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Polynesians in America
Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made...
The Unresolved National Question in South Africa
Left thought under apartheid and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The re-emergence of debates on the decolonisation of knowledge has revived interest in the National Question, which began over a century ago and remains unresolved. Tensions that were suppressed and hidden in the past are now being openly debated. Despite this, the goal of one united nation living...
Bilingual Education
From Compensatory To Quality Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Bilingual Education: From Compensatory to Quality Schooling, Second Edition maintains its original purpose of synthesizing the research on successful bilingual education in order to demonstrate that quality bilingual education is possible and desirable.
Findings from a wide range of studies...
by María Belén Olmos Giupponi
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This monograph offers the first systematic overview of the protection of human rights in trade agreements in the Americas. Traditionally, trade agreements in the Americas were concerned with economic questions and paid little attention to human rights. However, in the wake of the 'new regionalism',...
Oaxaca
Historia breve
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2012
La presente Breve historia de Oaxaca da cuenta de diversos aspectos políticos, económicos, sociales y culturales ocurridos desde los tiempos que la población humana ocupó este rincón del país hasta la actualidad. El autor construye una investigación que, incorporando las interpretaciones históricas...
by Robert Mr. Kahn, Adam Mr. Bennett, María Ms. Carkovic S.
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1993
This paper explores the experience of six countries (Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Mexico, Spain and Thailand) with capital inflows. It illustrates that although capital inflows are usually beneficial, too great an inflow can become a problem and make it difficult for authorities to choose the appropriate policy response.
Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions
Challenges of War, Terrorism, and Civil Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
In the midst of great crisis, it is difficult to contemplate the future. In recent decades, determining what kind of future to imagine has been an ongoing challenge for millions of people around the world who have been subjected to war, terrorism, and civil disorder. While destruction of the environment...
Los rumbos del pensamiento
Homenaje a Yólotl González Torres
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Se analizan los sacrificios humanos, el uso de los alucinógenos, el neochamanismo asociado al New Age que aparece en los medios urbanos, las danzas y el culto a la Santa Muerte surgido en fechas relativamente recientes; brindando así un extenso panorama para interpretar los fenómenos que ocurren en el mundo en el que vivimos
Managing Diversity in Organizations
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book equips students with a thorough understanding of the advantages and challenges presented by workplace diversity, suggesting techniques to manage diversity effectively and maximize its benefits. Readers will learn to work with diverse groups to create a productive organization in which everyone...
La conquista espiritual de México
Ensayo sobre el apostolado y los métodos misioneros de las órdenes mendicantes en la Nueva España de 1523-1524 a 1572
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Ricard analiza un periodo fundamental en la formación de México posterior a la Conquista: en él se lleva a cabo el choque de civilizaciones, se funden, amalgaman o yuxtaponen los elementos americanos y europeos que lo constituirán.
by María Teresa Jarquín Ortega
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 11, 2016
La corriente historiográfica moderna en torno a los pueblos de indios ha cuestionado las tácitas reminiscencias prehispánicas como herencia en los pueblos. Con ello se propone advertir una historia de los naturales, cambiante y dinámica, como respuesta a la adaptación colonial, como era natural,...
Del rey al presidente
Poder ejecutivo, formación del estado y soberanía en la hispanoamérica revolucionaria 1810-1826
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Este libro propone una nueva mirada de la historia del poder Ejecutivo en el siglo XIX en América Latina, vinculándolo a los procesos tempranos de formación del Estado. Se trata de un estudio con un enfoque histórico comparado de tres casos: México, Venezuela y Argentina. El periodo analizado...
by Mar Aguilera, Mauro Gatti, Carles Torner
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
To what extent could the feelings, beliefs and respect for religious practices of certain groups justify the imposition of limits on the free circulation of ideas and opinions? Or put another way, should there be limits to criticism, parody, derision and rejection when they go against the moral and...
by Miguel Ángel Villa Rodríguez, María Elena Navarro Calvillo, Teresita de Jesús Villaseñor Cabrera
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
La neuropsicología clínica ha alcanzado un desarrollo sorprendente en las últimas décadas; el neuropsicólogo se integra a los equipos de salud en los hospitales donde se atiende a personas con enfermedades neurológicas, psiquiátricas, asi como en los servicios de geriatría, traumatología,...