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  • The Roman Wars in Spain

    The Military Confrontation with Guerrilla Warfare

    by Daniel Varga ...
    It took the Romans almost exactly 200 years to conquer the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal). The skillful and tenacious resistance of the various inhabitants, utilizing superior mobility in the rugged terrain to wage a guerrilla war, made the region the graveyard of many a Roman army. But the lessons, though painful, were eventually learnt and the heat of this socalled fiery war ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The $370 Million Glitch: The Destruction of Ariane 5 Flight 501

    Integer Overflow, Legacy Code, and the Most Expensive Software Bug in Aerospace History, 1996

    by Daniel Vargas ...
    How can a decade of brilliant engineering and 370 million dollars of scientific equipment be completely vaporized in exactly 37 seconds due to a single line of faulty computer code? The explosive maiden voyage of the European Space Agency's Ariane 5 rocket in 1996 remains the most infamous and costly software bug in the history of aerospace engineering. The rocket's catastrophic failure was ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective

    Edited by Peter Sloman, Daniel Zamora Vargas, Pedro Ramos Pinto ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This new edited collection brings together historians and social scientists to engage with the global history of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and offer historically-rich perspectives on contemporary debates about the future of work. In particular, the book goes beyond a genealogy of a seemingly utopian idea to explore how the meaning and reception of basic income proposals has changed over time. ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • José Guadalupe Posada in the eyes of Diego Rivera

    by Guadalupe Rivera Marín, Daniel Vargas ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Collins Morrison ...
    Includes Guadalupe Rivera Marín´s voice.Mesmerized for days outside Posada´s shop, watching as the master gave form to his figures, the boy Diego Rivera was invited in by the artist himself, to see how he worked. Since that moment, Rivera recognized Posada as one of his greatest teachers.In this book, an homage to the mexican engraver, we present a text in which Rivera the muralist speaks ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ecos del infinito

    Grimorio cósmico

    by David Green, Dalia Carolina León Martínez, Ankh, RH Moreno, Luis David Balderas, Horacio Olivera, Daniel Zúñiga Caballero, Jordy Vargas, Luis Carreón, Aldo Saúl Uribe Núñez, Diego Munguia, Darek Soria, Armando Hernández, George Cárdenas Recamier, Gilberto García Zapata, Ángel H. Domínguez ...
    Al abrir este libro prepárate para adentrarte en un abismo que te confrontará con tu propia insignificancia. Los ecos del infinito resuenan en estas páginas, invitándote a explorar los límites de la cordura, a mirar cara a cara a lo inefable y aceptar que, quizás, hay secretos que es mejor no desvelar. Este es el espíritu de “Grimorio cósmico: Ecos del infinito”: un viaje por lo desconocido que, ... Read more

    $6.90 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The AI Revolution

    What Creativity Could Look Like in 2035

    by Daniel Vargas-Gomez ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines AI’s transformative impact on creativity, blending insights from economics, media studies, and technology to analyze its role in the arts and the broader creative industries. AI challenges the way we relate and use technology, as well as expand how we think of technological progress overall. Structured in three parts, the book first rethinks creativity as an inclusive, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Easter Island's Silent Sentinels

    The Sculpture and Architecture of Rapa Nui

    by Kenneth Treister, Patricia Vargas Casanova, Claudio Cristino ...
    It may be the most interesting and yet loneliest spot on earth: a volcanic rock surrounded by a million square miles of ocean, named for the day Dutch explorers discovered it, Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722. Here people created a complex society, sophisticated astronomy, exquisite wood sculpture, monumental stone architecture, roads, and a puzzling ideographic script. And then they went about ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Bridging Cultures

    Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands

    by Dr. Daniel D Arreola, Enrique X de Anda Alanis, Jesús F. De la Teja, Dr. Margaret Dorsey, Stephen Fox, John Phillip Santos, Dr. Daniel J. Gelo, Gabriel Aguilar, Melinda Vargas, Ricardo Romo, Miguel Díaz-Barriga, Patricia Sánchez ...
    Series series Summerfield G. Roberts Texas History Series
    Borderlands: they stretch across national boundaries, and they create a unique space that extends beyond the international boundary. They extend north and south of what we think of as the actual “border,” encompassing even the urban areas of San Antonio, Texas, and Monterrey, Nueva León, Mexico, affirming shared identities and a sense of belonging far away from the geographical boundary.In ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Gaiseric

    The Vandal Who Destroyed Rome

    by Ian Hughes ...
    While Gaiseric has not become a household name like other 'barbarian' leaders such as Attila or Genghis Khan, his sack of Rome in AD455 has made his tribe, the Vandals, synonymous with mindless destruction. Gaiseric, however, was no moronic thug, proving himself a highly skilful political and military leader and was one of the dominant forces in Western Mediterranean region for almost half a ... Read more

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  • Gaius Marius

    The Rise and Fall of Rome's Saviour

    by Marc Hyden ...
    "Shows Marius the man, warts and all . . . an excellent biography . . . a very good breakdown of Roman politics, and a civics course in ancient Rome."— A Wargamers Needful ThingsGaius Marius was one of the most remarkable and significant figures of the late Roman Republic. At a time when power tended to be restricted to a clique of influential families, he rose from relatively humble origins to ... Read more

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  • Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain

    by Philip Matyszak ...
    The epic battle to liberate Spain from Roman rule is a masterclass of ancient guerilla warfare, recounted by the author of Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day.In the year 82 BC, after a brutal civil war, the dictator Sulla took power in Rome. But among those who refused to accept his rule was the young army officer Quintus Sertorius. Sertorius fled, first to Africa and then to Spain, where he made ... Read more

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  • Rome's Great Eastern War

    Lucullus, Pompey and the Conquest of the East, 74–62 BC

    by Gareth C. Sampson ...
    This military history of Ancient Rome analyses the empire's revitalized push against rising enemies to the East.In the century since Rome's defeat of the Seleucid Empire in the 180s BC, the East was dominated by the rise of new empires: Parthia, Armenia, and Pontus, each vying to recreate the glories of the Persian Empire. By the 80s BC, the Pontic Empire of Mithridates had grown so bold that it ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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