Bøger af Louis E. V. Nevaer

A dark comedy in two acts about the Reagan administration. The arms-for-hostages scandal casts a shadow over Ronald Reagan's foreign policy. Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador to the United Nations, is in conflict with Nora Astorga, Nicaragua's deputy foreign minister who has become that nation's ambassador to the United Nations. The women, mocked as "Amazonian Bitches" by the delegates to this male-dominated organization, clash ideologically as each tries to sway world public opinion. Their confrontations become legendary as they work feverishly to prevail-each coming to respect the other before fate intervenes.

Were the individuals who died on September 11, 2001 destined to die that day? In 1927, Thorton Wilder published a novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, that tells the story of the individuals who perished in the collapse of a rope bridge in the Andes mountain ranges of Peru. In that narrative, Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, embarks on a quest to find a cosmic answer to the question why those specific individuals died that day when the bridge collapsed. Hundreds of people crossed the bridge every day. Why were these individuals crossing the bridge at the exact moment when the bridge collapsed? The philosophical questions Wilder asks in his work of fiction are the same ones contemplated with anguish almost three quarters of a century later. Why did those specific passengers and crewmembers board those specific planes? Why were those 125 individuals at the Pentagon in those specific offices that morning? Why were the individuals at the World Trade Center there on that Tuesday-and not anywhere else? Why were so many first responders trapped at the site that would henceforth be known as Ground Zero? Was it in the stars? In The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Wilder concludes that "there is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." Perhaps the same can be said of the events of September 11, 2001. This book includes the names and birth dates of all who died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

What tale would your cat tell? What secrets would your cat disclose about you? What stories would your cat share with the world? From around the world and across the ages cats now speak, tell the history of the world-and the human condition-from the perspective of meticulous feline observers. Andy Warhol, in the 1950s, created a series of cat illustrations that were subsequently published as 25 Cats Named Sam and One Blue Pussy. In occasional conversations over the years, speculating what a cat would say about his or her human companion was a theme in which he indulged: "Someone should rescue those poor cats from Edward Gorey's home," or "Imagine what Truman Capote's cat has seen over the years." Decades later, Mexican artist Jose Luis Loria embarked on an endeavor to create masterful illustrations of cats. Inspired by Warhol and Loria the tales assembled in this book link cats-and their human companions-on a journey, a journey where the private thoughts deep inside a cat's mind are now disclosed. From Marilyn Monroe to Catherine the Great, from Cardinal Richelieu to Jacqueline Kennedy, from Fidel Castro to Tennessee Williams ... 26 cats of the famous and infamous are now out of their bags, and telling all!

"If I were, upon dying, to come back as a ghost, I can think of no more beautiful a city to haunt than Mérida" - Carlos Fuentes. What is it about the story of a haunting that appeals to our nature? What is it about Mérida, with its history dating back to the 16th century when it was an isolated city in New Spain's Yucatán peninsula, that is so haunting and haunted? Why does it offer a rich history from which to draw out the ghosts that live here, some of which date back to when the Maya ruled in all their glory? There is, of course, a natural human fascination with ghost stories. In this collection the author has assembled some of the most captivating accounts of the ghosts, spirits and souls that inhabit Mexico's most haunted city. This full-color book offers the contemporary reader a fascinating insight into the lives-and afterlives-of some of the more intriguing characters to inhabit Mérida. With riveting accounts of these tales of terror, Mérida now has an authoritative book that tells the stories of the haunted places and the hauntings that characterize this most enchanting city in Mexico. Organized by neighborhood, the stories are told in a manner conducive to self-guided walking tours, with full addresses at the end of each story to facilitate the wandering of a curious pedestrian. Whether the hauntings are by dead Maya sacrificial virgins, lesbian suicides, disappeared Narcos, or vengeful mistresses, this book, in full color, is filled with exciting insights into the breathtaking diversity and exuberance of Mérida's paranormal history.

Hispanics make up the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States. Organizations that don’t know how to make them feel comfortable, recognized, and rewarded risk losing access to this important source of talent and innovation. Drawing on his own ethnic background and years of experience as director of the organization Hispanic Economics, Louis Nevaer identifies elements unique to the Hispanic worldview that often result in behaviors, beliefs, and expectations very different from, and sometimes seemingly at odds with, those of non-Hispanics. He also describes differences within the Hispanic community—such as between U.S.-born and immigrant Hispanics, and between people from different parts of the Hispanic world—that have a huge, and often unrecognized, impact on how workers interact with each other as well as with non-Hispanics. Through a wealth of examples, Nevaer shows how to develop Hispanic-friendly approaches to every aspect of the modern workplace, from recruitment, retention, and evaluation to training, mentoring, and labor relations.

The ideas in this volume are based on the authors' assumption that the deficit economy in which the United States finds itself will exist for the remainder of the century.

This study examines the Hispanic worldview and how it informs economic decisions, both in the US and across North America. It challenges the view that American culture will soon dominate its NAFTA trading partners and looks carefully at the market for Hispanic goods in the US.