What We Learned in the Rainforest presents a surprising new business principle: by applying strategies and practices gleaned from nature-by emulating what it once sought to conquer-business can adapt rapidly to changing market conditions and attain greater and more sustainable profits. With clear, direct language and dozens of real-world examples, Kiuchi and Shireman show how a company can become a complex living system that doesn't merely balance...

Coverage will be global, including food festivals, farmer's markets, cooking schools, street food, wineries, wine trails, and restaurant wine lists-as well as the world's best restaurants in several price ranges and categories throughout the world, including:

• Open-air markets, farms, culinary festivals, and street food
• Cookbook and kitchenware shops
• Gourmet and specialty food stores
• Food vacations, including inns/resorts, cruises,

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500 Places to Take you Kids Before They Grow Up, 2e is packed with a broad range of must-see destinations and must-do activities that the whole family can enjoy. Among adventures detailed here are:

• Active vacations (snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef)
• Sports shrines (Baseball Hall of Fame)
• Other-worldly destinations (Monteverde Cloud Forest)
• Cultural heritage sites (Great Wall of China)
• Historic destinations (Black

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Frommer's 500 Best Islands features our selections for the best islands around the world - from tiny isles to island nations, and from well-trod to totally uninhabited. Chapters are divided into:

• Treasure Islands -- Islands that have a strong, distinctive local culture and personality
• Leisure Islands -- Islands with a relaxed vibe and lots of land sports like hiking or biking
• Pleasure Islands -- Islands famous

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500 Portraits collects for the first time over two decades of portrait work by the beloved and award-winning creator of Drinky Crow's Maakies, Sock Monkey and Billy Hazelnuts. Tony Millionaire's gorgeous fountain pen illustrations, which mingle naturalistic detail with strong doses of the fanciful and grotesque, include the famous (Bob Dylan), the infamous (Abu Ghraib soldier/model Lynndie England), the fictional (Yoda), the animal kingdom (a cockroach),...

See how the American population is reshaped by Latino immigration starting in 1880 and continuing into the 1940s: Cubans, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans begin arriving in the U.S. and start to build communities in South Florida, Los Angeles and New York.

Examine the past 30 years, as a second wave of Cubans and hundreds of thousands Salvadorans, Nicaraguans and Guatemalans flee to the U.S., creating a debate over undocumented immigrants that leads to calls for tightened borders, English-only laws and efforts to brand the undocumented as a drain on public resources. Simultaneously, the Latino influence is booming in business, sports, media, politics and entertainment. Latino Americans become the largest...

Witness the creation of the proud "Chicano" identity as labor leaders organize farm workers in California, and as activists push for better education opportunities for Latinos, the inclusion of Latino studies and empowerment in the political process.

Este libro examina las estrategias de representación de las imágenes sobre la conquista de México y sus protagonistas creadas en el imaginario de la pintura novohispana (finales del siglo XVII). Pone énfasis en el papel significativo de los discursos visuales dirigidos a convencer a propios y extraños de que la Nueva España se había fundado sobre un antiguo imperio de grandes riquezas ganado gracias a la sagacidad de los ejércitos españoles...

Con un enfoque comprensivo y explicativo, este libro aborda las transformaciones ambientales del paisaje del valle y ciudad de México antes y después de la caída y derrota de la ciudad indígena de Tenochtitlan hasta la primera mitad del siglo XX. Toma como eje de su relato y análisis el estudio de las ideas, proyectos y de algunos de los más significativos impactos socio ambientales que tuvieron las obras de construcción del desagüe del valle...