Author: Nelson Montes-Bradley
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1425715516
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 437

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Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
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Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Author: Adrián Gorelik
Publisher: Latin America Research Commons
ISBN: 1951634217
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 479

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Since its publication in Spanish in 1998, The Grid and the Park not only revitalized studies on the history of Buenos Aires, but also laid the foundation for a specific type of cultural work on the city —an urban perspective for cultural history, as its author would describe it— that has had a sustained impact in Latin America. Public space, embodied in the grid of city blocks and the park system, here appears as a particularly productive category because it encompasses dimensions of the material city, politics, and culture, which are usually studied separately. From Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s figurations of Palermo Park in the mid-nineteenth century to Jorge Luis Borges’s discovery of the suburb in the 1920s; from the modernization of the traditional center carried out by Mayor Torcuato de Alvear in the 1880s to the questioning of that centrality by the emergence of the suburban barrio, the book weaves the changing ideas on public space with urban culture to produce a new history of the metropolitan expansion of Buenos Aires, one of the most extensive and dynamic urban centers of the early twentieth century.

Author: A. S. Contin
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631358375
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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English Version I am the author of this book of memories. I left my country (Euskal Herria, the Basque country), when I was fourteen years old. Now, near the 80's, I considered opportune to give a testimony of my native town, and of honest, beautiful people, full with generosity, that I had the privilege of knowing in that time, and that they have been a lighthouse that has guided me during the whole rest of my life. What this has of interesting is that the experiences that I had in that distant time, the lessons and the examples that I had the privilege of receiving, and the fact that at the present time I don't believe that still it exists something similar in any part of the planet. I don't want to die without before leaving behind my homage and my gratefulness to those who gave their trust to the child that I was, and that, in a certain way, I have continued being, thanks to all of them. I am an old man who refuses to surrender before the ailments of the body that are the product of the advanced age. In the same way that the old automobiles spend too much time with the mechanics, our old bodies have to spend a good part of their last days with the doctors. However, I still have something to make and it is to write books. I hope that you will enjoy this work Spanish Version Soy el autor de este libro de recuerdos. Me fui de mi país (Euskal Herria, el País Vasco), a los catorce años de edad. Ahora, cerca de los 80, me ha parecido oportuno dar un testimonio de mi pueblo natal y de la gente honesta, hermosa y llena de generosidad que tuve el privilegio de conocer en aquel entonces y que han sido un faro que me ha guiado durante todo el resto de mi vida. Lo que tiene de interesante es que las experiencias que tuve en esa lejana época, las lecciones y los ejemplos que tuve el privilegio de recibir y el hecho de que en la actualidad no creo que exista todavía algo semejante en ninguna parte del planeta. No deseo morirme, sin antes dejar mi homenaje y mi agradecimiento a quienes me honraron confiando en el niño que era y que, en cierto modo, he seguido siendo, gracias a todos ellos. Entre otras cosas, aprendí de ellos algo que escasea mucho en la actualidad en todo el mundo. Me refiero al amor a la humanidad, a pesar de todos sus defectos y los malos instintos de algunos. He presenciado en mi vida una gran cantidad de masacres, salvajadas y actos inhumanos que hubieran podido hacer que odiara a todos mis congéneres. Sin embargo, el ejemplo recibido en mi niñez de todos esos seres admirables ha hecho que, por el contrario, ame a todos mis hermanos, los seres humanos de todas las etnias y las convicciones. Soy un viejo que se niega a rendirse ante los achaques del cuerpo, que son el producto de la edad avanzada. Del mismo modo que los automóviles viejos tienen que pasarse demasiado tiempo en el mecánico. Nuestros cuerpos ancianos tienen que pasarse buena parte de sus últimos días en los médicos. Sin embargo, todavía tengo algo que hacer y es escribir libros. Espero que disfruten esta obra. Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/ASContin/

Author: Henry Cloud
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0829736670
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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SPANISH EDITION. "Secure People" provides the foundation for building healthy, lasting relationships. It shows you how to identify safe people.

Author: José Toro Hardy
Publisher: Cognitio
ISBN: 0988312808
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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Author: Ignacio Lopez-Calvo
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317944275
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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On September 11, 1973, Chile's General Pinochet led a quick and brutal military coup ousting the Allende government. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo argues that the rise of the Pinochet dictatorship and the subsequent imprisonment of any Allende sympathizers shaped Chilean narrative into two structural forms: liberationist narrative--cathartic, journalistic testimonies that provide models for revolutionary behavior against authoritarianism and demystifying narrative, which uses the events of 1973, as well as the colonial aspirations of European countries, as a "Paradise Lost" backdrop in which the characters of this type of fiction are able to create their non-political realities that become models of democratization.

Author: Patricia Sutherland
Publisher: Ediciones Jera
ISBN: 8493973068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Mark Brady fue el primer amor adolescente de Shannon, y la única vez que él se dignó a quedar con ella, lo hizo para ligar con su hermana. Cuando trece años después vuelven a verse, él no la reconoce. Pero las cosas son diferentes ahora. Ella es la asistente social encargada de los niños que Mark tiene en acogimiento... Y la primera mujer de la que se enamora en su vida.

Author: Sylvia Iparraguirre
Publisher: Photo Design Ediciones - Florian von der Fecht
ISBN: 9879916697
Category : Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile)
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Luciana Porter-Bolland
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461479568
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation in Mexico. The volume explores vivid examples and case studies that illustrate some of the critical issues at stake, including the participation of local communities in national and global conservation, indigenous and local perceptions of conservation initiatives in Southern Mexico, and challenges in ICCA governance and ecotourism. The book also reviews methodological approaches for understanding and strengthening community conservation, touching upon such topics as community-based biodiversity monitoring and tools for understanding children's perceptions of community conservation. Written by international experts in the field, Community Action for Conservation: Mexican Experiences is a lively and deep-running resource that offers invaluable stories and analyses of the Mexican experience with conservation.