The avocado industry is evolving rapidly. Avocado production has almost doubled recently, with significant expansion in areas planted, especially in Latin America, but also in Africa and Asia. Moreover, the global demand for avocado keeps on growing. The Avocado, 3rd edition is a unique and comprehensive source of information for avocado researchers, and covers everything from the history and distribution, novel agronomic practices, ecological and climatic requirements, and emerging diseas...

I might be the most promising quarterback in college football today, but once I was just a boy desperately in love with the wrong girl, one I’d very much like to win back. She blocks me better than any player on the field, but to figure out my best play, first I need to understand how we got here.We have been apart longer than we were together but we can’t seem to stop torturing each other. Every guy she touches or allows to touch her is like a knife right to my heart.Not t...

A fake romance could catapult their careers to higher levels—or reignite heartbreak they never recover from.Actor Ignacio Santana needs to fund his passion project, an indie film he’s poured his heart into. But the buzz he needs only arrives when a headline claims he’s back with his ex, R&B singer Delta James—the woman who shattered his heart eleven years ago.Delta’s career is running on fumes, but the alleged reunion with Ignacio could be just what she needs to re...

For decades, people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Ignacio Ramonet, the celebrated editor in chief of Le Monde diplomatique, has finally succeeded. For the first time, in a series of extensive and probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life from the 1950s to the present day. In frank and compelling detail, he discusses his parents and his childhood, his earliest influences, the beginnings of the revolution, his relatio...

“In your country,” Ignacio Martín-Baró remarked to a North American colleague, “it’s publish or perish. In ours, it’s publish and perish.” In November 1989 a Salvadoran death squad extinguished his eloquent voice, raised so often and so passionately against oppression in his adopted country. A Spanish-born Jesuit priest trained in psychology at the University of Chicago, Martín-Baró devoted much of his career to making psychology speak to the community as well as to the individual...

Paco Ignacio Taibo II is one of the most popular and influential authors in Latin and South America. His endlessly inventive, highly-political detective novels, featuring the idiosyncratic private eye Hector Belascoaran Shayne, are set in the teeming landscape of Mexico City, a combustible mix of poverty, tragic class warfare, the anarchic and absurd. For Shayne it is a world that can bring tears one moment and blood the next.An Easy Thing is the first nov...

When the three gods of the dream world accidentally cause a mass homicide, their father, Erebus, decides to punish them and send them to the earthly realm. The eldest, the weaver of dreams who can mimic any human form, finds the mortals dull playthings that are beneath him. The youngest, the weaver of fantasy who can mimic all shapes of nature, has always been secretly in love with the complicated race. The middle child, the weaver of nightmares who can mimic beasts and monsters, carries t...

Marius Monarco has been in a mafia family his entire life. Raised in it, he's known nothing else. When he is brought to Montana by the head of the Carrillos, he is a fish out of water.Then he meets two men who will change his life. They open the world to him, showing him that the streets of his youth aren't the only wild and dangerous place for him.The land stretches out around him, hiding secrets and lies. As he falls in love, he's torn between his new, soft life as a part...

When the Eleventh Day comes around, no one is safe.In the village of Venlet the Child lives unwelcome and abused, desperate to get away and see the rest of Zel. But that was before the unthinkable happens and her life is changed for the worse. One bad thing leads to another and her and her friends, Pul and Tane, are taken on a journey that will forever scar them.Can they survive the terrible wrath of the Order of Garatos, or will they succumb and leav...

If you love older men with a fierce need to protect, and short, steamy romance, you'll love The Ultimate Filthy Romance Collection!Packed with nine of your favorite bestselling romance titles!Burly, tattooed men . . . check.Strong, curvy, heroines . . . double check.Nine sticky-sweet instalove romance stories . . . yes please!Includes Restless, Broken, Filthy,

A spellbinding new sci-fi box set from the bestselling author of Not Alone & Last Man Standing — perfect for fans of 'The Twilight Zone' and 'Black Mirror'._____________________________Grab FIFTEEN standalone stories in one great-value anthology!**15 stories, 18 hours, 900+ 5-star Amazon ratings!**Chasing Tomorrows explores classic sci-fi themes through a contemporary lens....

El Celler de Can Roca is the restaurant in Girona, Spain opened in 1986 by the Roca brothers: Joan, Josep and Jordi. It holds three Michelin stars and in 2013, 2015, 2018 it was named the best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine.Jordi Roca is currently one of the world’s most advanced chocolatiers, and was proclaimed best pastry chef in the world in the 2014, 50 Best Awards. This book shows Jordi’s search for the origins of cocoa and his journey to discover how to master...