upheaval....
The militant attitude of the United States after 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 inspired the leadership of Libya to change its confrontat...
A History
This is the first book in more than three decades to offer a complete and chronological history of revolutionary Cuba, including the years of rebellio...
Are you frustrated in your current job? Are you unemployed? Does your employer recognize your personal value proposition? Do you recognize it? The pro...
The Neuroscience of Magic
How magicians exploit the natural functioning of our brains to astonish and amaze us How do magicians make us see the impossible? The Illusionist Brai...
Tracing the years, 1990-1998, this text asserts that the Algerian civil war has striking similarities, indeed continuities, with that of the Ottoman r...
Driving High Performance Strategies and Tactics for Career Decisions (It's Not About the Résumé)
Are you frustrated in your current job? Are you unemployed? Do you believe you can achieve more, but dont know where to start? The process outlined in...
Are suicide bombers pathological, as psychologists claim, or clever strategists? Are suicide attacks perpetrated by Islamists as a matter of belief or...
Computing with Words in Decision Making
This book examines one of the more common and wide-spread methodologies to deal with uncertainty in real-world decision making problems, the computing...
El anhelo de traducir el amor a palabras es el hilo conductor de los sonetos que conformaneste volumen. El autor rescata de las experiencias de su vid...
The Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth-century Havana
For review see: Jean Stubbs, in Slavery abolition, a journal of slave and post-slave studies, vol. 20, no. 2 (August 1999); p. 158-159....
Fighting in the Green Hell
The Chaco War was the first modern conflict in South America. Over time, it became the topic of many volumes published in both Bolivia and Paraguay �...
Boundary value problems play a significant role in modeling systems characterized by established conditions at their boundaries. On the other hand, in...
Methodologies, Case Studies, and Prospective Views
This book recognizes Mexico's effects and challenges in a natural disaster and offers empirical risk-reduction methods in critical cases. The proposal...
The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy
Departing from earlier studies which regarded incest as a literary topos or dramatic metaphor foregrounding political, social, or legal issues, Words ...
Catholicism has long been recognized as one of the major forces shaping the Hispanic Caribbean (Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic) during ...
Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomás Rivera
Rebelling against bourgeois vacuity and taking their countercultural critique on the road, the Beat writers and artists have long symbolized a spirit ...
"Sixteen-year-old Luis, restless and haunted by the death of his father, decides to leave his small town in Mexico and seek his fortune in the United ...
Fighting in Green Hell
The Chaco War was the first modern conflict in South America. Over time, it became the topic of many volumes published in both Bolivia and Paraguay - ...
Economy, Society, and Patterns of Political Thought in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1840-1878
In his coverage of the intervening decades Martinez-Fernandez ranges widely, discussing, for example, expansionism and filibustering; the Cuban "Afric...
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Social Contradictions and Awakened Dreams in Latin America
An account of modern liberation theory in today's Capitalistic Latin America...
Algeria, Iraq, and Libya
The creation of oil rents in the 1970s put Algeria, Iraq, and Libya on the fast track to modernization. Massive revenues turned Algeria into the Medit...
Politics, Culture, and the Unimaginable Events of 2019-2022
All History is Contemporary History brings together a collection of essays written by Luis Martínez-Fernández between 2017 and 2022, and explores th...
Outstanding figures who have shaped the path of history are profiled in these volumes. The biographies detail the subjects' childhood, motivation, acc...
Death and Dying in J.R.R. TolkienÃØÂ#x80 ; Â#x99 ; S The Lord of the Rings
Essays on Society, Culture, and Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1800-1945
For decades, the Hispanic Caribbean has eluded attempts by historians striving to view and analyze Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic as a ...
In 1913, Berto returns to his small Oaxacan ranch to find that his beloved wife, six months with child, has been brutally murdered. Devastated, he set...
Women and Gender in Restoration Literature and Culture