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El Secreto Que Hizo Realidad Un Sue O

By: Mercedes Contreras

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El Secreto Que Hizo Realidad Un Sue O

By: Mercedes Contreras

Este libro fue escrito en homenaje a todos aquellos niños de alrededor del mundo que afectados por la pobreza, intolerancia e incomprensión se ven obligados a hacerse cargo de sus propias vidas y quienes creen que difícilmente los sueños se hacen realidad. Es la historia de un niño, que nació y creció en medio de una familia disfuncional. Su abuelo, un hombre de carácter débil pero el único que le demostraba cariño, le confesó, que había un secreto en su vida, ¿pero cual? El niño abandonó su casa a muy corta edad y se fue a vivir a las frías calles Bogotanas donde hizo amistad con otros dos niños quienes se convirtieron en su familia y con los que vivió muchas aventuras. Al pasar algunos años, regresó a casa con la intención de ver a su hermanita. Al llegar encontró muchos cambios. El menor de sus hermanos vivía con personas extrañas. ¿Qué había pasado con su abuela y su tía? ¿Dónde estaban su mamá y sus hermanos? ¿Qué pasó con su hermanita? A raíz de esto se comienza a descubrir el misterio. La historia tiene un final sorprendente e inesperado.

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218

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Palibrio

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1463337094

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9781463337094

Power For: Feminism and Christ's Self-Giving

By: Anna Mercedes

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Power For: Feminism and Christ's Self-Giving

By: Anna Mercedes

Contesting the feminist critique of the dangers of Christianity's self-giving ethics, this book advances a contemporary feminist christology engaging the strength of self-giving power.

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185

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567277682

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9780567277688

The Inquisition Trial of Jerónimo de Rojas, A Morisco of Toledo (1601-1603)

By: Mercedes García-Arenal,Rafael Benitez Sanchez-Blanco

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The Inquisition Trial of Jerónimo de Rojas, A Morisco of Toledo (1601-1603)

By: Mercedes García-Arenal,Rafael Benitez Sanchez-Blanco

This book contains the whole text of an Inquisition trial of a Morisco (converted Muslim) of Toledo, Spain, condemned to burn at the stake. It is preceded by an introduction which studies the trial and shows the multifaceted aspects of the text and its protagonists.

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455

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BRILL

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9004501606

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9789004501607

Cashing in on Education

Women, Childcare, and Prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean

By: Mercedes Mateo Díaz,Lourdes Rodriguez-Chamussy

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Cashing in on Education

Women, Childcare, and Prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean

By: Mercedes Mateo Díaz,Lourdes Rodriguez-Chamussy

Investments in education across countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have transformed the lives of millions of girls and the prospects of their families and societies. Unleashing the full economic potential of women is nevertheless still a curtailed issue in the region: just about half of women are unable to participate in paid work. The majority of the population out of the labor market is women between the ages of 24 and 45. This is the largest share of the available pool of unused human capital countries have, and where mothers of young children are concentrated. This book argues that more and better childcare constitutes a fundamental policy option to improve female outcomes in the labor market, but countries need to pay particular attention to the design and features of such services. First-rate educational programs will be useless if children are not enrolled or do not attend formal education centers. A large program expansion will be wasted if parents cannot enroll their children because they are unable to reach the center, don’t trust its quality, if the program is too expensive, or if work and care schedules are not compatible. Through an integrated framework applied to each country and an overview of the existing evidence, this book addresses the why and what questions about policy relevant instruments to achieve female labor participation. Parts I and II of the book lay out the motivation for Latin-American and Caribbean countries to act depicting their current situation both in terms of women’s labor participation and the use and provision of childcare services. Moreover, this book tackles the how question contributing to the incipient evidence about factors affecting the take-up of programs and demand for childcare services and other informal care arrangements. Part III of the book explores how to improve services and implement more and better formal, center-based care arrangements for young children. It looks at international benchmarks, discusses different experiences and proposes specific actions to solve potential inequalities in access to childcare.

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271

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World Bank Publications

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1464809038

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9781464809033

Let them all tell you what happened

By: Mercedes Pescador

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Let them all tell you what happened

By: Mercedes Pescador

These pages have been written by authors from the five continents fro March to May 2020, and they make up an emotional X-ray of what they were thinking and feeling while faced by a threat to their own lives. Artists, teachers, mayors, pensioners, ambassadors, homemakers, diplomats, writers, jobless, nurses... of all ages and origins, they all string their words together and write about love, fear, family, time or future. There are some who express themselves with a poem, an entry in a diary, a story or a critical reflection; and others with an illustration or a photograph. Together they create an intimate and diverse testimony of how a pandemic, the one in 2020, changed who we are as human beings.

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Lo Que No Existe Producciones, S.L.U.

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8412271033

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9788412271034

Las relaciones comerciales marítimas entre Andalucía occidental y el Mediterráneo central en el II milenio a.C.

By: Mercedes de Caso Bernal

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Las relaciones comerciales marítimas entre Andalucía occidental y el Mediterráneo central en el II milenio a.C.

By: Mercedes de Caso Bernal

This volume reflects on the unique status of the Western Mediterranean in the Bronze Age, considering the independence of its development and the existence of an indigenous maritime trade.

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140

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1789695120

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9781789695120

Housing Policy in Latin American Cities

A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III

By: Peter M. Ward,Edith R. Jiménez Huerta,María Mercedes Di Virgilio

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Housing Policy in Latin American Cities

A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III

By: Peter M. Ward,Edith R. Jiménez Huerta,María Mercedes Di Virgilio

After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "irregular" settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas and other large cities. There has been a variety of research directed at the housing policies involved with these informal settlements, yet apart from the activities of Latin American Housing Network (LAHN), there has been minimal attention directed at the earliest portion of settlements that formed some 25-40 years ago that now form a large part of the intermediate ring of the cities. This volume breaks new ground by opening up a new generation of housing policy in Latin America cities with broader application for other developing countries. Its editors bring unique perspectives: Peter Ward coordinates the LAHN, and Edith Jiménez and María Di Virgilio are founding members of the network who have led project teams in Guadalajara and Buenos Aires respectively. Developed as a coordinated collaborative research project, the volume encompasses nine Latin American countries and eleven cities. The editors and contributors offer original perspectives on the policy challenges facing much of the low income housing of Latin American cities; document the changing nature of the "first suburbs"; present comparative survey findings in order to better understand the types of consolidated settlements that exist today; describe the physical nature of the dwellings themselves; identify the reasons behind market dysfunction that impede the operation of consolidated housing informal markets in Latin American cities; and outline a new generation of housing policies that will support the processes of densification, rehabilitation, and regeneration of these settlements. This book is the first and only composite overview of the research findings and advocacy of the generic policy lines that the LAHN identifies as central to a new generation of housing strategies and approaches. Researchers and practitioners working on housing theory, housing policy, comparative spatial and sociological research, and urban development issues will find the book highly significant.

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379

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Routledge

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1317680111

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9781317680116

Collecting from the Margins

Material Culture in a Latin American Context

By: María Mercedes Andrade

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Collecting from the Margins

Material Culture in a Latin American Context

By: María Mercedes Andrade

From the cabinets of wonderof the Renaissance to the souvenir collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are and what we value. Collecting, both private and institutional, has been instrumental in the consolidation of modern notions of the individual and of the nation, and numerous studies have discussed its complex political, social, economic, anthropological, and psychological implications. However, studies of collecting as practiced in colonized cultures are few, since the role of these cultures has usually been understood as that of purveyors of objects for the metropolitan collector. Collecting from the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American Context seeks to counter the historical understanding of collecting that posits the metropolis as collecting subject and the colonial or postcolonial society as supplier of collectible objects by asking instead how collecting has been practiced and understood in Latin America. Has collecting been viewed or portrayed differently in a Latin American context? Does the act of collecting, when viewed from a Latin American perspective, unsettle the way we have become accustomed to think about it? What differences, if any, arise in the activity of collecting in colonized or previously colonial societies? Spanning the period after the independence wars until the 1980s, this collection of ten essays addresses a broad range of examples of collecting practices in Latin America. Collecting during the nineteenth century is addressed in discussions of the creation of the first national museums of Argentina and Colombia in the post-independence period, as well as in analyses of the private collections of modernistas such as Enrique Gómez Carrillo, Rubén Darío, José Asunción Silva, and Delmira Agustini at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. The practice of collecting in the twentieth century is discussed in analyses of the self-described revolutionary practices of Oswald de Andrade, Augusto de Campos and the films of Ruy Guerra, as well as the polemical collections of Pablo Neruda, and the unsettling collections portrayed in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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243

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Rowman & Littlefield

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161148734X

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9781611487343

Policy Instruments to Lean Against the Wind in Latin America

By: Mr.G. Terrier,Mr.Rodrigo O. Valdes,Mr.Camilo Ernesto Tovar Mora,Mr.Jorge A. Chan-Lau,Carlos Fernandez Valdovinos,Ms.Mercedes Garcia-Escribano,Mr.Carlos I. Medeiros,Man-Keung Tang,MissMercedes Vera Martin,W. Christopher Walker

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Policy Instruments to Lean Against the Wind in Latin America

This paper reviews policy tools that have been used and/or are available for policy makers in the region to lean against the wind and review relevant country experiences using them. The instruments examined include: (i) capital requirements, dynamic provisioning, and leverage ratios; (ii) liquidity requirements; (iii) debt-to-income ratios; (iv) loan-to-value ratios; (v) reserve requirements on bank liabilities (deposits and nondeposits); (vi) instruments to manage and limit systemic foreign exchange risk; and, finally, (vii) reserve requirements or taxes on capital inflows. Although the instruments analyzed are mainly microprudential in nature, appropriately calibrated over the financial cycle they may serve for macroprudential purposes.

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International Monetary Fund

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1455297720

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9781455297726

A Man of Three Worlds

Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe

By: Mercedes García-Arenal,Gerard Wiegers

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A Man of Three Worlds

Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe

By: Mercedes García-Arenal,Gerard Wiegers

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 From Fez to Madrid -- Chapter 2 Jews in Morocco -- Chapter 3 Between the Dutch Republic and Morocco -- Chapter 4 Privateering, Prison, and Death -- Chapter 5 After Samuel: The Pallache Family -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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JHU Press

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0801886236

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9780801886232

Haciendo Linguistica

Homenaje a Paola Bentivoglio

By: Mercedes Sedano

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Haciendo Linguistica

Homenaje a Paola Bentivoglio

By: Mercedes Sedano

El título del libro recoge de manera muy acertada el espíritu de la obra, la cual reúne un conjunto de artículos que reflejan el quehacer lingüístico de sus autores. El volumen cubre los más variados aspectos del estudio del lenguaje a través de sus cinco secciones: Fonética, fonología y entonación; Gramática; Léxico y semántica; Discurso y pragmática; Historia, sociedad, teoría y metodología."--Page 4 of cover.

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Fondo Editorial Humanidades

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9800023062

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9789800023068

Sesiones Clínicas de Psicología Clínica

By: María Martinez,Mercedes De Juan,Angeles Enriquez,Yolanda De Juan

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Sesiones Clínicas de Psicología Clínica

By: María Martinez,Mercedes De Juan,Angeles Enriquez,Yolanda De Juan

Se presentan una serie de sesiones clinicas elaboradas por las autoras que corresponden a distintos contextos de aplicación de la Psicología Clínica en el SNS.

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237

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Lulu.com

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1471031403

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El Secreto Que Hizo Realidad Un Sue O

El Secreto Que Hizo Realidad Un Sue O

Power For: Feminism and Christ's Self-Giving

Power For: Feminism and Christ's Self-Giving

The Inquisition Trial of Jerónimo de Rojas, A Morisco of Toledo (1601-1603)

The Inquisition Trial of Jerónimo de Rojas, A Morisco of Toledo (1601-1603)

Cashing in on Education

Cashing in on Education

Let them all tell you what happened

Let them all tell you what happened

Las relaciones comerciales marítimas entre Andalucía occidental y el Mediterráneo central en el II milenio a.C.

Las relaciones comerciales marítimas entre Andalucía occidental y el Mediterráneo central en el II milenio a.C.

Housing Policy in Latin American Cities

Housing Policy in Latin American Cities

Collecting from the Margins

Collecting from the Margins

Policy Instruments to Lean Against the Wind in Latin America

Policy Instruments to Lean Against the Wind in Latin America

A Man of Three Worlds

A Man of Three Worlds

Haciendo Linguistica

Haciendo Linguistica

Sesiones Clínicas de Psicología Clínica

Sesiones Clínicas de Psicología Clínica

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