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In Strangers' Arms

The Magic of the Tango

By: Beatriz Dujovne

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In Strangers' Arms

The Magic of the Tango

By: Beatriz Dujovne

The tango is easily the most iconic dance of the last century, its images as familiar as an old friend. But are they the whole story? Peeling back the poster propaganda that has always characterized the tango publicly, this intimate study shows the invisible heart of the dance and the culture that raised it. Drawing on direct experience and conversations with dancers, it reveals much about the role of the tango in Argentinean culture. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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McFarland

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0786486791

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9780786486793

The Economics of Contemporary Latin America

By: Beatriz Armendariz,Felipe Larrain B.

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The Economics of Contemporary Latin America

By: Beatriz Armendariz,Felipe Larrain B.

Analysis of Latin America's economy focusing on development, covering the colonial roots of inequality, boom and bust cycles, labor markets, and fiscal and monetary policy. Latin America is richly endowed with natural resources, fertile land, and vibrant cultures. Yet the region remains much poorer than its neighbors to the north. Most Latin American countries have not achieved standards of living and stable institutions comparable to those found in developed countries, have experienced repeated boom-bust cycles, and remain heavily reliant on primary commodities. This book studies the historical roots of Latin America's contemporary economic and social development, focusing on poverty and income inequality dating back to colonial times. It addresses today's legacies of the market-friendly reforms that took hold in the 1980s and 1990s by examining successful stabilizations and homemade monetary and fiscal institutional reforms. It offers a detailed analysis of trade and financial liberalization, twenty–first century-growth, and the decline in poverty and income inequality. Finally, the book offers an overall analysis of inclusive growth policies for development—including gender issues and the informal sector—and the challenges that lie ahead for the region, with special attention to pressing demands by the vibrant and vocal middle class, youth unemployment, and indigenous populations.

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MIT Press

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0262337878

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9780262337878

Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises

A Global Studies Perspective on Brazil-Mozambique Development Discourse

By: Ana Beatriz Ribeiro

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Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises

A Global Studies Perspective on Brazil-Mozambique Development Discourse

By: Ana Beatriz Ribeiro

New Books Network: Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense? As a member of Brazil's upper middle class, Ana Beatriz Ribeiro grew up with the image that to be developed was to be as European as possible. However, as a researcher in Europe during her country's Workers' Party era, she kept reading that Africans should be repaid for developing Brazilian society – via Brazil's "bestowal" of development upon Africa as an "emerging power." In Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises, the researcher investigates where these two worldviews might intersect, diverge and date back to, gauging relations between representatives and projects of the Brazilian and Mozambican states, said to be joined in cooperation more than others.

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BRILL

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9004432760

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9789004432765

The New Operational Culture

The Case of the Theatre Industry

By: Beatriz Munoz-Seca,J. Riverola

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The New Operational Culture

The Case of the Theatre Industry

By: Beatriz Munoz-Seca,J. Riverola

Imparting experiences from the theatre world to show how to manage operations in the 21st century, this book provides the key ideas necessary to implement a new operational culture that will lead to excellence in service. This is a must read for executives who wish their operations to be effective and to find satisfaction in shared success.

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Springer

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0230584608

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9780230584600

A History of Latinx Performing Arts in the U.S.

Volume II

By: Beatriz J. Rizk

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A History of Latinx Performing Arts in the U.S.

Volume II

By: Beatriz J. Rizk

A History of Latinx Performing Arts in the U.S. provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the Latinx performing arts in what is now the U.S. since the sixteenth century. This book combines theories and philosophical thought developed in a wide spectrum of disciplines—such as anthropology, sociology, gender studies, feminism, and linguistics, among others—and productions’ reviews, historical context, and political implications. Split into two volumes, these books offer interpretations and representations of a wide range of Latinxs’ lived experiences in the U.S. Volume I provides a chronological overview of the evolution of the Latinx community within the U.S., spanning from the 1500s to today, with an emphasis on the Chicano artistic renaissance initiated by Luis Valdez and the Teatro Campesino in the 1960s. Volume II continues, looking more in depth at the experiences of Latinx individuals on theatre and performance, including Miguel Piñero, Lin-Manuel Miranda, María Irene Fornés, Nilo Cruz, and John Leguizamo, as well as the important role of transnational migration in Latinx communities and identities across the U.S. A History of Latinx Performing Arts in the U.S. offers an accessible and comprehensive understanding of the field and is ideal for students, researchers, and instructors of theatre studies with an interest in the diverse and complex history of Latinx theatre and performance.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000959643

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9781000959642

Uproot

By: Josefina Beatriz Longoria

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Uproot

By: Josefina Beatriz Longoria

This memoir covers thirty years in thirty chapters. The main character, Beatrice Theriot, suffers a transformational journey. She goes from journalist, to wife, to mother, to writer. We follow her from Monterrey, to New York, Paris, LA, Nuevo Laredo, Laredo and San Antonio. Her tender uprooted family has to adapt to American soil and her marriage is threatened by clan loyalties.

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Lulu.com

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0359123732

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9780359123735

Rio de Janeiro

Urban Life through the Eyes of the City

By: Beatriz Jaguaribe

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Rio de Janeiro

Urban Life through the Eyes of the City

By: Beatriz Jaguaribe

Through artistic imaginaries, media productions, social practices and spatial mappings, this book offers an insightful and original contribution to the understanding of Rio de Janeiro, one of the highly contested urban terrains in the world. Offering a rich diversity of examples extracted from lived experience, iconographic materials, and narratives, it provides innovative and compelling connections between theoretical questions and urban vignettes. Throughout the essays, the specificity of Rio de Janeiro is highlighted but framed in relation to theoretical questions that are relevant to major contemporary cities. The book underlines the dilemmas of a city that attempts to compete globally while confronting social inequality, violence, and novel forms of democratic agency. It retraces Rio de Janeiro’s modernist memories as the former political/cultural capital of Brazilian intelligentsia and national culture. It explores Rio as a city of popular culture, mestizo legacies, media productions, and cultural innovation.

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Routledge

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113516634X

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9781135166342

Crystal Blueprint

Reconnect with Your Authentic Self Through the Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science of Quartz Crystals

By: Beatriz Singer

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Crystal Blueprint

Reconnect with Your Authentic Self Through the Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science of Quartz Crystals

By: Beatriz Singer

A guide to quartz crystals from both an ancestral and scientific point of view, with the mission of helping readers identify their mind patterns and wounds to reconnect with the authentic self. It's estimated that 10 billion quartz crystals are used every year in electronic devices--from smartphones to computers, credit cards, watches, digital cameras, TVs, cars, and much more. When you think about it, it's almost impossible to imagine life without crystals. These same crystals we see in so much of our technology have been used over the course of many centuries, and by many different cultures around the world, for healing. In fact, crystal healing is alive and well today, with modern-day healers harnessing the energy of quartz crystals to help alleviate suffering. What is it that has drawn scientists and healers around the world to crystal technology, and what are the similarities between the ways these two groups have used the stones? In this book, crystal healer and holistic therapist Beatriz Singer answers these questions--and more. She takes readers on a journey to understand the many wonders of quartz crystals, so that we can use their powers to bring peace and healing to ourselves and the world.

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313

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Hay House, Inc

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1401954863

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9781401954864

Children's Home Musical Experiences Across the World

By: Beatriz Ilari,Susan Young

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Children's Home Musical Experiences Across the World

By: Beatriz Ilari,Susan Young

This book offers a fresh and diverse perspective on home musical activities of young children from a variety of countries, including; Brazil, Denmark, Greece, Israel, Kenya, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, South Africa,Taiwan, the UK, and the United States. Narrowing their study to seven-year-olds from middle-class families, the articles in this volume argue that home musical experiences provide new and important windows into musical childhoods as they relate to issues of identity, family life, gender, culture, social class and schooling. Though childhood musical engagement differs considerably, it has direct implications for a better understanding of music education and childhood development. Using a wiki to share data and research across time and space, this volume is a model for collaborative cross-cultural research and is centered on the home as a primary research site for children's musical engagement.

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Indiana University Press

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0253022177

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9780253022172

Crystal Blueprint

Reconnect with Your Authentic Self Through the Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science of Quartz Crystals

By: Beatriz Singer

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Crystal Blueprint

Reconnect with Your Authentic Self Through the Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science of Quartz Crystals

By: Beatriz Singer

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Hay House, Inc

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1401954863

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The Olympic Games and Cultural Policy

By: Beatriz Garcia

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The Olympic Games and Cultural Policy

By: Beatriz Garcia

This book explores how cultural policies are reflected in the design, management and promotion of the Olympic Games. Garcia examines the concept and evolution of cultural policies throughout the recent history of the Olympic Games and then specifically evaluates the cultural program of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She argues that the cultural relevance of a major event is highly dependent on the consistency of the policy choices informing its cultural dimensions, and demonstrates how such events frequently fail to leave long-term cultural legacies, and are often unable to provide an experience that fully engages and represents the host community, due to their over-emphasis on an economic rather than a social and cultural agenda.

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Routledge

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0415995639

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9780415995634

Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil

By: Beatriz Caiuby Labate,Edward MacRae

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Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil

By: Beatriz Caiuby Labate,Edward MacRae

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive drink used for healing and divination among religious groups in the Brazilian Amazon. 'Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil' is the first scholarly volume in English to examine the religious rituals and practices surrounding ayahuasca. The use of ayahuasca among religious groups is analysed, alongside Brazilian public policies regarding ayahuasca and the handling of substance dependence. 'Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil' will be of interest to scholars of anthropology and religion and all those interested in the role of stimulants in religious practice.

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253

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Routledge

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1134961197

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9781134961191

Husbands & Lovers

A Novel

By: Beatriz Williams

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Husbands & Lovers

A Novel

By: Beatriz Williams

Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by an exotic family heirloom—reclaim secrets and lost loves in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives. “My favorite kind of page-turner—unputdownable!”—Martha Hall Kelly, author of The Golden Doves New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had been airlifted from summer camp with acute poisoning from a toxic death cap mushroom, leaving him fighting for his life. Now, searching for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life, Mallory’s forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mother’s adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952, and her own all-consuming summer romance fourteen years earlier with her childhood best friend, Monk Adams— one of the world’s most beloved singer-songwriters—a fairy tale cut short by a devastating betrayal. Cairo, 1951. After suffering tragedy beyond comprehension in the war, Hungarian refugee Hannah Ainsworth has forged a respectable new life for herself—marriage to a wealthy British diplomat with a coveted posting in glamorous Cairo. But a fateful encounter with the enigmatic manager of a hotel bristling with spies leads to a passionate affair that will reawaken Hannah’s longing for everything she once lost. As revolution simmers in the Egyptian streets, a pregnant Hannah finds herself snared in a game of intrigue between two men . . . and an act of sacrifice that will echo down the generations. Timeless and bittersweet, Husbands & Lovers takes readers on an unforgettable journey of heartbreak and redemption, from the revolutionary fires of midcentury Egypt to the moneyed beaches of contemporary New England. Acclaimed author Beatriz Williams has written a poignant and beautifully voiced novel of deeply human characters entangled by morally complex issues—of privilege, class, and the female experience—inside worlds brought shimmeringly to life.

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369

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Ballantine Books

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0593724224

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9780593724224

Opening the Portals of Heaven

Brazilian Ayahuasca Music

By: Beatriz Caiuby Labate,Gustavo Pacheco

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Opening the Portals of Heaven

Brazilian Ayahuasca Music

By: Beatriz Caiuby Labate,Gustavo Pacheco

Du site de l'éd.: This book highlights the theme of music in the ayahuasca religions of Santo Daime (both the Cefluris and Alto Santo groups) and the União do Vegetal (UDV). Although most studies of the ayahuasca religions recognize the centrality of music in their rituals, the study of the music itself has generally been secondary to other themes, rather than the central focus that it is here. A rich cultural manifestation, ayahuasca music reveals multiple connections with Brazilian religiosity and with the musical expression of the Northeast and Amazonia, and has been one of the principal elements highlighted by recent efforts to designate ayahuasca as immaterial cultural heritage of the Brazilian nation. The book explores the key role that music plays in the everyday life of these religions, in the production of religious meanings, and in the construction of the bodies and the subjectivity of adepts. Through a description of each group's musicality and a comparison among them, the authors seek to understand these groups' ethos. This book represents an important contribution to an area of study that is still little explored in Brazil: the use of music in ritual and religious contexts.

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115

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3643108028

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9783643108029

1898

Visual Culture and U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific

By: Taína Caragol,Kate Clarke Lemay,Carolina Maestre

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1898

Visual Culture and U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific

By: Taína Caragol,Kate Clarke Lemay,Carolina Maestre

A revealing look at U.S. imperialism through the lens of visual culture and portraiture In 1898, the United States seized territories overseas, ushering in an era of expansion that was at odds with the nation’s founding promise of freedom and democracy for all. This book draws on portraiture and visual culture to provide fresh perspectives on this crucial yet underappreciated period in history. Taína Caragol and Kate Clarke Lemay tell the story of 1898 by bringing together portraits of U.S. figures who favored overseas expansion, such as William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, with those of leading figures who resisted colonization, including Eugenio María de Hostos of Puerto Rico; José Martí of Cuba; Felipe Agoncillo of the Philippines; Padre Jose Bernardo Palomo of Guam; and Queen Lili‘uokalani of Hawai‘i. Throughout the book, Caragol and Lemay also look at landscapes, naval scenes, and ephemera. They consider works of art by important period artists Winslow Homer and Armando Menocal as well as contemporary artists such as Maia Cruz Palileo, Stephanie Syjuco, and Miguel Luciano. Paul A. Kramer’s essay addresses the role of the Smithsonian Institution in supporting imperialism, and texts by Jorge Duany, Theodore S. Gonzalves, Kristin L. Hoganson, Healoha Johnston, and Neil Weare offer critical perspectives by experts with close personal or scholarly relations to the island regions. Beautifully illustrated, 1898: Visual Culture and U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific challenges us to reconsider the Spanish-American War, the Philippine-American War, and the annexation of Hawai‘i while shedding needed light on the lasting impacts of U.S. imperialism. Published in association with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC April 28, 2023–February 25, 2024

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Princeton University Press

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0691246203

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9780691246208

Playing With Light

By: Beatriz Rivera

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Playing With Light

By: Beatriz Rivera

When Rebecca, a well-to-do Cuban-American woman, decides that sheÍd like to revive the old Cuban tradition of the tertulia, or womenÍs get-together, her best friend dashes her hopes, explaining that in todayÍs career-driven world even her friends require a compelling reason to come from all over Miami to casually meet and chat. At last, the ingenious Becky hits upon the idea of a reading group, and the book selected is a historical novel about nineteenth-century Cuba: the saga of an aristocratic dress-manufacturing clan, the Santa Cruz family. The novel is called . . . Playing with Light. Oddly, as they get ever deeper into the story of the Santa Cruzesespecially Tico and Lolostrange things begin to happen to the reading group. Everyone seems to be . . . sucked in . . . and affected (not necessarily pleasantly) by the saga. (ñWhatÍs for dinner, Mommy?î ñGet a slice of salami out of the refrigerator, dear. CanÍt you see IÍm reading?î) As two worlds, from two different centuries, begin to intertwine in odd ways, and her friends begin to . . . well, to disappear, actually . . . Rebecca canÍt help but wonder what sheÍs gotten herself into. Beatriz Rivera has written an entrancing and wonderfully ambitious novel that places her in the first rank of writers of her generation.

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258

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Arte Publico Press

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1611922526

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9781611922523

"Don't Be Sad When I'm Gone"

A Memoir of Loss and Healing in Buenos Aires

By: Beatriz Dujovne

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"Don't Be Sad When I'm Gone"

A Memoir of Loss and Healing in Buenos Aires

By: Beatriz Dujovne

The monumental sense of dislocation we experience after losing a loved one can be life-altering. There is no script for grieving--each individual passes through their own phases of mourning. In this personal narrative, psychologist Beatriz Dujovne documents how she grieved the loss of her husband and sought therapy during an extended stay in her hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Recounting her healing process day-to-day, from shock through recovery, this book traces her navigation of the uncertainty and devastation that often engulfs those who have suffered profound loss.

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159

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McFarland

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1476641854

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9781476641850

Affect, Archive, Archipelago

Puerto Rico’s Sovereign Caribbean Lives

By: Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa

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Affect, Archive, Archipelago

Puerto Rico’s Sovereign Caribbean Lives

By: Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa

Inspired by Édouard Glissant’s and Marta Aponte Alsina’s critical-creative work, this book explores how Puerto Rico’s affective archive of Caribbean relations, from the nineteenth century through the twenty-first, has envisioned and embodied decolonization and sovereignty in relation to the archipelagic, the sea, and Caribbean regionalism. The book’s transdisciplinary archive includes historical figures and their legacies; political and activist thought, textuality, and action as performative interventions; and performance and live arts pieces, objects, materialities, and texts as political/activist actions. Affect, Archive, Archipelago begins by delving into the historical-political figures of Ramón Emeterio Betances, Luisa Capetillo, and Pedro Albizu Campos. It then encounters the work of the live arts collective Agua, Sol y Sereno; the political/activist work of Amigxs del MAR, Comuna Caribe, Mujeres que Abrazan la Mar, and Coalición 8M; and Teresa Hernández’s transdisciplinary artistic trajectory. Finally, stemming from the book’s argument and the immediate historical-political-affective context of Puerto Rico’s summer 2019 rebellion (Verano Boricua), the book offers some reflections and proposals for furthering decolonial, sovereign, archipelagic, and reparatory horizons for Puerto Rico

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299

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538151456

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9781538151457

Textures, Structures and Processes of Volcanic Successions

Examples from Southern Central Andes (Northwestern Argentina, 22o–28oS)

By: Beatriz L.L. Coira,Clara Eugenia Cisterna

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Textures, Structures and Processes of Volcanic Successions

Examples from Southern Central Andes (Northwestern Argentina, 22o–28oS)

By: Beatriz L.L. Coira,Clara Eugenia Cisterna

This book provides a complete study of the Central Andean volcanism and its most distinctive features, from the lower Paleozoic to the Cenozoic times in the framework of its processes, eruptive mechanisms and geodynamic conditions. It helps readers understand the nature of the volcanic geology and the volcaniclastic related deposits linked to the evolution of the Andean continental margin. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the ancient volcanic successions and the difficulties in recognition of the original rock type caused by the effects of deformation, metamorphism and alteration. The authors use distinctive cases to describe how to apply different tools in analysis and interpretation. The selected representative, well exposed and preserved volcanic records of the Southern Central Andes analyzed in this book open new perspectives in the understanding of the volcanic processes linked to active continental margins as the Central Andes. This book will be of special interest to volcanologists and specialists in the earth sciences and appeal to both undergraduate and graduate students in geology.

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173

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Springer Nature

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3030520102

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9783030520106

Pink Pandemonium

By: Beatriz Gea

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Pink Pandemonium

By: Beatriz Gea

Beatriz Gea is a fresh author who has just published her first two books: El pavo enamorado and Memoirs and Oddities of a Spanglish, and this novel is a comedy biography that completes the second part of the last-mentioned book where her character Mia continues with her complicated life about love and work, looking for somewhere to settle down at and waiting for that someone really special she misses in her routine. But will she finally find him?

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1477222898

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A Certain Age

A Novel

By: Beatriz Williams

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A Certain Age

A Novel

By: Beatriz Williams

The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm. As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue and Southampton, Long Island, has done the unthinkable: she’s fallen in love with her young paramour, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War. An intense and deeply honorable man, Octavian is devoted to the beautiful socialite of a certain age and wants to marry her. While times are changing and she does adore the Boy, divorce for a woman of Theresa’s wealth and social standing is out of the question, and there is no need; she has an understanding with Sylvo, her generous and well-respected philanderer husband. But their relationship subtly shifts when her bachelor brother, Ox, decides to tie the knot with the sweet younger daughter of a newly wealthy inventor. Engaging a longstanding family tradition, Theresa enlists the Boy to act as her brother’s cavalier, presenting the family’s diamond rose ring to Ox’s intended, Miss Sophie Fortescue—and to check into the background of the little-known Fortescue family. When Octavian meets Sophie, he falls under the spell of the pretty ingénue, even as he uncovers a shocking family secret. As the love triangle of Theresa, Octavian, and Sophie progresses, it transforms into a saga of divided loyalties, dangerous revelations, and surprising twists that will lead to a shocking transgression . . . and eventually force Theresa to make a bittersweet choice. Full of the glamour, wit and delicious twists that are the hallmarks of Beatriz Williams’ fiction and alternating between Sophie’s spirited voice and Theresa’s vibrant timbre, A Certain Age is a beguiling reinterpretation of Richard Strauss’s comic opera Der Rosenkavalier, set against the sweeping decadence of Gatsby’s New York.

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HarperCollins

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0062404970

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9780062404978

Sharing Milk

Intimacy, Materiality and Bio-Communities of Practice

By: Carter, Shannon K.,Reyes-Foster, Beatriz M.

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Sharing Milk

Intimacy, Materiality and Bio-Communities of Practice

By: Carter, Shannon K.,Reyes-Foster, Beatriz M.

The feeding of human milk to socially and biologically unrelated infants is not a new phenomenon, but the Euroamerican values of individualism have generated expectations that mothers are individually responsible for feeding their own infants. Using a bio-communities of practice framework, this dynamic new analysis explores the emotional and material dimensions of the growing milk sharing practice in the Global North and its implications for contemporary understandings of infant feeding in the US. Ranging widely across themes of motherhood, gender and sociology, this is a compelling empirical account of infant feeding that stimulates new thinking about a contentious practice.

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232

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Policy Press

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1529202094

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9781529202090

Good Schools in Poor Neighborhoods

Defying Demographics, Achieving Success

By: Beatriz C. Clewell,Patricia B. Campbell,Lesley Perlman

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Good Schools in Poor Neighborhoods

Defying Demographics, Achieving Success

By: Beatriz C. Clewell,Patricia B. Campbell,Lesley Perlman

Good Schools in Poor Neighborhoods contrasts highly effective schools serving urban, low-income, minority youth with their more typical, struggling counterparts. Highlighted are two disparate schools: one serving predominately African American students in a large northeastern city and one serving Latino students in a southwestern urban area. Through solid data from original research, as well as lively vignettes and vivid quotes from principals, teachers, parents, and students, a picture of exceptional schools emerges to guide policymakers and practitioners.

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284

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The Urban Insitute

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087766742X

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9780877667421

Scenes from Postmodern Life

By: Beatriz Sarlo

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Scenes from Postmodern Life

By: Beatriz Sarlo

In this bracing book. Beatriz Sarlo offers a remarkably clear, forthright, and forceful statement of what precisely cultural criticism is and might be in our age of manic consumption, commercialization, popularization, and mass marketing.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816630097

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9780816630097

Psicología de la personalidad

By: José Bermúdez Moreno,Ana María Pérez García,José Antonio Ruiz Caballero,Pilar Sanjuán Suárez,Beatriz Rueda Laffond

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Psicología de la personalidad

By: José Bermúdez Moreno,Ana María Pérez García,José Antonio Ruiz Caballero,Pilar Sanjuán Suárez,Beatriz Rueda Laffond

En este texto se ofrece una visión equilibrada y actualizada que puede responder hoy, a la luz de la investigación científica, a la cuestión acerca de qué es eso que denominamos personalidad. A este respecto, nuestra propuesta es la siguiente: la personalidad engloba todas aquellas características, atributos y procesos psicosociobiológicos, cuya interrelación e integración posibilita identificar a cada persona como individuo único y diferente de los demás. El lector va a encontrar, en el tratamiento de los contenidos abordados en cada capítulo, abundante y actualizada referencia al sustrato de investigación científica en el que se apoyan los argumentos teóricos sobre los que se está debatiendo en cada caso.

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Editorial UNED

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8436257189

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9788436257182

Paradise in Ashes

A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope

By: Beatriz Manz

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Paradise in Ashes

A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope

By: Beatriz Manz

An account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. Manz, an anthropologist, spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala. In a political portrait of Santa María Tzejá, where highland Maya peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s, Manz describes these villagers' plight as their isolated, lush, but deceptive paradise became one of the centers of the war convulsing the entire country. After their village was viciously sacked in 1982, desperate survivors fled into the surrounding rain forest and eventually to Mexico, and some even further, to the United States, while others stayed behind and fell into the military's hands. Manz follows their flight and eventual return to Santa María Tzejá, where they sought to rebuild their village and their lives. From publisher description.

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Univ of California Press

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0520240162

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9780520240162

Teaching Gender

Feminist Pedagogy and Responsibility in Times of Political Crisis

By: Beatriz Revelles-Benavente,Ana Ramos

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Teaching Gender

Feminist Pedagogy and Responsibility in Times of Political Crisis

By: Beatriz Revelles-Benavente,Ana Ramos

Teaching Gender aims to examine the implications of teaching and learning in a neoliberal context from a feminist perspective.

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Taylor & Francis

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135179020X

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9781351790208

Human Evil

By: Beatriz Breves,Virgínia Sampaio

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Human Evil

By: Beatriz Breves,Virgínia Sampaio

How to fight back trolls, haters and cyberbullying? This book is about the aggression suffered by one of the authors, Beatriz Breves, on a social network, the Facebook. The author tells us not only all the suffering she went through, but she also describes the way trolls and haters act on the internet. Beatriz uses updated research on what has been happening to adolescents. Having their personalities not formed yet and without solid emotional basis, some adolescents can even go to the point of committing suicide when they are victims of cyberbullying. Virginia Sampaio, the other author of the book, is also a psychologist and psychoanalyst. She was invited by Beatriz to help her tell the story and analyze the facts in a more objective way. But the authors do more than that. They call people’s attention for “the need to change” and have devised a list of things to do to “fight back trolls, haters and cyberbullying”. Ronaldo Ramos Lemos, the lawyer who wrote the foreword, calls the attention for the kinds of crimes which have spread on the social networks. For those people who have been attacked and for the ones who want to fight back this kind of aggression, the book Human Evil- How to Burst Someone’s Life into pieces on Facebook is an important step for the change.

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Mauad Editora Ltda

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8574787051

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9788574787053

Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems in Therapy (IPNB)

By: Beatriz Sheldon,Albert Sheldon

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Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems in Therapy (IPNB)

By: Beatriz Sheldon,Albert Sheldon

Enabling patients’ minds to change the structure of their brains. Beatriz and Albert Sheldon have spent the last 20 years developing the novel therapeutic paradigm called Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems (CIMBS). They have pioneered new methodology for "reading" and assessing emotional states using their patients’ carefully observed psychophysiological phenomena as empirical evidence. CIMBS also incorporates the latest groundbreaking research on neuroplasticity, brain development, and therapeutic change. This book details their novel neurobiological and psychotherapeutic paradigm—and reveals how therapists can use it for more successful treatment. Clients come to therapy troubled by deeply ingrained neural circuits and emotional habits. The authors demonstrate how they use psychophysiological perspectives to recognize limitations in brain systems that are interfering with their patients’ functioning. And through “physiopsychotherapy,” they activate self-affirming, nonconscious emotional resources to change rigid, maladaptive neural circuits. CIMBS offers a way of “integrating” these [brain system] resources to foster more complex and flexible mental functioning and to produce more successful psychotherapeutic outcomes. The therapeutic attachment relationship between therapist and patient, and “present moment” experiences within the session rather than recollections of past trauma, are key elements in this unique emotional resource-based mode of therapy. This book is wide-ranging in documenting CIMBS' success at operationalizing neuroscience research. Translating their academic, scientific, and clinical research and successful training courses into a reference work that you can hold in your hands and savor at leisure, the Sheldons have produced an approachable, intriguing, yet comprehensive milestone in the psychotherapeutic literature.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393713288

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9780393713282

Scripts of Servitude

Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work

By: Beatriz P. Lorente

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Scripts of Servitude

Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work

By: Beatriz P. Lorente

This book examines how language is a central resource in transforming migrant women into transnational domestic workers. Focusing on the migration of women from the Philippines to Singapore, the book unpacks why and how language is embedded in the infrastructure of transnational labor migration that links migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries. It sheds light on the everyday lives of transnational domestic workers and how they draw on their linguistic repertoires, and in particular on English, as they cross geographical and social spaces. By showing how the transnational mobility of labor is dependent on the selection and performance of particular assemblages of linguistic resources that index migrants as labor and not as people, the book provides a powerful lens with which to examine how migration contributes to relationships of inequality and how such inequalities are produced and challenged on the terrain of language.

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Multilingual Matters

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1783099011

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9781783099016

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