Miguel: 1889 books

La globalización económica, las reformas institucionales neoliberales y el cambio de enfoque —de uno produccionista a otro conservacionista— han modificado a las comunidades pesqueras y a las costas de México. El proceso de desmantelamiento de la actividad pesquera inició en la década de...

What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war. Challenging the dominance of this model, Blood and Debt looks at Latin America's much different experience as more relevant to politics today...

La fotografía y otras manifestaciones artísticas como fuente documental para la historia

Probably no other contemporary war since Vietnam has been more controversial than the recent invasion of Iraq in March 2003 by a US-led coalition. The coalition was formed by some 40 nations, although the only countries that provided troops in addition to the United States and the United Kingdom were...

Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding Spanish paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.

This is a legal analysis of the dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia and the implementation of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea by the United Nations in 1998.

Los códices mesoamericanos se crearon en el Centro de México desde la época prehispánica. Estos documentos, mal llamados códices, aseguran los autores, fueron uno de los soportes que permitieron la transmisión y preservación de la cultura y la cosmovisión mesoamericanas durante siglos. Recalcan...

This new title of A Sea of Stories series explains in an entertaining as well as thorough way the history of The Alhambra, the monument built in Granada in 1238 by muslims' last dynasty in Spain. This book is available in the following languages: English and Spanish. The series called A Sea of Stories...

This book reports an approach developed to research and apply methods of assessing patterns of processes in the landscape, and suitability of different types of vegetation to mitigate soil erosion and sediment flux. Practical guidelines on a spatially strategic approach to management of land degradation...

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,...

Reframing Community Partnerships in Education provides both the theoretical framework as well as a practical guide to engage educators in interdisciplinary, inter-organizational, multicultural, and multi-generational work to improve the social fabric of communities. Using case examples of best practice,...

This book is unique among the current literature in that it systematically documents the prenatal structural development of the human brain. It is based on lifelong study using essentially a single staining procedure, the classic rapid Golgi procedure, which ensures an unusual and desirable uniformity...

Vibrational spectroscopy techniques, which have traditionally been used to provide non-destructive, rapid, and relevant information on microbial systematics, are useful for classification and identification. In conjunction with advanced chemometrics, infrared spectroscopy enables the biochemical signatures...

Echocardiography has now reached its maturity and plays a key role in the clinical assessment of cardiac function. However, its ability to assess myocardial perfusion remains a clinical challenge. Myocardial contrast echocardiography is a technique that uses microbubbles. These microbubbles...