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Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Stuides, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and...
Born and raised in the Caribbean in the '50s and '60s, one has a certain perception of those in authority as being "good, decent law-abiding intellectuals." So I was in for a shock when I had occasion to represent myself as a plaintiff in the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario, Canada. I was in for an even greater shock when I filed a criminal report about the illegal activities indulged in by lawyers, judges, and also by a visit from the police, who not only bullied me, but threatened to have me take a test for mental health issues if I contacted them again. What was most unbelievable was what took place at landlord and tenant board hearings: the blatant lies told not only by a judge at t...
Wrestling Figure Checklist is a signature look into the world of professional wrestling and its action figures. Unlike any other wrestling figure checklist out there, this publication uniquely presents almost 10,000 different action figures, playsets and accessories in rough chronological order of their release, designed to show the reader the evolution of wrestling figures from their inception in the 1960s, all the way to the end of the 2010s. The idea behind this is to allow the reader to go back to a certain era, and to see what they toy aisle would look like at that respective time. And it's not just America, this book also explores the world of Japanese and Mexican figures as well. Even...
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1. Introduction -- 2. The Ethnic Foundations of Electoral Politics in Kenya -- 3. Ethnicity and the Swing Vote -- 4. Campaign Strategy: Appealing to a Diverse Electorate -- 5. Persuasion on the Campaign Trail -- 6. From Electoral Politics to Policymaking: Education Reform in Kenya -- 7. Electoral Competition and Policymaking in Ghana -- 8. Conclusion.
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