Carlos Garcia's Books

Traveling Freely

Essays

By: Roberto Carlos Garcia

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A poet’s debut essay collection exploring American faults through the eyes of a Dominican American In Traveling Freely: Essays, Roberto Carlos Garcia explores intersecting topics such as race, identity, American socioeconomic inequality, police violence, our inability to partake in our culture as innocents, and our complicity as Americans in all that’s wrong with the United States from the author’s specific vantage point as a Black Dominican American man. The voice in these essays is both clear and nuanced, and as readers move through the collection, the various themes cohere into a multilayered investigation of institutional racism and the inherent exploitations of capitalism. In essays that are uniquely straightforward and accessible, Garcia insists that in order to resist state-sanctioned violence against marginalized bodies and populations, we must understand our shared history of oppression—so that we can rise against it effectively and find new paths forward.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810147890

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The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell

By: Carlos Rojas

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The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell

By: Carlos Rojas

Doomed to hell, Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is confronted by two different versions of his former self.

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Yale University Press

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0300167768

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9780300167764

Popper's Theory of Science

An Apologia

By: Carlos Garcia

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Popper's Theory of Science

An Apologia

By: Carlos Garcia

Popper's theory of science has been widely misunderstood and poorly represented in the literature on philosophy of science, over the last three decades. This book discusses the main issues in Popper's theory of science and, after giving a careful characterization of each issue, examines the main objections that have been raised against them and offers ways of circumventing them. It demonstrates that Popper's theory can guide us again to a better understanding of the aim and the structure of science.

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A&C Black

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1847143563

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Cardiology in the ER

A Practical Guide

By: Carlos Jerjes-Sánchez

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Cardiology in the ER

A Practical Guide

By: Carlos Jerjes-Sánchez

This book provides a guide for the management of patients with cardiovascular emergencies in the ER. It covers a broad range of the most important and frequent acute cardiovascular events including coronary syndromes, aortic syndromes, pulmonary embolism, and left heart failure. Pragmatic in nature, chapters discuss frequent clinical presentations in a thorough fashion while emphasizing a practical and concise approach to diagnosis and treatment. In addition, the book explores how new knowledge and technological advances are improving the quality of patient care in the emergency room, highlighting technological advances in the use of pharmacotherapy, biomarkers, and imaging techniques such as X-ray, echocardiography, CT, MRI, and nuclear. Cardiology in the ER: A Practical Guide is an essential resource for physicians and related professionals, residents, and fellows in cardiology, emergency medicine, intensive and critical care, and internal medicine.

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Springer

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3030136795

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9783030136796

Panfletos Liberales II

By: Carlos Rodríguez Braun

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Panfletos Liberales II

By: Carlos Rodríguez Braun

Carlos Rodríguez Braun defiende la libertad política y económica en contra de las ideas predominantes, que critica con audacia, ironía y rigor.

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Editorial Almuzara

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8483563916

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9788483563915

Sacred Eroticism

Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski in the Latin American Erotic Novel

By: Juan Carlos Ubilluz

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Sacred Eroticism

Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski in the Latin American Erotic Novel

By: Juan Carlos Ubilluz

Sacred Eroticism addresses a neglected chapter in Latin American literature, namely, the influence of Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski's atheist mysticism in the Latin American erotic novel of the twentieth century. Combining a Lacanian analytical framework with an (Inter)textualist approach. Juan Carlos Ubilluz reveals how Julio Cortazar, Salvador Elizondo, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Juan Garcia Ponce adopted Sataille and Klossowski's aesthetic and philosophical models as a point of departure to rearticulate the modern subject's buried dimension of the sacred through various Innovations on the erotic novel's form. Ubilluz examines the dialectical irruption of these literary experiments into their particular aesthetic, theoretical, and political contexts; showing, for instance, that Cortazar's

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Bucknell University Press

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0838756255

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The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981

By: Carlos Kevin Blanton

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The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981

By: Carlos Kevin Blanton

Awarded the Texas State Historical Association's Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize; presented March 2005 Despite controversies over current educational practices, Texas boasts a rich and vibrant bilingual tradition-and not just for Spanish-English instruction, but for Czech, German, Polish, and Dutch as well. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Texas educational policymakers embraced, ignored, rejected, outlawed, then once again embraced this tradition. In The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, author Carlos Blanton traces the educational policies and their underlying rationales, from Stephen F. Austin's proposal in the 1830s to "Mexicanize" Anglo children by teaching them Spanish along with English and French, through the 1981 passage of the most encompassing bilingual education law in the state's history. Blanton draws on primary materials, such as the handwritten records of county administrators and the minutes of state education meetings, and presents the Texas experience in light of national trends and movements, such as Progressive Education, the Americanization Movement, and the Good Neighbor Movement. By tracing the many changes that eventually led to the re-establishment of bilingual education in its modern form in the 1960s and the 1981 passage of a landmark state law, Blanton reconnects Texas with its bilingual past. CARLOS KEVIN BLANTON, an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University, earned his Ph.D. from Rice University. His research in Mexican American educational history has been published in journals such as the Pacific Historical Review and Social Science Quarterly.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585446025

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Justice for Selena -The State Versus Yolanda Saldivar

By: Carlos Valdez

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Justice for Selena -The State Versus Yolanda Saldivar

By: Carlos Valdez

The district attorney who prosecuted the case against Yolanda Saldivar offers a firsthand account of the trial involving the death of Selena Quintanilla Perez, the Tejano music superstar whose murder sent shockwaves throughout the music world.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412065259

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9781412065252

Journey to the Heart of Cuba

Life as Fidel Castro

By: Carlos Alberto Montaner

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Journey to the Heart of Cuba

Life as Fidel Castro

By: Carlos Alberto Montaner

A former university professor delves into the mind and psyche of Fidel Castroand the forces that have kept him in power in Cuba.

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Algora Publishing

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1892941619

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Urban Planning in North Africa

By: Carlos Nunes Silva

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Urban Planning in North Africa

By: Carlos Nunes Silva

There has been relatively little written on the history of urban planning in North Africa, despite the wealth of towns and cities in this region which date back to Antiquity. The book explores the history of urban planning in North Africa and the challenges confronting contemporary urban planning in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. It examines the transnational flow of planning ideas during the colonial period, namely through the French, British, and Italian colonial presence, and the Portuguese and Spanish influences as well, and discusses key challenges currently confronting urban planning in the major urban centers in the region. The fifteen chapters that constitute the book offer an informed analysis of the history of urban planning in North Africa, covering the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial periods.

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Routledge

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1317003586

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9781317003588

Designing Microwave Sensors for Glucose Concentration Detection in Aqueous and Biological Solutions

Towards Non-invasive Glucose Sensing

By: Carlos G. Juan

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Designing Microwave Sensors for Glucose Concentration Detection in Aqueous and Biological Solutions

Towards Non-invasive Glucose Sensing

By: Carlos G. Juan

This book presents a comprehensive study covering the design and application of microwave sensors for glucose concentration detection, with a special focus on glucose concentration tracking in watery and biological solutions. This book is based on the idea that changes in the glucose concentration provoke variations in the dielectric permittivity of the medium. Sensors whose electrical response is sensitive to the dielectric permittivity of the surrounding media should be able to perform as glucose concentration trackers. At first, this book offers an in-depth study of the dielectric permittivity of water–glucose solutions at concentrations relevant for diabetes purposes; in turn, it presents guidelines for designing suitable microwave resonators, which are then tested in both water–glucose solutions and multi-component human blood plasma solutions for their detection ability and sensitivities. Finally, a portable version is developed and tested on a large number of individuals in a real clinical scenario. All in all, the book reports on a comprehensive study on glucose monitoring devices based on microwave sensors. It covers in depth the theoretical background, provides extensive design guidelines to maximize sensitivity, and validates a portable device for applications in clinical settings.

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Springer Nature

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3030761797

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Medicinal Chemistry of Anticancer Drugs

By: Carmen Avendaño,J. Carlos Menéndez

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Medicinal Chemistry of Anticancer Drugs

By: Carmen Avendaño,J. Carlos Menéndez

This third edition of Medicinal Chemistry of Anticancer Drugs, provides an updated resource for students and researchers from the point of view of medicinal chemistry and drug design, focusing on the mechanism of action of antitumor drugs from the molecular level, and on the relationship between chemical structure and chemical and biochemical reactivity of antitumor agents. Antitumor chemotherapy is a very active field of research, and a huge amount of information on the topic is generated every year. This new edition includes updated sections on the hot topic of cancer immunotherapy, cancer polypharmacology, multitargeted cancer therapy, medicinal chemistry of cancer diagnosis, theranostic anticancer agents, and pre-mRNA processing in cancer. Although many books are available that deal with clinical aspects of cancer chemotherapy, this book provides a unique and valuable perspective from the point of view of medicinal chemistry and drug design. It will be useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students of medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, biological chemistry, pharmacy and other health sciences. Researchers and practitioners will find a comprehensive treatment of the topic and a large number of references to reviews and the primary literature. - Provides a resource that is organized consistently based on targets and mechanisms of action from a molecular point-of-view - Focuses on the relationship between chemical structure and chemical and biochemical reactivity of antitumor agents, providing a rationalization on the action of these type of drugs and the design of new active structures - Features a large number of color figures which give information in a clear-and-concise way - Includes extensive references to review articles and primary literature - Includes updated sections on the hot topic of cancer immunotherapy, cancer polypharmacology, multitargeted cancer therapy, medicinal chemistry of cancer diagnosis, theragnostic anticancer agents, and pre-mRNA processing in cancer

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0128196521

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Health Issues in the Latino Community

By: Marilyn Aguirre-Molina,Carlos W. Molina,Ruth Enid Zambrana

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Health Issues in the Latino Community

By: Marilyn Aguirre-Molina,Carlos W. Molina,Ruth Enid Zambrana

Sweeping in scope, Health Issues in the Latino Community identifies and offers an in-depth examination of the most critical health issues that affect Latino's health and health care within the United States. This resource offers a comprehensive approach that informs and promotes the advancement of the practice, program planning, research, and public policy to improve health care of all Latino citizens.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787960276

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Mexican Chicago

By: Rita Arias Jirasek,Carlos Tortolero

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Mexican Chicago

By: Rita Arias Jirasek,Carlos Tortolero

Photographs from family archives, museums, and university collections capture the cultural, economic, and religious history of Chicago's Mexican communities, providing images of such neighborhoods as Pilsen, Little Village, Back of the Yards, and South Deering.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738507563

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The Lakes of the Basin of Mexico

Dynamics of a Lacustrine System and the Evolution of a Civilization

By: Carlos E. Cordova

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The Lakes of the Basin of Mexico

Dynamics of a Lacustrine System and the Evolution of a Civilization

By: Carlos E. Cordova

This book is a review of research on the prehistoric and historic evolution of the Basin of Mexico’s lacustrine systems. Based on this review, the book presents a model of long and short-term natural lacustrine dynamics as the basis for understanding the processes of human adaptation and transformation of the aquatic ecosystems of the Basin of Mexico. Although only remains of the former lakes exist, the book stresses the importance of the knowledge of the former natural and cultural history of the lakes. In this sense, the book addresses the misconceptions and misinterpretations of the lakes that still exist in the literature and the media and that do not reflect the real nature of the lakes in the past. Therefore, the book attempts to not only feed into the local knowledge of the lakes, but also contribute to the worldwide knowledge of lacustrine dynamics and human populations that lived in and around them. The book should be of interest to geographers, geologists, archaeologists, natural historians and environmental scientists, civil engineers, city planners and those involved in the management of natural resources.

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3031127331

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9783031127335

The Language of Colour in the Bible

Embodied Colour Terms related to Green

By: Lourdes García Ureña,Emanuela Valeriani,Anna Angelini,Carlos Santos Carretero,Marina Salvador Gimeno

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The Language of Colour in the Bible

Embodied Colour Terms related to Green

By: Lourdes García Ureña,Emanuela Valeriani,Anna Angelini,Carlos Santos Carretero,Marina Salvador Gimeno

The Bible is one of the books that has aroused the most interest throughout history to the present day. However, there is one topic that has mostly been neglected and which today constitutes one of the most emblematic elements of the visual culture in which we live immersed: the language of colour. Colour is present in the biblical text from its beginning to its end, but it has hardly been studied, and we appear to have forgotten that the detailed study of the colour terms in the Bible is essential to understanding the use and symbolism that the language of colour has acquired in the literature that has forged European culture and art. The objective of the present study is to provide the modern reader with the meaning of colour terms of the lexical families related to the green tonality in order to determine whether they denote only color and, if so, what is the coloration expressed, or whether, together with the chromatic denotation, another reality inseparable from colour underlies/along with the chromatic denotation, there is another underlying reality that is inseparable from colour. We will study the symbolism that/which underpins some of these colour terms, and which European culture has inherited. This lexicographical study requires a methodology that allows us to approach colour not in accordance with our modern and abstract concept of colour, but with the concept of the ancient civilations. This is why the concept of colour that emerges from each of the versions of the Bible is studied and compared with that found in theoretical reflection in both Greek and Latin. Colour thus emerges as a concrete reality, visible on the surface of objects, reflecting in many cases, not an intrinsic quality, but their state. This concept has a reflection in the biblical languages, since the terms of colour always describe an entity (in this sense one can say that they are embodied) and include within them a wide chromatic spectrum, that is, they are mostly polysemic. Structuralism through the componential analysis, although providing interesting contributions, had at the same time serious shortcomings when it came to the study of colour. These were addressed through the theoretical framework provided by cognitive linguistics and some of its tools such as: cognitive domains, metonymy and metaphor. Our study, then, is one of the first to apply some of the contributions of cognitive linguistics to lexicography in general, and particularly with reference to the Hebrew, Greek and Latin versions of the Bible. A further novel contribution of this research is that the meaning is expressed through a definition and not through a list of possible colour terms as happens in dictionaries or in studies referring to colour in antiquity. The definition allows us to delve deeper and discover new nuances that enrich the understanding of colour in the three great civilizations involved in our study: Israel, Greece and Rome.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110767732

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9783110767735

The State in Ancient Egypt

Power, Challenges and Dynamics

By: Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia

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The State in Ancient Egypt

Power, Challenges and Dynamics

By: Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia

This book presents a new analysis of the organization, structure and changes of the pharaonic state through three millennia of its history. Moreno García sheds new light on this topic by bringing to bear recent developments in state theory and archaeology, especially comparative study of the structure of ancient states and empires. The role played by pharaonic Egypt in new studies often reiterates old views about the stability, conservatism and 'exceptionalism' of Egyptian kingship, which supposedly remained the same across the Bronze and Iron Ages. Ancient Egypt shared many parallels with other Bronze and Iron Age societies as can be shown by an analysis of the structure of the state, of the limits of royal power, of the authority of local but neglected micro-powers (such as provincial potentates and wealthy non-elite), and of the circulation and control of wealth. Furthermore, Egypt experienced deep changes in its social, economic, political and territorial organization during its history, thus making the land of the pharaohs an ideal arena in which to test applications of models of governments and to define the dynamics that rule societies on the longue durée. When seen through these new perspectives, the pharaonic monarchies appear less exceptional than previously thought, and more dependent on the balance of power, on their capacity to control the kingdom's resources and on the changing geopolitical conditions of their time.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350075019

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Capillary Electrophoresis and Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis

Principles, Applications, and Limitations

By: Carlos D. García,Karin Y. Chumbimuni-Torres,Emanuel Carrilho

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Capillary Electrophoresis and Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis

Principles, Applications, and Limitations

By: Carlos D. García,Karin Y. Chumbimuni-Torres,Emanuel Carrilho

Explores the benefits and limitations of the latest capillary electrophoresis techniques Capillary electrophoresis and microchip capillary electrophoresis are powerful analytical tools that are particularly suited for separating and analyzing biomolecules. In comparison with traditional analytical techniques, capillary electrophoresis and microchip capillary electrophoresis offer the benefits of speed, small sample and solvent consumption, low cost, and the possibility of miniaturization. With contributions from a team of leading analytical scientists, Capillary Electrophoresis and Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis explains how researchers can take full advantage of all the latest techniques, emphasizing applications in which capillary electrophoresis has proven superiority over other analytical approaches. The authors not only explore the benefits of each technique, but also the limitations, enabling readers to choose the most appropriate technique to analyze a particular sample. The book's twenty-one chapters explore fundamental aspects of electrophoretically driven separations, instrumentation, sampling techniques, separation modes, detection systems, optimization strategies for method development, and applications. Specific topics include: Critical evaluation of the use of surfactants in capillary electrophoresis Sampling and quantitative analysis in capillary electrophoresis Capillary electrophoresis with electrochemical detection Overcoming challenges in using microchip electrophoresis for extended monitoring applications Capillary electrophoresis of intact unfractionated heparin and related impurities Microchip capillary electrophoresis for in situ planetary exploration Each chapter begins with an introduction and ends with conclusions as well as references to the primary literature. Novices to the field will find this book an easy-to-follow introduction to core capillary electrophoresis techniques and methods. More experienced investigators can turn to the book for troubleshooting tips and expert advice to guide them through the most advanced applications.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118529995

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9781118529997

Walking Out of Poverty Together

By: Carlos Garcia

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Walking Out of Poverty Together

By: Carlos Garcia

July 16, 2007 There goes the church bell again. I wonder who died this time. I have to look even though I know I will get in trouble for getting up in class again. It’s not my fault the church bells sound so much like music. Wow, so many people in black. Why do people wear black to a funeral? Shouldn’t they wear white if their friend is going to heaven? Where is everyone going in a hurry? I like that store; they have the best candy. I’m going to buy that abandon building, and I will make my own school someday. But it will be a fun school where we can get dirty and have fun while learning. Maybe, I will be Mayor, and the people will love how I changed this neighborhood. The church bells stopped and she is looking at me that way again. I better sit down before she calls out my name and then it’s back to the principal’s office. Hey, can you hear that dad? It’s the church bells from Saint Joseph. Man they’re loud. Those are the eight o’clock bells. So it’s barley eight. I like these sunsets. Look how the sun goes behind those trees. That tree looks like a lion roaring at the sky. Look at those trees. They look like waves that are drowning the sun. Mom gave me a radio. What station do you like? When you were in Vietnam, were you scared? Do you still have nightmares? Well, I am glad you made it back home. You know that old white building in front of our church. I want to buy it someday. I use to look at it all the time thinking that I could do something good with it. Yeah, the sky does look pretty when it’s gold and pink. The clouds look like a castle floating on mountains. Look at those birds. Where do you think they’re going? The church bells stopped. We should go inside before the mosquitoes come out. Do you think these mosquitoes are getting bigger? Hey, stop you guys. Do you hear that? It sounds like music. Yeah, it’s the church bell. I heard they’re hiring at that church for coaches for their summer program. I think I am going to go apply. Come with me. Hello, are you still taking applications for summer coaches. That’s too bad. I really wanted to work here. I heard of all the good things you do for the community. I agree with what you are doing here. We do need good positive role models in the neighborhood. I am not going to school right now, but I want to be a teacher someday. Do you know that old building across from us? I want to buy it. It’s going to be either a recreational center or an early learning center like Head Start. Wow, I can still hear those church bells. Well, thank you for your time. And, yes, I do plan to attend college this fall; I am going to be a teacher. I will keep in touch. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, amen. Dear Father, thank you for all that you do, the seen and unseen. Thank you for my beautiful wife and our amazing daughter. Thank you for bringing me here today to slow me down from this busy world and catch my breath. This is the best part of the church when it is just you and me alone talking just like this. O’ there goes the twelve o’ clock bells. They sound so beautiful. Father, please give us strength when we are weak. Help us to be understanding, patient, and compassionate to each other. Help me be the best teacher that I can be. Let me receive the skills that I need so that I can come back into this community and teach them there is more than just this neighborhood, that my students can be anything they want if they just believe and have someone believing in them. I haven’t forgotten about that old building. What was that Lord? Is it time to wakeup? Will I still be able to hear the music in the bells? In that case, ring those bells, and I’ll get to work.

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1450061605

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The Fiscal Institutions of Tomorrow

By: Mario Sanginés,Joan Oriol Prats Cabrera,Carlos Pimenta,Gustavo García Osío,Juan Pablo Martínez Guzman,Mario Marcel,Pedro Farias,Gustavo Crespi,Martin D. Chrisney,Ana Corbacho

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The Fiscal Institutions of Tomorrow

By: Mario Sanginés,Joan Oriol Prats Cabrera,Carlos Pimenta,Gustavo García Osío,Juan Pablo Martínez Guzman,Mario Marcel,Pedro Farias,Gustavo Crespi,Martin D. Chrisney,Ana Corbacho

The Fiscal Institutions of Tomorrow, the first publication in the series Institutions for People, addresses issues of public management that are key to economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean. It presents the challenges that the countries in the region face to strengthen fiscal institutions with a view to the future and with policy recommendations. This publication serves as reference material for policymakers and economic analysts interested in studying the evolution of fiscal institutions in the region and identifying areas to improve governance.

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Inter-American Development Bank

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1597821691

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9781597821698

Different Coins in the Fountain

Volume I of Ii

By: Carlos V. Cornejo

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Different Coins in the Fountain

Volume I of Ii

By: Carlos V. Cornejo

Volume I contains fifty-four stories. Volume II, which is a continuation of Volume I, has forty-two stories. The stories are stand-alone stories; that is, they are independent from each other so that these books can be read in any sequence the reader chooses. There is no particular reason why they should be read in the way the author sequenced them. The reader can select stories based on the time there is to read one or more stories. The books are designed for busy people who need to escape from the problems of work, family, or self-imposed rituals for governing activities of the day. Please read these stories to explore and enhance that which is not yet part of your day or evening accomplishments.

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1491824417

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9781491824412

Youth, Identity, Power

The Chicano Movement

By: Carlos Muñoz

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Youth, Identity, Power

The Chicano Movement

By: Carlos Muñoz

Youth, Identity, Power is the classic study of the origins of the 1960s Chicano civil rights movement. Written by a leader of the Chicano student movement who also played a key role in the creation of the wider Chicano Movement, this is the first full-length work to appear on the subject. It fills an important gap in the history of political and social protest in the United States. Carlos Muoz places the Chicano Movement in the context of the political and intellectual development of people of Mexican descent in the USA, tracing the emergence of student activists and intellectuals in the 1930s and their initial challenge to the dominant white racial and class ideologies. He then documents the rise and fall of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, situating it within the 1960s civil rights and radical movements and assessing the Chicano Movement's contribution to the development of the Mexican American population and the Latino population as a whole. In an afterword to this new edition, Muoz charts the burgeoning growth of US Latino communities, assesses the nativist backlash against them, and argues that Latinos must play a central role in a new movement for multiracial democracy.

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Verso Books

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1789603277

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9781789603279

From Feudalism to Capitalism

Social and Political Change in Castile and Western Europe, 1250–1520

By: Carlos Astarita

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From Feudalism to Capitalism

Social and Political Change in Castile and Western Europe, 1250–1520

By: Carlos Astarita

Carlos Astarita's From Feudalism to Capitalism: Social and Political Change in Castile and Western Europe, 1250–1520 presents for an English-speaking readership a major contribution to the debate on the origins of capitalism.

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BRILL

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9004258388

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9789004258389

Hegemonies of Language and Their Discontents

The Southwest North American Region Since 1540

By: Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez

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Hegemonies of Language and Their Discontents

The Southwest North American Region Since 1540

By: Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez

The book provides a unique and broad look at the history, power, duality, and promise of Spanish and English in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands--Provided by publisher.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816537119

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9780816537112

George I. Sánchez

The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration

By: Carlos Kevin Blanton

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George I. Sánchez

The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration

By: Carlos Kevin Blanton

George I. Sánchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930–1960). A professor of education at the University of Texas from the beginning of World War II until the early 1970s, Sánchez was an outspoken proponent of integration and assimilation. He spent his life combating racial prejudice while working with such organizations as the ACLU and LULAC in the fight to improve educational and political opportunities for Mexican Americans. Yet his fervor was not always appreciated by those for whom he advocated, and some of his more unpopular stands made him a polarizing figure within the Latino community. Carlos Blanton has published the first biography of this complex man of notable contradictions. The author honors Sánchez’s efforts, hitherto mostly unrecognized, in the struggle for equal opportunity, while not shying away from his subject’s personal faults and foibles. The result is a long-overdue portrait of a towering figure in mid-twentieth-century America and the all-important cause to which he dedicated his life: Mexican American integration.

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Yale University Press

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0300210426

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9780300210422

Private Armed Forces and Global Security

A Guide to the Issues

By: Juan Carlos Ortiz

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Private Armed Forces and Global Security

A Guide to the Issues

By: Juan Carlos Ortiz

Through an array of theoretical approaches and empirical material, this comprehensive and accessible volume surveys private armed forces and directly challenges conventional stereotypes of security contractors. Private Armed Forces and Global Security: A Guide to the Issues is the first book to provide a comprehensive yet accessible survey of the private military groups involved in conflicts worldwide. Organized around four themes, it covers the history of private military forces since 1600, the main contemporary actors and their defining characteristics, the environments in which private armed forces operate, and provides an analysis of the logic behind privatizing security. This book goes beyond conventional knowledge, offering both a theoretical approach and a new, practical perspective to advance the understanding of the ongoing climate of global instability and relevant players within it. Numerous examples help the reader grasp the full range of real-world challenges and conceptual facets surrounding this fascinating, yet highly polarizing topic.

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265

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Connect Level 3 Teacher's Edition

By: Jack C. Richards,Carlos Barbisan,Chuck Sandy

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Connect Level 3 Teacher's Edition

By: Jack C. Richards,Carlos Barbisan,Chuck Sandy

Connect, Second Edition, is a fun, four-level, multi-skills American English course especially written and designed for young adolescents. The comprehensive, interleaved Teacher's Edition 3 provides step-by-step instructions to present, practice, and review all new language for Student's Book 3. It also features the audio scripts, optional exercises, and informative notes.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521737184

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9780521737180

Puerto Rican Labor History 1898–1934

Revolutionary Ideals and Reformist Politics

By: Carlos Sanabria

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Puerto Rican Labor History 1898–1934

Revolutionary Ideals and Reformist Politics

By: Carlos Sanabria

Puerto Rican Labor History 1898–1934 presents a history of the organized labor movement in Puerto Rico from the United States’ colonial domination of the island in 1898 to the Great Depression in the early 1930s. Although the most prominent Puerto Rican labor leaders in the early twentieth century were strongly influenced by revolutionary European socialist and anarchist ideology, the organized labor movement as represented by the Federación Libre de los Trabajadores de Puerto Rico and the Partido Socialista became a fundamentally reformist trade unionist campaign that relied heavily on the democratic rights guaranteed by the United States government and the support of the American Federation of Labor. Rather than advocating for the overthrow of capitalism, the abolition of private property and the wage labor system, and its replacement by a socialist egalitarian cooperative society free of centralized government authority, the organized workers’ movement focused on the immediate struggle for higher wages and better working conditions by means of the organization of labor and participation in electoral politics.

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Lexington Books

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1498537847

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9781498537841

The Literature of Catastrophe

Nature, Disaster and Revolution in Latin America

By: Carlos Fonseca

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The Literature of Catastrophe

Nature, Disaster and Revolution in Latin America

By: Carlos Fonseca

This book investigates how nature and history intertwined during the violent aftermath of the Latin American Wars of Independence. Synthesizing intellectual history and readings of textual production, The Literature of Catastrophe reimagines the emergence of the modern Latin American nation-states beyond the scope of the harmonious “foundational fictions” that marked the emergence of the nation as an organic community. Through a study of philosophical, literary and artistic representations of three catastrophic figures – earthquakes, volcanoes and epidemics – this book provides a critical model through which to refute these state-sponsored “happy narratives,” proposing instead that the emergence of the modern state in Latin America was indeed a violent event whose aftershocks are still felt today. Engaging a variety of sources and protagonists, from Simón Bolívar's manifestoes to Cesar Aira's use of landscape in his novels, from the revolutionary role mosquitoes had within the Haitian Revolution to the role AIDS played in the writing of Reinaldo Arenas' posthumous novel, Carlos Fonseca offers an original retelling of this foundational moment, recounting how history has become a site where the modern division between nature and culture collapses.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501350641

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9781501350641

Adversarial Web Search

By: Carlos Castillo,Brian D. Davison

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Adversarial Web Search

By: Carlos Castillo,Brian D. Davison

Adversarial Web Search considers the effects of the adversarial relationship between search systems and those who wish to manipulate them, a field known as Adversarial Information Retrieval.

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Now Publishers Inc

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1601984146

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9781601984142

Management by Missions

Connecting People to Strategy through Purpose

By: Pablo Cardona,Carlos Rey

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Management by Missions

Connecting People to Strategy through Purpose

By: Pablo Cardona,Carlos Rey

A few decades ago, management thinking started to embrace the idea of purpose. The first edition of this book marked an important step in this trajectory; it drew attention to the need for managers to relate the concepts of ‘purpose’ and ‘missions’ to strategy, culture and leadership. In the years since, purpose and missions have become business imperatives – not only in terms of remaining competitive but as core in the attempts to have a sustainable impact on the world. The second edition of Management by Missions is an open access book based on substantially more research carried out over fifteen years, involving more than 200 organizations around the world. All of this research supports that the practical models and ideas offered in the book have been tried and tested and actually work in practice. With case studies, anecdote and new research findings, the authors present the main tools of the MBM method (shared missions, missions scorecards, interdependency matrix, missions-based objectives and integral assessment) and the type of leadership needed to implement it. The ideas presented in this book mark a path towards a new management methodology for the XXI century and a new way of understanding the work that managers do.

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Springer Nature

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3030837807

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9783030837808

The Adventures of a Cello

Revised Edition, with a New Epilogue

By: Carlos Prieto

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The Adventures of a Cello

Revised Edition, with a New Epilogue

By: Carlos Prieto

A delightful biography of a celebrated Stradivarius cello and an inviting overview of cello music and its preeminent composers and performers by world-famous concert cellist Carlos Prieto.

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University of Texas Press

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1477317864

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9781477317860

Weights, Extrapolation and the Theory of Rubio de Francia

By: David V. Cruz-Uribe,José Maria Martell,Carlos Pérez

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Weights, Extrapolation and the Theory of Rubio de Francia

By: David V. Cruz-Uribe,José Maria Martell,Carlos Pérez

This book provides a systematic development of the Rubio de Francia theory of extrapolation, its many generalizations and its applications to one and two-weight norm inequalities. The book is based upon a new and elementary proof of the classical extrapolation theorem that fully develops the power of the Rubio de Francia iteration algorithm. This technique allows us to give a unified presentation of the theory and to give important generalizations to Banach function spaces and to two-weight inequalities. We provide many applications to the classical operators of harmonic analysis to illustrate our approach, giving new and simpler proofs of known results and proving new theorems. The book is intended for advanced graduate students and researchers in the area of weighted norm inequalities, as well as for mathematicians who want to apply extrapolation to other areas such as partial differential equations.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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303480072X

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9783034800723

Connect Teachers Edition 3

By: Jack C. Richards,Carlos Barbisan,Chuck Sandy,Susan Rivers

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Connect Teachers Edition 3

By: Jack C. Richards,Carlos Barbisan,Chuck Sandy,Susan Rivers

Connect, First Edition, is a fun, 4-level, multi-skills American English course especially written and designed for young adolescents. The comprehensive, interleaved Teacher's Edition 3 provides teaching support for Student's Book 3, which is an intermediate-level text for students aged 11-15. Teacher's Edition 3 provides step-by-step instructions to present, practice, and review all new language. It also features the audio scripts, optional exercises, and informative notes. The back of Teacher's Edition 3 contains a rich source of support materials, many of which are copiable.

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