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Java Media APIs

Cross-platform Imaging, Media, and Visualization

By: Alejandro Terrazas,John Ostuni,Michael Barlow

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Java Media APIs

Cross-platform Imaging, Media, and Visualization

By: Alejandro Terrazas,John Ostuni,Michael Barlow

This exploration of Java Media APIs, including 2D, 3D and virtual reality provides commercial-quality code examples developed by the author in his work in the neuroscience field.

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Sams Publishing

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0672320940

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9780672320941

Pancho Villa

A Biography

By: Alejandro Quintana Ph.D.

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Providing both an analysis of the Mexican Revolution and a compelling story of the notorious Pancho Villa, this book describes this historical period from the perspective of its most iconic figure. Doroteo Arango—much better known as "Pancho Villa"—was one of the revolutionary generals during Mexico's turbulent times in the early 1900s. Villa was a train robber, a cattle thief, and a murderer, yet today he is revered by Mexicans and Americans for his accomplishments, and roads and neighborhoods in Mexico bear his name. Pancho Villa: A Biography provides a compelling life story full of adventure, the events of which helped define the course of modern Mexico. Through the lens of Villa's personal experience, author Alejandro Quintana offers an appealing, accessible interpretation of the complex turn of events that define the violence, confusion, chaos, and transformation in Mexico between 1910 and 1923. Organized chronologically, the book details the social tensions under the ruthless rule of dictator Porfirio Díaz; documents Villa's rise into becoming the most powerful military leader of the revolution; analyzes the civil war that resulted from Villa's differences with the revolutionary political leadership; and describes the reasons for his decline and eventual assassination.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216126515

Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts

Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border

By: Alejandro Lugo

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Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts

Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border

By: Alejandro Lugo

Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2008 Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award, 2009 Established in 1659 as Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Norte, Ciudad Juárez is the oldest colonial settlement on the U.S.-Mexico border-and one of the largest industrialized border cities in the world. Since the days of its founding, Juárez has been marked by different forms of conquest and the quest for wealth as an elaborate matrix of gender, class, and ethnic hierarchies struggled for dominance. Juxtaposing the early Spanish invasions of the region with the arrival of late-twentieth-century industrial "conquistadors," Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts documents the consequences of imperial history through in-depth ethnographic studies of working-class factory life. By comparing the social and human consequences of recent globalism with the region's pioneer era, Alejandro Lugo demonstrates the ways in which class mobilization is itself constantly being "unmade" at both the international and personal levels for border workers. Both an inside account of maquiladora practices and a rich social history, this is an interdisciplinary survey of the legacies, tropes, economic systems, and gender-based inequalities reflected in a unique cultural landscape. Through a framework of theoretical conceptualizations applied to a range of facets—from multiracial "mestizo" populations to the notions of border "crossings" and "inspections," as well as the recent brutal killings of working-class women in Ciudad Juárez—Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts provides a critical understanding of the effect of transnational corporations on contemporary Mexico, calling for official recognition of the desperate need for improved working and living conditions within this community.

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340

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University of Texas Press

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0292778252

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9780292778252

The Brick People

By: Alejandro Morales

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The Brick People

By: Alejandro Morales

The Brick People is an historical novel that traces the growth of California from the nineteenth to the twentieth century by following the development of the Simons Brick Factory. The bricks that laid the foundation of modern California were manufactured by the people that ventured from Central Mexico to stoke the furnaces of industry. With an attention to historical reality blended with myth and legend, Morales recounts the epic struggle of a people who forge their destiny, along with CaliforniaÍs. In this fictional story rooted in factual history, two families are pitted against each other: the powerful Simons and the proud Revueltas clan. The Brick People provides an authentic portrayal of the history of California and those who built it.

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324

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Arte Publico Press

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1611920795

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9781611920796

Small Private Gardens

By: Alejandro Bahamón

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Small Private Gardens

By: Alejandro Bahamón

The evolution of the urban context over the last decades has made it increasingly difficult to find space for a garden within large cities. As a result, designers are obliged to find strategical and elaborate solutions to make the most of limited surface areas, marking a radical shift in traditional landscape architecture. Small Private Gardens presents 136 pages with over 140 images of some of the most recent and interesting small private garden spaces around the world that employ innovative layout concepts and creative decoration ideas that serve as an inspiration to those interested in design and owners of small gardens. Book jacket.

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teNeues

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3832790756

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9783832790752

Maximino Avila Camacho and the One-Party State

The Taming of Caudillismo and Caciquismo in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

By: Alejandro Quintana

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Maximino Avila Camacho and the One-Party State

The Taming of Caudillismo and Caciquismo in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

By: Alejandro Quintana

Maximino Avila Camacho and the One-Party State: The Taming of Caudillismo and Caciquismo in Post-Revolutionary Mexico is a political biography of General Maximino Avila Camacho (1891D1945), one of the most powerful regional politicians in Mexico from 1935 to 1945. He was a member of an officially sponsored party, known today as the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which claimed to represent the goals of the Mexican Revolution (1910D1921) and which managed to win most federal and regional elections from 1929 until its first presidential defeat in 2000. Maximino (as he is commonly known) became a powerful politician at the time when the official party effectively transformed the Mexican political system from one based on the personal power of regional strongmen and political bosses relying on clientelistic networks (popularly known as 'caudillos' and 'caciques') to a modern one based on a centralized civilian administration supported by institutions. The story of Maximino, the powerful cacique of the state of Puebla, demonstrates that the emergence of the one-party-dominated Mexican state did not destroy caudillos and caciques but simply controlled them. Specifically, it shows how the official party incorporated these leaders and their authoritarian practices into the state's political machinery. The result was 71 years of one-party political domination based on a political culture that emphasized patronage, favoritism, corruption, coercion and co-optation. By tracing Maximino's career, from revolutionary soldier to powerful political leader, we learn how and why the goals that had originally inspired the 'party of the revolution'—primarily democracy and social justice—were sacrificed in order to empower it.

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175

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Lexington Books

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0739137492

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9780739137499

Chilean Poet

A Novel

By: Alejandro Zambra

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Chilean Poet

A Novel

By: Alejandro Zambra

Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker “A tender and funny story about love, family and the peculiar position of being a stepparent…[Chilean Poet] broadens the author’s scope and quite likely his international reputation.” —Los Angeles Times “Zambra's books have long shown him to be a writer who, at the sentence level, is in a world all his own.” —Juan Vidal, NPR.org A writer of “startling talent” (The New York Times Book Review), Alejandro Zambra returns with his most substantial work yet: a story of fathers and sons, ambition and failure, and what it means to make a family After a chance encounter at a Santiago nightclub, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his first love, Carla. Though their desire for each other is still intact, much has changed: among other things, Carla now has a six-year-old son, Vicente. Soon the three form a happy sort-of family—a stepfamily, though no such word exists in their language. Eventually, their ambitions pull the lovers in different directions—in Gonzalo’s case, all the way to New York. Though Gonzalo takes his books when he goes, still, Vicente inherits his ex-stepfather’s love of poetry. When, at eighteen, Vicente meets Pru, an American journalist literally and figuratively lost in Santiago, he encourages her to write about Chilean poets—not the famous, dead kind, your Nerudas or Mistrals or Bolaños, but rather the living, striving, everyday ones. Pru’s research leads her into this eccentric community—another kind of family, dysfunctional but ultimately loving. Will it also lead Vicente and Gonzalo back to each other? In Chilean Poet, Alejandro Zambra chronicles with enormous tenderness and insight the small moments—sexy, absurd, painful, sweet, profound—that make up our personal histories. Exploring how we choose our families and how we betray them, and what it means to be a man in relationships—a partner, father, stepfather, teacher, lover, writer, and friend—it is a bold and brilliant new work by one of the most important writers of our time.

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369

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Penguin

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0593297946

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9780593297940

The Hunt for Pancho Villa

The Columbus Raid and Pershing’s Punitive Expedition 1916–17

By: Alejandro de Quesada

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The Hunt for Pancho Villa

The Columbus Raid and Pershing’s Punitive Expedition 1916–17

By: Alejandro de Quesada

On March 9, 1916, troops under the command of Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico and its local detachment of the US 13th Cavalry Regiment, killing 18 people and burning the town. Six days later, on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing led an expeditionary force of 4,800 men into Mexico to capture Villa. What followed was a series of skirmishes, battles, and chases through the wild and uncharted Mexican countryside. While the Americans failed in their ultimate purpose of catching Villa, they did kill two of his top lieutenants. This book charts the progress of the entire enterprise, covering the dusty marches and the bitter gunfights in the streets of small border towns, analyzing the successes and failures of this unique military expedition.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1849085692

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9781849085694

+ Casas Houses Hauser

By: Alejandro Bahamón

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+ Casas Houses Hauser

By: Alejandro Bahamón

This book gathers over 40 examples of the most recent residential projects, dividing them into four chapters: houses, attics, apartments and lofts. A detailed biography and interview with each architect and designer aid in defining the different visions held about designing a contemporary home.

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A. Asppan S.L.

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8496304620

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9788496304628

Navegando 3

By: James F. Funston,Alejandro Vargas Bonilla

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Navegando 3

By: James F. Funston,Alejandro Vargas Bonilla

On the field. At the train station. In the marketplace. Discover the Authentic. Give your students the opportunity to "live the language" through: Authentic practice! Open-ended activities! Lively, authentic cultural explorations! Engaging technology components! Navegando takes students on a journey of discovery. Designed for middle school through high school students, this three-level Spanish program uses the vibrant thread of rich, authentic culture to weave together an engaging real-life experience with the language and the people who speak it. From the start, your students will "live the language" through an instructional design that provides: Intensive, varied practice opportunities, rooted in authentic applications; Open-ended, engaging communicative activities; Lively, authentic cultural coverage; Engaging technology components that speak to todays student. - Publisher.

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0821928651

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9780821928653

Pancho Villa

A Biography

By: Alejandro Quintana Ph.D.

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Pancho Villa

A Biography

By: Alejandro Quintana Ph.D.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Pancho Villa

A Biography

By: Alejandro Quintana Ph.D.

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Pancho Villa

A Biography

By: Alejandro Quintana Ph.D.

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0313380953

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Book's by Alejandro Terrazas

Java Media APIs

Java Media APIs

Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa

Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts

Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts

The Brick People

The Brick People

Small Private Gardens

Small Private Gardens

Maximino Avila Camacho and the One-Party State

Maximino Avila Camacho and the One-Party State

Chilean Poet

Chilean Poet

The Hunt for Pancho Villa

The Hunt for Pancho Villa

+ Casas Houses Hauser

+ Casas Houses Hauser

Navegando 3

Navegando 3

Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa

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