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The Environment Since 1945

By: Marcos Luna

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Examines numerous controversies in environmental politics and policy since 1945, including the Donora smog event of 1948, building dams in national parks, the passage of the National Environmental Protection Act, the banning of DDT, the Love Canal crisis, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Makah whale hunt, and environmental racism.

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Infobase Learning

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1438138113

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9781438138114

The Uncomfortable Dead

By: Subcomandante Marcos,Paco Ignacio Taibo II

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The Uncomfortable Dead

By: Subcomandante Marcos,Paco Ignacio Taibo II

A stylized reissue of the acclaimed, surreal noir collaboration between Mexico’s greatest writer and its most courageous revolutionary. “Taibo’s expertise ensures a smart, funny book, and Marcos brings a wry sense of humor.” —Publishers Weekly In alternating chapters, Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos and the consistently excellent Paco Ignacio Taibo II create an uproarious murder mystery with two intersecting storylines. The chapters written by the famously masked Marcos originate in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico. There, the fictional “Subcomandante Marcos” assigns Elias Contreras—an odd but charming mountain man—to travel to Mexico City in search of an elusive and hideous murderer named “Morales.” The second story line, penned by Taibo, stars his famous series detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. Hector guzzles Coca-Cola and smokes cigarettes furiously amidst his philosophical and always charming approach to investigating crimes—in this case, the search for his own “Morales.” The two stories collide absurdly and dramatically in the urban sprawl of Mexico City. The ugly history of the city’s political violence rears its head, and both detectives find themselves in an unpredictable dance of death with forces at once criminal, historical, and political. Readers expecting political heavy-handedness will be disarmed by the humility and playful self-mocking that runs throughout the book.

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Akashic Books

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1936070758

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9781936070756

The Last Scenario

By: Marcos Gabriel

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The Last Scenario

By: Marcos Gabriel

I'm just a high school biology teacher in southern California. I wrote a paper on bio-toxins in college. Nine months ago the government asked me to be the 'ordinary citizen' on a seven-member panel. For three days we brainstormed potential homegrown terrorist scenarios. That was all. I thought. "We're the only two left," John Ryder said, no emotion in his voice. "The others have been assassinated. If you want to live, you'll have to come with me." Terrorists have adopted one of the team's scenarios, and if they're successful, it could claim a half-million lives. Samantha Waters and ex-Navy SEAL John Ryder are caught in the middle of a dark conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of power. They have to rely on each other to survive--and to somehow stop the nightmare scenario they imagined before it becomes a terrifying reality. Marcos Gabriel is an award-winning writer whose body of work includes novels, plays, screenplays, and television productions. Working in Los Angeles as the Creative Director of an entertainment advertising agency, he has crafted television commercials and theatrical trailers for many blockbuster and critically-acclaimed Hollywood films. Marcos lives in Southern California with his wife and two children. Marcos Gabriel is a member of the International Thriller Writers Association.

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Bell Bridge Books

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161194449X

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9781611944495

The Secret Life of Chocolate

By: Marcos Patchett

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The Secret Life of Chocolate

By: Marcos Patchett

A fascinating guide to the history and medical uses of cacao. The Secret Life of Chocolate is a book about chocolate. Not the sweet, mass-produced fatty confection most of us are familiar with, though. This book is about old-school chocolate; pre-Colombian, Central American, bitter-spicy-foamy-intense blow-your-socks-off chocolate; chocolate beverages made with toasted cocoa beans, water, and indigenous plants. Today there are many different forms of drinking chocolate in Latin America, most of which reflect European (Spanish) influence, incorporating sugar, cinnamon, and milk. The aim of this work is to peel back the years of cultural cross-pollination and anatomize the original Cacao-based beverages, which were richer, more complex, more potent, and darker (in every sense) than modern forms of chocolate. This book delves into the ancient history of the human relationship with the cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao; it dissects the pharmacological properties of chocolate to the fullest possible extent; and it divulges the mythical and magical associations of human interactions with this incredible plant.

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805

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Aeon Books

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1801521832

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9781801521833

Poesía en el tiempo y otros versos

By: MARCOS LOPEZ HERRADOR

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Poesía en el tiempo y otros versos

By: MARCOS LOPEZ HERRADOR

Puedo vivir porque desconozco la dimensión de mi soledad

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Lulu.com

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1447825683

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9781447825685

The Return of Epidemics

Health and Society in Peru During the Twentieth Century

By: Marcos Cueto

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The Return of Epidemics

Health and Society in Peru During the Twentieth Century

By: Marcos Cueto

This investigation of the history of epidemics in various parts of Peru during the twentieth century opens up a new field for Latin American studies to include health and disease. These are important areas of the past that enable us to understand better the living conditions of people, the role of state authority and the dynamics of social movement.

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187

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Taylor & Francis

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1351882899

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9781351882897

The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage

Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos

By: Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

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The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage

Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos

By: Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

Zapatista spokesman Subcommander Marcos decreased his public appearances between 2007 and 2014, but simultaneously increased the depth of his analysis. Collected here in English translation for the first time, these talks include some of his most explicit, detailed, and inspiring criticisms of capitalism, political parties, electoral democracy, disingenuous solidarity, and much more. Subcommander Marcos was the leading spokesperson for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) until 2014. Nick Henck is Associate Professor at Keio University and the author of Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask. Henry Gales is a freelance translator living in Mexico City.

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AK Press

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1849352933

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9781849352932

Justice Framed

By: Marcos Zunino

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Justice Framed

By: Marcos Zunino

A new perspective on the history of transitional justice and why the discourse prioritises particular responses to human rights violations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108475256

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9781108475259

Discover Butterflies & Moths

Level 2 Reader

By: Victoria Marcos

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Discover Butterflies & Moths

Level 2 Reader

By: Victoria Marcos

Discover the world of beautiful butterflies and moths. In this Discover Reading book, short sentence and beautiful photos introduce children to metamorphosis, flight and the life cycle of a butterfly. This book is part of the Discover Reading series and is a great choice for beginning readers.

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Xist Publishing

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1623954657

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9781623954659

An epic history of pharmacy

pharmacy in the Ancient World

By: Luis Marcos Nogales

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An epic history of pharmacy

pharmacy in the Ancient World

By: Luis Marcos Nogales

What really sets humankind apart from other species is our fondness of drugs. This vale of tears, full of plants and animals to tame, was the breeding ground for cultures and civilizations with a penchant for developing the noble art of pharmacy. The Neolithic revolution marked the coming into being and development of great states and empires, with the consequential increase in headaches. But that was no big deal, since shamans, witch doctors, physicians, priests, apothecaries, and/or sorcerers sought, and sometimes found, remedies to relieve migraines and a wide range of ailments. After a taste of this Epic History of Pharmacy you'll doubtlessly feel better. You are holding a fully legal dose for a relaxing but at the same time frenzied trip: from the wild prehistoric Garden of Eden to the marmoreal and massive Rome, passing through Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, America, Persia and Greece. And all of it visually administered, in the form of a carefully formulated ointment of literary panacea seasoned with humor-coated pills of compressed cartoons.

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Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca

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8490128235

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9788490128237

Technology in People Services

Research, Theory, and Applications

By: Marcos Leiderman

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Technology in People Services

Research, Theory, and Applications

By: Marcos Leiderman

This volume documents the Second International Conference on Human Services Information Technology Applications (HUSITA-2), held in New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 1991. Following the keynote presentations are introduced sections covering health care/mental health, aging/disabilities/rehabilitation, substance abuse, family/children, community applications, instruction/education, government support for computerization, expert systems and their applications, administration/management, and ethics and societal issues. Includes a glossary of terms. Also published as Computers in Human Services, v.9, nos.1/2/3/4, 1993. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Psychology Press

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1560244569

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9781560244561

Al cruzar tu estela

By: MARCOS LOPEZ HERRADOR

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Al cruzar tu estela

By: MARCOS LOPEZ HERRADOR

Átame a tu corazón, bésame como sabes y salpícame de rosas cada tarde.

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144779950X

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9781447799504

Scribes and Translators

Septuagint and Old Latin in the Books of Kings

By: Natalio Fernández Marcos

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Scribes and Translators

Septuagint and Old Latin in the Books of Kings

By: Natalio Fernández Marcos

Scribes and Translators is a critical reflection on the textual pluralism as reflected in the book of Kings. The first part of the book examines the diverse texts transmitted by the manuscripts. Special attention is paid to the Antiochene text of the Septuagint that is being edited in Madrid. The second part is devoted to the analysis of Old Latin readings, transmitted by a Spanish family of Vulgate Bibles, with no support in any of the known manuscripts. Finally, the whole evidence is discussed in the frame of the plurality of texts confirmed by the Qumran documents for those books. Based on Old Latin material recently published it sheds light on the text transmission of Kings and on the translation techniques and the history of the Biblical texts in general.

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BRILL

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9004275789

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9789004275782

Diccionario de la Democracia

Diccionario ClÁSico y Literario de la Democracia Antigua y Moderna

By: Patricio Marcos

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Diccionario de la Democracia

Diccionario ClÁSico y Literario de la Democracia Antigua y Moderna

By: Patricio Marcos

El Diccionario de la Democracia contiene la teoría y la ideología de los regímenes democráticos: sus antecedentes; orígenes; principios; modalidades de deliberación y leyes; sus instituciones clave y variedades, acorde con la clase social que los dirija y el arreglo institucional correlativo. Asimismo compara sus principios, leyes e instituciones con otros regímenes, particularmente con sus opuestos, las oligarquías o gobiernos de pocos, pero también con la república, la tiranía y la realeza; las razones de Estado que permiten su conquista, conservación y estabilidad; las fuentes internas y externas que los amenazan; las maneras de corromperse y las revoluciones que los afectan. Trata también de los usos, costumbres y caracteres democráticos; inventaría los rasgos éticos de la vida democrática, por sí mismos y comprobados con los de los ricos, las clases medias y los tiranos, hasta detallar las relaciones que sostienen entre sí dirigentes y dirigidos, hombres y mujeres, viejos, jóvenes, maestros y alumnos, ciudadanos y animales..., por el impacto que la libertad e igualdad popular tienen en la vida pública y privada de sus pueblos. Parte medular del mismo es la exposición de las doctrinas, dogmas, leyes e instituciones del modelo liberal moderno de la democracia; un credo que se analiza en calidad de justificación del nouveau régime por parte de sus ideólogos modernos más destacados y lúcidos, quienes desvían el significado de las palabras ] democracia ] y ] liberal ] atribuidas sin más a los Estados modernos.

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Palibrio

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146330773X

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9781463307738

Medicine and Public Health in Latin America

By: Marcos Cueto,Steven Paul Palmer

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Medicine and Public Health in Latin America

By: Marcos Cueto,Steven Paul Palmer

This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.

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Cambridge University Press

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110702367X

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9781107023673

La Verdad Impura

By: Marcos Diéguez,Marcos Dieguez

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La Verdad Impura

By: Marcos Diéguez,Marcos Dieguez

La Verdad Impura es un desgarrado testimonio de una conciencia doliente. Es el clamor por la aciaga suerte de los privados de fortuna bajo la indolencia e hipocresía de los favorecidos, no tanto las clases altas, de las que poco se puede esperar, sino las clases medias acomodaticias de los países desarrollados, que se disfrazan de corrección política y fingida indignación para tranquilizar su conciencia y cuyo compromiso se agota en la protesta y en el victimismo. A pesar de todo, o tal vez por ello, el autor de este texto no pretende denunciar las diferencias sociales ni adoctrinar las mentes de los hombres. No es un grito admonitorio para corregir el rumbo de la humanidad, (para eso han surgido sobrados movimientos y arbitrajes condenatorios lanzados con más precisión que este, contra el pensamiento único, contra la mentira de los gobernantes, contra el dinero todopoderoso, contra el sistema, con avaros resultados). En todos ellos menudea la denuncia contra los poderes fácticos y escasea el compromiso personal. Pero este texto, lejos de esa ampulosa pretensión, no propone más que un desahogo irónico y pesimista, que insinúa impotencia e induce lamentablemente, dados los parámetros de codicia e indiferencia en los que nos movemos, más a la resignación que a la esperanza. No obstante creo que está al alcance del cualquier lector mínimamente afectado de empatía, colegir una enseñanza humilde y subrepticia de este escrito: que la dudosa redención del hombre se asienta en la renuncia voluntaria más que en la reivindicación perentoria de derechos.

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1463324790

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Conversations with Durito

Stories of the Zapatistas and Neoliberalism

By: Marcos (subcomandante.)

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Conversations with Durito

Stories of the Zapatistas and Neoliberalism

By: Marcos (subcomandante.)

We are all Zapatistas.' Subcomandante MarcosThis book began in 1994, when Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos replied to a 10-year-old girl from Mexico City who had sent him a drawing. The ensuing collection of related tales about the warrior-beetle, narrated by his pipe-smoking, black-ski-masked human squire is an extraordinary account for the general reader of current global political struggle.Marcos created a humorous fictitious character, Don Durito, a beetle with Quixotic fantasies which regards Marcos as his Sancho Panza. In this book, Marcos creates a new political genre, so-called "postdata": ironical commentaries which he affixes to his formal communiqués or declarations. In one of them he even offers to perform a striptease for government negotiators.'We are the product of 500 years of struggle...They [Mexican government] don't care that we have nothing, absolutely nothing, not even a roof over our heads; no land, no work, no health care, no food, no education... nor is there peace nor justice for ourselves and our children. But today, we say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!' First EZLN declaration of war, December 31st 1993The Zapatistas are not Marxist, Rightists, or Anarchists. They seek not to replace one infrastructure of power with another, thus rejecting the normal goal of an armed struggle. They are armed but do not use violence as a tool to expand their aims. Although a localized rebellion, the Zapatistas are unified in a worldwide struggle that transcends the mainstream media's limited perspective through eloquent dictations distributed globally via the Internet.With a fresh perspective and tactics that have never been seen in relation to an armed insurrection, the EZLN (Zapatista National Liberation Army) has changed the definition of what revolution means. From the marginalized confines of the poorest region in Mexico, a new concept of revolutionary change with a new solution to societies woes is currently being proposed.

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Autonomedia

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1570271186

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9781570271182

Los ojos del corazón

By: Marcos Javier Ramos

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Los ojos del corazón

By: Marcos Javier Ramos

Libro de poesía romántica y social en la que siempre permea la presencia de Dios. Marcos Javier es un autor joven que con este poemaro LOS OJOS DEL CORAZÓN, nos abre las puertas de sus sentires, quereres, convicciones y quimeras.

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