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Par Scott Galloway. 2018
New York University professor profiles four leading technology businesses: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Examines their business models, reach into…
people's everyday lives, ability to weather setbacks that cause other companies to fail, and upcoming challengers. Discusses lessons to be learned. Spanish language. 2018Par Univision, Armando A. Olmedo. 2017
A concise guide by an attorney and a journalist that clearly explains various topics related to legal immigration to the…
United States--including citizenship, residency, and the responsibilities and rights of immigrants. Spanish language. 2017Par Margot Lee Shetterly. 2017
The daughter of a NASA research scientist and a university professor profiles the African-American women who worked for NASA and…
its predecessor NACA as human computers. Discusses their lives prior to joining NACA/NASA, the challenges they faced due to gender and race discrimination, and their impact on the space program. Basis for the 2016 movie. Spanish language. 2017Par Yuval Noah Harari. 2014
A discussion of the development of human culture and history, from the emergence of the first species of the genus…
Homo over two million years ago to the twenty-first century. Examines progress from the standpoints of biology, anthropology, paleontology, and economics. Originally published in Hebrew in 2011. Spanish language. 2014Par Yuval Noah Harari. 2016
Forester shares his observations as well as research by others into the networked nature of trees and forests. Discusses communication…
between trees, the life cycle of an organic forest versus one planted, and the interaction of trees with their greater environment. Translated from the original German edition. Spanish language. 2016Par Pico Iyer. 2015
El periodista y cronista de viajes Pico Iyer explora los beneficios de la desconexión, de apreciar dónde estas, y de…
ser tranquilo. Analizando las vidas de personalidades tan disímiles como Gandhi, Proust, y Leonard Cohen, Iyer revela cómo la quietud puede despertar la creatividad y aliviar el estrésPar Papa Francisco, Papa Papa Francisco, Catholic Church. 2015
In his role as the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis offers his views on climate change, human stewardship…
of the environment, and social responsibility, including the need to curb the destructive tendencies of consumerism. Spanish language. 2005Physicist discusses research by more than three hundred scientists that is leading to breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, computers, nanotechnology, space…
travel, medicine, energy, and more. Predicts the impact these advances will have on day-to-day life during the next century. Spanish language. 2011Par Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. 2011
Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's account of his 1528 shipwreck in the New World. Describes his nearly two-thousand-mile journey…
across the unexplored American Southwest with three companions, encountering native tribes, and enduring life-threatening hardships. Some violence. Spanish language. 1542Par Walter Isaacson. 2011
Biografía del empresario Steve Jobs (1955-2011). Explora su infancia y educación; sus puestos de trabajo de nivel de entrada en…
Silicon Valley, California; su papel como cofundador de Apple computer en el garaje de sus padres en 1976; y su liderazgo en la vanguardia del iPod, iPhone, y el iPad. Analiza las relaciones personales y profesionales de Jobs y su diagnóstico de cáncer en 2003. Lenguage injuriosoChile, 2010. Details the struggle of the thirty-three workers who were trapped 700 meters underground after a cave-in at the…
San José mine. Describes the conditions the men faced and the ways they kept their spirits up for sixty-nine days until they were rescued. Spanish language. 2011Par Clara Rojas. 2009
Autobiographical account of Rojas's six years held captive by FARC rebels in Colombia's jungles. Describes her kidnapping with Ingrid Betancourt,…
the despair and anxiety of life on the run, relationships with other prisoners, her faith, and giving birth to her son while a hostage. Some violence. Spanish language. 2009Par Tim Flannery, Tim F Flannery, Damian Alou. 2008
Conservationist presents evidence that humans are responsible for climate change through increasing fossil-fuel use and other environmentally unsound activities. Flannery…
points to phenomena such as melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and frequent extremes of weather, and predicts their future effects on global climate. Spanish language. 2006Par Kenneth C. Davis. 2006
Con el formato de preguntas y respuestas, el autor presenta una historia de la astronomía y los astrónomos y pone…
de relieve lo que sabemos en la actualidad sobre las maravillas del universo--incluso el sistema solar, las estrellas, la Vía Láctea, otras galaxias, y el más alláPar Sara Martínez Cuadrado, Sara Cuadrado. 2003
Traces the life, achievements, and experiences of the Renaissance scientist and freethinker Galileo (1564-1642). Describes his invention of the telescope,…
his scientific discoveries, and his exercise of intellectual freedom, which eventually led to his arrest by the Inquisition. Spanish language. 2003Par Alicia Noemí Perris, Alicia Perris Villamor. 2005
Biography of the famous English scientist best known for his theory of gravitation. Pointing out that Newton's work is the…
basis of modern science, the author describes Newton's personal life and times and chronicles Newton's many contributions in the fields of mathematics, physics, optics, and astronomy. Spanish language. 2004Explains how laws are made in the United States, the difference between federal and state laws, the difference between civil…
and criminal law, how the judicial system works, how contracts are made, and how the legal system affects all areas of daily life. Spanish language. 2006Explains what a child-support order is and discusses measures that can be taken to collect child support. Includes information on…
how to establish paternity, calculate payments, maintain or change child-support orders, and deal with enforcement agencies. Spanish language. 2007Par Debbie M. Schell, Kurt A. Wagner. 2007
Dos abogados de inmigración enseñan las maneras de obtener visas para entrar en Estados Unidos. Describen visas de inmigrante y…
no inmigrante, visas para visitantes, visas de estudiante, visas de trabajo, y visas por vínculos familiares. También presenta información sobre formularios de visas y dónde conseguirlos