Jose: 913 books
by Jose R. Yunen
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
This new addition to the 5-Minute Clinical Consult Series covers all aspects of adult critical care. Following the highly successful format of the series, each entry consists of a two-page spread covering basics such as definition and pathophysiology and progressing through diagnosis to medications...
Creating Tropical Yankees
Social Science Textbooks and U.S. Ideological Control in Puerto Rico, 1898-1908
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Twilight of the Mission Frontier
Shifting Interethnic Alliances and Social Organization in Sonora, 1768-1855
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassessing the mission crisis paradigm—which speaks of a growing internal crisis leading to the secularization of the missions in the early nineteenth century—new...
Islamic Reform and Colonial Discourse on Modernity in India
Socio-Political and Religious Thought of Vakkom Moulavi
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
In Kerala, Vakkom Moulavi motivated Muslims to embrace modernity, especially modern education, in order to reap maximum benefit. In this process, he initiated numerous religious reforms. However, he held fairly ambivalent attitudes towards individualism, materialism and secularization, defending Islam against the attacks of Christian missionaries.
Equus Lost?
How We Misunderstand the Nature of the Horse-Human Relationship--Plus Brave New Ideas for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In the 1980s, the world of riding, training, and competing with horses took a major turn with the spread of natural horsemanship, which at its most basic foundation rejects the use of abusive techniques and relies on methods derived from understanding the dynamics of free-roaming horse herds. Since...
by Jose Ignacio Hualde
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Unplugging the City
The Urban Phenomenon and its Sociotechnical Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Modernity has entrusted technology with such power that it is treated as an autonomous entity, with its own manners and morals. Technological disruptions are also socially disruptive: technological failures reveal both the constituents of the technology itself and the social fabric woven by this technology....
by Jose Angel Figueroa
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Figueroa received the distinguished Culture, Education and Poetry Award in 2014 from the Instituto de Puerto Rico in New York for his contributions and achievements as a writer, poet and educator. A Mirror In My Own Backstage was nominated as a Finalist for Best Poetry Book in the 2014 International...
by Jose Joaquin Brunner, Fernando Calderón, Enrique Dussel
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1995
Postmodernism may seem a particularly inappropriate term when used in conjunction with a region that is usually thought of as having only recently, and then unevenly, acceded to modernity. Yet in the last several years the concept has risen to the top of the agenda of cultural and political debate...
by Ferreira Francisco H. G.; Molinas Vega Jose R; Paes de Barros Ricardo; Saavedra Chanduvi Jaime
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Equality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person's life chances. Success in life should depend on people's choices, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth. Measuring...
Latino/as in the World-system
Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century U.S. Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Contributors Immanuel Wallerstein, Enrique Dussel, Walter Mignolo, Agustin Lao, Lewis Gordon, James V. Fenelon, Roberto Hernandez, James Cohen, Santiago Slabosky, Susanne Jonas, and Thomas Reifer. By the mid-twenty-first century, white Euro-Americans will be a demographic minority in the United States...
by Ernesto Pérez Vera, Jose María de Vicente Toribio
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 22, 2013
La historia de ellos está directamente ligada a la nuestra, asómese a ella: mire desde la “Verja”…
Aunque el principal objetivo de este trabajo es dar a conocer el ayer y hoy —también casi el mañana— de las fuerzas de seguridad del Peñón...
Tratado de natación
De la iniciación al perfeccionamiento
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Tratado de natación. De la iniciación al perfeccionamiento es una guía para la enseñanza de la natación. Se introducen ejercicios para familiarizar al alumno con el medio y dominar así la flotación, la respiración, el deslizamiento, la propulsión y la inmersión. Luego para cada estilo natatorio...
by Crispian Scully, Oslei Paes de Almeida, Jose Bagan
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Oral Medicine and Pathology At A Glance is a title in the highly popular at a Glance series. It provides a concise and accessible introduction and revision aid. Following the familiar, easy-to-use at a Glance format, each topic is presented as a double-page spread with key facts accompanied by clear...