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Life in Words

By: Elisa Valdes

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Back Cover Summary Life in Words is a written description of my experiences and the experiences of others, my faith and dreams, my attempts to reach those in despair, to entertain, to make the reader think, to motivate involvement. There is also humor in a humble attempt to help ease stress and help to adapt to the inevitable. It is written with simplicity and much respect for the reader with a sincere approach to reach and attract those who do not enjoy reading poetry. There is definitely a poem for as many types of individuals I have come in contact all my years, topics like sports, the environment, love, motherhood, fatherhood, painful social issues. This work is the product of a childhood dream that went asleep for decades then materialized in a matter of seconds. I hope it serves as a catalyst in the lives of those who are about to give up or those who have stopped dreaming because of age or obstacles. For those reasons and for just about everything under the sun, Life in Words will speak to the readers as they witness the dream of a little girl and the accomplishment of the woman. It’s never too late when you believe.

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1682896404

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Colonial Angels

Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750

By: Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela

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Colonial Angels

Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750

By: Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela

Spain's attempt to establish a "New Spain" in Mexico never fully succeeded, for Spanish institutions and cultural practices inevitably mutated as they came in contact with indigenous American outlooks and ways of life. This original, interdisciplinary book explores how writing by and about colonial religious women participated in this transformation, as it illuminates the role that gender played in imposing the Spanish empire in Mexico. The author argues that the New World context necessitated the creation of a new kind of writing. Drawing on previously unpublished writings by and about nuns in the convents of Mexico City, she investigates such topics as the relationship between hagiography and travel narratives, male visions of the feminine that emerge from the reworking of a nun's letters to her confessor into a hagiography, the discourse surrounding a convent's trial for heresy by the Inquisition, and the reports of Spanish priests who ministered to noble Indian women. This research rounds out colonial Mexican history by revealing how tensions between Spain and its colonies played out in the local, daily lives of women.

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University of Texas Press

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0292785445

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9780292785441

Enduring Legacies

By: Arturo J. Aldama,Elisa Facio,Daryl Maeda,Reiland Rabaka

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Enduring Legacies

By: Arturo J. Aldama,Elisa Facio,Daryl Maeda,Reiland Rabaka

Traditional accounts of Colorado's history often reflect an Anglocentric perspective that begins with the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush and Colorado's establishment as a state in 1876. Enduring Legacies expands the study of Colorado's past and present by adopting a borderlands perspective that emphasizes the multiplicity of peoples who have inhabited this region. Addressing the dearth of scholarship on the varied communities within Colorado-a zone in which collisions structured by forces of race, nation, class, gender, and sexuality inevitably lead to the transformation of cultures and the emergence of new identities-this volume is the first to bring together comparative scholarship on historical and contemporary issues that span groups from Chicanas and Chicanos to African Americans to Asian Americans. This book will be relevant to students, academics, and general readers interested in Colorado history and ethnic studies.

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441

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University Press of Colorado

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145710959X

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9781457109591

Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones

Illuminating Gender and Nation

By: Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela

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Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones

Illuminating Gender and Nation

By: Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela

Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps the most discussed aspect of Palma’s work – engaging with new critical thinking on historicism and examining the significance of the marginal and the anecdotal in Palma’s work. By using the tools of postcolonial cultural criticism, Vera Tudela considers Palma’s encounter with modernity, arguing that his recuperation of colonial history plays a crucial part in imagining the modern future. Most innovatively, Vera Tudela examines the multiple and contradictory notions of femininity in nineteenth-century Latin America and in Palma’s writing, showing how a historical consideration of the sexual politics of cultural production transforms our understanding of many of the assumptions about this period. Finally, by applying the insights of cultural geography in analysing the racial, sexual and political identity of domestic, urban and national space in Palma’s writing, Vera Tudela demonstrates that Palma’s literary maps and topographies are uniquely revelatory of questions of power and agency. In its exploration of sexual politics and nationhood, Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones presents Palma as a proto-modernist who paved the way for many of the experiments of twentieth-century Latin American narrative fiction.

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Lexington Books

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1611484138

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The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista

Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961

By: Elisa Pulido

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The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista

Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961

By: Elisa Pulido

Margarito Bautista (1878-1961) was a celebrated Latino Mormon leader in the U.S. and Mexico in the early twentieth century. Elisa Eastwood Pulido draws on Bautista's letters, books, pamphlets, and unpublished diaries to provide a lens through which to view the convergence of Mormon evangelization, Mexican nationalism, and religious improvisation in the U.S. Mexico borderlands.

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019094210X

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9780190942106

Grassroots Innovation Movements

By: Adrian Smith,Mariano Fressoli,Dinesh Abrol,Elisa Arond,Adrian Ely

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Grassroots Innovation Movements

By: Adrian Smith,Mariano Fressoli,Dinesh Abrol,Elisa Arond,Adrian Ely

Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks of community groups, activists, and researchers have been innovating grassroots solutions for social justice and environmental sustainability for decades. Unencumbered by disciplinary boundaries, policy silos, or institutional logics, these ‘grassroots innovation movements’ identify issues and questions neglected by formal science, technology and innovation organizations. Grassroots solutions arise in unconventional settings through unusual combinations of people, ideas and tools. This book examines six diverse grassroots innovation movements in India, South America and Europe, situating them in their particular dynamic historical contexts. Analysis explains why each movement frames innovation and development differently, resulting in a variety of strategies. The book explores the spaces where each of these movements have grown, or attempted to do so. It critically examines the pathways they have developed for grassroots innovation and the challenges and limitations confronting their approaches. With mounting pressure for social justice in an increasingly unequal world, policy makers are exploring how to foster more inclusive innovation. In this context grassroots experiences take on added significance. This book provides timely and relevant ideas, analysis and recommendations for activists, policy-makers, students and scholars interested in encounters between innovation, development and social movements.

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240

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Taylor & Francis

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1317451198

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9781317451198

Transatlantic Memories of Slavery: Remembering the Past, Changing the Future

By: Elisa Bordin ,Anna Scacchi

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Transatlantic Memories of Slavery: Remembering the Past, Changing the Future

By: Elisa Bordin ,Anna Scacchi

While the memorialization of slavery has generated an impressive number of publications, relatively few studies deal with this subject from a transnational, transdisciplinary and transracial standpoint. As a historical phenomenon that crossed borders and traversed national communities and ethnic groups producing alliances that did not overlap with received identities, slavery as well as its memory call for comparative investigations that may bring to light aspects obscured by the predominant visibility of US-American and British narratives of the past. This study addresses the memory of slavery from a transnational perspective. It brings into dialogue texts and practices from the transatlantic world, offering comparative analyses which interlace the variety of memories emerging in diverse national contexts and fields of study and shed light on the ways local countermemories have interacted with and responded to hegemonic narratives of slavery. The inclusion of Brazil and the French, English, and Spanish Caribbean alongside the United States and Europe, and the variety of investigative approaches-ranging from cinema, popular culture and visual culture studies to anthropology and literary studies-expand the current understanding of the slave past and how it is reimagined today. This fascinating book brings freshness to the topic by considering objects of investigation which have so far remained marginal in the academic debate, such as heroic memorials, civic landscape, white family sagas, Young Adult literature of slavery, Latin American telenovelas and filmic narrations within and beyond Hollywood. What emerges is a multifarious set of memories, which keep changing according to generation, race, gender, nation and political urgency and indicate the advancing of a dynamic, mobilized memorialization of slavery willing to move beyond mourning towards a more militant stand for justice. This is an important book for those interested in African American, American, and Latin American studies and working across literature, cinema, visual arts, and public culture. It will also be useful to public official and civil servants interested in the question of slavery and its present memory.

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Cambria Press

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1621967522

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9781621967521

Turning Proverbs towards Torah: an Analysis of 4Q525

By: Elisa Uusimäki

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Turning Proverbs towards Torah: an Analysis of 4Q525

By: Elisa Uusimäki

In Turning Proverbs towards Torah, Elisa Uusimäki offers the first monograph on the early Jewish wisdom text 4Q525 from Qumran. Following the reconstruction of the fragmentary manuscript, Uusimäki analyses the text with a focus on the reception and renewal of the Proverbs tradition and the ways in which 4Q525 illustrates aspects of Jewish pedagogy in the late Second Temple period. She argues that the author was inspired by Proverbs 1-9 but sought to demonstrate that true wisdom is found in the concept of torah. He also weaved dualistic elements and eschatological ideas into the wisdom frame. The author's intention, Uusimäki argues, is to form the audience spiritually, encouraging it to trust in divine protection and blessings that are bestowed upon the pious.

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BRILL

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9004313419

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9789004313415

Cultural Heritage and Territorial Identity

Synergies and Development Impact on European Regions

By: Elisa Panzera

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Cultural Heritage and Territorial Identity

Synergies and Development Impact on European Regions

By: Elisa Panzera

This book explores and substantiates the role of cultural heritage as an engine for local socio-economic development. Starting from the assumption that cultural heritage represents a valuable, unique and irreplaceable resource for European regions, it identifies and quantitatively analyzes tourism and territorial identity as two different channels through which cultural heritage can influence local socio-economic development. The book highlights the fact that cultural heritage not only has a positive influence on local cultures, societies and environments, but also plays a role in the process of local economic growth. Providing comprehensive empirical evidence that explains and discusses whether and how the endowment of cultural heritage benefits local socio-economic growth, it will appeal to scholars and students of cultural economics and regional science, and anyone interested in sustainable socio-economic development.

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193

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Springer Nature

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3030944689

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9783030944681

Border Wall Aesthetics

Artworks in Border Spaces

By: Elisa Ganivet

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Border Wall Aesthetics

Artworks in Border Spaces

By: Elisa Ganivet

30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we live in a time of globalization and free trade. Nevertheless, 70 new border walls have been built in this period - put together, they would cover the total circumference of the Earth. While governments offer manifold justifications for building these separation barriers, they invariably attract the attention of artists. Is it merely the lure of transgression, however, that attracts them - or is there a deeper significance in the artistic encounter with border walls? And which artistic strategies do these artists employ to approach them? In order to address these questions, Élisa Ganivet revisits the history of border wall aesthetics and compares more recent border-related works by 100 artists, including Joseph Beuys (Berlin), Banksy (Israel-Palestine), and Frida Kahlo (Mexico-US). Through art and thus beyond art, we understand the flaws and shortcomings of supposedly well-oiled systems. With a preface by Élisabeth Vallet.

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249

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transcript Verlag

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3839447771

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9783839447772

Teatro Hispano!

By: Elisa De la Roche

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Teatro Hispano!

By: Elisa De la Roche

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Taylor & Francis

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081531986X

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9780815319863

Introduction to Evil

Therapist Working with Perpetrators

By: Elisa Jimenez

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Introduction to Evil

Therapist Working with Perpetrators

By: Elisa Jimenez

This book is a compilation of the criminology class thought to psychologist of the BA and MA levels for their research on criminology and victimology when it started back on 2000. Through the years, it has been modify for the trends that are happening in our changing times while working with this population.

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174

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iUniverse

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1532082738

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9781532082733

Early Modern Litterae Indipetae for the East Indies

By: Elisa Frei

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Early Modern Litterae Indipetae for the East Indies

By: Elisa Frei

During the early modern period, thousands of Jesuits across Europe wrote individual applications for appointments in the “Indies” directly to the superior general of the Society of Jesus in Rome. Known today as litterae indipetae (from Indias petere, that is, applying for the missions in the Eastern and Western territories), these letters encompassed the most personal desires, hopes, and dreams of young Jesuits who sought to become missionaries. This book is the first English monograph on litterae indipetae and studies their style and structure, the background of their authors and the reasons behind their choices, as well as the network surrounding this practice (natural and spiritual families, procurators, confrères). Its purpose is also to capture the experiences of these individuals since lost to history by studying thousands of indipetae, in this case written mainly by Italian Jesuits at the turn of the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the petitions aimed at East Asia, and offers in-depth analysis of cases of Jesuits whose missionary zeal for China and Japan was fulfilled—or not.

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9004538011

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9789004538016

Identity Development of College Students

Advancing Frameworks for Multiple Dimensions of Identity

By: Susan R. Jones,Elisa S. Abes

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Identity Development of College Students

Advancing Frameworks for Multiple Dimensions of Identity

By: Susan R. Jones,Elisa S. Abes

Identity Development of College Students Building off the foundational work of Erik Erikson and Arthur Chickering, Identity Development of College Students adds broad and innovative research to describe contemporary perspectives of identity development at the intersection of context, personal characteristics, and social identities. The authors employ different theoretical perspectives to explore the nature of context—how it both influences and is influenced by multiple social identities. Each chapter includes discussion and reflection questions and activities for individual or small group work. Praise for Identity Development of College Students "Susan R. Jones and Elisa S. Abes have provided us with a comprehensive and beautifully written overview of the evolution of identity development theory. This book reads like a novel while at the same time conveying important ideas, critical analysis, and cutting-edge research that will enhance student affairs practice." —NANCY J. EVANS, professor, Student Affairs Program, School of Education, Iowa State University "The authors masterfully present a holistic, integrative, and multi-dimensional approach to the identity development of today's college student. This text should be required reading for those engaged in research and practice in the areas of student affairs, counseling, higher education, and cultural studies." —SHARON KIRKLAND-GORDON, director, Counseling Center, University of Maryland, College Park "Susan R. Jones and Elisa S. Abes's work is ground-breaking—charting new scholarly territory and making one of the most significant contributions to identity literature in many years. Building on contemporary and traditional theoretical foundations, Jones and Abes offer new models of identity development essential for understanding a diversity of college students." —MARYLU K. MCEWEN, associate professor emerita, University of Maryland, College Park

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111848228X

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The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista

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Grassroots Innovation Movements

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Transatlantic Memories of Slavery: Remembering the Past, Changing the Future

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Turning Proverbs towards Torah: an Analysis of 4Q525

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Cultural Heritage and Territorial Identity

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Teatro Hispano!

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Introduction to Evil

Introduction to Evil

Early Modern Litterae Indipetae for the East Indies

Early Modern Litterae Indipetae for the East Indies

Identity Development of College Students

Identity Development of College Students

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