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This Land Is Our Land

Immigrants and Power in Miami

By: Alex Stepick,Guillermo Grenier,Max Castro,Marvin Dunn

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This Land Is Our Land

Immigrants and Power in Miami

By: Alex Stepick,Guillermo Grenier,Max Castro,Marvin Dunn

For those opposed to immigration, Miami is a nightmare. Miami is the de facto capital of Latin America; it is a city where immigrants dominate, Spanish is ubiquitous, and Denny's is an ethnic restaurant. Are Miami's immigrants representative of a trend that is undermining American culture and identity? Drawing from in-depth fieldwork in the city and looking closely at recent events such as the Elián González case, This Land Is Our Land examines interactions between immigrants and established Americans in Miami to address fundamental questions of American identity and multiculturalism. Rather than focusing on questions of assimilation, as many other studies have, this book concentrates on interethnic relations to provide an entirely new perspective on the changes wrought by immigration in the United States. A balanced analysis of Miami's evolution over the last forty years, This Land Is Our Land is also a powerful demonstration that immigration in America is not simply an "us versus them" phenomenon.

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Univ of California Press

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0520936469

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9780520936461

Semiconductor TeraHertz Technology

Devices and Systems at Room Temperature Operation

By: Guillermo Carpintero,Enrique Garcia-Munoz,Hans Hartnagel,Sascha Preu,Antti Raisanen

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Semiconductor TeraHertz Technology

Devices and Systems at Room Temperature Operation

By: Guillermo Carpintero,Enrique Garcia-Munoz,Hans Hartnagel,Sascha Preu,Antti Raisanen

Key advances in Semiconductor Terahertz (THz) Technology now promises important new applications enabling scientists and engineers to overcome the challenges of accessing the so-called "terahertz gap". This pioneering reference explains the fundamental methods and surveys innovative techniques in the generation, detection and processing of THz waves with solid-state devices, as well as illustrating their potential applications in security and telecommunications, among other fields. With contributions from leading experts, Semiconductor Terahertz Technology: Devices and Systems at Room Temperature Operation comprehensively and systematically covers semiconductor-based room temperature operating sources such as photomixers, THz antennas, radiation concepts and THz propagation as well as room-temperature operating THz detectors. The second part of the book focuses on applications such as the latest photonic and electronic THz systems as well as emerging THz technologies including: whispering gallery resonators, liquid crystals, metamaterials and graphene-based devices. This book will provide support for practicing researchers and professionals and will be an indispensable reference to graduate students in the field of THz technology. Key features: Includes crucial theoretical background sections to photomixers, photoconductive switches and electronic THz generation & detection. Provides an extensive overview of semiconductor-based THz sources and applications. Discusses vital technologies for affordable THz applications. Supports teaching and studying increasingly popular courses on semiconductor THz technology.

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426

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118920392

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9781118920398

The Emergence of a National Market in Spain, 1650-1800

Trade Networks, Foreign Powers and the State

By: Guillermo Perez Sarrion

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The Emergence of a National Market in Spain, 1650-1800

Trade Networks, Foreign Powers and the State

By: Guillermo Perez Sarrion

Awarded the Jaume Vicens Vives Prize by the Spanish Association of Economic History, this study analyses the development of the Spanish domestic market from 1650 to 1800, which transformed the country from a pseudocolonial territory, politically and economically dependent on its European neighbours, to a significant European power. The Emergence of a National Market in Spain, 1650-1800 places Spain firmly in a European context, arguing that the origins of a sophisticated economy must be understood through the complex diplomacy of the period, namely the competition between Britain and France for dominance in the Iberian peninsula. It was in response to this rivalry that the Spanish state actively promoted the conditions for economic development in the 18th century, aided by autonomous commercial networks of Catalan merchants, Navarrese tradesmen and migrant French businessmen. This original interpretation by one of Spain's leading economic historians, available in English for the first time, is indispensable reading for students and scholars of Spanish history.

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355

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472586476

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9781472586476

Assessing English Language Learners

Theory and Practice

By: Guillermo Solano Flores

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Assessing English Language Learners

Theory and Practice

By: Guillermo Solano Flores

Assessing English Language Learners explains and illustrates the main ideas underlying assessment as an activity intimately linked to instruction and the basic principles for developing, using, selecting, and adapting assessment instruments and strategies to assess content knowledge in English language learners (ELLs). Sensitive to the professional development needs of both in-service and pre-service mainstream teachers with ELLs in their classrooms and those receiving formal training to teach culturally and linguistically diverse students, the text is designed to engage readers in viewing assessment as a critical part of teaching appreciating that assessments provide teachers with valuable information about their students’ learning and thinking becoming aware of the relationship among language, culture, and testing understanding the reasoning that guides test construction recognizing the limitations of testing practices being confident that assessment is an activity classroom teachers (not only accountability specialists) can perform Highlighting alternative, multidisciplinary approaches that address linguistic and cultural diversity in testing, this text, enhanced by multiple field-tested exercises and examples of different forms of assessment, is ideal for any course covering the theory and practice of ELL assessment.

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Routledge

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113407350X

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9781134073504

Cubans, an Epic Journey

The Struggle of Exiles for Truth and Freedom

By: Sam Verdeja,Guillermo Martínez

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Cubans, an Epic Journey

The Struggle of Exiles for Truth and Freedom

By: Sam Verdeja,Guillermo Martínez

This book is a collection of more than thirty essays by renowned scholars, historians, journalists, and media professionals that portray the experience of Cubans exiled in the United States and other countries in the last sixty years.

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Reedy Press LLC

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1935806203

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9781935806202

Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners

By: Guillermo W. Rougier,Agustín G. Martinelli,Analía M. Forasiepi

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Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners

By: Guillermo W. Rougier,Agustín G. Martinelli,Analía M. Forasiepi

This book summarizes the most relevant published paleontological information, supplemented by our own original work, on the record of Mesozoic mammals’ evolution, their close ancestors and their immediate descendants. Mammals evolved in a systematically diverse world, amidst a dynamic geography that is at the root of the 6,500 species living today. Fossils of Mesozoic mammals, while rare and often incomplete, are key to understanding how mammals have evolved over more than 200 million years. Mesozoic mammals and their close relatives occur in a few dozen localities from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru spanning from the Mid- Triassic to the Late Cretaceous, with some lineages surviving the cataclysmic end of the Cretaceous period, into the Cenozoic of Argentina. There are roughly 25 recognized mammalian species distributed in several distinctive lineages, including australosphenidans, multituberculates, gondwanatherians, eutriconodonts, amphilestids and dryolestoids, among others. With its focus on diversity, systematics, phylogeny, and their impact on the evolution of mammals, there is no similar book currently available.

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388

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Springer Nature

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3030638626

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9783030638627

Martial, Book VII. A Commentary

Translated by J. J. Zoltowsky

By: Guillermo Galán Vioque

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Martial, Book VII. A Commentary

Translated by J. J. Zoltowsky

By: Guillermo Galán Vioque

This volume is the first comprehensive commentary on the seventh book of Martial's epigrams. The introduction discusses the date of publication of Martial’s books, the themes of the epigrams of book seven as well as the transmission of the text. The autor pays special attention to the adulation of Domitian in book seven, the satirization of lawyers, legacy-hunters, parasites and dinner-guests, and hetero- and homosexuality. The commentary, preceded by a revised edition of Shackleton Bailey’s Teubner edition (1990), focuses on literary, linguistic and metrical matters. Thematic relationships with other books of Martial and other Greek and Latin literature are highlighted. Attention is also paid to the use of recurrent motifs, obscene language, puns, double meanings and proper names.

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BRILL

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9004350977

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9789004350977

Inhuman Relations

Quality Circles and Anti-Unionism in American Industry

By: Guillermo J. Grenier

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Inhuman Relations

Quality Circles and Anti-Unionism in American Industry

By: Guillermo J. Grenier

This vivid expose of the use of Quality Circles by a major company to defeat a union organizing drive dramatically presents a negative view of the highly acclaimed new humanism in American management. Guillermo Grenier gives a unique insider's account of Johnson & Johnson's implementation of the workplace reform technique called Quality of Worklife or Quality Circles as a union-busting tactic. He describes this and other methods of controlling workers, which are veiled by the benevolent rhetoric of the new managers, and shows how the supposed "democratic reforms" often have autocratic underpinnings and results.For seven months in 1982-83, the author worked as a graduate researcher under the social psychologist in charge of Team development at a Johnson & Johnson division in Albuquerque. "Team" is the name used by the company for the quality circle technique of organizing workers into small groups that discuss problems on a regular basis. The Team approach, Grenier explains, "in fact increased the conflict not only between management and worker but between the workers themselves. With calculated precision, the workforce was divided and eventually conquered because management controlled their formal and informal interactions while at the workplace."Timely, controversial, and dramatic, Inhuman Relations presents the view that human relations management techniques have a strong anti-union tradition and have developed into liberal, acceptable methods of controlling the workforce. Author note: Guillermo J. Grenier is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Labor Research and Studies at Florida International University.

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0877226326

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9780877226321

A History of Little Havana

By: Guillermo J. Grenier,Corinna Moebius

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A History of Little Havana

By: Guillermo J. Grenier,Corinna Moebius

In the heart of Miami, Little Havana is a neighborhood buzzing with culture. Still imagined as primarily a Cuban extension of the city, it has been a sanctuary to refugees since the 1959 revolution and has experienced fascinating changes to become what it is today. Find out how a location associated with old Cubans playing dominos has become a vibrant, multi-ethnic community and a birthplace of Miami's most exciting arts and music movements. Learn why Little Havana has continued to serve as a political stage for thousands of Cubans demonstrating on its streets, like the famous Calle Ocho. Authors Guillermo Grenier and Corinna Moebius trace the history and growth of this Latino epicenter in the first in-depth portrait of a world-renowned neighborhood.

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History Press Library Editions

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1540211231

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9781540211231

This Land Is Our Land

Immigrants and Power in Miami

By: Alex Stepick,Guillermo Grenier,Max Castro,Marvin Dunn

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Immigrants and Power in Miami

By: Alex Stepick,Guillermo Grenier,Max Castro,Marvin Dunn

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This Land Is Our Land

This Land Is Our Land

Semiconductor TeraHertz Technology

Semiconductor TeraHertz Technology

The Emergence of a National Market in Spain, 1650-1800

The Emergence of a National Market in Spain, 1650-1800

Assessing English Language Learners

Assessing English Language Learners

Cubans, an Epic Journey

Cubans, an Epic Journey

Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners

Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners

Martial, Book VII. A Commentary

Martial, Book VII. A Commentary

Inhuman Relations

Inhuman Relations

A History of Little Havana

A History of Little Havana

This Land Is Our Land

This Land Is Our Land

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