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Political Discourse as Dialogue

A Latin American Perspective

By: Adriana Bolívar

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Political Discourse as Dialogue

A Latin American Perspective

By: Adriana Bolívar

We are witnessing the collapse of democracies in many parts of the world and a general tendency to the resurgence of right-wing and left-wing populisms led by authoritarian leaders. This book centres on the political dialogue in one of these democracies. The focus is on Venezuela, the rich Latin American oil producing country, and its transformation from a stable democracy to a very unstable and controversial revolution in which the dialogue has been occupied by only one party for 18 years. The central characters of the book are Hugo Chávez, who remained in power for 14 years as the main speaker and controller, and the people who either followed or opposed him in Venezuela and other countries. Contrary to critical analyses which are mainly based on social representations that conceive dialogue as implicit or normative, this book proposes a dialogue-centred approach, which articulates linguistics, conversation analysis, socio-pragmatics and political science from a critical perspective, and offers the theoretical foundations and procedures for analysing micro dialogues between specific persons and the macro social dialogue, which unveils the processes of domination and resistance to power. The book will be useful for scholars and students of linguistics, media, communication studies and political science wishing to learn more about dialogue in political interaction.

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Routledge

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1317192451

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From Man to Ape

Darwinism in Argentina, 1870-1920

By: Adriana Novoa,Alex Levine

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From Man to Ape

Darwinism in Argentina, 1870-1920

By: Adriana Novoa,Alex Levine

Upon its publication, The Origin of Species was critically embraced in Europe and North America. But how did Darwin’s theories fare in other regions of the world? Adriana Novoa and Alex Levine offer here a history and interpretation of the reception of Darwinism in Argentina, illuminating the ways culture shapes scientific enterprise. In order to explore how Argentina’s particular interests, ambitions, political anxieties, and prejudices shaped scientific research, From Man to Ape focuses on Darwin’s use of analogies. Both analogy and metaphor are culturally situated, and by studying scientific activity at Europe’s geographical and cultural periphery, Novoa and Levine show that familiar analogies assume unfamiliar and sometimes startling guises in Argentina. The transformation of these analogies in the Argentine context led science—as well as the interaction between science, popular culture, and public policy—in surprising directions. In diverging from European models, Argentine Darwinism reveals a great deal about both Darwinism and science in general. Novel in its approach and its subject, From Man to Ape reveals a new way of understanding Latin American science and its impact on the scientific communities of Europe and North America.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226596184

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9780226596181

Water Architecture in the Lands of Syria

The Water-wheels

By: Adriana de Miranda

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Water Architecture in the Lands of Syria

The Water-wheels

By: Adriana de Miranda

This is a study of the water-raising wheels of western Syria from the aspects of sources, terminology, typology, origin, history, technology and architecture, and gives a survey of these installations, discussing their present state of conservation. By making use of historical, architectural and iconographical material, the study shows that Syrian water-wheels constitutes a particular type of water-architecture, which successfully combines the functional with the aesthetic and displays sophisticated forms of construction. These devices are visually impressive, present a variety of shapes and are of great historical, environmental and iconographical importance, being of extraordinarily accurate and detailed design. An attempt is made to present evidence of their ancient origin, and to gain an understanding of how their design evolved over time, the reasons for their significance and uniqueness, and for their great concentration in Syria.

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384

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L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER

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8882654338

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9788882654337

Environmental Contaminants and Medicinal Plants Action on Female Reproduction

By: Alexander V. Sirotkin,Adriana Kolesarova

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Environmental Contaminants and Medicinal Plants Action on Female Reproduction

By: Alexander V. Sirotkin,Adriana Kolesarova

Environmental Contaminants and Medicinal Plants Action on Female Reproduction discusses the problem of environmental pollution, medicinal and food plants, and their impact on reproduction. The book describes the mechanisms of environmental contaminants' action, outlines the key causes of their harmful impact on reproduction, and explores what regulatory substances and processes should be targeted due to the negative effect of pollutants on reproduction. Furthermore, it describes the provenance, properties, physiological and therapeutic effects, and possible areas of application of the known medicinal and functional food plants and their constituents with a focus on female reproductive processes. This book will be a useful resource for reproductive biologists, specialists in assisted reproduction, animal production and phytotherapy, toxicologists, pharmacologists, pharmaceutical scientists, endocrinologists, medicinal and natural product chemists, nutritionists and others engaged in the study of environmental contaminants and medicinal and functional food plants. - Discusses common environmental contaminants that affect female reproductive processes and the mechanisms of their effects - Covers plants and their active substances as potential protectives to environmental contaminants - Examines how medicinal plants affect female reproductive processes, the mechanisms of their effects, and what plant molecules are responsible for the positive effects

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Academic Press

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0323860125

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9780323860123

Intellectuals and Communist Culture

Itineraries, Problems, and Debates in Post-war Argentina

By: Adriana Petra

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Intellectuals and Communist Culture

Itineraries, Problems, and Debates in Post-war Argentina

By: Adriana Petra

This book investigates a central chapter in the history of 20th century intellectualism: the commitment to the communist ideal and the Soviet Union. Focusing on Argentina, whose communist party was among the most important in Latin America, Petra engages with the current literature on Western communism in order to conduct an exhaustive study of the intellectuals, cultural organizations, publications, and debates within Argentine communism in the decades following World War II. Based on rigorous archival research from diverse sources, Petra’s book distances itself from existing teleological visions and institutional approaches to the communist world, offering instead a complex framework in which multiple contexts, scales, and actors frame the larger problem: the intellectual commitment to a political project that brooked no dissent. Intellectuals and Communist Culture also addresses the emergence of Peronism, a crucial movement in Argentine political life to this very day, thus offering an important chapter on Latin American political and intellectual history and an invaluable contribution to the global history of the international communist movement.

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Springer Nature

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3030985628

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9783030985622

Resurrecting Tenochtitlan

Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City

By: Delia Cosentino,Adriana Zavala

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Resurrecting Tenochtitlan

Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City

By: Delia Cosentino,Adriana Zavala

Resurrecting Tenochtitlan considers the ways in which artists, city planners, architects, and intellectuals in Mexico shaped the evolution of Mexico City's civic identity in the first half of the twentieth century. Long forgotten and assumed to have been completely destroyed during the Spanish conquest, layers of the remnants of Tenochtitlan were discovered in the middle of a drainage project augmented under the longtime president Porfirio Díaz. As the cityscape changed in the wake of the ends of the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution, the city's layers of history were uncovered to find the remnants of the Aztec capitol of Tenochtitlan, which stirred imaginings of a new and modern Mexican capital and nation that still drew from its ancient history. Tying the modern city to the ancient one was also a way in which intellectuals articulated a mestizo cultural identity. This discovery led to the renewed interest in 16th-century maps by artists, architects, and city planners to understand the ways in which the Aztec capital intersected with the beginnings of Spanish settlement over it. The manuscript examines how artists such as Juan O'Gorman and Diego Rivera drew from the recent work of archaeologists to render panoramic depictions of both the modern Mexican and the Aztec capital to visualize it for public audiences. And while not strictly chronological in its organization, it looks at how attitudes toward modern Mexico City's ties to Tenochtitlan shaped national identity and shifted over time. The authors' timeframe ends with the inauguration of Diego Rivera's long-planned Anahuacalli Museum, which was created with the support of the National Museum of Anthropology to display pre-Columbian artifacts. Its completion, after Rivera's death, was met with the first waves of the youth cultures in Mexico whose disinterest in and suspicion toward state-sponsored national projects signaled the beginning of the collapse of these ideas"--

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University of Texas Press

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1477326995

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Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba

The Travels of Santa Cruz Y Montalvo, Condesa de Merlin

By: Adriana Méndez Rodenas

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Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba

The Travels of Santa Cruz Y Montalvo, Condesa de Merlin

By: Adriana Méndez Rodenas

Upon her return to Paris, Merlin expanded this into La Havane, an ambitious three-volume account of the political, social, and economic organization of the island. From the viewpoint of feminist and psychoanalytical theory, Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba explores the many ways in which issues of gender have contributed to Merlin's virtual absence from the canons of literature and from the discourses on Cuban national identity.

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Vanderbilt University Press

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0826512992

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9780826512994

Encounters with Wild Children

Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature

By: Adriana S. Benzaquén

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Encounters with Wild Children

Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature

By: Adriana S. Benzaquén

Through detailed readings of a wide variety of accounts, debates, and representations, Encounters with Wild Children explores the many different meanings these children were given and the varied responses they elicited. Adriana Benzaqu n explains why wild children continue to haunt and fascinate Western scientists and shows how the knowledge they have generated in different disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, pedagogy, linguistics, and sociology, has contributed to the shaping and reshaping of the modern understanding of "the child" and affected the social and institutional practices directed at all children in schools, welfare, mental health, and the law.

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400

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773576118

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9780773576117

Horizon Work

At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change

By: Adriana Petryna

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Horizon Work

At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change

By: Adriana Petryna

A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worlds As carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, Earth’s fragile ecosystems are growing increasingly unstable and unpredictable. Horizon Work explores how climate change is disrupting our fundamental ability to project how the environment will act over time, and how these rapidly faltering predictions are colliding with the dangerous new realities of emergency response. Anthropologist Adriana Petryna examines the climate crisis through the lens of “horizoning,” a mode of reckoning that considers unnatural disasters against a horizon of expectation in which people and societies can act. She talks to wildfire scientists who, amid chaotic fire seasons and shifting fire behaviors, are revising predictive models calibrated to conditions that no longer exist. Petryna tells the stories of wildland firefighters who could once rely on memory of previous fires to gauge the behaviors of the next. Trust in patterns has become an occupational hazard. Sometimes, the very concept of projection becomes untenable. Yet if all we see is doom, we will overlook something crucial about the scientific and ethical labor needed to hold back climate chaos. Here is where the work of horizoning begins. From experiments probing our planetary points of no return to disaster ecologies where the stark realities of climate change are being confronted, Horizon Work reveals how this new way of thinking has the power to reverse harmful legacies while turning voids where projection falters into spaces of collective action and recoverable futures.

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Princeton University Press

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0691264813

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¡Darwinistas! The Construction of Evolutionary Thought in Nineteenth Century Argentina

By: Alex Levine,Adriana Novoa

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¡Darwinistas! The Construction of Evolutionary Thought in Nineteenth Century Argentina

By: Alex Levine,Adriana Novoa

After setting out the intellectual, cultural, and political context of the reception of Darwinism in Argentina, this book presents original translations of central texts in that reception, most of which have never before appeared in English.

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BRILL

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9004221360

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Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition

Theories, Assessment and Pedagogy

By: Zhisheng (Edward) Wen,Richard L. Sparks,Adriana Biedroń,Mark Feng Teng

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Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition

Theories, Assessment and Pedagogy

By: Zhisheng (Edward) Wen,Richard L. Sparks,Adriana Biedroń,Mark Feng Teng

This book presents comprehensive, thorough and updated analyses of key cognitive individual difference factors (e.g., age, intelligence, language aptitude, working memory, metacognition, learning strategies, and anxiety) as they relate to the acquisition, processing, assessment, and pedagogy of second or foreign languages. Critical reviews and in-depth research syntheses of these pivotal cognitive learner factors are put into historical and broader contexts, drawing upon the multiple authors' extensive research experience, penetrating insights and unique perspectives spanning applied linguistics, teacher training, educational psychology, and cognitive science. The carefully crafted chapters provide essential course readings and valuable references for seasoned researchers and aspiring postgraduate students in the broad fields of instructed second language acquisition, foreign language training, teacher education, language pedagogy, educational psychology, and cognitive development.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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1501500457

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9781501500459

Chicanas in Charge

Texas Women in the Public Arena

By: José Angel Gutiérrez,Michelle Meléndez,Sonia Adriana Noyola

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Chicanas in Charge

Texas Women in the Public Arena

By: José Angel Gutiérrez,Michelle Meléndez,Sonia Adriana Noyola

Chicanas in Charge offers profiles, in the form of oral histories, of the careers of female community and political leaders from the Chicano community in Texas.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759105618

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Anfibios y reptiles del municipio de San José del Guaviare (Guaviare, Colombia)

Guía de Campo del Instituto de Ciencias Naturales n.o 24

By: Martha Lucía Calderón Espinosa,Guido Fabián Medina Rangel,Adriana Jerez,Juan Camilo Ríos Orjuela,Yeny Rocío López

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Anfibios y reptiles del municipio de San José del Guaviare (Guaviare, Colombia)

Guía de Campo del Instituto de Ciencias Naturales n.o 24

By: Martha Lucía Calderón Espinosa,Guido Fabián Medina Rangel,Adriana Jerez,Juan Camilo Ríos Orjuela,Yeny Rocío López

El departamento del Guaviare es una zona de confluencia de elementos de la Amazonía, Orinoquía y escudo guayanés, condición que se refleja en la diversidad de anfibios y reptiles. Esta obra, que incluye algunas de las especies de este grupo faunístico registradas en el municipio de San José del Guaviare, nace del interés de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y de la financiación de la "Dirección Nacional de Extensión, Innovación y Propiedad Intelectual", por apoyar proyectos sociales de turismo naturaleza en la región.

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Universidad Nacional de Colombia

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9587837401

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Decoding Gender

Law and Practice in Contemporary Mexico

By: Helga Baitenmann,Victoria Chenaut,Ann Varley

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Decoding Gender

Law and Practice in Contemporary Mexico

By: Helga Baitenmann,Victoria Chenaut,Ann Varley

Gender discrimination pervades nearly all legal institutions and practices in Latin America. The deeper question is how this shapes broader relations of power. By examining the relationship between law and gender as it manifests itself in the Mexican legal system, the thirteen essays in this volume show how law is produced by, but also perpetuates, unequal power relations. At the same time, however, authors show how law is often malleable and can provide spaces for negotiation and redress. The contributors (including political scientists, sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, and economists) explore these issues-not only in courts, police stations, and prisons, but also in rural organizations, indigenous communities, and families. By bringing new interdisciplinary perspectives to issues such as the quality of citizenship and the rule of law in present-day Mexico, this book raises important issues for research on the relationship between law and gender more widely.

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Rutgers University Press

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081354159X

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9780813541594

Fifteen Candles

15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles, and other Quinceanera Stories

By: Adriana V. Lopez

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Fifteen Candles

15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles, and other Quinceanera Stories

By: Adriana V. Lopez

For the uninitiated, the quinceañera celebrates the passage of a fifteen-year-old girl into adulthood: It's a bit bat mitzvah with a dash of debutante ball, and loaded with the same potential for hilarity and adolescent angst. In this original anthology, fifteen of the brightest and funniest Latino writers, men and women alike, share their own memories of these moving and often absurd extravaganzas—tales of that unique form of familial humiliation that is borne of the best intentions, fierce love, and the infectious joy of parents finally allowing their little girl to grow up.

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Harper Collins

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0061860204

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Political Discourse as Dialogue

Political Discourse as Dialogue

From Man to Ape

From Man to Ape

Water Architecture in the Lands of Syria

Water Architecture in the Lands of Syria

Environmental Contaminants and Medicinal Plants Action on Female Reproduction

Environmental Contaminants and Medicinal Plants Action on Female Reproduction

Intellectuals and Communist Culture

Intellectuals and Communist Culture

Resurrecting Tenochtitlan

Resurrecting Tenochtitlan

Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba

Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba

Encounters with Wild Children

Encounters with Wild Children

Horizon Work

Horizon Work

¡Darwinistas! The Construction of Evolutionary Thought in Nineteenth Century Argentina

¡Darwinistas! The Construction of Evolutionary Thought in Nineteenth Century Argentina

Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition

Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition

Chicanas in Charge

Chicanas in Charge

Anfibios y reptiles del municipio de San José del Guaviare (Guaviare, Colombia)

Anfibios y reptiles del municipio de San José del Guaviare (Guaviare, Colombia)

Decoding Gender

Decoding Gender

Fifteen Candles

Fifteen Candles

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