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SAR Image Analysis - A Computational Statistics Approach

With R Code, Data, and Applications

By: Alejandro C. Frery,Jie Wu,Luis Gomez

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SAR Image Analysis - A Computational Statistics Approach

With R Code, Data, and Applications

By: Alejandro C. Frery,Jie Wu,Luis Gomez

SAR IMAGE ANALYSIS — A COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS APPROACH Discover how to use statistics to extract information from SAR imagery In SAR Image Analysis — A Computational Statistics Approach, an accomplished team of researchers delivers a practical exploration of how to use statistics to extract information from SAR imagery. The authors discuss various models, supply sample data and code, and explain theoretical aspects of SAR image analysis that are highly relevant to practitioners and students. The book offers the theoretical properties of models, estimators, interpretation, data visualization, and advanced techniques, along with the data and code samples, that students require to learn effectively and efficiently. SAR Image Analysis — A Computational Statistics Approach provides various exercises throughout the book to help readers reinforce and retain the extensive information on parameter estimation, applications, reproducibility, replicability, and advanced topics, like robust estimators and stochastic distances, contained within. The book also includes: Thorough introductions to data acquisition and the elements of data analysis and image processing with R, including useful R packages, preprocessing SAR data, and visualization Comprehensive explorations of intensity SAR data and the multiplicative model, including the (SAR) gamma distribution, the K distribution, the G0 distribution, and more general distributions under the multiplicative model Practical discussions of parameter estimations, including the Bernoulli distribution, the negative binomial distribution, and the uniform distribution In-depth examinations of applications, including statistical filters and classification Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students studying remote sensing, data analysis, and statistics, SAR Image Analysis — A Computational Statistics Approach is also an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners, and professionals seeking a one-stop resource on how to use statistics to extract information from SAR imagery.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111979546X

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Nueve Semanas

By: Luis Asprino

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Nueve Semanas

By: Luis Asprino

Nueve semanas es la crónica de un viaje a Europa que se hizo en Familia por diferentes País como Francia, España, Suiza e Italia. El viaje comienza un día primero de Junio, desde Denver, USA el papá con sus dos hijos Luis Umberto e Idemar quienes se encuentran en Niza con Carolina, para completar la familia en la séptima semana del viaje y continuar juntos hasta el regreso a casa el cuatro de Agosto. Sucesos, historia y diferencia anécdotas son relatadas en tal forma que convierten a esta narración es un libro ligero y con muchos puntos interesantes de conocer sobre el viejo continente.

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Palibrio

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1463333560

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Power, Media, Culture

A Critical View from the Political Economy of Communication

By: Luis Albornoz

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Power, Media, Culture

A Critical View from the Political Economy of Communication

By: Luis Albornoz

This book updates and revalidates critical political economy of communication approaches. It is destined to become a work of reference for those interested in delving into debates arising from the performance of traditional and new media, cultural and communication policy-making or sociocultural practices in the new digital landscape.

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1137540087

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The Conspiracy of the Ninth Duke of Medina Sidonia (1641)

An Aristocrat in the Crisis of the Spanish Empire

By: Luis Salas Almela

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The Conspiracy of the Ninth Duke of Medina Sidonia (1641)

An Aristocrat in the Crisis of the Spanish Empire

By: Luis Salas Almela

In The Conspiracy of the Ninth Duke of Medina Sidonia, Luis Salas offers a penetrating analysis of a plot to incite rebellion in the region of Andalusia in 1641. Had it succeeded, the plan could have caused the collapse of the Spanish Monarchy. Salas leaves no doubt that the conspiracy indeed occurred; he analyzes the plan in depth, its architects, its supporters — both in Andalusia and abroad — how it unraveled, and how the government of Philip IV of Spain managed to survive the most dramatic months of his tumultuous reign. Salas also delves into the consequences of the subsequent punishments, which affected Portugal, the balance of power in Andalusia, and Spain’s entire colonial trade.

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BRILL

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9004255753

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Interlocking Constitutions

Towards an Interordinal Theory of National, European and UN Law

By: Luis I Gordillo

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Interlocking Constitutions

Towards an Interordinal Theory of National, European and UN Law

By: Luis I Gordillo

The existence of interactions between different but overlapping legal systems has always presented challenges to black letter law. This is particularly true of the relationship between international law and domestic law and the relationship between federal law and the laws of individual federation members. Moreover some organisations have created their own supranational constitutional systems: the United Nations Charter is the best known, and is often referred to as the 'World Constitution', but the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg views the European Treaties as a 'Constitutional Charter' for Europe, while the European Court of Human Rights has defined the European Convention on Human Rights as a constitutional instrument of 'European public order'. It is in the dynamic relationship between domestic constitutional laws, EU law, the ECHR and the UN Charter that the most persistent difficulties arise. In this context 'interordinal instability' not only provokes strong academic interest, but also affects what has been called 'governance' or 'global government' and undermines both legal certainty and individual fundamental rights. Different solutions - constitutionalist and pluralist - have been explored, but none of them has received global acceptance. In this book Luis Gordillo analyses the interordinal instabilities which arise at the European level, focusing on three main strands of case law and their implications: Solange, Bosphorus and Kadi. To solve the difficulties caused by this instability Gordillo proposes a form of soft constitutionalism, which he calls 'interordinal constitutionalism', as a means to bring order and stability to global legal governance. The original Spanish thesis on which this book is based was awarded the Nicolás Pérez Serrano Prize by the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, for the best dissertation in constitutional law 2009-2010.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1847319335

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Species of Capital in the Political Elite

Who Rules in Chile?

By: Luis Garrido-Vergara

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Species of Capital in the Political Elite

Who Rules in Chile?

By: Luis Garrido-Vergara

Although sociological research has examined the reproduction of Chile’s elites, there is little empirical evidence as to how different forms of capital operate within them. Based on a survey of the country’s elites, this study examines the effect of different forms of capital (cultural, social and political) on access to strategic positions in the legislative and executive branches of government. It focuses on the political elite between 1990, when military dictator Augusto Pinochet handed over the presidency to Patricio Aylwin, his democratically elected successor, and 2010, the end of President Michelle Bachelet’s first government. At least three points are germane to this analysis: (1) understanding the nature of the party elites during the political transition; (2) describing and explaining the main aspects of the party elites’ background and social resources, including their family networks (independent variables); and (3) exploring the effect of those variables on individuals’ chances of achieving strategic positions in the political field, comparing the legislative and executive branches as represented by deputies and ministers (dependent variable).

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Springer Nature

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3030411729

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Mex-Ciné

Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century

By: Frederick Luis Aldama

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Mex-Ciné

Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century

By: Frederick Luis Aldama

A multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema

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University of Michigan Press

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0472051938

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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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3030926249

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The Beagle Conflict

Argentina and Chile on the Brink of War Volume 2 1978-1984

By: Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia

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The Beagle Conflict

Argentina and Chile on the Brink of War Volume 2 1978-1984

By: Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia

Illustrated with over 150 original photographs of the personalities, aircraft, ships and ground forces from Argentina and Chile during the conflict. The Beagle Channel lies at the southernmost tip of South America and sovereignty over a number of islands there was hotly disputed between Argentina and Chile for much of the twentieth century. Navigation rights to this channel connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans were of considerable strategic value. In 1978, this dispute came within hours of breaking into large-scale open warfare between the two nations at sea, in the air and on land as Argentina launched Operación Soberanía (Operation Sovereignty). Argentina’s plans involved far more than just seizing a few barely inhabited islands, however, and intended to strike deep into Chile in several locations along the length of the border between the two nations. In return, Chile planned to counterattack into northern Argentina to seize territory to be held as a bargaining chip for future negotiations. The plans of these two nations, with Argentina controlled by its Military Junta and Chile under the dictatorship of General Pinochet, threatened to draw in their Latin American neighbours. The Beagle Conflict: Argentina And Chile On The Brink Of War Volume 2 1978-1984 provides a detailed examination of the militaries of Argentina and Chile at the time of the 1978 confrontation, of their plans and deployments for war, and of the negotiations and settlement through the offices of the Vatican that ultimately settled this dispute. This volume also examines further military developments up to 1984 as tensions between the Latin American neighbours eased. The volume is illustrated with over 150 original photographs of the personalities, aircraft, ships and ground forces of the two nations, maps showing the plans for war, and specially commissioned colour artworks.

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1804516201

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The Social Origins of Human Rights

Protesting Political Violence in Colombia’s Oil Capital, 1919–2010

By: Luis van Isschot

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The Social Origins of Human Rights

Protesting Political Violence in Colombia’s Oil Capital, 1919–2010

By: Luis van Isschot

Offering deep insight to the lives of human rights activists in a conflict zone, against the backdrop of major historical changes that shaped Latin America in the twentieth century, this book illuminates the critical role of human rights organizations in bringing violence to public attention and analyzing its causes and consequences.

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299299848

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Exile, Diaspora, and Return

Changing Cultural Landscapes in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay

By: Luis Roniger,Leonardo Senkman,Saúl Sosnowski,Mario Sznajder

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Exile, Diaspora, and Return

Changing Cultural Landscapes in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay

By: Luis Roniger,Leonardo Senkman,Saúl Sosnowski,Mario Sznajder

Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Exile and Post-Exile in Analytical Perspective -- Chapter 2 - Escape, Deportation and Exile: The Contours of Institutionalized Exclusion -- Chapter 3 - Exile and Diaspora Politics: Mobilizing to Undo Exclusion -- Chapter 4 - Diaspora and Home Country Initiatives, Transnational Networks and State Policies -- Chapter 5 - Surviving Authoritarianism, Contributing to the Agenda of Democratization -- Chapter 6 - Undoing Exile? Remembering, Imagining, Envisioning -- Chapter 7 - The Transformational Role of Culture and Education: Impacting the Future -- Chapter 8 - Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship -- Conclusions -- About the Authors -- Index

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Oxford University Press

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0190693967

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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 the Environment" addresses imbalances between availability and demand, degradation of surface and ground waters, inter-sectorial, inter-regional and international competition in water management.

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CRC Press

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0203477960

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Jorge Luis Borges

Conversations

By: Jorge Luis Borges

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Jorge Luis Borges

Conversations

By: Jorge Luis Borges

This anthology of interviews with Borges features more than a dozen conversations that cover all phases of his life and work.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578060761

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Truth in Perspective

Recent Issues in Logic, Representation and Ontology

By: Concha Martínez,Uxía Rivas,Luis Villegas-Forero

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Truth in Perspective

Recent Issues in Logic, Representation and Ontology

By: Concha Martínez,Uxía Rivas,Luis Villegas-Forero

First published in 1998, this volume has its origin in a meeting that was held in Santiago de Compostela University, Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in January 1996. The meeting was organized by the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science in cooperation with the Association for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science in Spain. Within analytical philosophy issues such as the definability of truth, its semantic relevance, its role in the distinction between formal and natural languages, the status of truth-bearers or in its case of truth-makers, have become a crossroads in the studies of logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology and ontology. Thus, in spite of what the title Truth in Perspective may suggest to the reader at first, the present volume is not only - though it is also a presentation of different theories or conceptions of truth. Most of the book presents a vision of different groups of philosophical questions in which the issue of truth appears embedded together with other related themes, from different points of view.

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Routledge

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0429782039

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¡Muy Pop!

Conversations on Latino Popular Culture

By: Frederick Luis Aldama,Ilan Stavans

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¡Muy Pop!

Conversations on Latino Popular Culture

By: Frederick Luis Aldama,Ilan Stavans

Although investigations of Hispanic popular culture were approached for decades as part of folklore studies, in recent years scholarly explorations—of lucha libre, telenovelas, comic strips, comedy, baseball, the novela rosa and the detective novel, sci-fi, even advertising—have multiplied. What has been lacking is an overarching canvas that offers context for these studies, focusing on the crucial, framing questions: What is Hispanic pop culture? How does it change over time and from region to region? What is the relationship between highbrow and popular culture in the Hispanic world? Does it make sense to approach the whole Hispanic world as homogenized when understanding Hispanic popular culture? What are the differences between nations, classes, ethnic groups, religious communities, and so on? And what distinguishes Hispanic popular culture in the United States? In ¡Muy Pop!, Ilan Stavans and Frederick Luis Aldama carry on a sustained, free-flowing, book-length conversation about these questions and more, concentrating on a wide range of pop manifestations and analyzing them at length. In addition to making Hispanic popular culture visible to the first-time reader, ¡Muy Pop! sheds new light on the making and consuming of Hispanic pop culture for academics, specialists, and mainstream critics.

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Out of Their Minds

The Incredible and (Sometimes) Sad Story of Ramon and Cornelio

By: Luis Humberto Crosthwaite

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Out of Their Minds

The Incredible and (Sometimes) Sad Story of Ramon and Cornelio

By: Luis Humberto Crosthwaite

Hey, what's up, come a little closer, I have something to tell you," God said to Cornelio. The deal was simple: God would be the silent partner in the norteño band that Cornelio had started with his best friend Ramon. Cornelio would sing and play the bajo sexto, Ramon the accordion, and God would write the songs. Cornelio agreed; he would sell his soul to God. Success and disaster followed. The band went from playing bars in Tijuana to playing the biggest stadiums in Mexico. Women started fan clubs dedicated to their heroes Ramon and Cornelio. It seemed to Cornelio and Ramon that they had everything, but fame was a cruel mistress. Ramon and Cornelio’s story has some loose parallels to a real Mexican band, but it’s also the apocryphal story of the Beatles and the kids tuning up in the garage down the street. Luis Humberto Crosthwaite is an award-winning writer, editor, and journalist who teaches at the University of Iowa. His fiction has garnered critical attention for his ability to express the complexities of living on the US/Mexico border. Among his best known books are Estrella de la Calle Sexta, Aparta de mí este Cáliz, Idos de la Mente, Instrucciones para Cruzar la Frontera, and Tijuana: Crimen y Olvido. His translated novels are The Moon Will Forever be a Distant Love and Out of Their Minds. He is also co-editor of Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots, & Graffiti from the US/Mexico Border.

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Cinco Puntos Press

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1935955578

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Fossil Horses of South America

Phylogeny, Systemics and Ecology

By: José Luis Prado,María Teresa Alberdi

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Fossil Horses of South America

Phylogeny, Systemics and Ecology

By: José Luis Prado,María Teresa Alberdi

This book provides an update on the phylogeny, systematics and ecology of horses in South America based on data provided over the past three decades. The contemporary South American mammalian communities were shaped by the emergence of the Isthmus of Panama and by the profound climatic oscillations during the Pleistocene. Horses were a conspicuous group of immigrant mammals from North America that arrived in South America during the Pleistocene. This group is represented by 2 genera, Hippidion and Equus, which include small species (Hippidion devillei, H. saldiasi, E. andium and E. insulatus) and large forms (Equus neogeus and H. principale). Both groups arrived in South America via 2 different routes. One model designed to explain this migration indicates that the small forms used the Andes corridor, while larger horses used the eastern route and arrived through some coastal areas. Molecular dating (ancient DNA) suggests that the South American horses separated from the North American taxa (caballines and the New World stilt-legged horse) after 3.6 - 3.2 Ma, consistent with the final formation of the Panamanian Isthmus. Recent studies of stable isotopes in these horses indicate an extensive range of 13C values cover closed woodlands to C4 grasslands. This plasticity agrees with the hypothesis that generalist species and open biome specialist species from North America indicate a positive migration through South America.

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3319558773

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Romance

Gotas Del Corazón

By: Oscar Luis Guzman

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Romance

Gotas Del Corazón

By: Oscar Luis Guzman

The same way that lovers, poets and bohemians alike, since the beginning of time, who each has sung praises and laments in the name of love, this book, ROMANCE, gotas del corazn, (translated: ROMANCE, teardrops from the heart), Oscar Luis Guzmn sings his own praises to XOCHITL, his eternal muse; describing all his experiences in a truly eloquent way, starting with his youthful dreams, disdain, hopelessness, anticipation, and the joy of love; not forgetting, the hurt of the absence and/or the unexpected departure of a loved one. All his dreams passions and disillusions that lovers experience; even hatred and rancor for perceived injuries, and the insufferable pain that sometimes changes a man of reason into a caveman without hope and faith until he falls in love once again and the he starts to live again all is poetically described in ROMANCE, gotas del corazn

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1483601013

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Selected Non-Fictions

By: Jorge Luis Borges

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Selected Non-Fictions

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism The first comprehensive selection in any language of the non-fiction--much of it appearing here in English for the first time--of “one of literature’s most fertile and original minds” (San Francisco Chronicle) A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper It will come as a surprise to many readers that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges’s extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in various forms of non-fiction prose. His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prologues, lectures, and notes on politics and culture—though revered in Latin America and Europe as among his finest work—have scarcely been translated into English. Selected Non-Fictions presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers. Here is the dazzling metaphysician speculating on the nature of time and reality and the inventions of heaven and hell, and the almost superhumanly erudite reader of the world’s literatures, from Homer to Ray Bradbury, James Joyce to Lady Murasaki. Here, too, the political Borges, taking courageous stands against fascism, antisemitism, and the Perón dictatorship; Borges the movie critic, on King Kong and Citizen Kane and the Borgesian art of dubbing; and Borges the regular columnist for the Argentine equivalent of the Ladies’ Home Journal, writing hilarious book reviews and capsule biographies of modern writers. Like the Aleph in his famous story—the magical point in a basement in Buenos Aires from which one can view everything in the world—Borges’s non-fictions are a vortex for seemingly the entire universe: Dante and Ellery Queen, Shakespeare and the Kabbalah, the history of angels and the history of tango, the Buddha, Bette Davis, and the Dionne Quints. Selected Non-Fictions presents more than 160 of these astonishing writings, from his youthful manifestos to his last meditations on his favorite books. More than a hundred of these pieces have never before appeared in English, and all have been rendered in brilliant new translations by Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Eliot Weinberger. This unique selection presents Borges as at once a deceptively self-effacing guide to the universe and the inventor of a universe that is an indispensable guide to Borges. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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0140290117

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Latino/a Children's and Young Adult Writers on the Art of Storytelling

By: Frederick Luis Aldama

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Latino/a Children's and Young Adult Writers on the Art of Storytelling

By: Frederick Luis Aldama

Children's and young adult literature has become an essential medium for identity formation in contemporary Latino/a culture in the United States. This book is an original collection of more than thirty interviews led by Frederick Luis Aldama with Latino/a authors working in the genre. The conversations revolve around the conveyance of young Latino/a experience, and what that means for the authors as they overcome societal obstacles and aesthetic complexity. The authors also speak extensively about their experiences within the publishing industry and with their audiences. As such, Aldama's collection presents an open forum to contemporary Latino/a writers working in a vital literary category and sheds new light on the myriad formats, distinctive nature, and cultural impact it offers.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822982951

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La Paz's Colonial Specters

Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52

By: Luis Sierra

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La Paz's Colonial Specters

Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900-52

By: Luis Sierra

This original study examines a vital but neglected aspect of the 1952 National Revolution in Bolivia; the activism of urban inhabitants. Many of these activists were Aymara-speaking people of indigenous origin who transformed the urban environment, politics and place of “indígenas” and “neighbors” within the city of La Paz. Luis Sierra traces how these urban residents faced racial discrimination and marginalization despite their political support for the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR). La Paz's Colonial Specters reassesses the contingent, relational nature of Bolivia's racial categories and the artificial division between urban and rural activists. Building on rich established historiography on the indigenous people of Bolivia, Luis Sierra breaks new ground in showing the role of the neighborhoods in the process of urbanization, and builds upon analysis of the ways in which race, gender and class discourse shaped migrants interactions with other urban residents. Questioning how and why this multiclass and multi-ethnic group continued to be labelled by elites and the state as “un-modern” indigena, the author uses La Paz to demonstrate the ways in which race, class, and gender intertwine in urbanization and in conceptions of the city and nation. Of interest to scholars, researchers and advanced students of Latin American history, urban history, the history of activism and the history of ethnic conflict, this unique study covers the previously neglected first half of the 20th century to shed light on the urban development of La Paz and its racial and political divides.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135009918X

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Historiología Guevarológica

Colección Poesías Del Presidio

By: Luis L. Arroyo

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Historiología Guevarológica

Colección Poesías Del Presidio

By: Luis L. Arroyo

Sabe Ud. quin fue realmente el guerrillero Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna? S?... No? Historiologa Guevarolgica le descubrir al personaje utilizando una novedosa tcnica biogrfica, nica en nuestro tiempo, desarrollada en versos, y estos versos estn organizados en sonetos, y estos sonetos suman ms de doscientos poemas, y cada uno de esos poemas describa y completa un nmero igual de facetas de la personalidad del Che Guevara, y estas facetas de la personalidad del Che permiten, libre de todo paralogismo, raciocinar un anlisis estructural de la Identidad de semejante sujeto, y, estructurada la Identidad del Che, a conciencia el Lector puede conocer quin fue realmente Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna y tambin alcanzar una visin ms objetiva en sus lecturas sobre dicho socipata. As, sin duda alguna, Historiologa Guevarolgica le mostrar al Lector que todos los seres humanos, sin excepcin, poseen el sobrado potencial analtico como para observar, pensar, meditar y reflexionar en la bsqueda y encuentro de la verdad de nuestras circunstacias y del entorno circundante. Por consiguiente, Historiologa Guevarolgica ofrece una tal visin de la imagen de ese tenebroso Che Guevara, que no permitir que al Lector lo tomen por mediocre mental y engaen dicindole que ese sicpata esquizofrnico paranoico, misntropo, asesino sdico, delincuente, aberrado sexual, canalla, falsante,... era un hombre noble que, apostlicamente, luch y muri en defensa de los pobres y que, por lo tanto, merece ser beatificado y canonizado; y que, de igual modo, para que compre todo objeto que simbolice a ese monstruo, como medallas, estampas, logos, afiches, t-chers, escarapelas, boinas, libros, canciones,... pues con ello se colabora al enriquecimiento del capitalismo aptrida y mercenario, colaborador secular encubierto de revolucionarios y terroristas por y para negocios.

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The Neanderthal's Necklace

In Search of the First Thinkers

By: Juan Luis Arsuaga

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The Neanderthal's Necklace

In Search of the First Thinkers

By: Juan Luis Arsuaga

Neanderthals are at the center of this compelling narrative by Europe's leading anthropologist, not because they were our ancestors but because they were not. Members of a parallel humanity that evolved in Europe for hundreds of thousands of years, they were in direct competition with Cro-Magnons -- modern humans. The way Neanderthals lived and the reasons why they disappeared 50,000 years ago offer a surprising mirror in which we can examine and learn more about ourselves. Illustrated, concise and readable, this is a fascinating exploration of human origins. "Lively, personal, refreshing, and instructive, this book should be read by anyone interested in their own origins and our extinct relatives." -- Ian Tattersall, author of The Fossil Trail, The Last Neanderthal, and Becoming Human

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Projections of Spanish Jesuit Scholasticism on British Thought

New Horizons in Politics, Law and Rights

By: Leopoldo J. Prieto López,José Luis Cendejas Bueno

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Projections of Spanish Jesuit Scholasticism on British Thought

New Horizons in Politics, Law and Rights

By: Leopoldo J. Prieto López,José Luis Cendejas Bueno

This book highlights the powerful impact of some important Spanish Jesuits (Suárez, Acosta, Ribadeneira, Mariana) on some relevant English thinkers such as Locke, Bacon, and others, regarding politics, law and natural rights, an influence sometimes hidden and always controversial.

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Collected Fictions

By: Jorge Luis Borges

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Collected Fictions

By: Jorge Luis Borges

For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume “An event, and cause for celebration.”—The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story—from his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare’s Memory—Jorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Playfully experimenting with ostensibly subliterary genres, he took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics; he took fantasy writing and made it, with its questioning and reinventing of everyday reality, central to the craft of fiction; he took the literary essay and put it to use reviewing wholly imaginary books. Bringing together for the first time in English all of Borges’s magical stories, and all of them newly rendered into English in brilliant translations by Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions is the perfect one-volume compendium for all who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master’s work for all who have yet to discover this singular genius. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics

By: Frederick Luis Aldama

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Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics

By: Frederick Luis Aldama

Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics offers the first thorough exploration of Latino/a superheroes in mainstream comic books, TV shows, and movies--Provided by publisher.

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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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6074627525

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Architecture as Revolution

Episodes in the History of Modern Mexico

By: Luis E. Carranza

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Architecture as Revolution

Episodes in the History of Modern Mexico

By: Luis E. Carranza

The period following the Mexican Revolution was characterized by unprecedented artistic experimentation. Seeking to express the revolution's heterogeneous social and political aims, which were in a continuous state of redefinition, architects, artists, writers, and intellectuals created distinctive, sometimes idiosyncratic theories and works. Luis E. Carranza examines the interdependence of modern architecture in Mexico and the pressing sociopolitical and ideological issues of this period, as well as the interchanges between post-revolutionary architects and the literary, philosophical, and artistic avant-gardes. Organizing his book around chronological case studies that show how architectural theory and production reflected various understandings of the revolution's significance, Carranza focuses on architecture and its relationship to the philosophical and pedagogic requirements of the muralist movement, the development of the avant-garde in Mexico and its notions of the Mexican city, the use of pre-Hispanic architectural forms to address indigenous peoples, the development of a socially oriented architectural functionalism, and the monumentalization of the revolution itself. In addition, the book also covers important architects and artists who have been marginally discussed within architectural and art historiography. Richly illustrated, Architecture as Revolution is one of the first books in English to present a social and cultural history of early twentieth-century Mexican architecture.

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University of Texas Press

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Conspiracy Theories and Latin American History

Lurking in the Shadows

By: Luis Roniger,Leonardo Senkman

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Conspiracy Theories and Latin American History

Lurking in the Shadows

By: Luis Roniger,Leonardo Senkman

This book is a systematic inquiry of conspiracy theories across Latin America. Conspiracy theories project not only an interpretive logic of reality that leads people to believe in sinister machinations, but also imply a theory of power that requires mobilizing and taking action. Through history, many have fallen for the allure of conspiratorial narratives, even the most unsubstantiated and bizarre. This book traces the main conspiracy theories developing in Latin America since late colonial times and into the present, and identifies the geopolitical, socioeconomic and cultural scenarios of their diffusion and mobilization. Students and scholars of Latin American history and politics, as well as comparatists, will find in this book penetrating analyses of major conspiratorial designs in this multi-state region of the Americas.

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1000438724

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Voices from the Coca Fields

Women Building Rural Communities

By: Bautista, Ana Jimena,Capacho, Blanca,Cruz, Luis Felipe,Martínez, Margarita,Pereira, Isabel,Ramírez, Lucía

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Voices from the Coca Fields

Women Building Rural Communities

By: Bautista, Ana Jimena,Capacho, Blanca,Cruz, Luis Felipe,Martínez, Margarita,Pereira, Isabel,Ramírez, Lucía

Colombia’s response to the country’s drug problem has been based on the repression of the weakest links in the drug chain—namely consumers and small farmers—which has led to disproportionate rates of imprisonment and has involved a heavy focus on forced crop eradication. Not only has such an approach failed to effectively control the cocaine market, but it has also unleashed harmful side effects in terms of security, social development, and human rights as they concern communities in coca-growing areas. Moreover, although scholars and practitioners have analyzed Colombia’s drug problem from a variety of perspectives, these efforts have tended to overlook women’s experiences. This report explores the ways that rural norms, gender structures, the armed conflict, and illegal markets have played out in the lives of women coca growers in Colombia’s Andes-Amazon region, an area distinguished by the presence of illegal armed groups, violence, poverty, and weak state institutions. In this region of Colombia, coca cultivation has offered an important source of income for rural families, which in turn has affected women’s roles in society and has placed them in a vulnerable position vis- à-vis armed actors. The Andes-Amazon region is an area where the country’s war on drugs and its armed conflict converged and unmasked the gender structures dominating the countryside. These structures affected rural women in various ways: through everyday violence, the fumigation of illicit and licit crops alike, and women’s stigmatization due to their involvement in an illegal trade. But coca was also a source of livelihood that helped them attain economic independence and gave them the ability to improve their well-being and that of their families. The recent peace accord signed between the Colombian government and the country’s main guerrilla group represents a historic opportunity to learn from past mistakes in terms of the illicit crop problem and the social and political demands of coca-growing communities. Against this backdrop, it is time to recognize the contributions that women coca growers have made in both the public and the private spheres toward the construction of a peaceful countryside in the most remote and forgotten regions of the country.

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Djusticia

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9585597586

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Mammalian Alkaline Phosphatases

From Biology to Applications in Medicine and Biotechnology

By: José Luis Millan

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Mammalian Alkaline Phosphatases

From Biology to Applications in Medicine and Biotechnology

By: José Luis Millan

A review and discussion of new knowledge on the structure and function of mammalian alkaline phosphatases (APs) gained over the last 25 years. It covers: * The structure, regulation and expression of the AP genes * The three-dimensional structure of APs and mutagenesis work that further defined the structural/functional domains of the isozymes * The phenotypic abnormalities of the different AP knockout mice * Our current understanding of the in vivo role of the AP isozymes. The book also describes the possible use of APs as therapeutic agents and therapeutic targets and the many uses of these enzymes in clinical medicine and in biotechnology.

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3527607471

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Optimum Vitamin Nutrition for More Sustainable Ruminant Farming

By: Sergio Calsamiglia,Edgar Oviedo-Rondon,Luis Tamassia,Gilberto Litta,José-María Hernandez

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Optimum Vitamin Nutrition for More Sustainable Ruminant Farming

By: Sergio Calsamiglia,Edgar Oviedo-Rondon,Luis Tamassia,Gilberto Litta,José-María Hernandez

Food production, particularly animal protein production, is ever evolving. In adaptation to change, producers are required to push the boundaries of productivity, efficiency, and the minimization of food waste by driving increasing standards in animal health and welfare, sustainability, and food quality. Optimizing vitamin nutrition is a valuable tool enabling a more sustainable beef and dairy production by enhancing animal welfare, robustness, performance and reducing food waste by improved product quality. Optimum Vitamin Nutrition for More Sustainable Ruminant Farming contains concise, up-to-date information on vitamin nutrition for ruminants. This book, which follows the authoritative Optimum Vitamin Nutrition in the Production of Quality Animal Foods (5m Books, 2013), is a reference for research and extension specialists who need the most current, research-based information on vitamins in ruminants. This book is the fourth of a series of books covering Optimum Vitamin Nutrition in poultry, swine and aquaculture.

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1789183642

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Conceptualism in Latin American Art

Didactics of Liberation

By: Luis Camnitzer

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Conceptualism in Latin American Art

Didactics of Liberation

By: Luis Camnitzer

Conceptualism played a different role in Latin American art during the 1960s and 1970s than in Europe and the United States, where conceptualist artists predominantly sought to challenge the primacy of the art object and art institutions, as well as the commercialization of art. Latin American artists turned to conceptualism as a vehicle for radically questioning the very nature of art itself, as well as art's role in responding to societal needs and crises in conjunction with politics, poetry, and pedagogy. Because of this distinctive agenda, Latin American conceptualism must be viewed and understood in its own right, not as a derivative of Euroamerican models. In this book, one of Latin America's foremost conceptualist artists, Luis Camnitzer, offers a firsthand account of conceptualism in Latin American art. Placing the evolution of conceptualism within the history Latin America, he explores conceptualism as a strategy, rather than a style, in Latin American culture. He shows how the roots of conceptualism reach back to the early nineteenth century in the work of Símon Rodríguez, Símon Bolívar's tutor. Camnitzer then follows conceptualism to the point where art crossed into politics, as with the Argentinian group Tucumán arde in 1968, and where politics crossed into art, as with the Tupamaro movement in Uruguay during the 1960s and early 1970s. Camnitzer concludes by investigating how, after 1970, conceptualist manifestations returned to the fold of more conventional art and describes some of the consequences that followed when art evolved from being a political tool to become what is known as "political art.

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Generative AI Application Integration Patterns

By: Juan Pablo Bustos,Luis Lopez Soria

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Generative AI Application Integration Patterns

By: Juan Pablo Bustos,Luis Lopez Soria

Unleash the transformative potential of GenAI with this comprehensive guide that serves as an indispensable roadmap for integrating large language models into real-world applications. Gain invaluable insights into identifying compelling use cases, leveraging state-of-the-art models effectively, deploying these models into your applications at scale, and navigating ethical considerations. Key Features Get familiar with the most important tools and concepts used in real scenarios to design GenAI apps Interact with GenAI models to tailor model behavior to minimize hallucinations Get acquainted with a variety of strategies and an easy to follow 4 step frameworks for integrating GenAI into applications Book Description Explore the transformative potential of GenAI in the application development lifecycle. Through concrete examples, you will go through the process of ideation and integration, understanding the tradeoffs and the decision points when integrating GenAI. With recent advances in models like Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, DALL-E and GPT-4o, this timely resource will help you harness these technologies through proven design patterns. We then delve into the practical applications of GenAI, identifying common use cases and applying design patterns to address real-world challenges. From summarization and metadata extraction to intent classification and question answering, each chapter offers practical examples and blueprints for leveraging GenAI across diverse domains and tasks. You will learn how to fine-tune models for specific applications, progressing from basic prompting to sophisticated strategies such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and chain of thought. Additionally, we provide end-to-end guidance on operationalizing models, including data prep, training, deployment, and monitoring. We also focus on responsible and ethical development techniques for transparency, auditing, and governance as crucial design patterns. What you will learn Concepts of GenAI: pre-training, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and RAG Framework for integrating AI: entry points, prompt pre-processing, inference, post-processing, and presentation Patterns for batch and real-time integration Code samples for metadata extraction, summarization, intent classification, question-answering with RAG, and more Ethical use: bias mitigation, data privacy, and monitoring Deployment and hosting options for GenAI models Who this book is for This book is not an introduction to AI/ML or Python. It offers practical guides for designing, building, and deploying GenAI applications in production. While all readers are welcome, those who benefit most include: Developer engineers with foundational tech knowledge Software architects seeking best practices and design patterns Professionals using ML for data science, research, etc., who want a deeper understanding of Generative AI Technical product managers with a software development background This concise focus ensures practical, actionable insights for experienced professionals

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The role of the CSR policies focused on local content actions in host countries faced with governance gaps and mining operations

By: Luis Bustos

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The role of the CSR policies focused on local content actions in host countries faced with governance gaps and mining operations

By: Luis Bustos

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The role of csr policies focused on local content actions in host countries faced with governance gaps and mining operations

By: Luis Bustos

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The role of csr policies focused on local content actions in host countries faced with governance gaps and mining operations

By: Luis Bustos

The idea that a private enterprise has a social function and some obligations to all stakeholders is not something that has always existed. Concepts like sustainable development and shared value appeared only after a long process of trial and error. Understanding the origins of the theory of corporate social responsibility and its evolution will allow us to be ever closer to solving the mystery of what should be the role of private capital in society. It will also help us determine its importance when facing significant challenges due to government absence or weakness over certain territories. The book will highlight the difficulties, advantages and disadvantages that arise during the implementation of local content policy. The alignment of corporate and government interests, as well as doing business for a common and coordinated purpose, are shown as possible solutions to the adverse effects of the general exploitation of mineral and natural resources. Other options presented that could offer a solution to government gaps and the unsatisfied needs of the communities include commitment on developing local capacities, supporting the private initiative and investing with the purpose of replicating the benefits produced by the mines.

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