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Proceedings of the Fifth Latin American Symposium, High Energy Physics, Lima, Peru, 12-17 July 2004

By: Carlos Javier Solano Salinas

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Proceedings of the Fifth Latin American Symposium, High Energy Physics, Lima, Peru, 12-17 July 2004

By: Carlos Javier Solano Salinas

This proceedings is the fifth in the series of Latin American symposiums focusing on the development, refinement and applications of high energy physics. As the principal meetings for the physics community in Latin America, it encourages collaborations and the exchange of ideas with the international physics communities. This particular symposium was also a dedication to the memory of Dr Luis Masperi.

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World Scientific

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The Taken

True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War

By: Javier Valdez Cárdenas

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The Taken

True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War

By: Javier Valdez Cárdenas

A massive wave of violence has rippled across Mexico over the past decade. In the western state of Sinaloa, the birthplace of modern drug trafficking, ordinary citizens live in constant fear of being “taken”—kidnapped or held against their will by armed men, whether criminals, police, or both. This remarkable collection of firsthand accounts by prize-winning journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas provides a uniquely human perspective on life in Sinaloa during the drug war. The reality of the Mexican drug war, a conflict fueled by uncertainty and fear, is far more complex than the images conjured in popular imagination. Often missing from news reports is the perspective of ordinary people—migrant workers, schoolteachers, single mothers, businessmen, teenagers, petty criminals, police officers, and local journalists—people whose worlds center not on drugs or illegal activity but on survival and resilience, truth and reconciliation. Building on a rich tradition of testimonial literature, Valdez Cárdenas recounts in gripping detail how people deal not only with the constant threat of physical violence but also with the fear, uncertainty, and guilt that afflict survivors and witnesses. Mexican journalists who dare expose the drug war’s inconvenient political and social realities are censored and smeared, murdered, and “disappeared.” This is precisely why we need to hear from seasoned local reporters like Valdez Cárdenas who write about the places where they live, rely on a network of trusted sources built over decades, and tell the stories behind the headline-grabbing massacres and scandals. In his informative introduction to the volume, translator Everard Meade orients the reader to the broader armed conflict in Mexico and explains the unique role of Sinaloa as its epicenter. Reports on border politics and infamous drug traffickers may obscure the victims’ suffering. The Taken helps ensure that their stories will not be forgotten or suppressed.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806158875

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Enciclopedia de Lingüística Hispánica

By: Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach

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Enciclopedia de Lingüística Hispánica

By: Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach

The Enciclopedia de Linguistica Hispánica provides comprehensive coverage of the major and subsidiary fields of Spanish linguistics. Entries are extensively cross-referenced and arranged alphabetically within three main sections: Part 1 covers linguistic disciplines, approaches and methodologies. Part 2 brings together the grammar of Spanish, including subsections on phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Part 3 brings together the historical, social and geographical factors in the evolution of Spanish. Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of contributors from across the Spanish-speaking world the Enciclopedia de Linguistica Hispánica is an indispensable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Spanish, and for anyone with an academic or professional interest in the Spanish language/Spanish linguistics.

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Routledge

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1317498011

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Global Mental Health

Latin America and Spanish-Speaking Populations

By: Javier I Escobar

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Global Mental Health

Latin America and Spanish-Speaking Populations

By: Javier I Escobar

Global Mental Health provides an outline of the field of mental health with a particular focus on Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world. The book details evidence-based approaches being implemented globally and presents ongoing state of the art research on major mental disorders taking place in Latin America, including work being done on understanding Alzheimer’s, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, and other psychoses. While supporting the initiative for building capacity of care in low income countries, the book warns about some of the potential risks related to the abuse of psychiatry, using examples from the past, focusing on early 20th century Spain.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813595916

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Moors Dressed as Moors

Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia

By: Javier Irigoyen-García

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Moors Dressed as Moors

Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia

By: Javier Irigoyen-García

In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources to reveal the currency of Moorish clothing in early modern Iberian society.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487501609

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The First Asians in the Americas

A Transpacific History

By: Diego Javier Luis

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The First Asians in the Americas

A Transpacific History

By: Diego Javier Luis

The definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire—from Manila to Acapulco and beyond—and its implications for the history of race and colonization in the Americas. Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed a near-complete monopoly on transpacific trade between Spain’s Asian and American colonies. Sailing from the Philippines to Mexico and back, these Spanish trading ships also facilitated the earliest migrations and displacements of Asian peoples to the Americas. Hailing from Gujarat, Nagasaki, and many places in between, both free and enslaved Asians boarded the galleons and made the treacherous transpacific journey each year. Once in Mexico, they became “chinos” within the New Spanish caste system. Diego Javier Luis chronicles this first sustained wave of Asian mobility to the early Americas. Uncovering how and why Asian peoples crossed the Pacific, he sheds new light on the daily lives of those who disembarked at Acapulco. There, the term “chino” officially racialized diverse ethnolinguistic populations into a single caste, vulnerable to New Spanish policies of colonial control. Yet Asians resisted these strictures, often by forging new connections across ethnic groups. Social adaptation and cultural convergence, Luis argues, defined Asian experiences in the Spanish Americas from the colonial invasions of the sixteenth century to the first cries for Mexican independence in the nineteenth. The First Asians in the Americas speaks to an important era in the construction of race, vividly unfolding what it meant to be “chino” in the early modern Spanish empire. In so doing, it demonstrates the significance of colonial Latin America to Asian diasporic history and reveals the fundamental role of transpacific connections to the development of colonial societies in the Americas.

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Harvard University Press

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0674294947

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Coyame Es Mi Pueblo

By: Francisco Javier Morales Natera

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Coyame Es Mi Pueblo

By: Francisco Javier Morales Natera

Coyame is the wide-ranging account of a small town in Mexico. The author provides readers with a panoramic view of history from the Mayans to the Villa revolutionaries and beyond. The history of the region is brought into stark detail with the inclusion of the tales, legends, and family histories of Coyame’s colorful residents. Morales presents the information with great care and passion; both historians and casual readers will benefit from the candor and whimsy that mark this unique contribution.

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A new Compact History of Mexico.

By: Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo,Bernardo García Martínez,Luis Jáuregui,Josefina Zoraida Vázquez,Elisa Speckman Guerra,Javier Garciadiego,Luis Aboites Aguilar

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A new Compact History of Mexico.

By: Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo,Bernardo García Martínez,Luis Jáuregui,Josefina Zoraida Vázquez,Elisa Speckman Guerra,Javier Garciadiego,Luis Aboites Aguilar

In 1973, El Colegio de México published the first version of Historia mínima de México (followed in 1974 by the English translation A Compact History of Mexico) for the purpose of providing Mexicans living at that time with basic historical knowledge of their country. While preserving the aim of synthesis and simplicity that served as a basic guideline for the earlier Historia mínima de México, this new work constitutes a completely novel and original manuscript. Thus, A New Compact History of México is not only a “new history,” but also an innovative one. In its pages, readers will find accounts and perspectives enabling them to gain a fundamental understanding of Mexican history in an enjoyable way.

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El Colegio de Mexico AC

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6074627525

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The Role of Information Professionals in the Knowledge Economy

Skills, Profile and a Model for Supporting Scientific Production and Communication

By: Javier Tarango,Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo

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The Role of Information Professionals in the Knowledge Economy

Skills, Profile and a Model for Supporting Scientific Production and Communication

By: Javier Tarango,Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo

The Role of Information Professionals in the Knowledge Economy: Skills, Experiences, Practices and Strategies presents the tools that are necessary for the acquisition and development of a scientific culture. The work and profile of the information professional is no longer limited to the world of libraries. In countries with developing and peripheral economies that are seeking to reduce dependence on knowledge generated by rich countries it is necessary to develop and foster new professional profiles with high expertise in knowledge generation and management in order to support such paradigm shifts. This comprehensive book presents the case for this paradigm shift and is an ideal resource for information professionals who are interested in new avenues of exploration. - Promotes the idea that an information professional is the right person to offer support in the knowledge economy - Provides guidance on how to provide and develop a scientific culture in an institution - Identifies information competencies that are important for information managers in scientific communication - Redefines the profile of professional information graduates and identifies this new skillset as a job opportunity

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Chandos Publishing

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0128112239

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The Rural State

Making Comunidades, Campesinos, and Conflict in Peru's Central Sierra

By: Javier Puente

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The Rural State

Making Comunidades, Campesinos, and Conflict in Peru's Central Sierra

By: Javier Puente

On the eve of the twentieth century, Peru seemed like a profitable and yet fairly unexploited country. Both foreign capitalists and local state makers envisioned how remote highland areas were essential to a sustainable national economy. Mobilizing Andean populations lay at the core of this endeavor. In his groundbreaking book, The Rural State, Javier Puente uncovers the surprising and overlooked ways that Peru’s rural communities formed the political nation-state that still exists today. Puente documents how people living in the Peruvian central sierra in the twentieth century confronted emerging and consolidating powers of state and capital and engaged in an ongoing struggle over increasingly elusive subsistence and autonomies. Over the years, policy, politics, and social turmoil shaped the rural, mountainous regions of Peru until violent unrest, perpetrated by the Shining Path and other revolutionary groups, unveiled the extent, limits, and fractures of a century-long process of rural state formation. Examining the conflicts between one rural community and the many iterations of statehood in the central sierra of Peru, The Rural State offers a fresh perspective on how the Andes became la sierra, how pueblos became comunidades, and how indígenas became campesinos.

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University of Texas Press

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1477326308

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Central Catalan and Swabian

A Study in the Framework of the Typology of Syllable and Word Languages

By: Javier Caro Reina

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Central Catalan and Swabian

A Study in the Framework of the Typology of Syllable and Word Languages

By: Javier Caro Reina

In contrast to previous approaches to phonological typology, the typology of syllable and word languages relates the patterns of syllable structure, phoneme inventory, and phonological processes to the relevance of the prosodic domains of the syllable and the phonological word. This volume proves how useful this kind of typology is for the understanding of language variation and change. By providing a synchronic and diachronic account of the syllable and the phonological word in Central Catalan (Catalan dialect group) and Swabian (Alemannic dialect group), the author shows how the evolution of Old Catalan and Old Alemannic can be explained in terms of a typological drift toward an increased relevance of the phonological word. Further, the description of Central Catalan and Swabian allows to identify common strategies for profiling the phonological word and thus makes an important contribution to research on prosodic phonology.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110570750

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9783110570755

Culture and Customs of Puerto Rico

By: Javier A. Galván

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Culture and Customs of Puerto Rico

By: Javier A. Galván

This exciting addition to the Culture and Customs of Latin America and the Caribbean series provides readers with an all-encompassing look at contemporary life in Puerto Rico. Having always been under the watchful eyes of other colonies and countries, Puerto Rico's own customs and traditions have managed to flourish throughout the ages, culturally uniting what is a politically divided island. In addition to gaining an understanding of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the continental United States, students can explore extensive narrative chapters that cover contemporary religion, cuisine, sports, media, cinema, literature, performing arts, and visual arts. An essential for high school and public library shelves, Culture and Customs of Puerto Rico is the perfect research resource for students and general readers. This exciting addition to the Culture and Customs of Latin America and the Caribbean series provides readers with an exhaustive look at contemporary life in Puerto Rico. Having always been under the watchful eyes of other colonies and countries, Puerto Rico's own customs and traditions have managed to flourish throughout the ages, culturally uniting what is a politically divided island. In addition to gaining an understanding of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the continental United States, students can explore the small island nation's history with Spain during the colonial era. This fascinating volume provides illustrative narrative chapters on religious practices in Puerto Rico, as well as religious and secular festivals. Social customs, such as sports, cuisine, gender issues, family values, and nightlife, are discussed in depth. Extensive coverage on the media, performing arts, cinema, visual arts, and literature provides students with a solid foundation in Puerto Rican past and contemporary culture. An essential for high school and public library shelves, Culture and Customs of Puerto Rico is the perfect research resource for students and general readers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216069775

Mr. G's Battle Cry! La Causa De La Raza Wants You

By: Javier Gomez

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Mr. G's Battle Cry! La Causa De La Raza Wants You

By: Javier Gomez

A wave of revolution swept across the United States in the sixties and the seventies. And across California, Cesar Chavez sparked the Chicano civil rights movement in the barrio, giving prominence to new leaders, new voices, and new demands for freedom from injustice and oppression. For young Javier Gomez, this battle cry would be the beginning of a fight to stand up to injustice in his home of East LA. In Mr. Gs Battle Cry!, author and civil rights activist Javier Gomez chronicles his march into the streets of East LA and beyond as he and his Chicano and Chicana brothers and sisters take up the cause of the civil rights movement and create hope for a better futureagainst great odds. Gomez also explores the history of his people, showing how their culture and their spirit was renewed during this historic era of equality and justice. Javier Gomez was inspired by the Chicano civil rights movement, and today his battle cry endures. Mr. Gs Battle Cry! gives voice to the enlightened individuals who fought, side by side, at protests, and in the streets, against the institutions of injustice that sought to keep the people silent. And today, this cultural revolution has left a living legacy of change, progress, and hope.

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1546248501

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A Light in the Darkness: The Music and Life of Joaquín Rodrigo

By: Javier Suárez-Pajares,Walter Aaron Clark

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A Light in the Darkness: The Music and Life of Joaquín Rodrigo

By: Javier Suárez-Pajares,Walter Aaron Clark

A composer of singular vision. Joaquín Rodrigo (1901–1999) is best known as the composer of one of the most popular works of music in the twentieth century—the Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra. It’s been featured in movies and television commercials and remains a staple of concert programs for orchestras around the world. Miles Davis said, “After listening to it for a couple of weeks…I couldn’t get it out of my mind,” and he used it as inspiration for his album Sketches of Spain. But as Javier Suárez-Pajares and Walter Aaron Clark reveal in this musical biography—the first complete study in English—Rodrigo’s work and influence extend far beyond that singular composition. A Light in the Darkness takes us through Rodrigo’s childhood in Valencia, the onset of blindness at the age of three, and the beginnings of his musical education. He achieved some early success in Spain as a composer before moving to Paris in 1927 to advance his studies, following in the footsteps of other eminent Spanish composers like Isaac Albéniz, Joaquín Turina, and Manuel de Falla. There he enrolled in courses with composer Paul Dukas, met the woman who would become his wife, and earned the respect and friendship of Falla, who became his champion. Along the way, Rodrigo’s musical voice developed and matured as his horizons widened. Suárez-Pajares and Clark present a definitive account of the making of Rodrigo’s celebrated guitar concerto, even as they capture the breadth of Rodrigo’s compositional output, from solo works for piano and guitar through chamber music and vocal works to concertos and orchestral pieces. As they demonstrate, Rodrigo’s music is unmistakably Spanish, but with his own unique accent. Rodrigo’s life and career spanned a period of great tumult in Spain, and he had to navigate strong, shifting political and cultural currents—before, during, and after Franco. An authoritative life of one of the twentieth century’s great musical geniuses, A Light in the Darkness becomes a stunning tale of how art gets made under even the most challenging circumstances.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324004460

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9781324004462

AIKIDO Base & Fundamentals: Introductory Manual

By: Javier J. Vázquez Bravo

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AIKIDO Base & Fundamentals: Introductory Manual

By: Javier J. Vázquez Bravo

Historically, martial arta have been regarded as a means of developing both physical and mental capabilities, which is a fundamental aspect of any self-defence system. Discipline, rigorous physical training and, above all, a vision of war and the destruction of the enemy by any means have accompanied the practice of many of the styles. However, new trends have been emerging in the ever-changing world of martial arts. It should be noted that any style of martial art can be bene cial for achieving physical and spiritual growth. However, the martial art known as Aikido is one that has been developing in Puerto Rico and many Latin American countries. This is particularly relevant to those seeking a philosophy of life, as humanity is moving towards new social, political and economic frontiers. Our future aspirations include integration and peaceful social coexistence. These aspirations align with the view that violence should not be used as a mechanism for solving problems between human beings. The social cost of violence is too high for it to represent an answer for the future. Aikido is completely in tune with these aspirations and the times. Aikido is a process by which we achieve a state of harmony, first with ourselves and then with everything around us. We cannot give that which we do not possess.

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L.J. Crowe

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1685748112

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9781685748111

Dangerous Speech

A Social History of Blasphemy in Colonial Mexico

By: Javier Villa-Flores

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Dangerous Speech

A Social History of Blasphemy in Colonial Mexico

By: Javier Villa-Flores

Dangerous Speech is the first systematic treatment of blasphemous speech in colonial Mexico. This engaging social history examines the representation of blasphemy as a sin and a crime, and its repression by the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish colonists viewed blasphemy not only as an insult against God but also as a dangerous misrepresentation of the deity, which could call down his wrath in a ruinous assault on the imperial enterprise. Why then, asks Villa-Flores, did Spaniards dare to blaspheme? Having mined the period’s moral literature—philosophical works as well as royal decrees and Inquisition treatises and trial records in Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. archives and research libraries—Villa-Flores deftly interweaves images of daily life in colonial Mexico with vivid descriptions of human interactions to illustrate the complexity of a culture profoundly influenced by the Catholic Church. In entertaining and sometimes horrifying vignettes, the reader comes face to face with individuals who used language to assert or manipulate their identities within that repressive society. Villa-Flores offers an innovative interpretation of the social uses of blasphemous speech by focusing on specific groups—conquistadors, Spanish settlers, Spanish women, and slaves of both genders—as a lens to examine race, class, and gender relations in colonial Mexico. He finds that multiple motivations led people to resort to blasphemy through a gamut of practices ranging from catharsis and gender self-fashioning to religious rejection and active resistance. Dangerous Speech is a valuable resource for students and scholars of colonialism, the social history of language, Mexican history, and the changing relations of gender, class, and ethnicity in colonial Latin America.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816550654

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The Ambivalent State

Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins

By: Javier Auyero,Katherine Sobering

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The Ambivalent State

Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins

By: Javier Auyero,Katherine Sobering

Over the last few decades, debates about policing in poor urban areas have turned from analyzing the state's neglect and abandonment into documenting its harsh interventions and punishing presence. Yet, we know very little about the covert world of state action that is hidden from public view. In The Ambivalent State, Javier Auyero and Katherine Sobering offer an unprecedented look into the clandestine relationships between police agents and drug dealers in Argentina. Drawing on a unique combination of ethnographic fieldwork and documentary evidence, including hundreds of pages of wiretapped phone conversations, they analyze the inner-workings of police-criminal collusion, its connections to drug markets, and how it promotes cynicism and powerlessness in daily life. They argue that an up-close examination of covert state action exposes the workings of an ambivalent state: one that both enforces the rule of law and functions as a partner in criminal behavior. The Ambivalent State develops a political sociology of violence that focuses not only on what takes place in police stations, courts, and poor neighborhoods, but also the clandestine actions and interactions of police, judges, and politicians that structure daily life at the urban margins.

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Oxford University Press

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0190915560

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The Game-Centred Approach to Sport Literacy

By: Sixto González-Víllora,Javier Fernandez-Rio,Eva Guijarro,Manuel Jacob Sierra-Díaz

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The Game-Centred Approach to Sport Literacy

By: Sixto González-Víllora,Javier Fernandez-Rio,Eva Guijarro,Manuel Jacob Sierra-Díaz

The Game Centred Approach (GCA) is the ideal framework for coaches and teachers to develop comprehensive tactical or technical lessons for any game, both in physical education and in extracurricular sport contexts. Learning about the pedagogical models included in this approach has never been easier thanks to this short introductory guide. The book helps the reader acquire the skills needed to design effective session plans, regardless of the sport that is being taught or coached. It introduces the core concepts underpinning the GCA model, complemented by practical examples of tasks and strategies for each game category and assessment instrument. This is essential reading for all educators, coaches or sports professionals who wish to improve their teaching or coaching to enhance their students and players’ physical literacy and sport competence. It is also invaluable reading for any student or researcher working in physical education, sport coaching or sport pedagogy.

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Routledge

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1000206645

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Great Teachers

How to Raise Student Learning in Latin America and the Caribbean

By: Barbara Bruns,Javier Luque

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Great Teachers

How to Raise Student Learning in Latin America and the Caribbean

By: Barbara Bruns,Javier Luque

This book analyzes teacher quality in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is the key to faster education progress. Based on new research in 15,000 classrooms in seven different countries, it documents the sources of low teacher quality and distills the global evidence on practical policies that can help the region produce "great teachers.

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World Bank Publications

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1464801525

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Coyame a History of the American Settler

By: Dr. Francisco Javier Morales Natera

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Coyame a History of the American Settler

By: Dr. Francisco Javier Morales Natera

Coyame is the wide-ranging account of a small town in Mexico. The author provides readers with a panoramic view of history from the Mayans to the Villa revolutionaries and beyond. The history of the region is brought into stark detail with the inclusion of the tales, legends, and family histories of Coyames colorful residents. Morales presents the information with great care and passion; both historians and casual readers will benefit from the candor and whimsy that mark this unique contribution.

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Traditional Smallholder Farmers in a Growing Economy and a Globalized World

Evidence from the State of Yucatan

By: Knerr, Béatrice,Becerril García, Javier

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Traditional Smallholder Farmers in a Growing Economy and a Globalized World

Evidence from the State of Yucatan

By: Knerr, Béatrice,Becerril García, Javier

?Smallholder farming plays a central role for the livelihood security of rural families in most low- to middle income countries. Beyond that it contributes to sustain important ecological functions and services. Yet, world-wide, increasing economic pressure threatens its viability, while young and capable labour force is attracted away to urban centres. In the Mexican state of Yucatán - where foremost indigenous Mayan people are practicing traditional farming under adverse natural conditions, using a broad variety of agro-biodiversity - these predominant trends can be observed like in a burning lens. Farming is more and more just performed for subsistence while cash for daily expenses is obtained from other sources. Aware of the sector’s benefits for society, Mexican policy makers recently put its services regarding food and livelihood security, agro-biodiversity, and maintenance of cultural heritage high on the agenda. Starting from that baseline, research teams affiliated to the University of Kassel and the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY) conducted several interrelated research projects. All investigations are grounded in field work, including intensive interviews among local people and experts. The results are assembled in this volume.

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kassel university press GmbH

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386219907X

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Miguel Blesa. El lobo de Caja Madrid

Gestión, lujo y ruina de un depredador financiero

By: Javier Castro-Villacañas Pérez,Luis Suárez Jordana de Pozas

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Miguel Blesa. El lobo de Caja Madrid

Gestión, lujo y ruina de un depredador financiero

By: Javier Castro-Villacañas Pérez,Luis Suárez Jordana de Pozas

El lobo de Caja Madrid es la historia del paso depredador de Miguel Blesa al frente de la que fuera la cuarta entidad financiera de nuestro país. La Caja de Ahorros de Madrid fue la más antigua de todas las españolas. Fundada en 1702, su finalidad inicial fue atender las necesidades de los sectores sociales más desfavorecidos, dándoles protección y apoyo financiero a través de préstamos gratuitos, garantizados con alhajas, prendas y otros bienes. Comoentidad financiera sin ánimo de lucro funcionó a la perfección hasta que en 1996, de la mano del entonces presidente del Gobierno José María Aznar y gracias al apoyo de CC.OO., llegó a su presidencia Miguel Blesa. La suya ha quedado como muestra de una de las más desastrosas gestiones de nuestro sistema bancario, puesto que nos ha costado a todos los españoles 22.424 millones de euros para evitar la quiebra de Bankia.A lo largo de estas páginas, los autores diseccionan a un personaje, Miguel Blesa, y su vida desaforada (llena de cacerías, cruceros, lujo...), sus ruinosos negocios en Miami, Iberia, Martinsa o SosCuétara, el escándalo de las preferentes, la expansión del ladrillo y, en definitiva, la ruina de Caja Madrid por los abusos y desmanes de un depredador y de su entorno político, que queda aquí al descubierto

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Latino Image Makers in Hollywood

Performers, Filmmakers and Films Since the 1960s

By: Frank Javier Garcia Berumen

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Latino Image Makers in Hollywood

Performers, Filmmakers and Films Since the 1960s

By: Frank Javier Garcia Berumen

Latinos have been part of the Hollywood film industry for more than 100 years, yet beyond the remarkable success of a few, their visibility and clout have generally not reflected their significance in American society. Worse, the Latino image has suffered from widespread stereotyping in film, and performers face unjustified constraints in the kinds of roles available to them. Decade by decade from 1960 onward, this book analyzes important films made by or about Latinos, details the careers of Latino performers and filmmakers of the time, and analyzes how film portrayals of Latino characters and subjects connect with political and social trends of each decade. It discusses the role of gender, social class, and ethnicity in film portrayals and provides an overview of the diverse and dynamic Latino community in the United States, while celebrating a substantial and enduring contribution to Hollywood film history.

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Centennial Fever

Transnational Hispanic Commemorations and Spanish Nationalism

By: Javier Moreno-Luzón

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Centennial Fever

Transnational Hispanic Commemorations and Spanish Nationalism

By: Javier Moreno-Luzón

Commemorations that shaped major elements of Spanish identity at the beginning of the 20th century are full of centennials and anniversaries that elaborate and renew the Spanish national mythology. In Centennial Fever Javier Moreno-Luzón, one of the most prominent Spanish historians of his generation, studies the milestones that defined transnational dimensions of celebration at the beginning of the 20th century including the Peninsular War, the first Spanish Constitution, the independence of Latin American States, the “discovery” of the Pacific Ocean and the death of Miguel de Cervantes and the publication of Don Quixote of La Mancha. Through these truly global events, a cultural community is created, called “Hispanoamerica” or “La Raza”, on which Spanish nationalism has become dependent.

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In Harm's Way

The Dynamics of Urban Violence

By: Javier Auyero,María Fernanda Berti

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In Harm's Way

The Dynamics of Urban Violence

By: Javier Auyero,María Fernanda Berti

A harrowing look at violence among Argentina's urban poor Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides—often involving young people—continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or knifings are an all-too-common sight. In Harm's Way takes a harrowing look at daily life in Arquitecto Tucci, examining the sources, uses, and forms of interpersonal violence among the urban poor at the very margins of Argentine society. Drawing on more than two years of immersive fieldwork, sociologist Javier Auyero and María Berti, an elementary school teacher in the neighborhood, provide a powerful and disarmingly intimate account of what it is like to live under the constant threat of violence. They argue that being physically aggressive becomes a habitual way of acting in poor and marginalized communities, and that violence is routine and carries across various domains of public and private life. Auyero and Berti trace how different types of violence—be it criminal, drug related, sexual, or domestic—overlap, intersect, and blur together. They show how the state is complicit in the production of harm, and describe the routines and relationships that residents, particularly children, establish to cope with and respond to the constant risk that besieges them and their loved ones. Provocative, eye-opening, and extraordinarily moving, In Harm's Way is destined to become a classic work on violence at the urban margins.

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0691173036

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Multinationals, Institutions and the Construction of Transnational Practices

Convergence and Diversity in the Global Economy

By: Anthony Ferner,Javier Quintanilla

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Multinationals, Institutions and the Construction of Transnational Practices

Convergence and Diversity in the Global Economy

By: Anthony Ferner,Javier Quintanilla

This text considers how multinationals transfer structures, policies and practices across national borders. It is contributed to by experts in the field of employment relations, and combines empirical material with a theoretical approach. The essays advance comparative institutionalist theory at both the macro-level and the micro-level.

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Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hunt. 268

By: Esperanza Alfonso,Javier del Barco

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Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hunt. 268

By: Esperanza Alfonso,Javier del Barco

Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia provides the princeps diplomatic edition and a comprehensive study of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hunt. 268. The manuscript, produced in the Iberian Peninsula in the late thirteenth century, features a biblical glossary-commentary in Hebrew that includes 2,018 glosses in the vernacular and 156 in Arabic, and to date is the only manuscript of these characteristics known to have been produced in this region. Esperanza Alfonso has edited the text and presents here a study of it, examining its pedagogical function, its sources, its exegetical content, and its extraordinary value for the study of biblical translation in the Iberian Peninsula and in the Sephardic Diaspora. Javier del Barco provides a detailed linguistic study and a glossary of the corpus of vernacular glosses. For a version with a list of corrections and additions, see https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/265401.

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9004461221

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From Words to Discourse

By: Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach

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From Words to Discourse

By: Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach

An area of linguistic research can be considered mature when the validity of theoretical and empirical results is tested cross-linguistically and when predictions from different languages influence and modify the course of theoretical development. The semantics/pragmatics interface poses a special challenge in this respect because of its interdisciplinary and multi-theoretical nature. This volume attempts to bridge the gap between theory and empirical analysis by focussing on several aspects of the semantics and the pragmatics of Spanish from a variety of theoretical points of view. Some of the papers were selected from those presented at the International Conference "Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish" (Ohio State University, 1999). Others are invited contributions from leading scholars in the field. Among the topics covered are several that have been the subject of intense debate, whereas others represent subtle data patterns not considered so far. The topics include the proper characterization of tense and aspect, the subjunctive, verbal periphrases, stage/individual level predication, the interpretation of infinitives in embedded and adjunct clauses, the subjunctive mood, demonstratives, quantification of excess, exception phrases, binding phenomena, propositional negative polarity items, particles of politeness, and pronominal doubling. Overall, the analysis of these subjects contributes new findings to prominent theories in the field, such as possible world semantics, relevance theory, mental spaces, type coercion, generalized quantifier theory, dynamic semantics, and the theory of logical form.

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0585475296

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Culture and Customs of Bolivia

By: Javier A. Galván

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Culture and Customs of Bolivia

By: Javier A. Galván

In this book, contemporary representations of Bolivian art, music, religion, literature, festivals, theater, and cinema document how history and geography have shaped Bolivia's modern culture. Bolivia has long been neglected by North American historians and anthropologists. Now, author Javier A. Galván fills this gap with a book that analyzes the complex cultures of this South American nation within the context of its rich history and contemporary traditions. The first half of this text is dedicated to how and where people live—detailed geography, social traditions, religious practices, political institutions, and Bolivian cuisine and culture. The varied religious and linguistic traditions of the indigenous groups that comprise the majority of the national population are also described, giving readers a deeper appreciation for the diversity of Bolivia's character. The second half of the book explores the creative talent of Bolivians who are advancing the literary movements, painting styles, architectural design, theater productions, fashion design, and emerging film industry of the country. Culture and Customs of Bolivia also includes a detailed analysis of contemporary print and broadcasting media.

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0313383642

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American Indian Image Makers of Hollywood

By: Frank Javier Garcia Berumen

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American Indian Image Makers of Hollywood

By: Frank Javier Garcia Berumen

Images from movies and film have had a powerful influence in how Native Americans are seen. In many cases, they have been represented as violent, uncivilized, and an impediment to progress and civilization. This book analyzes the representation of Native Americans in cinematic images from the 1890s to the present day, deconstructing key films in each decade. This book also addresses efforts by Native Americans to improve and have a part in their filmic representations, including mini-biographies of important indigenous filmmakers and performers.

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1476678138

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Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear (Vol. 1)

By: Javier Marías

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Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear (Vol. 1)

By: Javier Marías

A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe) Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, Volume One of his unfolding novel Your Face Tomorrow, he returns us to the rarified world of Oxford (the delightful setting of All Souls and Dark Back of Time), while introducing us to territory entirely new--espionage. Our hero, Jaime Deza, separated from his wife in Madrid, is a bit adrift in London until his old friend Sir Peter Wheeler—retired Oxford don and semi-retired master spy—recruits him for a new career in British Intelligence. Deza possesses a rare gift for seeing behind the masks people wear. He is soon observing interviews conducted by Her Majesty's secret service: variously shady international businessmen one day, would-be coup leaders the next. Seductively, this metaphysical thriller explores past, present, and future in the ever-more-perilous 21st century. This compelling and enigmatic tour de force from one of Europe's greatest writers continues with Volume Two, Dance and Dream.

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Your Face Tomorrow: Dance and Dream (Vol. 2)

By: Javier Marías

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Your Face Tomorrow: Dance and Dream (Vol. 2)

By: Javier Marías

A book unlike any other, a daring experiential unfolding Spanish masterpiece, Your Face Tomorrow now leaps into uncharted new territory in Volume Two: Dance and Dream. Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a "brilliant dark novel" (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild swerve in its new volume. Skillfully constructed around a central perplexing and mesmerizing scene in a nightclub, Volume Two: Dance and Dream again features Jacques Deza. In Volume One he was hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception. In Volume Two Deza discovers the dark side of his new employer when Tupra, his spy-master boss, brings out a sword and uses it in a way that appalls Deza: You can't just go around hurting and killing people like that. Why not? asks Tupra. Searching meditations on favors and jealousy, knowledge and the deep human desire not to know, violence and death play against memories of the Spanish Civil War as Deza's world becomes increasingly murky.

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The Spanish Arcadia

Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain

By: Javier Irigoyen-García

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The Spanish Arcadia

Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain

By: Javier Irigoyen-García

The Spanish Arcadia analyzes the figure of the shepherd in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and religious identity. Drawing on a wide range of documents, including theological polemics on blood purity, political treatises, manuals on animal husbandry, historiography, paintings, epic poems, and Spanish ballads, Javier Irigoyen-García argues that the figure of the shepherd takes on extraordinary importance in the reshaping of early modern Spanish identity. The Spanish Arcadia contextualizes pastoral romances within a broader framework and assesses how they inform other cultural manifestations. In doing so, Irigoyen-García provides incisive new ideas about the social and ethnocentric uses of the genre, as well as its interrelation with ideas of race, animal husbandry, and nation building in early modern Spain.

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1442647272

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The Boundary Flux Handbook

A Comprehensive Database of Critical and Threshold Flux Values for Membrane Practitioners

By: Marco Stoller,Javier Miguel Ochando-Pulido

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The Boundary Flux Handbook

A Comprehensive Database of Critical and Threshold Flux Values for Membrane Practitioners

By: Marco Stoller,Javier Miguel Ochando-Pulido

The Boundary Flux Handbook summarizes over 90 chemical compounds (single compounds, in mixed solution) and different feed streams from industry (complex streams exiting the agricultural, biological, pharmaceutical, food, dye, textile, etc. industries) and the respective critical and threshold fluxes (hereafter referred to the boundary flux), together with data on rejection and permeabilities. It gives the reader valuable data to quickly estimate membrane performances in respect to productivity, selectivity and longevity, and permits to estimate capital and operating costs of membrane processes during the plant design operations.The book is valuable for scientific researchers and chemical engineers working with membrane technology as a reference for lab work, membrane process design and control. For each specific feedstock, only the best performing membrane(s) are listed. At least one commercial membrane module and a maximum of 4 different choices were reported, in order to assure the possibility to easily integrate the proposed membranes into the systems by contacting the relevant commercial partner, and to define the best choice of the pretreatment steps, permitting quick membrane process optimization or revamping operations. - This text summarizes over 100 chemical compounds, different feed streams from industry, and the respective critical and threshold fluxes - It gives the reader valuable data to quickly estimate membrane performances in respect to productivity, selectivity and longevity - For each studied feedstock, only the best performing membrane(s) are listed, including one commercial and a maximum of four different choices, to assure the possibility to easily integrate the proposed membranes into the systems by contacting the relevant commercial partner

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0128015993

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Las Obras en Verso Del Príncipe de Esquilache

Amateurismo Y Conciencia Literaria

By: Javier Jiménez Belmonte

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Las Obras en Verso Del Príncipe de Esquilache

Amateurismo Y Conciencia Literaria

By: Javier Jiménez Belmonte

Este volumen ofrece el primer estudio monogr©Łfico sobre uno de los poetas m©Łs citados y peor conocidos del barroco espa©łol: Francisco de Borja, pr©Ưncipe de Esquilache. Sus Obras en verso, publicadas por primera vez en 1648, constituyen uno de los proyectos laureados m©Łs elaborados y conscientes de la primera mitad del XVII. No s©đlo se trata de uno de los pocos cancioneros barrocos espa©łoles curados y editados por su propio autor, sino tambi©♭n del primer volumen de poes©Ưa dado a la imprenta por un miembro de la alta aristocracia castellana. En ©♭l, y desde la distancia de los a©łos y la poes©Ưa, el pr©Ưncipe de Esquilache recrea e instrumentaliza su estrecha relaci©đn con desos miembros de la rep©ðblica barroca de las letras [desde Lope de Vega a los Argensola o los condes de Lemos], individualiza su posici©đn con respecto a la pol©♭mica gongorina, a la vez que justifica sus a©łos de servicio pol©Ưtico a la corona o su derecho leg©Ưtimo al t©Ưtulo de Grande.Desde una perspectiva socioliteraria, este estudio propone la recuperaci©đn de las Obras de Esquilache como pieza clave para la comprensi©đn del papel del amateurismo aristocr©Łtico en la formaci©đn del campo literario barroco espa©łol. JAVIER JIM©́"-œNEZ BELMONTE es profesor adjunto en la Universidad de Fordham.

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1855661497

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Niña de Tijuan

By: Javier Duhart

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Niña de Tijuan

By: Javier Duhart

NIÑA de TIJUANA: una novela divertida y emocionante desde la primera página. El ingenio e imaginación del autor no lleva de una aventura a otra acompañando a los protagonistas, sin poder evitarlo. En su reconocida narrativa Javier DUHART nos regala con pasajes sorprendentes de gran emoción y suspenso. El desparpajo con que maneja el modo de habar de los jóvenes de TIJUANA, nos sitúa con precisión en esa ciudad fronteriza de Baja California, México. Setecientos treinta y seis mil dólares, encontrados en un lujoso automóvil que choca conducido por un hombre herido de bala; Javier, el joven protagonista, casualmente presencia el accidente ocurrido por la madrugada en su hora de ejercicio. Con intensión de prestarle ayuda al herido lo lleva a un hospital y queda en custodia de los dólares, el lujoso automóvil, un fino reloj de oro y una pistola de última tecnología con cuatro cargadores. Bienes que trata de devolver a la esposa del herido, (encantadora norteamericana, pelirroja) que no puede salir del coma en que cae a causa de las heridas y finalmente muere, precisamente cuando Javier acaba de hacer el amor con la hermosa mujer que ha quedado viuda. Resultando esta una de muchas otras aventuras que corre el protagonista. En compañía de su primo Marco Tulio se ven envueltos en guerra entre narcotraficantes, carreras de caballos, peleas de gallos. Conquistan mujeres a quienes hacen el amor narrado con el más puro erotismo.

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Palibrio

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1617648221

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Dystopias of Infamy

Insult and Collective Identity in Early Modern Spain

By: Javier Irigoyen-García

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Dystopias of Infamy

Insult and Collective Identity in Early Modern Spain

By: Javier Irigoyen-García

Insults, scorn, and verbal abuse—frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter—are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and reinforce the collective identity of those perceived to be a threat to an idealized society. In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Spain. Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary works, archival research, religious and political literature, and iconographic documents, Dystopias of Infamy traces how the production of insults haunts the imaginary of power, provoking latent anxieties about individual and collective resistance to subjectification. Of particular note is Cervantes’s tendency to parody regulatory fantasies about infamy throughout his work, lampooning repressive law for its paradoxical potential to instigate the very defiance it fears.

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1684484022

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