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  • The End

    by Fernanda Torres ...
    The End centers on five friends in Rio de Janeiro who, nearing the end of their lives, are left with memories—of parties, marriages, divorces, fixations, inhibitions, bad decisions—and the physical indignities of aging. Alvaro lives alone and spends his time going from doctor to doctor and bemoaning the evils of his ex-wife. Silvio is a junkie who can’t give up the excesses of sex and drugs even ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Glory and Its Litany of Horrors

    by Fernanda Torres, Eric M. B. Becker ...
    From Fernanda Torres, the celebrated Brazilian actress and bestselling author of The End, comes a riotous tragicomedy of a famed actor’s path from national sex symbol to cult icon to raving madman after a disastrous performance as King Lear.Mario Cardoso’s meteoric rise to fame begins in the early sixties, when the promise of sex and revolution permeates the Rio air. But as he conquers the stage, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End

    by Fernanda Torres ...
    Translated by Alison Entrekin ...
    In this deadly-funny debut novel by renowned Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, five macho friends in Rio’s Copacabana reflect on their hedonistic glory days—now supplanted by the indignities of aging—in what turn out to be their final moments.With uncanny insight into the less virtuous corners of the male psyche, Fernanda Torres brings us five friends who once milked the high life of Rio’s Bossa ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Glory and its Litany of Horrors

    A Novel

    by Fernanda Torres ...
    Translated by Eric M. B. Becker ...
    From Fernanda Torres, the celebrated Brazilian actress and bestselling author of The End, comes a riotous tragicomedy of a famed actor’s path from national sex symbol to cult icon to raving madman after a disastrous performance as King Lear.Mario Cardoso’s meteoric rise to fame begins in the early sixties, when the promise of sex and revolution permeates the Rio air. But as he conquers the stage, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • AI Leadership for Boards

    The Future of Corporate Governance

    by Fernanda Torre, Liselotte Engstam, Robin Teigland ...
    It is predicted that artificial intelligence [Al], and the “big data” on which Al is based, will become one of the most challenging board issues in the next ten years. This book, AI Leadership for Boards – The Future of Corporate Governance, offers to provide guidance on how corporate boards should respond to this challenge. The findings indicate that while boards are aware of the importance of Al ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Citizenship and Disadvantaged Groups in Chile

    by Pablo Marshall, Jaime Bassa, Paula Hollstein, Paz Irarrázabal, Matías Meza-Lopehandía, Carla Moscoso, Fernando Muñoz, Paula Nuño, Fernanda Torres, José Luis Ugarte0, Ximena Valencia1, Luis Villavicencio2, Lieta Vivaldi3, Yanira Zúñiga4 ...
    Citizenship and Disadvantaged Groups in Chile seeks to overcome an existing void in the literature of Latin American studies addressing the impact of Chile’s post dictatorial legal framework on its historically and structurally disadvantaged groups, concentrating on the various issues and challenges that affect them. Within its eleven chapters it explores the changing social and legal status of ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • AI Leadership for Corporate Boards

    Leading Responsible AI for Value Creation

    by Fernanda Torre, Liselotte Hägertz Engstam, Robin Teigland, Stanislav Shekshnia ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    By 2030, AI is expected to contribute $15.7 trillion to the global economy. However, corporate boards are increasingly struggling to respond to this systemic change. As AI increasingly influences business strategies and operations, board members and executives must ensure that their organization is using AI responsibly and effectively to maximize value and mitigate risks. Building on research ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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    Translated by Achy Obejas ...
    by Eduardo Antonio Parra, Bernardo Fernández ...
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    Latin American noir at its finest. "[A] diverse collection of stories which reflect the harshness and also the brittle brilliance of life in Mexico City."— MostlyFiction Book ReviewsAkashic Books's acclaimed series of original noir anthologies has set a high standard for portraying cities and their neighborhoods in all their dark and violent splendor. Now, " Mexico City Noir surpasses that ... Read more

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  • Battles in the Desert & Other Stories

    by José Emilio Pacheco ...
    Intense, despairing accounts of life in Mexico City.Seven stories depict harsh realities of life in urban Mexico and the tragedies of childhood innocence betrayed. ... Read more

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  • Dead Stars

    by Álvaro Bisama ...
    An unnamed couple sits in a café, waiting for the city offices to open so they can finalize their divorce papers. The wife opens the local newspaper to a shocking photo of a classmate from her university days being taken into custody by the police. In an engrossing ebb and flow of facts, recollections, and conjecture, the couple spend the rest of the day trying to figure out how this former ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Made in Saturn

    by Rita Indiana ...
    Translated by Sydney Hutchinson ...
    These are the children of revolutions, and this is their story. This is the Caribbean. This is Argenis Luna: an artist who no longer paints, a heroin addict who no longer uses, and an overgrown child trying to make sense of his inheritance in a country where his once-revolutionary father is now part of the ruling elite. Thrown out of rehab in Havana, with Goya's tyrannical god Saturn on his mind, ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Back to Blood

    A Novel

    by Tom Wolfe ...
    An expansive, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now.As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay—with officer Nestor Camacho on board—Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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