Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ortiz

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  • PRECARIOUS EMPOWERMENT
    PILAR ORTIZ
    Precarious Empowerment: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chile’s Santiago provides a textured and telling exploration into the lives and experiences of sex workers in Chile, their encounters with discrimination and economic precarity, and their empowered resistance. Set in and around ‘tinted cafes’—spaces hidden from public view where women dance for their male clients and p...

    $1,160.00

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND K-12 EDUCATION
    JOSEPH MINTZ, WAYNE HOLMES, LEPING LIU AND MARIA PEREZ-ORTIZ
    This book problematizes and explores appropriate ways of using AI technology that can augment educational practice, especially in K-12 teaching and learning. Since the launch of OpenAI ChatGPT in November 2022, people have been debating “to chat or to cheat” while more and more educators have started to explore “to add or to integrate” it into teaching and learning. A list of q...

    $1,160.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HISPANIC STUDIES COMPANION TO NINETEENTH-CENTURY LATIN AMERICA
    LUGO-ORTIZ, AGNES
    The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America provides a unique, comprehensive, and critical overview of Latin American studies in the nineteenth century, including the major regions and subfields. The essays in this collection offer a complex, yet accessible transdisciplinary overview of the heterogeneous and asynchronous historical, political, a...

    $1,380.00

  • EXPERIENCIAS ADVERSAS DE LA SEGURIDAD DEL PACIENTE. PERSPECTIVA BIOÉTICA
    ROSA ORTIZ RIVERA
    En esta obra se narran hechos de una vida profesional que trascienden hacia las vidas de otras personas cuando acuden a los centros de salud, clínicas u hospitales y son atendidas por personal de enfermería o de especialidades médicas, o por quienes proporcionan atención directa a pacientes y personas usuarias de los servicios de salud. El libro se inicia cuando la autora cursa...

    $176.42

  • SHAPING YOUR CAREER
    DON HAVILAND / ANNA M. ORTIZ / LAURA HENRIQUES
    Going beyond providing you with the tools, strategies, and approaches that you need to navigate the complexity of academic life, Don Haviland, Anna Ortiz, and Laura Henriques offer an empowering framework for taking ownership of and becoming an active agent in shaping your career.This book recognizes, as its point of departure, that faculty are rarely prepared for the range of ...

    $920.00

  • ETHNICITY IN COLLEGE
    ANNA M. ORTIZ / SILVIA J. SANTOS
    This book explores the importance, and construction, of ethnic identity among college students, and how ethnicity interfaces with students’ interactions on campus, and the communities in which they live. Based on qualitative interviews with White, Latina/o, African American and Asian students, it captures both the college context and the individual experiences students have wit...

    $960.00

  • TEAM LEADERSHIP IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES
    ELOY ORTIZ OAKLEY
    This edited collection is the first book to address the topic of how leaders work with teams to manage and transform community colleges. There is a need to develop better leadership teams in order to administer community colleges effectively and to improve these organizations, whether it be an individual campus, multi-college system or state-wide organization. Edited by two lon...

    $960.00

  • CRITICAL AND INTERSECTIONAL GANG STUDIES
    JENNIFER M. ORTIZ
    This book offers a critical and empirical examination of gang life, using an intersectional framework considering race, class, gender, and other characteristics. The book reexamines mainstream definitions of gangs, identifies myths and misconceptions, and presents the complex subcultural or countercultural realities of gang members and their associates. Special attention is giv...

    $1,120.00

  • A WIDOW'S HOPE
    JULIE ESCALANTE ORTIZ
    A Widow'Äôs Hope shares a unique story as a young widow with children who shares the raw, relatable ways she dug her way out of the trenches and back to the land of the living. There are many books about widowhood and grief. While helpful when the time is right, the shock and the aftermath of such a traumatic experience can make it difficult to find the time and motivation to r...

    $119.00

  • CHILDREN IN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES BECOMING LITERATE
    CATHERINE COMPTON-LILLY / STEPHANIE SHEDROW / DANA HAGERMAN / LAURA HAMMAN-ORTIZ / YAO-KAI CHI / JIEUN KI
    This original book offers a meaningful window into the lived experiences of children from immigrant families, providing a holistic, profound portrait of their literacy practices as situated within social, cultural, and political frames. Drawing on reports from five years of an ongoing longitudinal research project involving students from immigrant families across their elementa...

    $1,160.00

  • BIOREDUCTION OF SELENITE AND TELLURITE BY PHANEROCHAETE CHRYSOSPORIUM
    ERIKA JIMENA ESPINOSA-ORTIZ
    Selenium (Se) and tellurium (Te) are metalloids of commercial interest due to their physicochemical properties. The water soluble oxyanions of these elements (selenite, selenate, tellurite and tellurate) exhibit high toxicities; hence, their release in the environment is of great concern. This study demonstrates the potential use of fungi as Se- and Te-reducing organisms. The r...

    $1,900.00

  • TOPICS IN SPANISH LINGUISTIC PERCEPTIONS
    ORTIZ-LÓPEZ, LUIS ALFREDO
    Topics in Spanish Linguistic Perceptions brings together the most current research on linguistic perceptions of varieties of Spanish. The book includes articles from a range of expert contributors using different methodologies and looking at diverse sociolinguistic settings. Readers will gain a rich understanding of the importance of linguistic perceptions and the societal atti...

    $1,120.00

  • UNCERTAINTIES IN PEASANT FARMING
    SUTTI ORTIZ
    This book examines the life and historical background of the Paez peasants of Colombia and their relationship with the land, including issues of tenure, inheritance and the allocation of resources. ...

    $1,060.00

  • AMÉRICANAS, AUTOCRACY, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INNOVATION
    LISA ORTIZ-VILARELLE
    Overwriting the Dictator is literary study of life writing and dictatorship in Americas. Its focus is women who have attempted to rewrite, or overwrite, discourses of womanhood and nationalism in the dictatorships of their nations of origin. The project covers five 20th century autocratic governments: the totalitarianism of Rafael Trujillo’s regime in the Dominican Republic, th...

    $1,240.00

  • MAATIAN ETHICS IN A COMMUNICATION CONTEXT
    MELBA VÉLEZ ORTIZ
    Maatian Ethics in a Communication Context explores the ethical principle of Maat: the guiding principle of harmony and order that permeated classical African political and civil life. The book provides a rigorous, communication-focused account of the ethical wisdom ancient Africans cultivated and is evidenced in the form of recovered written texts, mythology, stelae, prescripti...

    $640.00

  • REACTIVE SEPARATION FOR PROCESS INTENSIFICATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
    CARLOS ARIEL CARDONA ALZATE / MARIANA ORTIZ SANCHEZ / PISARENKO YURY ANDRIANOVICH
    This book describes, analyses and discusses the main principles, phenomena and design strategies of reactive separation processes with an emphasis on the intensification as a basis of the sustainability. Different reactive separation processes are explained in detail to show the phenomena and with the purpose of understanding when their use allows advantages based on the output...

    $4,700.00

  • PETROLEUM FLUID PHASE BEHAVIOR
    RAJ DEO TEWARI / ABHIJIT Y. DANDEKAR / JAIME MORENO ORTIZ
    This book deals with complex fluid characterization of oil and gas reservoirs, emphasizing the importance of PVT parameters for practical application in reservoir simulation and management. It covers modeling of PVT parameters, QA/QC of PVT data from lab studies, EOS modeling, PVT simulation and compositional grading and variation. It describes generation of data for reservoir ...

    $1,480.00

  • ON THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE ART OF MUSIC BY JOHN TAVERNER
    JOSEPH M. ORTIZ
    John Taverner’s lectures on music constitute the only extant version of a complete university course in music in early modern England. Originally composed in 1611 in both English and Latin, they were delivered at Gresham College in London between 1611 and 1638, and it is likely that Taverner intended at some point to publish the lectures in the form of a music treatise. The lec...

    $1,240.00

  • VISUAL CONTROLS
    CHRIS A. ORTIZ / MURRY PARK
    An effective visual communication system can help manufacturing employees eliminate significant waste from daily tasks. From work-zone color coding to posted metrics, visual controls clarify and simplify the path to enhanced processes and profits. Leaving little to chance, Visual Controls: Applying Visual Management to the Factory provides a detail ...

    $1,200.00

  • VISUAL CONTROLS
    CHRIS A. ORTIZ / MURRY PARK
    An effective visual communication system can help manufacturing employees eliminate significant waste from daily tasks. From work-zone color coding to posted metrics, visual controls clarify and simplify the path to enhanced processes and profits. Leaving little to chance, Visual Controls: Applying Visual Management to the Factory provides a detail ...

    $1,200.00

  • RESEARCH ANALYTICS
    FRANCISCO J. CANTÚ-ORTIZ
    The growth of machines and users of the Internet has led to the proliferation of all sorts of data concerning individuals, institutions, companies, governments, universities, and all kinds of known objects and events happening everywhere in daily life. Scientific knowledge is not an exception to the data boom. The phenomenon of data growth in science pushes forth as the number ...

    $1,200.00

  • TEACHING TO STRENGTHS
    DEBBIE ZACARIAN / LOURDES ALVAREZ-ORTIZ / JUDIE HAYNES
    Half the students in U.S. schools are experiencing or have experienced trauma, violence, or chronic stress. Much has been written about these students from a therapeutic perspective, especially regarding how to provide them with adequate counseling supports and services. Conversely, little has been written about teaching this population and doing so from a strengths-based persp...

    $603.00

  • SHAKESPEARE AND THE CULTURE OF ROMANTICISM
    JOSEPH M. ORTIZ
    The idea of Shakespearean genius and sublimity is usually understood to be a product of the Romantic period, promulgated by poets such as Coleridge and Byron who promoted Shakespeare as the supreme example of literary genius and creative imagination. However, the picture looks very different when viewed from the perspective of the myriad theater directors, actors, poets, politi...

    $1,600.00

  • LITERATURE AND ANIMAL STUDIES
    MARIO ORTIZ-ROBLES
    Why do animals talk in literature? In this provocative book, Mario Ortiz Robles tracks the presence of animals across an expansive literary archive to argue that literature cannot be understood as a human endeavor apart from its capacity to represent animals. Focusing on the literary representation of familiar animals, including horses, dogs, cats, and songbirds, Ortiz Robles e...

    $1,100.00

  • AFTER THE FIRST FULL MOON IN APRIL
    JOSEPHINE GRANT PETERS / BEVERLY ORTIZ
    In this extraordinary book Josephine Peters, a respected northern California Indian elder and Native healer, shares her vast, lifelong cultural and plant knowledge. The book begins with Josephine's personal and tribal history and gathering ethics. Josephine then instructs the reader in medicinal and plant food preparations and offers an illustrated catalog of the uses and doses...

    $1,240.00

  • GENDERED DRUGS AND MEDICINE
    TERESA ORTIZ-GOMEZ / MARÍA JESÚS SANTESMASES
    Drugs are considered to be healers and harmers, wonder substances and knowledge makers; objects that impact on social hierarchies, health practices and public policies. As a collective endeavour, this book focuses on the ways that gender, along with race/ethnicity and class, influence the design, standardisation and circulation of drugs throughout several highly medicalised cou...

    $1,420.00

  • THE QUICK CHANGEOVER PLAYBOOK
    CHRIS A. ORTIZ
    This book covers the basics of setup reduction and quick changeover and data collection. It outlines the first pass of waste reduction through the implementation of the visual workplace and layout improvements. The book covers two quick changeover concepts: intermediate tooling and one-turn methods. ...

    $980.00

  • THE CELL MANUFACTURING PLAYBOOK
    CHRIS A. ORTIZ
    This book describes how to effectively implement cell manufacturing. It covers the eight Wastes of Lean and the six Lean metrics that are recommended in each implementation and a description of what cell manufacturing is and its application to improving operational processes. ...

    $1,060.00

  • THE TPM PLAYBOOK
    CHRIS A. ORTIZ
    This book is a guideline for implementation and it is intended for the Lean practitioner looking for a training tool and a guideline that can be used in the work area while improvements are being conducted. It describes how to effectively implement total productive maintenance. ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE KANBAN PLAYBOOK
    CHRIS A. ORTIZ
    This book is intented for Lean practitioners and facilitators looking for a training tool and guideline that can be used in the work area while improvements are being made. It provides the most visible and detailed approach to Kanban implementation, so that they can see results in a short period. ...

    $1,060.00