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Quinceañera Style

Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities

By: Rachel Valentina González

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Quinceañera Style

Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities

By: Rachel Valentina González

Quinceañera celebrations, which recognize a girl’s transition to young womanhood at age fifteen, are practiced in Latinx communities throughout the Americas. But in the consumer-driven United States, the ritual has evolved from a largely religious ceremony to an elaborate party where social status takes center stage. Examining the many facets of this contemporary debut experience, Quinceañera Style reports on ethnographic fieldwork in California, Texas, the Midwest, and Mexico City to reveal a complex, compelling story. Along the way, we meet a self-identified transwoman who uses the quinceañera as an intellectual space in her activist performance art. We explore the economic empowerment of women who own barrio boutiques specializing in the quinceañera’s many accessories and made-in-China gowns. And, of course, we meet teens themselves, including a vlogger whose quince-planning tips have made her an online sensation. Disrupting assumptions, such as the belief that Latino communities in the United States can’t desire upward mobility without abandoning ethnoracial cultural legacies, Quinceañera Style also underscores the performative nature of class and the process of constructing a self in the public, digital sphere.

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University of Texas Press

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1477319697

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9781477319697

Task-Based English Language Teaching in the Digital Age

Perspectives from Secondary Education

By: Valentina Morgana

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Task-Based English Language Teaching in the Digital Age

Perspectives from Secondary Education

By: Valentina Morgana

This book illustrates the developments of task-based language teaching (TBLT) approaches in relation to the evolution of digital technologies. It highlights how technology-mediated TBLT principles can support English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning and contribute to understanding new classroom dynamics. Drawing from the key theoretical concepts of TBLT, the author discusses the integration of tasks and technologies from a secondary education perspective, which is often under-represented in the TBLT literature. Morgana looks at how the EFL secondary classroom has been recently re-conceptualised as a social place whose boundaries go far behind the traditional school settings. This book provides theoretical approaches and classroom implementation practices by presenting four case studies on the different L2 skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking). The volume is organised into two main sections. The first section focuses on the theoretical approaches to TBLT and highlights the key concepts behind this methodology. This section also looks at the recent development of a technology-mediated TBLT framework and its implementations in various EFL educational contexts. The second section presents four case studies of secondary-school EFL learners in Italy. Each case study focuses on a different language skill, providing examples of classroom practices in both blended and online learning settings. Pedagogical recommendations for teachers are provided at the end of each case study. The book adopts a multimodal approach and aims at providing scholars in applied linguistics and TBLT practitioners with theories and implementation practices to understand the ways technologies are shaping tasks and mediating students' learning processes.

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209

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350288039

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9781350288034

Latino Students in American Schools

Historical and Contemporary Views

By: Valentina Kloosterman

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Latino Students in American Schools

Historical and Contemporary Views

By: Valentina Kloosterman

The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive historical and contemporary view of the education of Latinos in the United States. It is unique in that it provides readers with accurate information that will deepen their understanding and knowledge about Latinos from preschool to higher education, as well as in special education, gifted education, and migrant and urban education. Topics such as bilingualism and teacher preparation are an integral part of this thorough and eloquent book. Among culturally and linguistically diverse groups in the United States, the Latino population is the largest and fastest growing. Thus, to prepare for the growing numbers of Latino children and to make the most of their education, educators, researchers, and policymakers must recognize and build on the invaluable resource represented by Latino students. The information provided is based on current research and practice in the field. Our school system continues to underestimate the cognitive and socioemotional potential of Latino students by its limited awareness and representation of the Latino cultural characteristics, social dynamics, interests and abilities, bilingualism, as well as confronting socioeconomic challenges and educational needs. This situation clearly demonstrates a need for a reformulation of educational practice at all grade levels and for the provision of accurate information to assist practitioners and researchers in their knowledge and practice.

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192

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313096120

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9780313096129

Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men

Living in Urban Mexico

By: Valentina Napolitano

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Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men

Living in Urban Mexico

By: Valentina Napolitano

Exploring issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender, this work analyses everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Valentina Napolitano paints a vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighbourhood of Guadalajara.--(Source of description unspecified.)

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256

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Univ of California Press

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0520233182

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9780520233188

The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo

By: Valentina Peguero

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The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo

By: Valentina Peguero

Traces the interaction of the military & the civilian population, showing the many ways in which the military ethos has permeated Dominican culture.

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283

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803237413

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9780803237414

Mariposas en mi boca

By: Valentina Virginia Mtz. Stroud

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Mariposas en mi boca

By: Valentina Virginia Mtz. Stroud

Un accidente de carretera, del cual sobreviven los padres de dos ninas, cambia el rumbo de la vida de la mas pequena de tres anos, quien se va a vivir con los abuelos maternos. Anos despues, debe ser regresada con sus padres. Esa separacion le afecta emocionalmente, y nadie la ayuda. Ella busca sus propios medios de regresar con sus abuelos, pero muchos de sus intentos son malogrados. Entonces, se aferra a buscar como comprar una bicicleta, segura de que esa es la solucion para cumplir su objetivo. Esa obstinacion por obtener ese artefacto mecanico desencadena eventos inimaginables en su vida. Al fin, cuando lo logra... no te puedes perder con que se encuentra...

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357

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Page Publishing Inc

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ISBN 13

9798886541434

Infectious Diseases in Cats. Practical Guide

By: Juanjo Vega Guerrero,Valentina Aybar González

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Infectious Diseases in Cats. Practical Guide

By: Juanjo Vega Guerrero,Valentina Aybar González

This book addresses the main feline infectious diseases that are usually seen in daily veterinary practice and includes all the existing updates regarding the diagnostic approach and management of these conditions. Its main aim is to provide highly practical information in order to offer a new perspective, different from other textbooks, about the current infectious diseases in cats.

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346

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Grupo Asís Biomedia S.L.

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8417225137

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9788417225131

365 Real-Life Superheroes

By: Valentina Camerini

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365 Real-Life Superheroes

By: Valentina Camerini

365 Real-Life Superheroes is packed full of real stories about true superheroes: from Galileo to Greta Thunberg – or, in Australia, from Eddie Mabo to Lowitja O'Donoghue. Among the heroes profiled are sportspeople, scientists, journalists, explorers, doctors, astronauts, musicians, artists and activists. Each has been chosen because they display a particular heroic attribute: courage, intelligence, creativity, determination, justice or generosity. This charming illustrated collection of stories will entertain and, above all, inspire young readers. For readers aged 9 to 12.

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Black Inc.

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1743821387

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9781743821381

Biorefineries

Design and Analysis

By: Carlos Ariel Cardona Alzate,Jonathan Moncada Botero,Valentina Aristizábal Marulanda

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Biorefineries

Design and Analysis

By: Carlos Ariel Cardona Alzate,Jonathan Moncada Botero,Valentina Aristizábal Marulanda

Aimed at presenting a systematic design of biorefineries, the book initiates with an overview about relevance and applications explained through origin of raw materials, transformation routes and products. Then, concepts as hierarchy, sequencing and integration are considered which helps in generating a sustainable and strategic design of biorefineries. Further, framework for biorefineries based on techno-economic, environmental and social aspects is analyzed with examples to show the applications. Finally, some mass, energy and economic indices are considered to assess the biorefinery sustainability and key challenges for future development of biorefineries. Key Features Presents current state-of the-art of the biorefineries design and analyses for in depth understanding of biofuels and biomaterials Explores conceptual design of processes Concepts discussed with strong engineering approach, including design strategies and techno-economic analyses Includes bio-based materials, natural products and food products in the biorefinery concept Presentation of structured method to calculate indices of performance of biorefineries

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224

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CRC Press

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1351626264

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Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return

Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church

By: Valentina Napolitano

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Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return

Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church

By: Valentina Napolitano

Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return examines contemporary migration in the context of a Roman Catholic Church eager to both comprehend and act upon the movements of peoples. Combining extensive fieldwork with lay and religious Latin American migrants in Rome and analysis of the Catholic Church’s historical desires and anxieties around conversion since the period of colonization, Napolitano sketches the dynamics of a return to a faith’s putative center. Against a Eurocentric notion of Catholic identity, Napolitano shows how the Americas reorient Europe. Napolitano examines both popular and institutional Catholicism in the celebrations of the Virgin of Guadalupe and El Senor de los Milagros, papal encyclicals, the Latin American Catholic Mission, and the order of the Legionaries of Christ. Tracing the affective contours of documented and undocumented immigrants’ experiences and the Church’s multiple postures toward transnational migration, she shows how different ways of being Catholic inform constructions of gender, labor, and sexuality whose fault lines intersect across contemporary Europe.

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308

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823267504

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9780823267507

Growing Pains

Is Latin American Prepared for Population Aging?

By: Valentina Flamini,Misael Galdamez,Frederic Lambert,Mike Li,Mr.Bogdan Lissovolik,Rosalind Mowatt,Jaume Puig,Mr.Alexander D Klemm,Mauricio Soto,Mr.Saji Thomas,Christoph Freudenberg,Anna Orthofer,Andrea Herrera

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Growing Pains

Is Latin American Prepared for Population Aging?

This paper estimates the fiscal costs of population aging in Latin America and provides policy recommendations on reforms needed to make these costs manageable. Although Latin American societies are still younger than most advanced economies, like other emerging markets the region is already in a process of population aging that is expected to accelerate in the remainder of the century. This will directly affect fiscal sustainabil-ity by putting pressure on public pension and health care systems in the region that are already more burdened than, for example, in emerging Asia, a region with a similar demographic structure. A stylized cross-country exercise, drawing on demographic projections from the United Nations and methodologies developed by the IMF to derive public spending projections, is used to quantify long-term fiscal gaps generated by population aging in 18 Latin American countries.1 Several aspects of current pensions and health care systems in Latin Amer-ica make the region’s long-term fiscal positions particularly vulnerable to population aging.

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195

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International Monetary Fund

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1484350464

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9781484350461

Sofia Maestra Madre Mujer

By: Ana Valentina

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Sofia Maestra Madre Mujer

By: Ana Valentina

Resumen: La vida de Sofa del Carmen representa la problemtica y desarrollo de la mujer y los pases del tercer mundo donde las grandes potencias los dejaron para lograr su egoistica superacin y a la vez sacaron fruto de todos ellos. Sofa del Carmen es un ser especialmente humano, simple, que ama profundamente, sufre profundamente pero posee la gracia ms preciosa que cualquier Ser puede poseer: Fe en Dios y a travs de Dios en ella misma, ella cae, se levanta y sigue hacia delante con la esperanza puesta en El que todo lo puede pero colaborando da a da en la forma ms sencilla con la obra ms maravillosa del Creador: El Ser humano. Educando el ser humano, siendo una humilde maestra de educacin elemental y por su espritu de generosidad, Sofa fue cause de transformacin no solo de todos los que pasaron por sus aulas, sino tambin de todos los que los rodeaban, sus padres, sus familias, sus pueblos. Desde su niez enfrentando y viviendo en sociedades machistas, restringidas, conservativas, fue capaz de avanzar y aunque con dificultad algunas veces, -debido a las presiones de las instituciones que guan nuestras sociedades-, logra abrir su mente y aceptar los cambios que por su intrnseca naturaleza se abren al paso del desarrollo humano. Sin embargo, Sofa experimenta la frustracin de todos nuestros pueblos cuando despus de haber logrado realizar un arduo trabajo, en minutos todo puede ser destruido por la violencia que muchas veces crece con nuestra misma naturaleza humana, como crecen la cizaa y la buena yerba. A la misma vez Sofa, como nuestros pueblos es una persona alegre, llena de vida que nos describe las caractersticas y los costumbrismos de estas vastas regiones en las montaas de los Andes ricas en belleza natural y calor humano, sus historias de la vida cotidiana nos muestra la idiosincrasia de sus gentes casi nos deja saborear sus alimentos y sus bebidas as como de la msica, las pasiones y los amores que la envolvieron.

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426

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Trafford Publishing

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1426974132

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9781426974137

Artificial Intelligence in Recognition and Classification of Astrophysical and Medical Images

By: Valentina Zharkova

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Artificial Intelligence in Recognition and Classification of Astrophysical and Medical Images

By: Valentina Zharkova

This book presents innovative techniques in recognition and classification of astrophysical and medical images. Coverage includes: image standardization and enhancement; region-based methods for pattern recognition in medical and astrophysical images; advanced information processing using statistical methods; and feature recognition and classification using spectral method.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540475117

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9783540475118

Reading and Writing with English Learners

A Framework for K-5

By: Valentina Gonzalez,Dr. Melinda Miller

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Reading and Writing with English Learners

A Framework for K-5

By: Valentina Gonzalez,Dr. Melinda Miller

Reading & Writing with English Learners offers kindergarten through fifth grade reading and writing educators a user-friendly guide and framework for supporting English learners in balanced literacy classrooms. Authors Valentina Gonzalez and Melinda Miller lead readers in exploring the components of Reading & Writing with English Learners with a special eye for increasing the effectiveness of instructional methods and quality of instruction to serve English learners. This book shares practical and effective techniques for accommodating reading and writing instruction to design learning that simultaneously increases literacy and language development. Reading & Writing with English Learners was written for: • K-5 Classroom Teachers • ESL Teachers • Reading and Writing Instructional Coaches • District Leaders Reading & Writing with English Learners includes: • the components of Reading & Writing Workshop • accommodations that support English Learners • high yield practices for Reading & Writing Workshop during remote teaching • the role of phonics • a culturally inclusive booklist • activities that support Reading & Writing Workshop And more!

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SEIDLITZ EDUCATION, LLC

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1732194874

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9781732194878

Quinceañera Style

Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities

By: Rachel Valentina González

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Quinceañera Style

Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities

By: Rachel Valentina González

Winner of the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women's Studies, Popular Culture Association Co-winner of the Elli Kongas Maranda Prize, Women's Section of the American Folklore Society (AFS) A dynamic study of social negotiation and consumerism in the coming-of-age quinceañera celebration and the impact of normalizing spectacles of luxury. Quinceañera celebrations, which recognize a girl’s transition to young womanhood at age fifteen, are practiced in Latinx communities throughout the Americas. But in the consumer-driven United States, the ritual has evolved from a largely religious ceremony to an elaborate party where social status takes center stage. Examining the many facets of this contemporary debut experience, Quinceañera Style reports on ethnographic fieldwork in California, Texas, the Midwest, and Mexico City to reveal a complex, compelling story. Along the way, we meet a self-identified transwoman who uses the quinceañera as an intellectual space in her activist performance art. We explore the economic empowerment of women who own barrio boutiques specializing in the quinceañera’s many accessories and made-in-China gowns. And, of course, we meet teens themselves, including a vlogger whose quince-planning tips have made her an online sensation. Disrupting assumptions, such as the belief that Latino communities in the United States can’t desire upward mobility without abandoning ethnoracial cultural legacies, Quinceañera Style also underscores the performative nature of class and the process of constructing a self in the public, digital sphere.

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University of Texas Press

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1477319719

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Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men

Living in Urban Mexico

By: Valentina Napolitano

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Living in Urban Mexico

By: Valentina Napolitano

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Univ of California Press

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0520233190

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Quinceañera Style

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Task-Based English Language Teaching in the Digital Age

Task-Based English Language Teaching in the Digital Age

Latino Students in American Schools

Latino Students in American Schools

Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men

Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men

The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo

The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo

Mariposas en mi boca

Mariposas en mi boca

Infectious Diseases in Cats. Practical Guide

Infectious Diseases in Cats. Practical Guide

365 Real-Life Superheroes

365 Real-Life Superheroes

Biorefineries

Biorefineries

Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return

Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return

Growing Pains

Growing Pains

Sofia Maestra Madre Mujer

Sofia Maestra Madre Mujer

Artificial Intelligence in Recognition and Classification of Astrophysical and Medical Images

Artificial Intelligence in Recognition and Classification of Astrophysical and Medical Images

Reading and Writing with English Learners

Reading and Writing with English Learners

Quinceañera Style

Quinceañera Style

Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men

Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men

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