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Connecting Cities with Macroeconomic Concerns

The Missing Link : Do Local Public Services Matter? : a Case Study of Five Cities

By: Mila Freire,Mario Polèse,Pamela Echeverria

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Connecting Cities with Macroeconomic Concerns

The Missing Link : Do Local Public Services Matter? : a Case Study of Five Cities

By: Mila Freire,Mario Polèse,Pamela Echeverria

Current economic thinking argues that the ability of cities to create wealth depends on agglomeration economies, relating to the geographic concentration of industries and people which interact to create enterprise, employment and growth. This book finds that the quality of local services significantly influences the productivity and economic development of a city and the ability of firms to contribute to wealth. The study is based on surveys conducted in five cities: Belo Horizonte in Brazil, Montreal in Canada, Puebla in Mexico, San Josâ in Costa Rica and San Salvador in El Salvador.

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World Bank Publications

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0821356739

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The Sudden Star

By: Pamela Sargent

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The Sudden Star

By: Pamela Sargent

From a Nebula award-winning author, society turns to violence after a strange celestial body appears in the sky in this dystopian sci-fi thriller. When what appears to be a star turns its powerful and deadly glare toward earth, the entire planet becomes a living nightmare. Rape, murder and suicide become the norm, and fear grips at the heart of humankind. One doctor goes against the tide, defying the medical code by providing insulin to a diabetic. But a protocol that was once a routine part of his practice turns Dr. Simon Negron into a criminal. With a young prostitute as his only ally, he goes on the run through a world that grows madder with every waking hour. . . . Published in the UK under the title The White Death.

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Open Road Media

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148049741X

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9781480497412

Petroleum And Mexico's Future

By: Pamela S Falk

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Petroleum And Mexico's Future

By: Pamela S Falk

Addressing the effects of the 1982 crisis, through the late 1980s, on Mexico's economic and political systems and assessing the country's potential for entering a period of strong economic growth, contributors to this volume focus on oil, the primary source of Mexico's foreign exchange earnings, and on trade with the United States, the primary mean

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Routledge

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1000302148

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Dreams of Development

Colombia's National School of Mines and Its Engineers, 1887-1970

By: Pamela S. Murray

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Dreams of Development

Colombia's National School of Mines and Its Engineers, 1887-1970

By: Pamela S. Murray

Dreams of Development explores the relationship between higher education and Colombian national development by tracing the history of one of Colombia's most important institutions of higher education, the National School of Mines (Escuela Nacional de Minas) of Medellin. Murray addresses three questions: How did the Escuela form national elites, including politicians, businesspeople, and technocrats destined to play prominent roles in industry and government after 1900? To what extent have such elites shaped the development process? And finally, how has the Escuela's evolution reflected such changes in Colombian society as the rise of an urban middle sector and more active roles for women seeking the opportunities associated with an engineering degree? Murray's analysis of a single institution makes this book valuable both to Colombianists and to other scholars interested in the development of modern Latin American higher education. It also provides unique insight into the positivistic ideals and values that have shaped Colombian and other Latin American elites and dictated the destiny of their countries.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817308393

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9780817308391

Alone Before God

The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico

By: Pamela Voekel

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Alone Before God

The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico

By: Pamela Voekel

Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, Alone Before God provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico. By investigating the religious and political debates surrounding the initiative to transfer the burials of prominent citizens from urban to suburban cemeteries, Pamela Voekel challenges the characterization of Catholicism in Mexico as an intractable and monolithic institution that had to be forcibly dragged into the modern world. Drawing on the archival research of wills, public documents, and other texts from late-colonial and early-republican Mexico, Voekel describes the marked scaling-down of the pomp and display that had characterized baroque Catholic burials and the various devices through which citizens sought to safeguard their souls in the afterlife. In lieu of these baroque practices, the new enlightened Catholics, claims Voekel, expressed a spiritually and hygienically motivated preference for extremely simple burial ceremonies, for burial outside the confines of the church building, and for leaving their earthly goods to charity. Claiming that these changes mirrored a larger shift from an external, corporate Catholicism to a more interior piety, she demonstrates how this new form of Catholicism helped to initiate a cultural and epistemic shift that placed the individual at the center of knowledge. Breaking with the traditional historiography to argue that Mexican liberalism had deeply religious roots, Alone Before God will be of interest to specialists in Latin American history, modernity, and religion.

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Duke University Press

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0822384299

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9780822384298

The Globalization of Contentious Politics

The Amazonian Indigenous Rights Movement

By: Pamela Martin

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The Globalization of Contentious Politics

The Amazonian Indigenous Rights Movement

By: Pamela Martin

This dissertation argues that Amazonian indigenous peoples organized via transnational networks due to the domestic blockages presented to them in their respective countires. Due to these blockages and the growing number of transnational political opportunity structures, such as national and international non-govermental organizations, multi-lateral development banks, and multinational corporation, indigenous peoples mobilized through transnational advocacy networks and eventually formed transnational social movement organizations. Through a comparative-historical analysis of five Ecuadorian Amazonian indigenous organizations, this work illustrates the processes of transnational collective action and its outcomes.

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Routledge

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1317794001

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9781317794004

The Politics of Rights of Nature

Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future

By: Craig M. Kauffman,Pamela L. Martin

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The Politics of Rights of Nature

Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future

By: Craig M. Kauffman,Pamela L. Martin

How Rights of Nature laws are transforming governance to address environmental crises through more ecologically sustainable approaches to development. With the window of opportunity to take meaningful action on climate change and mass extinction closing, a growing number of communities, organizations, and governments around the world are calling for Rights of Nature (RoN) to be legally recognized. RoN advocates are creating new laws that recognize natural ecosystems as subjects with inherent rights, and appealing to courts to protect those rights. Going beyond theory and philosophy, in this book Craig Kauffman and Pamela Martin analyze the politics behind the creation and implementation of these laws, as well as the effects of the laws on the politics of sustainable development. Kauffman and Martin tell how community activists, lawyers, judges, scientists, government leaders, and ordinary citizens have formed a global movement to advance RoN as a solution to the environmental crises facing the planet. They compare successful and failed attempts to implement RoN at various levels of government in six countries--Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, India, New Zealand, and the United States--asking why these laws emerged and proliferated in the mid-2000s, why they construct RoN differently, and why some efforts at implementation are more successful than others. As they analyze efforts to use RoN as a tool for constructing more ecocentric sustainable development, capable of achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development goal of living "in harmony with Nature," Kauffman and Martin show how RoN jurisprudence evolves through experimentation and reshapes the debates surrounding sustainable development.

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MIT Press

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0262366592

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9780262366595

The Black History Truth: Argentina

No Hay Gente Negroes Aqui (There Are No Black People Here)

By: Pamela Gayle

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The Black History Truth: Argentina

No Hay Gente Negroes Aqui (There Are No Black People Here)

By: Pamela Gayle

Reviewed by Daniel D Staats for Readers' Favorite - Five Stars. If you like history and/or geography, you will love The Black History Truth: Argentina by Pamela Gayle. The first part of this book is a great introduction to the land of Argentina and its history. Pamela covers the history of this South American country from before the Conquistadors came and destroyed the land as it was. Pamela goes back in history and explains the foundations of chattel slavery. She gives the common beliefs that are espoused by historians, then gives the darker side of the truth. She exposes the fallacies often found in Eurocentric history. Since whites were in charge, they wrote the history and shaded the facts to give credit to the whites instead of natives and Africans. Pamela makes sure to correct many fallacies and give a true accounting of history. In The Black History Truth: Argentina by Pamela Gayle, one learns the heretofore untold stories of the contributions of Africans to Argentina. Pamela wants to boost the usefulness of this book and does so by giving assignments at the end of each chapter. These assignments help the newly learned information to stick in the mind. Pamela does an excellent job of presenting a volatile subject calmly and respectfully. The facts in this book are backed up with the truth behind the myths that have been taught for centuries. One needs to have an open mind as one reads this book. Many of the facts presented by Pamela will be new to most readers. Remember, just because the information is new to you does not mean it is not correct. One refrain you will find in this book is: "Yet, the truth is...

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Grosvenor House Publishing

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1839759801

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Religion, Art, and Feminism

By: Pamela Kirk Rappaport

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Religion, Art, and Feminism

By: Pamela Kirk Rappaport

The seventeenth-century Mexican nun, scholar, and writer Sor Juana has inspired numerous literary studies, including works by Octavio Paz, George Tavard, M. Sayers Peden, Jean Franco, Alan Trueblood, E. Arenal, and A. Powell. In contrast, Kirk offers a theological analysis of the less frequently studied religious writings that comprise two-thirds of Sor Juana's oeuvre. -- Back cover.

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Pamela Kirk Rappaport

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082641043X

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9780826410436

Toward a Culture of Nature

Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in Cuba

By: Pamela Stricker

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Toward a Culture of Nature

Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in Cuba

By: Pamela Stricker

Toward a Culture of Nature is a comprehensive study of Cuba's environmental policy, specifically the response of the Cuban government to the collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent shortage of petroleum products. Pamela Stricker analyzes Cuba's transition to sustainable models of agriculture, efforts toward energy independence using renewable resources, the adoption of "green" medicine, a framework law on environmental protection, the impact of tourism and foreign investment on the island, incorporation of environmental education, and the crafting of a culture of nature, that is, a Cuban environmental ethics of sustainable development. Going beyond the standard accounts of formal legislation and executive institutions, Professor Stricker pays special attention to the scientists and activists who worked in all capacities (governmental and non-governmental) to bring about change to the environmental policies. Spanning the second half of the twentieth-century, Toward a "Culture of Nature" is an important case study of environmental policy, ethics, and sustainable development.

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Lexington Books

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0739120239

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9780739120231

The Five George Masons

By: Pamela C. Copeland,Richard K. McMaster

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The Five George Masons

By: Pamela C. Copeland,Richard K. McMaster

A Founding Father, a patriot in the Revolutionary War, a delegate from Virginia to the Constitutional Convention, and one of the driving forces behind the creation of the U.S. Bill of Rights, George Mason (1725-1792) worked passionately and diligently throughout his life, both as a private citizen and as a public servant, to ensure that government protected the inherent rights of the people. The Five George Masons, first published in 1975, provides a comprehensive overview of five generations of the Mason family, beginning with George Mason I, who fled England following the defeat of the Royalists at the second battle of Worcester in 1651, arriving in the Colony of Virginia in the early 1650s. Central to this volume, of course, is George Mason IV, who, while less celebrated than his fellow Virginians George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, was one of America’s outstanding thinkers, legislators, and writers; his ideals and legacy endure to this day. This second edition includes a new foreword as well as color photos and maps, while faithfully reproducing the original edition’s unique genealogical charts of the Mason family. In tracing the family history of the Masons, the book provides important context for understanding the life and work of George Mason IV, who wrote: "All men are by nature equally free and inde¬pendent, and have certain inherent rights." The Five George Masons serves as a uniquely valuable resource for histo¬rians, educators, genealogists, and all those interested in the history of Virginia and the early United States. Distributed for the George Mason University Press

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University of Virginia Press

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1942695012

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9781942695011

Nation of Enemies Chile Under Pinochet

By: Pamela Constable,Arturo Valenzuela

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Nation of Enemies Chile Under Pinochet

By: Pamela Constable,Arturo Valenzuela

An account of the polarization of Chilean society under Augusto Pinochet and of Chile's return to democratic government.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393309851

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9780393309850

Readers and Writers in Cuba

A Social History of Print Culture, l830s-l990s

By: Pamela Maria Smorkaloff

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Readers and Writers in Cuba

A Social History of Print Culture, l830s-l990s

By: Pamela Maria Smorkaloff

This study examines the evolution of Cuban literature and culture from its origins in the 19th century to the present. The early sections analyze the relationship between literary production and universities, the printing press, the abolitionist movement and the exile community from 1810 through the post-war years. Subsequent sections trace literary life from the 1920s to 1958, focusing on the links between writers, readers, and the institutions that supported literary endeavors in the Cuban Republic. The remaining chapters address Cuban literary culture from 1959 through the 1990s. This first thorough study of Cuban print culture after the 1959 revolution fills a large gap in Latin American studies with original research in archives and journals. Analysis of the relationship between literature and contemporary Cuban society is grounded in the earliest Cuban vernacular literature born in the Spanish colony and redefined in the process of nation-building in the first half of the 20th century. The book also surveys Cuban literary production in the current period of transition, confronting issues of globalization, fragmentation, and Cuba's adjustment to a post-Cold War world.

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Routledge

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131794559X

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9781317945598

A Gentleman's Kiss Romance Collection

9 Modern Romances with an Old-Fashioned Quality

By: Ginny Aiken,Kristin Billerbeck,Lynn A. Coleman,Peggy Darty,Rebecca Germany,Bev Huston,Yvonne Lehman,Gail Sattler,Pamela Kaye Tracy

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A Gentleman's Kiss Romance Collection

9 Modern Romances with an Old-Fashioned Quality

By: Ginny Aiken,Kristin Billerbeck,Lynn A. Coleman,Peggy Darty,Rebecca Germany,Bev Huston,Yvonne Lehman,Gail Sattler,Pamela Kaye Tracy

Are you ready for some good old-fashioned romance in a contemporary setting? Then you’ll enjoy these nine stories of modern women who are forced to slow down and take a new look at dating and romance when new men enter their lives. For some it will take vacation time, others will discover through music, while some need the gentle nudges from both God and Grandma. Delight in discovering how chivalry is not dead despite the stresses of today’s world.

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Barbour Publishing

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1634094115

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Readers and Writers in Cuba

A Social History of Print Culture, 1830s-1990s

By: Pamela María Smorkaloff

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Readers and Writers in Cuba

A Social History of Print Culture, 1830s-1990s

By: Pamela María Smorkaloff

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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081532099X

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9780815320999

Teaching for Moral Imagination

An Interdisciplinary Exploration

By: Pamela Bolotin Joseph

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Teaching for Moral Imagination

An Interdisciplinary Exploration

By: Pamela Bolotin Joseph

Teaching for Moral Imagination: An Interdisciplinary Exploration examines the multifaceted nature of morality and ethics, moral development, and moral education so to provide educators with a clear yet complex understanding of theories, issues, practices, and curricular content. This text is intended to be an accessible work of academic significance that inspires educators’ deliberation about personal and societal values as well as approaches for fostering children’s and adolescents’ moral development, cultivating ethical classrooms and schools, and creating transformative moral education curricula. Teaching for Moral Imagination will be a pertinent text for teacher preparation courses that specifically focus on the moral dimensions of education as well as more comprehensive classes about teaching, teachers, and classroom culture. Such classes are offered in undergraduate and graduate teacher preparation programs, professional studies for experienced teachers, educational studies classes in the liberal arts, and doctoral seminars for students becoming teacher educators and educational leaders. This book also is intended as a source for teachers’ professional development in schools and for reading groups. Finally, in our contemporary societies emphasizing extreme individualism, competition, conformity, and prejudice as well as unexamined beliefs leading to violence in words and actions, it is crucial to consider how schools can encourage ethical reasoning, compassion, and transformative alternatives for moral education. ENDORSEMENTS: "Teaching for Moral Imagination is a remarkable book and a wonderful contribution to the field. It is a must read for anyone trying to make sense of the multi-faceted moral nature of schooling. Everyone who pursues a career in teaching is fundamentally drawn to the moral dimensions of their work, but there is little, if any, emphasis given to those fundamental moral features in teacher preparation programs and teacher professional development. In this book, Dr. Joseph does the difficult work of both conceptualizing the moral domain and illustrating these dimensions in way that will uniquely help teachers and school leaders develop elegant moral language and fully understand their role as moral educators and moral agents. It is an outstanding contribution from a scholar who brings the philosophy of morality and the psychology of moral development to bear on life in classrooms." — Rich Osguthorpe, Brigham Young University "In her book, Teaching for Moral Imagination, Pamela Joseph shows profoundly how moral values are embedded in education and in the pedagogical role of teachers. Joseph brings together many different perspectives on moral education, including philosophical and psychological foundations, and develops her interesting own position with a focus on moral imagination. She argues for “widening ethical perspectives, encouraging critical reflection on values, stimulating new perspectives about how to be moral human beings, and creating just and caring classroom and school communities”. Joseph’s book can inspire teachers and researchers in their work on preparing young people for future society." — Wiel Veugelers, University of Humanistic Studies "This is an incredibly complex and wonderful book. When you read Teaching for Moral Imagination, what will become clear is what educators need to learn and do to transform the wider ethical environment all around us. This is invaluable reading for all teachers, school and district leaders and teacher educators who realise the significance of ethics in education and who seek to critically engage with the potential of human and social moral development. Joseph offers a rich vision of interdisciplinary scholarship and on her horizon is nonviolence for all forms of life on the planet. The book conceptualises how moral imagination generates powerful insights into individual, social and cultural normative diversity and explores a range of transformative moral curricula to grow future generations’ capacities for tackling complex relations and global challenges." — Daniella J. Forster, University of Newcastle, Australia

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IAP

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My poems and others animals

By: Pamela Corbett

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My poems and others animals

By: Pamela Corbett

About The Author. Pamela Corbett was born and educated in England, and, some years after she married, settled in Argentina with her husband and daughter, where she presently resides. Writing stories, poetry and gardening occupy her time. 'As a painter I deal with colour,' she says, 'and, naturally, everything about visual creative expression delights me, but I am also endlessly intrigued and fascinated by the myriad colours and nuances found in the realm of speech and sound. So the marriage of the two, in this book, was, for me, a party.

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Editorial Autores de Argentina

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9877116847

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9789877116847

Rewiring Regional Security in a Fragmented World

By: Chester A. Crocker,Fen Osler Hampson,Pamela R. Aall,United States Institute of Peace

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Rewiring Regional Security in a Fragmented World

By: Chester A. Crocker,Fen Osler Hampson,Pamela R. Aall,United States Institute of Peace

Rewiring Regional Security in a Fragmented World examines conflict management capacities and gaps regionally and globally, and assesses whether regions--through their regional organizations or through loose coalitions of states, regional bodies, and non-official actors--are able to address an array of new and emerging security threats.

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US Institute of Peace Press

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1601270704

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9781601270702

Golf Courses

The Complete Guide to Over 14,000 Courses Nationwide

By: Julius C. Wright,Pamela Lanier

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Golf Courses

The Complete Guide to Over 14,000 Courses Nationwide

By: Julius C. Wright,Pamela Lanier

This is a comprehensive guide to over 10,000 golf courses in the United States that are open to the public. The book contains complete details, green fees and information on the clubhouse facilities.

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Ten Speed Press

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0898157323

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9780898157321

Connecting Cities with Macroeconomic Concerns

The Missing Link : Do Local Public Services Matter? : a Case Study of Five Cities

By: Mila Freire,Mario Polèse,Pamela Echeverria

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Connecting Cities with Macroeconomic Concerns

The Missing Link : Do Local Public Services Matter? : a Case Study of Five Cities

By: Mila Freire,Mario Polèse,Pamela Echeverria

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World Bank Publications

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0821356739

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For Glory and Bolívar

The Remarkable Life of Manuela Sáenz

By: Pamela S. Murray

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For Glory and Bolívar

The Remarkable Life of Manuela Sáenz

By: Pamela S. Murray

She was a friend, lover, and confidante of charismatic Spanish American independence hero Simón Bolívar and, after her death, a nationalist icon in her own right. Yet authors generally have chosen either to romanticize Manuela Sáenz or to discount her altogether. ... [author], for the first time, closely examines Sáenz's political trajectory including her vital, often-overlooked years in exhile. [author] exposes the myths that still surround her and offers, in short, a nuanced and much-needed historical perspective, one that balances recognition of Sáenz's uniqueness with awareness of the broader forces that shaped this dynamic nineteenth-century woman"--Book jacket.

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