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  • AN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AMERICA IN THE ERA OF MILITARY RULE
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    AN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AMERICA IN THE ERA OF MILITARY RULE
    SEBASTIÁN HURTADO-TORRES / JOAQUÍN FERMANDOIS
    Based on research conducted in archives in six countries, An International History of South America in the Era of Military Rule: Geared for War offers a detailed account of the tensions and fears of war that engulfed South America in the 1970s, when most countries of the region were ruled by military governments. Scholars of contemporary history and international relations, gra...

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  • HUMAN EXTINCTION
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    HUMAN EXTINCTION
    ÉMILE P. TORRES
    This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existential risks." Many leading intellectuals agree that the risk of human extinction this century may be higher than at any point in our 300,000-year history as a species. This book provides insight on the key questions that inform this dis...

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  • AROMATIC AND MEDICINAL PLANTS OF DRYLANDS AND DESERTS
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    AROMATIC AND MEDICINAL PLANTS OF DRYLANDS AND DESERTS
    DAVID RAMIRO AGUILLÓN-GUTIÉRREZ, CRISTIAN TORRES-LEÓN, AND JORGE ALEJANDRO AGUIRRE-JOYA
    The description and analysis of the Mexican and other countries desertic plants from the point of view of their use in traditional medicine and their potential use in integrative medicine is the overall theme of this book. Aromatic and Medicinal Plants of Drylands and Deserts: Ecology, Ethnobiology and Potential Uses describes the historic use of drylands plants, botanical and ...

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  • AN INTRODUCTION TO PABLO GONZÁLEZ CASANOVA
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    AN INTRODUCTION TO PABLO GONZÁLEZ CASANOVA
    JAIME TORRES GUILLÉN / JAIME ANTONIO PRECIADO CORONADO
    This book is an introduction to Pablo González Casanova, giant of Latin American sociology. It examines his work across history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, exploring in depth his writings on the university, democracy, the new sciences, alternatives to capitalism, the humanities, equity with social justice, patriarchal domination, and the struggle for planet...

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  • THE SIX PRIORITIES
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    THE SIX PRIORITIES
    LUIS ELADIO TORRES
    In this provocative and timely book, Luis Eladio Torres challenges a common assumption: that education is the "first priority" for families, including those who are raising their children in low-income, high-need communities. Instead, he argues that these families must confront daunting challenges in five other areas—food, shelter, safety, health, and access to technology...

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  • CUSTOMER SERVICE MARKETING
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    CUSTOMER SERVICE MARKETING
    EDWIN N. TORRES / TINGTING ZHANG
    This timely book is a comprehensive overview of customer service principles, theories, and practices. It looks at the best practices of service enterprises and the delivery of superior customer service. It also includes classic and contemporary theories relating to the consumers, managers, and their behaviors in organizational setting. The book uses real-life applications throu...

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  • INDIRECT TRANSLATION EXPLAINED
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    INDIRECT TRANSLATION EXPLAINED
    HANNA PIĘTA / RITA BUENO MAIA / ESTER TORRES-SIMÓN
    Indirect Translation Explained is the first comprehensive, user-friendly book on the practice of translating indirectly in today’s world. Unlike previous scholarly approaches, which have traditionally focused on translating from the original, this textbook offers practical advice on how to efficiently translate from an already translated text and for the specific purpose of fur...

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  • TEMPORAL REGIMES
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    TEMPORAL REGIMES
    FELIPE TORRES
    Temporal Regimes provides a theoretical framework for understanding the temporal structures of society; a conceptually rich, empirically nuanced and culturally embodied account of temporal phenomena in contemporary world. What does it imply temporal regimes? How the everyday life as well as the global mobilities coordination requires temporal underpinnings? The answers to these...

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  • SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN INTIMACY
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    SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN INTIMACY
    M. GABRIELA TORRES / KERSTI YLLÖ
    Integrating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis, this volume advances our understanding of sexual violence in intimacy through the development of more nuanced and evidence-based conceptual frameworks. Sexual violence in intimacy is a global pandemic that causes individual physical and emotional harm as well as wider social suffering. It is also legal and culturally co...

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  • REAL ESTATE IN CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO AND THE CARIBBEAN
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    REAL ESTATE IN CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO AND THE CARIBBEAN
    CLAUDIA MURRAY / CAMILLA WEEN / YADIRA TORRES-ROMERO / YAZMIN RAMIREZ
    This book examines real estate markets and urban development in Central America, Mexico and The Caribbean (CAMEC). It considers both residential and commercial real estate with a focus on industrial and hospitality sectors, infrastructure and logistics. The CAMEC region is besieged by complexity. Prone to natural disasters, and with the Mexico/US border constituting the largest...

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  • GENETIC ANCESTRY
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    GENETIC ANCESTRY
    JADA BENN TORRES / GABRIEL A. TORRES COLÓN
    Genetic Ancestry focuses on the scientific nature and limitations of genetic ancestry testing. Co-authored by a genetic anthropologist and a cultural anthropologist, it examines the social, historical, and cultural dimensions of how people interpret genetic ancestry data. Utilizing examples from popular culture around the world and case studies from the Caribbean, the chapters ...

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  • THE FORCE OF IRONY
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    THE FORCE OF IRONY
    GABRIEL TORRES
    Winner of the 'Casa Chata Award' for the Best Book of 1994 (Spanish edition)In charting the paradoxical effects of power and knowledge on the everyday life of subordinate people, this book offers a major rethinking of domination and the agricultural labor process. Challenging the belief that ethnography is theoretically weak, the author provides a fresh perspective on rural wor...

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  • LONG ISLAND MIGRANT LABOR CAMPS
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    LONG ISLAND MIGRANT LABOR CAMPS
    MARK A TORRES
    The little-known history of the Suffolk County camps where migrant workers lived in squalor during and after WWII—includes photos.   During World War II, a group of potato farmers opened the first migrant labor camp in Suffolk County to house farmworkers from Jamaica. Over the next twenty years, more than one hundred camps of various sizes would be built throughout the region. ...

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  • REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE
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    REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE
    EDELBERTO TORRES-RIVAS
    This book summarizes the multiple origins of the crisis that Central Americans are suffering today. It focuses on an analysis of the revolutionary popular movements as a form of social movement capable of joining together a diversity of class-based groups. ...

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  • LATIN AMERICAN EDUCATION
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    LATIN AMERICAN EDUCATION
    CARLOS ALBERTO TORRES
    This book offers a relevant sample of the current research on Latin American education in comparative perspective. In their introduction, Torres and Puiggros, two of the most recognized researchers of Latin American education, draw from political sociology of education, theories of the state, history of education, and deconstructionist theories to focus on changes in state form...

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  • PRINCIPIOS DE LA FELICIDAD ORGANIZACIONAL
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    PRINCIPIOS DE LA FELICIDAD ORGANIZACIONAL
    VICTOR M. GUTIÉRREZ TORRES
    Las organizaciones y el mundo en general, están comenzando a re-conocer que la felicidad no se resumen en "hacer mucho para tener algo"; en este mundo globalizado las cosas  parecieran estar mas accesibles para todos, desde un celular de última generación hasta un auto de lujo, sin embargo, la gente esta experimentando una satisfacción efímera haciéndolos sentir al final vulner...

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  • LESSONS ON AGING FROM THREE NATIONS
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    LESSONS ON AGING FROM THREE NATIONS
    SARA CARMEL / CAROL A. MORSE / FERNANDO M. TORRES-GIL / JON HENDRICKS
    The global phenomenon of the aging of societies during a period of outstanding scientific, economic, and technological advancements is a blessing for humanity. These fundamental changes, however, create new needs and problems in all areas of life, often difficult to address. In some countries, the trend is towards compression of the period of age-related morbidity - fewer years...

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  • CAPITALISM AND CRITIQUE
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    CAPITALISM AND CRITIQUE
    EDWARD MARTIN / RODOLFO TORRES / MATEO PIMENTEL
    While there are signs of recovery from recent economic collapses, relatively few protective measures are in place in the United States to prevent future crises and widespread destruction of livelihoods around the globe. This book, a follow-up and further development of Martin’s and Torres’ ideas in their acclaimed Savage State: Welfare Capitalism and Inequality, contains a synt...

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  • NATURAL RESOURCES, EXTRACTION AND INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN LATIN AMERICA
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    NATURAL RESOURCES, EXTRACTION AND INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN LATIN AMERICA
    MARCELA TORRES WONG
    In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could potentially impact their territories and traditional livelihoods. However, in many cases the economic importance of industries such as mining and oil condition the way that governments impl...

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  • ASSET MAINTENANCE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGIES
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    ASSET MAINTENANCE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGIES
    JOSÉ MANUEL TORRES FARINHA
    The book aims to be reading for asset maintenance management in a perspective of whole life cycle of any type of physical asset. It deals with acquisition management, including econometric models to evaluate its life cycle, and the maintenance policies to adopt during its life until withdrawal. It also covers vital areas such as EAM/CMMS systems and its integration with the man...

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  • DIGITAL GAMBLING
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    DIGITAL GAMBLING
    CÉSAR ALBARRÁN-TORRES
    This book develops the concept of "gamble-play media", describing how some gambling and gambling-like practices are increasingly mediated by digital technologies. Digital gambling brings gambling closer to the practices and features of videogames, as audio-visual simulations structure users’ experiences. By studying digital gambling from media studies, videogame and cultural st...

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  • EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY
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    EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY
    PILAR O'CADIZ / PIA WONG / CARLOS TORRES
    This book has been almost seven years in the making. Though the work has certainly not been continuous for all those years, it was a major focus of the three of us for most of them. It is a tribute to Paulo Freire, his courage, his humanity, and the timelessness and relevancy of his ideas that our work on this manuscript was never tedious, never dull, and never a burden, but ra...

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  • THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION
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    THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION
    CARLOS ALBERTO TORRES
    In the first volume in the Critical Global Citizenship Education series, Torres combines theoretical and empirical research to present an original perspective on global citizenship education as a vitally important way of learning in a globalized world. In examining the requirements for effective global citizenship education and education reform, he investigates pathways to citi...

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  • BIG DATA AND CLOUD COMPUTING FOR DEVELOPMENT
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    BIG DATA AND CLOUD COMPUTING FOR DEVELOPMENT
    NIR KSHETRI / TORBJÖRN FREDRIKSSON / DIANA CAROLINA ROJAS TORRES
    This book provides a framework for evaluating big data and cloud computing based on how they evolve to fit users’ needs in developing countries in key areas, such as agriculture and education. The authors discuss how this framework can be utilized by businesses, governments, and consumers to accelerate economic growth and overcome information and communication barriers. By exam...

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  • ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND SCIENCE
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    ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND SCIENCE
    MARCOS MARTINON-TORRES
    Using a combination of historical, archaeological, and scientific data is not an uncommon research practice. Rarely found, however, is a more overt critical consideration of how these sources of information relate to each other, or explicit attempts at developing successful strategies for interdisciplinary work. The authors in this volume provide such critical perspectives, exa...

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  • SEVILLE: THROUGH THE URBAN VOID
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    SEVILLE: THROUGH THE URBAN VOID
    MIGUEL TORRES
    Recent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces. Understanding cities as spaces for encounter, conflict and otherness, this book argues that this indeterminacy is not marginal but a key characteristic of urban space, and degrees of liberty foster change, creativity, and political action. The urban void is a conceptual construct that aims t...

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  • FREEDOM AT WORK
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    FREEDOM AT WORK
    MARIA E. TORRES-GUZMAN
    This book explores the freedom to use the language resources we have at our disposal to learn to our fullest, to engage in inquiry about learning and teaching, and to go beyond the surface in topics of schooling and education. Within a particular school context, the author explores how these freedoms came into being, how they took shape, and what they meant for the individuals ...

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  • LATINO/AS IN THE WORLD-SYSTEM
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    LATINO/AS IN THE WORLD-SYSTEM
    RAMON GROSFOGUEL / NELSON MALDONADO-TORRES / JOSE DAVID SALDIVAR
    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 and Latino/as will be the largest minority (25 percent). These changes bring...

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  • PARTNERSHIPS FOR HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICE NONPROFITS
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    PARTNERSHIPS FOR HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICE NONPROFITS
    HANSEN-TURTON, TINE / TORRES, NICHOLAS D.
    THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE AND TOOLKIT FOR CREATING MEANINGFUL AND SUCCESSFUL NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIPSThe impossible becomes possible when a partnership is formed, notably in the changing landscape of today's nonprofit environment. With contributions from expert practitioners in the nonprofit arena, this is the first comprehensive guide and toolkit for creating meaningful, lon...

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  • BUILDING A BETTER MAN
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    BUILDING A BETTER MAN
    WILLIAM SEYMOUR / RAMEL SMITH / HÉCTOR TORRES
    Building a Better Man presents a theory and science based discussion of masculinity in modern America, but it also does much more than that—it interweaves a diverse group of compelling personal stories with an exploration of aggression and masculinity in the socialization of boys and men. Where other programs tend to subtly denigrate men as perpetrators and focus on stopping th...

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