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A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book
The region of the skull base was long considered a surgical barrier because of its complex anatomy. With few exceptions, the region immediately beyond the dura or bony skull base constituted a "no man's land" for the surgeon working from the other direction. A major reason for this was the high morbidity associated with operative procedures in that area using traditional dissection techniques. This situation changed with the advent of the operating microscope. Used initially by ear, nose and throat specialists for resective and reconstructive surgery of the petrous bone and parana sal sinuses, the operating microscope was later introduced in other areas, and neurosurgeons began using it in t...
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Innovatively revisits Latin American independence and its significance for the Age of Atlantic Revolutions.
Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel presents a framework of comparative literature based on a systemic and empirical approach to the study of the novel and applies that framework to the analysis of key nineteenth-century Brazilian novels. The works under examination were published during the period in which the forms and procedures of the novel were acclimatized as the genre established and consolidated itself in Brazil.
The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building in the contemporary world, it is necessary to analyze previous efforts to create institutional capacity in conflictive contexts. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the process of state and nation building in Latin America and Spain from independence to the 1930s. The book examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success. The Spanish and Latin American experience of the nineteenth century was arguably the first regional stage on which the organizational and political dilemmas that still haunt states were faced. This book provides an unprecedented perspective on the development and contemporary outcome of those state and nation-building projects.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2019, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in September 2019. The 119 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 252 submissions. The papers are organized in 18 tracks devoted to the following topics: AIEd - Artificial Intelligence in Education, AI4G - Artificial Intelligence for Games, AIoTA - Artificial Intelligence and IoT in Agriculture, AIL - Artificial Intelligence and Law, AIM - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AICPDES - Artificial Intelligence in Cyber-Physical and Distributed Embedded Systems, AIPES - Artificial Int...
Este livro traz relevantes informações sobre a história do Rio Grande do Norte, estado no nordeste do Brasil, e da região de Angicos, território da antiga Freguesia de São José dos Angicos que abrange atualmente os municípios Angicos, Afonso Bezerra, Pedro Avelino, Fernando Pedroza, Lajes, Pedra Preta, Caiçara do Rio do Vento, Jardim de Angicos e adjacências, abordando, além da história a genealogia dos antigos e atuais habitantes. São inúmeras as famílias apresentadas, abordadas a partir de resumo biográfico de um membro, como exemplo o de Alzira Soriano (Teixeira de Vasconcelos), 1a mulher eleita prefeita na América Latina, Monsenhor João da Mata (Paiva Rocha), Câmara Filho (Rebouças de Oliveira Câmara).