Eda: 116 books
El maíz nativo en México
Una aproximación crítica desde los estudios rurales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Esta obra surge de la necesidad de contar con evidencias científicas sociales con una mirada crítica de los estudios rurales sobre la importancia que tiene el maíz nativo en México en sus múltiples dimensiones y realidades. En este sentir, la Red sobre Maíz, Alimentación, Tecnología y Cultura...
by Tony Erben, Ruth Ban, Martha Castañeda
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
In Teaching English Language Learners through Technology, the authors explore the use of computers/technology as a pedagogical tool to aid in the appropriate instruction of ELLs across all content areas. The special focus of this book is on the informed use of various technologies and software programs...
Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classrooms
Faculty Reflections on their Experiences and Pedagogical Practices of Teaching Diverse Populations
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This study describes how faculty who participated in the Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classroom Faculty and TA Partnership Project (1994-2000) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, reflected on their experiences and pedagogical practices as instructors in diverse classrooms.
by Jairo Enríque Angarita Feo, Carolina Romero Burbano, Emiro Vieda Silva
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 21, 2017
"En el marco del proceso de investigación de los estudiantes del Doctorado en Derecho de la Universidad Santo Tomás, la realización de disertaciones y de artículos resultan necesarios, ya que, gracias a este tipo de actividades, los estudiantes van practicando los adelantos de su indagación...
The European Approach to Peacebuilding
Civilian Tools for Peace in Colombia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Examining peacebuilding through the intersection of security, development and democracy, Castaneda explores how the European Union has employed civilian tools for supporting peacebuilding in conflict-affected countries by working at the same time with CSOs and government institutions.
Utopia Unarmed
The Latin American Left After the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Castro's Cuba is isolated; the guerrillas who once spread havoc through Uruguay and Argentina are dead, dispersed, or running for office as moderates. And in 1990, Nicaragua's Sandinistas were rejected at the polls by their own constituents. Are these symptoms of the fall of the Latin American left?...
Memes of Misinformation: Federal Spending
Unraveling the controversial, socio-economic and political issues behind those annoying social media memes
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
In this first installment of the Misinformation series, the author tackles complex socio-economic and political topics related to the economy of the United States, such as the federal budget, wasteful spending, the national debt, unemployment and social security. By breaking down each subject into...
Why are Animals Funny?
Everyday Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Why are Animals Funny? comprises 46 articles in which nigh on everything is analyzed, from the smartphone to the 2010 general election, from toasties to Margaret Thatcher, from anxiety in children's literature to David Cameron's music tastes...
Ofrenda
Liliana Wilson's Art of Dissidence and Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Liliana Wilson’s art of resistance and protest, dissidence and dreams, consistently calls attention to injustice.
Wilson belongs to a group of Chilean artists who were intimately shaped by the political turmoil and repression in Chile in the 1970s and 1980s and who have become self-exiled...
Speedy
The Story of One Mexican in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Many years after fighting in the Vietnam War, Elizalde decided to write this book which was dormant in his subconscious all that time. Not everyone in the war fought the frontlines of battle as it is depicted in the movies. Instead, many of them provided support services to the Infantry and the Marines...
by B. R. Castañeda
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
I used to think the road to a happy ending is a straight line, red in color, a walking distance until you showed me the way. Love and some old chestnuts is a collection of prose and poetry that takes you to a journey of love, romance, abuse and loss. The book puts readers in the shoes of two lovers...
Waves of Social Movement Mobilizations in the Twenty-First Century
Challenges to the Neo-Liberal World Order and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Based on case studies, this book analyzes a recent wave of social movement and protests in the twenty-first century. It has two overarching broadly defined themes: first, to identify commonalities across the social movements and protests in terms of strategies, desire, hopes as well as the main factors...
Human Strengths and Resilience
Developmental, Cross-Cultural, and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Human Strengths and Resilience is intended to serve as a bridge between these two rapidly expanding disciplines by focusing on the critical issue of human strengths and resilience in cross-cultural and international perspective. To achieve these ambitious goals the editors have assembled an international...
Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier
The Ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Winner, 2018 Presidio La Bahia Award, sponsored by the Sons of the Republic of Texas
In 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic Yearbook), that sought to establish definitive connections, using language observations, among the Comanches, Shoshones,...