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I've Been Through The Fire; And I Don't Even Smell Like Smoke

By: Diana Mauricio

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I've Been Through The Fire; And I Don't Even Smell Like Smoke

By: Diana Mauricio

The purpose for writing this book is to let people know no matter what they have gone through, there is hope and a light at the end of the tunnel. I would have lost all hope many times in my life, but something inside of me said someday my life will be happy. My latter days will be greater than the former. I held on to that belief. With God all things are possible to them who believe! You'll get there if you don't give up! My heart no longer aches because of the things that have happened to me. The hurt, rejection, bitterness, and anger are all gone. I have been restored. I can now believe that God can love me, and I receive His love. He has brought me into a deep, intimate relationship with the person of Jesus. I pray you rise higher and overcome every obstacle in your life, and that He help you to forget your trouble.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1640793399

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9781640793392

Economic Life of Mexican Beach Vendors

Alcapulco, Puerto Vallarta, and Cabo San Lucas

By: Tamar Diana Wilson

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Economic Life of Mexican Beach Vendors

Alcapulco, Puerto Vallarta, and Cabo San Lucas

By: Tamar Diana Wilson

Based on the life histories of 166 beach vendors in three Mexican tourist centers--men and women whose income-generating activities form part of the informal or semi-informal economy--Economic Life of Mexican Beach Vendors explores their educational and employment aspirations and their family connections to vending. It also addresses how the vendors have been affected by the current economic recession, their residential segregation in neighborhoods far from the tourist zones, and the special cases of indigenous and of women vendors.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0739177648

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9780739177648

Subsidizing Capitalism

Brickmakers on the U.S.-Mexican Border

By: Tamar Diana Wilson

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Subsidizing Capitalism

Brickmakers on the U.S.-Mexican Border

By: Tamar Diana Wilson

In Mexico, self-employed brickmakers support capitalist enterprise by providing bricks to build hotels, factories, office buildings, and shopping malls at costs lower than those based on profit-making principles. Combining Chayanovian and neo-Marxist approaches, Subsidizing Capitalism asserts that the economic activities of these self-employed brickmakers may be considered counterhegemonic because they avoid proletarianization in the formal sector. Tamar Diana Wilson discusses the similarities between peasants and brickmakers, the structural position of garbage pickers in relation to brickmakers, the trajectory from piece worker to petty commodity producer to petty capitalist, the economic value of women's and children's work as part of the family labor force, and how the neopatriarchal household is intrinsic to petty commodity production. Interspersed throughout are short stories and poems that offer the brickmakers' perspectives and provide a rarely seen look into their lives.

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State University of New York Press

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0791482995

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9780791482995

Radical Deprivation on Trial

The Impact of Judicial Activism on Socioeconomic Rights in the Global South

By: César Rodríguez-Garavito,Diana Rodríguez-Franco

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Radical Deprivation on Trial

The Impact of Judicial Activism on Socioeconomic Rights in the Global South

By: César Rodríguez-Garavito,Diana Rodríguez-Franco

This book is an empirical study of contributions by courts in the Global South to comparative constitutionalism. It offers an analytical framework for understanding these constitutional innovations and illustrates them with a qualitative study of the most ambitious case in constitutional adjudication in Latin America over the last decade: the Colombian Constitutional Court's structural injunction affecting the rights of over five million internally displaced people and its implementation process. Although the ruling (known as T25) was handed down in 2004, its monitoring process continues. This book traces the case's evolution from its origin to its effects on policy, politics and public opinion. It also compares the implementation and effects of T25 with those of other rulings on the rights to health, food, housing, and prison overcrowding in Colombia, India and South Africa. The study's insights will be of interest to scholars of comparative constitutionalism in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316404633

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9781316404638

Allegories of Love

Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda

By: Diana de Armas Wilson

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Allegories of Love

Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda

By: Diana de Armas Wilson

In the work he considered his masterpiece, Persiles and Sigismunda, Cervantes finally explores the reality of woman--an abstraction largely idealized in his earlier writing. Traditional critics have perpetuated this disembodied ideal woman: "Every Man," claimed the translators of the 1706 Don Quixote, has "some darling Dulcinea of his Thoughts." As Diana de Armas Wilson shows, however, Cervantes himself envisioned the radical embodiment of "Dulcinea" in the later Persiles, a pan-European Renaissance allegory. Wilson illuminates Cervantes's strategic use of the ancient genre of Greek romance to contest various chivalric fictions about women, love, and marriage--fictions collapsing under the constraints of an emerging bourgeois culture. Taking as her subject Cervantes's erotic imperative--to leave behind "barbaric" notions of love in quest of a new conceptual space--Wilson demonstrates how the heroes of the Persiles, unlike Don Quixote, learn to cross the borders of difference. Their journey toward marriage is illustrated by thirteen inset "exemplary novels," perhaps the most exploratory of Cervantes's writings. Allegories of Love not only examines the fundamental importance of sexual and cultural difference in Cervantes's last romance, but also reveals the historical conditions of representation itself during the late Renaissance. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400861799

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Why You Should Listen When Your Animals Don't

How Your Animal's Behavior and Health Mirror Who You Are

By: Diana DelMonte

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Why You Should Listen When Your Animals Don't

How Your Animal's Behavior and Health Mirror Who You Are

By: Diana DelMonte

How do our animals feel when we are not honest with ourselves or are not mindful of our thoughts? How do they react to our conflicts or unresolved issues? Why do they sometimes leave home? Diana DelMonte presents our animal friends as clever, complex beings capable of deep emotions and wisdom. We find an opportunity to learn about ourselves through the behaviors of our generous, kindhearted companions such as Dali, the dog who tore the house apart until his person learned to handle her own anxious, addictive behaviors. Diana welcomes us to the world of animal communication, gives us five steps to listen to animals, and teaches us how to develop our awareness skills. This book, filled with true stories, spiritual direction, and science, is designed to deepen your intuition and will radically alter your bond with animals. It is a classic guide for anyone wishing to forge a spiritual connection with the majesty and mystery of the animal world. Diana DelMonte has written a marvel of a book! Every page is a story of compassion. Read this and be amazed and touched. Phil Thompson, Bodhi Tree Bookstore Diana opens windows to new ways of seeing our deepest interconnectedness with all animals and all that is. Allen M. Schoen, DVM, MS, PhD, and author of Kindred Spirits In this beautifully written book, Diana Del Monte has created a must-read for those who yearn to receive the heart-to-heart messages our animal friends communicate to us for our own inner healing. Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Life Visioning

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Balboa Press

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1452522154

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Electrifying Mexico

Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City

By: Diana Montaño

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Electrifying Mexico

Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City

By: Diana Montaño

2022 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) 2022 Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) 2022 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History, Urban History Association (Co-winner) 2023 Honorable Mention, Best Book in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Many visitors to Mexico City’s 1886 Electricity Exposition were amazed by their experience of the event, which included magnetic devices, electronic printers, and a banquet of light. It was both technological spectacle and political messaging, for speeches at the event lauded President Porfirio Díaz and bound such progress to his vision of a modern order. Diana J. Montaño explores the role of electricity in Mexico’s economic and political evolution, as the coal-deficient country pioneered large-scale hydroelectricity and sought to face the world as a scientifically enlightened “empire of peace.” She is especially concerned with electrification at the social level. Ordinary electricity users were also agents and sites of change. Montaño documents inventions and adaptations that served local needs while fostering new ideas of time and space, body and self, the national and the foreign. Electricity also colored issues of gender, race, and class in ways specific to Mexico. Complicating historical discourses in which Latin Americans merely use technologies developed elsewhere, Electrifying Mexico emphasizes a particular national culture of scientific progress and its contributions to a uniquely Mexican modernist political subjectivity.

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University of Texas Press

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1477323457

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Indicators of Democracy

The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico

By: Diana Graizbord

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Indicators of Democracy

The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico

By: Diana Graizbord

The spread of democracy across the Global South has taken many different forms, but certain features are consistent: implementing a system of elections and an overarching mission of serving the will and well-being of a country's citizens. But how do we hold politicians accountable for such a mission? How are we to understand the efficacy of the policies they put forth? In Indicators of Democracy Diana Graizbord exposes the complex, often-hidden world of the institutions that are meant to ensure democratic accountability and transparency. Taking the case of Mexico's National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL), Graizbord provides a deep theory of what happens when democratic aspirations intersect with technocratic ambitions. Analyzing what it takes to establish and sustain monitoring and evaluation as a form of official state expertise, Graizbord is able to put forward the contours of technodemocracy—a democratic political project that hinges on the power of experts to shape politics in unexpected but profound ways.

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Stanford University Press

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150364104X

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¡Presente!

The Politics of Presence

By: Diana Taylor

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¡Presente!

The Politics of Presence

By: Diana Taylor

In ¡Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps ¡presente! at work in scenarios ranging from conquest, through colonial enactments and resistance movements, to present moments of capitalist extractivism and forced migration in the Americas. ¡Presente!—present among, with, and to; a walking and talking with others; an ontological and epistemic reflection on presence and subjectivity as participatory and relational, founded on mutual recognition—requires rethinking and unlearning in ways that challenge colonial epistemologies. Showing how knowledge is not something to be harvested but a process of being, knowing, and acting with others, Taylor models a way for scholarship to be present in political struggles.

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Duke University Press

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147800889X

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Teaching World Languages for Specific Purposes

A Practical Guide

By: Diana M. Ruggiero

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Teaching World Languages for Specific Purposes

A Practical Guide

By: Diana M. Ruggiero

Teaching World Languages for Specific Purposes provides learner-centered strategies, models, and resources for the development of WLSP curricula, inviting scholars, educators, and professionals of all areas of world language specialization to create new opportunities for their students.

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Georgetown University Press

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1647121590

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Funding Community Initiatives

By: Silvina Arrossi,Felix Bombarolo,Jorge E Hardoy,Diana Mitlin,Luis Perez Coscio,David Satterthwaite

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Funding Community Initiatives

By: Silvina Arrossi,Felix Bombarolo,Jorge E Hardoy,Diana Mitlin,Luis Perez Coscio,David Satterthwaite

Despite four decades of development planning, at least one third of the urban population of Africa, Asia and Latin America remains poor. Over 600 million live in 'life and health threatening' homes and neighbourhoods because of poor housing and inadequate or no piped water, sanitation and health care. But even as the shortcomings of government and development programmes become more apparent, so do the untapped abilities of low-income groups and their community organizations to develop their own solutions. This book analyses the conditions necessary for successful community initiatives and includes case studies of 18 intermediary institutions (most of them Third World NGOs) who provide technical, legal and financial services to low-income households for constructing or improving housing. Many also work with community organizations in improving water, sanitation, drainage, health care and other community services. Through the analysis of innovative financial systems for income generation, house construction and service provision, Funding Community Initiatives considers the feasibility of loans for addressing current urban housing problems. It also considers how to increase greatly the scale and effectiveness of support going to low-income households and community organizations. This book will be of interest to students and professionals concerned with urban development in Africa, Asia and Latin America, especially those concerned with low income shelter and community finance.

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Routledge

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1134166621

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Disappearing Acts

Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "dirty War"

By: Diana Taylor

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Disappearing Acts

Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "dirty War"

By: Diana Taylor

Taylor uses performance theory to explore how public spectacle both builds and dismantles a sense of national and gender identity. Here, nation is understood as a product of communal "imaginings" that are rehearsed, written and staged - and spectacle is the desiring machine at work in those imaginings. Taylor argue that the founding scenario of Argentineness stages the struggle for national identity as a battle between men - fought on, over, and through the feminine body of the Motherland. She shows how the military's representations of itself as the model of national authenticity established the parameters of the conflict in the 70s and 80s, feminized the enemy, and positioned the public - limiting its ability to respond.

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Duke University Press

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0822318687

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How Humans Judge Machines

By: Cesar A. Hidalgo,Diana Orghian,Jordi Albo Canals,Filipa De Almeida,Natalia Martin

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How Humans Judge Machines

By: Cesar A. Hidalgo,Diana Orghian,Jordi Albo Canals,Filipa De Almeida,Natalia Martin

How people judge humans and machines differently, in scenarios involving natural disasters, labor displacement, policing, privacy, algorithmic bias, and more. How would you feel about losing your job to a machine? How about a tsunami alert system that fails? Would you react differently to acts of discrimination depending on whether they were carried out by a machine or by a human? What about public surveillance? How Humans Judge Machines compares people's reactions to actions performed by humans and machines. Using data collected in dozens of experiments, this book reveals the biases that permeate human-machine interactions. Are there conditions in which we judge machines unfairly? Is our judgment of machines affected by the moral dimensions of a scenario? Is our judgment of machine correlated with demographic factors such as education or gender? César Hidalgo and colleagues use hard science to take on these pressing technological questions. Using randomized experiments, they create revealing counterfactuals and build statistical models to explain how people judge artificial intelligence and whether they do it fairly. Through original research, How Humans Judge Machines bring us one step closer tounderstanding the ethical consequences of AI.

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MIT Press

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0262045524

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9780262045520

CONTEXTUALISING ISLAM IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH (IIUM PRESS)

By: Mariam Adawiyah Dzulkifli,Nor Diana Mohd Mahudin

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CONTEXTUALISING ISLAM IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH (IIUM PRESS)

By: Mariam Adawiyah Dzulkifli,Nor Diana Mohd Mahudin

This book is intended to present a compilation of research that bas incorporated the Islamic philosophical, theoretical, and historical perspective with the concepts, theories, and methods in psychology. While the relationship between Islam, research, and psychology has been studied previously, the effort to incorporate, integrate, and use Islamic resources to examine phenomena related to psychology through rigorous scientific methods has been found to be lacking among Muslim researchers. The present book, therefore, is an attempt to meet this need by incorporating the Islamic perspective in the conduct of research in psychology. It is also an attempt to contextualize Islam in the current efforts in research on psychology so that we can better understand the religion, both as an established way of life and as a model of scientific inquiry. Finally, the remaining chapters are dedicated to the discussion of the conceptual and strategic way forward for research in specific areas of psychology. In doing so, both the rationale and practicalities of incorporating, integrating, and utilizing Islamic resources in research on psychology have been provided.

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IIUM PRESS

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967491126X

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Disaster Risk Reduction in Mexico

Methodologies, Case Studies, and Prospective Views

By: Diana Sánchez-Partida,José-Luis Martínez-Flores,Santiago-Omar Caballero-Morales,Patricia Cano-Olivos

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Disaster Risk Reduction in Mexico

Methodologies, Case Studies, and Prospective Views

By: Diana Sánchez-Partida,José-Luis Martínez-Flores,Santiago-Omar Caballero-Morales,Patricia Cano-Olivos

This book recognizes Mexico's effects and challenges in a natural disaster and offers empirical risk-reduction methods in critical cases. The proposals considered here include real and detailed analysis, a set of models, frameworks, strategies, and findings in the three stages of the disaster (before–during–after). This book: describes the methodology to find secure locations for the Regional Humanitarian Response Depot; offers recommendations for the sites and creation of an Export Logistics Cluster; shows how to use available technology and information to locate volunteers in the right spots describes mathematical models to help to allocate procedure of resources for restoring the affected community and proposes actions to create resilience in the country's main economic sectors, including agriculture and industry. The processes applied at recent disasters such as the 19S earthquake and their results are used as case studies, identifying possibilities for further improvement. The book also describes new trends for Mexico due to climate change and makes suggestions for mitigating future disasters. The proposals are also replicable to other highly populated societies with similar socio-economic structures. Finally, this book is the basis for generating more innovative recommendations by researchers, graduate students, academics, professionals, and practitioners to obtain better planning and better collaboration between all the humanitarian chain actors. This book intends to be of interest as a fundamental tool for decision-makers, governments, non-governmental organizations, and enterprises.

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Springer Nature

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3030672956

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Land & Development in Latin America

Openings for Policy Research

By: Stephen Baranyi,Carmen Diana Deere,Manuel Morales,International Development Research Centre (Canada),North-South Institute (Ottawa, Ont.)

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Land & Development in Latin America

Openings for Policy Research

By: Stephen Baranyi,Carmen Diana Deere,Manuel Morales,International Development Research Centre (Canada),North-South Institute (Ottawa, Ont.)

Co-published by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

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The Reader and the Text

Interpretative Strategies for Latin American Literatures

By: Diana Sorensen Goodrich

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The Reader and the Text

Interpretative Strategies for Latin American Literatures

By: Diana Sorensen Goodrich

Interpretative strategies for Latin American literatures.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027279268

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From Few to Many

Ten Years of Health Insurance Expansion in Colombia

By: Antonio Giuffrida,Carmen Elisa Flórez,Úrsula Giedion,Enriqueta Cueto,Juan Gonzalo López,Amanda Glassman,Ramón A. Castaño,Diana M. Pinto,Renata Pardo,Teresa M. Tono,William D. Savedoff,Eduardo Andrés Alfonso,Leslie F. Stone,Álvaro López,Beatriz Yadira Díaz,María Luisa Escobar,Carlos H. Arango,Fernando Ruiz Gómez,Olga Lucía Acosta

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From Few to Many is the first comprehensive look at Colombia's 1993 health system reforms. It describes the implementation of universal health insurance, including a subsidized system for the poor, and examines the impact of this and other reforms during a time when Colombia experienced crushing recession and internal conflict that displaced half a million people. Prior to the reforms, a quarter of the Colombian population had health insurance. Subsidies failed to reach the poor, who were vulnerable to catastrophic financial consequences of illness. Yet by 2008, 85 percent of the population benefited from health insurance. From Few to Many describes the challenges and benefits of implementing social health reforms in a developing country, exploring health care financing, institutional reform, the effects of political will on health care, and more. The reforms have provided important lessons not only for continued reform in Colombia, but also for other nations facing similar challenges.

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Inter-American Development Bank

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1597820733

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Birds of Paradise: A Novel

By: Diana Abu-Jaber

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Birds of Paradise: A Novel

By: Diana Abu-Jaber

“A full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable story that will leave you lingering gratefully at [Abu-Jaber’s] table.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post At thirteen, Felice Muir ran away from home to punish herself for some horrible thing she had done—leaving a hole in the hearts of her pastry-chef mother, her real estate attorney father, and her foodie-entrepreneurial brother. After five years of scrounging for food, drugs, and shelter on Miami Beach, Felice is now turning eighteen, and she and the family she left behind must reckon with the consequences of her actions—and make life-affirming choices about what matters to them most, now and in the future.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393082946

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9780393082944

Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World

Finding Solutions in Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America

By: Jorge E. Hardoy,Diana Mitlin,David Satterthwaite

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Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World

Finding Solutions in Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America

By: Jorge E. Hardoy,Diana Mitlin,David Satterthwaite

New edition of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America contain some of the world's most life- and health-threatening human environments. Environment-related diseases and injuries cause millions of preventable deaths each year. In many squatter settlements, children are 40 to 50 times more likely to die before the age of five than they would be in Europe or North America and most such deaths are environment-related. Many cities also cause serious environmental degradation to their surroundings and increasingly contribute to global warming. This updated and much expanded edition of the classic Environmental Problems in Third World Cities describes environmental problems and their effect on human health, local ecosystems and global cycles. It points to the political causes that underpin many of these problems - including ineffective, unaccountable governments, and aid agencies' reluctance to work with the urban poor. It also highlights innovative solutions such as: * High-quality, low-cost homes and neighbourhoods developed by urban poor groups working with local non-governmental organizations * Local Agenda 21s developed by municipal governments in partnership with community organizations.* In their analysis, the authors show that cities can meet sustainable development goals. There are practical, affordable solutions to their environmental problems, but most of these depend on more competent and accountable city governments and on more support for low-income households and their organizations. The book also outlines the changes needed international aid agencies to support this. PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION 'It's rare to encounter a work as authoritative and accessible as this. It is a mine of useful information from cities in every corner of the Third World, which does not shy away from the immensity of the problems, but says as much about the solutions to them as about the problems themselves' Jonathon Porritt 'Well written and very accessible' The Geographical Journal 'Of value to students, teachers, practitioners, policy makers and aid agencies' Third World Planning Review 'A valuable resource for understanding the underlying problems[this book offers] practical alternatives' Cities International.

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Routledge

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1134200854

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Performance

By: Diana Taylor

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Performance

By: Diana Taylor

Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its argument. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.

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Duke University Press

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0822375125

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The Killing Fields: Harvest of Women

By: Diana Washington Valdez

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The Killing Fields: Harvest of Women

By: Diana Washington Valdez

Explosive findings by a journalist's daring investigation into the systematic murders of girls and women in Juarez, Mexico.

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Peace at the Border

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097779928X

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Empowering Women

Land And Property Rights In Latin America

By: Carmen Diana Deere

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Empowering Women

Land And Property Rights In Latin America

By: Carmen Diana Deere

The expansion of married women's property rights was a main achievement of the first wave of feminism in Latin America. As Carmen Diana Deeere and Magdalena Leon reveal, however, the disjuncture between rights and actual ownership remains vast. This is particularly true in rural areas, where the distribution of land between men and women is highly unequal. In their pioneering, twelve-country comparative study, the authors argue that property ownership is directly related to womenÆs bargaining power within the household and community, point out changes resulting from recent gender-progressive legislation, and identify additional areas for future reform, including inheritance rights of wives.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822972328

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Know My Life: Sharing Student Voices through Poetry

By: Sarah Straub,Diana Roberts

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Know My Life: Sharing Student Voices through Poetry

By: Sarah Straub,Diana Roberts

Students in a southwest Houston middle school participated in a poetry writing project in which they developed a portfolio and submitted their favorites. This is an opportunity for students to share their work with a greater audience.

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Lulu.com

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1365010309

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Justice through Transitions

Conflict, Peacemaking and Human Rights in the Global South

By: Baoumi, Hussein,Chaparro, Nina,Coutaz, Horacio,Daneri, Ana,Köstepen, Enis,O'Diana, Richard,Okeowo, Adebayo,Padilla, Nelson Fredy,Sánchez, Nelson Camilo,Sathisan, Vani,Vasconcelos, Isadora,Velasco, Meyatzin

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Justice through Transitions

Conflict, Peacemaking and Human Rights in the Global South

What does justice mean in times of transition? What kinds of possibilities and dissapointments emerge from processes of seeking justice through transition? How might we understand these processes through narrative? In August 2015, a group of Global South human rights activists and researchers gathered in Colombia for a workshop organized around the theme of transitional justice. This book, the third in a series, is the result of the discussions performed in that encounter. The chapters in this volume illustrate many complexities of transitional justice processes from the perspective of young human rights advocates involved in these struggles, many with their own complicated personal connections to the search for justice. These advocates hail from countries that have divergent relationships with the notion of transitional justice, from places deeply embedded in its norms and processes, such as Argentina and Colombia, to countries undergoing various kinds of transitions on very different terms, such as Turkey and Mexico. All of the chapters, however, write the messiness of seeking justice through transitions, spanning from the personal and intimate to the national and global. Together, these chapters beautifully illustrate both the pain and the political possibilities that come from the inability to leave history in the past, as well as the creativity of individual and collective efforts to seek justice through transitions. They also demonstrate the beauty of speaking, working, and writing justice from the hear.

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A Canadian Writer's Reference with 2020 APA and 2021 MLA Updates

By: Diana Hacker,Nancy Sommers

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This ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021). A Canadian Writers Reference helps students build confidence as college writers through innovative practice with writing, reading, thinking, and research in a multimedia environment.

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THIS TITLE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATES! Our editorial team has updated this text based on content from The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN. For success in college, no skill is more critical than writing; it’s the very core of a student’s academic experience. Tested and trusted, A Canadian Writer’s Reference is an essential tool for students who are strengthening habits and skills that will support them throughout college. Adapted from the most widely used college handbook ever published—and with the help of several Canadian instructors — A Canadian Writer's Reference has advice that's easy to find and easy to understand. Grounded in Canadian texts, culture, and current events, examples throughout the book provide relevant context and advice for Canadian writers. And a new instructor's edition offers classroom activities and teaching tips for Canadian instructors—making it easier than ever to integrate the handbook into the course.

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Racism and Discourse in Latin America

By: Teun A. Van Dijk

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Racism and Discourse in Latin America

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Racism and Discourse in Latin America investigates how public discourse is involved in the daily reproduction of racism in Latin America. The essays examine political discourse, mass media discourse, textbooks and other forms of text, and talk by the white symbolic elites, looking at the ways these discourses express and confirm prejudices against indigenous people and against people from African descent. The essays show that ethnic and racial inequality in Latin America continue to exacerbate the chasm between the rich and the poor, despite formal progress in the rights of minorities during the last decades. Teun A. van Dijk brings together a multidisciplinary team of linguists and social scientists from eight Latin American countries (Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru), creating the first work in English that provides comprehensive insight into discursive racism across Latin America.

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Diana Palmer Collected 1-6: Soldier of Fortune / Tender Stranger / Enamored / Mystery Man / Rawhide and Lace / Unlikely Lover

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DIANA PALMER COLLECTED BOOKS 1-6 New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer brings you six dangerous, ruthless men - and the women who can tame them...

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Looking for Love in Strange Places: A Memoir for My Stepdaughters

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Looking for Love in Strange Places: A Memoir for My Stepdaughters

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Back in 1968 Diana Page was going to graduate from the University of Michigan without much hope for marriage or a career. She didn't have a boyfriend, so a prospective husband was unlikely to materialize before the semester ended, and a bachelor's in political science wasn't going to make her easily employable. The solution? Join the Peace Corps where she could help change the world . . . and possibly meet a guy who shared her values. Thus began Diana's adventures. Her travels as a journalist and diplomat took her down the dangerous roads of Latin American history from the 1960s into the twenty-first century. With excerpts from diaries, letters, and news articles, she weaves together a narrative of war and peace, presidents and peasants, but mostly of ordinary people who teach her about life. She also runs into a few extraordinary people along the way: Fidel Castro, Isabel Peron, Pele, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Clinton among others. Looking for Love in Strange Places: A Memoir for My Stepdaughters is a hopeful, humorous account of what happens when you seize the day -- without too many expectations for the future.

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