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Marine Ecosystems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Marine Ecosystems

In a perspective of sustainable management, the balance between ecological dynamics, social and economic are now at the heart of ecological modeling and environmental strategies screenwriting. Diversity and marine ecosystems function illustrates biodiversity, habitat diversity, structures and food webs in various oceans of the world and systems: pelagic and benthic ecosystems, coral reefs and seagrass beds, oasis of hydrothermal vents ridges or areas rich upwelling. Appropriate observation methods, long-term monitoring and modeling reveal the complexity of systems, trophic interactions and spatiotemporal dynamics. The ecosystem approach is a prerequisite to assess the state of these systems, their living resources and ecological services involved in local and global environmental changes.

Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

Leading social scientists and historians debate key controversies in the field of modern slavery and human trafficking studies.

The Little Old Lady Killer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

The Little Old Lady Killer

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-08-20
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

The surprising true story of Mexico’s hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killer For three years, amid widespread public outrage, police in Mexico City struggled to uncover the identity of the killer responsible for the ghastly deaths of forty elderly women, many of whom had been strangled in their homes with a stethoscope by someone posing as a government nurse. When Juana Barraza Samperio, a female professional wrestler known as la Dama del Silencio (the Lady of Silence), was arrested—and eventually sentenced to 759 years in prison—for her crimes as the Mataviejitas (the little old lady killer), her case disrupted traditional narratives about gender, criminality, ...

Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 17 (2001)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1039
Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 12 (1996)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 909

Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 12 (1996)

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-08-15
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789041110800).

Unholy Trinity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Unholy Trinity

  • Categories: Art

Rebecca Janzen brings a unique applied understanding of religion to bear on analysis of Mexican cinema from the Golden Age of the 1930s onward. Unholy Trinity first examines canonical films like Emilio Fernández's María Candelaria and Río Escondido that mythologize Mexico's past, suggesting that religious imagery and symbols are used to negotiate the place of religion in a modernizing society. It next studies films of the 1970s, which use motifs of corruption and illicit sexuality to critique both church and state. Finally, an examination of films from the 1990s and 2000s, including Guita Schyfter's Novia que te vea, a film that portrays Mexico City's Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish communities in the twentieth century, and Carlos Carrera's controversial 2002 film El crimen del padre Amaro, argues that religious imagery—related to the Catholic Church, people's interpretations of Catholicism, and representations of Jewish communities in Mexico—allows the films to critically engage with Mexican politics, identity, and social issues.

Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 61
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 846

Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 61

"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...

Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1000

Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos

This volume of the "Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights" covers the year 1995, and contains all the documents and information (in English and Spanish) concerning the activities of the Organization of American States in the field of the promotion and protection of human rights. Like its predecessors, this "Yearbook" aims to contribute to a greater awareness of the functions and activities of the organs of the Inter-American system for the protection of Human Rights.

Secularism: The Basics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Secularism: The Basics

Secularism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to confusing and contradictory public discussions of secularism across the globe. In this lively and lucid book, Jacques Berlinerblau addresses why secularism is defined in so many ways and why it so ignites people’s passions. In so doing, he explores the following important questions: What does secularism mean? Why should we care about this idea? What are the different types of secularism and what are their histories? What are the basic principles of political secularisms? Why are secularism and Atheism often confused? What is the relationship between secularism and LGBTQ rights? What opposition are secularisms up against? What...