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Well-travelled divers all acknowledge that the best diving in the
world is found in the warm waters of tropical Asia. No other region
on earth presents such a rich variety of marine life, and none can
boast as many different types of dive sites: tiny, isolated atolls,
World War II wrecks draped in beautiful soft corals, shallow,
bommie-filled fringing reefs and pinnacles, all swarming with fish
and vibrant color. Diving in Southeast Asia is a comprehensive
diving guide covering Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and
Thailand. It presents in great detail the very best dive sites in
the tropical western Pacific. Our seasoned diver-authors have an
aggregate half-century of experience exploring these waters, and
each site receives thorough coverage, including detailed maps,
color photos, and a full description of access, conditions, and
facilities. This Southeast Asia diving guide features:
Practicalities: Detailed travel information for every budget,
including accommodations, transportation, prices, seasons, and dive
operators. Information: Local history, diving lore, site
conditions, and more than 50 maps. Photography: More than 100 color
photographs by top photographers.
The history of Mexico in the twentieth century is marked by
conflict between church and state. This book focuses on the efforts
of the Roman Catholic Church to influence Mexican society through
Jesuit-led organizations such as the Mexican Catholic Youth
Association, the National Catholic Student Union, and the
Universidad Iberoamericana. Dedicated to the education and
indoctrination of Mexico's middle- and upper-class youth, these
organizations were designed to promote conservative Catholic
values. The author shows that they left a very different imprint on
Mexican society, training a generation of activists who played
important roles in politics and education. Ultimately, Espinosa
shows, the social justice movement that grew out of Jesuit
education fostered the leftist student movement of the 1960s that
culminated in the Tlatelolco massacre of 1968. This study
demonstrates the convergence of the Church, Mexico's new business
class, and the increasingly pro-capitalist PRI, the party that has
ruled Mexico in recent decades.
Espinosa's archival research has led him to important but
long-overlooked events like the student strike of 1944, the
internal upheavals of the Church over liberation theology, and the
complicated relations between the Jesuits and the conservative
business class. His book offers vital new perspectives for scholars
of education, politics, and religion in twentieth-century
Mexico.
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El vacÃo del silencio
Sultana Del Lago Editores; Isaac David Espinoza
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R436
Discovery Miles 4 360
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This is a must-read book for tearing down the walls of
stereotyping, and battling discrimination based on skin color and
poverty. Diversity is a reality in our current world. A very poor
kid from Dimmitt, Texas (Carlos) is surprised by his large family
packing up one day and moving to Oregon. He meets a very wealthy
boy from Gervais, Oregon (Harv) in the berry field. Carlos is a
very gifted quarterback, but when it comes to grades, well, let's
not talk about that. Harv is not a great athlete, but he's very
smart. Harv has a very bright sister (Liz) who takes a liking to
Carlos. The only problem is... her dad (Ted) does not want his kids
around Hispanics - find out why. Carlos and Harv square a deal to
help each other become successful behind their parent's back - find
out how. Can the two cultures come together? Can Carlos and Harv
help the Gervais Cougars make it to state? One of the friends gets
kidnapped, who is it? How do we measure wealth - is it really
always about money? This fiction story has true places. It is also
full of sports, humor, first love, and mystery.
This book features Grayson "The Professor" Boucher - a short skinny
boy from Keizer, Oregon. He became an overnight sensation signing a
contract with the And 1 Mixtape Tour. He now plays professionally
for Ball Up Streetball based in Los Angeles, CA and tours
worldwide. How about Noah Torres from Moses Lake, Washington? This
young man dealt with twelve fractures in his skull along with more
medical issues. Noah is a miracle kid who God kept alive for a
reason. Also, Brooke Chuhlantseff from Salem, Oregon, who as a
freshman in high school captured a district championship title in
the 1500 meter run - she has a strong vision of the Olympic Trials.
All eight stories in this book are unique and will leave you
inspired.
This is a true story about a boy whose life revolved around God and
basketball. Matt Espinoza aka "Noza" was taught about the game of
basketball at a very young age. During that time he faced many
obstacles, the most difficult one being that he lost his mom to
brain cancer when he was nine years old. His dad raised him and his
brother and continued developing them for basketball. Other
challenges would confront Matt. He was dealing with a blood
platelet condition he had not grown out of yet. Matt had a love for
the game of basketball but his body was not developing as fast as
most kids. In his younger years things were going great. But when
he got to Jr. High other kids seem to be passing him up and he was
struggling for playing time. Matt would always tag along with his
older brother, Jake, but always found himself watching and not
playing. When Matt was a freshman and a sophomore he almost didn't
make McNary High School's basketball team. His dad speaks of the
challenges and lessons learned in this amazing story. Matt was
always trying to keep up with his older brother Jake. They would
eventually battle it out in a college basketball game. This is an
inspirational, encouraging, and an amazing story of a young man
that believed in himself and was not going to be denied. Matt set
goals for himself and he worked hard to reach those goals. His
attitude of never giving up, and having faith paid off big time.
The history of Mexico in the twentieth century is marked by
conflict between church and state. This book focuses on the efforts
of the Roman Catholic Church to influence Mexican society through
Jesuit-led organizations such as the Mexican Catholic Youth
Association, the National Catholic Student Union, and the
Universidad Iberoamericana. Dedicated to the education and
indoctrination of Mexico's middle- and upper-class youth, these
organizations were designed to promote conservative Catholic
values. The author shows that they left a very different imprint on
Mexican society, training a generation of activists who played
important roles in politics and education. Ultimately, Espinosa
shows, the social justice movement that grew out of Jesuit
education fostered the leftist student movement of the 1960s that
culminated in the Tlatelolco massacre of 1968. This study
demonstrates the convergence of the Church, Mexico's new business
class, and the increasingly pro-capitalist PRI, the party that has
ruled Mexico in recent decades. Espinosa's archival research has
led him to important but long-overlooked events like the student
strike of 1944, the internal upheavals of the Church over
liberation theology, and the complicated relations between the
Jesuits and the conservative business class. His book offers vital
new perspectives for scholars of education, politics, and religion
in twentieth-century Mexico.
This volume is the result of five years of research about the
juridical Latinization policy developed by Rome in the West,
focusing on the integration -under the protection of the Latinity-
of a set of Hispanian communities, promoted -in the Republican era-
to colonial status and -during the Roman Empire- to the municipal.
This research aims to raise the plausibility, from the existence in
Augustan age of fifty 'oppida of ancient Latium', and many
literary, archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic evidences
scattered in the preserved documentation, that Rome had introduced
in Hispania a Latin colonization policy similar to the one
established in Italy and Gallia Cisalpina, amended in
constitutional aspects but similar in their goals and results. The
author posits that this fact would explain a set of historical
phenomena and behaviours related to the existence of privileged
communities in the field: that is, the involvement of the Iberian
provinces in the Roman military and political conflicts, the force
of military recruitment, the intensity of the italic migration
flow, the socioeconomic integration of Hispanian communities in the
western Mediterranean trade routes, and the widespread
dissemination of the institutions, forms and cultural goods of the
Roman italic koine. Therefore, this volume is intended to enrich
and encourage the present historiographic debate, and setting the
guidelines of what might have been the diffusion process of the
Latium in Hispania Citerior in the Republican era.
El negocio de la fibra de alpacas en el Peru, tiene una demanda
interesante en los mercados locales e internacionales, debido a la
alta calidad que este presenta. Por otro lado, los metodos actuales
de medicion, se consiguen alrededor del uso de la tecnologia, las
especificaciones de la Norma Tecnica Peruana NTP 231.300:2004 y por
la experiencia de los expertos, sin llegar a un consenso
transversal sobre dicha medicion entre los involucrados, impidiendo
utilizar un lenguaje comun para su comercializacion. Esta
investigacion, propone un artefacto, que da cuenta valorizar la
fibra de alpacas a traves de una escala estandarizada, utilizando
los algoritmos conexionistas en relacion a sus contenidos
morfologicos y genetico, cuyo resultado pretende la homologacion de
los criterios en la comunidad textil para evaluar y tomar
decisiones en el comercio de poblaciones de alpacas.
Epigraphy in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges in the
Recording, Analysis and Dissemination of Inscriptions originates
from the International Conference El patrimonio epigrafico en la
era digital: Documentacion, analisis y socializacion (Madrid, 20-21
June 2019), organized by the Complutense University of Madrid and
the University of Santiago de Compostela. Taking the results of the
conference as a starting point, the book presents epigraphic
research using digital and computational tools, bringing together
and comparing the outcomes of both well-established projects and
newer ones, so as to establish a comprehensive view according to
the most innovative trends in investigation. 21 contributions have
been gathered together, involving 38 scholars, which address issues
related to open-access databases, SfM Photogrammetry and Digital
Image Modelling applied to textual restoration, EpiDoc (TEI-XML
edition), and Linked Open Data. In this manner, the book offers a
dialogue based on very different perspectives and previous
experiences to generate common research questions, methodologies,
practical solutions, and significant results. The outcome is
intended more a starting point and platform for future research
than as a definitive point of arrival in terms of so-called
'digital epigraphy'.
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