Fiction Legal Thriller - In This Murder Mystery The Criminal Lawyer Must Fight to Find the TruthReader Reviews:"You Can Always Tell When A Writer Knows The Courtroom... if you like courtroom thrillers that respect your intelligence... this one's well worth your time." - 4 Stars"Sharp and engaging legal thriller... unfolding mystery keeps shifting expectations." - 5 Stars

Fiction Legal Thriller - In This Murder Mystery The Criminal Lawyer Must Fight to Find the TruthReader Reviews:"You Can Always Tell When A Writer Knows The Courtroom... if you like courtroom thrillers that respect your intelligence... this one's well worth your time." - 4 Stars"Sharp and engaging legal thriller... unfolding mystery keeps shifting expectations." - 5 Stars

In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an “autonomous design” that eschews commercial and modernizing aims in favor of more collabor...

Reimagining Political Ecology is a state-of-the-art collection of ethnographies grounded in political ecology. When political ecology first emerged as a distinct field in the early 1970s, it was rooted in the neo-Marxism of world system theory. This collection showcases second-generation political ecology, which retains the Marxist interest in capitalism as a global structure but which is also heavily influenced by poststructuralism, feminism, practice theory, and cultural studies...

"A lost masterpiece that helped launch a legion of writers . . . May it win many new readers." —Luis Alberto Urrea, New York Times –bestselling author"Rivers, rivulets, fountains and waters flow, but never return to their joyful beginnings; anxiously they hasten on to the vast realms of the Rain God."A beloved Southwestern classic—as beautiful, subtle and profound as the desert itself—Arturo Islas...

The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These questions are the inspiration for the mathematical mystery novel Pythagoras' Revenge. Suspenseful and instructive, Pythagoras' Revenge weaves fact, fiction, mathematics, computer science, and ancient history into a surprising and sophisticated thriller.The intrigue be...

Could fungal pathogens outsmart us before we find ways to combat them?Humans and fungi share nearly 50 percent of the same DNA. Because we're related, designing drugs to combat the varieties that attack us is a challenge. Meanwhile, in an ever hotter, wetter world, fungi may be finding new ways to thrive, queueing up global outbreak potentials for which no vaccine and woefully few medications exist; some fungi are already beginning to resist treatment. Among other ...

In the beginning of Earth's history, mankind is quickly spreading across the lands. Adam and Eve's children grow in numbers and increase in knowledge, subduing everything before them even the great dinosaurs. With increasing imagination of the arts and the shaping of stone, they build great cities of magnificent splendour. They master the forging of steel and make great weapons of war. Slowly they forget their Creator, as their strength leads to pride and evil desires. They gather and conq...

This groundbreaking book presents the first full history of the Manila galleons, which marked the true beginning of a global economy. Arturo Giraldez, the world’s leading scholar of the galleons, traces the rise of the maritime route, which began with the founding of the city of Manila in 1571 and ended in 1815 when the last galleon left the port of Acapulco in New Spain (Mexico) for the Philippines, establishing a permanent connection between the Spanish empire in America with Asian count...

This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we live, think, act and design: the assumption of dualism, or the fundamental separateness of things.The authors contend that the key to constructing livable worlds lies in the cultivation of ways of knowing and acting based on a profound awareness of the fundamental interdependence o...

In Pluriversal Politics Arturo Escobar engages with the politics of the possible and how established notions of what is real and attainable preclude the emergence of radically alternative visions of the future. Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals and on current Latin American theoretical-political debates, Escobar chronicles the social movements mobilizing to defend their territories from large-scale extra...

For readers of The Making of a Manager and Dare to Lead, a bold leadership philosophy from one of America’s most dynamic creative executives on why staying true to yourself is the secret to success in corporate America.For generations, success in corporate America has come with an unspoken expectation: adapt, assimilate, and leave parts of yourself behind. Not all at once. Just enough that, over t...