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  • The Double Life of Fidel Castro

    My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Líder Máximo

    by Juan Reinaldo Sánchez, Axel Gyldén ...
    "Remarkable revelations! Fidel Castro's worst hypocrisies, regal indulgences, and narcissistic excess are bared by his former chief bodyguard." —Brian Latell, author of After FidelIn The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of seventeen years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Nutritional Neuroscience

    From Bench to Bedside

    Edited by Reinaldo B. Oria, Joao O. Malva, Carlos Alexandre Netto ...
    Nutritional Neuroscience: From Bench to Bedside navigates the complex connections between nutrition and neurological health, from neurodevelopmental disorders influenced by early-life malnutrition to the neuroprotective effects of functional foods. Each chapter offers a detailed examination of the latest research in the field, spanning the mechanisms of taste and food processing in the brain, the ... Read more

    $165.99 CAD

  • Decolonizing Europe

    Ethnographies of National and Transnational Projects

    Edited by Patrícia Ferraz de Matos, Livio Sansone ...
    Revived by the global resonance of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, this book adds to the current discussion on the idea of decolonizing Europe. Drawing inspiration from the study of colonialism, postcolonialism and the imperative to decolonize knowledge and practice, the editors bring together a group of scholars approaching these issues through ethnographic inquiry. The volume explores ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Multivariate Statistics Beyond Normality

    by Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle, Marc G. Genton ...
    Multivariate Statistics Beyond Normality is a unique book that provides a modern and original introduction to multivariate statistics and then extends it beyond the multivariate normal distribution. Specifically, the extensions include spherical and elliptical distributions, the skew-normal distributions and related distributions, a detailed treatment of unified skew-elliptical distributions and ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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  • Before Night Falls

    A Memoir

    by Reinaldo Arenas ...
    Translated by Dolores M. Koch ...
    Series series Penguin Vitae
    **"Any attempt to reckon with Cuba's torturous twentieth century will have to take into account Arenas's monumental work ... an essential human testimony, joyful and enraged, a triumph of conscience." -- Garth GreenwellThe acclaimed memoir of queer Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas chronicling his tumultuous yet luminary life, from his impoverished upbringing in Cuba to his imprisonment at the hands of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Legal Resistance to Autocracy

    The Global Fight to Save Democracy

    Edited by Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz, Natasha Lindstaedt, David M. Trubek, Oscar Vilhena Vieira ...
    Series series Comparative Constitutional Change
    This book focuses on resistance to autocratization, a less well-researched and understood topic than the rise of authoritarianism. As the editors and authors of this book have experienced both through their academic research and personal lives in autocratizing countries, autocratization does not march on unopposed. Moreover, resistance to autocratization has yielded results, if not managing to ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Apolipoprotein E

    From Biochemistry and Biology to Translational Medicine

    Edited by Reinaldo Oriá, J. Wesson Ashford, Carr J. Smith ...
    Series series Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
    This edited work is a constructive collaboration between experts and authorities worldwide on the biology, function, and translational medicine of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) polymorphisms and protein isoforms. It encompasses various aspects of innate and acquired immunology, and gastrointestinal and neurological functions, and presents the latest literature on the basic mechanisms, signaling ... Read more

    $832.99 CAD

  • Intelligent Systems

    12th Brazilian Conference, BRACIS 2023, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, September 25–29, 2023, Proceedings, Part I

    Edited by Murilo C. Naldi, Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi ...
    Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    The three-volume set LNAI 14195, 14196, and 14197 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2023, which took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 2023.The 90 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 242 submissions. They have been organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Best papers ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

  • Advanced Technologies in Electric Vehicles

    Challenges and Future Research Developments

    Edited by Vijayakumar Gali, Luciane Neves Canha, Mariana Resener, Bibiana Ferraz, Madisa V.G. Varaprasad ...
    Advanced Technologies in Electric Vehicles: Challenges and Future Research Developments discusses fundamental and advanced concepts, challenges, and future perspectives surrounding EVs. Sections cover advances and long-term challenges such as battery life span, efficiency, and power management systems. In addition, the book covers all aspects of the EV field, including vehicle performance, ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • Mona and Other Tales

    by Reinaldo Arenas ...
    Translated by Dolores M. Koch ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Mona and Other Talescovers Reinaldo Arenas's entire career: his recently rediscovered debut (which got him a job at the Biblioteca Nacional in Havana), stories written in a political prison, and some of his last works, written in exile. Many of the stories have not previously appeared in English.Here is the tender story of a boy who recognizes evil for the first time and decides to ignore it; the ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Global Legal History

    A Comparative Law Perspective

    Edited by Joshua C. Tate, José Reinaldo de Lima Lopes, Andrés Botero-Bernal ...
    This collection brings together a group of international legal historians to further scholarship in different areas of comparative and regional legal history. Authors are drawn from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to produce new insights into the relationship between law and society across time and space. The book is divided into three parts: legal history and legal culture across borders, ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • The Color of Summer

    or The New Garden of Earthly Delights

    by Reinaldo Arenas ...
    Translated by Andrew Hurley ...
    Series series Pentagonia
    Critics worldwide have praised Reinaldo Arenas's writing. His extraordinary memoir, Before Night Falls, was named one of the fourteen "Best Books of 1993" by the editors of The New York Times Book Review and has now been made into a major motion picture.The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonía, a five-volume cycle of novels ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD