Who do you call when you're looking for advice and assistance in reaching your goals?Thousands of people in his network turn to Steve Rosenberg when they run into a dead end. He began his career with the Washington Bullets (now Wizards) where he learned that the person who gets the most done goes the farthest. When he hears "no" or "it can't be done," that's when the fun begins-he gets to work and figures out how to make things happen.Through entertaining true stories, this...

Steve Rogers è di nuovo se stesso, ha un nuovo scudo, una nuova squadra e una nuova missione! E non c’è momento migliore, dato che molti dei criminali fuggiti dal carcere di Pleasantville, compreso il Teschio Rosso, sono ancora in libertà. L’Hydra è diventata più potente e pericolosa che mai, e mentre il Barone Zemo e il Teschio si scontrano per il controllo dell’organizzazione, Steve ha un proprio piano e non concederà a nessuno di intralciargli il cammino. Ma quest’uomo è davvero il Capi...

Conventional management approaches cannot meet the challenges faced by ocean and coastal ecosystems today. Consequently, national and international bodies have called for a shift toward more comprehensive ecosystem-based marine management. Synthesizing a vast amount of current knowledge, Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans is a comprehensive guide to utilizing this promising new approach.At its core, ecosystem-based management (EBM) is about acknowledging connections. Instead...

Winner of the 2001 President’s Award of the Social Science History AssociationIn the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry. Providing an ethnographic history of the emergence of subcontracting within Latin American agriculture and of the central role played by class conflict in this process, Steve Striffler looks at the quintessential form of twentieth-century U.S. imperialism ...

Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, one of Latin America’s most distinguished scholars, the contributors actively revisit the political—as both a theme of historical analysis and a stance for historical practice—to investigate the ways in which pow...

The classic true-crime chronicle of Jerry Rosenberg, America’s first jailhouse lawyer. Criminal. Convict. Lawyer. Legend. A breathtaking excursion into a shocking and violent world, Doing Life is the story of Jerry Rosenberg, a one-time junior mobster from Brooklyn who, over forty-six years in prison, transformed himself into one of the finest legal minds in the country. His conviction in a double cop killing case was an express train straight to the electric chair. Desperate and drawn to ...

La storia che ha scioccato i lettori di tutto il pianeta: una serie di eventi incredibili sta per sconvolgere l’Universo Marvel. Dopo la fine della Seconda Guerra Civile dei super umani, Iron Man e Capitan Marvel si rivolgono alla persona di cui si fidano di più per riportare la serenità nel paese: Steve Rogers, Capitan America. Una scelta che sembra sensata, ma questo Capitano è diverso e con lui alla guida gli Stati Uniti saranno preda dell’Impero Segreto, il regno incontrastato dell’Hyd...

Saddle up and ride down the trails of western history with this outstanding new short-story anthology from Silverado Press! Our all-star posse of acclaimed western writers and fresh new voices have each taken a real historical event and built a story around it. From the 1812 earthquake in southern California to the 1856 sinking of the steamboat Arabia to the 1877 Texas Salt War, these tales are guaranteed to thrill, entertain, and teach a little something in the bargain.Co...

Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States–Latin American interaction. Banana Wars is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought bananas from the forests of Latin America and the Caribbean to the breakfast tables of the United States and Europe. The first book to examine these processes in all the western hemisphe...