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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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1463337019

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Hearts and Hands, Second Edition

Creating Community in Violent Times

By: Luis J. Rodriguez

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Hearts and Hands, Second Edition

Creating Community in Violent Times

By: Luis J. Rodriguez

Hearts and Hands focuses on healing through community building. Empowered by thirty years of experience with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodríguez offers a unique book of change. He makes concrete suggestions, shows how we can create nonviolent opportunities for youth today, and redirects kids into productive and satisfying lives. And he warns that we sacrifice community values for material gain when we incarcerate or marginalize people already on the edge of society. His drive to dissolve gang influence on kids is as personal as it is societal; his son, to whom he dedicates Hearts and Hands, served more than a decade in prison for gang-related activity. With anecdotes, interviews, and time-tested guidelines, Hearts and Hands makes a powerful argument for building and supporting community life.

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Seven Stories Press

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1609805542

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Voyage: Spirit of the Annako

By: Luis J. Cui

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Voyage: Spirit of the Annako

By: Luis J. Cui

In the shadow of a rugged mountain range in the Philippines, lies San Ysidro, a rice farming community of tradition-bound residents determined to maintain their way of life that includes telling folklore tales around the campfire. More than two decades after a violent crime transforms San Ysidro forever, events begin to unfold as an ancient ritual, the Annako, demands revenge for the victims' souls. As the spirits stir, a mother, her daughter, and a newspaper reporter are drawn into the dark past and into a world where the line between reality and the supernatural is blurred. As all three are led on circuitous paths of mystery made worse by violent threats and political scandals, now only time will tell whether they will find answers and peace for the victims' souls. Voyage: Spirit of the Annako shares a mysterious tale about a horrific crime in a rural Filipino community and a vengeful ancient ritual with the power to reveal the truth.

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1483447197

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Power System Fundamentals

By: Pedro Ponce,Arturo Molina,Omar Mata,Luis Ibarra,Brian MacCleery

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Power System Fundamentals

By: Pedro Ponce,Arturo Molina,Omar Mata,Luis Ibarra,Brian MacCleery

Smart grids are linked with smart homes and smart meters. These smart grids are the new topology for generating, distributing, and consuming energy. If these smart devices are not connected in a smart grid, then they cannot work properly; hence, the conventional power systems are swiftly changing in order to improve the quality of electrical energy. This book covers the fundamentals of power systems—which are the pillars for smart grids —with a focus on defining the smart grid with theoretical and experimental electrical concepts. Power System Fundamentals begins by discussing electric circuits, the basic systems in smart grids, and finishes with a complete smart grid concept. The book allows the reader to build a foundation of understanding with basic and advanced exercises that run on simulation before moving to experimental results. It is intended for readers who want to comprehensively cover both the basic and advanced concepts of smart grids.

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CRC Press

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1351371835

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The Sanctification of Work

Aspects of the Teaching of the Founder of Opus Dei

By: José Luis Illanes,José Luis Illanes Maestre

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The Sanctification of Work

Aspects of the Teaching of the Founder of Opus Dei

By: José Luis Illanes,José Luis Illanes Maestre

The Sanctification of Work delves into the theological wellsprings of our faith, offering a broad and wide-ranging exploration of how to find God in your most ordinary daily pursuits.Fr. Illanes considers three major topics: work and holiness, evaluating work, and Opus Dei and lay spirituality. He concludes this enlightening study by sketching out a theology of work.Brightly written and all-inclusive, this book gives you a complete grasp of what it means to find God in ordinary life.

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1889334871

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Venezuela Reframed

Bolivarianism, indigenous peoples and socialisms of the twenty-first century

By: Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández

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Venezuela Reframed

Bolivarianism, indigenous peoples and socialisms of the twenty-first century

By: Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández

The role of the indigenous population in the formation of the Bolivarian constitution is one of Latin America’s most important untold stories. Considered a beacon of twenty-first century socialism by many, Venezuela is witnessing the paradoxical emergence of ‘indigenous capitalisms’ as the government and various indigenous actors are driven by notions of development and enfranchisement grounded in the ideology of multiculturalism. Venezuela Reframed shows that a considerable part of indigenous activism, aligned with the Bolivarian governments, has paved the way for development in classical, social-democratic terms. It looks at how, in opposition to sectors of the indigenous population fighting for effective autonomy, many legitimate claims are being usurped to consolidate capitalist relations. Boldly arguing that romanticized notions of cultural indigeneity hide growing class struggle, this book is essential reading not just for those interested in Venezuela, but all those interested in the prospects of democracy, contemporary states and alternatives to capitalism worldwide.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1783602007

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The Introspective Realist Crime Film

By: Luis M. García-Mainar

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The Introspective Realist Crime Film

By: Luis M. García-Mainar

This book explores the formal and thematic conventions of crime film, the contexts in which these have flourished and their links with the social issues of a globalized world. The crime film has traditionally been identified with suspense, a heterogeneous aesthetic and a tacit social mind. However, a good number of the crime films produced since the early 2000s have shifted their focus from action or suspense and towards melodrama in narratives that highlight the social dimension of crime, intensify their realist aesthetics and dwell on subjectivity. With the 1940s wave of Hollywood semi-documentary crime films and 1970s generic revisionism as antecedents, these crime films find inspiration in Hollywood cinema and constitute a transnational trend. With a close look at Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic (2000), David Fincher’s Zodiac (2007), Jacques Audiard’s Un prophète (2009) and Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), this book sets out the stylistic and thematic conventions, contexts and cultural significance of a new transnational trend in crime film.

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1137496533

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Hyperbolic Equations and Frequency Interactions

By: Luis A. Caffarelli,Weinan E

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Hyperbolic Equations and Frequency Interactions

By: Luis A. Caffarelli,Weinan E

The research topic for this IAS/PCMS Summer Session was nonlinear wave phenomena. Mathematicians from the more theoretical areas of PDEs were brought together with those involved in applications. The goal was to share ideas, knowledge, and perspectives. How waves, or "frequencies", interact in nonlinear phenomena has been a central issue in many of the recent developments in pure and applied analysis. It is believed that wavelet theory--with its simultaneous localization in both physical and frequency space and its lacunarity--is and will be a fundamental new tool in the treatment of the phenomena. Included in this volume are write-ups of the "general methods and tools" courses held by Jeff Rauch and Ingrid Daubechies. Rauch's article discusses geometric optics as an asymptotic limit of high-frequency phenomena. He shows how nonlinear effects are reflected in the asymptotic theory. In the article "Harmonic Analysis, Wavelets and Applications" by Daubechies and Gilbert the main structure of the wavelet theory is presented. Also included are articles on the more "specialized" courses that were presented, such as "Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations" by Jean Bourgain and "Waves and Transport" by George Papanicolaou and Leonid Ryzhik. Susan Friedlander provides a written version of her lecture series "Stability and Instability of an Ideal Fluid", given at the Mentoring Program for Women in Mathematics, a preliminary program to the Summer Session. This Summer Session brought together students, fellows, and established mathematicians from all over the globe to share ideas in a vibrant and exciting atmosphere. This book presents the compelling results. Members of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) receive a 20% discount from list price.

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0821805924

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Times of Victory

Living Without Limits

By: Pedro Luis Adames Valdez

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Times of Victory

Living Without Limits

By: Pedro Luis Adames Valdez

Times of Victory by Pedro Luis Adames Valdez A Place Under God's Wing The Meditations of Pedro Luis Adames Valdez The topic of religion is one that's becoming increasingly contested with the advent of globalization as it became increasingly apparent that there are more many more faiths out there than meet the eye. Each and every one has its own belief system and designations, with a few being much more heavily-proliferated and discussed than others, namely Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Simultaneously, the sceptics are more numerous than ever before, with atheism and agnosticism gaining popularity, especially amongst the intelligent elite. Whether or not you're a religious person though, I believe that there is much for us to learn from the teachings passed down through holy scriptures for they often connect with our lives in surprisingly non-religious ways. I myself am not a religious person, and thus it is precisely the approach I took to Times of Victory by Pedro Luis Adames Valdez. For those who aren't familiar with the man, Valdez came from the small town of Altagracia (High Grace) in the Dominican Republic, and to keep things short, his life definitely hasn't been on the easy side. Squalor and a fractured family set the stage for his road towards God, and since then he has grown into an international sensation, his preaching having been heard in a couple dozen countries around the world. In this book of his, Valdez expresses the culmination of his life's work and experience following God, serving him and his fellow man as best he can. It's divided into twenty-three chapters, each one tackling a specific topic always in relation to religion, such as the importance of obeying God, of learning to recognize his miracles and how to reach out and bask in his light, just to name a few. However, in addition to that Valdez also takes the time to create connections between those religious teachings and our daily lives, looking at ways in which we can apply them to our mundane trials and tribulations. Ultimately, he seeks to impart a mindset which he believes can help one to attain happiness while improving the world around them. He complements his meditations with various passages from the bible which hold special significance for him, as well as personal stories and anecdotes that help cement his ideas. A Matter of Approach To start things off, let us examine this book as viewed from the perspective of a devout Christian. Though I myself cannot be classified in that group, I can still provide my objective opinion, which is that Times of Victory is a thinking person's book that could serve people of any religion quite well. The interpretations and arguments are as far from baseless as you can imagine, with there always being a firm logical structure based on concrete experiences to back everything up. Valdez has this gift of being able to interpret biblical texts in a sort of practical, rational and modern way to help them gain a meaning that is concurrent with contemporary times. His approach to understanding his religion is one many of us would do well to model after. In other words, I believe if you're a religious person, at best you'll gain plenty of new and interesting insights to mull over, and at worst you'll come to learn about Valdez's unusual perspective on things. On the other hand, if like myself you are not a religious person, then you're likely thinking that this book is just not up your alley and not even consider it. However, there is much to be learned here outside the scope of God and religion, a way of life that anyone can apply themselves to and strive to improve the world around them. Valdez gives very tangible reasons and arguments as to why a life dedicated to helping others and appreciating the beauty of this world is one heavily worth considering, and that alone I believe is reason enough to read it. A Marriage of Entertainment and Religion So far I may have made it sound like this book is a strict and serious work of writing one must read wit furrowed brows. However, the truth is much closer to the opposite side of the spectrum. The many personal stories and anecdotes shared by Valdez are often touching, revealing, thought-provoking and comical, with the man having a great sense of humour as well as quality penmanship to help convey it. While some of them do feel a tad tame in comparison with the gut-wrenching biographies of the innumerable James Bonds and Ramboes that seem to have graced the world in the past decades, they all have a curious, if not educative element that elevates them above the status of mere stories. None of the passages feel boring or as if they drag on, with virtually all chapters lasting one to three pages, concise as ever in their purpose. As a matter of fact, at about seventy pages long, there is literally nowhere to get bogged down in this book and you'll no doubt finish it in a short evening. In other words, the author understands exactly what his audience wants and needs. While there are a few tiny hiccups when it comes to the translation, on the whole the book is well written and I wager none of the meaning has been lost. The Final Verdict To finish things off, I believe Times of Victory to be an insightful, funny and educative read that will serve different people in varying ways, depending on which walks of life they come from. If you have an afternoon to spare and would like to witness a learned man's perspective on God, life and the human condition, then you should definitely give the book a shot. The road towards absolute enlightenment appears infinite, but I feel this is one piece of writing that can move us forth along that path ever so slightly.

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1490843752

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Working from Within

Chicana and Chicano Activist Educators in Whitestream Schools

By: Luis Urrieta

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Working from Within

Chicana and Chicano Activist Educators in Whitestream Schools

By: Luis Urrieta

Combining approaches from anthropology and cultural studies, Working from Within examines how issues of identity, agency, and social movements shape the lives of Chicana and Chicano activist educators in U.S. schools. Luis Urrieta Jr. skillfully utilizes the cultural concepts of positioning, figured worlds, and self-authorship, along with Chicano Studies and Chicana feminist frameworks, to tell the story of twenty-four Mexican Americans who have successfully navigated school systems as students and later as activist educators. Working from Within is one of the first books to show how identity is linked to agency--individually and collectively--for Chicanas and Chicanos in education. Urrieta set out to answer linked questions: How do Chicanas and Chicanos negotiate identity, ideology, and activism within educational institutions that are often socially, culturally, linguistically, emotionally, and psychologically alienating? Analyzing in-depth interviews with twenty-four educators, Urrieta offers vivid narratives that show how activist identities are culturally produced through daily negotiations. UrrietaÕs work details the struggles of activist Chicana and Chicano educators to raise consciousness in a wide range of educational settings, from elementary schools to colleges. Overall, Urrieta addresses important questions about what it means to work for social justice from within institutions, and he explores the dialogic spaces between the alternatives of reproduction and resistance. In doing so, he highlights the continuity of Chicana and Chicano social movement, the relevance of gender, and the importance of autochthonous frameworks in understanding contemporary activism. Finally, he shows that it is possible for minority activist educators to thrive in a variety of institutional settings while maintaining strong ties to their communities.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816529175

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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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0292784368

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The Southernmost End of South America Through Cartography

Tierra del Fuego, the South Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica from the 16th to 19th Century

By: Luis Ignacio de Lasa,María Teresa Luiz

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The Southernmost End of South America Through Cartography

Tierra del Fuego, the South Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica from the 16th to 19th Century

By: Luis Ignacio de Lasa,María Teresa Luiz

This volume describes the construction of the territorial identity of the southern end of South America and analyzes the cartographic territorialization of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the “Terra Australis” continent. Different spatial representations and territorial nature coexisted in this process as a result of the spatial interpretation and value modes as well as the projects and strategies of various actors. The book discusses the formal and symbolic incorporation to the Spanish dominion and its inclusion in the imperial design built over a new image of the world. Examining Jesuit cartography it considers both the indigenous territoriality and the dynamics of relations between natural and social components in the continental hinterland. The process of cartographic differentiation for this southern Atlantic region is analyzed in the framework of early Antarctic exploration and competing use of navigation routes and maritime resources. The book emphasizes the role geopolitical and economic interests play in these developments. The formation of territorialities of various origins has particular contents and logic, which are built upon imaginary subordination to political and economic interests. Cartographic language in the 19th century, associated with political and commercial motivations and the (British) imperial ideology, stimulated the territorial expansion. The book argues why in the late 1800's this was an important factor in the integration process of the southern indigenous territories and the national territoriality.

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Springer Nature

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3030658791

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9783030658793

The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in the South Iberian Palaeomargin

By: Matías Reolid,José Miguel Molina,Luis Miguel Nieto,Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Tovar

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The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in the South Iberian Palaeomargin

By: Matías Reolid,José Miguel Molina,Luis Miguel Nieto,Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Tovar

This book presents the first overview of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in the southern Iberian paleomargin, in the western Tethys. The study of catastrophic events that affected the ecosystems in the past is of great interest, because it offers the possibility of establishing models that can be applied to current and future environmental changes. The book provides comprehensive information on the changes in marine ecosystems in connection with a global massive extinction, the Early Toarcian, and with the deposition of black shales, global warming and a disruption of the carbon cycle. In addition, the book describes the incidence of this event in this part of the Tethys close to the connection with the Protoatlantic, the Hispanic Corridor. Special attention is paid to sedimentological and ichnological aspects, fossil content (macroscopic and microscopic), and geochemistry. It also presents the facies changes related to fragmentation of the shelf and the evolution to hemipel agic troughs and swells in this paleomargin. Lastly, it characterizes this anoxic event in under-researched outcrops from southern Spain and compares the findings with those in well-known sections from northern and central Europe. This book offers a unique resource for all researchers interested in the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, but also in oceanic anoxic events that occurred during the Mesozoic in general, because of their similarity to recent climatic changes.

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3319672118

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Introduction to Graphene-Based Nanomaterials

From Electronic Structure to Quantum Transport

By: Luis E. F. Foa Torres,Stephan Roche,Jean-Christophe Charlier

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Introduction to Graphene-Based Nanomaterials

From Electronic Structure to Quantum Transport

By: Luis E. F. Foa Torres,Stephan Roche,Jean-Christophe Charlier

Beginning with an introduction to carbon-based nanomaterials, their electronic properties, and general concepts in quantum transport, this detailed primer describes the most effective theoretical and computational methods and tools for simulating the electronic structure and transport properties of graphene-based systems. Transport concepts are clearly presented through simple models, enabling comparison with analytical treatments, and multiscale quantum transport methodologies are introduced and developed in a straightforward way, demonstrating a range of methods for tackling the modelling of defects and impurities in more complex graphene-based materials. The authors also discuss the practical applications of this revolutionary nanomaterial, contemporary challenges in theory and simulation, and long-term perspectives. Containing numerous problems for solution, real-life examples of current research, and accompanied online by further exercises, solutions and computational codes, this is the perfect introductory resource for graduate students and researchers in nanoscience and nanotechnology, condensed matter physics, materials science and nanoelectronics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107655951

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La Llorona's Children

Religion, Life, and Death in the U.S.–Mexican Borderlands

By: Luis D. León

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La Llorona's Children

Religion, Life, and Death in the U.S.–Mexican Borderlands

By: Luis D. León

Luis D. León's compelling, innovative exploration of religion in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands issues a fundamental challenge to current scholarship in the field and recharts the landscape of Chicano faith. La Llorona's Children constructs genealogies of the major traditions spanning Mexico City, East Los Angeles, and the southwestern United States: Guadalupe devotion, curanderismo, espiritualismo, and evangelical/ Pentecostal traditions. León theorizes a religious poetics that functions as an effective and subversive survival tactic akin to crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. He claims that, when examined in terms of broad categorical religious forms and intentions, these traditions are remarkably alike and resonate religious ideas and practices developed in the ancient Mesoamerican world. León proposes what he calls a borderlands reading of La Virgen de Guadalupe as a transgressive, border-crossing goddess in her own right, a mestiza deity who displaces Jesus and God for believers on both sides of the border. His energetic discussion of curanderismo shows how this indigenous religious practice links cognition and sensation in a fresh and powerful technology of the body—one where sensual, erotic, and sexualized ways of knowing emphasize personal and communal healing. La Llorona’s Children ends with a fascinating study of the rich and complex world of Chicano/a Pentecostalism in Los Angeles, a tradition that León maintains allows Chicano men to reimagine their bodies into a unified social body through ritual performance. Throughout the narrative, the connections among sacred spaces, saints, healers, writers, ideas, and movements are woven with skill, inspiration, and insight. Luis D. León's compelling, innovative exploration of religion in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands issues a fundamental challenge to current scholarship in the field and recharts the landscape of Chicano faith. La Llorona's Children constructs genealogi

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Univ of California Press

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0520935381

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Green Encounters

Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica

By: Luis A. Vivanco

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Green Encounters

Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica

By: Luis A. Vivanco

Since the 1970s and 1980s, Monte Verde, Costa Rica has emerged as one of the most renowned sites of nature conservation and ecotourism in Costa Rica, and some would argue, Latin America. It has received substantial attention in literature and media on tropical conservation, sustainable development, and tourism. Yet most of that analysis has uncritically evaluated the Monte Verde phenomenon, using celebratory language and barely scratching the surface of the many-faceted socio-cultural transformations provoked by and accompanying environmentalism. Because of its stature, Monte Verde represents an ideal case study to examine the socio-cultural and political complexities and dilemmas of practicing environmentalism in rural Costa Rica. Based on many years of close observation, this book offers rich and original material on the ongoing struggles between environmental activists and of collective and oppositional politics to Monte Verde’s new “culture of nature.”

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Berghahn Books

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0857456776

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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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Clear-Cutting Disease Control

Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection

By: Rodrick Wallace,Luis Fernando Chaves,Luke R. Bergmann,Constância Ayres,Lenny Hogerwerf,Richard Kock,Robert G. Wallace

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Clear-Cutting Disease Control

Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection

By: Rodrick Wallace,Luis Fernando Chaves,Luke R. Bergmann,Constância Ayres,Lenny Hogerwerf,Richard Kock,Robert G. Wallace

The vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity. By a combination of stochastic modeling and economic geography, this book proposes two key causes together explain the explosive spread of the worst of the vector-borne outbreaks. Ecosystems in which such pathogens are largely controlled by environmental stochasticity are being drastically streamlined by both agribusiness-led deforestation and deficits in public health and environmental sanitation. Consequently, a subset of infections that once burned out relatively quickly in local forests are now propagating across susceptible human populations whose vulnerability to infection is often exacerbated in structurally adjusted cities. The resulting outbreaks are characterized by greater global extent, duration, and momentum. As infectious diseases in an age of nation states and global health programs cannot, as much of the present modeling literature presumes, be described by interacting populations of host, vector, and pathogen alone, a series of control theory models is also introduced here. These models, useful to researchers and health officials alike, explicitly address interactions between government ministries and the pathogens they aim to control.

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Macro-Criminalidad: Complejidad Y Resiliencia De Las Redes Criminales

Caída Del Gobierno Fujimori En Perú Y Auge De “Los Zetas” En México

By: Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran,Luis J. Garay-Salamanca

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Macro-Criminalidad: Complejidad Y Resiliencia De Las Redes Criminales

Caída Del Gobierno Fujimori En Perú Y Auge De “Los Zetas” En México

By: Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran,Luis J. Garay-Salamanca

Drug Trafficking, Corruption and States is cutting edge research. Garay Salamanca and Salcedo-Albarn, along with their contributing authors help document the transition from economic to political imperatives within transnational drug cartels. The break from the Zetas by La Familia Michoacana is one example contained in their empirical survey. Social Network Analysis is their tool for illuminating the varying dynamics of cartel-state inter-penetration and reconfiguration. In doing so they clearly discern between State Capture (StC) and Co-opted State Reconfiguration (CStR). As the drug wars and criminal insurgencies rage in the Americas and beyond, this seminal framework will facilitate efforts by scholars, law enforcement officials, intelligence analysts and policymakers to understand shifts in sovereignty, and to illuminate the mechanisms of transnational illicit networks and their interaction with the state.

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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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Hearts and Hands

Creating Community in Violent Times

By: Luis Rodriguez

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Hearts and Hands

Creating Community in Violent Times

By: Luis Rodriguez

Hearts and Hands deals with many of the difficult issues addressed in Luis Rodríguez’s memoir of gang life, Always Running, but with a focus on healing through community building. Empowered by his experiences as a peacemaker with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodríguez offers a unique book of change. He makes concrete suggestions, shows how we can create nonviolent opportunities for youth today, and redirects kids into productive and satisfying lives. And he warns that we sacrifice community values for material gain when we incarcerate or marginalize people already on the edge of society. His interest in dissolving gang influence on black and latino kids is personal as well as societal; his son, to whom he dedicates Hearts and Hands, is currently serving a prison sentence for gang-related activity. With anecdotes, interviews, and time-tested guidelines, Hearts and Hands makes a powerful argument for building and supporting community life.

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Marciano

By: Alberto Luis Aguayo

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Marciano

By: Alberto Luis Aguayo

Where but in America could seven children earn seventeen college degrees. Against all odds, but with full support of their hard-working parents, this has been possible for the seven Aguayo children.

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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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TExES Core Subjects EC-6 (391) Book + Online

By: Luis A. Rosado

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TExES Core Subjects EC-6 (391) Book + Online

By: Luis A. Rosado

REA's TExES Core Subjects EC-6 (391) Book + Online Gets You Certified and in the Classroom! This revised 4th edition reflects the Texas's TExES Core Subjects (391) exam, which launched in January 2021. Texas teacher candidates seeking a generalist certificate for early childhood and elementary school are required to take the TExES Core Subjects EC-6 (391) test. REA's revised and updated test prep offers extensive coverage of the five subject areas assessed on the new exam: * English Language Arts and Reading (901) * Mathematics (902) * Social Studies (903) * Science (904) * Fine Arts, Health and Physical Education (905) Whether you are a traditional college student or a career-changing professional, REA's TExES Core Subjects EC-6 (391) with Online Practice Tests is designed to help you pass the test so you can get certified and start your teaching career. Written by a team of noted Texas-based teaching experts, this test prep is relevant, up-to-date, and practical. This is focused prep custom-built for the TExES Core Subjects exam EC-6, with the right blend of review and practice content. The book contains five targeted subject reviews that align with each Core Subjects subtest. To help set your study path and boost your confidence, we provide an online diagnostic test plus two full-length practice exam batteries (one in the book and one online at the REA Study Center). Spanning hundreds of questions, the tests cover every domain and competency. In addition, computerized testing at the REA Study Center comes with automatic timing and scoring, as well as diagnostic feedback on every question to help you zero in on the topics that give you trouble now, so you can succeed on test day. REA's TExES Subjects EC-6 (391) is a must-have for anyone who wants to teach early childhood and elementary school in the Lone Star State.

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Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era

The Security Threat to the United States

By: Luis Fleischman

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Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era

The Security Threat to the United States

By: Luis Fleischman

Hugo Chavez has recently undergone three surgeries for cancer, prompting much speculation and anxiety about the impact of his death. What will a post-Chavez future look like, not only in Venezuela but also in the region"" In Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era, Luis Fleischman examines Chavez's highly controversial Bolivarian revolution, which has expanded beyond Venezuela to other countries in South America and whose sphere of influence also extends to Central America and the Caribbean. Across Latin America, Chavez has financially supported political candidates or presidents in office dedica.

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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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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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A Luis Leal Reader

By: Luis Leal

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A Luis Leal Reader

By: Luis Leal

Since his first publication in 1942, Luis Leal has likely done more than any other writer or scholar to foster a critical appreciation of Mexican, Chicano, and Latin American literature and culture. This volume, bringing together a representative selection of Leal’s writings from the past sixty years, is at once a wide-ranging introduction to the most influential scholar of Latino literature and a critical history of the field as it emerged and developed through the twentieth century. Instrumental in establishing Mexican literary studies in the United States, Leal’s writings on the topic are especially instructive, ranging from essays on the significance of symbolism, culture, and history in early Chicano literature to studies of the more recent use of magical realism and of individual New Mexican, Tejano, and Mexican authors such as Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, José Montoya, and Mariano Azuela. Clearly and cogently written, these writings bring to bear an encyclopedic knowledge, a deep understanding of history and politics, and an unparalleled command of the aesthetics of storytelling, from folklore to theory. This collection affords readers the opportunity to consider—or reconsider—Latino literature under the deft guidance of its greatest reader.

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Northwestern University Press

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I Have Learned from the Least

My Life, My Hopes

By: Tagle, Luis Antonio, Cardinal

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I Have Learned from the Least

My Life, My Hopes

By: Tagle, Luis Antonio, Cardinal

Son of the people -- One less doctor, one more priest -- Priests to learn from the poor -- Theology, a second love -- Manila, Philippines -- Asia today and tomorrow -- Ecology and the Laudato Si' "Vendetta

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Falklands/Malvinas 1982

A War of Two Sides

By: María Inés Tato,Peter Stanley,Luis Esteban Dalla Fontana,Rob Mclaughlin

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Falklands/Malvinas 1982

A War of Two Sides

By: María Inés Tato,Peter Stanley,Luis Esteban Dalla Fontana,Rob Mclaughlin

After four decades from the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over possession of the Falklands/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, this book allows for a new and rounded reading of the causes, course and consequences of the war. It provides a comprehensive overview of the Falkland/Malvinas War by integrating the military history of the conflict into the diplomatic, political, social and cultural aspects of the war. Including a substantial body of advocacy, chronicle, narrative and analysis, the volume draws upon an extensive range of published sources, in English and Spanish, primary sources from both sides and unpublished testimonies. The book, written by Argentine and Australian historians and scholars, discuss themes such as the background to the war, the offensive campaign for the islands and the English and Argentine experiences and memories of the war from the perspective of the islanders. Being part of the Wars and Battles of the World series, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of military history, British history, Latin American history, defence and strategic studies, geopolitics and modern history.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000841162

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An Unspeakable Betrayal

Selected Writings of Luis Buñuel

By: Luis Buñuel

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An Unspeakable Betrayal

Selected Writings of Luis Buñuel

By: Luis Buñuel

This collection proceeds chronologically, from poetry and short stories written in Buñuel's youth in Spain to an essay written in 1980, not long before his death.

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El norte entre algodones

Población, trabajo agrícola y optimismo en México, 1930-1970

By: Luis Aboites Aguilar

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El norte entre algodones

Población, trabajo agrícola y optimismo en México, 1930-1970

By: Luis Aboites Aguilar

Esta obra propone que a partir de 1930 el algodón hizo una gran contribución al poblamiento del norte mexicano, favoreció la formación de mercados de trabajo y de tierras, propició la movilidad social, impulsó la urbanización y dio lugar a un optimismo desbordado entre las oligarquías norteñas. También da cuenta de que el episodio algodonero, mayoritariamente norteño, obedeció sobre todo a la conexión con el mercado mundial.

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El Colegio de Mexico AC

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6074625972

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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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BRILL

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9004419055

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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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Proses, Rhymes, and Something Else . . .

By: Delf Luis Ross

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Proses, Rhymes, and Something Else . . .

By: Delf Luis Ross

Proses, Rhymes, and Something Else . . . is inspired from others lives as proper. It is suitable for all age groups without distinction of gender, language, race, and social status. This is the product of a lifetime in the expression of vivid facts and the transformation of bad experiences to lessons learned. The look lift before a conflictive world. Keep the mood after the misfortunes or disappointments. Follow the light that encourages walking right without stopping by the successes or failures, with joys and sorrows that complement the realities, and surrounded by tears and laughter that are sincere reflections of good feelings. And greater profit, it is welfare with multiple alternatives to give to white that satisfy and meets the wishes. It is worth to enjoying with all the intensity and energy of the world, always in search of achievements and goals to achieve the full objective. And so at the end of existence, it declares, Thank you, God, for the life that you gave me and that I had in this world.

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The Mystery of the Petrified Heart

By: Luis J. Marolo

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The Mystery of the Petrified Heart

By: Luis J. Marolo

Medical student Marcos DLassio and his Argentinian journalist friend, Rubn Colbert, are shopping together on Christmas Eve when their paths unexpectedly intertwine with two women. Like Rubn, Maxine Letalier has also left Argentina behind to pursue education in America, specifically a PhD in Anthropology. Brazilian-born Megan Arza is a secretary at the Los Angeles Times, the same newspaper where Rubn has just secured his first job. After the four young people form an inseparable bond, they decide to set forth on a voyage to solve the ancient mystery of the petrified heart. As their journey leads them from Paris to the beaches of California and the city of Buenos Aires, and finally to the alluring Andes of South Argentina and the jungles of Brazil, the mystery of the petrified heart comes full circle as the impossible suddenly become possible. The Mystery of the Petrified Heart shares an intriguing, coming-of-age tale that captures the sweet moments of passion, seduction, and friendship as four curious young adults venture into an unknown world to prove a romantic theory.

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