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    Funeral for Flaca

    Essays

    by Emilly G. Prado ...
    Narrated by Emilly G. Prado ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 36 min

    Funeral for Flaca is an exploration of things lost and found—love, identity, family—and the traumas that transcend bodies, borders, cultures, and generations.Emilly Prado retraces her experience coming of age as a prep-turned-chola-turned-punk in this collection that is one-part memoir-in-essays, and one-part playlist, zigzagging across genres and decades, much like the rapidly changing and varied ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Ghosts of Langley

    Into the CIA's Heart of Darkness

    by John Prados ...
    Narrated by Charles Constant ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 10 min

    During his first visit to Langley, the CIA's Virginia headquarters, President Donald Trump told those gathered, "I am so behind you . . . there's nobody I respect more," hinting that he was going to put more CIA operations officers into the field so the CIA could smite its enemies ever more forcefully. But while Trump was making these promises, behind the scenes the CIA was still reeling from ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: eBooks

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    Islands of Destiny

    The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun

    by John Prados ...
    Narrated by Richard Ferrone ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 49 min

    John Prados enjoys well-deserved acclaim for his work as a World War II historian and military intelligence expert. In this dramatically told reassessment of the Allies' battle for the Solomon Islands, Prados demonstrates how this campaign -- and not Midway, as commonly thought -- turned the tide in the Pacific. ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Storm Over Leyte

    The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy

    by John Prados ...
    Narrated by Richard Ferrone ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 27 min

    The story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II-the greatest naval battle in history. As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine and airplane was placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral William F. Halsey's unwitting American armada. It was the beginning of the epic Battle of Leyte Gulf-the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Ghosts of Langley

    Into the CIA's Heart of Darkness

    by John Prados ...
    " The Ghosts of Langley offers a detail-rich, often relentless litany of CIA scandals and mini-scandals. . . [and a] prayer that the CIA learn from and publicly admit its mistakes, rather than perpetuate them in an atmosphere of denial and impunity."— The Washington PostFrom the writer Kai Bird calls a "wonderfully accessible historian," the first major history of the CIA in a decade, published to ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Professores Reféns

    Entenda por que o Ensino Público Brasileiro não tem Futuro

    by Prado, M ...
    O livro “Professores Reféns: Entenda por que o Ensino Público Brasileiro não tem Futuro” tem por objetivo demostrar o descaso que vem acontecendo há anos na “Educação” pública brasileira. Das faltas de investimentos aos excessos de indisciplinas, violências e tudo mais de ruim que pode acontecer no âmbito escolar. O alicerce de toda famigerada desordem que impregnou na escola está baseado em Leis ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • Advanced Introduction to Law and Development

    by Trebilcock, M.J., Prado, M.M. ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by some of the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to the main ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Taco

    by Prof. Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native. In a narrative that moves from Mexico to the United States and back, Sánchez Prado discusses the definition of the taco, the question of the tortilla and the taco shell, and the existence of the ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Advances in Financial Machine Learning

    by Marcos Lopez de Prado ...
    Learn to understand and implement the latest machine learning innovations to improve your investment performanceMachine learning (ML) is changing virtually every aspect of our lives. Today, ML algorithms accomplish tasks that – until recently – only expert humans could perform. And finance is ripe for disruptive innovations that will transform how the following generations understand money and ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Advanced Introduction to Law and Development

    by Mariana M. Prado, Michael J. Trebilcock ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition, Mariana ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • My Guy Barbaro

    A Jockey's Journey Through Love, Triumph, and Heartbreak With America's Favorite Horse

    by Edgar Prado, John Eisenberg ...
    A new superstar appeared on the American sports landscape in the spring of 2006. Barbaro, a three-year-old racehorse, won the Kentucky Derby by the largest margin of victory in sixty years, stirring talk of a possible Triple Crown. But in the opening yards of the Preakness Stakes two weeks later, the magnificent animal suffered a catastrophic leg injury that ended his un-defeated career and left ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Comparative Administrative Law

    New Voices, New Perspectives: Third Edition

    Edited by Peter L. Lindseth, Mariana M. Prado, Blake Emerson, Farrah Ahmed, Megan Pfiffer ...
    Series series Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series
    This thoroughly revised third edition of Comparative Administrative Law builds on the legacy of the first two editions, providing a redefined and reinvigorated analysis of pressing issues through original chapters, a renewed group of contributors and a broader geographic scope, with particular emphasis on the Global South.Leading scholars offer novel perspectives, investigating the intersecting ... Read more

    $58.49 USD