D Roberto: 50 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...
Bomb
The Author Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Thirty years of interviews that offer “a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world’s best practitioners of poetry and prose” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews,...
by Marlon Anatol, Emily D. Bello-Pardo, Adriana Beltrán
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
The Americas face many security challenges, including drug trafficking, organized crime, guerrilla movements, terrorism, and environmental challenges. Experts have long debated whether some countries in the region can be classified as failed states. While various states in the Americas have been labeled...
Thinking from the Underside of History
Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2000
Enrique Dussel's writings span the theology of liberation, critiques of discourse ethics, evaluations of Marx, Levinas, Habermas, and others, but most importantly, the development of a philosophy written from the underside of Eurocentric modernist teleologies, an ethics of the impoverished, and the...
On New Shores
Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of...
Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
A Human Dumping Ground
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This volume on penitentiary systems in the Americas offers a long-overdue look at the prisons that exist at the forefront of the ongoing struggle against drugs and violence throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. From Haiti to Bolivia, the authors examine the conditions in...
Cooperation and Drug Policies in the Americas
Trends in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This volume examines drug policies and the role of cooperation in the Americas. Many current and former politicians have discussed the failures of the war on drugs and the need for alternative approaches. Uruguay as well as Colorado and Washington have legalized marijuana. The Organization of American...
Strengthening Governance Globally
Forecasting the Next 50 Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Strengthening Governance Globally is the fifth volume in the series 'Patterns of Potential Human Progress'. Each volume considers one key aspect of how development unfolds globally and how better to move it in desired directions. This volume identifies the provision of security, the building of government...
by Prof. Peter Von Fragstein und Niemsdorff, Prof. Bernhard Freyer, Dr Paul Mäder
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Reviews key advances and best practice in cultivation techniques across the value chain of organic farming
Discusses ways of monitoring and improving the environmental impact of organic crop production
Particular focus on ways of supporting organic farming in the developing world
Degiurisdizionalizzazione e altri interventi per la definizione dell’arretrato
d.l. 12 settembre 2014 n. 132, convertito, con modificazioni, in l. 10 novembre 2014 n. 162
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Una panoramica ragionata sulla giustizia civile, oggetto di una riforma che, nelle intenzioni del legislatore, dovrebbe portare alla riorganizzazione nel segno dell’efficienza e della semplificazione dell’intero sistema giudiziario italiano. Il testo analizza il primo incisivo intervento di degiurisdizionalizzazione...
La cristalina superficie del silencio
Muestra de los Juegos Florales de Zapotlán el Grande
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Este volumen es una muestra de la vitalidad cultural y poética de Zapotlán el Grande a través de la organización y premiación del certamen de los juegos florales, la jovial justa provenzal que los zapotlenses —entre ellos Juan José Arreola, de quien celebramos el centenario— comenzaron a...
Black LGBT Health in the United States
The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Black LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of health, and considers both risk and resiliency factors for the Black LGBT population. Contributors to this collection intimately understand the...
Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico
The Transition from Felipe Calderón to Enrique Peña Nieto
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico: The Transition from Felipe Calderón to Enrique Peña Nieto examines the major trends in organized crime and drug trafficking in Mexico. The book provides an exhaustive analysis of drug-related violence in the country. This work highlights...
by Richard A. Santillán, Gregory Garrett, Juan D. Coronado
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Mexican American Baseball in South Texas pays tribute to the former baseball teams and players from Edinburg, McAllen, Mission, Pharr, Donna, Alamo, San Juan, Brownsville, Harlingen, and other surrounding communities. From the late 19th century through the 1950s, baseball in South Texas provided opportunities...