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Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America explores the critical potential inherent in the notion of “transculturation” in order to understand contemporary architectural practices and their cultural realities in Latin America. Despite its enormous theoretical potential and its importance within Latin American cultural theory, the term transculturation had never permeated into architectural debates. In fact, none of the main architectural theories produced in and about Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century engaged seriously with this notion as a way to analyze the complex social, cultural and political circumstances that affect the developm...
A Bigger Purpose contains powerful, life-changing stories from best-selling author Mike Rodriguez, along with co-authors Jillian Murphy, Mark Turner, Steve Flores, Mark Hernandez and Gary Adams. God has a plan for you if you will only live your life, not for other people or things, but for the bigger purpose that He has for you.
He demonstrates how these novelists use major and marginal figures to reflect upon the ways that institutional powers invoke episodes from the discovery and conquest to legitimate the present, and also to critique the recent historical past, especially in the case of Uruguay and Argentina, which endured military dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s."--Jacket.
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"In this captivating dystopian novel, a larger-than-life drag queen and her allies join forces to rise up when a post-Trump regime rounds those deemed "Other" into concentration camps"--
Pedro is an average boy growing up in the big city, but his life is anything but normal. Things are frequently happening to and around him that he can't explain. After his best friend Eric advises him never to repeat what he knows for fear of being locked up, he lives in constant confusion and fear. He believes his family is keeping a secret from him but can't figure out what it could possibly be. He also discovers the military has been watching his family and someone or something is also trying to locate where he lives. As far back as Pedro can remember, the only luck he ever has was bad luck. However, on his twenty-first birthday, something is about to happen that will change his life forever. Like it or not, things begin to unravel very quickly. Pedro suddenly finds himself in middle of a war between two separate worlds, and he's forced to make drastic changes. He finds himself doing things he had never imagined he could do or accomplish. All Pedro ever truly wanted is to be normal and see things crystal clear, but as he soon learns, things aren't always as they appear to be.
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