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The Making of Chicana/o Studies

In the Trenches of Academe

By: Rodolfo F. Acuña

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The Making of Chicana/o Studies

In the Trenches of Academe

By: Rodolfo F. Acuña

The Making of Chicana/o Studies traces the philosophy and historical development of the field of Chicana/o studies from precursor movements to the Civil Rights era to today, focusing its lens on the political machinations in higher education that sought to destroy the discipline. As a renowned leader, activist, scholar, and founding member of the movement to establish this curriculum in the California State University system, which serves as a model for the rest of the country, Rodolfo F. Acuña has, for more than forty years, battled the trend in academia to deprive this group of its academic presence. The book assesses the development of Chicana/o studies (an area of studies that has even more value today than at its inception)--myths about its epistemological foundations have remained uncontested. Acuña sets the record straight, challenging those in the academy who would fold the discipline into Latino studies, shadow it under the dubious umbrella of ethnic studies, or eliminate it altogether. Building the largest Chicana/o studies program in the nation was no easy feat, especially in an atmosphere of academic contention. In this remarkable account, Acuña reveals how California State University, Northridge, was instrumental in developing an area of study that offers more than 166 sections per semester, taught by 26 tenured and 45 part-time instructors. He provides vignettes of successful programs across the country and offers contemporary educators and students a game plan--the mechanics for creating a successful Chicana/o studies discipline--and a comprehensive index of current Chicana/o studies programs nationwide. Latinas/os, of which Mexican Americans are nearly seventy percent, comprise a complex sector of society projected to be just shy of thirty percent of the nation's population by 2050. The Making of Chicana/o Studies identifies what went wrong in the history of Chicana/o studies and offers tangible solutions for the future.

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Rutgers University Press

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081355070X

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9780813550701

Corridors of Migration

The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933

By: Rodolfo F. Acu–a,Rodolfo Acu–a

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Corridors of Migration

The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933

By: Rodolfo F. Acu–a,Rodolfo Acu–a

A comprehensive history reconstructs the migration patterns of Mexican laborers, connecting them to social, economic, and political developments that have shaped the American Southwest, while describing the racism and capitalist exploitation suffered by the laborers as well as the collective forms of resistance and organizing engaged in by the laborers themselves.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816528020

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9780816528028

A Latino Reading of Race, Kinship, and the Empire

John’s Prologue

By: Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III

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A Latino Reading of Race, Kinship, and the Empire

John’s Prologue

By: Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III

This book provides a Latino reading of John’s prologue with special attention to how the themes of race, kinship, and the empire are part of the gospel’s racial rhetoric. By drawing from the insights of Latinx texts and theology, this book reveals how the prologue provides a lens to read the entire gospel with a keen awareness of Jesus’s engagement with people groups—from his own family to the Roman authorities. The prologue participates in the gospel’s racial rhetoric by shaping the reader’s racial imagination even before a person enters the narrative. By doing so, Jesus’s identity becomes constructed and defined through racial rhetoric since the opening verses of John’s gospel.

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Springer Nature

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3031203054

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9783031203053

Latino/a Thought

Culture, Politics, and Society

By: Francisco Hernández Vázquez,Rodolfo D. Torres

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Latino/a Thought

Culture, Politics, and Society

By: Francisco Hernández Vázquez,Rodolfo D. Torres

Latino/a Thought brings together the most important writings that shape Latino consciousness, culture, and activism today. This historical anthology is unique in its presentation of cross cultural writings especially from Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban writers and political documents that shape the ideology and experience of U.S. Latinos. Students can read, first hand, the works or authors who most shaped their cultural heritage. They are guided by vivid introductions that set each article or document in its historical context and describe its relevance today. The writings touch on many themes, but are guided by this book's concern for a quest for public citizenship among all Latino populations and a better understanding of racialized populations in the U.S. today. No other book offers readers such a rich history of the Latino heritage experienced in this book in the voices and political actions whose influence reached across generations.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847699412

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9780847699414

The Communist International in Central America, 1920–36

By: Rodolfo Cerdaz-Cruz

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The Communist International in Central America, 1920–36

By: Rodolfo Cerdaz-Cruz

A report on the activities of the Komintern in the Isthmus in a crucial period of time. Cerdas-Cruz discusses the debates, reports and resolutions adopted by that organization on such issues as the revolution and its character, and the Party and its nature.

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Springer

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1349119849

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9781349119844

Anything But Mexican

Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles

By: Rodolfo F. Acuña

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Anything But Mexican

Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles

By: Rodolfo F. Acuña

Mexicans and other Latinos comprise fifty percent of the population of Los Angeles and are the largest ethnic group in California. In this completely revised and updated edition of a classic political and social history, one of the foremost scholars of the Latino experience situates the US's largest immigrant community in a time of anti-immigrant fervor. Originally published in 1996, this edition analyses the rise and rule of LA's first-ever Mexican American mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, as well as the harsh pressures facing Chicanos in an increasingly unequal and gentrifying city.

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Verso Books

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1786633809

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9781786633804

Venezuelan Anarchism

The History of a Movement

By: Rodolfo Montes de Oca

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Venezuelan Anarchism

The History of a Movement

By: Rodolfo Montes de Oca

Venezuelan Anarchism: The History of a Movement covers Venezuelan anarchism and its partisans from the first appearance of anarchist ideas in the period prior to independence through today. Venezuelan political histories have focused almost exclusively upon the various Venezuelan governments and political parties. Venezuelan Anarchism shifts the focus to those opposed to those governments and political parties, those who until now have been nearly forgotten. The book also explains in some detail their ideas, publications, and actions in opposition to Venezuela's ruling political elites and, more recently, Venezuela's authoritarian populists.

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See Sharp Press

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1947071378

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9781947071377

Ethnic Ironies

Latino Politics In The 1992 Elections

By: Rodolfo O. de la Garza,Louis Desipio

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Ethnic Ironies

Latino Politics In The 1992 Elections

By: Rodolfo O. de la Garza,Louis Desipio

Ethnic Ironies describes the role of Latino electorates in national- and state-level politics during the 1992 elections. The book examines Latino politics from the top down?looking at the efforts of candidates and campaigns to speak to Latino concerns and to mobilize Latino voters?and from the bottom up?reviewing the efforts of Latinos to win electoral office and to influence electoral outcomes.Chronicling the campaigns and uncovering patterns of Latino influence, the core of the book consists of eight state-level analyses by experts who have observed firsthand the states with the most sizable Latino electorates. An overview chapter synthesizes and integrates the findings of these case studies, placing them in national perspective.Ethnic Ironies is the third in a series of studies on Latino electoral behavior published by Westview Press, including From Rhetoric to Reality: Latino Politics in the 1988 Elections and Barrio Ballots: Latino Politics in the 1990 Elections. This latest study also serves as a companion volume to Latino Voices: Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban Perspectives on American Politics and New Americans by Choice: Political Perspectives of Latino Immigrants.

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Routledge

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0429969260

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9780429969263

Historia mínima de Centroamérica

By: Rodolfo Pastor

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Historia mínima de Centroamérica

By: Rodolfo Pastor

Este pequeño libro ambicioso intenta articular una visión integral de Centroamérica. La historia material y espiritual, que habla de las cifras de la economía y sus ciclos, pero asimismo de los anhelos y los conceptos básicos, de los poemas y las construcciones imaginarias de los centroamericanos y que pretende explicar un proceso social particular, pero ambiciona también seguir los cambios políticos profundos y adaptaciones de los centroamericanos a los cambios del poder externo, sus revoluciones y las más típicas evoluciones, desde la antigüedad hasta las vicisitudes del imperialismo estadounidense, de que ha sido teatro el istmo durante el último siglo, pasando por los conflictos imperiales entre España e Inglaterra en la era colonial, y entre Inglaterra y EUA en el siglo XIX. Esta obra tiene pues lagunas, olvidos necesarios. Pero quizás también un mérito: más que otras obras parecidas consigue demostrar cómo en la era colonial se integró una economía y sociedad que imantaron una discusión pública centroamericana.

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El Colegio de Mexico AC

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6074623813

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9786074623819

Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity

By: Rodolfo Gambini,Jorge Pullin

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Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity

By: Rodolfo Gambini,Jorge Pullin

Now in paperback, this text provides a self-contained introduction to applications of loop representations and knot theory in particle physics and quantum gravity. Loop representations (and the related topic of knot theory) are of considerable current interest because they provide a unified arena for the study of the gauge invariant quantization of Yang-Mills theories and gravity, and suggest a promising approach to the eventual unification of the four fundamental forces. This text begins with a detailed review of loop representation theory. It then goes on to describe loop representations in Maxwell theory, Yang-Mills theories as well as lattice techniques. Applications in quantum gravity are then discussed in detail. Following chapters move on to consider knot theories, braid theories and extended loop representations in quantum gravity. A final chapter assesses the current status of the theory and points out possible directions for future research.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521654750

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9780521654753

The Illusion of Inclusion

The Untold Political Story of San Antonio

By: Rodolfo Rosales

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The Illusion of Inclusion

The Untold Political Story of San Antonio

By: Rodolfo Rosales

To many observers, the 1981 election of Henry Cisneros as mayor of San Antonio, Texas, represented the culminating victory in the Chicano community's decades-long struggle for inclusion in the city's political life. Yet, nearly twenty years later, inclusion is still largely an illusion for many working-class and poor Chicanas and Chicanos, since business interests continue to set the city's political and economic priorities. In this book, Rodolfo Rosales offers the first in-depth history of the Chicano community's struggle for inclusion in the political life of San Antonio during the years 1951 to 1991, drawn from interviews with key participants as well as archival research. He focuses on the political and organizational activities of the Chicano middle class in the context of post-World War II municipal reform and how it led ultimately to independent political representation for the Chicano community. Of special interest is his extended discussion of the role of Chicana middle-class women as they gained greater political visibility in the 1980s.

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University of Texas Press

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0292787707

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9780292787704

Environmental Epidemiology

Exposure and Disease

By: Roberto Bertollini,Michael D. Lebowitz,David A. Savitz,Rodolfo Saracci

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Environmental Epidemiology

Exposure and Disease

By: Roberto Bertollini,Michael D. Lebowitz,David A. Savitz,Rodolfo Saracci

Environmental Epidemiology: Exposure and Disease is a unique resource identifying priorities for public health research in selected areas of environmental epidemiology. Drawn from the proceedings of an international workshop on this topic, the book is a compilation of the specialized knowledge and opinions of environmental epidemiology experts. Organized by the Rome division of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Centre for Environment and Health, the goal of the 1993 workshop, Setting Priorities in Environmental Epidemiology, was to establish a consensus among the experts in the selected areas. The chapters in Environmental Epidemiology: Exposure and Disease cover environmental epidemiology from three different viewpoints: environmental exposures, major disease groups related to the environment, and epidemiological methodology. The environmental exposure categories examined for prioritizing are air contaminants, water contaminants, and ionizing and non-ionizing radiation exposure from human-caused disasters. The major disease groups covered are neoplastic diseases, lung cancer, and non-carcinogenic respiratory disease. Methods discussed in the book include small area studies, use of biochemical markers, exposure assessment, and training. To prioritize, the authors utilized a set of criteria based on exposure conditions, health effects, and the feasibility of human studies. Within the complex and rapidly growing field of environmental epidemiology, this compendium of international expertise provides essential guidance for research emphasis and the allocation of financial and technical resources.

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CRC Press

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1566700671

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9781566700672

Amphibian Alliance for Zero Extinction sites in Chiapas and Oaxaca

By: Rodolfo Cabrera Hernandez,John F. Lamoreux,Meghan W. McKnight

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Amphibian Alliance for Zero Extinction sites in Chiapas and Oaxaca

By: Rodolfo Cabrera Hernandez,John F. Lamoreux,Meghan W. McKnight

The potential for numerous amphibian species to go extinct in Oaxaca and Chiapas is high and worthy of being considered a major environmental problem. This report summarizes the findings of a project aimed at gathering information at 16 sites in southern Mexico which had been identified in 2005 as being essential to the continued existence of 22 highly threatened amphibian species, the hope being that it could help initiate conservation action. Site and species information are presented as a series of profiles.

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IUCN

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2831717175

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9782831717173

Latino Metropolis

By: Victor M. Valle,Rodolfo D. Torres

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Latino Metropolis

By: Victor M. Valle,Rodolfo D. Torres

Los Angeles: scratch the surface of the city's image as a rich mosaic of multinational cultures and a grittier truth emerges-its huge, shimmering economy was built on the backs of largely Latino immigrants and still depends on them. This book exposes the underside of the development and restructuring that have turned Los Angeles into a global city, and in doing so it reveals the ways in which ideas about ethnicity-Latino identity itself-are implicated and elaborated in the process."A truly pathbreaking work that puts Latinos where they belong: in the center of debate about the future of the U

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816630291

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9780816630295

Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests

Ecology and Conservation

By: Rodolfo Dirzo,Hillary S. Young,Harold A. Mooney,Gerardo Ceballos

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Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests

Ecology and Conservation

By: Rodolfo Dirzo,Hillary S. Young,Harold A. Mooney,Gerardo Ceballos

Though seasonally dry tropical forests are equally as important to global biodiversity as tropical rainforests, and are one of the most representative and highly endangered ecosystems in Latin America, knowledge about them remains limited because of the relative paucity of attention paid to them by scientists and researchers and a lack of published information on the subject. Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests seeks to address this shortcoming by bringing together a range of experts in diverse fields including biology, ecology, biogeography, and biogeochemistry, to review, synthesize, and explain the current state of our collective knowledge on the ecology and conservation of seasonally dry tropical forests. The book offers a synthetic and cross-disciplinary review of recent work with an expansive scope, including sections on distribution, diversity, ecosystem function, and human impacts. Throughout, contributors emphasize conservation issues, particularly emerging threats and promising solutions, with key chapters on climate change, fragmentation, restoration, ecosystem services, and sustainable use. Seasonally dry tropical forests are extremely rich in biodiversity, and are seriously threatened. They represent scientific terrain that is poorly explored, and there is an urgent need for increased understanding of the system's basic ecology. Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests represents an important step in bringing together the most current scientific information about this vital ecosystem and disseminating it to the scientific and conservation communities.

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Island Press

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1610910214

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9781610910217

U.S. Latino Issues

By: Rodolfo F. Acuña Ph.D.

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U.S. Latino Issues

By: Rodolfo F. Acuña Ph.D.

A revision of the popular previous edition published more than a decade earlier, this work examines today's U.S. Latino population—now arguably the most important "minority group" in the country, with numbers well over 50 million strong in an increasingly diverse and integrated America. Latinos are the largest minority in the United States, and as such, Latino Americans have a tremendous influence on the culture, workforce, economy, and politics of this country. This second edition of U.S. Latino Issues provides updated content, stats, and data for each topic, and it frames critical questions and multiple viewpoints on Latinos in the United States that will be useful to student researchers. The responses to the critical questions come from Latino experts and scholars and other well-known subject experts, providing readers with insights from various informed points of view—all in a single volume. The book covers hundreds of topics regarding Latino Americans, such as gender, sexuality, indigenous culture, race and cultural identity, health and wellness, education, and interracial dating and marriage, and it offers in-depth comparisons of the Latino groups and shows how events in their native countries affect them. Readers will have access to concise and up-to-date information on controversial topics such as affirmative action, immigration reform, open borders policy versus border enforcement, changing relations between the United States and Cuba, and Puerto Rico's contested status as a commonwealth versus a state.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440853231

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9781440853234

Small Animal Surgery. The gastrointestinal tract. Clinical cases

By: Rodolfo Brühl Day,María Elena Martínez,Pablo Meyer

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Small Animal Surgery. The gastrointestinal tract. Clinical cases

By: Rodolfo Brühl Day,María Elena Martínez,Pablo Meyer

This new book on veterinary surgery focuses on the gastrointestinal tract and accessory organs of digestion in small animals. Its educational approach, through the description of 30 surgical cases, provides the reader with a better understanding when it comes to perform surgeries in dogs and cats with gastrointestinal disorders. Both simple cases and more complex ones are addressed, covering a wide range of situations that the veterinary surgeon may be faced with in the practice. For each case, the authors include the case history, the physical examination, the surgical preparation and technique, as well as additional considerations and tips when necessary.

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Grupo Asís Biomedia S.L.

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841631523X

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9788416315239

Freddy Rincón

By: Rodolfo Iguarán Castillo

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Freddy Rincón

By: Rodolfo Iguarán Castillo

For more than a decade, from 1990 to 2001, Freddy Rincón was a solid performer for Colombia's National Team. In 84 appearances for Los Cafeteros--including three World Cup tournaments--the midfielder netted 17 goals. Over the course of his career, Rincón also played for a variety of clubs in Colombia, Europe, and Brazil. He retired in 2004.

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Simon and Schuster

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1422292037

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International Institutions and social, economic and cultural rights

By: Rodolfo Gutiérrez Silva

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International Institutions and social, economic and cultural rights

By: Rodolfo Gutiérrez Silva

Seguimos teniendo las mismas instituciones y mecanismos internacionales que diseñamos luego de la segunda guerra mundial. Dichas instituciones se caracterizan por su fragmentación, disfunciones estructurales como la corrupción, falta de recursos y por una falta de capacidad institucional. El objetivo de este libro es evaluar los desafíos que enfrentan las instituciones internacionales en la protección de los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales. Más específicamente, busca detectar diferentes patrones en dos tipos de actores que incluyen las instituciones financieras internacionales y las instituciones del sistema universal, como la Agencia de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados. La metodología incluye un diseño de investigación documental comparativo y la evaluación de estudio de casos. Esto incluye una evaluación de varios casos que analizan el papel de las instituciones internacionales y su interacción con los derechos humanos. Intentar encontrar patrones comunes en diferentes estructuras y procesos nos da alguna indicación, una imagen del tipo de problemas que estas instituciones enfrentan actualmente. Los casos estudiados en esta investigación revelan una serie de desafíos que enfrentan dichas instituciones que van desde el fortalecimiento de aspectos organizacionales y estratégicos hasta, en general, el fortalecimiento de la capacidad institucional. Sin embargo, el principal desafío encontrado es el desarrollo de la reflexividad institucional intencional. Esto implica la adopción, por parte de las instituciones internacionales, de una nueva orientación hacia principios y valores. La promoción de este nuevo enfoque debe comenzar con una reestructuración completa a nivel mundial.

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Fondo Editorial – Ediciones Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia

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9587602765

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9789587602760

River, The Machine

Cups - Surplus - Social Commitment

By: Manuel Sbdar,Rodolfo Donofrio,Guillermo Cascio,Federico Saravia,Gustavo Silikovich

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River, The Machine

Cups - Surplus - Social Commitment

By: Manuel Sbdar,Rodolfo Donofrio,Guillermo Cascio,Federico Saravia,Gustavo Silikovich

Two headers in the area do not always score a goal. Goals, triumphs and sports successes are the result of an undecipherable, multivariable and very complex equation. However, there is not even a positive balancing of all those variables that secures that the ball strikes the net. There is always a fair amount of luck. Since we are talking about a zero-sum game – one wins and the other necessarily loses – success or failure cannot be exclusively measured according to sports results. Who would not like to win on Sunday? However, to win every Sunday on the game field is desirable – perhaps necessary – but not enough. As it also is not enough having a surplus balance every year. We have created a model of indicators and analysis to measure and understand the management of the passing years, by connecting the management to the sports results and the social initiatives. Intentions without management are nothing but intentions, but management without results is nothing but management. In this book we have focused on the interpretation of three elements as an indivisible unit: Cups, Surplus and Social Commitment, an ideal formulation for a perfect equation.

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Ediciones Granica

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9506419418

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9789506419417

Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América

By: Rodolfo Kusch

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Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América

By: Rodolfo Kusch

Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922–79) to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an opposition between the technologies and rationalities of European modernity and the popular mode of thinking, which is deeply tied to Indian ways of knowing and being. Arguing that this binary cuts through América, Kusch seeks to identify and recover the indigenous and popular way of thinking, which he contends is dismissed or misunderstood by many urban Argentines, including leftist intellectuals. Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is a record of Kusch's attempt to immerse himself in the indigenous ways of knowing and being. At first glance, his methodology resembles ethnography. He speaks with and observes indigenous people and mestizos in Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. He questions them about their agricultural practices and economic decisions; he observes rituals; he asks women in the market the meaning of indigenous talismans; he interviews shamans; he describes the spatial arrangement and the contents of shrines, altars, and temples; and he reproduces diagrams of archaeological sites, which he then interprets at length. Yet he does not present a "them" to a putative "us." Instead, he offers an inroad to a way of thinking and being that does not follow the logic or fit into the categories of Western social science and philosophy. In his introduction, Walter D. Mignolo discusses Kusch's work and its relation to that of other twentieth-century intellectuals, Argentine history, and contemporary scholarship on the subaltern and decoloniality.

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Duke University Press

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0822392518

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I of the Vortex

From Neurons to Self

By: Rodolfo R. Llinas

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I of the Vortex

From Neurons to Self

By: Rodolfo R. Llinas

A highly original theory of how the mind-brain works, based on the author's study of single neuronal cells. In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science, presents an original view of the evolution and nature of mind. According to Llinas, the "mindness state" evolved to allow predictive interactions between mobile creatures and their environment. He illustrates the early evolution of mind through a primitive animal called the "sea squirt." The mobile larval form has a brainlike ganglion that receives sensory information about the surrounding environment. As an adult, the sea squirt attaches itself to a stationary object and then digests most of its own brain. This suggests that the nervous system evolved to allow active movement in animals. To move through the environment safely, a creature must anticipate the outcome of each movement on the basis of incoming sensory data. Thus the capacity to predict is most likely the ultimate brain function. One could even say that Self is the centralization of prediction. At the heart of Llinas's theory is the concept of oscillation. Many neurons possess electrical activity, manifested as oscillating variations in the minute voltages across the cell membrane. On the crests of these oscillations occur larger electrical events that are the basis for neuron-to-neuron communication. Like cicadas chirping in unison, a group of neurons oscillating in phase can resonate with a distant group of neurons. This simultaneity of neuronal activity is the neurobiological root of cognition. Although the internal state that we call the mind is guided by the senses, it is also generated by the oscillations within the brain. Thus, in a certain sense, one could say that reality is not all "out there," but is a kind of virtual reality.

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MIT Press

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0262621630

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9780262621632

Surgical Management in Snoring and Sleep-disordered Breathing

By: Rodolfo Lugo Saldana

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Surgical Management in Snoring and Sleep-disordered Breathing

By: Rodolfo Lugo Saldana

Obstructive sleep apnoea is a condition where the walls of the throat relax and narrow during sleep, interrupting normal breathing (NHS Choices). Surgical Management in Snoring and Sleep-Disordered Breathing is an illustrated guide to the diagnosis and treatment of patients who require surgery for obstructive sleep apnoea. Divided into 15 chapters, the book begins with sleep tests and diagnosis, upper airway exploration and guidance on classification and surgical prognosis of a patient with sleep-disordered breathing. Common modalities for exploring the upper airway, as well as techniques currently under development, are discussed in detail. Further chapters cover a range of surgical procedures. The closing chapters cover anaesthesiology, complications of obstructive sleep apnoea surgery, and the future of sleep-disordered breathing and snoring surgery. Surgical Management in Snoring and Sleep-Disordered Breathing is enhanced by 139 full colour images and illustrations, making this up-to-date and forward looking book an ideal resource for postgraduates, otolaryngologists, anaesthesiologists and surgeons. Key Points Illustrated guide to the diagnosis and surgical treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea Covers diagnosis, surgical prognosis, and surgical procedures Also covers anaesthesiology, complications of surgery, and possible future developments 139 full colour images and illustrations

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JP Medical Ltd

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Between Underdevelopment and Revolution

A Latin American Perspective

By: Rodolfo Stavenhagen

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Between Underdevelopment and Revolution

A Latin American Perspective

By: Rodolfo Stavenhagen

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Abhinav Publications

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8170171393

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Before They Vanish

Saving Nature's Populations — and Ourselves

By: Paul R. Ehrlich,Gerardo Ceballos,Rodolfo Dirzo

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Before They Vanish

Saving Nature's Populations — and Ourselves

By: Paul R. Ehrlich,Gerardo Ceballos,Rodolfo Dirzo

This work is a new, hopeful analysis from the world's top natural scientists that shows us the way to save the endangered species of the world"--

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JHU Press

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1421449692

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9781421449692

Pathology of the Urinary Bladder

By: Antonio Lopez-Beltran,Rodolfo Montironi,Liang Cheng

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Pathology of the Urinary Bladder

By: Antonio Lopez-Beltran,Rodolfo Montironi,Liang Cheng

Containing numerous illustrations and algorithms, this practical guide enlightens the diagnostic process for both common and complex bladder diseases.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107593379

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9781107593374

RENEWAL

An Effective Transformative Change Framework

By: Rodolfo E. Biasca

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RENEWAL

An Effective Transformative Change Framework

By: Rodolfo E. Biasca

R. E. Biasca has been a leading international business consultant and educator for nearly sixteen decades. He has written fifteen books in Spanish, and for the first time, Renewal: An Effective Transformative Change Framework brings his extensive knowledge to the English-speaking world. Biasca’s Model has come to be seen by many as a practical guide to business transformation. Using a medical analogy, the model guides company leadership from diagnosis of their organization’s current situation through a focus on preparing for the next one: 1. Analysis (diagnosis and prognosis) 2. Innovation (prescription) 3. Execution (therapy) 4. Consolidation (preventive medicine) Holistic and interdisciplinary, immune to passing trends yet flexible enough to grow from practitioner feedback, Biasca’s Model is perfect for CEOs, board members, professors, and students in executive education and MBA programs.

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Outskirts Press

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1977278329

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Pathology of the Prostate

By: Antonio Lopez-Beltran,Liang Cheng,Rodolfo Montironi,Maria Rosaria Raspollini

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Pathology of the Prostate

By: Antonio Lopez-Beltran,Liang Cheng,Rodolfo Montironi,Maria Rosaria Raspollini

A practical approach to pathology of the prostate with integrated algorithms using classic histopathology, representative images and relevant immunohistochemistry.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108185657

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An Inconsequential Murder

By: Rodolfo Peña

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An Inconsequential Murder

By: Rodolfo Peña

When the decapitated body of a student is found on the train tracks in Monterrey, Mexico, Captain Guillermo Lombardo finds his investigation taking him into the world of the Mexican drug cartels. As everyone from the university Dean to the Governor himself fails to cooperate with the investigation, Lombardo soon discovers that the body is just the tip of the iceberg of a much larger situation.

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Untreed Reads

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1452435723

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9781452435725

Rare Tumors and Tumor-like Conditions in Urological Pathology

By: Antonio Lopez-Beltran,Carmen L. Menendez,Rodolfo Montironi,Liang Cheng

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Rare Tumors and Tumor-like Conditions in Urological Pathology

By: Antonio Lopez-Beltran,Carmen L. Menendez,Rodolfo Montironi,Liang Cheng

This book is a comprehensive guide to rare tumors and tumor-like conditions of the urinary system and male genital organs. It comprises five chapters, devoted to the kidney, bladder, prostate, testes, and penis. Each chapter begins with a brief overview of “common” tumors and tumor-like conditions and with a section on the classification of both common and rare entities. The main clinical, pathological, immunohistochemical, and molecular findings for each rare tumor or tumor-like condition are then described and discussed. Significant characteristics are also documented by representative high-quality illustrations, with emphasis on those aspects of most relevance to differential diagnosis. In addition, prognostic features are fully covered. Urological Pathology: Rare Tumors and Tumor-Like Conditions will be ideal source of core information and practical guidance for residents, fellows, pathologists, urologists, and oncologists.

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Springer

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3319102532

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9783319102535

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