Text published in conjunction with the Picasso / Luna exhibition, organized by the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale / Nova Southeastern University. Essays by Curtis L. Carter, Carol Damien and Jesús Rosado. Text in English and Spanish.
This critical anthology of writings by Carlos Monsiváis represents a foundational set of texts by an exceptional (yet under‑translated) Mexican cultural critic. Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist situates the urgencies of social movements as they developed in real time. Spanning from 1973 to 2008, Monsiváis’s essays, which were originally compiled by scholar Marta Lamas, analyze the role of women in a patriarchal culture from pre‑Columbian times to the present. This critical edition offers extensive annotation and cultural background to understand the cogent, but particularly Mexican arguments that Monsiváis makes, many of which are extremely relevant in today’s political economy in the US and the world. Norma Klahn and Ilana Luna’s translation, critical introduction, and commentary consider issues of context, history, and conventions, framing Monsiváis’s debates in relation to global feminist history and human rights struggles.
Winner, Premio Flora Tristán Al Mejor Libro, Peru Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2019 After the Spanish victories over the Inca claimed Tawantinsuyu for Charles V in the 1530s, native Andeans undertook a series of perilous trips from Peru to the royal court in Spain. Ranging from an indigenous commoner entrusted with delivering birds of prey for courtly entertainment to an Inca prince who spent his days amid titles, pensions, and other royal favors, these sojourners were both exceptional and paradigmatic. Together, they shared a conviction that the sovereign’s absolute authority would guarantee that justice would be done and service would receive its due reward. As they negotiated their claims with imperial officials, Amerindian peoples helped forge the connections that sustained the expanding Habsburg realm’s imaginary and gave the modern global age its defining character. Andean Cosmopolitans recovers these travelers’ dramatic experiences, while simultaneously highlighting their profound influences on the making and remaking of the colonial world. While Spain’s American possessions became Spanish in many ways, the Andean travelers (in their cosmopolitan lives and journeys) also helped to shape Spain in the image and likeness of Peru. De la Puente brings remarkable insights to a narrative showing how previously unknown peoples and ideas created new power structures and institutions, as well as novel ways of being urban, Indian, elite, and subject. As indigenous people articulated and defended their own views regarding the legal and political character of the “Republic of the Indians,” they became state-builders of a special kind, cocreating the colonial order.
On the 18th of April, 2018 everything changed in Nicaragua. Daniel Ortega's government used police and paramilitary forces to attack and kill civilians who were peacefully protesting changes to the nation's social security system. Following these initial attacks, civil unrest and government repression ravaged the country, killing hundreds. This collection of short stories and poems introduces Nicaraguan culture and illustrates the humanitarian crisis from multiple perspectives. The world needs to know what is happening in Nicaragua. All profits from the sale of this book will be donated to aid Nicaraguan refugees and their families. This crisis cannot be ignored. It will not be forgotten.
This paper builds a model of financial sector vulnerability and integrates it into a macroeconomic framework, typically used for monetary policy analysis. The main question to be answered with the integrated model is whether or not the central bank should include explicitly the financial stability indicator in its monetary policy (interest rate) reaction function. It is found in general, that including distance-to-default (dtd) of the banking system in the central bank reaction function reduces both inflation and output volatility. Moreover, the results are robust to different model calibrations: whenever exchange-rate pass-through is higher; financial vulnerability has a larger impact on the exchange rate, as well as on GDP (or the reverse, there is more effect of GDP on bank's equity - i.e., what we call endogeneity), it is more efficient to include dtd in the reaction function.
She Rises Studios was founded by Hanna Olivas and Adriana Luna Carlos, the mother-daughter duo, mid 2020 as they saw a need to help empower women around the world. They are podcast hosts of She Rises Studios Podcast, TV Show hosts of Becoming An Unstoppable Woman, as well as Amazon best selling authors and motivational speakers who travel the world. Hanna and Adriana are the movement creators of #BAUW - Becoming An Unstoppable Woman: The movement has been created to universally impact women of all ages in whatever stage of life, to overcome insecurities, adversities and develop an unstoppable mindset. She Rises Studios educates, celebrates and empowers women globally.This anthology of 25 inspiring women across the globe will empower and impact readers to never settle for the bare minimum but rather to take hold of their dreams and turn them into a reality.The book's mantra is "Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things".Each chapter was authentically written and represents each author's journey and testimony on Becoming An Unstoppable Woman.If you are facing adversities, barriers or insecurities of any kind then this book is for you! Inside are 25 strategies to help you achieve the unstoppable mindset.You will learn:To live a life without limitsFind your purpose and passionBecoming a brave entrepreneurNever settling, always excellingThe Unstoppable MindsetThe art of letting goAnd so much more!She Rises, She Leads, She Lives - Join the #BAUW Becoming An Unstoppable Woman MovementJoin the Founders, Hanna and Adriana, as well the other 23 Amazing Women Authors in Becoming Unstoppable:Aileen V. SicatAlicia Marcos BirongAlicia O'NealAlyson MacLeodCharlotte Howard CollinsElizabeth LandeenJami BolducJennifer CairnsKaren Van BurenKrystal VerneeLaura CroceLeslie GaudetLovely LaGuerreMadison Tanner ClarkMichéle KlineNatalie PickettNichole Riley SimmonsNicole CurtisPamela KurtSara MartinezSavannah EileenValerie Carrillo
Shortly after joining Aguinaldo’s army as a young medic, José R. Lugay greets his country’s independence from Spain with bright dreams of the future. He marries his childhood sweetheart. Only a few months later, the dogs of war rip his dreams to tatters. A harrowing year with the defenders in the Philippine-American War follows. After the war is lost, he spends five years seeking lucrative employment as a doctor in Manila, without much success. Did his refusal to pledge allegiance to the new colonizer affect his prospects? He accepts a post as a country doctor in Guiuan, Samar, a remote town in the country’s most depressed province. Ten years of a hardscrabble life there seem about to be followed by ten more. Then the Warays choose him to fill one of Samar’s three seats in the country’s House of Representatives. His return to Manila as a distinguished Congressman must be the peak of his career, but two terms as a legislator leave him wondering if it isn’t actually a diversion from his true calling. Should he stay in the House, or run for the Senate, or become the eminent Manila doctor he had once aspired to be?
Passer-by is an inspirational, fantastic and controversial work that offers a straightforward means of discovering truth, by broadening the mind of the reader to a new level of understanding. The book narrates a man's moment of clarity regarding the basic concepts of life as he explores memories, thoughts, and revelations received during a one-to-one interaction with an all knowing tree. This experience enables him to discover that everything has a simple explanation.
This textbook is a second edition of Evolutionary Algorithms for Solving Multi-Objective Problems, significantly expanded and adapted for the classroom. The various features of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms are presented here in an innovative and student-friendly fashion, incorporating state-of-the-art research. The book disseminates the application of evolutionary algorithm techniques to a variety of practical problems. It contains exhaustive appendices, index and bibliography and links to a complete set of teaching tutorials, exercises and solutions.
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