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Urban Transformations in the Late Antique West: Materials, Agents, and Models

By: André Carneiro,Neil Christie,Pilar Diarte Blasco

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Urban Transformations in the Late Antique West: Materials, Agents, and Models

By: André Carneiro,Neil Christie,Pilar Diarte Blasco

This volume is the fruit of a highly productive international research gathering academic and professional (field- and museum) colleagues to discuss new results and approaches, recent finds and alternative theoretical assessments of the period of transition and transformation of classical towns in Late Antiquity. Experts from an array of modern countries attended and presented to help compare and contrast critically archaeologies of diverse regions and to debate the qualities of the archaeology and the current modes of study. While a number of papers inevitably focused on evidence available for both Spain and Portugal, we were delighted to have a spread of contributions that extended the picture to other territories in the Late Roman West and Mediterranean. The emphasis was very much on the images presented by archaeology (rescue and research works, recent and past), but textual data were also brought into play by various contributors.

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Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press

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989261898X

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9789892618982

The Man of Villa Tevere

St. Josemaría Escrivá: His Years in Rome

By: Pilar Urbano

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The Man of Villa Tevere

St. Josemaría Escrivá: His Years in Rome

By: Pilar Urbano

Newly translated from Spanish, The Man of Villa Tevere paints a remarkably vivid portrait of the day-to-day life of St. Josemaría Escrivá, “the saint of the ordinary.” Set in the world headquarters of Opus Dei and rich with anecdotes culled from the Founder’s contemporaries, this acclaimed biography chronicles the construction of the Roman center through Monsignor Escrivá's death there in 1975. When St. Josemaría arrived in Rome, nearly twenty years after founding Opus Dei, there was still much to be done and little was to come easily. Escrivá maintained that full canonical confirmation from the Catholic Church was imperative to the mission of Opus Dei, but he would not live to see that proclamation delivered. As a relatively young institution, Opus Dei was constantly challenged by limited funds, persecution, and St. Josemaría’s physical tribulations—including fifteen minutes during which he was clinically dead. Yet because he considered himself simply "a poor sinner, who loves Jesus Christ madly," no suffering was too great to be embraced with cheerfulness and sanctified for love of the Lord. And so it was from this place, from this man, that Opus Dei spread throughout the world. Pilar Urbano’s celebrated biography of St. Josemaría is now available for the first time in English, coinciding with the release of There Be Dragons, the much-anticipated film by Roland Joffe, featuring the life of St. Josemaría Escrivá. Like Escrivá himself, The Man of Villa Tevere overflows with vibrant energy and gentle wisdom, manifesting the spirit of Opus Dei and inspiring multitudes to lead truly Christian lives. Contains four pages of photos.

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1594171548

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Dwellers of Memory

Youth and Violence in Medellin, Colombia

By: Pilar Riano-Alcala

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Dwellers of Memory

Youth and Violence in Medellin, Colombia

By: Pilar Riano-Alcala

Dwellers of Memory is an ethnographic study of how urban youth in Colombia came to be at the intersection of multiple forms of political, drug-related, and territorial violence in a country undergoing forty years of internal armed conflict. It examines the ways in which youth in the city of Medellin reconfigure their lives and, cultural worlds in the face of widespread violence. This violence has transgressed familiar boundaries and destroyed basic social supports and networks of trust. This volume attempts to map and understand its patterns and flows. The author explores how Medellin's youth locate themselves and make, sense of violence through contradictory and shifting memory practices. The violence has not completely taken over their cultural worlds or their subjectivities. Practices of remembering and forgetting are key methods by which these youth rework their identities and make sense of the impact of violence on their lives. While the experience of violence is rooted in urban space and urban youth, the memory dwellers use a sense of place, oral histories of death, and narratives of fear as survival strategies for inhabiting violent neighborhoods. The book also examines fissures in memory, the contradictory constructions of young people's subjective selves, and practices of gendered violence and terror. All have and continue to pose risks to the historical memory and cultural survival of the residents of Medellin. Dwellers of Memory offers an alternative ethnographic approach to the study of memory and violence, one that calls into question whether the, role of the ethnographer of violence is to be a mere witness of terror, or to oppose it by writing against it. It will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, and students of, ethnography.

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Routledge

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1351521497

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Diccionario Bilingüe de Metáforas y Metonimias Científico-Técnicas

Ingeniería, Arquitectura y Ciencias de la Actividad Física

By: Georgina Cuadrado-Esclapez,Irina Argüelles Álvarez,Maria Pilar Duran Escribano,Maria José Gomez Ortiz,Silvia Molina Plaza,Joana Pierce McMahon,Maria-Mar Robisco-Martín,Ana Roldán-Riejos,Paloma Úbeda-Mansilla

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Diccionario Bilingüe de Metáforas y Metonimias Científico-Técnicas

Ingeniería, Arquitectura y Ciencias de la Actividad Física

Diccionario Bilingüe de Metáforas y Metonimias Científico-Técnicas presents the extensive range of metaphoric and metonymic terms and expressions that are commonly used within the fields of science, engineering, architecture and sports science. Compiled by a team of linguists working across a range of technical schools within the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, this practical dictionary fills a gap in the field of technical language and will be an indispensable reference for students within the fields of science, engineering or sports science seeking to work internationally and for translators and interpreters working in these specialist fields.

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1317508122

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9781317508120

European Socialists and Spain

The Transition to Democracy, 1959-77

By: Pilar Ortuño Anaya

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European Socialists and Spain

The Transition to Democracy, 1959-77

By: Pilar Ortuño Anaya

Pilar Ortuño Anaya breaks new ground in the study of the international dimensions of the Spanish transition to democracy. She argues that specific individuals and organizations made a significant contribution to the democratization process. Dr Ortuño Anaya establishes for the first time the role played by European socialist and trade union organizations, in particular the German Social Democratic Party and its affiliated unions, the Labour movements in the United Kingdom, and the French Socialists.

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Springer

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1403907013

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XXXII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

By: Elena Marín González,Manuela Olmedo Córdoba,Rocío Rodríguez Herrera,José Pinteño,Margarita Moreno,Pilar Fernández Marín,Pilar Flores Cubos

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XXXII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

By: Elena Marín González,Manuela Olmedo Córdoba,Rocío Rodríguez Herrera,José Pinteño,Margarita Moreno,Pilar Fernández Marín,Pilar Flores Cubos

The XXXII International Conference of the Spanish Society for Comparative Psychology has been organized by the Spanish Society of Comparative Psychology (SEPC), at the University of Almeria, on 21st, 22nd and 23rd September of 2022. The present work includes the abstracts of the different symposia, oral communications and poster sessions presented during the meetings. There were 2 plenary lectures about “Perceptual learning mechanisms and its implications for eating behavior” presented by Isabel de Brugada Sauras (University of Granada) and “Expanding the scope of associative learning models by incorporating the untidiness of natural stimuli” presented by Federico Sanabria and Cristina Santos (Arizona State University). Moreover, There were 30 symposia (divided into 7 sessions), 41 oral communications (divided into 8 sessions), and 55 posters (divided into 3 sessions). Finally, 21 people constituted the organizational committee and 27 people constituted the scientific committee.

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Universidad Almería

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8413511801

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9788413511801

Identity, Culture, And Politics In The Basque Diaspora

By: Gloria Pilar Totoricagüena

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Identity, Culture, And Politics In The Basque Diaspora

By: Gloria Pilar Totoricagüena

Gloria P. Totoricagüena presents a thorough comparative examination of the remarkable endurance of Basque identity and culture in six countries of the far-flung Basque diaspora. Using the results of interviews and extensive anonymous surveys with more than eight hundred informants in the diaspora, plus extensive research in archives and printed sources in all six of her study countries, Totoricagüena reveals for the first time the complex and interrelated universe of these dispersed Basques. She explores the elements of their migration patterns and the institutions that have encouraged identity maintenance, the impacts on established communities of each new wave of immigrants, and the nature of economic and political ties with the homeland. Totoricagüena offers a superb quantitative study of an aspect of Basque culture that has been largely ignored by scholars—the diaspora. In doing so, she enlarges the understanding of cultural identity in general—how it is defined and preserved, how it evolves over time, and how both the politics of distant places and the most intimate family habits can shape an individual’s sense of self. Identity, Culture, and Politics in the Basque Diaspora is a major contribution to the knowledge of Basques and their persistent political and cultural traditions.

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University of Nevada Press

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0874175755

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9780874175752

Contested Nation

The Mapuche, Bandits, and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Chile

By: Pilar M. Herr

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Contested Nation

The Mapuche, Bandits, and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Chile

By: Pilar M. Herr

Throughout the colonial period the Spanish crown made numerous unsuccessful attempts to conquer Araucanía, Chile’s southern borderlands region. Contested Nation argues that with Chilean independence, Araucanía—because of its status as a separate nation-state—became essential to the territorial integrity of the new Chilean Republic. This book studies how Araucanía’s indigenous inhabitants, the Mapuche, played a central role in the new Chilean state’s pursuit of an expansionist policy that simultaneously exalted indigenous bravery while relegating the Mapuche to second-class citizenship. It also examines other subaltern groups, particularly bandits, who challenged the nation-state’s monopoly on force and were thus regarded as criminals and enemies unfit for citizenship in Chilean society. Pilar M. Herr’s work advances our understanding of early state formation in Chile by viewing this process through the lens of Chilean-Mapuche relations. She provides a thorough historical context and suggests that Araucanía was central to the process of post-independence nation building and territorial expansion in Chile.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826360955

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9780826360953

International Forum for Comparative Psychology 2021 Abstract book

By: Rocío Rodríguez Herrera,José García Pinteño,Ana Sánchez Kuhn,Pilar Flores

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International Forum for Comparative Psychology 2021 Abstract book

By: Rocío Rodríguez Herrera,José García Pinteño,Ana Sánchez Kuhn,Pilar Flores

International Forum for Comparative Psychology has been organised by the Spanish Society of Comparative Psychology (SEPC), at the University of Almeria (online), on 23 and 24 September 2021. The attendance of the event was 148 participants: 87 attendees, 29 paper presenters, 29 poster presenters and 9 members of the organisational committee. The scientific works presented were 7 oral communication sessions (29 oral communications) and 2 poster sessions (29 posters). Funding: Department of Psychology of the University of Almeria and master’s degree in Nervous System Sciences from University of Almeria and the University of Rovira i Virgili.

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Universidad Almería

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8413511127

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9788413511122

Women in Grassroots Communication

By: Pilar Riaño Alcalá

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Women in Grassroots Communication

By: Pilar Riaño Alcalá

The dramatic contribution of grassroots organizations to effecting social change is brought into vivid detail in this unique perspective on women from around the globe. Each contributor has been instrumental in grassroots processes of media production or has worked within the community communication field and discusses concrete action within a theoretical framework. These diverse accounts of women, participation and communication take place in a variety of geographical, social and cultural settings and provide rich material for comparative analysis.

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SAGE

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0803949065

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9780803949065

Guidelines for the Identification of Ciliates in Wastewater Treatment Plants

By: Susana Serrano,Lucia Arregui,Blanca Perez-Uz,Pilar Calvo,Almudena Guinea

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Guidelines for the Identification of Ciliates in Wastewater Treatment Plants

By: Susana Serrano,Lucia Arregui,Blanca Perez-Uz,Pilar Calvo,Almudena Guinea

Ciliated protozoa are one of the most relevant biological communities in the reactors of wastewater treatment plants. These organisms are excellent tools to assess the biological status of the reactor being used to monitor wastewater treatment plants performance. This book has been designed to simplify identification of ciliates, bearing in mind the difficulties on the manipulation and proper identification of these species. The specific role of ciliates in WWTP is discussed; methods for observation together with a glossary of scientific words and a simple and easy key to the taxonomic groups of ciliates are also provided. Illustrations, drawings, photographs and brief morphological descriptions of the species are included. Guidelines for the Identification of Ciliates in Wastewater Treatment Plants is the first book to use the new official classification proposed by the Society of Protozoologists (2005). It includes a complete chapter on methodology that is designed to be easy to follow and reproduce. A simple key to classify main taxonomic groups and genera is included, as are detailed descriptions to aid observation and identification of species of ciliates, in addition to drawings and photographs that accurately reproduce ciliate species.

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IWA Publishing

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1843391716

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9781843391715

La Reina muy de cerca

By: Pilar Urbano

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La Reina muy de cerca

By: Pilar Urbano

Trece años después de su libro La Reina, Pilar Urbano vuelve a La Zarzuela. En seguida percibe aquella complicidad y, de nuevo, la Reina habla en primera persona. Sin rodeos le cuenta --nos cuenta-- cómo se han vivido desde el cuarto de estar de los Reyes los más importantes sucesos públicos o familiares de estos años. Pilar Urbano pregunta lo que la gente quiere saber: "Majestad, ¿cómo se enteró del flechazo entre el Príncipe Felipe y Letizia?, "¿las puertas de La Zarzuela están cerradas para Jaime de Marichalar?", "¿piensa el Rey en abdicar?", "¿la Infanta Leonor es una "Infanta mestiza", sangre roja y sangre azul? ¿o toda la sangre es roja? La Reina no saca tarjeta roja: aborto, suicidio asistido, matrimonios gays, sociedades masónicas, grupos de poder... Y le cuenta a la autora cómo se vive en La Zarzuela una noche electoral, un 11-M, una novia del Príncipe aprendiendo a ser Princesa, unas caricaturas infamantes, una quema de fotografías de los Reyes... O le confiesa sus pequeñas debilidades: "El Ipod, los sudokus, la ducha muy caliente, las ensaladas, caminar descalza, zapear ante el televisor... y la almohada de mi cama, después de ese infinito viajar.»

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Grupo Planeta Spain

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8408013548

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9788408013549

La gran desmemoria

Lo que Suárez olvidó y el Rey prefiere no recordar

By: Pilar Urbano

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La gran desmemoria

Lo que Suárez olvidó y el Rey prefiere no recordar

By: Pilar Urbano

Tras el éxito rotundo de El precio del trono, Pilar Urbano hace un valiente ejercicio de investigación para acabar con mitos y medias verdades que han desfigurado nuestra reciente historia. Con documentos inéditos y testigos que al fin cuentan lo que nunca habían contado, Urbano averigua cómo actuó el Rey en la Transición. La autora sale al encuentro de las dudas y sospechas del hombre de la calle: si el Rey fue verdaderamente "el motos del cambio" o si el temor al Ejército y al búnker le aconsejaron pisar el freno; por qué el monarca se ausentó en París mientras Suárez legalizaba el Partido Comunista; desde cuándo y hasta dónde estuvo el Rey informando de la Operación Armada; cuál fue el auténtico motivo de la dimisión de Suárez; el juicio militar del 23-F, un simulacro consentido para tapar la trama conspirativa de diputados y empresarios dispuestos a gobernar bajo un general... Pilar Urbano introduce al lector en las estancias del poder, permitiéndole asistir a escenas electrizantes y escuchar en toda su crudeza los diálogos de los protagonistas tal como fueron. «Discrepo -dice la autora- de Camus cuando afirma que "la verdad tiene dos caras, una de las cuales debe permanecer oculta". Mi servicio al ciudadano es justamente lo contrario: descubrir tramos de la historia que nos venían ocultando y reclamaban luz.» * Fe de erratas. Para más información consultar en contenidos extra.

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8408125524

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The Man of Villa Tevere

St. Josemaría Escrivá: His Years in Rome

By: Pilar Urbano

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The Man of Villa Tevere

St. Josemaría Escrivá: His Years in Rome

By: Pilar Urbano

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Urban Transformations in the Late Antique West: Materials, Agents, and Models

Urban Transformations in the Late Antique West: Materials, Agents, and Models

The Man of Villa Tevere

The Man of Villa Tevere

Dwellers of Memory

Dwellers of Memory

Diccionario Bilingüe de Metáforas y Metonimias Científico-Técnicas

Diccionario Bilingüe de Metáforas y Metonimias Científico-Técnicas

European Socialists and Spain

European Socialists and Spain

XXXII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

XXXII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Identity, Culture, And Politics In The Basque Diaspora

Identity, Culture, And Politics In The Basque Diaspora

Contested Nation

Contested Nation

International Forum for Comparative Psychology 2021 Abstract book

International Forum for Comparative Psychology 2021 Abstract book

Women in Grassroots Communication

Women in Grassroots Communication

Guidelines for the Identification of Ciliates in Wastewater Treatment Plants

Guidelines for the Identification of Ciliates in Wastewater Treatment Plants

La Reina muy de cerca

La Reina muy de cerca

La gran desmemoria

La gran desmemoria

The Man of Villa Tevere

The Man of Villa Tevere

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