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Hyperborder
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.
In the Land of Silence
This masterful translation of a recent Bolivian novel, En el pais del silencio, transports us to a mysterious, silent, and unfamiliar land where astonishing truths are placed within our grasp.
Social Sciences
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, 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 b...
Disaster Writing
Annotation In the aftermath of disaster, literary and other cultural representations of the event can play a role in the renegotiation of political power. Here, the author analyses four natural disasters in Latin America that acquired national significance and symbolism through literary mediation.
Collaborating With Students in Instruction and Decision Making
Join Luffy as he tries to become the king of the pirates and find the legendary treasure, One Piece As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim again Years, later, Luffy sets off in search of the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world... The Straw Hat crew are the only ones standing in the way of the New Fish-Man pirates taking complete control over Fish-Man Island. And when Hody puts his diabolical plan into action, only Luffy can stop him. Luffy may have become much more powerful thanks to his training, but how can he hope to defeat a Fish-Man at the bottom of the ocean? Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for teen audiences.
País sin techo
«LA NECESARIA TRANSFORMACIÓN DE LO APARENTEMENTE INDIVIDUAL EN COLECTIVO Y POLÍTICO ES LA BASE DE ESTE LIBRO, LA IMPORTANCIA DE EXPLICAR Y DEMOSTRAR LOS CONTINUOS INCUMPLIMIENTOS DE LEYES Y NORMAS QUE DEFIENDEN EL DERECHO A LA VIVIENDA.» - zaida muxí La crisis de vivienda existe y no podemos seguir ignorándola. Nuestras ciudades son cada vez más inhabitables: cada vez más caras, más distantes, más precarizadas y con menos servicios. Miles de personas están preocupadas por su imposibilidad de adquirir una vivienda en propiedad o, incluso, en arrendamiento. Sin embargo, esta problemática sigue siendo percibida como una preocupación individualizada y no como el problema estructural...
El poder de la carne
Aquí están reunidos varios ensayos que intentan abrir una línea de investigación de la ganadería en Colombia y la producción cárnica, desde perspectivas históricas, económicas, políticas, culturales y ambientales Se enfoca en el periodo que va desde 1900 hasta 1950 y hace énfasis en un aspecto que se suele pasar por alto: las dinámicas del consumo
