Author: Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Selected Social and Cultural Characteristics of La Paz, Baja California, Mexico
Author: Dempster Perry DirksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : La Paz (Baja California Sur, Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Author: Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Lettered Indian
Author: Brooke LarsonPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478027568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Bringing into dialogue the fields of social history, Andean ethnography, and postcolonial theory, The Lettered Indian maps the moral dilemmas and political stakes involved in the protracted struggle over Indian literacy and schooling in the Bolivian Andes. Brooke Larson traces Bolivia’s major state efforts to educate its unruly Indigenous masses at key junctures in the twentieth century. While much scholarship has focused on “the Indian boarding school” and other Western schemes of racial assimilation, Larson interweaves state-centered and imperial episodes of Indigenous education reform with vivid ethnographies of Aymara peasant protagonists and their extraordinary pro-school initiatives. Exploring the field of vernacular literacy practices and peasant political activism, she examines the transformation of the rural “alphabet school” from an instrument of the civilizing state into a tool of Aymara cultural power, collective representation, and rebel activism. From the metaphorical threshold of the rural school, Larson rethinks the politics of race and indigeneity, nation and empire, in postcolonial Bolivia and beyond.
En defensa del libre mercado
Author: Padre Robert SiricoPublisher: Editorial Almuzara
ISBN: 9874467029
Category : Free enterprise
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Sin equilibrio no hay paz ni libertad. III. Evolución de la prehumanidad
Author: Luis FernándezPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471678113
Category : Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 164
Book Description
El autor de este libro que tienes en tus manos, lector, en sus páginas denuncia reiteradamente el no cumplimiento a través de los sesenta años de su existencia de dicha Declaración o "ley univeral". Denuncia las injusticias de todo tipo que se cometen con muchas personas en muchos países. Entre sus principales teorías y argumentos podemos apreciar sus amplios conocimientos de la mente y la conducta humana, basando sus hipótesis principales en el propio título de esta trilogía "Sin equilibrio no Paz ni Libertad". Este autor considera -y así lo expone- que la Humanidad está a mitad de camino entre el animalismo y un supuesto Hombre humanamente autorealizado. Considera pues, que los hombres y mujeres de este planeta estamos pasando por un estado evolutivo que a su vez conlleva alteraciones emocionales-conductuales neuróticas cuanto menos.
A Revolution for Our Rights
Author: Laura GotkowitzPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822390124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A Revolution for Our Rights is a critical reassessment of the causes and significance of the Bolivian Revolution of 1952. Historians have tended to view the revolution as the result of class-based movements that accompanied the rise of peasant leagues, mineworker unions, and reformist political projects in the 1930s. Laura Gotkowitz argues that the revolution had deeper roots in the indigenous struggles for land and justice that swept through Bolivia during the first half of the twentieth century. Challenging conventional wisdom, she demonstrates that rural indigenous activists fundamentally reshaped the military populist projects of the 1930s and 1940s. In so doing, she chronicles a hidden rural revolution—before the revolution of 1952—that fused appeals for equality with demands for a radical reconfiguration of political power, landholding, and rights. Gotkowitz combines an emphasis on national political debates and congresses with a sharply focused analysis of Indian communities and large estates in the department of Cochabamba. The fragmented nature of Cochabamba’s Indian communities and the pioneering significance of its peasant unions make it a propitious vantage point for exploring contests over competing visions of the nation, justice, and rights. Scrutinizing state authorities’ efforts to impose the law in what was considered a lawless countryside, Gotkowitz shows how, time and again, indigenous activists shrewdly exploited the ambiguous status of the state’s pro-Indian laws to press their demands for land and justice. Bolivian indigenous and social movements have captured worldwide attention during the past several years. By describing indigenous mobilization in the decades preceding the revolution of 1952, A Revolution for Our Rights illuminates a crucial chapter in the long history behind present-day struggles in Bolivia and contributes to an understanding of indigenous politics in modern Latin America more broadly.
Spanish B for the IB Diploma Second Edition
Author: Mike ThackerPublisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 1510447237
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 905
Book Description
Exam board: International Baccalaureate Level: IB Diploma Subject: Spanish First teaching: September 2018 First exams: Summer 2020 Develop competent communicators who can demonstrate a sound conceptual understanding of the language with a flexible course that ensures thorough coverage of the updated Spanish B Guide and is designed to meet the needs of all IB students at Standard and Higher Level. - Empower students to communicate confidently by exploring the five prescribed themes through authentic texts and skills practice at the right level, delivered in clear learning pathways. - Ensure students are able to produce coherent written texts and deliver proficient presentations with grammar and vocabulary introduced in context and in relation to appropriate spoken and written registers. - Improve receptive skills with authentic written texts, audio recordings spoken at a natural pace, and carefully crafted reading and listening tasks. - Promote global citizenship, intercultural understanding and an appreciation of Hispanic cultures through a wide range of text types and cultural material from around the world. - Deliver effective practice with a range of structured tasks within each unit that build reading, listening, speaking and writing skills. - Establish meaningful links to TOK and CAS, and identify learner profile attributes in action. The audio for the Student Book is FREE to download from www.hoddereducation.com/ibextras
Moving Beyond the Crisis : Reclaiming and Reaffirming our Common Administrative Space
Author: Demetrios ArgyriadesPublisher: Primento
ISBN: 2802740830
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
With the financial meltdown and the economic crisis in their fifth year already no one can any longer be in doubt about their exceptional gravity, their truly global impact and their profound effects hurting vulnerable groups and the very poor especially. As the world looks for an exit from this economic crisis – the worst in eight decades – the focus of attention is naturally on the causes, the factors that account for its wide reach and severity, as well as on strategies that might bring it to a closure. The quest for exit strategies is at the very centre of the issues and concerns explored in the present volume, produced by the IIAS. Like the preceding volumes, but even more emphatically, this volume, representing a collective endeavour of scholars and practitioners from many parts of the globe, finds cause to lay the blame, for our difficult predicament, on the institutional deficit, the policies, the practices and values that have followed in the trail of a highly misleading and erroneous model of governance. The «Market Model of Governance» as it is known, sought to reform, the structures and culture of administration and government in private sector ways. While instrumental values like efficiency and effectiveness were raised and praised profusely, those of democratic governance were discounted by comparison. In particular, integrity, the rule of law and due process, equity, legality and public service professionalism suffered a steep decline, in several parts of the world. Likewise, the invasion and the capture of public space, inevitably led to an unprecedented surge of greed, abuse and corruption that contributed directly to the crisis which is upon us. Looking for exit strategies, as its title aptly suggests, the present volume offers a rich menu of ideas drawn from the current experience of all the world ́s main regions. Not surprisingly, two concepts stand out throughout the book as necessary correctives, as well as pressing remedies to the world ́s ongoing malaise. They call for the recapture of our common administrative space and the reaffirmation of the values and virtues appropriate for democratic governance. To the IIAS, none perhaps are more important than public service professionalism and none other can contribute more effectively to the reform and consolidation of sound institutions for national, sub national, global and regional governance. For these reasons, at this juncture, the new volume like the others should be featured in every public library and become a vademecum of all scholars and practitioners of public administration and politics around the world.
Spanish B for the IB Diploma Student's Book
Author: Sebastian BianchiPublisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 1444146416
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Develop confident linguists, who appreciate other cultures with this course, based closely around the IB's desired learner profile. This text caters for Language B - students learning Spanish as a second language at Standard and Higher levels. It includes a starter unit to help bridge the gap from pre-16 exams into the distinctive requirements of the IB Diploma. - Builds language skills through carefully crafted tasks and grammar practice - Improves exam performance with activities for all aspects of IB Spanish assessment - Promotes global citizenship and an appreciation of Hispanic culture through stimulus material, including a particular emphasis on the Americas Each copy includes an Audio CD providing tracks for the listening exercises
Ownership Paradigms in American Civil Law Jurisdictions
Author: Agustín ParisePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004338209
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
In Ownership Paradigms in American Civil Law Jurisdictions Agustín Parise assists in identifying the transformations experienced in the legislation dealing with ownership in the Americas, thereby showing that current understandings are not uncontested dogmas. This book is the result of research undertaken on both sides of the Atlantic, and covers the 16th to 20th centuries. Agustín Parise offers readers a journey across time and space, by studying three American civil law jurisdictions in three successive time periods. His book first highlights the added value that comparative legal historical studies may bring to Europe and the Americas. It then addresses, in chronological order, the three ownership paradigms (i.e., Allocation, Liberal, and Social Function) that he claims have developed in the Americas.
