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Machiavelli’s Art of Politics

By: Alejandro Barcenas

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In Machiavelli’s Art of Politics Alejandro Bárcenas offers a reexamination of Niccolò Machiavelli’s political thought in order to propose a concise and historically accurate portrayal of his ideas and intellectual context. This study provides a nuanced view of the complexities of Machiavelli’s thought by analyzing his classical background, taking into particular consideration the influence of Xenophon, and his view of the ideal ruler as someone who creates the conditions for a flourishing human life. In addition, Bárcenas explains why Machiavelli defends a republican political order that encourages citizens to live according to their own laws while serving a common good and revises his legacy through the writings of Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin and Maurizio Viroli.

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9004298029

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Morphodynamics of Mediterranean Mixed Sand and Gravel Coasts

By: Miguel Ortega-Sánchez,Rafael J. Bergillos,Alejandro López-Ruiz,Miguel A. Losada

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Morphodynamics of Mediterranean Mixed Sand and Gravel Coasts

By: Miguel Ortega-Sánchez,Rafael J. Bergillos,Alejandro López-Ruiz,Miguel A. Losada

This book describes recent advances in the morphodynamics of mixed sand and gravel Mediterranean coasts, and provides updates and new methods for their study and management. It assesses how the differences in the geomorphic setting, in comparison with traditional sandy beaches, result in distinctive physical processes governing the dynamics of these coasts. Further, on the basis of field measurements, theoretical analysis and numerical modeling carried out at two study sites in southern Spain over the last 15 years, the book studies, analyzes and compares these physical processes and mechanisms. It also shows that the narrow and complex bathymetries and inner shelves modify the wave propagation patterns and hence, the longshore sediment transport gradients along the coast. Given the correlation between the changes in these gradients and the shoreline evolution over time, it identifies the complexity of the inner shelf bathymetries as the main driver of coastal changes and describes these processes in detail using, in the plan view, the inter-annual evolution of unaltered and “altered by human” beaches. Lastly, the book details how the generation and subsequent overlapping of berms across the beach profile are responsible for the sediment variability at depth and cross-shore, and concludes that the total run-up (including the water-level) is a more influential variable than wave height in the erosional/depositional response of these beaches.

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Springer

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3319524402

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9783319524405

Institutions Count

Their Role and Significance in Latin American Development

By: Alejandro Portes,Lori D. Smith

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Institutions Count

Their Role and Significance in Latin American Development

By: Alejandro Portes,Lori D. Smith

Institutions Count is an impressively collaborative project and a valuable contribution, both for its lucid presentation of case study data across countries and cultures as well as its new insights to the roles institutions play in national development." —Bryan R. Roberts, Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin "Institutions Count by Portes and Smith is a significant addition to studies of institutions as well as studies of development. The main contributions include a clarification of the concept of institutions; an impeccable methodology for the empirical analysis of five institutions in five developing countries; and an innovative, comparative analysis of the outcomes of the individual studies. It is to be recommended to scholars across the social sciences who are frustrated by the lack of rigor in the existing literature on the increasingly popular topic of institutions."—Barbara Stallings, Wm. R. Rhodes Research Professor, Brown University

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Univ of California Press

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0520273532

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9780520273535

Borderland Beat

By: Alejandro Marentes

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Borderland Beat

By: Alejandro Marentes

The Borderland Beat Project is collaboration from a group of people of different backgrounds located in the U.S. and Mexico that gather information related to the Mexican drug cartels and presents it in English through the internet, publications and presentations. The information in this book is fast-paced, with a lot of DTO information thrown at you at once. It's filled with sicario activity and the Mexican government's attempt to intervene, but it also contains a lot of direct, behind-the-scenes information from the author. This particular information is the involvement of the author from his early stages when he started to formalize his plan to bring to life the Borderland Beat Project. Follow Buggs as he sets the stage and takes you on a wild ride in to the dark shadows of the violence and chaos of the Mexican drug cartels. A narrative, as told in the deep dark pages of the Borderland Beat blog.

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Lulu.com

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0359594700

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9780359594702

In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13

By: Alejandro L. Madrid

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In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13

By: Alejandro L. Madrid

In the 1920s, the Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1965) developed a microtonal system called El Sonido 13 (The 13th Sound). Although his pioneering role as one of the first proponents of microtonality within the Western art music tradition elevated Carrillo to iconic status among European avant-garde circles in the 1960s and 1970s, his music and legacy have remained largely overlooked by music scholars, critics, and performers. Confronting this paucity of scholarship on Carrillo and his music, Alejandro L. Madrid goes above and beyond "filling in" the historical record. Combining archival and ethnographic research with musical analysis and cultural theory, Madrid argues that Carrillo and Sonido 13 are best understood as a cultural complex: a network of moments, spaces, and articulations in which Carrillo and his music continuously re-acquire significance and meaning. Thus, Madrid explores Carrillo's music and ideas not only in relation to the historical moments of their inception, but also in relation to the various cultural projects that kept them alive and re-signified them through the beginning of the twenty-first century. Eschewing traditionally linear historical frameworks, In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13 employs an innovative transhistorical narrative in which past, present, and future are explored dialogically in order to understand the politics of performance and self-representation behind Carrillo and Sonido 13. In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13 transforms the traditional genre of the composer study, treating it not as a celebration of "masters" and "masterworks," but as a pointed postcolonial intervention that offers invaluable insight into the politics of cultural exchange, experimentalism, marginality, and cultural capital in twentieth century Mexico.

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Oxford University Press

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0190463694

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Corrections

Blueprints

By: Alejandro del Carmen

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Corrections

Blueprints

By: Alejandro del Carmen

Corrections examines a number of issues affecting today's correctional system, such as probation, parole, female and male offenders, prisons, and jails. It was written so readers could develop an understanding of the historical significance of punishment, the alleged utility of punishment, and the social consequences that are a result of current penal practices. Corrections focuses on the reaction we invoke when a suspect is arrested and convicted.

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Atomic Dog Publishing

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0618062939

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9780618062935

Machiavelli’s Art of Politics

By: Alejandro Barcenas

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By: Alejandro Barcenas

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Machiavelli's Art of Politics

By: Alejandro Barcenas

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Machiavelli's Art of Politics

By: Alejandro Barcenas

In "Machiavelli s Art of Politics" Alejandro Barcenas offers a reexamination of Niccolo Machiavelli s political thought in order to propose a concise and historically accurate portrayal of his ideas and intellectual context.

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Brill / Rodopi

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