“….), travel writings of the Galápagos condition the formation of the state and its national imagery because of the extreme symbolic capital of the archipelago and the desire of Latin American intellectuals to belong to a cosmopolitan territory"--…”

“…From the medieval mystic Margery Kempe to the twentieth-century activist Dorothy Day, from African American preacher Jarena Lee to labor organizer Dolores Huerta, the book mines women’s first-person writing, surfacing critical issues for theological analysis. …”

“…For decades, aristocrats of the Old World and then American collectors (the latter at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries) spent countless sums on the purchase of these works, which were worth a fortune. …”

“…It provides comprehensive information on global invasion, economic impact, and management options for the red palm weevil, spotted wing Drosophila, and the South American tomato pinworm. Additionally, it examines the economic utilization of invasive plant species from the families Asteraceae and Cactaceae as means of management. …”

“…The second section contains six chapters that describe proper nutritional management to improve gut health and immunity, the prevention of common diseases, and the amelioration of heat stress in poultry…”

“…While the highest oak diversity occurs in American and Asia, European species are also widespread. …”

“…With this practical book, data engineers and architects, platform engineers, cloud engineers, and software engineers will learn how to use Presto operations at your organization to derive insights on datasets wherever they reside. Authors Angelica Lo Duca, Tim Meehan, Vivek Bharathan, and Ying Su explain what Presto is, where it came from, and how it differs from other data warehousing solutions. …”

“…L'expansion tiree par les exportations a ete alimentee par la poursuite des investissements etrangers dans l'industrie automobile, une forte integration dans les chaines de valeur mondiales (CVM) et l'amelioration de la productivite du travail qui en a decoule…”

“…It can be used as a supplement to any radiologic sciences program.When used as part of an occupational training course in radiologic technology, the Radiologic Technology Clinical Manual will help students qualify for examination by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT). …”

“…El altruismo eficaz se construye sobre la idea, simple pero profunda, de que llevar una vida totalmente ética implica hacer «el máximo bien que puedas». Dicha vida requiere una visión práctica de las donaciones benéficas: si una organización pretende ser digna de nuestro apoyo, deberá ser capaz de demostrar que el bien que hará con nuestro dinero o tiempo será mayor que el de otras alternativas a nuestro alcance…”

“…Includes numerous examples from Asian, European, and North American youth culture and popular music. He draws on interdisciplinary research from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, and media studies. …”
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“…This second volume of Shklar's work--which follows the 1997 publication of Redeeming American Political Thought--brings together heretofore uncollected (and several unpublished) essays on a number of themes, including the place of the intellect in the modern political world and the dangers of identity politics. …”
Sumario

“…Rainer Maria Rilke, poeta de culto, de personalidad tan fascinante como compleja, siempre protegido por las mujeres—en las que buscó amparo y enseñanza—, y a menudo adorado por ellas, estaba lejos de la imagen romántica y angélica que la tradición suele ofrecernos de él. Mauricio Wiesenthal, tras años de atenta lectura y estudio de la obra, las cartas y los documentos—algunos inéditos—del poeta, logra ahondar en el hombre, y nos ofrece una imagen mucho más compleja, sutil y humana del profeta de los réquiems y las elegías…”

“…"El objetivo del presente texto ha sido efectuar un recorrido a lo largo de los diferentes aspectos vinculados al HABLA, siguíndose para ello, las tendencias sugeridas por la American Speech-Language-Hearing Association - ASHA, desde hace más de diez años sobre la Práctica Basada en Evidencia - PBE, de tal manera que el lector encontrará referencias de más de 700 estudios citados a lo largo de sus capítulos, procurándose de esta manera, resaltar la importanica de utilizar procedimientos y técnicas que hayan sido probados previamente en investigaciones que cumplan con todos los requisitos metodológicos." -- Coberta posterior…”

“…"A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls, is widely regarded as the most important twentieth-century work of Anglo-American political philosophy. It transformed the field by offering a compelling alternative to the dominant utilitarian conception of social justice. …”

“…Camiones, Contenedores, Colectivos es una iniciativa del arquitecto Santiago Cirugeda (Recetas Urbanas) que implica a más de una docena de colectivos en la creación de una red de espacios auto-gestionados por toda la geografía española. …”

“…Whether discussing disability in modern Chinese cinema or on the American antebellum stage, this collection provides new and valuable insights into the rich and varied lives of disabled people across time and place -- Editor…”

“…"Perry Anderson picks from the highly charged historiography of the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war-guilt; Pierre Renouvin, a disabled serviceman and preeminent authority on the conflict in France; Luigi Albertini, the Italian newspaper tycoon who unlike any other scholar on the Grear War was himself a leading actor in pitching his country into it; Paul W. Schroeder, the American expert on the system of European interstate relations and its breakdown in 1914; Keith Wilson, the one radical deviant from a patriotic consensus in Britain about the country's role in the outbreak of the fighting; and, from Australia (a dominion dragooned into the Great War by the British), the acclaimed Christopher Clark"--…”

“…Fernab aller Wildwest-Romantik erzählt Brown in farbiger, kraftvoller Prosa von der Besiedlung des amerikanischen Westens aus der Sicht der "Native Americans", führt ergreifend die grausame Gier der weißen Siedler und den verzweifelten Kampf der Indianerstämme gegen die skrupellose Landnahme vor Augen. …”

“…To answer this pressing question, Robert Keohane analyzes the institutions, or "international regimes," through which cooperation has taken place in the world political economy and describes the evolution of these regimes as American hegemony has eroded. Refuting the idea that the decline of hegemony makes cooperation impossible, he views international regimes not as weak substitutes for world government but as devices for facilitating decentralized cooperation among egoistic actors. …”