Juan Flores: 17 books

In The Diaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the...

In the 1920s and 30s, musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York, lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues. In the late 1940s and 50s, the big-band mambo dance scene at the famed Palladium Ballroom was the stuff of legend, while modern-day...

Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping...

Alamar, the home of award-winning Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores, is the setting for his collection, The Counterpunch and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales). Constructed as a self-help community in eastern Havana, Alamar is the largest housing complex in the world....

Juan Manuel Flores Jr. had served thirteen years in the Army and was stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia, when he met Cynthia on Myspace. She was a beautiful woman from his hometown, Corpus Christi, Texas, and like him, she’d suffered through a bad first marriage. Meeting seemed to be God’s way...

La idea de que el desarrollo del conocimiento científico implica un proceso de cambio o transformación más o menos radical ha imperado desde el último tercio del siglo pasado surgiendo de manera interrelacionada desde tres grandes campos de análisis del conocimiento: el psicológico, el epistemológico...

What is philosophy? Why does it matter? How have philosophy and its relation to religion and science changed from the ancient to the medieval and modern periods and beyond? What are the central philosophical ideas, from Socrates to Nietzsche? Reexamining Love of Wisdom addresses these questions. It...

Aportes de riqueza de la arqueología histórica, producto de excavaciones arqueológicas en México desde finales del siglo XX

The Middle Ages is often viewed as a period of low intellectual achievement. The name itself refers to the time between the high philosophical and literary accomplishments of the Greco-Roman world and the technological advances that were achieved and philosophical and theological alternatives that...

Over the past decade, rising oil prices have translated into high levels of public investment in most MENA and CCA oil exporters. This has prompted questions about the efficiency of public investment in generating growth and closing infrastructure gaps, as well as concerns about fiscal vulnerabilities....

El lector encontrará aquí, reunidos y expuestos los textos de las presentaciones y de las ponencias con las que un reconocido grupo de participantes debatió con vivacidad y agudeza para dar continuidad a los esfuerzos independentistas, igualitarios, liberadores y justicieros a los que Heberto Castillo dedicó su pensamiento y la acción de toda su vida.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel...

This second edition concentrates on various philosophers and theologians from the medieval Arabian, Jewish, and Christian worlds. It principally centers on authors such as Abumashar, Saadiah Gaon and Alcuin from the eighth century and follows the intellectual developments of the three traditions up...

Busca aproximarse a los profundos desafíos que se enfrentan en el siglo XXI. Analiza la tendencia de la crisis global contemporánea con el objeto de abrirle camino al debate sobre la construcción de estrategias alternativas civilizatorias. Se abordan la crisis financiera, la crisis económica,...