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Making Sense of Women's Lives presents a wide range of writings about women's lives in the United States. Michele Plott and Lauri Umansky have drawn on their experiences as both students and professors to assemble the collection. Seeking to provide as full a sampling from a diverse and intellectually vibrant field as one volume permits, the editors have also chosen writing that makes an enjoyable read. A few of the selections here represent the undisputed 'classics' of the field. More of them constitute simply the works, drawn from academic and nonacademic sources alike, that could make a difference in understanding what it means to be female in America. Making Sense of Women's Lives is inte...
This book includes selected peer-reviewed chapters which cover novel aspects of cysticercosis and neurocysticercosis written by well known international researchers, representing the most relevant Working Group for Cysticercosis of Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, most of the Eastern and Southern Africa countries and Europe plus other contributions from Canada and United States of America. Unfortunately, our colleagues from Asia could not participate in this project for several reasons but we hereby acknowledge their contribution to the scientific level reached by the international scientific community. Apart from the classic issue that cannot be missing in any book about cysticercosis/ neurocysticercosis, we introduced a new hypotheses and novel aspects on historical background, clinical descriptions, investigations, and treatment modalities related to this zoonotic parasitic disease as a leading cause of epilepsy in developing countries. We are looking forward with confidence and pride in the vital role that this book will play for a new vision and mission.
Construir ciudades pasa revista a la experiencia de América Latina y el Caribe en el diseño y ejecución de programas de mejoramiento de barrios. El libro expone el conocimiento adquirido por los especialistas del BID y sus contrapartes técnicas y directivas en los organismos ejecutores de los préstamos que otorga para mejoramiento de barrios.
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¿Por qué en el mundo de la educación se habla tanto de la necesidad del cambio y cuesta tanto su implementación y sobretodo su continuidad? ¿Por qué en el mundo de la educación están tan arraigados algunos modelos docentes? ¿Por qué cuesta tanto modificarlos? Y por tanto ¿de qué manera podemos articular los espacios formativos para deconstruir y reconstruir estos modelos que tenemos tan interiorizados? ¿De qué manera podemos pasar a la acción? Maestras contemporáneas. Maestras, porque más del 70% de las profesionales del ámbito de la educación son mujeres y la presencia de las mujeres también se expande en otros muchos contextos educativos. Y contemporáneas porque como afirma Giorgio Agamben es una cuestión de coraje, relacionado con lo intempestivo. Es un texto en el cual se muestra cómo los procesos que implican la comunicación con manifestaciones artísticas y culturales nos ayudan a devenir maestras reflexivas, creativas y críticas, comprometidas con la cultura y la educación.
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En este libro se presentan capítulos resultados de investigaciones realizadas por docentes investigadores y estudiantes de semilleros de investigación que han analizado la parte productiva, social y económica dentro de las organizaciones y en los diferentes contextos regionales, donde se profundiza en temáticas de desarrollo empresarial y sostenibilidad, así como la creación de nuevos negocios y estrategias comerciales, marketing digital, procesos organizacionales donde sobresalen experiencias innovadoras, donde algunos utilizan la prospectiva como complemento de la planeación estratégica para plantear diferentes alternativas de solución a las necesidades o problemáticas que se presentan
This volume provides a synthesis of the lessons learned and challenges confronted in implementing neighbourhood improvement programs in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. It provides a wide panorama of the most complex problems that the cities of the LAC region currently face and shows possibilities for solutions.
This book includes selected peer-reviewed chapters which cover novel aspects of cysticercosis and neurocysticercosis written by well known international researchers, representing the most relevant Working Group for Cysticercosis of Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, most of the Eastern and Southern Africa countries and Europe plus other contributions from Canada and United States of America. Unfortunately, our colleagues from Asia could not participate in this project for several reasons but we hereby acknowledge their contribution to the scientific level reached by the international scientific community. Apart from the classic issue that cannot be missing in any book about cysticercosis/ neurocysticercosis, we introduced a new hypotheses and novel aspects on historical background, clinical descriptions, investigations, and treatment modalities related to this zoonotic parasitic disease as a leading cause of epilepsy in developing countries. We are looking forward with confidence and pride in the vital role that this book will play for a new vision and mission.