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The Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920 is among the world’s most visually documented revolutions. Coinciding with the birth of filmmaking and the increased mobility offered by the reflex camera, it received extraordinary coverage by photographers and cineastes—commercial and amateur, national and international. Many images of the Revolution remain iconic to this day—Francisco Villa galloping toward the camera; Villa lolling in the presidential chair next to Emiliano Zapata; and Zapata standing stolidly in charro raiment with a carbine in one hand and the other hand on a sword, to mention only a few. But the identities of those who created the thousands of extant images of the Mexican Re...
Investigación arqueológica sobre el sitio arqueológico Plazuelas, al sur de la sierra de Pénjamo en Guanajuato
La presente antología reúne una serie de trabajos selectos de la antropóloga Sara María Lara Flores, quien dedicó gran parte de su vida a la investigación en el Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. La doctora fue pionera en el estudio de la problemática de las y los asalariados agrícolas en México y América Latina. La antología está organizada en tres ejes principales: género, mercados de trabajo y migración. Dichos temas se combinan estrechamente en la vasta producción de la autora a lo largo de medio siglo de trabajo académico. El enfoque teórico que guió el conjunto de su obra fueron los estudios de género, con la divisi...
This Encyclopedia is the first to compile pseudonyms from all over the world, from all ages and occupations in a single work: some 500,000 pseudonyms of roughly 270,000 people are deciphered here. Besides pseudonyms in the narrower sense, initials, nick names, order names, birth and married names etc. are included. The volumes 1 to 9 list persons by their real names in alphabetical order. To make the unequivocal identification of a person easier, year and place of birth and death are provided where available, as are profession, nationality, the pseudonym under which the person was known, and finally, the sources used. The names of professions given in the source material have been translated into English especially for this encyclopaedia. In the second part, covering the volumes 10 to 16, the pseudonyms are listed alphabetically and the real names provided. Approx. 500,000 pseudonyms of about 270,000 persons First encyclopedia including pseudonyms from all over the world, all times and all occupations Essential research tool for anyone wishing to identify persons and names for his research within one single work
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La revoluci n pol tica moderna no es el fardo muerto del pasado sino sue o y pesadilla de los vivos. Este libro presenta un conjunto de problemas en el desarrollo de la revoluci n en la capital nacional. No es una historia exhaustiva sino indicativa, sintom tica, tal vez, de las implicaciones de la revoluci n para la ciudad. Los a os que contempla la investigaci n dan cuenta de los ensayos y errores en la b squeda de nuevas forma en el ejercicio de la autoridad pol tica en la ciudad.
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The year 2019 has been prolific in terms of new evidence regarding the effects of coffee and caffeine consumption on diverse aspects of human functioning. This book collects 20 high-quality manuscripts published in Nutrients that include original investigation or systematic review studies of the effects of caffeine intake on human performance and health. The diversity of the articles published in this Special Issue highlights the extent of the effects of coffee and caffeine on human functioning, while underpinning the positive nature of most of these effects. This book will help with understanding why the natural sources of caffeine are so widely present in the nutrition behaviors of modern society.