Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: torres

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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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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 ...

    $4,000.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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...

    $497.00

  • 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...

    $1,039.00

  • 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...

    $999.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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...

    $1,239.00

  • 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 ...

    $539.00

  • 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...

    $939.00

  • 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. ...

    $229.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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...

    $367.64

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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...

    $1,099.00

  • 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...

    $1,199.00

  • 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...

    $939.00

  • 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...

    $459.00

  • 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 ...

    $1,139.00

  • 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...

    $1,659.00

  • 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...

    $1,153.00

  • 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...

    $939.00

  • ANADENANTHERA
    CONSTANTINO M TORRES / DAVID B REPKE
    A multidisciplinary study of pre-Columbian South Americacentering on the psychoactive plant genus Anadenanthera As cultures formed and evolved in pre-Columbian South America, Anadenanthera became one of the most widely used shamanic inebriants. Anadenanthera: Visionary Plant of Ancient South America is more than a comprehensive reference on shamanic visionary substances; it is ...

    $1,439.00

  • CHICANA WITHOUT APOLOGY
    EDEN E. TORRES
    By approaching Chicana/o issues from the frames of feminism, social activism, and cultural studies, and by considering both lived experience and the latest research, Torres offers a more comprehensive understanding of current Chicana life. Through compelling prose, Torres masterfully weaves her own story as a first-generation Mexican American with interviews with activists and...

    $1,559.00

  • WOMEN'S BARRACKS
    TERESKA TORRES
    This novel—based on the author's real-life experiences—is credited as the first candidly lesbian novel, originally published in 1950, that “scandalized mid-century America” (The New York Times). As the Blitz rains down over London, taboos are broken, affairs start and stop, and hearts are won and lost.  This account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks...

    $169.00

  • TOURISM AND AGRICULTURE
    REBECCA MARIA TORRES AND JANET HENSHALL MOMSEN
    Shifting global consumption patterns, tastes and attitudes towards food, leisure, travel and place have opened new opportunities for rural producers in the form of agritourism, ecotourism, wine, food and rural tourism and specialized niche market agricultural production for tourism. Agriculture is one of the oldest and most basic parts of the global economy, while tourism is on...

    $1,139.00

  • CARLITO'S WAY
    EDWIN TORRES
    The unforgettable novel—and the basis for the feature film—about Carlito Brigante, a Harlem drug dealer in the 1960s, and his rise to the top.   Carlito Brigante is just another Spanish Harlem street punk with a poor boy’s dream of flash and fast money. But as he gets older he determines that it’s either take or be taken, and he knows which role he intends to play.   Soon he’s ...

    $149.00

  • SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXTS OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACY
    MCCARTY, TERESA L. / WATAHOMIGIE, LUCILLE J. / DIEN, TO THI / PEREZ, BERTHA / TORRES-GUZMAN, MAR¡A E.
    Sociocultural Contexts of Language and Literacy, Second Edition engages prospective and in-service teachers in learning about linguistically and culturally diverse students, and in using this knowledge to enrich literacy learning in classrooms and communities. The text is grounded in current research and theory that integrate sociocultural and constructivist concepts and perspe...

    $1,499.00