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Erectile Dysfunction

Issues in Current Pharmacotherapy

By: Alvaro Morales

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Erectile Dysfunction

Issues in Current Pharmacotherapy

By: Alvaro Morales

International contributors write on the controversial topics of concern to Urologists working on erectile dysfunction

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CRC Press

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190186524X

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9781901865240

China and Latin America

Development, Agency and Geopolitics

By: Chris Alden,Alvaro Mendez

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China and Latin America

Development, Agency and Geopolitics

By: Chris Alden,Alvaro Mendez

China's role as an economic powerhouse in Latin America is reshaping a region on the cusp of development and change. Since the turn of the century, bilateral trade between China and Latin America has increased massively, going from $12.17 billion in 2000 to $307.94 billion in 2019. From the pampas of Argentina and the vast Brazilian Amazon to Panama's canal and Jamaica's coastal waters, China is financing roads, railways, dams and ports that are transforming regional economies and societies. Beyond China's global search for resources and markets, Bejing's engagement with Latin America is amplified by cutting-edge technologies and a growing assertiveness in regional diplomatic and military affairs. The United States, once complacent in its dominant position over its proverbial 'backyard', is increasingly alarmed by the spectacle of deepening Chinese involvement in this part of the Western hemisphere. What are we to make of these shifting dynamics? In this detailed and up-to-the-minute investigation, Chris Alden, author of the critically acclaimed China in Africa, and Alvaro Mendez, leading expert in the international relations of Latin America, look at the interests, strategies and practices of China's incoming power. The book starts by unpacking the historical links between Imperial China and Colonial Latin America through the 19th century, then turns to the revolutionary role played by Mao's China during the Cold War. Next, it turns to global China's contemporary expansion into Latin America by focusing on the development dimensions of engagement in individual countries, and concurrently, on the exercise of agency by Latin American governments and societies intent on managing Chinese interests to their advantage. Finally, the book addresses these relationships in the context of heightened global competition between China and the United States, which in Latin America manifests as sharpened contestation over everything from investment in lithium mining to the promotion of Covid vaccines.

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297

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786992558

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9781786992550

The Political Economy of China–Latin America Relations

The AIIB Membership

By: Alvaro Mendez,Mariano Turzi

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The Political Economy of China–Latin America Relations

The AIIB Membership

By: Alvaro Mendez,Mariano Turzi

The book explores the ways in which Latin American states are capitalizing or failing to capitalize on the initiatives of China in world affairs. The authors hypothesize that a dearth of regional agency and social construction, and a consequent institutional deficit in foreign relations, characterizes Latin America and its inadequate reaction to Chinese agency. The volume includes multiple case studies from eight Latin American countries and discusses the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s initiatives and policies. The book will interest scholars, researchers, policy-makers, foreign policy analysts, and graduate students in Latin American and Asian politics as well as development studies and political economy.

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132

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Springer Nature

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3030334511

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9783030334512

The Biopolitics of Beauty

Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil

By: Alvaro Jarrín

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The Biopolitics of Beauty

Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil

By: Alvaro Jarrín

The eugenesis of beauty -- Plastic governmentality -- The circulation of beauty -- Hope, affect, mobility -- The raciology of beauty -- Cosmetic citizens

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266

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Univ of California Press

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0520293878

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9780520293878

Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities

The Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond

By: Alvaro Huerta

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Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities

The Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond

By: Alvaro Huerta

A collection of short essays and stories, Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities: The Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond focuses on one of the most vilified, demonized, and scapegoated groups in the United States: Latina/o immigrants. Using his rigorous academic training, public policy knowledge, and community activist background, as well as his personal and familial experiences as the son of Mexican immigrants, Alvaro Huerta defends and humanizes los de abajo / those on the bottom. He skillfully re-frames how Latina/o immigrants should be viewed as productive and important members in this country, debunking the xenophobic tropes, lies, and myths about Latina/o immigrants as criminals, social burdens, and national security threats. Accompanied by the brilliant art of an internationally acclaimed artist, Salomon Huerta, and powerful photos of two established photographers, this book also investigates intersectional issues related to race, class, place, and state violence.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0761871284

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9780761871286

The China-Latin America Axis

Emerging Markets and their Role in an Increasingly Globalised World

By: Gaston Fornes,Alvaro Mendez

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The China-Latin America Axis

Emerging Markets and their Role in an Increasingly Globalised World

By: Gaston Fornes,Alvaro Mendez

This second edition explores and accounts for the many changes in the emerging markets of China and the Latin American countries since 2011. Taking account of major developments such as the rapid expansion of the Chinese state and the on-going effects of the global recession, the authors present current case studies and data on both Chinese and Latin American companies, including updates on those included in the first edition and the presentation of new innovative start-ups. Including an international relations perspective alongside business strategy and global markets, The China-Latin America Axis second edition presents the drastic changes in the globalized economy in the past five years.

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350

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Springer

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3319667211

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9783319667218

Molecular Basis of Aging

By: Alvaro Macieira-Coelho

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Molecular Basis of Aging

By: Alvaro Macieira-Coelho

Using a new, integrative approach, Molecular Basis of Aging describes the aging phenomenon within mammalian organisms from the perspective of changes in information storage and coordination between hierarchical orders of structure. This unique approach provides the reader with a thorough insight into the evolution of molecular, cellular, tissue, and organ systems and processes in mammals. This informative volume contains up-to-date reviews of:

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701

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CRC Press

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1351359967

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9781351359962

Liberty for Latin America

How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression

By: Alvaro Vargas Llosa

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Liberty for Latin America

How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression

By: Alvaro Vargas Llosa

Latin America's Foremost Political Journalist Makes a Brilliant and Passionate Argument for Real Reform In the Economically Crippled Continent In Liberty for Latin America, Alvaro Vargas Llosa offers an incisive diagnosis of Latin America's woes--and a prescription for finally getting the region on the road to both genuine prosperity and the protection of human rights. When the economy in Argentina--at one time a model of free-market reform--collapsed in 2002, experts of all persuasions asked: What went wrong? Vargas Llosa shows that what went wrong in Argentina has in fact gone wrong all over the continent for over five hundred years. He explains how the republics of the nineteenth century and the revolutions of the twentieth-populist uprisings, Marxist coops, state takeovers, and First World-sponsored privatization-have all run up against the oligarchic legacy of statism. Illiberal elites backed by the United States and Europe have perpetuated what he calls the "five principles of oppression" in order to maintain their hold on power. The region has become "a laboratory for political and economic suicide," while comparable countries in Asia and Eastern Europe have prospered. The only way to change things in Latin America, Vargas Llosa argues, is to remove the five principles of oppression, genuinely reforming institutions and the underlying culture for the benefit of the disempowered public. In Liberty for Latin America, he explains how, offering hope as well as insight for all those who care for the future of this troubled region.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1466893737

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9781466893733

Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot

By: Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza,Carlos Alberto Montaner,Alvaro Vargas Llosa

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Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot

By: Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza,Carlos Alberto Montaner,Alvaro Vargas Llosa

By opening the ever-escalating debate regarding Latin America's "underdeveloped" status and cloaking the seriousness of the situation with wit and humor, the Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot reached number one status on the nonfiction bestseller lists in many countries in Latin America. It reveals the connection between economic success and cultural values—attitudes toward work, education, health care and community—and the consequence of the Latin American people retaining or evolving these values.

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Madison Books

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1461662788

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9781461662785

Macroalgal Biorefineries For The Blue Economy

By: Alexander Golberg,Arthur Nils Robin,Meiron Zollmann,Hadar Traugott,Ruslana Rachel Palatnik,Alvaro Israel

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Macroalgal Biorefineries For The Blue Economy

By: Alexander Golberg,Arthur Nils Robin,Meiron Zollmann,Hadar Traugott,Ruslana Rachel Palatnik,Alvaro Israel

This unique compendium provides an insight into the role of emerging marine biorefineries based on macroalgae (seaweeds) in the development of a sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth-blue economy.The useful reference text shows a complete picture on the motivation to develop seaweed technologies, and how the combination of biology, cultivation technologies and downstream processing with economics can address the social challenges through the blue growth.

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World Scientific

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9811225400

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9789811225406

Indigenous Decolonialism

By: Alvaro de Azevedo Gonzaga

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Indigenous Decolonialism

By: Alvaro de Azevedo Gonzaga

In this moment of so many disagreements with affection, of nature being treated as an object of abject beings, is that we present our second edition of Indigenous Decolonialism." Here is a part of the presentation to the second edition prepared by Alvaro de Azevedo Gonzaga, Professor of Law with indigenous Guarani Kaiowá ancestry, who defends Human Rights, in this book that is the result of his post-doctorate study in Indigenous History. The book is divided into 8 myths that were constructed by the colonizers and need to be unmasked or decolonized, through a struggle. With a careful, but soft language, the author intends to bring the readers closer to this theme that deserves extreme attention, after all, Brazilian History goes back much further than the year 1500. Myth 1: Correcting nomenclatures: Why "originary peoples" or "indigenous peoples"? Myth 2: The bow and arrow! Myth 3: Indigenous people don’t like to work and are lazy, cannibalistic, violent and kill children! Myth 4: Indigenous people own a lot of lands! Myth 5: Indigenous people are disappearing in Brazil! Myth 6: Oh, how I miss the militaries! Figueiredo Report: Ethnocides and Normaticides. Myth 7: The first Brazilians in history are the Indigenous. Myth 8 or 1st struggle? For an Indigenous Decolonialism. Between the first and second edition, the author issued an opinion on the genocide against indigenous peoples for the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) on COVID held in the Brazilian Senate, and has participated in numerous events on the indigenous issue that deserves to be defended on a daily basis.

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Matrioska

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6586985927

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9786586985924

Nutritional Epidemiology of Breast Cancer

By: Alvaro Luis Ronco,Eduardo De Stéfani

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Nutritional Epidemiology of Breast Cancer

By: Alvaro Luis Ronco,Eduardo De Stéfani

The book is the first one published exclusively on the field of nutritional epidemiology of breast cancer. It summarizes the currently existing knowledge, with an updated and comprehensive international bibliography (~ 1.000 references). The authors also performed a review on the epidemiological studies on nutrition and breast cancer carried out in Uruguay between 1994 and 2011, which allowed exploring and identifying the main risk and protective factors for the disease in this high-risk country. Epidemiologists, Nutritionists, Public Health managers and breast specialists –from the prevention to the treatment fields – will find in this book a unique source of technical information, which will contribute in expanding their knowledge and view of the disease.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400723970

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9789400723979

No Lost Causes

By: Alvaro Uribe Velez

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No Lost Causes

By: Alvaro Uribe Velez

One of the most inspiring and successful global leaders of the early 21st century explains how bold, imaginative leadership can solve even the most intractable problems—and why there is no such thing as a lost cause. It’s one of the great, unexpected turnaround stories in modern history: Just a decade ago, Colombia was regarded as a “failed state,” besieged by megalomaniacal drug kingpins, ruthless terrorist groups, and abominable poverty. But since 2002, it has been dramatically transformed into a far more peaceful, stable modern democracy with a promising future. Now, the man who led the transformation, former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe Velez, offers the untold story of how, at enormous personal risk, he refused to accept Colombia’s perilous status quo. Extremely captivating, No Lost Causes reveals how President Uribe severely weakened the neo-terrorist group, the FARC, which held Colombia captive and caused the brutal murder of his father. It relates the gripping account of how President Uribe staged the daring (and bloodless) jungle rescue of Ingrid Betancourt in 2008, and eventually restored the rule of law across the country. It also explores practical lessons of hands-on management—relevant to both political and business leaders—and provides a thrilling behind-the-scenes look at news-making US foreign affairs and never before discussed details and dealings with various world leaders. Unlike any other presidential memoir, No Lost Causes is not only a compelling story of leadership, but an epic, heart-racing account of how bravery and hope gave a failing nation a brighter future.

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Penguin

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1101591005

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9781101591000

Book's by Alvaro Morales

Erectile Dysfunction

Erectile Dysfunction

China and Latin America

China and Latin America

The Political Economy of China–Latin America Relations

The Political Economy of China–Latin America Relations

The Biopolitics of Beauty

The Biopolitics of Beauty

Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities

Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities

The China-Latin America Axis

The China-Latin America Axis

Molecular Basis of Aging

Molecular Basis of Aging

Liberty for Latin America

Liberty for Latin America

Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot

Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot

Macroalgal Biorefineries For The Blue Economy

Macroalgal Biorefineries For The Blue Economy

Indigenous Decolonialism

Indigenous Decolonialism

Nutritional Epidemiology of Breast Cancer

Nutritional Epidemiology of Breast Cancer

No Lost Causes

No Lost Causes

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