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Indigenous and Local Communities and Protected Areas

Towards Equity and Enhanced Conservation : Guidance on Policy and Practice for Co-managed Protected Areas and Community Conserved Areas

By: Grazia Borrini,Ashish Kothari,Gonzalo Oviedo

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Indigenous and Local Communities and Protected Areas

Towards Equity and Enhanced Conservation : Guidance on Policy and Practice for Co-managed Protected Areas and Community Conserved Areas

By: Grazia Borrini,Ashish Kothari,Gonzalo Oviedo

Conventional approaches to managing protected areas have often seen people and nature as separate entities. They preclude human communities from using natural resources and assume that their concerns are incompatible with conservation. Protected area approaches and models that see conservation as compatible with human communities are explored. The main themes are co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas. Practical guidance is offered, drawing on recent experience, reflections and advice developed at the local, national, regional and international level.

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IUCN

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2831706750

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9782831706757

To Live for God Alone

The Life and Spirit of Saint Rafael Arnaiz

By: Mark O'Keefe,María Gonzalo-García

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To Live for God Alone

The Life and Spirit of Saint Rafael Arnaiz

By: Mark O'Keefe,María Gonzalo-García

What does it mean to live for God alone? “Prefer nothing to the love of Christ”; “My God and my all”; “God alone suffices”—these statements from the saints express the single desire that unified their hearts and gave direction to their lives. “God alone” was the constant theme of Saint Rafael Arnaiz (1911–1938), the expression of the search for God that informs any monastic vocation. Saint Rafael was profoundly and thoroughly a monk, even though ill health repeatedly forced him to leave the monastery, and he was never formally professed. With his single-hearted love for Christ and for the Blessed Virgin, he faithfully walked a path of trials and suffering that matured his faith, sharpened his longing, taught him to wait and to hope in God, and opened his heart to love. To Live for God Alone invites the reader into the compelling story of Rafael’s personal journey and into his penetrating insight into the cross and the Christian vocation.

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Liturgical Press

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0879075910

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9780879075910

Bernardo de Gálvez

Spanish Hero of the American Revolution

By: Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia

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Bernardo de Gálvez

Spanish Hero of the American Revolution

By: Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia

Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance against Britain. Led by Bernardo de Galvez, supreme commander of the Spanish forces in North America, their military campaigns against British settlements on the Mississippi River—and later against Mobile and Pensacola—were crucial in preventing Britain from concentrating all its North American military and naval forces on the fight against George Washington's Continental army. In this first comprehensive biography of Galvez (1746@–86), Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia assesses the commander's considerable historical impact and expands our understanding of Spain's contribution to the war. A man of both empire and the Enlightenment, as viceroy of New Spain (1785@–86), Galvez was also pivotal in the design and implementation of Spanish colonial reforms, which included the reorganization of Spain's Northern Frontier that brought peace to the region for the duration of the Spanish presence in North America. Extensively researched through Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. archives, Quintero Saravia's portrait of Galvez reveals him as central to the histories of the Revolution and late eighteenth-century America and offers a reinterpretation of the international factors involved in the American War for Independence.

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UNC Press Books

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1469640805

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9781469640808

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Conquest of Florida

A New Manuscript

By: Gonzalo Solís de Merás

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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Conquest of Florida

A New Manuscript

By: Gonzalo Solís de Merás

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519–1574) founded St. Augustine in 1565. His expedition was documented by his brother-in-law, Gonzalo Solís de Merás, who left a detailed and passionate account of the events leading to the establishment of America’s oldest city. Until recently, the only extant version of Solís de Merás’s record was one single manuscript that Eugenio Ruidíaz y Caravia transcribed in 1893, and subsequent editions and translations have always followed Ruidíaz’s text. In 2012, David Arbesú discovered a more complete record: a manuscript including folios lost for centuries and, more important, excluding portions of the 1893 publication based on retellings rather than the original document. In the resulting volume, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Conquest of Florida, Arbesú sheds light on principal events missing from the story of St. Augustine’s founding. By consulting the original chronicle, Arbesú provides readers with the definitive bilingual edition of this seminal text.

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University Press of Florida

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0813065925

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9780813065922

The Intelligible Universe

An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years

By: Julio A. Gonzalo

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The Intelligible Universe

An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years

By: Julio A. Gonzalo

This interesting book reviews WMAP''s main results (2003) and discusses in detail how the accurate qualitative results for the OC ageOCO of the universe and the Hubble constant were anticipated in an article published five years before in Acta Cosmologica, Krakow. In the final chapter on OC Cosmic NumbersOCO, it is shown that, as a result of the coincidence at decoupling time between atom formation and matter/radiation equality, a reasonable cosmic justification for the mass ratio of protons and electrons is obtained.

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World Scientific

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9812794123

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9789812794123

Apologia and Criticism

Historians and the History of Spain, 1500-2000

By: Gonzalo Pasamar

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Apologia and Criticism

Historians and the History of Spain, 1500-2000

By: Gonzalo Pasamar

This book is the first modern overview of the history of historiography in Spain. It covers sources from Juan de Mariana's History of Spain, written at the end of the sixteenth century, up to current historical writings and their context. The main objective of the book is to shed light on the continuities and breaks in the ways that Spanish historians represented ideas of Spain. The concept of historiography used is wide enough to span not only academic works and institutions but also public uses of history, including the history taught in schools. The methodology employed by the author combines the tradition of studies of national identity with those of historiography. One of the key themes in the book is the role of the historical profession in Spain and its influence on national discourse from the nineteenth century onwards.

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310

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Peter Lang

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3039119206

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9783039119202

Habsburg England

Politics and Religion in the Reign of Philip I (1554–1558)

By: Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer

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Habsburg England

Politics and Religion in the Reign of Philip I (1554–1558)

By: Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer

In Habsburg England, Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer offers a reassessment of the much-maligned joint rulership of Philip I of England (Philip II of Spain) with his second wife, Mary I. Traditionally portrayed as an anomaly in English history, previous assessments of the regime saw in it nothing but a record of backwardness and oppression. Using fresh archival material, and paying full attention to the levels of integration and collaboration of Spain and England in the political and religious domains, Velasco Berenguer explores Philip’s role as king of England, looks at the complexities of the reign in their own terms and concludes that during this brief but highly significant period, England became an integral part of the Spanish Monarchy.

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BRILL

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9004536213

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9789004536210

Domination without Dominance

Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru

By: Gonzalo Lamana

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Domination without Dominance

Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru

By: Gonzalo Lamana

Offering an alternative narrative of the conquest of the Incas, Gonzalo Lamana both examines and shifts away from the colonial imprint that still permeates most accounts of the conquest. Lamana focuses on a key moment of transition: the years that bridged the first contact between Spanish conquistadores and Andean peoples in 1531 and the moment, around 1550, when a functioning colonial regime emerged. Using published accounts and array of archival sources, he focuses on questions of subalternization, meaning making, copying, and exotization, which proved crucial to both the Spaniards and the Incas. On the one hand, he re-inserts different epistemologies into the conquest narrative, making central to the plot often-dismissed, discrepant stories such as books that were expected to talk and year-long attacks that could only be launched under a full moon. On the other hand, he questions the dominant image of a clear distinction between Inca and Spaniard, showing instead that on the battlefield as much as in everyday arenas such as conversion, market exchanges, politics, and land tenure, the parties blurred into each other in repeated instances of mimicry. Lamana’s redefinition of the order of things reveals that, contrary to the conquerors’ accounts, what the Spanairds achieved was a “domination without dominance.” This conclusion undermines common ideas of Spanish (and Western) superiority. It shows that casting order as a by-product of military action rests on a pervasive fallacy: the translation of military superiority into cultural superiority. In constant dialogue with critical thinking from different disciplines and traditions, Lamana illuminates how this new interpretation of the conquest of the Incas revises current understandings of Western colonialism and the emergence of still-current global configurations.

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Duke University Press

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0822388715

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Intelligible Universe, The: An Overview Of The Last Thirteen Billion Years (2nd Edition)

By: Julio A Gonzalo

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Intelligible Universe, The: An Overview Of The Last Thirteen Billion Years (2nd Edition)

By: Julio A Gonzalo

This interesting book reviews WMAP's main results (2003) and discusses in detail how the accurate qualitative results for the “age” of the universe and the Hubble constant were anticipated in an article published five years before in Acta Cosmologica, Krakow. In the final chapter on “Cosmic Numbers”, it is shown that, as a result of the coincidence at decoupling time between atom formation and matter/radiation equality, a reasonable cosmic justification for the mass ratio of protons and electrons is obtained./a /remove

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World Scientific

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9814471585

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Liberation Theology from Below

The Life and Thought of Manuel Quintin Lame

By: Gonzalo Castillo-Cardenas

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Liberation Theology from Below

The Life and Thought of Manuel Quintin Lame

By: Gonzalo Castillo-Cardenas

“Here sleeps the Indian Manuel Quintín Lame Chantre, October 7, 1967. He was a man who did not bow his head before injustice.” In the Colombian Andes, Indians wrote that epitaph on the cross above Lame’s grave because he led them in a just struggle against “civilization”: against the “whites” and their system that has oppressed and dehumanized the Indians. The first part of this book is a thorough introduction to Lame’s life, his thought, and his historical context: the world of the Indians of the Colombian Andes. The second part of the book contains “Los Pensamientos,” a work written by Lame about a series of theological themes: nature, injustice, God, rebellion, oppression, hope, liberation . . . Gustavo Gutiérrez has written: “One day a theology should develop that comes from the poor themselves. Liberation theology is just one step along the way in this search. I see it as a kind of theological crutch, to be used until the poor create a theology of their own experience, their own world.” Lame’s work answers Gutiérrez’s call. It is a theology that “comes from the poor themselves,” and in its originality, boldness, and propheticism, Lame’s theology surpasses that written by those with ties to the unjust “civilization” that Lame spent much of his life combating.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666711217

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9781666711219

Retooling Politics

How Digital Media Are Shaping Democracy

By: Andreas Jungherr,Gonzalo Rivero,Daniel Gayo-Avello

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Retooling Politics

How Digital Media Are Shaping Democracy

By: Andreas Jungherr,Gonzalo Rivero,Daniel Gayo-Avello

Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists, candidates, non-governmental organizations, and parties to inform, mobilize, and persuade people. But what are the effects of this retooling of politics? Do digital media empower the powerless or are they breaking democracy? Have these new tools and practices fundamentally changed politics or is their impact just a matter of degree? This clear-eyed guide steps back from hyperbolic hopes and fears to offer a balanced account of what aspects of politics are being shaped by digital media and what remains unchanged. The authors discuss data-driven politics, the flow and reach of political information, the effects of communication interventions through digital tools, their use by citizens in coordinating political action, and what their impact is on political organizations and on democracy at large.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108317936

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9781108317931

Manuel de Falla: His life & Works

By: Gonzalo Armero,Jorge de Persia

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Manuel de Falla: His life & Works

By: Gonzalo Armero,Jorge de Persia

Manuel de Falla's music perfectly reflected the full-blooded passion and intellectual aspirations of early 20th century Spanish culture. His personal life seemed to echo the spirit of his times and the broad range of his music. From his sensual treatment of Andalusian folk themes to the neoclassical compositions of his later years, de Falla always brought a fierce level of intensity to everything he undertook. This book explores de Falla's life in music in a highly original way. A compelling mix of intimate correspondence, original criticism, rare manuscripts and revealing photographs, it forms a biographical mosaic rich in musical detail and personal insights. A uniquely candid portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest composers. Approved by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Ed. Gonzolo Armero and Jorge de Persia.

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464

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Omnibus Press

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0857127632

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9780857127631

Cosmic Paradoxes (Third Edition)

By: Julio A Gonzalo

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Cosmic Paradoxes (Third Edition)

By: Julio A Gonzalo

Cosmic Paradoxes' was an outcome of a Conference-Summer Course on 'Astrophysical Cosmology: Frontier Questions' held at El Escorial, Madrid, on August 16-19, 1993. The Scientific Directors were John C Mather, Director of NASA's COBE (Cosmic Background Radiation Explorer), and Jose M Torroja, Secretary of the Spanish Academy of Sciences. Julio A Gonzalo, UAM, was in charge of coordinating the event. The first speaker was Ralph A Alpher, one of the pioneers who predicted very early the CBR (Cosmic Background Radiation). The CBR was observed by A Penzias and R Wilson, Bell Telephone Labs, in 1965. Thereafter it was measured with unprecedented precision by the COBE in 1989, characterizing the Planck spectral distribution of the CBR (J C Mather) and detecting its minute anisotropies (G Smoot). In 2003 the WMAP, NASA's satellite successor of the COBE, confirmed COBE's results, and gave an excellent quantitative estimate of the 'age' of the universe as 13.7 ± 0.2 Gyrs, in support of the Big Bang theory of cosmic origins.In the Third Edition of this book, almost coincident with the launch reports of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), includes recent work discussing evidence in favor of an open finite universe. A further discussion of the Heisenberg-Lemaitre time (Appendix D) takes into consideration that the cosmic expansion velocity at very early times is Ṙ(yHL)≫c and reviews in more detail the thermal history of the universe.

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981126208X

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Book's by Gonzalo Oviedo

Indigenous and Local Communities and Protected Areas

Indigenous and Local Communities and Protected Areas

To Live for God Alone

To Live for God Alone

Bernardo de Gálvez

Bernardo de Gálvez

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Conquest of Florida

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Conquest of Florida

The Intelligible Universe

The Intelligible Universe

Apologia and Criticism

Apologia and Criticism

Habsburg England

Habsburg England

Domination without Dominance

Domination without Dominance

Intelligible Universe, The: An Overview Of The Last Thirteen Billion Years (2nd Edition)

Intelligible Universe, The: An Overview Of The Last Thirteen Billion Years (2nd Edition)

Liberation Theology from Below

Liberation Theology from Below

Retooling Politics

Retooling Politics

Manuel de Falla: His life & Works

Manuel de Falla: His life & Works

Cosmic Paradoxes (Third Edition)

Cosmic Paradoxes (Third Edition)

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