Ana Alvarez: 3 books

From the colonial period to independence and into the twenty-first century, Latin American culture has been mapped as a subordinate “other” to Europe and the United States. This collection reconsiders geographical space and power and the ways in which theatrical and performance histories have...

During the first years of my childhood, I lived with my grandmother, Mara, the mother of my mother. Later my mother decided to place me in La Casa Cuna (The House of the Cradle). I dont know exactly what my age was then, but because of the pictures they took of me and my grandmother, I must have been about five years old.

Aerogels have been in use for over 80 years and have been utilised in a wide variety of applications, in particular, there has been growing use of insulating nanoporous materials in the aerospace industry. Recent awareness of the environmental implications of materials has driven researchers to develop...