Guillermo: 360 books

This book presents a new explanation of the rise, development and demise of social movements and cycles of protest in autocracies; the conditions under which protest becomes rebellion; and the impact of protest and rebellion on democratization. Focusing on poor indigenous villages in Mexico's authoritarian...

This atlas presents state-of-the-art techniques in reconstruction of the thumb and fingers. The book covers both emergency and non-emergency procedures, including those used in the treatment of traumatic injuries and congenital deformities. Different procedures and treatment strategies are compared and illustrated by hundreds of drawings and intraoperative color photographs.

In book three of the Praying for an Eclipse trilogy, two boys, Javi and Santi, have crossed over into the United States through separate paths. They run the risk of not seeing each other again were it not for two human rights activists, Lee and Alice. Through a series of bizarre events, Lee comes...

Por su calidad intelectual y académica este libro fue galardonado con el Premio Iberoamericano 2010 de la Latin American Studies Association (lasa), que se entrega anualmente a la mejor publicación sobre Latinoamérica en el área de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades. A partir del relato de un acontecimiento...

Technical Fundamentals of Radiology and CT is intended to cover all issues related to radiology and computed tomography, from the technological point of view, both for understanding the operation of all devices involved and for their maintenance. It is intended for students and a wide range of professionals...

Recent years have witnessed the rise of analysis of real-world massive and complex phenomena in graphs; to efficiently solve these large-scale graph problems, it is necessary to exploit high performance computing (HPC), which accelerates the innovation process for discovery and invention of new products...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions,...

O presente livro ajudará todo católico a descobrir e a vivenciar a importância da celebração eucarística. De forma profunda e acessível a todos, a obra comenta os textos extraídos dos documentos da Igreja e de grandes mestres da Liturgia. As explicações minuciosas de cada parte da missa...

Esta es la historia de un historiador contada por él mismo, fruto de una serie de entrevistas y conversaciones realizadas entre el 12 de agosto de 2004 y el primero de febrero de 2007. Se exhibe la trayectoria de un profesional inseparable de los avatares de El Colegio de México desde sus inicios....

Todavía hay quien se pregunta por el sentido de la vida. Este libro es para esas personas: aquí hallarán seis ensayos sobre la vida, la verdad y la religión, el agnosticismo, el diálogo entre quienes creen y quienes no, la esperanza, la conveniencia democrática. La obra, escrita desde una intimidad...

The present work focuses on the diagnosis of TB, covering all its possible ways. Content ranges from clinical diagnosis, which is the first instance in approaching tuberculosis, until the gold standard microbiological and molecular diagnostic tools, which are useful due to its speed and high sensitivity....

Los diálogos ágiles y anticonvencionales, el peculiar universo interior de sus personajes, la soledad y la melancolía que colman su universo literario, aunado a su sentido del humor muchas veces macabro y cínico, hacen de la obra de Elena Garro una de las más importantes del siglo XX en México.

Más allá de la admiración y el respeto íntegros hacia el profesor Rubén Jaramillo Vélez, buscamos incitar con esta obra a una valoración, lo más ajustada posible, de uno de los intelectuales colombianos que, con sus empeños, ha conformado un entorno de argumentos para la ilustración contemporánea,...

Este libro reúne las ponencias del seminario Nuevas formas de democracia (CLACSO, 2007) y del coloquio Nuevos y viejos populismos (Universidad Javeriana y Goethe Institut, 2008) En total son 23 autores que reflexionan, plantean ideas teóricas y hacen estudios de caso específicos relacionados con...