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Why the Humanities Matter

A Commonsense Approach

By: Frederick Luis Aldama

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Why the Humanities Matter

A Commonsense Approach

By: Frederick Luis Aldama

This wide-ranging study of the influence of postmodernism on contemporary culture offers a trenchant and uplifting defense of the humanities. Is there life after postmodernism? Many claim that it sounded the death knell for history, art, ideology, science, possibly all of Western philosophy, and even the concept of reality itself. Responding to essential questions regarding whether the humanities can remain politically and academically relevant amid this twenty-first-century uncertainty, Why the Humanities Matter offers a guided tour of the modern condition, calling upon thinkers in a variety of disciplines to affirm essential concepts such as truth, goodness, and beauty. Through a lens of “new humanism,” Frederick Aldama provides a liberating examination of the current cultural repercussions of assertions by such revolutionary theorists as Said, Foucault, Lacan, and Derrida, as well as Latin Americanists such as Sommer and Mignolo. Emphasizing pedagogy and popular culture with equal verve, Aldama presents an enlightening way to explore what “culture” actually does—who generates it and how it shapes our identities—and the role of academia in sustaining it.

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University of Texas Press

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0292784341

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Ichnology

Organism-Substrate Interactions in Space and Time

By: Luis A. Buatois,M. Gabriela Mángano

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Ichnology

Organism-Substrate Interactions in Space and Time

By: Luis A. Buatois,M. Gabriela Mángano

Ichnology is the study of traces created in the substrate by living organisms. This is the first book to systematically cover basic concepts and applications in both paleobiology and sedimentology, bridging the gap between the two main facets of the field. It emphasizes the importance of understanding ecologic controls on benthic fauna distribution and the role of burrowing organisms in changing their environments. A detailed analysis of the ichnology of a range of depositional environments is presented using examples from the Precambrian to the recent, and the use of trace fossils in facies analysis and sequence stratigraphy is discussed. The potential for biogenic structures to provide valuable information and solve problems in a wide range of fields is also highlighted. An invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students in paleontology, sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy, this book will also be of interest to industry professionals working in petroleum geoscience.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139500643

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9781139500647

The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature

By: Frederick Luis Aldama

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The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature

By: Frederick Luis Aldama

The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature traces a historical path through Latino/a literatures, with an enlightening analysis that also focuses on: recent themes such as gender and sexuality, feminist and queer voices, migration and border control different literary trends such as the postmodern, avant-garde, noir, and chica-lit language, code-switching and identity within the literature. With student-friendly features such as a glossary, guide to further reading, explanatory text boxes and chapter summaries, this is the ideal book for anyone approaching this broad and complex subject for the first time.

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Routledge

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0415667879

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Nationalist Violence in Postwar Europe

By: Luis De la Calle

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Nationalist Violence in Postwar Europe

By: Luis De la Calle

This book argues that nationalist violence in developed countries is the product of unresponsive political elites and nationalists blocked from attracting supporters through legal channels. Political elites are prone to ignoring a regional polity when their clout in that region is negligible and they do not rely on the region's support to maintain their positions of power. Conversely, when nationalists cannot make inroads through legal channels, incentives for violence are ripe. Thus, when nationalists in postwar Europe found elites unresponsive, it was state repression that helped radicals build a new group of support around militant action. The larger this new constituency legitimizing violence grew, the longer the conflict lasted. The book elucidates this complex dynamic through a deft combination of theoretical modeling, statistical methods and comparative case studies from the Basque Country, Catalonia, Corsica, Northern Ireland, Sardinia and Wales.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316351890

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The Atlantic World and the Manila Galleons

Circulation, Market, and Consumption of Asian Goods in the Spanish Empire, 1565–1650

By: José Luis Gasch-Tomás

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The Atlantic World and the Manila Galleons

Circulation, Market, and Consumption of Asian Goods in the Spanish Empire, 1565–1650

By: José Luis Gasch-Tomás

Studies of the trade between the Atlantic World and Asia during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries typically focus on the exchanges between Atlantic European countries – especially Portugal, the Netherlands and England – and Asia across the Cape route. In The Atlantic World and the Manila Galleons. Circulation, Market, and Consumption of Asian Goods in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1650, José L. Gasch-Tomás offers a new approach to understanding the connections between the Atlantic World and Asia. By drawing attention to the trans-Pacific trade between the Americas and the Philippines, the re-exportation of Asian goods from New Spain to Castile, and the consumption of Chinese silk, Chinese porcelain and Japanese furnishings in New Spain and Seville, this book discloses how New Spanish cities and elites were main components of the spread of taste for Asian goods in the Spanish Empire. This book reveals how New Spanish family and commercial networks channelled the market formation of Asian goods in the Atlantic World around 1600.

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BRILL

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9004383611

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9789004383616

Mexican American Baseball in Orange County

By: Richard Santillan,Susan C. Luévano,Luis F. Fernández,Angelina F. Veyna

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Mexican American Baseball in Orange County

By: Richard Santillan,Susan C. Luévano,Luis F. Fernández,Angelina F. Veyna

Images of Baseball: Mexican American Baseball in Orange County celebrates the once-vibrant culture of baseball and softball teams from Placentia, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Westminster, San Juan Capistrano, and nearby towns. Baseball allowed men and women to showcase their athletic and leadership skills, engaged family members, and enabled community members to develop social and political networks. Players from the barrios and colonias of La Fábrica, Campo Colorado, La Jolla, Logan, Cypress Street, El Modena, and La Colonia Independencia, among others, affirmed their Mexican and American identities through their sport. Such legendary teams as the Placentia Merchants, the Juveniles of La Habra, the Lionettes de Orange, the Toreros of Westminster, and the Road Kings of Colonia 17th made weekends memorable. Players and their families helped create the economic backbone and wealth evident in Orange County today. This book sheds light on powerful images and stories of the Mexican American community.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738596736

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The Limits of Community Policing

Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles

By: Luis Daniel Gascón,Aaron Roussell

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The Limits of Community Policing

Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles

By: Luis Daniel Gascón,Aaron Roussell

A critical look at the realities of community policing in South Los Angeles The Limits of Community Policing addresses conflicts between police and communities. Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell depart from traditional conceptions, arguing that community policing—popularized for decades as a racial panacea—is not the solution it seems to be. Tracing this policy back to its origins, they focus on the Los Angeles Police Department, which first introduced community policing after the high-profile Rodney King riots. Drawing on over sixty interviews with officers, residents, and stakeholders in South LA’s “Lakeside” precinct, they show how police tactics amplified—rather than resolved—racial tensions, complicating partnership efforts, crime response and prevention, and accountability. Gascón and Roussell shine a new light on the residents of this neighborhood to address the enduring—and frequently explosive—conflicts between police and communities. At a time when these issues have taken center stage, this volume offers a critical understanding of how community policing really works.

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NYU Press

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1479807567

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Modeling and Control of Greenhouse Crop Growth

By: Francisco Rodríguez,Manuel Berenguel,José Luis Guzmán,Armando Ramírez-Arias

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Modeling and Control of Greenhouse Crop Growth

By: Francisco Rodríguez,Manuel Berenguel,José Luis Guzmán,Armando Ramírez-Arias

A discussion of challenges related to the modeling and control of greenhouse crop growth, this book presents state-of-the-art answers to those challenges. The authors model the subsystems involved in successful greenhouse control using different techniques and show how the models obtained can be exploited for simulation or control design; they suggest ideas for the development of physical and/or black-box models for this purpose. Strategies for the control of climate- and irrigation-related variables are brought forward. The uses of PID control and feedforward compensators, both widely used in commercial tools, are summarized. The benefits of advanced control techniques—event-based, robust, and predictive control, for example—are used to improve on the performance of those basic methods. A hierarchical control architecture is developed governed by a high-level multiobjective optimization approach rather than traditional constrained optimization and artificial intelligence techniques. Reference trajectories are found for diurnal and nocturnal temperatures (climate-related setpoints) and electrical conductivity (fertirrigation-related setpoints). The objectives are to maximize profit, fruit quality, and water-use efficiency, these being encouraged by current international rules. Illustrative practical results selected from those obtained in an industrial greenhouse during the last eight years are shown and described. The text of the book is complemented by the use of illustrations, tables and real examples which are helpful in understanding the material. Modeling and Control of Greenhouse Crop Growth will be of interest to industrial engineers, academic researchers and graduates from agricultural, chemical, and process-control backgrounds.

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3319111345

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J.L. Vives: De Subventione Pauperum sive De Humanis Necessitatibus, Libri II

Introduction, Critical Edition, Translation and Notes

By: Juan Luis Vives

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J.L. Vives: De Subventione Pauperum sive De Humanis Necessitatibus, Libri II

Introduction, Critical Edition, Translation and Notes

By: Juan Luis Vives

This work by the Spanish humanist and philosopher, Juan Luis Vives, is the first tract of its kind in the Western world to treat the problem of urban poverty and propose concrete suggestions for a policy of social legislation. The treatise, published in 1526, is dedicated to the civil authorities of Bruges and deals specifically with the problems of that city, but with potential universal application. Vives calls upon the wealthy to share their blessings with those less fortunate, emphasizing that possessions are not given to us for our own use only but to share them with our neighbour. The reader will often find Vives' reflections and solutions surprisingly modern. The book includes an edition of the Latin text and an English translation.

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9004453563

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Pure Narco

One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels

By: Jesse Fink,Luis Navia

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Pure Narco

One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels

By: Jesse Fink,Luis Navia

For a quarter century, Luis Antonio Navia worked as a high-level cocaine transporter for all of the major Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, including Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel, and flooded the United States and Europe with cocaine before his dramatic arrest in Venezuela in 2000 during the 12-nation Operation Journey. The story of Navia’s rise, fall, takedown, imprisonment, and redemption is expertly researched and told by acclaimed biographer Jesse Fink, who has gathered interviews with Navia, Navia’s family, and a dozen law-enforcement agents in the United States and Great Britain from agencies such as the DEA, ICE and Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise (now Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs). Told in vivid detail, this true crime story will captivate the reader from start to finish.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538155583

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Gamification and Design Thinking in Higher Education

Case Studies for Instructional Innovation in the Economics Classroom

By: Carmen Bueno Muñoz,Núria Hernández Nanclares,Luis R. Murillo Zamorano,José Ángel López Sánchez

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Gamification and Design Thinking in Higher Education

Case Studies for Instructional Innovation in the Economics Classroom

By: Carmen Bueno Muñoz,Núria Hernández Nanclares,Luis R. Murillo Zamorano,José Ángel López Sánchez

This book analyzes the use of gamification and design thinking in higher education, examining how both techniques can be combined and used together to promote motivation, engagement, and participation among students. Using two in-depth examples, the authors show that the introduction of a gamified design in a design thinking activity can be a powerful tool to enhance the experiences of students in the teaching-learning process of a subject; motivate participants in a design thinking activity in the university environment; and enhance skills such as creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving, and collaboration, widely demanded in the labor market. Further, they examine how gamification and design thinking in the educational field can enable both the motivation and engagement of students and promote behavioral changes that materialize as a boost in learning outcomes and academic performance. Providing valuable recommendations and insights into the analysis, design and development, and implementation and evaluation of gamified design thinking activities to be carried out in higher education, as well as examining relevant ethical issues, the book will appeal to scholars, researchers, academic faculty, and educators working in the field of higher education, and with interests in educational psychology and theories of learning.

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Taylor & Francis

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100385253X

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Bartolomé de las Casas

Chronicle of a Dream

By: José Luis Olaizola

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Bartolomé de las Casas

Chronicle of a Dream

By: José Luis Olaizola

Bartolomé de las Casas is the most polemical figure in the great event that was the discovery and conquest of America. To some, because of his devotion to the defense of the rights of the natives, he is the apostle of the Indians; to others, because of his passionate denunciation of the excesses of the conquest, he is responsible for the black legend that Spain has had to bear for four centuries. In this novel, José Luis Olaizola brings to light some of the key aspects of this singular figure, including the least known period of his life. His youth, as a prospector for gold in Hispaniola, his life as a rich landowner in Cuba, the owner of many Indian slaves, his love affairs with Indian women, his ordination as a cleric in order to get ahead in life, until his conversion and profession as a Dominican friar and staunch defender of the dignity and equality of all men, including the Indians, are told in this epic work. All the colorful characteristics of the sixteenth century vividly unfold in this book, which is narrated in the form of an autobiography, including the tropical beauty of the islands--Santo Domingo, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica--in which, according to de las Casas, the Earthly Paradise was located. The greed and lechery of the Spanish conquistadors and bureaucrats who held the Indians in bondage are mixed with the courage and nobility of those who risk their lives to bring the message of God’s love to those lands. Courtiers, functionaries, adventurers, kings, and friars make a striking mosaic within the rigorous frame of history which we are accustomed to be given by José Luis Olaizola.

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Ignatius Press

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1642290955

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General Escobar's War

A Novel of the Spanish Civil War

By: José Luis Olaizola

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General Escobar's War

A Novel of the Spanish Civil War

By: José Luis Olaizola

The best Spanish novel about the Spanish Civil War." — Álvaro Mutis, Author, The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature Winner of Spain's prestigious Planeta Prize for fiction, this historical novel takes the form of an imagined diary by General Antonio Escobar, the highest- ranking officer of the Republican Army remaining in Spain at the end of the Spanish Civil War, while he awaited trial and execution. Besides being a vivid reminder of how destructive political passions can be, General Escobar's War is also a profoundly intimate portrait of an inspiring man. By his decisive action on July 19, 1936, Escobar, then a Civil Guard colonel and a man of profound religious conviction, succeeded in thwarting the military uprising in Barcelona. Although his father was a hero of the Spanish-American War in Cuba, his daughter was a nun, and one of his sons was a Falangist fighter, Escobar freely chose to defend the Republic in accordance with his oath to support the legally constituted government. The author gives a rare perspective of the Spanish Civil War, free of partisanship and ideology, through a soldier who, in Spain's great historic schism, chose to take a deeply uncomfortable stance because he believed his duty called him to do so.

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168149728X

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Sixteenth International Conference Zaragoza-Pau on Mathematics and its Applications

By: José Luis Gracia,María Cruz López de Silanes,Manuel Palacios,Étienne Ahusborde,Chérif Amrouche,Gilles Carbou,Fabien Caubet

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Sixteenth International Conference Zaragoza-Pau on Mathematics and its Applications

By: José Luis Gracia,María Cruz López de Silanes,Manuel Palacios,Étienne Ahusborde,Chérif Amrouche,Gilles Carbou,Fabien Caubet

The International Conference Zaragoza-Pau on Mathematics and its Applications was organized by the Departamento de Matem.tica Aplicada, the Departamento de M.todos Estad.sticos and the Departamento de Matem.ticas, all of them from the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), and the Laboratoire de Math.matiques et de leurs Applications, from the Universit. de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (France). This conference has been held every two years since 1989. The aim of this conference is to present recent advances in Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Pure Mathematics, putting special emphasis on subjects linked to petroleum engineering and environmental problems. The Sixteenth Conference took place in Jaca (Spain) from 7th to 9th September 2022. The official opening ceremony was graced by the presence of the Vice–Chancellor for Academic Policy of the University of Zaragoza, D. Jos. .ngel Castellanos G.mez, and Vice–Chancellor of the Research Commission of the University of Pau, Mme. Isabelle Baraille. During those three days, 111 mathematicians, coming from different universities, research institutes or the industrial sector, attended 8 plenary lectures, 69 contributed talks and a poster session with 7 posters. We note that in this edition there were 11 mini-symposia, five of them co-organized by colleagues from the Universidad de Zaragoza and the Universit. de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour.

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Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza

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8413407915

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9788413407913

Water and the Environment

Innovation Issues in Irrigation and Drainage

By: John Gowing,Luis Santos Pereira

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Water and the Environment

Innovation Issues in Irrigation and Drainage

By: John Gowing,Luis Santos Pereira

Water and Environment addresses imbalances between availability and demand, degradation of surface and ground waters, inter-sectorial, inter-regional and international competition in water management. With contributions from internationally distinguished experts at the first Inter-Regional Conference on Environment-Water: Innovative Issues in Irrig

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CRC Press

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1482272083

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9781482272086

Forsaken Harvest

Haciendas and Agrarian Reform in Jalisco, Mexico: 1915–1940

By: Luis G. Cueva

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Forsaken Harvest

Haciendas and Agrarian Reform in Jalisco, Mexico: 1915–1940

By: Luis G. Cueva

This historical monograph examines the decline of the hacienda estates within Jalisco, Mexico, during the early decades of the twentieth century. The book also explores the impact of the land reform program of President Lázaro Cárdenas in transforming the agrarian economic structure of the region. This study contributes to an ongoing lively debate about the hacienda system and the meaning of Cárdenas’s reforms. This is an important work because it explores the evolution of a regional socioeconomic system that promoted urban industrial growth at the expense of the rural poor. The model of regional development described is applicable to other areas of Mexico and underdeveloped Third World nations with extensive peasant populations. The research for this investigation has wider implications regarding issues of global hunger and malnutrition.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796015946

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9781796015942

Diversity and Unity in Federal Countries

By: Luis Moreno,César Colino

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Diversity and Unity in Federal Countries

By: Luis Moreno,César Colino

In Diversity and Unity in Federal Countries, leading scholars and practitioners analyse the current political, socio-economic, spatial, and cultural diversity in the countries under consideration before delving into the role that social, historical, and political factors have had in shaping the balance of diversity and unity. The authors assess the value placed on diversity by examining whether present institutional arrangements and public policies restrict or enhance diversity and address the future challenges of balancing diversity and unity in an increasingly populated and mobile world.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773590870

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9780773590878

Self-Defense in Mexico

Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars

By: Luis Hernández Navarro

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Self-Defense in Mexico

Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars

By: Luis Hernández Navarro

In Mexico and across other parts of Latin America local Indigenous peoples have built community policing groups as a means of protection where the state has limited control over, and even complicity in, crime and violence. Luis Hernandez Navarro, a leading Mexican journalist, offers a riveting investigation of these armed self-defense groups that sprang up around the time of the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. Available in English for the first time, the book spotlights the intense precarity of everyday life in parts of Mexico. Hernandez Navarro shows how the self-defense response, which now includes wealthier rancher and farmer groups, is being transformed by Mexico's expanding role in the multibillion dollar global drug trade, by foreign corporations' extraction of raw minerals in traditionally Indigenous lands, and by the resulting social changes in local communities. But as Hernandez Navarro acknowledges, self-defense is highly controversial. Community policing may provide citizens with increased agency, but for government officials it can be a dangerous threat to the status quo. Leftists and liberals are wary of how the groups may be linked to paramilitary forces and vulnerable to manipulation by drug traffickers and the government alike. This book answers the urgent call to understand the dangerous complexities of government failures and popular solutions.

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UNC Press Books

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1469654547

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The Bluefin Tuna Fishery in the Bay of Biscay

Its Relationship with the Crisis of Catches of Large Specimens in the East Atlantic Fisheries from the 1960s

By: José Luis Cort,Pablo Abaunza

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The Bluefin Tuna Fishery in the Bay of Biscay

Its Relationship with the Crisis of Catches of Large Specimens in the East Atlantic Fisheries from the 1960s

By: José Luis Cort,Pablo Abaunza

This open access book is an original contribution to the knowledge on fishing and research associated with one of the most enigmatic fish of our seas: bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus (L.). Based on available evidence, it reconstructs the possible methods used to catch large spawners in the Strait of Gibraltar thousands of years ago and describes the much more recent overfishing that led to a great reduction in the catches of the trap fishery on the area and the disappearance of the northern European fisheries. It is the first book to relate the overfishing of juvenile fishes in certain areas to the decline of large spawners in other very distant areas, revealing one of the main underlying causes of this decline, which has remained a mystery to the fishing sector and scientists alike for over 50 years. This finding should serve to prevent similar cases from arising in the future.

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Springer

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3030115453

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The Medieval Heritage of Mexico

By: Luis Weckmann

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The Medieval Heritage of Mexico

By: Luis Weckmann

This book examines the medieval legacy that influences life in Spanish-speaking North America to the present day. Focusing on the period from 1517?the expedition of Hernandez de Cordoba?to the middle of the seventeenth century, Weckmann describes how explorers, administrators, judges, and clergy introduced to the New World a culture that was essentially medieval. That the transplanted culture differentiated itself from that of Spain is due to the resistance of the indigenous cultures of Mexico.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823213242

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9780823213245

Brown on Brown

Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity

By: Frederick Luis Aldama

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Brown on Brown

Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity

By: Frederick Luis Aldama

Common conceptions permeating U.S. ethnic queer theory tend to confuse aesthetics with real-world acts and politics. Often Chicano/a representations of gay and lesbian experiences in literature and film are analyzed simply as propaganda. The cognitive, emotional, and narrational ingredients (that is, the subject matter and the formal traits) of those representations are frequently reduced to a priori agendas that emphasize a politics of difference. In this book, Frederick Luis Aldama follows an entirely different approach. He investigates the ways in which race and gay/lesbian sexuality intersect and operate in Chicano/a literature and film while taking into full account their imaginative nature and therefore the specific kind of work invested in them. Also, Aldama frames his analyses within today's larger (globalized) context of postcolonial literary and filmic canons that seek to normalize heterosexual identity and experience. Throughout the book, Aldama applies his innovative approach to throw new light on the work of authors Arturo Islas, Richard Rodriguez, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, and Sheila Ortiz Taylor, as well as that of film director Edward James Olmos. In doing so, Aldama aims to integrate and deepen Chicano literary and filmic studies within a comparative perspective. Aldama's unusual juxtapositions of narrative materials and cultural personae, and his premise that literature and film produce fictional examples of a social and historical reality concerned with ethnic and sexual issues largely unresolved, make this book relevant to a wide range of readers.

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University of Texas Press

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0292796587

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9780292796584

The English Armada

The Greatest Naval Disaster in English History

By: Luis Gorrochategui Santos

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The English Armada

The Greatest Naval Disaster in English History

By: Luis Gorrochategui Santos

During the year between July 1588, when the Spanish Armada set sail from Spain and July 1589, when the survivors of the English counterpart of this fleet, the little-known English Armada, reached port in England, two of history's worst naval catastrophes took place. A great deal of attention has been dedicated to the former and precious little to the latter. This book presents a full-scale account of an event which has been neglected for more than four centuries. It reconstructs the military operations day by day for the first time, taking apart the established notion that, with the defeat of the Spanish Armada, England achieved maritime supremacy and the decay of Spain began. This book clearly and in a rigorously documented fashion shows how the defeat of the English Armada counterbalanced that of the Spanish, frustrating England's intention of seizing Philip II's American empire and changing the tide of the war.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350016985

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9781350016989

Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia

Conversations with Writers and Artists

By: Frederick Luis Aldama

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Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia

Conversations with Writers and Artists

By: Frederick Luis Aldama

Since the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicano/a writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicano/a literature and art. Building on the pioneering work of their predecessors, whose artistic creations were often tied to political activism and the civil rights struggle, today's Chicano/a writers and artists feel free to focus as much on the aesthetic quality of their work as on its social content. They use novels, short stories, poetry, drama, documentary films, and comic books to shape the raw materials of life into art objects that cause us to participate empathetically in an increasingly complex Chicano/a identity and experience. This book presents far-ranging interviews with twenty-one "second wave" Chicano/a poets, fiction writers, dramatists, documentary filmmakers, and playwrights. Some are mainstream, widely recognized creators, while others work from the margins because of their sexual orientations or their controversial positions. Frederick Luis Aldama draws out the artists and authors on both the aesthetic and the sociopolitical concerns that animate their work. Their conversations delve into such areas as how the artists' or writers' life experiences have molded their work, why they choose to work in certain genres and how they have transformed them, what it means to be Chicano/a in today's pluralistic society, and how Chicano/a identity influences and is influenced by contact with ethnic and racial identities from around the world.

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Feedforward Control

Analysis, Design, Tuning rules, and Implementation

By: José Luis Guzmán,Tore Hägglund

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Feedforward Control

Analysis, Design, Tuning rules, and Implementation

By: José Luis Guzmán,Tore Hägglund

While there are thousands of books written about feedback control, it is surprising that this is the very first book about feedforward control. Feedforward control is a very powerful technique to compensate for measurable load disturbances in regulation control problems, and the use of feedforward control to assist the traditional feedback controllers is rapidly increasing in industry. The main goal of this book is to describe the power of feedforward control and to present different tuning rules for these controllers. To achieve this goal, theoretical and practical contributions are presented throughout the book to make the technique understandable and easy to implement. The book contains many practical aspects, both in terms of tuning and implementation of the feedforward controller. Many simulation examples are also provided, as well as a presentation of industrial experiences obtained from feedforward control applied to temperature control in greenhouses. For these reasons, we believe that the book will be useful not only at various levels in the teaching systems, but also for engineers working in industry.

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Power and Impotence

A History of South America under Progressivism (1998–2016)

By: Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos

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Power and Impotence

A History of South America under Progressivism (1998–2016)

By: Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos

Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos delves into the history of South America to understand the rise and fall of the so-called 'progressive governments'. In the wake of mobilizations against neoliberalism in the 1990s, most countries elected presidents identified with change. However, less than twenty years after Hugo Chávez's victory, this trend seems to be reversed. The times of Lula are now Bolsonaro's. What happened? Supported by an extensive bibliography and hundreds of interviews, the author addresses each South American country, including those who did not elect progressives, in addition to Cuba. The national focus is enriched by an analysis of regional integration attempts, providing a detailed and necessary recent history of the subcontinent. Originally published in Portuguese as Uma história da onda progressista sul-americana (1998-2016) by Elefante, São Paulo, 2018. Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos mergulha na história da América do Sul para compreender a ascensão e queda dos chamados ‘governos progressistas’. Na esteira de mobilizações contra o neoliberalismo nos anos 1990, a maioria dos países da região elegeu presidentes identificados com a mudança. Contudo, menos de vinte anos depois da vitória de Hugo Chávez, essa onda chega ao fim. Os tempos de Lula agora são de Bolsonaro. O que aconteceu? Apoiado em extensa bibliografia e centenas de entrevistas, o autor aborda cada país, inclusive os que não elegeram progressistas, além de Cuba. O enfoque nacional é enriquecido por uma análise das tentativas de integração regional, oferecendo uma detalhada e necessária história recente do subcontinente.

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The Beagle Conflict

Argentina and Chile on the Brink of War Volume 1: 1904-1978

By: Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia

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The Beagle Conflict

Argentina and Chile on the Brink of War Volume 1: 1904-1978

By: Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia

The Beagle conflict was a territorial dispute between Argentina and Chile over the determination of the layout of the eastern mouth of the Beagle Channel, which affected the sovereignty of the islands located south of the channel, and east of Cape Horn and its adjacent maritime spaces. The first antecedents of the conflict date back to 1888, seven years after the signing of the Treaty of Limits. In 1901, the first Argentine map appeared in which some of the islands in question were drawn as within Argentinas control. Despite the small size of the islands, their strategic value between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans caused a long conflict between the two South American states that went on for much of the 20th century, causing a number of minor incidents, and almost culminating in a major war. The conflict focused on the dispute over the sovereignty of the islands and the oceanic rights generated by them to Chile, but it was not limited exclusively to these islands. Volume 1 of The Beagle Conflict mini-series covers the origins of the dispute and border clashes between the two countries from the time of the independence of Chile and Argentina from the Spanish Crown, until early 1978, and is illustrated with original photographs, custom-drawn artworks and maps.

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The 1989 Coup d'Étát in Paraguay

The End of a Long Dictatorship, 1954–1989

By: Antonio Luis Sapienza

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The 1989 Coup d'Étát in Paraguay

The End of a Long Dictatorship, 1954–1989

By: Antonio Luis Sapienza

This political and military history of Paraguay chronicles the dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner from 1954 to the coup that overthrew him in 1989. 1989 was a crucial year for Paraguay. After thirty-five years of dictatorship, General Alfredo Stroessner was overthrown by a coup d’état. In this sweeping historical study, Paraguayan historian Antonio Luis Sapienza chronicles Stroessner’s rise to power during the coup of 1954; his long tenure maintained through fraudulent elections, military alliances, a right-wing political party, and assistance from the United States; and his eventual downfall. While in power, Stroessner launched major development projects, improving roads, water and sewage facilities, and an airline. At the same time, abuse of human rights and oppression of political opposition became the norm. Dozens of political prisoners were tortured and even executed, and thousands driven into exile. Like most dictators, Stroessner oversaw major expansions of the military and police. Nevertheless, it was Paraguay’s armed forces, led by General Andres Rodriguez, that brought a violent end to his rule. Sapienza provides a detailed analysis of the coup that sent Stroessner into exile in Brazil. Extensively illustrated with photographs and maps, The 1989 Coup d’etat in Paraguay is a unique study of an important episode in Latin American history.

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1913118061

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Agroecología y sustentabilidad

Una convergencia para el desarrollo

By: Luis Alberto Olín Fabela,Fermín Carreño Meléndez,Fredyd Torres Oregón

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Agroecología y sustentabilidad

Una convergencia para el desarrollo

By: Luis Alberto Olín Fabela,Fermín Carreño Meléndez,Fredyd Torres Oregón

Este libro exhibe la idea de rescatar las prácticas agroalimentarias que se utilizaban antes de la invasión de los europeos en América Latina, las cuales eran prósperas y ecológicas, y aunque no se usaba el adjetivo sustentable, éste hace muy buena referencia a ello. Se muestran las ventajas de mantener la práctica de una agricultura libre de fertilizantes y agroquímicos industriales, mostrando el beneficio de utilizar compostajes para fertilizar de forma natural el suelo y para potenciar sus nutrientes para mejorar la cosecha, así como la práctica de policultivos seleccionados para cada región, para con ello obtener el aprovechamiento que proveé el suelo sin estresarlo, como lo hace la agroindustria. Con estas prácticas se hace énfasis en no dejar perder estas costumbres en la agricultura, pues la agroecología que proponemos rescatar es el principal camino hacia una agricultura y sociedad sustentables, es el espíritu de la sustentabilidad al que aspiramos todos. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52501/cc.182

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Automatic Control with Interactive Tools

By: José Luis Guzmán,Ramon Costa-Castelló,Manuel Berenguel,Sebastián Dormido

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Automatic Control with Interactive Tools

By: José Luis Guzmán,Ramon Costa-Castelló,Manuel Berenguel,Sebastián Dormido

Automatic Control with Interactive Tools is a textbook for undergraduate study of automatic control. Providing a clear course structure, and covering concepts taught in engineering degrees, this book is an ideal companion to those studying or teaching automatic control. The authors have used this text successfully to teach their students. By providing unique interactive tools, which have been designed to illustrate the most important automatic control concepts, Automatic Control with Interactive Tools helps students overcome the potential barriers presented by the significant mathematical content of automatic control courses. Even when they have previously had only the benefit of an introductory control course, the software tools presented will help readers to get to grips with the use of such techniques as differential equations, linear algebra, and differential geometry. This textbook covers the breadth of automatic control topics, including time responses of dynamic systems, the Nyquist criterion and PID control. It switches smoothly between analytical and practical approaches. Automatic Control with Interactive Tools offers a clear introduction to automatic control, ideal for undergraduate students, instructors and anyone wishing to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of the subject

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3031099206

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1920-2000 ¡el Pastel! Parte Dos

En un Solo Libro, Ocho déCadas Del NarcotráFico en MéXico con Declaraciones Ministeriales y Testimonios de Algunos de Sus Protagonistas. Rigurosa RecopilacióN de Las Complicidades PolíTicas, Militares y PolicíAcas con Los Fundadores de Los CáRteles de Gua

By: Jos Luis Garc a. Cabrera,José Luis GarcíA Cabrera

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1920-2000 ¡el Pastel! Parte Dos

By: Jos Luis Garc a. Cabrera,José Luis GarcíA Cabrera

Pedro Avilés Pérez, Jaime Herrera Nevarez, Juan N. Guerra, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Manuel Salcido Uzeta, Pablo Acosta Villarreal, Juan José Esparragoza Moreno, Gilberto Ontiveros Lucero, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Joaquín Loera Guzmán, los hermanos Arellano Félix, los hermanos Quintero Payán, Alberto Sicilia Falcón, Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, Rafael Muñoz Talavera, Juan García Ábrego, Casimiro Campos Espinosa, Luis Medrano García, José Alonso Pérez de la Rosa, Óscar Malherbe, Oliverio Chávez Araujo, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, Baldomero Medina Garza, Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros, Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Carlos Enrique Lehder, Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, Jorge Luis Ochoa Vázquez, Roberto Suárez Gómez, Luis Malpartida, Carlos Langbert, Reynaldo Rodríguez López, los hermanos Rodríguez Orejuela, entre muchos otros, son los principales protagonistas de esta novela político-policiaca. Aunque durante sus respectivos juicios se evitó hablar de sus poderosos e influyentes cómplices, al final salieron a relucir los nombres de los políticos, militares y policías como: Miguel Alemán Valdés, Luis Echeverría Álvarez, Mario Moya Palencia, Manuel Bartlett Díaz, Miguel Nazar Haro, José Antonio Zorilla Pérez, Rafael Chao López, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo, Florentino Ventura Gutiérrez, Miguel Aldana Ibarra, Manuel Ibarra Herrera, Carlos Aguilar Garza, Guillermo González Calderoni, Emilio Martínez Manautou, Tomás Yarrington Ruvalcaba, Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, Antonio Toledo Corro, Enrique Álvarez del Castillo, óscar Flores Sánchez, Javier Coello Trejo, Rodolfo León Aragón, Raúl Salinas de Gortari, Jorge Carpizo, Juan Arévalo Gardoqui, Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo, Arturo Durazo Moreno, Francisco Sahagún Baca, y de muchísimos personajes más. De los expedientes de estas historias, el periodista y escritor José Luis García Cabrera formó la trama de esta su quinta novela: 1920-2000 ¡El Pastel!, un documento apegado a la dura y terrible realidad del tráfico de drogas en México.

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Modes of the Tragic in Spanish Cinema

By: Luis M. González

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Modes of the Tragic in Spanish Cinema

By: Luis M. González

This book focuses on expressions of the tragic in Spanish cinema. Its main premise is that elements from the classical and modern tragic tradition persist and permeate many of the cultural works created in Spain, especially the films on which the book centers this study. The inscrutability and indolence of the gods, the mutability of fortune, the recurrent narratives of fall and redemption, the unavoidable clash between ethical forces, the tension between free will and fate, the violent resolution of both internal and external conflicts, and the overwhelming feelings of guilt that haunt the tragic heroine/hero are consistent aspects that traverse Spanish cinema as a response to universal queries about human suffering and death.

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Understanding Open-Vent Volcanism and Related Hazards

By: William Ingersoll Rose,José Luis Palma,Hugo Delgado-Granados,Nick Varley

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Understanding Open-Vent Volcanism and Related Hazards

By: William Ingersoll Rose,José Luis Palma,Hugo Delgado-Granados,Nick Varley

Special Paper 498 contains 12 new scientific papers, assembled as part of an NSF-sponsored workshop in 2011. The work highlights study of persistently active volcanoes and their hazards, mostly in Central America. Such volcanoes are termed "open vents" by volcanologists, and they offer the chance to study active processes. Insight into how volcanoes work and how hazards might be mitigated are the goals of the work. Overall, the volume presents insight into hazards infrastructure collaborations and development for geoscientists and students.

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0813724988

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The Untold Story of a Fighting Ship

One Ship, Two Flags, a Thousand Battles

By: Eugenio Luis Facchin

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The Untold Story of a Fighting Ship

One Ship, Two Flags, a Thousand Battles

By: Eugenio Luis Facchin

This book is an enthralling account of the role played by the destroyer ARA Bouchard in the Falklands/Malvinas War. Over forty years after its construction, with obsolete technology, scarce maintenance and many out-of-service machineries, it was still present during the whole campaign with a prominent role that, for several reasons, remained hidden until today. During the Falklands/Malvinas conflict, it patrolled the north of the archipelago to allow the recapture of the islands. It was noteworthy together with the Cruiser and another destroyer in the attack on the British fleet, without being able to find it. On its return, it was hit by the third torpedo launched by the submarine Conqueror aimed at the cruiser ARA General Belgrano. It suffered damage and, although it could still sail, was forced to dry dock to change a part of its hull. For two consecutive nights, it stopped British commandos from making an incursion into the Río Grande airport, in order to destroy the Navies Super Etendard attack aircraft and assassinate its pilots. With its main gun battery, it fired with combat ammunition on enemy targets and was the only main battery to have the opportunity to do so. It was irradiated and used for missile target practice; they were unable to sink it during the firing practice. Later, it was decommissioned and scrapped.

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Barley Science

Recent Advances from Molecular Biology to Agronomy of Yield and Quality

By: Gustavo A Slafer,Jose Luis Molina-Cano,Roxana Savin,Jose Luis Araus,Ignacio Romagosa

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Barley Science

Recent Advances from Molecular Biology to Agronomy of Yield and Quality

By: Gustavo A Slafer,Jose Luis Molina-Cano,Roxana Savin,Jose Luis Araus,Ignacio Romagosa

Find up-to-date information on barley for malting, food, and animal feed!This comprehensive book covers every aspect of barley from molecular biology to agronomy of yield and quality. In addition to the exposition of the basic concepts, Barley Science explains the latest developments in the field. In addition, this remarkable book presents ideas and techniques for bridging the gap between physiology and breeding. Beginning with the history of this ancient cultivated grain, Barley Science presents state-of-the-art information on genetics and breeding, physiology, and agronomy. One chapter explains the CERES computer simulation of barley growth, development, and yield. Every chapter includes a thorough literature review, and you will find many helpful tables and figures.Barley Science offers cutting-edge information on the latest developments in the field, including: wild barley as a source of genes for crop improvement genetics and breeding for specific attributes genetic engineering determining barley yield under stress new breeding strategies for disease resistance choosing genotype, sowing date, and plant density for malting barley enhancing pre-harvest sprouting resistance barley proteins and malting performance Written by the top experts in the field, Barley Science is an excellent update and broadening of the information found in previous barley books. Agronomists, breeders, geneticists, and physiologists--and their students--will turn again and again to this essential resource.

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1040290760

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Cutaneous Adnexal Neoplasms

By: Luis Requena,Omar Sangüeza

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Cutaneous Adnexal Neoplasms

By: Luis Requena,Omar Sangüeza

This superbly illustrated book is the most comprehensive available guide to adnexal neoplasms of the skin. More than 70 entities are described in individual chapters that follow a uniform structure: historical review, clinical features, histopathology, histogenesis, immunohistochemistry, molecular anomalies, and treatment. Readers will find state of the art knowledge on all aspects, including the cytogenetic and chromosomal abnormalities associated with each neoplasm. Without exception, the illustrations are high-quality, full-color, original digital pictures. The histopathology images are taken from perfectly cut and stained sections and the immunohistochemistry illustrations are of an unrivalled quality among textbooks of dermatology and dermatopathology. A complete list of references from original description to the present day is also supplied for each neoplasm. Cutaneous adnexal neoplasms are a large and heterogeneous group of benign and malignant lesions. This book will assist the reader in early and correct recognition, which is essential for appropriate choice of treatment and prognostic assessment.

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3319457047

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