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The Human Factor

The Demography of the Roman Province of Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis

By: Alejandro Sinner,Cèsar Carreras,Pieter Houten

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The Human Factor

The Demography of the Roman Province of Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis

By: Alejandro Sinner,Cèsar Carreras,Pieter Houten

A study of demography in the Iberian Peninsula (4th century BC to the end of the Roman period), focusing on its largest province, Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis. A multidisciplinary approach is employed, compiling archaeological, epigraphic, architectonic, osteological, and genetic data, to paint a nuanced picture of the ancient Mediterranean.

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Oxford University Press

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0192848593

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9780192848598

Dos Obras del Teatro Burlesco Cubano.

By: Alejandro Roque Glez

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Dos Obras del Teatro Burlesco Cubano.

By: Alejandro Roque Glez

El autor estas obras burlescas nació en Ciudad Habana, Cuba y actualmente reside en el sur de la Florida, Estados Unidos; entre sus escritos se destacan las novelas literarias 'Aventuras de Victorino Chang', 'El gran pacificador del Infierno' y 'El Rey Victorino'; además del conocido libro autobiográfico 'Nacido Patria o Muerte', y las obras literarias.'Dos obras del teatro burlesco cubano' refleja la corrupción y absurdidad del régimen comunista cubano dirigido por los psicópatas hermanos Castros, y denunciado aquí en este trabajo literario junto a sus compinches y guatacas que hundieron nuestra isla en la ignominia y esclavitud marxista.C0NTENIDO:-Acerca del autor.-Reyes y súbditos. Acto Primero.-Reyes y súbditos. Acto Segundo.-Reyes y súbditos. Acto Tercero.-El duende Hundimágio. Primera parte.-El duende Hundimágio. Segunda parte.-El duende Hundimágio. Tercera parte.Visitenos en:htt://alejandroslibros.blogspot.com

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1463593724

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9781463593728

Historical Dictionary of Venezuela

By: Tomás Straka,Guillermo Guzmán Mirabal,Alejandro E. Cáceres

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Historical Dictionary of Venezuela

By: Tomás Straka,Guillermo Guzmán Mirabal,Alejandro E. Cáceres

Venezuela is the seventh largest oil producer and holder of the largest proven reserves in the world. It’s also a country full of problems, as evidenced by having the biggest inflation rates and, by some estimates the highest crime rates worldwide. Despite having an oil boom between 2004 through 2008 with income of around two billion dollars, in 2016 it suffered an immense economic contraction and probably the largest supply shortcut crisis in its history. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Venezuela contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Venezuela.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538109506

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9781538109502

A Nation for All

Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba

By: Alejandro de la Fuente

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A Nation for All

Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba

By: Alejandro de la Fuente

After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well represented, had envisioned an egalitarian and inclusive country--a nation for all, as Jose Marti described it. But did the Cuban republic, and later the Cuban revolution, live up to these expectations? Tracing the formation and reformulation of nationalist ideologies, government policies, and different forms of social and political mobilization in republican and postrevolutionary Cuba, Alejandro de la Fuente explores the opportunities and limitations that Afro-Cubans experienced in such areas as job access, education, and political representation. Challenging assumptions of both underlying racism and racial democracy, he contends that racism and antiracism coexisted within Cuban nationalism and, in turn, Cuban society. This coexistence has persisted to this day, despite significant efforts by the revolutionary government to improve the lot of the poor and build a nation that was truly for all.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807898767

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9780807898765

The Bay of Pigs

Cuba 1961

By: Alejandro de Quesada

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The Bay of Pigs

Cuba 1961

By: Alejandro de Quesada

The landings by the Cuban exile Assault Brigade 2506 at the Bay of Pigs on April 17, 1961 led to three days of savage but unequal combat. Before they even sailed for Cuba, a White House decision had condemned them to constant attacks by Castro's air force, which sank two of their ships loaded with vital supplies and equipment. Despite stubborn resistance to Castro's troops and tanks, and heroic sorties by Cuban and American B-26 pilots, the Brigade was strangled for lack of firepower and ammunition. Their story is illustrated with rare photos from Brigade veterans, and detailed color plates of the uniforms and insignia of both sides.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1846038197

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Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. 1470-ca. 1540)

By: Alejandro Coroleu

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Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. 1470-ca. 1540)

By: Alejandro Coroleu

With the advent of the printing press throughout Europe in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, the key Latin texts of Italian humanism began to be published outside Italy, most of them by a small group of printers who, in most cases, worked in close collaboration with lecturers and teachers. This study provides the first comprehensive account of the dissemination of this important literary corpus in Spain, France, the Low Countries and the German-speaking world between ca. 1470 and ca. 1540. By combining an examination of book production and consumption with attention to the educational system of Renaissance Europe, this book highlights both the historical significance of the Latin literature of Italian humanism within the school and university curriculum of the time, and the impact of such a body of texts on the rising national literary traditions, in Latin and in the vernacular, of the period. Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe will appeal to scholars of classical and Renaissance literature, and to anyone interested in intellectual history and in the history of education in the Renaissance. It will be of particular interest to scholars in Hispanic studies.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443861057

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9781443861052

Barrio Rising

Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela

By: Alejandro Velasco

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Barrio Rising

Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela

By: Alejandro Velasco

In the mid-1950s, in an effort to modernize Venezuela, the military government razed dozens of slums in the heart of the capital Caracas, replacing them with massive buildings to house the city's working poor. The project remained unfinished when the dictatorship fell on January 23, 1958, and in a matter of days city residents illegally occupied thousands of apartments, squatted on green spaces, and renamed the neighborhood to honor the emerging democracy: the 23 de Enero (January 23). Over the next thirty years, through eviction efforts, guerrilla conflict, state violence, internal strife, and official neglect, inhabitants of the barrio learned to use their strategic location and symbolic tie to the promise of democracy in order to demand a better life. Granting legitimacy to the state through the vote but protesting its failings with violent street actions when necessary, they laid the foundation for an expansive understanding of democracy--both radical and electoral--whose features still resonate today"--Provided by publisher.

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Univ of California Press

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0520283317

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9780520283312

The Global Edge

Miami in the Twenty-First Century

By: Prof. Alejandro Portes,Ariel C. Armony

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The Global Edge

Miami in the Twenty-First Century

By: Prof. Alejandro Portes,Ariel C. Armony

Over the last quarter century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city. The Global Edge charts the social tensions and unexpected consequences of this remarkable process of change. Acting as a follow-up to the highly successful City on the Edge, The Global Edge examines Miami in the context of globalization and scrutinizes its newfound place as a major international city. Written by two well-known scholars in the field, the book examines Miami’s rise as a finance and banking center and the simultaneous emergence of a highly diverse but contentious ethnic mosaic. The Global Edge serves as a case study of Miami’s present cultural, economic, and political transformation, and describes how its future course can provide key lessons for other metropolitan areas throughout the world.

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Univ of California Press

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0520969618

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9780520969612

Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority

By: Alejandro A. Vallega

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Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority

By: Alejandro A. Vallega

While recognizing its origins and scope, Alejandro A. Vallega offers a new interpretation of Latin American philosophy by looking at its radical and transformative roots. Placing it in dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, Vallega examines developments in gender studies, race theory, postcolonial theory, and the legacy of cultural dependency in light of the Latin American experience. He explores Latin America's engagement with contemporary problems in Western philosophy and describes the transformative impact of this encounter on contemporary thought.

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Indiana University Press

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0253012651

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9780253012654

A Nation for All

Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-century Cuba

By: Alejandro de la Fuente

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A Nation for All

Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-century Cuba

By: Alejandro de la Fuente

Argues that racism and antiracism continue to coexist in Cuban nationalism and society despite its fight for freedom, and describes the limitations Afro-Cubans face in job access, education, and political representation.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807849227

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9780807849224

City on the Edge

The Transformation of Miami

By: Alejandro Portes,Alex Stepick

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City on the Edge

The Transformation of Miami

By: Alejandro Portes,Alex Stepick

“The authors reveal how the Cuban success story has transformed the character of Miami while delineating more sharply the identity of other ethnic communities.” —New York Times Book Review “Makes a case for the importance of political capital . . . in building ethnic solidarity.”—Contemporary Sociology

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Univ of California Press

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0520089324

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9780520089327

Afro-Latin American Studies

An Introduction

By: Alejandro de la Fuente

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Afro-Latin American Studies

An Introduction

By: Alejandro de la Fuente

Examines the full range of humanities and social science scholarship on people of African descent in Latin America.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107177626

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9781107177628

Industrial relations and financial globalization

Analysis of national experiences in Europe, America and Asia

By: Ignasi Brunet,Alejandro Pizzi,David Moral

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Industrial relations and financial globalization

Analysis of national experiences in Europe, America and Asia

By: Ignasi Brunet,Alejandro Pizzi,David Moral

Capitalism in its modern form has become universal and has a presence in practically every country in the world, including those which once called themselves Communist. This book studies its effects on different labor markets, from those linked to highly tertiary economies (EU-27, USA and Japan, to the most productive economies, such as China, and on to economic models that are in full transition from secondary to tertiary economies, as is the case in several Latin American countries.

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Universitat de València

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8491343997

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9788491343998

Caribbean Revolutions

Cold War Armed Movements

By: Rachel A. May,Alejandro Schneider,Roberto González Arana

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Caribbean Revolutions

Cold War Armed Movements

By: Rachel A. May,Alejandro Schneider,Roberto González Arana

A comprehensive history and comparative analysis of the most important Caribbean armed revolutionary movements during the Cold War era.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108424759

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9781108424752

The Censorship Files

Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain

By: Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola

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The Censorship Files

Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain

By: Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola

Drawing on extensive research in the Spanish National Archive, Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola examines the role played by the censorship apparatus of Franco's Spain in bringing about the Latin American literary Boom of the 1960s and 1970s. He reveals the negotiations and behind-the-scenes maneuvering among those involved in the Spanish publishing industry. Converging interests made strange bedfellows of the often left-wing authors and the staid officials appointed to stand guard over Francoist morality and to defend the supposed purity of Castilian Spanish. Between these two uneasily allied groups circulated larger-than-life real-world characters like the Barcelona publisher Carlos Barral and the all-powerful literary agent Carmen Balcells. The author details the fascinating story of how novels by Mario Vargas Llosa, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Gabriel García Márquez, and Manuel Puig achieved publication in Spain, and in doing so reached a worldwide market. This colorful account underpins a compelling claim that even the most innovative and aesthetically challenging literature has its roots in the economics of the book trade, as well as the institutions of government and the exigencies of everyday politics and ideology.

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State University of New York Press

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0791480542

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9780791480540

Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700

By: Alejandro García-Montón

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Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700

By: Alejandro García-Montón

This book explains how Genoese entrepreneurs transformed the structures of global trade during the second half of the seventeenth century. The author reconstructs the business network built by the Genoese merchant Domenico Grillo between the 1650s and the 1680s. Grillo’s business interests stretched from the Mediterranean to Pacific South America, traversing and joining the Spanish, Dutch, and English Atlantics. He and his associates created a new business model that was to be emulated by Dutch, French, and English traders in subsequent decades: the monopolistic asientos for the exploitation of the trans-imperial and intra-American slave trade to Spanish America. Offering a connected history of capitalism across trans-continental geographies and different empires, this book challenges established views of a period which has traditionally been interrogated from a northern European mercantile perspective. Cutting across the histories of the slave trade in the Atlantic world, early modern capitalism, and early modern empire, this study has much to offer to students and scholars interested in the agents, economic practices, and geographies of trade that do not easily fit into and therefore disrupt the traditional narratives of the Rise of the West. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com

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Routledge

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1000513637

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9781000513639

Emerging Global Cities

Origin, Structure, and Significance

By: Alejandro Portes,Ariel C. Armony

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Emerging Global Cities

Origin, Structure, and Significance

By: Alejandro Portes,Ariel C. Armony

Certain cities—most famously New York, London, and Tokyo—have been identified as “global cities,” whose function in the world economy transcends national borders. Without the same fanfare, formerly peripheral and secondary cities have been growing in importance, emerging as global cities in their own right. The striking similarity of the skylines of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore is no coincidence: despite following different historical paths, all three have achieved newfound prominence through parallel trends. In this groundbreaking book, Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony demonstrate how the rapid and unexpected rise of these three cities recasts global urban studies. They identify the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”—centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. The book traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these emerging global cities. It contrasts them with “global hopefuls,” cities that, at one point or another, aspired to become global, and analyzes how Hong Kong is threatened with the loss of this status. Portes and Armony highlight the importance of climate change to the prospects of emerging global cities, showing how the same economic system that propelled their rise now imperils their future. Emerging Global Cities provides a powerful new framework for understanding the role of peripheral cities in the world economy and how they compete for and sometimes achieve global standing.

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Columbia University Press

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0231555873

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9780231555876

Legacies

The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation

By: Prof. Alejandro Portes,Prof. Rubén G. Rumbaut

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Legacies

The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation

By: Prof. Alejandro Portes,Prof. Rubén G. Rumbaut

One out of five Americans, more than 55 million people, are first-or second-generation immigrants. This landmark study, the most comprehensive to date, probes all aspects of the new immigrant second generation's lives, exploring their immense potential to transform American society for better or worse. Whether this new generation reinvigorates the nation or deepens its social problems depends on the social and economic trajectories of this still young population. In Legacies, Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut—two of the leading figures in the field—provide a close look at this rising second generation, including their patterns of acculturation, family and school life, language, identity, experiences of discrimination, self-esteem, ambition, and achievement. Based on the largest research study of its kind, Legacies combines vivid vignettes with a wealth of survey and school data. Accessible, engaging, and indispensable for any consideration of the changing face of American society, this book presents a wide range of real-life stories of immigrant families—from Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, the Philippines, China, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam—now living in Miami and San Diego, two of the areas most heavily affected by the new immigration. The authors explore the world of second-generation youth, looking at patterns of parent-child conflict and cohesion within immigrant families, the role of peer groups and school subcultures, the factors that affect the children's academic achievement, and much more. A companion volume to Legacies, entitled Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America, was published by California in Fall 2001. Edited by the authors of Legacies, this book will bring together some of the country's leading scholars of immigration and ethnicity to provide a close look at this rising second generation. A Copublication with the Russell Sage Foundation

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Univ of California Press

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0520935799

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9780520935792

Immigrant America

A Portrait

By: Alejandro Portes,Rubén G. Rumbaut

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Immigrant America

A Portrait

By: Alejandro Portes,Rubén G. Rumbaut

This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides readers with a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume. Updated with the latest available data, Immigrant America explores the economic, political, spatial, and linguistic aspects of immigration; the role of religion in the acculturation and social integration of foreign minorities; and the adaptation process for the second generation. This revised edition includes new chapters on theories of migration and on the history of U.S.-bound migration from the late nineteenth century to the present, offering an updated and expanded concluding chapter on immigration and public policy.

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Univ of California Press

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0520274024

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9780520274020

What Is Cosmopolitical Design? Design, Nature and the Built Environment

By: Albena Yaneva,Alejandro Zaera-Polo

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What Is Cosmopolitical Design? Design, Nature and the Built Environment

By: Albena Yaneva,Alejandro Zaera-Polo

The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos. Cosmos embraces everything, including the multifarious natural and material entities that make humans act. The book examines cosmopolitics in its relation to design practice. Abandoning the modernist idea of nature as being external to the human experience - a nature that can be mastered by engineers and scientists from outside, the cosmpolitical thinking offers designers to embark in an active process of manipulating and reworking nature ’from within.’ To engage in cosmopolitics, this book argues, means to redesign, create, instigate, and compose every single feature of our common experience. In the light of this new understanding of nature, we set the questions: What is the role of design if nature is no longer salient enough to provide a background for human activities? How can we foster designers’ own force and make present what causes designers to think, feel, and act? How do designers make explicit the connection of humans to a variety of entities with different ontology: rivers, species, particles, materials and forces? How do they redefine political order by bringing together stars, prions and people? In effect, how should we understand design practice in its relation to the material and the living world? In this volume, anthropologists, science studies scholars, political scientists and sociologists rethink together the meaning of cosmopolitics for design. At the same time designers, architects and artists engage with the cosmopolitical question in trying to imagine the future of architectural and urban design. The book contains original empirical chapters and a number of revealing interviews with artists and designers whose practices set examples of ’cosmopolitically correct design’.

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Taylor & Francis

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1134808941

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9781134808946

Immigrant America

A Portrait

By: Prof. Alejandro Portes,Prof. Rubén G. Rumbaut

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Immigrant America

A Portrait

By: Prof. Alejandro Portes,Prof. Rubén G. Rumbaut

This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, the principal theories seeking to account for its diverse origins, the main types of immigrants, and the various forms of immigrants' incorporation within American society. With the latest available data, Immigrant America further explores the economic, political, regional, linguistic, and religious aspects of immigration. It offers detailed analyses of the adaptation process experienced by adult children of immigrants and adds an updated and expanded concluding chapter on changing immigration policy regimes both past and present.

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Univ of California Press

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0520396308

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9780520396302

Tania León's Stride

A Polyrhythmic Life

By: Alejandro L. Madrid

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Tania León's Stride

A Polyrhythmic Life

By: Alejandro L. Madrid

Acclaimed composer, sought-after conductor, esteemed educator, tireless advocate for the arts--Tania León’s achievements encompass but also stretch far beyond contemporary classical music. Alejandro L. Madrid draws on oral history, archival work, and ethnography to offer the first in-depth biography of the artist. Breaking from a chronological account, Madrid looks at León through the issues that have informed and defined moments in her life and her professional works. León’s words become a starting ground--but also a counterpoint--to the accounts of the people in her orbit. What emerges is more than an extraordinary portrait of an artist's journey. It is a story of how a human being reacts to the challenges thrown at her by history itself, be it the Cuban revolution or the struggle for civil and individual rights. Nuanced and multifaceted, Tania León's Stride looks at the life, legacy, and milieu that created and sustained one of the most important figures in American classical music.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252052870

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9780252052873

The Sweet Penance of Music

Musical Life in Colonial Santiago de Chile

By: Alejandro Vera

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The Sweet Penance of Music

Musical Life in Colonial Santiago de Chile

By: Alejandro Vera

A monumental study of musical practices in 18th century Santiago de Chile, and the only English-language monograph about Chilean colonial music, A Sweet Penance of Music offers a comprehensive view of musicians within the city and their links with other Latin American urban centers in the wider colonial system. Author Alejandro Vera, recent winner of the International Casa de las Américas Musicology Prize for the Spanish edition of his monograph, provides a fascinating account of the quotidian cultural and social significance of music in varying physical spheres - from cathedrals, convents, and monasteries, to private houses and public spaces. He brings to life a city long neglected in the shadow of other colonial centers of economic power, asserting the importance of duality in the period and its music - particularly centering one nun harpist's conception of music as "sweet penance." Drawing from historical documents and musical scores of the period, A Sweet Penance of Music breaks new ground, laying the foundation for a revisionist approach to the study of music in the colonial Americas.

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Oxford University Press

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0190940239

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9780190940232

Was It a Crucifixion or Rather a Cross Fiction?

By: Alejandro Cuevas-Sosa

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Was It a Crucifixion or Rather a Cross Fiction?

By: Alejandro Cuevas-Sosa

Reduced-updated version of the tenth book (Authorized biography...), important new data. This book is not on religions, but about whom the religious figures and many more persons were and are. Patriarchs, prophets, Buddha, Jesus, Mary, Joseph and associates, Lamas and Mohammad apologize to their followers for the millenarian fake they have been promoting. All the religious figures promote themselves through parasiting of dreams inducing in/appropriated scenes and images in the dreamer conforming to their convenience. Without this resource, they had been unable to publicise themselves. Doubts like these raised in the II Vatican Council perhaps propitiated John XXIII death. (BASIC ENGLISH).

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Grosvenor House Publishing

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1786239671

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9781786239679

Cuba y el mundo. Articulos politicos

By: Alejandro Roque Glez

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Cuba y el mundo. Articulos politicos

By: Alejandro Roque Glez

El autor nació en Ciudad Habana en el año 1964, y actualmente reside en el sur de la Florida, Estados Unidos. Entre sus escritos se encuentran poemas de diferente temario; otras obras extensas de carácter bíblico como el libro titulado '¡Tierra, tierra, tierra! Oye Palabra de Yahweh'; cuentos, obras de teatro, escritos políticos sobre el acontecer mundial y de su país natal; además del conocido libro autobiográfico 'Nacido Patria o Muerte'; libros de salmos y alabanzas cristianas, y la obra literaria 'Aventuras de Victorino Chang'.Aquí te entregamos este libro de 30 artículos 'Cuba y el mundo. Artículos políticos', compilados durante la segunda mitad de los años 2009-2010. En ellos se reflejan y analizan puntos de vista del autor en referencia a su país natal y hechos que transcurren progresivamente en nuestro acontecer mundial.Como dato complementario relacionado a la trayectoria educacional del autor, es graduado con una Maestría en Ciencias (MS) y enseñanza de la lengua española en Nova Southeastern University (NSU); graduado con una Licenciatura en Artes (BA) y la lengua española en Florida Atlantic University (FAU) ambas en los EE.UU; y graduado como Piloto de Combate y Mando Táctico en el Instituto Militar Superior de las Fuerzas Aéreas Soviéticas A. Serov en Krasnodar, antigua URSS.CONTENIDO-Introducción.-La hipocresía de la prensa.-¿Calentamiento global o gobierno mundial?-Toreando gallinitas.-Raulito y su cobardía del ALBA.-El Proyecto Varela y el Movimiento Cristiano Liberación.-Reconciliando proyectos.-La verdad de lo ocurrido Comandante.-Cuba, levántate y anda. -La hora de la verdad Comandante.-El camarada y las becas del gran futuro.-Cuba, mi vecino cubano, y el año nuevo.-El gran cubano Félix Varela y Morales.-Jugando al Socialismo bueno o malo.-El socialismo venezolano y su maquinaria reguladora.-Entre fuego y marabú.-Orlando Zapata y el muro de Berlín.-The 100 yrs old Beast of Jekyll Island.-Se acerca la muerte física de los tiranos de Cuba.-¿Es el Islam una religión de paz?-El derecho a ser libre.-¿Cómo puede haber paz?-Chávez como buen hijo de Putin.-Raúl Castro, Communism-Socialism, and Autocratic Leaders.-Basilio, Quitera, Camacho, y el Nuevo Orden Mundial Socialista.-The Emotional Intelligence of Transformational Leaders.-El Compañero y la Compañera.-¿Desarme o engaño mundial?-¡Feliz Navidad a todos!-La Niebla que nos impide la Fe.-"Tierra de mis amores eternos".

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