Carlos: 2314 books
New World Literacy
Writing and Culture Across the Atlantic, 1500-1700
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
This book on the role of written and iconographic communication in the Atlantic World combines a broad outlook, geographically and chronologically, with the precise treatment of specific evidence extracted from the sources. The author argues that diatribes against chivalric fiction and the Index of...
The Mexican Revolution
Conflict and Consolidation, 1910-1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
In 1910 insurgent leaders crushed the Porfirian dictatorship, but in the years that followed fought among themselves, until a nationalist consensus produced the 1917 Constitution. This in turn provided the basis for a reform agenda that transformed Mexico in the modern era. The civil war and the reforms...
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 36
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international...
by Carlos Martín Czerner
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2013
Come meet Michael as he tries to deal with two cultures. It also focuses on Chuy, his American Indian friend, Janique, his African American lover, and his many friends and lovers. They all usher him into adulthood. Train Ride Out is an escape from Czechoslovakia in 1939. Michael has many adventures in...
The Way of Aiki
A Path of Unity, Confluence and Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Aikido goes beyond martial arts: it does not only resolve conflict in a constructive way but it also develops our intuition. It gives us an insight that changes old paradigms and transforms our current vision of the world, our mind and spirit, through the practice of harmonious universal movements...
The Media Globe
Trends in International Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
The Media Globe is a multifaceted look at contemporary trends in media practices in regions beyond the United States, including Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Australia. A diverse group of respected scholars follows the emerging patterns in a variety of media worldwide,...
Atlas of Skin Cancers
Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
The incidence of skin cancer has risen rapidly in recent decades, and patients often present initially to practitioners in many different specialties. Because skin cancer can vary in clinical appearance, even dermatologists may experience difficulty in reaching a clinical diagnosis. For primary care...
Interculturality, Rationality and Dialogue
In Search for Intercultural Argumentative Criteria for Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
This work is a philosophical investigation into the argumentative conditions for intercultural dialogue in Latin America. Through a critical discussion of some key theories of argumentation and intercultural dialogue and a thoughtful analysis of the Latin-American context of diversity, this book develops...
History Under Debate
International Reflection on the Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Examine new trends in the writing of new history-and what they mean to information science!
History has been devalued, causing a lack of career prospects for historians, a decrease in vocations to the history profession, and historical discontinuity between generations. History Under Debate:...
by Adriana Cerletti, Silvia Citro, Carlos Molinero
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America is a collection of essays that analyze different manifestations of Argentine music and dance taking advantage of the exciting new theoretical developments advanced by the current affective turn. Contributors deal with the relationship between music,...
The Postcolonial Contemporary
Political Imaginaries for the Global Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Contributors come from a number of disciplines: literature, anthropology, geography, sociology, and history.
by Michael Mario Albrecht, Osei Alleyne, Francois Allard-Huver
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Black Mirror is The Twilight Zone of the twenty-first century. Already a philosophical classic, the series echoes the angst of an era, a civilization and consciousness fully engulfed in the 24/7 media spectacle spanning the planet. With clever plots and existential themes, Black Mirror presents near-futures...
by Carlos Sellers
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
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by Carmelo Esterrich, John R. Baldwin, Phillip J. Chidester
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Song & Social Change in Latin America offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political upheavals throughout Latin America from the 20th century to the present. Topics covered include: the Tropicália movement in Brazil, the...