Emmanuel Chumaceiro
1) Sacrificio
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan from the provinces, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and no clue what his future will be or what he stands for (he doesn't even know his age-seventeen? eighteen?). He falls into a job as a waiter in a tiny makeshift tourist restaurant that the resilient, middle-aged Cecilia has created out of her backyard patio. Rafa is soon drawn into a web of bizarre, ever-shifting entanglements, first with Cecilia's older son...
Author
Language
English
Description
Tracing the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 to the aftermath of Orvil Red Feather's shooting, Opal tries to hold her family together while Orvil becomes emotionally reliant on prescription medications, and his younger brother, suffering from PTSD, secretly enacts blood rituals to connect to his Cheyenne heritage.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Remarkable teaches the art of insightfulness-how to apply higher levels of creative and analytical thinking, using specific methodologies and techniques which result in superior analyses and decision making, a highly cherished skill in the business world. A skill that will make you exceptionally more valuable to your managers and company, thereby propelling your career. Anyone anywhere can become Remarkable and realize greater business prosperity"--...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 157
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this Very Short Introduction, Khalid Koser shows why migration matters, and examines its fundamental links with globalization, development, poverty, and human rights. Presenting the human side of topics such as asylum, human trafficking, and cultural integration, he debunks many of the myths surrounding international migration, and reveals how beneficial it can be to economies both at home and abroad."--BOOK JACKET.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-- even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Faced with disruption brought about by digitalization, multinational corporations are realizing the value of partnering with external actors--including start-ups. However, while established corporations and start-ups do have complementary capabilities that could result in win-win collaboration, they often find that developing productive partnerships is not straightforward. The very thing that attracts them to each other -- their significant differences...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An empowering guide that will show you how to shed the myth of the "work-life balance" by merging the seven key components that make up your life to attain harmony and whole-life success "Work-life balance" is a phrase touted by companies and a state of being that each of us strive for, yet never seem to reach. In this eye-opening book, David. J. McNeff reveals that "balance" shouldn't be our end goal. Instead, he takes readers through the 7 different...
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