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From Here and There

Diaspora Policies, Integration, and Social Rights Beyond Borders

By: Alexandra Délano Alonso

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From Here and There

Diaspora Policies, Integration, and Social Rights Beyond Borders

By: Alexandra Délano Alonso

When immigrants to the United States need to learn English, receive health services, open a bank account or get a work certification, US state and local governments or non-profit organizations usually assist as part of the process of supporting immigrant integration and, ultimately, citizenship. But over the past two decades, Mexico, and other origin countries of migrants have been increasingly filling gaps in these activities through their consular representations, particularly focusing on populations with precarious legal status. Put in the larger context of diaspora policies, these practices -- focused on establishing closer ties between the origin country and the emigrant population and protecting their rights through the provision of social services -- are one of the clearest manifestations of the reconceptualization of the boundaries of citizenship and the rights and obligations that come with it. This book looks at citizenship and immigrant integration from the perspective of countries of origin: specifically the processes through which Mexico and other Latin American countries are establishing programs to give their emigrant populations better access to education, health, banking, labor rights, language acquisition and civic participation in the United States. While immigrant integration is often assumed as an issue that mainly concerns the population and institutions of the country of destination, these cases demonstrate the role that origin countries play in supporting migrants' access to opportunities to participate as members of the societies they are a part of, challenging the limits of citizenship and sovereignty, and offering examples of innovative practices in the protection of migrants' rights. As an area of migration governance that is rarely discussed, this book offers a critical evaluation of these programs and their impact on emigrants, particularly on those who are undocumented or have precarious legal status, and the collaborations between governments and civil society groups on which the programs are based.

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Oxford University Press

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0190688602

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Earth to Tables Legacies

Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures

By: Deborah Barndt,Lauren E. Baker,Alexandra Gelis

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Earth to Tables Legacies

Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures

By: Deborah Barndt,Lauren E. Baker,Alexandra Gelis

Climate crises, a global pandemic, farmer protests, diet-related diseases—all of these are telling us that the industrial food system threatens our health and the health of the planet and deepens systemic inequities, racism, and poverty. Using food as an entry to key issues—such as Indigenous-settler relations and anti-racism in the food movement— Earth to Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures tells the stories of food activists from the Americas—young and old, rural and urban, Indigenous and settler—who share a vision for food justice and food sovereignty, from earth to tables. This visually stunning, full-color multimedia book generates rich conversations about food sovereignty through eleven photo essays and links to ten videos. Commentaries on each essay broaden the conversations with the experiences and perspectives of eighteen scholars and activists—both Indigenous and settler—from Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Facilitator’s guides offer creative ways to engage students and activists in critical discussions about these issues with links to other resources—text-based and visual, print and online. Visit the Earth to Tables website here.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538123509

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The Psychology of Eating and Drinking

By: Alexandra W. Logue

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The Psychology of Eating and Drinking

By: Alexandra W. Logue

Choice Recommended Read This insightful, thought-provoking, and engaging book explores the truth behind how and why we eat and drink what we do. Instead of promising easy answers to eliminating picky eating or weight loss, this book approaches controversial eating and drinking issues from a more useful perspective—explaining the facts to promote understanding of our bodies. The only book to provide an educated reader with a broad, scientific understanding of these topics, The Psychology of Eating and Drinking explores basic eating and drinking processes, such as hunger and taste, as well as how these concepts influence complex topics such as eating disorders, alcohol use, and cuisine. This new edition is grounded in the most up-to-date advances in scientific research on eating and drinking behaviors and will be of interest to anyone.

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438

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Routledge

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1135067619

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9781135067618

Particle Placement in English L1 and L2 Academic Writing

A Triangulated Learner-corpus and Experimental Study of Weight Effects

By: Alexandra Kinne

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Particle Placement in English L1 and L2 Academic Writing

A Triangulated Learner-corpus and Experimental Study of Weight Effects

By: Alexandra Kinne

This study seeks to contribute to a better understanding of how syntactic variation is affected by probabilistic factors in English as a foreign language (EFL, L2), exemplified by the effect of weight on the syntactic variation with English transitive verb-particle constructions (e.g. look up, sort out) and transitive verb-prepositional phrase (PP) constructions (e.g. take into account, bear in mind). With these constructions, the particle/PP may occur either adjacent to the verb or separated from the verb by a direct object noun phrase (DO NP). Being highly influenced by the weight of the DO NP in native (L1) English, little is known about the factors, including syntactic weight, that govern this variation in L2 English. Against the background of possible native-language transfer, this study examines whether advanced L1-German EFL learners are sensitive to the probabilistic effect of weight on syntactic choices with verb-particle/PP constructions and whether there are differences when compared to English native speakers. Triangulating comparative corpus data and experimental data, i.e. elicited production and elicited assessment, the study provides converging evidence from language production and intuition that the learners have acquired a near-native awareness of weight effects in verb-particle/PP constructions, with differences indicating a tendency to more conservative choices.

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Presses universitaires de Louvain

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2875589857

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9782875589859

The Anti-Inflammatory Family Cookbook

The Kid-Friendly, Pediatrician-Approved Way to Transform Your Family's Health

By: Stefania Patinella,Alexandra Romey,Hilary McClafferty,Jonathan Deutsch,Maria Mascarenhas

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The Anti-Inflammatory Family Cookbook

The Kid-Friendly, Pediatrician-Approved Way to Transform Your Family's Health

By: Stefania Patinella,Alexandra Romey,Hilary McClafferty,Jonathan Deutsch,Maria Mascarenhas

Transform the way your family eats with this easy-to-use, child-friendly guide to anti-inflammatory eating, including 100 simple and tasty recipes the whole family will love. The anti-inflammatory diet can help both adults and children suffering from obesity, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, and high blood pressure. In The Anti-Inflammatory Family Cookbook you will find easy-to-use, medically accurate, and child specific guidance for anti-inflammatory eating. This cookbook includes 100 simple, easy, and tasty recipes that are straightforward to prepare and cover every development phase from infancy through adolescence. With great recipes for all meals, as well as snacks and special occasions, you’ll always know what to make. These delicious, plant-forward recipes include a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, legumes, and whole grains while lacking processed foods which are known to increase inflammation. The Anti-Inflammatory Family Cookbook offers practical tips to help you healthily stock your pantry and incorporates fun ways to get your child exposed to new foods.

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Adams Media

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1507212976

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Green Toxicology

Making Chemicals Benign by Design

By: Alexandra Maertens

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Green Toxicology

Making Chemicals Benign by Design

By: Alexandra Maertens

Green toxicology is an integral part of green chemistry. One of the key goals of green chemistry is to design less toxic chemicals. Therefore, an understanding of toxicology and hazard assessment is important for any chemist working in green chemistry, but toxicology is rarely part of most chemists' education. As a consequence, chemists lack the toxicological lens necessary to view chemicals in order to design safer substitutions. This book seeks to fill that gap and demonstrate how a basic understanding of toxicology, as well as the tools of in silico and in vitro toxicology, can be an integral part of green chemistry. R&D chemists, product stewards, and toxicologists who work in the field of sustainability, can all benefit from integrating green toxicology principles into their work. Topics include in silico tools for hazard assessment, toxicity testing, and lifecycle considerations, this book aims to act as a bridge between green toxicologists and green chemists.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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1839164409

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9781839164408

The Plague Files

Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville

By: Alexandra Parma Cook,Noble David Cook

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The Plague Files

Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville

By: Alexandra Parma Cook,Noble David Cook

In the first half of the 1580s, Seville, Spain, confronted a series of potentially devastating crises. In three years, the city faced a brush with deadly contagion, including the plague; the billeting of troops in preparation for Philip II's invasion of Portugal; crop failure and famine following drought and locust infestation; an aborted uprising of the Moriscos (Christian converts from Islam); bankruptcy of the municipal government; the threat of pollution and contaminated water; and the disruption of commerce with the Indies. While each of these problems would be formidable on its own, when taken together, the crises threatened Seville's social and economic order. In The Plague Files, Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook reconstruct daily life during this period in sixteenth-century Seville, exposing the difficult lives of ordinary men, women, and children and shedding light on the challenges municipal officials faced as they attempted to find solutions to the public health emergencies that threatened the city's residents. Filling several gaps in the historiography of early modern Spain, this volume offers a history of not only Seville's city government but also the medical profession in Andalusia, from practitioner nurses and barber surgeons (who were often the first to encounter symptoms of plague) to well-trained university physicians. All levels of society enter the picture—from slaves to the local aristocracy. Drawing on detailed records of city council deliberations, private and public correspondence, reports from physicians and apothecaries, and other primary sources, Cook and Cook recount Seville's story in the words of the people who lived it—the city's governor, the female innkeepers charged with reporting who recently died in their establishments, the physicians who describe the plague victims' symptoms. As Cook and Cook's detailed history makes clear, in spite of numerous emergencies, Seville's bureaucracy functioned with relative normality, providing basic services necessary for the survival of its citizens. Their account of the travails of 1580s Seville provides an indispensable resource for those studying early modern Spain.

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LSU Press

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0807144398

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9780807144398

Workin' Man Blues

Country Music in California

By: Gerald Haslam,Alexandra Haslam Russell,Richard Chon

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Workin' Man Blues

Country Music in California

By: Gerald Haslam,Alexandra Haslam Russell,Richard Chon

Workin' Man Blues is possibly the most brilliantly astute and thorough examination ever written about country music in California and the impact it has had in our lives and on our culture. I'm extremely flattered to be even mentioned in such august company."—Dwight Yoakam, Singer, Songwriter "With all the pathos of a Rose Maddox ballad and more edges than a Merle Haggard song, Haslam has spun together the stories of the artists who have made California part of country music and country music part of California."—James Gregory, author of American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California "This book clears new ground in both the history of music and American ethnicity. As gorgeously detailed as any shirt worn by a Rhinestone Cowboy, there's no other book like it."—Kevin Starr, State Librarian of California

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Univ of California Press

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0520275055

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9780520275058

Mexico and its Diaspora in the United States

Policies of Emigration since 1848

By: Alexandra Délano

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Mexico and its Diaspora in the United States

Policies of Emigration since 1848

By: Alexandra Délano

In the past two decades, changes in the Mexican government's policies toward the 30 million Mexican migrants living in the US highlight the importance of the Mexican diaspora in both countries given its size, its economic power and its growing political participation across borders. This work examines how the Mexican government's assessment of the possibilities and consequences of implementing certain emigration policies from 1848 to 2010 has been tied to changes in the bilateral relationship, which remains a key factor in Mexico's current development of strategies and policies in relation to migrants in the United States. Understanding this dynamic gives an insight into the stated and unstated objectives of Mexico's recent activism in defending migrants' rights and engaging the diaspora, the continuing linkage between Mexican migration policies and shifts in the US-Mexico relationship, and the limits and possibilities for expanding shared mechanisms for the management of migration within the NAFTA framework.

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303

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Cambridge University Press

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1139499653

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9781139499651

Youth Culture in Global Cinema

By: Timothy Shary,Alexandra Seibel

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Youth Culture in Global Cinema

By: Timothy Shary,Alexandra Seibel

Coming of age is a pivotal experience for everyone. So it is no surprise that filmmakers around the globe explore the experiences of growing up in their work. From blockbuster U.S. movies such as the Harry Potter series to thought-provoking foreign films such as Bend It Like Beckham and Whale Rider, films about youth delve into young people's attitudes, styles, sexuality, race, families, cultures, class, psychology, and ideas. These cinematic representations of youth also reflect perceptions about youth in their respective cultures, as well as young people's worth to the larger society. Indeed, as the contributors to this volume make plain, films about young people open a very revealing window on the attitudes and values of cultures across the globe. Youth Culture in Global Cinema offers the first comprehensive investigation of how young people are portrayed in film around the world. Eighteen established film scholars from eleven different national backgrounds discuss a wide range of films that illuminate the varied conditions in which youth live. The essays are grouped thematically around the issues of youthful resistance and rebellion; cultural and national identity, including religion and politics; and sexual maturation, including gender distinctions and coming-of-age queer. Some essays engage in close readings of films, while others examine the advertising and reception of films or investigate psychological issues. The volume concludes with filmographies of over 700 youth-related titles arranged by nation and theme.

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University of Texas Press

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0292709307

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9780292709300

Engineering Education

Accreditation & Graduate Global Mobility

By: Firoz Alam,Alexandra Kootsookos

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Engineering Education

Accreditation & Graduate Global Mobility

By: Firoz Alam,Alexandra Kootsookos

This book details the key concepts, objectives and processes relating to the professional accreditation of engineering bachelor (honours) degrees. The contemporary context of accreditation is examined in terms of the globalised nature of both the engineering profession and higher education. Examples of the processes relating to single and dual accreditation are provided, with examination of the Washington Accord and the requirements of the European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education. Details are also provided as to how learning outcomes can be structured to demonstrate compliance with accreditation criteria. The final chapters deal briefly with quality assurance processes used in education and the current international quality ranking systems which exist. This book will provide the reader with a detailed examination of outcome based education within the context of Bachelor of Engineering (honours) degrees. A key feature of this book is the side-by-side comparison of different accreditation criteria and a thorough discussion of the relatively new phenomenon of dual accreditation. The book seeks to provide a very clear explanation and exploration of accreditation within the context of engineering education and will benefit those practitioners involved in the accreditation process.

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218

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CRC Press

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1351181998

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9781351181990

Advanced Environmental Monitoring with Remote Sensing Time Series Data and R

By: Alexandra Gemitzi,Nikolaos Koutsias,Venkat Lakshmi

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Advanced Environmental Monitoring with Remote Sensing Time Series Data and R

By: Alexandra Gemitzi,Nikolaos Koutsias,Venkat Lakshmi

This book provides a step-by-step guide on how to use various publicly available remotely sensed time series data sources for environmental monitoring and assessment. Readers will learn how to extract valuable information on global changes from a 20-year collection of ready-to-use remotely sensed data through the free open statistical software R and its geographic data analysis and modeling tools. The case studies are from the Mediterranean region—a designated hot spot regarding climate change effects. Each chapter is dedicated to specific remote sensing products chosen for their spatial resolution. The methods used are adapted from large-scale to smaller-scale problems for different land cover areas. Features Includes real-world applications of environmental remotely sensed data Analyzes the advantages and restrictions of each data source Focuses on a wide spectrum of applications, such as hydrology, vegetation changes, land surface temperature, fire detection, and impacts Includes R computer codes with explanatory comments and all applications use only freely available remotely sensed data Presents a step-by-step processing through open source GIS and statistical analysis software Advanced Environmental Monitoring with Remote Sensing Time Series Data and R describes and provides details on recent advances concerning publicly available remotely sensed time series data in environmental monitoring and assessment. This book is a must-have practical guide for environmental researchers, professionals, and students.

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CRC Press

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0429557140

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9780429557149

Advances in Psychology Research, Volume 63

By: Alexandra M. Columbus

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Advances in Psychology Research, Volume 63

By: Alexandra M. Columbus

Advances in Psychology Research' presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial psychology advances across a broad spectrum.

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Nova Science Publishers

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1608760502

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9781608760503

Colombia Urbanization Review

Amplifying the Gains from the Urban Transition

By: Taimur Samad,Nancy Lozano-Gracia,Alexandra Panman

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Colombia Urbanization Review

Amplifying the Gains from the Urban Transition

By: Taimur Samad,Nancy Lozano-Gracia,Alexandra Panman

This book provides diagnostic tools to inform policy dialogue and investment priorities on urbanization in Colombia, addresssing the need to deepen economic connectivity, enhance coordination at a regional and metropolitan scale, and foster efficiency and innovativeness in how cities finance themselves.

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World Bank Publications

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0821395246

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9780821395240

Book's by Alexandra Lozano

From Here and There

From Here and There

Earth to Tables Legacies

Earth to Tables Legacies

The Psychology of Eating and Drinking

The Psychology of Eating and Drinking

Particle Placement in English L1 and L2 Academic Writing

Particle Placement in English L1 and L2 Academic Writing

The Anti-Inflammatory Family Cookbook

The Anti-Inflammatory Family Cookbook

Green Toxicology

Green Toxicology

The Plague Files

The Plague Files

Workin' Man Blues

Workin' Man Blues

Mexico and its Diaspora in the United States

Mexico and its Diaspora in the United States

Youth Culture in Global Cinema

Youth Culture in Global Cinema

Engineering Education

Engineering Education

Advanced Environmental Monitoring with Remote Sensing Time Series Data and R

Advanced Environmental Monitoring with Remote Sensing Time Series Data and R

Advances in Psychology Research, Volume 63

Advances in Psychology Research, Volume 63

Colombia Urbanization Review

Colombia Urbanization Review

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