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The Pride of Havana

A History of Cuban Baseball

By: Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

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The Pride of Havana

A History of Cuban Baseball

By: Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, here is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria expertly traces the arc of the game, intertwining its heroes and their stories with the politics, music, dance, and literature of the Cuban people. What emerges is more than a story of balls and strikes, but a richly detailed history of Cuba told from the unique cultural perch of the baseball diamond. Filling a void created by Cuba's rejection of bullfighting and Spanish hegemony, baseball quickly became a crucial stitch in the complex social fabric of the island. By the early 1940s Cuba had become major conduit in spreading the game throughout Latin America, and a proving ground for some of the greatest talent in all of baseball, where white major leaguers and Negro League players from the U.S. all competed on the same fields with the cream of Latin talent. Indeed, readers will be introduced to several black ballplayers of Afro-Cuban descent who played in the Major Leagues before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier once and for all. Often dramatic, and always culturally resonant, Gonzalez Echevarria's narrative expertly lays open the paradox of fierce Cuban independence from the U.S. with Cuba's love for our national pastime. It shows how Fidel Castro cannily associated himself with the sport for patriotic p.r.--and reveals that his supposed baseball talent is purely mythical. Based on extensive primary research and a wealth of interviews, the colorful, often dramatic anecdotes and stories in this distinguished book comprise the most comprehensive history of Cuban baseball yet published and ultimately adds a vital lost chapter to the history of baseball in the U.S.

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Oxford University Press

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019028711X

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War Virtually

The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future

By: Roberto J. González

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War Virtually

The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future

By: Roberto J. González

A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare—and why we must resist. War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both at home and abroad. In this landmark book, Roberto J. González gives us a lucid and gripping account of what lies behind the autonomous weapons, robotic systems, predictive modeling software, advanced surveillance programs, and psyops techniques that are transforming the nature of military conflict. González, a cultural anthropologist, takes a critical approach to the techno-utopian view of these advancements and their dubious promise of a less deadly and more efficient warfare. With clear, accessible prose, this book exposes the high-tech underpinnings of contemporary military operations—and the cultural assumptions they're built on. Chapters cover automated battlefield robotics; social scientists' involvement in experimental defense research; the blurred line between political consulting and propaganda in the internet era; and the military's use of big data to craft new counterinsurgency methods based on predicting conflict. González also lays bare the processes by which the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies have quietly joined forces with Big Tech, raising an alarming prospect: that someday Google, Amazon, and other Silicon Valley firms might merge with some of the world's biggest defense contractors. War Virtually takes an unflinching look at an algorithmic future—where new military technologies threaten democratic governance and human survival.

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Univ of California Press

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0520402170

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2666

A Novel

By: Roberto Bolaño

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2666

A Novel

By: Roberto Bolaño

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1466804823

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The Voice of the Masters

Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature

By: Roberto González Echevarría

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The Voice of the Masters

Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature

By: Roberto González Echevarría

By one of the most original and learned critical voices in Hispanic studies— a timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature. An ideology is implicit in modern Latin American literature, argues Roberto González Echevarría, through which both the literature itself and criticism of it define what Latin American literature is and how it ought to be read. In the works themselves this ideology is constantly subjected to a radical critique, and that critique renders the ideology productive and in a sense is what constitutes the work. In literary criticism, however, too frequently the ideology merely serves as support for an authoritative discourse that seriously misrepresents Latin American literature. In The Voice of the Masters, González Echevarría attempts to uncover the workings of modern Latin American literature by creating a dialogue of texts, a dynamic whole whose parts are seven illuminating essays on seminal texts in the tradition. As he says, "To have written a sustained, expository book ... would have led me to make the same kind of critical error that I attribute to most criticism of Latin American literature.... I would have naively assumed an authoritative voice while attempting a critique of precisely that critical gesture." Instead, major works by Barnet, Cabrera Infante, Carpentier, Cortázar, Fuentes, Gallegos, García Márquez, Roa Bastos, and Rodó are the object of a set of independent deconstructive (and reconstructive) readings. Writing in the tradition of Derrida and de Man, González Echevarría brings to these readings both the penetrative brilliance of the French master and a profound understanding of historical and cultural context. His insightful annotation of Cabrera Infante's "Meta-End," the full text of which is presented at the close of the study, clearly demonstrates these qualities and exemplifies his particular approach to the text.

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University of Texas Press

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0292788894

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Restaura a Tu Generacion

By: Pastor Roberto Gonzalez

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Restaura a Tu Generacion

By: Pastor Roberto Gonzalez

Este libro es un verdadero recurso para cualquier persona interesada por restaurar a nuestra generación actual desde una perspectiva cristiana. El mensaje está diseñado para llevar al lector a identificar aspectos importantes en la restauración personal a su vez, destaca la importancia de dejar un legado y un ejemplo a seguir a las generaciones siguientes. Destaca nuestra responsabilidad como padres, o simplemente como seres humanos de impactar positivamente a nuestro entorno y motiva al lector a ser parte de importantes cambios en nuestra sociedad.

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Palibrio

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1463312458

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Militarizing Culture

Essays on the Warfare State

By: Roberto J González

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Militarizing Culture

Essays on the Warfare State

By: Roberto J González

Militarizing Culture is a rousing critique of the increasing infiltration of military culture into American society by leading cultural commentator. Despite its pervasiveness, González insists that warfare is not an inevitable part of human nature, and charts a path toward the decommissioning of culture.

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Left Coast Press

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1598745603

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Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview

And Other Conversations

By: Roberto Bolaño

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Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview

And Other Conversations

By: Roberto Bolaño

With the release of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in 1998,journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer “capable of befriending his readers.” After exchanging several letters with Bolaño, Maristain formed a friendship of her own, culminating in an extensive interview with the novelist about truth and consequences, an interview that turned out to be Bolaño’s last. Appearing for the first time in English, Bolaño’s final interview is accompanied by a collection of conversations with reporters stationed throughout Latin America, providing a rich context for the work of the writer who, according to essayist Marcela Valdes, is “a T.S. Eliot or Virginia Woolf of Latin American letters.” As in all of Bolaño’s work, there is also wide-ranging discussion of the author’s many literary influences. (Explanatory notes on authors and titles that may be unfamiliar to English-language readers are included here.) The interviews, all of which were completed during the writing of the gigantic 2666, also address Bolaño’s deepest personal concerns, from his domestic life and two young children to the realities of a fatal disease.

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Melville House

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1612190952

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Mexican American Baseball in South Texas

By: Richard A. Santillán, Gregory Garrett, Juan D. Coronado, Jorge Iber and Roberto Zamora

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Mexican American Baseball in South Texas

By: Richard A. Santillán, Gregory Garrett, Juan D. Coronado, Jorge Iber and Roberto Zamora

Mexican American Baseball in South Texas pays tribute to the former baseball teams and players from Edinburg, McAllen, Mission, Pharr, Donna, Alamo, San Juan, Brownsville, Harlingen, and other surrounding communities. From the late 19th century through the 1950s, baseball in South Texas provided opportunities for nurturing athletic and educational skills, reaffirming ethnic identity, promoting political self-determination, developing economic autonomy, and reshaping gender roles for women. Games were special times where Mexican Americans found refuge from backbreaking work and prejudice. These unmatched photographs and stories shed light on the rich history of baseball in this region of Texas.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467116645

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The Social Metabolism of Spanish Agriculture, 1900–2008

The Mediterranean Way Towards Industrialization

By: Manuel González de Molina,David Soto Fernández,Gloria Guzmán Casado,Juan Infante-Amate,Eduardo Aguilera Fernández,Jaime Vila Traver,Roberto García Ruiz

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The Social Metabolism of Spanish Agriculture, 1900–2008

The Mediterranean Way Towards Industrialization

By: Manuel González de Molina,David Soto Fernández,Gloria Guzmán Casado,Juan Infante-Amate,Eduardo Aguilera Fernández,Jaime Vila Traver,Roberto García Ruiz

This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more diverse picture to the complex and multidimensional reality of agrarian production. With a clear transdisciplinary ambition, the book applies an original and innovative theoretical and methodological tool, termed Agrarian Social Metabolism, combining Social Metabolism with an agroecological perspective. This integrative analysis is especially interesting for environmental scientists and policy makers being the best way to design sustainable agroecosystems and public policies capable of moving us towards a more sustainable food system. Spanish agricultural production has experienced impressive growth during the 20th century which has allowed it to ensure the supply of food to the population and even to transform some crops into important chapters in foreign trade. However, this growth has had its negative side since it was based on the injection of large amounts of external energy, on the destruction of employment and the loss of profitability of agricultural activity. But perhaps the most serious part is the strong impact of the current industrialised agriculture model on Spanish agroecosystems, exposed to the overexploitation of hydric resources, pollution of the water by nitrates and pesticides, high erosion rates and an alarming loss of biodiversity; damage which in the immediate future will end up reducing production capacity.

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Springer Nature

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3030209008

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9783030209001

The Legal Foundations of Inequality

Constitutionalism in the Americas, 1776–1860

By: Roberto Gargarella

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The Legal Foundations of Inequality

Constitutionalism in the Americas, 1776–1860

By: Roberto Gargarella

The long revolutionary movements that gave birth to constitutional democracies in the Americas were founded on egalitarian constitutional ideals. They claimed that all men were created equal with similar capacities and also that the community should become self-governing. Following the first constitutional debates that took place in the region, these promising egalitarian claims, which gave legitimacy to the revolutions, soon fell out of favor. Advocates of a conservative order challenged both ideals and favored constitutions that established religion and created an exclusionary political structure. Liberals proposed constitutions that protected individual autonomy and rights but established severe restrictions on the principle of majority rule. Radicals favored an openly majoritarian constitutional organization that, according to many, directly threatened the protection of individual rights. This book examines the influence of these opposite views during the 'founding period' of constitutionalism in countries including the United States, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139485989

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Hope

When the Night Doesn't End

By: Roberto Morales

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Hope

When the Night Doesn't End

By: Roberto Morales

Isolated from the civilized world, the Island is guarded by armed sentinels with orders to shoot to kill anyone attempting to escape. Its inhabitants are hostages of a tyrannical ruler that keeps them enslaved. Their only hope is to flee the Island, but the price to pay is often too high. Driven by the birth of his firstborn child, Carlos decides to escape. His brother and three friends join him. But evading the guards is just the beginning. Their route to freedom is a 90-mile passage across “The Straits of Death”, a shark infested ocean with strong sea currents, and unpredictable storms. Only one in every four who venture into the crossing reaches his destination... alive. Follow these brave souls as they confront relentless guards, treacherous seas, and the cruel hand of fate. Their quest for love, family, and freedom becomes a testament to the indomitable human spirit. Every obstacle they overcome and every sacrifice they make carries them closer to a destiny they refuse to surrender. **This story is illustrated with authentic pictures taken during the expedition.

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ROBERTO MORALES

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1732955042

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Latin American Constitutionalism,1810-2010

The Engine Room of the Constitution

By: Roberto Gargarella

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Latin American Constitutionalism,1810-2010

The Engine Room of the Constitution

By: Roberto Gargarella

This study of 200 years of Latin American constitutionalism (1810-2010) both presents a description and a critical analysis of what Latin Americans did with their Constitutions during those years.

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0199937966

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9780199937967

Handbook of Bibliometric Indicators

Quantitative Tools for Studying and Evaluating Research

By: Roberto Todeschini,Alberto Baccini

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Handbook of Bibliometric Indicators

Quantitative Tools for Studying and Evaluating Research

By: Roberto Todeschini,Alberto Baccini

At last, the first systematic guide to the growing jungle of citation indices and other bibliometric indicators. Written with the aim of providing a complete and unbiased overview of all available statistical measures for scientific productivity, the core of this reference is an alphabetical dictionary of indices and other algorithms used to evaluate the importance and impact of researchers and their institutions. In 150 major articles, the authors describe all indices in strictly mathematical terms without passing judgement on their relative merit. From widely used measures, such as the journal impact factor or the h-index, to highly specialized indices, all indicators currently in use in the sciences and humanities are described, and their application explained. The introductory section and the appendix contain a wealth of valuable supporting information on data sources, tools and techniques for bibliometric and scientometric analysis - for individual researchers as well as their funders and publishers.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527681957

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9783527681952

Arte paleolítico en la región cantábrica

base de datos multimedia Photo VR, DVD-ROM versión Windows

By: César González Sainz,Roberto Cacho Toca,Takeo Fukazawa

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Arte paleolítico en la región cantábrica

base de datos multimedia Photo VR, DVD-ROM versión Windows

By: César González Sainz,Roberto Cacho Toca,Takeo Fukazawa

Base de datos elaborada por el Departamento de Ciencias Históricas de la Universidad de Cantabria que recoge documentación gráfica sobre el arte paleolítico en el norte de España.

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Ed. Universidad de Cantabria

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8481023442

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9788481023442

The Glaucomas

Volume II - Open Angle Glaucoma and Angle Closure Glaucoma

By: Roberto Sampaolesi,Juan Roberto Sampaolesi,Jorge Zárate

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The Glaucomas

Volume II - Open Angle Glaucoma and Angle Closure Glaucoma

By: Roberto Sampaolesi,Juan Roberto Sampaolesi,Jorge Zárate

This second volume in a short series on the glaucomas is devoted to the two main types of the disease, open angle glaucoma and angle closure glaucoma. The contents are based on observations and experience gained during the management of more than 40,000 hospital and 7,000 private patients, with follow-up of 10 to 50 years. The book is comprehensive in scope. All aspects of diagnosis are carefully examined, surgical indications and techniques are explained, and the role of medical treatment is evaluated. Importantly, chapters are included on topics that are frequently overlooked in other books but are important to early diagnosis, such as diurnal pressure curve, HRT, and non-conventional perimetry. This volume provides a wealth of information and includes almost 1000 illustrations, the majority in color, as well as an accompanying DVD of surgical techniques. It will be an invaluable asset for all ophthalmologists.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642355005

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9783642355004

Political Agroecology

Advancing the Transition to Sustainable Food Systems

By: Manuel González de Molina,Paulo Frederico Petersen,Francisco Garrido Peña,Francisco Roberto Caporal

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Political Agroecology

Advancing the Transition to Sustainable Food Systems

By: Manuel González de Molina,Paulo Frederico Petersen,Francisco Garrido Peña,Francisco Roberto Caporal

Political Agroecology is the first book to offer a systematic and articulated reflection on Political Agroecology from the Agroecological perspective. It defines the disciplinary field responsible for designing and producing actions, institutions and regulations aimed at achieving agrarian sustainability. In short, it aims to build a political theory that makes the scaling-up of agroecological experiences possible, turning them into the foundation of a new and alternative food regime. The book proposes theoretical, practical and epistemological foundations of a new theoretical and practical field of work for agroecologists: Political Agroecology. It establishes a framework for a common agroecological strategy, covering the different levels of collective action and the different instruments with which it can be developed. This will be essential reading for agroecologists, environmentalists, farming and food communities, and an ideal textbook for advanced agroecology courses in universities. Key features: Offers a unique state of the art on this fundamental new topic: Political Agroecology Presents a complete introduction to the political and institutional aspects of Agroecology, covering the whole food system Offers an important tool for searching agrarian sustainability Provides a broad epistemological, theoretical and methodological focus, exploring the connection between the different levels and scales involved in agroecological theory and practice

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CRC Press

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0429768141

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9780429768149

Myth and Archive

A Theory of Latin American Narrative

By: Roberto González Echevarría

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Myth and Archive

A Theory of Latin American Narrative

By: Roberto González Echevarría

Discusses the theory of the origin and evolution of the Latin American narrative and the emergence of the modern novel.

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Duke University Press

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0822321947

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9780822321941

Zapotec Science

Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca

By: Roberto J. González

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Zapotec Science

Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca

By: Roberto J. González

2003 — Julian Steward Award – Anthropology & Environment Section, American Anthropological Association 2002 — A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book How Zapotec agricultural and dietary theories and practices constitute a valid local science. Zapotec farmers in the northern sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico, are highly successful in providing their families with abundant, nutritious food in an ecologically sustainable fashion, although the premises that guide their agricultural practices would be considered erroneous by the standards of most agronomists and botanists in the United States and Europe. In this book, Roberto González convincingly argues that in fact Zapotec agricultural and dietary theories and practices constitute a valid local science, which has had a reciprocally beneficial relationship with European and United States farming and food systems since the sixteenth century. González bases his analysis upon direct participant observation in the farms and fields of a Zapotec village. By using the ethnographic fieldwork approach, he is able to describe and analyze the rich meanings that campesino families attach to their crops, lands, and animals. González also reviews the history of maize, sugarcane, and coffee cultivation in the Zapotec region to show how campesino farmers have intelligently and scientifically adapted their farming practices to local conditions over the course of centuries. By setting his ethnographic study of the Talea de Castro community within a historical world systems perspective, he also skillfully weighs the local impact of national and global currents ranging from Spanish colonialism to the 1910 Mexican Revolution to NAFTA. At the same time, he shows how, at the turn of the twenty-first century, the sustainable practices of "traditional" subsistence agriculture are beginning to replace the failed, unsustainable techniques of modern industrial farming in some parts of the United States and Europe.

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University of Texas Press

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029277897X

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9780292778979

Connected

How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network

By: Roberto J. González

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Connected

How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network

By: Roberto J. González

This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network—without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collective tribulation, triumph, and tragedy the community experienced in pursuit of getting connected. In doing so, this book captures the challenges and contradictions facing Mexico's indigenous peoples today, as they struggle to wire themselves into the 21st century using mobile technologies, ingenuity, and sheer determination. It also holds a broader lesson about the great paradox of the digital age, by exploring how constant connection through virtual worlds can hinder our ability to communicate with those around us.

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University of California Press

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0520344200

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9780520344204

Celestina's Brood

Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literatures

By: Roberto González Echevarría

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Celestina's Brood

Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literatures

By: Roberto González Echevarría

Published in 1499 and centered on the figure of a bawd and witch, Fernando de Rojas' dark and disturbing Celestina was destined to become the most suppressed classic in Spanish literary history. Routinely ignored in Spanish letters, the book nonetheless echoes through contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature. This is the phenomenon that Celestina's Brood explores. Roberto González Echevarría, one of the most eminent and influential critics of Hispanic literature writing today, uses Rojas' text as his starting point to offer an exploration of modernity in the Hispanic literary tradition, and of the Baroque as an expression of the modern. His analysis of Celestina reveals the relentless probing of the limits of language and morality that mark the work as the beginning of literary modernity in Spanish, and the start of a tradition distinguished by a penchant for the excesses of the Baroque. González Echevarría pursues this tradition and its meaning through the works of major figures such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Nicolás Guillén, and Severo Sarduy, as well as through the works of lesser-known authors. By revealing continuities of the Baroque, Celestina's Brood cuts across conventional distinctions between Spanish and Latin American literary traditions to show their profound and previously unimagined affinity.

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Duke University Press

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0822313715

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9780822313717

Lives in Limbo

Undocumented and Coming of Age in America

By: Roberto G. Gonzales,Jose Antonio Vargas

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Lives in Limbo

Undocumented and Coming of Age in America

By: Roberto G. Gonzales,Jose Antonio Vargas

Over two million of the nation's eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow up to uncertain futures. In Lives in Limbo, Roberto G. Gonzales introduces us to two groups: the college-goers, like Ricardo, whose good grades and strong network of community support propelled him into higher education, only to land in a factory job a few years after graduation, and the early-exiters, like Gabriel, who failed to make meaningful connections in high school and started navigating dead-end jobs, immigration checkpoints, and a world narrowly circumscribed by legal limitations. This ethnography asks why highly educated undocumented youth ultimately share similar work and life outcomes with their less-educated peers, even as higher education is touted as the path to integration and success in America. Gonzales bookends his study with discussions of how the prospect of immigration reform, especially the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, could impact the lives of these young Americans"--Provided by publisher.

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Univ of California Press

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0520287258

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9780520287259

Drug War Mexico

Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy

By: Peter Watt,Roberto Zepeda

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Drug War Mexico

Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy

By: Peter Watt,Roberto Zepeda

Mexico is a country in crisis. Capitalizing on weakened public institutions, widespread unemployment, a state of lawlessness and the strengthening of links between Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, narcotrafficking in the country has flourished during the post-1982 neoliberal era. In fact, it has become one of Mexico's biggest source of revenue, as well as its most violent, with over 12,000 drug-related executions in 2011 alone. In response, Mexican president Felipe Calderón, armed with millions of dollars in US military aid, has launched a crackdown, ostensibly to combat organised crime. Despite this, human rights violations have increased, as has the murder rate, making Ciudad Juárez on the northern border the most dangerous city on the planet. Meanwhile, the supply of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine has continued to grow. In this insightful and controversial book, Watt and Zepeda throw new light on the situation, contending that the 'war on drugs' in Mexico is in fact the pretext for a US-backed strategy to bolster unpopular neoliberal policies, a weak yet authoritarian government and a radically unfair status quo.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1848138881

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9781848138889

Tropical Dermatology

By: Roberto Arenas

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Tropical Dermatology

By: Roberto Arenas

Tropical diseases are not merely a group of nosologic diseases indigenous to the intertropical zone. Many are diseases of poor public health originating from poverty, ignorance, and population upheaval. Tropical dermatoses represent a public health problem in 127 countries with a population of 3 billion people who do not have access to health care.

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CRC Press

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1498712754

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9781498712750

Mexico's Dilemma

The Political Origins Of Economic Crisis

By: Roberto Newell G.,Luis Rubio F.

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Mexico's Dilemma

The Political Origins Of Economic Crisis

By: Roberto Newell G.,Luis Rubio F.

This book analyzes the crisis Mexico experienced in 1982 on the basis of the historical evolution of Mexico's political and economic structures. The author’s purpose in writing this book is to provide an interpretation of Mexico's current problems in order to analyze what must be done to solve some profound dilemmas and to restructure Mexican society. The main dilemma Mexico faces is its vanishing consensus.

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Raining Backwards

By: Roberto G. Fernandez

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Raining Backwards

By: Roberto G. Fernandez

Raining Backwards is an entertaining satire of the Cuban community in Miami, filled with hilarious scenes and characters, including a lovesick girl determined to be a cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins, a poor Cuban American who becomes Pope, another Cuban American who begins a guerrilla war to separate Florida from the Union, and a ditsy plantain-chip magnate.

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Arte Publico Press

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1611922585

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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

Nazi Literature in the Americas

By: Roberto Bolaño

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Nazi Literature in the Americas

By: Roberto Bolaño

A playful and entirely original novel masquerading as a mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature, Bolanos work is a tour de force of black humor.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811217051

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9780811217057

Molecular Descriptors for Chemoinformatics, 2 Volume Set

Volume I: Alphabetical Listing / Volume II: Appendices, References

By: Roberto Todeschini,Viviana Consonni

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Molecular Descriptors for Chemoinformatics, 2 Volume Set

Volume I: Alphabetical Listing / Volume II: Appendices, References

By: Roberto Todeschini,Viviana Consonni

Molecular Descriptors for Chemoinformatics As every chemist knows, there is a direct (if complex) relationship between the molecular structure of a compound and its chemical behavior. Predicting such behavior is possible by an abstract representation of its structure in terms of chemical similarity parameters, socalled ‘descriptors’. These are most useful in predicting the pharmacological properties of drug candidates, but are also used in predicting reactivity, toxicity and other important chemical characteristics. The number-one reference on the topic now contains a wealth of new data: The entire relevant literature over the past eight years has been pain-stakingly surveyed, resulting in hundreds of new descriptors being added to the list, and some 3,000 new references in the bibliography section. Volume 1 contains an alphabetical listing of around 3300 terms for the chemoinformatic analysis of chemical compound properties, while the second volume contains 6343 references selected from 450 journals with about 7000 authors quoted covering the period from the beginning of molecular descriptor research until the year 2008. In this second edition, several sections have been completely rewritten and organized in a more effective way. The greatly expanded introductory section now contains several “walk-through” reading lists of selected keywords to make the data even more accessible for novice users.

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Wiley-VCH

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3527318526

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9783527318520

Interstitial Pulmonary Diseases

By: Moises Selman L,Roberto Barrios

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Interstitial Pulmonary Diseases

By: Moises Selman L,Roberto Barrios

This book discusses basic and clinical aspects of selected topics in interstitial lung disease and the pathogenic mechanisms of pulmonary fibrosis. Topics include the pathogenesis of interstitial fibrosis from the initial injury to the excessive accumulation of collagens in lung parenchyma; detailed analysis of the role of fibroblasts, mast cells and growth factors in the induction of fibrogenesis; collagens, collagenases, and proteoglycans; and hypersensitivity, pneumonitis and asbestosis. Other topics include morphological aspects, including molecular biology techniques, imaging methods, functional respiratory tests, and pulmonary arterial hypertension; and sleep disorders in patients with ILD. This book provides important information for physicians, surgeons, pulmonary researchers, molecular pathologists, biomedical researchers and students, and others interested in interstitial lung disease.

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334

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CRC Press

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0849364329

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9780849364327

Cuban Fiestas

By: Roberto González Echevarría

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Cuban Fiestas

By: Roberto González Echevarría

A luminous history of Cuba’s most dynamic and defining rituals and the ever-improvisational character of Cuban culture In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto González Echevarría peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta as preparations begin for the slaughter of a feast day pig. The author recalls “watching them at a distance, though thinking, fearing, that once I grew older I would have to participate in the whole event.” Now an acclaimed scholar of Latin American literature, González Echevarría returns to the rituals that defined his young life in Cuban Fiestas. Drawing from art, literature, film, and even the national sport of baseball, he vividly reveals the fiesta as a dynamic force of both destruction and renewal in the life of a people. Roberto González Echevarría masterfully exposes the distinctive elements of the fiesta cubana that give depth and coherence to more than two centuries of Cuban cultural life. Reaching back to nineteenth-century traditions of Cuban art and literature, and augmenting them, in the twentieth, with the arts of narrative, the esthetic performances of sport and entertainment in nightclubs, on the baseball diamond, and in movie theaters, Cuban Fiestas renders the lilting strains of the fiesta and drum beats of the passage of time as keys to understanding the dynamic quality of Cuban culture. González Echevarría’s explorations are also illuminated by autobiographical vignettes that unveil the ever-shifting impact of the fiesta on the author’s own story of exile and return.

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Yale University Press

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0300168748

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9780300168747

Cuban Fiestas

By: Roberto González Echevarría

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By: Roberto González Echevarría

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Yale University Press

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Anthropologists in the Public Sphere

Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power

By: Roberto J. González

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Anthropologists in the Public Sphere

Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power

By: Roberto J. González

Anthropologists have a long tradition of prescient diagnoses of world events. Possessing a knowledge of culture, society, and history not always shared by the media's talking heads, anthropologists have played a crucial role in educating the general reader on the public debates from World War I to the second Gulf War. This anthology collects over fifty commentaries by noted anthropologists such as Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, and Marshall Sahlins who seek to understand and explain the profound repercussions of U.S. involvement in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Frequently drawing on their own fieldwork, the anthropologists go beyond the headlines to draw connections between indigenous cultures, corporate globalization, and contemporary political and economic crises. Venues range from the op-ed pages of internationally renowned newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post to magazine articles and television interviews. Special sections entitled "Prelude to September 11" and "Anthropological Interpretations of September 11" include articles that provided many Americans with their first substantial introduction to the history of Islam, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Each article includes a brief introduction contextualizing the commentary.

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University of Texas Press

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0292701691

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9780292701694

Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction

By: Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

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Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction

By: Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

This Very Short Introduction chronicles the trends and traditions of modern Latin American literature, arguing that Latin American literature developed as a continent-wide phenomenon, not just an assemblage of national literatures, in moments of political crisis. With the Spanish American War came Modernismo, the end of World War I and the Mexican Revolution produced the avant-garde, and the Cuban Revolution sparked a movement in the novel that came to be known as the Boom. Within this narrative, the author covers all of the major writers of Latin American literature, from Andr?s Bello and Jos? Mar?a de Heredia, through Borges and Garc?a M?rquez, to Fernando Vallejo and Roberto Bola?o.

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Oxford University Press

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0199912963

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