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A Fish in the Water

A Memoir

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

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In this literary memoir, the Nobel Prize–winning author and Peruvian politician shares “a convincing self-portrait . . . an often funny and cautionary tale” (Time). In 1990, Mario Vargas Llosa decided to run for the presidency of his native Peru. He campaigned on a platform of economic reform and stringent counterterrorism against the far-left gorilla group, Sendero Luminoso. His failed campaign against Alberto Fujimori generated international headlines, transforming the renowned author into a politician of world stature. A Fish in the Water is Vargas Llosa’s personal account of his life as seen through the lens of his time as a candidate. He evokes the experiences that gave rise to his fiction, while—in parallel—he describes the social, literary, and political influences that led him to enter the political arena as a crusader for democracy and a free-market economy.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429922540

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Entangled Heritages

Postcolonial Perspectives on the Uses of the Past in Latin America

By: Olaf Kaltmeier,Mario Rufer

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Entangled Heritages

Postcolonial Perspectives on the Uses of the Past in Latin America

By: Olaf Kaltmeier,Mario Rufer

Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of heritage and articulated histories, but divided alongside the basic difference between colonizers and colonized. This problematic is also evident in contemporary uses of the past. The last decades were crucial to the emergence of new debates: subcultures, new identities, hidden voices and multicultural discourse as a kind of new hegemonic platform also involving concepts of heritage and/or memory. Thereby we can observe a proliferation of heritage agents, especially beyond the scope of the nation state. This volume gets beyond a container vision of heritage that seeks to construct a diachronical continuity in a given territory. Instead, authors point out the relational character of heritage focusing on transnational and translocal flows and interchanges of ideas, concepts, and practices, as well as on the creation of contact zones where the meaning of heritage is negotiated and contested. Exploring the relevance of the politics of heritage and the uses of memory in the consolidation of these nation states, as well as in the current disputes over resistances, hidden memories, undermined pasts, or the politics of nostalgia, this book seeks to seize the local/global dimensions around heritage.

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Routledge

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1317142802

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Islands of Resistance

Puerto Rico, Vieques, and U.S. Policy

By: Mario Murillo

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Islands of Resistance

Puerto Rico, Vieques, and U.S. Policy

By: Mario Murillo

While 1998 marked the 100th anniversary of the United States' invasion and takeover of Puerto Rico, it wasn't until 1999 that the island's political movements reappeared on the radar screen of the American people. That year, two major developments occurred that transformed the relationship between Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.: the limited clemency granted by then-President Clinton to eleven Puerto Rican Nationalists, and the death of Puerto Rican civilian security guard David Sanes, killed by missile fragments from U.S. naval bombing tests on the island municipality of Vieques. How does Vieques fit into the political future of Puerto Rico? While anti-Navy protesters are careful not to mix the island's political status options with their battle against the Navy, it is important to understand the role Washington has played in shaping Puerto Rico's current reality and how it has allowed the Navy to use Vieques as a bombing range for 60 years. It also helps one begin to predict what is the future of Puerto Rico. Is it to be a colony? Fifty-first state of the United States? Sovereign nation? In Islands of Resistance, Mario A. Murillo approaches these questions by examining how Puerto Rican politics have been shaped as much by 100 years of U.S. economic, military, and cultural domination of the territory, as by the enduring grassroots resistance of the Puerto Rican people. Islands of Resistance puts the contemporary situation in Puerto Rico into an historic context that will help people understand what is at stake in Vieques, not only for Viequenses, but for Puerto Ricans, both on the island and in the diaspora.

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Seven Stories Press

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1609801180

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9781609801182

China-us Trade Frictions Shaping New Equilibriums With The Eu And The Us: Towards A New Multilateralism Or Tripolarism

By: Xugang Yu,Mario Tettamanti,Cristiano Rizzi

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China-us Trade Frictions Shaping New Equilibriums With The Eu And The Us: Towards A New Multilateralism Or Tripolarism

By: Xugang Yu,Mario Tettamanti,Cristiano Rizzi

This book shows the impact of the recent trade tensions between China and the US on the world trade order, and how parties have reached a deal (so called 'phase one', January 2020), which could lead to a more comprehensive agreement, and the consequences of these 'adjustments' in shaping new equilibriums.After 40 years, China has transformed into an economic superpower, which could now rival the US. This has evoked some concerns, and put the US in an uncomfortable position, as the US views the rise of China as a threat to its predominance and interests. However, China's development and its increasing economic power, which is a direct consequence of the ongoing reform process, is unstoppable.The confrontation between China and the US will favor Chinese expansion into the EU not only because the EU offers a more receptive environment for Chinese Foreign Direct Investment, but also because the EU and China have more in common if we consider the Belt And Road Initiative and the new bilateral investment agreement which is under negotiation. The EU, not only represents the final destination of the BRI, but also a more logical and convenient trade partner for China.The shift of Chinese attention toward the EU will also change the equilibrium between China, the EU and the US, bring forth the negotiation of new trade agreements, and move the entire international community towards a new world trade order and a new multilateralism which might evolve into a tripolarism.

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World Scientific

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9811226725

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9789811226724

Mexico and the Spanish Civil War

Domestic Politics and the Republican Cause

By: Mario Ojeda Revah

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Mexico and the Spanish Civil War

Domestic Politics and the Republican Cause

By: Mario Ojeda Revah

Based on first-hand diplomatic, political and journalistic sources, most unpublished, Mexico and the Spanish Civil War investigates the backing of the Second Republic by Mexico during the Spanish Civil War. Significant military, material and financial aid was given by the government of Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-1940) to the Republic, which involved not only direct sales of arms, but also smuggling operations covertly undertaken by Mexican diplomatic agents in order to circumvent the embargo imposed by the London Committee of Non Intervention. This path-breaking account reveals the operations in Spain of Mexican workers, soldiers, artists and intellectuals -- such as later Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz and the Muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros -- as volunteers and propagandists for the Republican cause. Engagement with the Spanish Civil War also had a profound impact upon Mexico's domestic politics as support for the Republic was equated by Cárdenas with his own revolutionary project. The defeat of the Republic in 1939 therefore had far-reaching repercussions for the post-1940 governments. Originally published to critical acclaim in Spanish, the work has been quoted and reviewed by many leading specialists on the Civil War, including Anthony Beevor, Ángel Viñas, Santos Juliá, and Pedro Pérez Herrero. This book is essential reading for students and scholars specialising in contemporary European history and politics, Latin American studies, and all those with an interest in the Spanish Civil War and the Mexican Revolution.

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Liverpool University Press

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1782841571

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9781782841579

Latinos in American Football

Pathbreakers on the Gridiron, 1927 to the Present

By: Mario Longoria,Jorge Iber

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Latinos in American Football

Pathbreakers on the Gridiron, 1927 to the Present

By: Mario Longoria,Jorge Iber

In 1927 Cuban national Ignacio S. Molinet was recruited to play with the Frankford Yellow Jackets of the old NFL for a single season. Mexican national Jose Martinez-Zorrilla achieved 1932 All-American honors. These are the beginnings of the Latino experience in American Football, which continues amidst a remarkable and diversified setting of Hispanic nationalities and ethnic groups. This history of Latinos in American Football dispels the myths that baseball, boxing, and soccer are the chosen and competent sports for Spanish-surname athletes. The book documents their fascination for the sport that initially denied their participation but that could not discourage their determination to master the game.

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McFarland

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1476668868

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Los 82 Mensajes Neurolinguisticos Kabalisticos Secretos Del Alfabeto Arameo, Español, Griego, Hebreo Y Latin de Superacion Espiritual Y Personal Pre

By: Mario A. Soto C.

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Los 82 Mensajes Neurolinguisticos Kabalisticos Secretos Del Alfabeto Arameo, Español, Griego, Hebreo Y Latin de Superacion Espiritual Y Personal Pre

By: Mario A. Soto C.

EN LA MONTAÑA DEL SINAÍ, MOISÉS RECIBIÓ LOS 10 MANDAMIENTOS. EN LA MONTAÑA DE NAZARET, JEHOSUA EMPEZÓ A HABLAR CON AB-BA. EN LA MONTAÑA DE LAS BIENAVENTURANZAS, JEHOSUA CONSAGRÓ A SUS 12 DISCÍPULOS AL PADRE. EN LAS MONTAÑAS, JEHOSUA LLEVÓ A CABO SU RETIRO DE 40 DÍAS. EN LA MONTAÑA DE LOS OLIVOS, JEHOSUA HISO SU ÚLTIMA ORACIÓN. EN EL MONTE CALVERO, JEHOSUA NOS ENTREGÓ SU VIDA POR AMOR. EN LAS MONTAÑAS DE MÉXICO, FRANCIA, Y PORTUGAL, DIOS ENVIÓ A LA MADRE DE SU HIJO CON SUS MENSAJES DE AMOR. PREPÁRATE PARA RECIBIR LA NUEVA ERA EN EL 2012 CON ESTOS 82 MENSAJES NEUROLINGUÍSTICOS SECRETOS Y KABALÍSTICOS ENCONTRADOS EN LOS 5 MÁS IMPORTORTANTES ALFABETOS. MENSAJES QUE CONTIENEN 120 VERSÍCULOS CON 2901 PALABRAS. EL ACEITE PARA TU LÁMPARA

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1463321317

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Of Forests and Fields

Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest

By: Mario Jimenez Sifuentez

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Of Forests and Fields

Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest

By: Mario Jimenez Sifuentez

2016 Choice Oustanding Academic Title Just looking at the Pacific Northwest’s many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today. Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers, Tejano migrants, and undocumented immigrants, who converged on the region beginning in the mid-1940s. Of Forests and Fields tells the story of these workers, who toiled in the fields, canneries, packing sheds, and forests, turning the Pacific Northwest into one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country. Employing an innovative approach that traces the intersections between Chicana/o labor and environmental history, Mario Sifuentez shows how ethnic Mexican workers responded to white communities that only welcomed them when they were economically useful, then quickly shunned them. He vividly renders the feelings of isolation and desperation that led to the formation of ethnic Mexican labor organizations like the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN) farm workers union, which fought back against discrimination and exploitation. Of Forests and Fields not only extends the scope of Mexican labor history beyond the Southwest, it offers valuable historical precedents for understanding the struggles of immigrant and migrant laborers in our own era. Sifuentez supplements his extensive archival research with a unique set of first-hand interviews, offering new perspectives on events covered in the printed historical record. A descendent of ethnic Mexican immigrant laborers in Oregon, Sifuentez also poignantly demonstrates the links between the personal and political, as his research leads him to amazing discoveries about his own family history...www.mariosifuentez.com

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Rutgers University Press

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081357692X

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Literature as History

Autobiography, Testimonio, and the Novel in the Chicano and Latino Experience

By: Mario T. García

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Literature as History

Autobiography, Testimonio, and the Novel in the Chicano and Latino Experience

By: Mario T. García

Literature as History represents a unique way to rethink history. Mario T. García, a leader in the field of Chicano history and one of the foremost historians of his generation, explores how Chicano historians can use Chicano and Latino literature as important historical sources.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816533555

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The Swiss Nurse

By: Mario Escobar

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The Swiss Nurse

By: Mario Escobar

Based on the true story of an astonishingly brave woman who saved hundreds of mothers and their children during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Elisabeth Eidenbenz left Switzerland in 1937 to aid children orphaned during the Spanish Civil War. Now, her work has led her to France, where she’s determined to provide expectant mothers and their unborn children a refuge amid one of the worst humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Desperate to escape the invasion of Franco’s Fascist troops, Isabel Dueñas becomes one of many Spanish patriots fleeing their country. She leaves behind her husband as he fights for democracy, and she seeks asylum in a refugee camp across the border in France. Without adequate shelter, clean drinking water, or medical care, Isabel’s future looks bleak—until she meets Elisabeth. When Germany invades Poland, an avalanche of humanity sweeps into France. In the cascade of crises that follow, Isabel and Elisabeth learn the cost and the unexpected joy of sacrifice. Based on the true stories of refugees and the woman who risked everything to save them, The Swiss Nurse shares a message of love and strength amid one of history’s often overlooked conflicts. World War II historical fiction inspired by true events Includes discussion questions for book clubs, a historical timeline, and notes from the author Book length: 85,000 words Also by author: Auschwitz Lullaby, Children of the Stars, Remember Me, The Librarian of Saint-Malo, The Teacher of Warsaw

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Harper Muse

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1400236061

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9781400236060

Robot Physical Interaction through the combination of Vision, Tactile and Force Feedback

Applications to Assistive Robotics

By: Mario Prats,Ángel P. del Pobil,Pedro J. Sanz

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Robot Physical Interaction through the combination of Vision, Tactile and Force Feedback

Applications to Assistive Robotics

By: Mario Prats,Ángel P. del Pobil,Pedro J. Sanz

Robot manipulation is a great challenge; it encompasses versatility -adaptation to different situations-, autonomy -independent robot operation-, and dependability -for success under modeling or sensing errors. A complete manipulation task involves, first, a suitable grasp or contact configuration, and the subsequent motion required by the task. This monograph presents a unified framework by introducing task-related aspects into the knowledge-based grasp concept, leading to task-oriented grasps. Similarly, grasp-related issues are also considered during the execution of a task, leading to grasp-oriented tasks which is called framework for physical interaction (FPI). The book presents the theoretical framework for the versatile specification of physical interaction tasks, as well as the problem of autonomous planning of these tasks. A further focus is on sensor-based dependable execution combining three different types of sensors: force, vision and tactile. The FPI approach allows to perform a wide range of robot manipulation tasks. All contributions are validated with several experiments using different real robots placed on household environments; for instance, a high-DoF humanoid robot can successfully operate unmodeled mechanisms with widely varying structure in a general way with natural motions. This research was recipient of the European Georges Giralt Award and the Robotdalen Scientific Award Honorary Mention.

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Springer

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3642332412

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Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

By: Mario Telò

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Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

By: Mario Telò

Considering Butler's tragic trilogy-a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides-this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler's thinking, even when their gaze is directed elsewhere. Through close readings of these tragedies, this book brings to light the tragic quality of Butler's writing. It shows how Butler's mode of reading tragedy-and, crucially, reading tragically-offers a distinctive ethico-political response to the harrowing dilemmas of our current moment. Deeply committed both to critical theory and political activism, Judith Butler is one of the most influential intellectuals today. Their ideas have touched the lives of many people, both readers and those who have never heard Butler's name. In encompassing gender performativity and sexual difference, vulnerability and precarity, disidentification and bodily interdependency, as well as the politics of protest, Butler's work is often predicated on a strong engagement with or proximity to Greek tragedy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350323403

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9781350323407

Luis Leal

An Auto/Biography

By: Mario T. García

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Luis Leal

An Auto/Biography

By: Mario T. García

Professor Luis Leal is one of the most outstanding scholars of Mexican, Latin American, and Chicano literatures and the dean of Mexican American intellectuals in the United States. He was one of the first senior scholars to recognize the viability and importance of Chicano literature, and, through his perceptive literary criticism, helped to legitimize it as a worthy field of study. His contributions to humanistic learning have brought him many honors, including Mexico's Aquila Azteca and the United States' National Humanities Medal. In this testimonio or oral history, Luis Leal reflects upon his early life in Mexico, his intellectual formation at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, and his work and publications as a scholar at the Universities of Illinois and California, Santa Barbara. Through insightful questions, Mario García draws out the connections between literature and history that have been a primary focus of Leal's work. He also elicits Leal's assessment of many of the prominent writers he has known and studied, including Mariano Azuela, William Faulkner, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Tomás Rivera, Rolando Hinojosa, Rudolfo Anaya, Elena Poniatowska, Sandra Cisneros, Richard Rodríguez, and Ana Castillo.

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University of Texas Press

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0292779992

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9780292779990

Mexican Americans

Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960

By: Mario T. García

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Mexican Americans

Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960

By: Mario T. García

Profiles people who have emerged from the barrios between 1930 and 1960 to become leaders of the Mexican-American community

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Yale University Press

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0300049846

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9780300049848

Havana

Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis

By: Joseph L. Scarpaci,Roberto Segre,Mario Coyula

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Havana

Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis

By: Joseph L. Scarpaci,Roberto Segre,Mario Coyula

Newly revised and redesigned, this book assesses nearly 500 years of urban development and planning in Havana, paying particular attention to the city's rich blend of Spanish-Cuban-Latin American-North American architecture and design.

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UNC Press Books

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0807853690

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9780807853696

Dones vs. Obligaciones

By: Mario Vinicio Garza

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Dones vs. Obligaciones

By: Mario Vinicio Garza

Los dones vs obligaciones, es una investigación presentada a la iglesia, no pretendo generalizar ni tampoco ser absoluto, solo trato de salir de mis frustraciones, ya que es fácil. Refutar la hipótesis de un individuo y decir no creo en lo que dice, pero cuan difícil es hacer nuestra propia investigación. Solo trato de probar por la biblia lo que debemos considerar un don y diferenciar las obligaciones, es increíble que la iglesia del siglo veintiuno esté en dudas sobre estos temas. Muchos ponen los dones como obligaciones y esto no debe ser así, no todos los cristianos tienen que ser tímidos y no todos colérico sanguíneo. Sobre todo este estudio tiene por finalidad recocer que las lenguas no son esenciales para la salvación, ni ningún otro don, es más importante nuestros comportamientos, Y nuestros santidad y paz, y creer en Cristo como el hijo de Dios.

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1463338074

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Religion, Torture and the Liberation of God

By: Mario I Aguilar

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Religion, Torture and the Liberation of God

By: Mario I Aguilar

If God can be used by the powerful to justify violence in the name of order, he can also be used by the weak to illuminate the position of the victims of political conflict. Religion, Torture and the Liberation of God explores the theological possibilities of a God who is a prisoner and a victim of torture. The book relocates God to the horrors of the military abuse of human rights in Chile and the systematic rape of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Aguilar argues that this theological exercise offers us new ways of understanding the abuse of power, whether it be the clerical abuse of children, violence against women, or homophobia. This examination of torture and rape becomes, through a theology of praxis and compliance, an examination of solidarity, love and affection. The book concludes with an exploration of the possibilities of a tortured God who liberates.

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Routledge

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1317503082

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A Promise to Keep

By: Mario Bencastro

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A Promise to Keep

By: Mario Bencastro

Sixteen-year-old Sergio, struggling to honor his grandfather's wish to be buried in El Salvador, undertakes a journey filled with unexpected disasters, triumphs, and the memory of his beloved Abuelo.

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Arte Publico Press

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1558856285

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Gateway to the Promised Land

Ethnicity and Culture in New York's Lower East Side

By: Mario Maffi

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Gateway to the Promised Land

Ethnicity and Culture in New York's Lower East Side

By: Mario Maffi

The cultural diversity of America is often summed up by way of a different metaphors: Melting Pot, Patchwork, Quilt, Mosaic--none of which capture the symbiotics of the city. Few neighborhoods personify the diversity these terms connote more than New York City's Lower East Side. This storied urban landscape, today a vibrant mix of avant garde artists and street culture, was home, in the 1910s, to the Wobblies and served, forty years later, as an inspiration for Allen Ginsberg's epic Howl. More recently, it has launched the career of such bands as the B-52s and been the site of one of New York's worst urban riots. In this diverse neighborhood, immigrant groups from all over the world touched down on American soild for the first time and established roots that remain to this day: Chinese immigrants, Italians, and East European Jews at the turn of the century and Puerto Ricans in the 1950s. Over the last hundred years, older communities were transformed and new ones emerged. Chinatown and Little Italy, once solely immigrant centers, began to attract tourists. In the 1960s, radical young whites fled an expensive, bourgeois lifestyle for the urban wilderness of the Lower East Side. Throughout its long and complex history, the Lower East Side has thus come to represent both the compulsion to assimilate American culture, and the drive to rebel against it. Mario Maffi here presents us with a captivating picture of the Lower East Side from the unique perspective of an outsider. The product of a decade of research, Gateway to the Promised Land will appeal to cultural historians, urban, and American historians, and anyone concerned with the challenges America, as an increasingly multicultural society, faces.

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NYU Press

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0814764258

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Only in the Meantime

&, Office Poems

By: Mario Benedetti

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Only in the Meantime

&, Office Poems

By: Mario Benedetti

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Harry Morales. One of Latin America's most widely read writers, Uruguay's Mario Benedetti has dazzled the literary world as a poet, novelist, essayist, critic, journalist, playwright, songwriter, and screenwriter. This first ever bilingual edition of ONLY IN THE MEANTIME & OFFICE POEMS introduces Benedetti's poetry to the English-speaking audience. Opening as reflections of everyday life in Montevideo, the poetry blossoms into an art which speaks to all people from all walks of life. Benedetti's extraordinary handling of irony and simplicity alongside his poetry's unmistakable rhythm make him one of the most brilliant observers of 20th century life. Benedetti's poetry, like that of many of his compeers, has long been overshadowed by his fine prose. This has now been corrected in this superb rendering into English--Gregory Rabassa.

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Host Publications, Inc.

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0924047321

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9780924047329

Political Protest in Western Europe

Exploring the Role of Context in Political Action

By: Mario Quaranta

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Political Protest in Western Europe

Exploring the Role of Context in Political Action

By: Mario Quaranta

This book analyzes the individual and contextual determinants of protest politics in Western Europe. Building on different theoretical perspectives, from social movements theory to political behavior approaches, the author provides new empirical evidence on the patterns of protest politics. Readers will discover why some citizens are more likely to get involved in protests than others, and why levels of protest differ from country to country. The author illustrates that engagement in political protest is often rooted in the interplay of the protester’s individual characteristics and their home country’s contextual characteristics.

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Springer

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3319221620

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Decolonizing Primary English Language Teaching

By: Mario E. López-Gopar

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Decolonizing Primary English Language Teaching

By: Mario E. López-Gopar

This book tells the story of a project in Mexico which aimed to decolonize primary English teaching by building on research that suggests Indigenous students are struggling in educational systems and are discriminated against by the mainstream. Led by their instructor, a group of student teachers aspired to challenge the apparent world phenomenon that associates English with “progress” and make English work in favor of Indigenous and othered children’s ways of being. The book uses stories as well as multimodality in the form of photos and videos to demonstrate how the English language can be used to open a dialogue with children about language ideologies. The approach helps to support minoritized and Indigenous languages and the development of respect for linguistic human rights worldwide.

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Multilingual Matters

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1783095784

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9781783095780

Sabers and Utopias

Visions of Latin America: Essays

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

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Sabers and Utopias

Visions of Latin America: Essays

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

A landmark collection of essays on the Nobel laureate’s conception of Latin America, past, present, and future Throughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Examining liberal claims and searching for cohesion, he continuously weighs the reality of the continent against the image it projects, and considers the political dangers and possibilities that face this diverse set of countries. Now this illuminating and versatile collection assembles these never-before-translated criticisms and meditations. Reflecting the intellectual development of the writer himself, these essays distill the great events of Latin America’s recent history, analyze political groups like FARC and Sendero Luminoso, and evaluate the legacies of infamous leaders such as Papa Doc Duvalier and Fidel Castro. Arranged by theme, they trace Vargas Llosa’s unwavering demand for freedom, his embrace of and disenchantment with revolutions, and his critique of nationalism, populism, indigenism, and corruption. From the discovery of liberal ideas to a defense of democracy, buoyed by a passionate invocation of Latin American literature and art, Sabers and Utopias is a monumental collection from one of our most important writers. Uncompromising and adamantly optimistic, these social and political essays are a paean to thoughtful engagement and a brave indictment of the discrimination and fear that can divide a society.

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Social Movements

An Introduction

By: Donatella della Porta,Mario Diani

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Social Movements

An Introduction

By: Donatella della Porta,Mario Diani

A new, fully-revised and updated edition of the leading introduction to social movements and collective action – covers a broad range of approaches in the social sciences. Now in its third edition, Social Movements is the market-leading introductory text on collective action in contemporary society. The text draws from theory-driven, systematic empirical research from across the social sciences to address central questions and concepts in the field. Sophisticated yet reader-friendly chapters offer critical analyses of relevant literature whilst exploring important issues and debates. The global political landscape has undergone significant changes in the years since this book’s initial publication, such as the spread of online protests, the resurgence of nationalist and right-wing activity, global revolts, and increased social and economic polarization. This thoroughly updated edition offers fresh discussions of recent social movements against austerity from around the world, new empirical examples, references to recent episodes of contention, an expanded comparative approach to social movement theory in the scientific literature, and more. Positioned at the intersection of sociology and political science, this book: Presents an empirical and engaging exploration of contemporary social movements Discusses topics such as organizing within social movements, eventful protests, political opportunities, symbolism and identity in collective action, and social change Highlights how core mechanisms of collective action operate in different movements, past and present Provides a conceptual methodology useful for social science students and researchers alike Highlights how core mechanisms of collective action operate in different movements in the past and present Written by two internationally recognized experts in sociology and political science, the third edition of Social Movements: An Introduction is an essential course text and a must-read for students and scholars of sociology, political sociology, political science, and social movement studies.

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Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis

By: Mario Telò

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Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis

By: Mario Telò

Can attending to poetic form help us imagine a radical politics and bridge the gap between pressing contemporary political concerns and an ancient literature that often seems steeped in dynamics of oppression? The corpus of the fifth-century Athenian playwright Aristophanes includes some of the funniest yet most disturbing comedies of Western literature. His work’s anarchic experimentation with language invites a radically “oversensitive” hyperformalism, a formalistic overanalysis that disrupts, disables, or even abolishes a range of normativities (government, labor, reproduction, gender). Exceeding not just historicist contextualism, but also conventional notions of laughter and the logic of the joke, Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis uses Aristophanes to fully embrace, in the practice of close or “too-close” reading, the etymological and conceptual nexus of crisis, critique, and literary criticism. These exuberant readings of Birds, Frogs, Lysistrata, and Women at the Thesmophoria, together with the first attempt ever to grapple with the comic style of critical theorists Gilles Deleuze, Achille Mbembe, and Jack Halberstam, connect Aristophanes with contemporary discourses of biopolitics, necrocitizenship, care, labor, and transness, and at the same time disclose a quasi- or para-Aristophanic mode in the written textures of critical theory. Here is a radically new approach to the literary criticism of the pre-modern – one that materializes the circuit of crisis and critique through a restless inhabitation of the becomings and unbecomings of comic form.

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1685710883

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Analysis of Variance for Random Models, Volume 2: Unbalanced Data

Theory, Methods, Applications, and Data Analysis

By: Hardeo Sahai,Mario M. Ojeda

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Analysis of Variance for Random Models, Volume 2: Unbalanced Data

Theory, Methods, Applications, and Data Analysis

By: Hardeo Sahai,Mario M. Ojeda

Systematic treatment of the commonly employed crossed and nested classification models used in analysis of variance designs with a detailed and thorough discussion of certain random effects models not commonly found in texts at the introductory or intermediate level. It also includes numerical examples to analyze data from a wide variety of disciplines as well as any worked examples containing computer outputs from standard software packages such as SAS, SPSS, and BMDP for each numerical example.

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The Second Digital Turn

Design Beyond Intelligence

By: Mario Carpo

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The Second Digital Turn

Design Beyond Intelligence

By: Mario Carpo

The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking. Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible form to the first digital age, and left an indelible mark on contemporary architecture. But today's digitally intelligent architecture no longer looks that way. In The Second Digital Turn, Mario Carpo explains that this is because the design professions are now coming to terms with a new kind of digital tools they have adopted—no longer tools for making but tools for thinking. In the early 1990s the design professions were the first to intuit and interpret the new technical logic of the digital age: digital mass-customization (the use of digital tools to mass-produce variations at no extra cost) has already changed the way we produce and consume almost everything, and the same technology applied to commerce at large is now heralding a new society without scale—a flat marginal cost society where bigger markets will not make anything cheaper. But today, the unprecedented power of computation also favors a new kind of science where prediction can be based on sheer information retrieval, and form finding by simulation and optimization can replace deduction from mathematical formulas. Designers have been toying with machine thinking and machine learning for some time, and the apparently unfathomable complexity of the physical shapes they are now creating already expresses a new form of artificial intelligence, outside the tradition of modern science and alien to the organic logic of our mind.

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0262341255

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Participating in Peace

Violence, Development and Dialogue in Colombia

By: Jefferson Jaramillo-Marín,Luz Mery López-Lizarazo,Adriel Ruiz-Galvan,Matthew Louis Bishop,Juan Mario Díaz-Arévalo,Juan Miguel Kanai,Melanie Lombard,Henry Staples,Simon Rushton,Anastasia Shesterinina,Helen Louise Turton

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Participating in Peace

Violence, Development and Dialogue in Colombia

What role does dialogue play in peacebuilding? How can community-based activities contribute to broader peace processes? What can participatory research methods add to local efforts to build peace? In this book, the authors examine these questions through their work with two different Colombian communities who have pursued dialogue amidst ongoing violence, environmental injustice and socio-economic challenges. By reflecting on what people in these contrasting places have achieved through participatory peacebuilding, the authors explore different forms of local agency, the prospects for non-extractive academic engagement, and practical and theoretical lessons for participating in peace in other conflict-affected settings.

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1529229987

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The Truce

The Diary of Martín Santomé

By: Mario Benedetti

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The Truce

The Diary of Martín Santomé

By: Mario Benedetti

Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.' Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles), a good salary and three moody children, widowed accountant Martín Santomé is about to retire. He assumes he'll take up gardening, or the guitar, or whatever retired people do. What he least expects is to fall passionately in love with his shy young employee Laura Avellaneda. As they embark upon an affair, happy and irresponsible, Martín begins to feel the weight of his quiet existence lift - until, out of nowhere, their joy is cut short. The intimate, heartbreaking diary of an ordinary man who is reborn when he falls in love one final time, this beloved Latin American novel has been translated into twenty languages and sold millions of copies worldwide, and is now published in Penguin Classics for the first time.

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0141396865

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Jurisdictional Battlefields

Political Culture, Theatricality, and Spanish Expeditions in Charcas in the second half of the sixteenth century

By: Mario Graña Taborelli

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Jurisdictional Battlefields

Political Culture, Theatricality, and Spanish Expeditions in Charcas in the second half of the sixteenth century

By: Mario Graña Taborelli

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. This book examines three expeditions by the Spanish to the borders of Charcas, a district that covers present-day Bolivia and the northwest of Argentina, in the second half of the sixteenth century, using an approach that has not been attempted until now. Scholarship on these events has framed them as part of a gradual top-down process of centralisation driven by the Crown to extend its power and build a colonial ‘state’ in the Americas. This book challenges that view, approaching the expeditions through an analysis of the political culture that underpinned them. It explores the events within the process of installation and consolidation of royal jurisdiction, understood here as the authority to establish law and deliver justice, in a remote area. This was a process achieved through coercion and violence, as well as negotiation and consensus, that involved both the Spanish and indigenous peoples, and that frequently created overlapping jurisdictions, via downscaling of politics and dispersal of power. Jurisdictional politics were decided and settled in battlefields and courts and involved the theatricalization of power, to make a distant monarch present, which, paradoxically, made such absence the more evident. The book is an invitation to re-dimension the scope of Spain’s empire

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Leadership

Regional and Global Perspectives

By: Nuttawuth Muenjohn,Adela McMurray,Mario Fernando,James Hunt,Martin Fitzgerald,Bernard McKenna,Ali Intezari,Sarah Bankins,Jenny Waterhouse

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Leadership

Regional and Global Perspectives

By: Nuttawuth Muenjohn,Adela McMurray,Mario Fernando,James Hunt,Martin Fitzgerald,Bernard McKenna,Ali Intezari,Sarah Bankins,Jenny Waterhouse

Whether leading a small team or a multinational corporation, within the public or private sector, a thorough understanding of the theory and best practice of leadership is essential. Leadership: Regional and Global Perspectives provides a fresh approach to leading in contemporary business environments. The theory component is complemented by a focus on strategic application. Each chapter features case studies highlighting the practical application of key concepts by organisational leaders in the Australasian region. Case studies at the end of each chapter provide a more nuanced analysis of the theory, while accompanying questions encourage students to think critically. Learning is further supported through the inclusion of learning objectives, key terms, further readings and review questions. An extensive bank of web resources is available to lecturers to support their teaching. Written by an expert team of academics from across Australia, Leadership gives students the tools they need to navigate their leadership journey.

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1108669999

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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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If These Walls Could Talk: Detroit Tigers

Stories from the Detroit Tigers' Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box

By: Mario Impemba,Mike Isenberg,David Dombrowski

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If These Walls Could Talk: Detroit Tigers

Stories from the Detroit Tigers' Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box

By: Mario Impemba,Mike Isenberg,David Dombrowski

Providing a behind-the-scenes look at the personalities and events that have shaped the Detroit Tigers' recent resurgence, readers will meet the players, coaches, and management and share in their moments of greatness, grief, and quirkiness. Beginning in 2002, when author Mario Impemba arrived in the Tigers' broadcast booth and when the team had consecutive 100-loss seasons, the book details how, in just three shorts years, team president Dave Dombrowski and manager Jim Leyland led the Tigers to the American League pennant—a feat the Tigers repeated in 2012. Impemba takes readers into the Comerica Park broadcast booth alongside the legendary Ernie Harwell, onto the team plane during the team's two runs to the World Series, and into the clubhouse as Miguel Cabrera closed in on the 2012 Triple Crown. He shares personal stories about several Tigers stars, including Cabrera, Justin Verlander, Prince Fielder, Curtis Granderson, Ivan Rodriguez, Kenny Rogers, Magglio Ordonez, and more. If These Walls Could Talk: Detroit Tigers gives fans a taste of what it's like to be a part of the Tigers storied history from a perspective unlike any other.

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162368840X

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Analysis of Variance for Random Models

Volume I: Balanced Data Theory, Methods, Applications and Data Analysis

By: Hardeo Sahai,Mario M. Ojeda

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Analysis of Variance for Random Models

Volume I: Balanced Data Theory, Methods, Applications and Data Analysis

By: Hardeo Sahai,Mario M. Ojeda

ANOVA models involving random effects have found widespread application to experimental design in varied fields such as biology, econometrics, and engineering. Volume I of this two-part work is a comprehensive presentation of methods and techniques for point estimation, interval estimation, and hypotheses tests for linear models involving random effects. Volume I examines models with balanced data (orthogonal models); Volume II studies models with unbalanced data (non-orthogonal models). Accessible to readers with a modest mathematical and statistical background, the work will appeal to a broad audience of graduate students, researchers, and practitioners. It can be used as a graduate text or as a self-study reference.

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