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Gobernanza universitaria:Experiencias e investigaciones en Latinoamérica
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 389
Beyond Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

Beyond Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Home Reading Service
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Home Reading Service

In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the “City of Eternal Spring” is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad ...

World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality

From today’s vantage point it can be denied that the confidence in the abilities of globalism, mobility, and cosmopolitanism to illuminate cultural signification processes of our time has been severely shaken. In the face of this crisis, a key concept of this globalizing optimism as World Literature has been for the past twenty years necessarily is in the need of a comprehensive revision. World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise offers a wide range of contributions approaching the blind spots of the globally oriented Humanities for phenomena that in one way or another have gone beyond the discourses, aesthetics, and political positions of liberal cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization. Departing basically (but not exclusively) from different examples of Latin American literatures and cultures in globalized contexts, this volume provides innovative insights into critical readings of World Literature and its related conceptualizations. A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a mustread for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 451

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South

Cities are now home to 55% of the world’s population, and that number is rising. Urban populations across the world will continue to grow, including in megacities with populations over ten million. In 2016 there were 31 megacities globally, according to the United Nations’ World Cities Report, with 24 of those cities located in the Global South. That number is expected to rise to 41 by 2030, with all ten new megacities in the Global South where the processes of urbanization are intrinsically distinct from those in the Global North. The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South provides rigorous comparative analyses, discussing the challenges, processes, best practices, and initiatives of urbanization in Middle America, South America, the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. This book is indispensable reading for students and scholars of urban planning, and its significance as a resource will only continue to grow as urbanization reshapes the global population.

CLAP! 10×10 Contemporary Latin American Photobooks: 2000-2016
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 8

CLAP! 10×10 Contemporary Latin American Photobooks: 2000-2016

A photobook anthology that documents CLAP!, a traveling reading room exhibition of 130 contemporary Latin American Photobooks from 2000 to 2016. Selected by Latin American specialists, the books presented offer a range of twenty-first century Latin American photobooks that are rarely seen or available outside the region. The books in CLAP! represent many of the most exciting innovations in Latin American photography and publications. Copiously illustrated and indexed, the publication provides full color spreads and detailed bibliographic information for 130 photobooks. Paris Photo – Aperture Photography Catalogue of the Year Shortlist 2018 Walter Tiemann Prize Shortlist 2018

The Leatherback Turtle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

The Leatherback Turtle

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-30
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

The most comprehensive book ever written on leatherback sea turtles. Weighing as much as 2,000 pounds and reaching lengths of over seven feet, leatherback turtles are the world’s largest reptile. These unusual sea turtles have a thick, pliable shell that helps them to withstand great depths—they can swim more than one thousand meters below the surface in search of food. And what food source sustains these goliaths? Their diet consists almost exclusively of jellyfish, a meal they crisscross the oceans to find. Leatherbacks have been declining in recent decades, and some predict they will be gone by the end of this century. Why? Because of two primary factors: human redevelopment of nestin...

A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life After Death
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life After Death

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This is a new release of the original 1961 edition.

Women in Mexican Folk Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 233

Women in Mexican Folk Art

  • Categories: Art

The aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of creation, distribution, and consumption, as well as examining iconographic aspects, and elements of class and ethnicity, from the perspective of gender. The author will demonstrate that the topic provides unique insights into Mexican culture, and has enormous relevance within and without the country, given the fact that much folk art is made for the United States and Europe, either in terms of the tourists who buy it on coming to Mexico, or that which is exported.

The Uses of Photography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

The Uses of Photography

The Uses of Photography examines a network of artists who were active in Southern California between the late 1960s and early 1980s and whose experiments with photography opened the medium to a profusion of new strategies and subjects. These artists introduced urgent social issues and themes of everyday life into the seemingly neutral territory of conceptual art, through photographic works that took on hybrid forms, from books and postcards to video and text-and-image installations. Tracing a crucial history of photoconceptual practice, The Uses of Photography focuses on an artistic community that formed in and around the young University of California San Diego, founded in 1960, and its vis...