Ochoa: 73 books

From the protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square to the Tea Party in the United States to the campaign to elect indigenous leader Evo Morales in Bolivia, modern populist movements command international attention and compel political and social change. When citizens demand "power to the people,"...

This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it illustrates how coca, an internationally criminalzsed good, affected the path and outcome of cocalero political empowerment in each case.

In 1952, Professor Allan Holmberg arranged for Cornell University to lease the Hacienda Vicos, an agricultural estate in the central Peruvian highlands on which some 1800 Quechua-speaking highland peasants resided. Between 1952 and 1957 Holmberg, with colleagues and students, initiated a set of social,...

This book presents a series of significant methods and examples for the design of sustainable intelligent facades in a variety of contexts. Emphasis is placed on how intelligence has been applied for successful energy-saving efforts in the planning of building envelopes. Readers will find essential...

Este libro presenta el estudio de los obstáculos técnicos al comercio internacional (OTC) en cuatro sectores productivos estratégicos y prioritarios de Bogotá: cuero, calzado y marroquinería; textiles y confecciones; envases de plástico; y muebles de madera. Estos sectores fueron seleccionados...

"Esta obra se estructura en seis líneas y parte de una conceptualización en la temática de los residuos, reconociendo sus definiciones y clasificaciones, enmarcadas en cuatro grandes grupos: residuos sólidos, peligrosos, de atención en salud y otras actividades y de aparatos eléctricos...

Estudio sobre la histórica región de Michoacán que complementa las abundantes obras de investigación sobre la historia de México, brindando una visión panorámica y sintética, pero no simplificada, del apasionante proceso histórico del estado. A través de una narración sugestiva, el lector...

The scene is Colombia, 1996. A young American, Gabriel Ferrero, is staying in the town of Nueva Vida to do some soul searching after graduating from college. A bit disillusioned and lost, he is eager to discover a renewed sense of meaning in his life, and does so by securing a job teaching English....

Bronco es una compilación de poemas variados, escritos en un lenguaje accesible y directo, capaz tanto de adentrarse en problemáticas sociales o cuestiones de índole emocional, como de exponernos explícitamente escenas de contenido erótico. Un paseo por diferentes territorios del comportamiento...

Can the Soul of Man be changed? Can his predatory, power-seeking drives be transformed into a submissive passivity? Can He be happy in trading his conquering instincts for a vegetative state in a harmonious blend with Nature? This theme, so central to the modern quest of Man for his role and place...

n el primer semestre de 2010, la sede- Amazonia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia realizó la Cátedra de Sede Jorge Eliécer Gaitán titulada ?Amazonia colombiana. Imaginarios y realidades ". El presente libro reúne las memorias de la Cátedra en la cual participaron investigadores colombianos...

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Many new DCT-like transforms have been proposed since the first edition of this book. For example, the integer DCT that yields integer transform coefficients, the directional DCT to take advantage of several directions of the image and the steerable DCT. The advent of higher dimensional frames such...

This book describes a consistent and direct methodology to the analysis and design of analog circuits with particular application to circuits containing feedback. The analysis and design of circuits containing feedback is generally presented by either following a series of examples where each circuit...