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Latino Educational Leadership acknowledges the unique preparation
and support for Latinx educational leaders and Latino communities
that is needed throughout the education and policy pipeline. While
leadership in communities does exist for educational purposes, this
effort focuses on the institutional aspect of Latino educational
leadership across K-12 schools and university settings. The purpose
of this edited book is to enhance a greater collaborative focus on
Latino Educational Leadership throughout the pipeline by inviting
both established and up-and-coming scholars who can speak to
various aspects related to developing all leaders, as well as, the
preparation of Latinx educational leaders, for serving Latino
communities. The impetus for this edited book focus on Latino
Educational Leadership primarily stems from the changing
demographics of our country. Much like the growing Latino
population nationwide, the Latinx student enrollment in public
elementary and secondary schools is at an all-time high and
estimated to continue to grow; Latinxs comprised 26.8% of all
students as of fall 2017, with this population estimated to
increase to 28.9% by 2026 (Snyder, de Brey, & Dillow, 2018). In
fact, as of 2014 Latinx students comprised more than half of all
K-12 public school enrollment in New Mexico, California, and Texas
(Snyder, de Bley, & Dillow, 2017). Given this enrollment
growth, there has been an increasing urgency in the field of
educational leadership to prepare and support all leaders, but also
uniquely Latinx educational leaders that have rich cultural and
linguistic connections to communities, who can understand and meet
the needs of Latinx students and families (Murakami, Valle, &
Mendez-Morse, 2013; Sanchez, Thornton, & Usinger, 2009).
Additionally, the number of degrees awarded to Latinxs at all
levels increased dramatically between 2003-04 and 2013-14:
bachelor's degrees more than doubled from 94,644 to 202,412,
master's degrees conferred rose from 29,806 to 55,965, and doctor's
degrees went from 5,795 to 10,665 (Musu-Gillette, et al., 2017).
However, when compared to all other racial/ethnic groups, Latinxs
were awarded only 11% of all bachelor's degrees, 9% of all master's
degrees, and 7% of all doctor's degrees in 2013-14. Thus, an
urgency remains to address continued concerns related to Latino
access, persistence and matriculation in higher education (Perez
Huber, Huidor, Malagon, Sanchez, & Solorzano, 2006). In
particular, there has been an increasing urgency to consider how
higher education institutions can better prepare, develop, and
retain Latinx leaders and scholars (in K-12 and higher education),
as well as develop leaders who can serve and meet the needs of
Latinx college students to ensure their academic success
(Castellanos & Gloria, 2007; Ponjuan, 2012; Valle &
Rodriguez, 2012). Thus, the purpose of this edited book is to
advance the knowledge related to serving Latino communities and
preparing Latinx leaders.
Styles of filmmaking have changed greatly from classical Hollywood
through to our digital era. So, too, have the ways in which film
critics and scholars have analysed these transformations in film
style. This book explores two central style concepts, mise en scene
and dispositif, to illuminate a wide range of film and new media
examples.
The papers in this volume deal with the design of many types of
buildings in Islamic countries and the influence that these
structural forms have had in non-Islamic countries. Coverage will
also include construction materials.There is much to learn from
past experiences to arrive at solutions that are environmentally
sound and sustainable in the long term. As conventional energy
resources become scarce, the Islamic design heritage can offer
invaluable lessons on how to deal with difficult and extreme
environments in an efficient manner. Traditional architecture and
urban environment in most Islamic countries is now being eroded by
overemphasis on global type of architecture and city planning.
Consequently, many regions are losing their identity. The papers
review these developments in the light of what the classical
Islamic urban designs and architectures have to offer modern
society.The papers in this book cover such topics as: Architectural
conservation; Architectural heritage; Architecture in Malaysia and
Indonesia; Climate adaptability; Conservation and restoration;
Historical aspects; Houses and gardens; Islamic art and
globalisation; Mosques and minarets; Ottoman Istanbul; Schools; The
African Coast; The Islamic urban environment; The Mediterranean
region; The use of light; Vernacular architecture; Wood and wooden
roofs. The contents will be of interest to all researchers,
practitioners and government employees actively involved with
Islamic Heritage Architecture.
Tears of joy are a book full of thrills, action, and would give you
movie vibe just reading it. This book is about a group of women
that started a sex organization. The women go around extorting guys
they sleep with for money. You would be shock how and what all
these women do to get their money. Read this book to see if the
main character survives this sex organization he done got himself
trap in. Reading Tears of Joy would have you giving second thought
about jumping straight in bed with a person. This book would also
give you adrenaline rush if it was a movie.
In "Borderlands Saints," Desiree A. Martin examines the rise and
fall of popular saints and saint-like figures in the borderlands of
the United States and Mexico. Focusing specifically on Teresa Urrea
(La Santa de Cabora), Pancho Villa, Cesar Chavez, Subcomandante
Marcos, and Santa Muerte, she traces the intersections of these
figures, their devotees, artistic representations, and dominant
institutions with an eye for the ways in which such unofficial
saints mirror traditional spiritual practices and serve specific
cultural needs.
Popular spirituality of this kind engages the use and exchange of
relics, faith healing, pilgrimages, and spirit possession,
exemplifying the contradictions between high and popular culture,
human and divine, and secular and sacred. Martin focuses upon a
wide range of Mexican and Chicano/a cultural works drawn from the
nineteenth century to the present, covering such diverse genres as
the novel, the communique, drama, the essay or cronica, film, and
contemporary digital media. She argues that spiritual practice is
often represented as narrative, while narrative--whether literary,
historical, visual, or oral--may modify or even function as
devotional practice.
There has been a dramatic increase in knowledge of tight junctions
in the past decade. The molecular structure of tight junctions,
cellular functions and the pathophysiological roles of tight
junctions are becoming clear. Of the most important functions, the
role of the cellular structure in cancer spread and drug delivery
are increasingly realised. It is now clear that there are
fundamental changes to tight junctions during the process of cancer
development. Tight junctions are also critical to the metastatic
process of cancer cells. The cellular structure is also crucial in
drug therapies, namely, the permeability and bioavailability of the
drugs, penetration of barriers such as the blood brain barrier.
This current volume aims to summarise the current knowledge of
tight junctions, their role in cancer and cancer metastasis and is
of interest to scientists and clinicians.
Some of the most pressing questions in immigration law and policy
today concern the problem of immigration controls. How are
immigration laws administered, and how are they enforced against
those who enter and remain in a receiving country without legal
permission? Comparing the United States and Germany, two of the
four extended essays in this volume concern enforcement; the other
two address techniques for managing high-volume asylum systems in
both countries.
Bayesian Modeling and Computation in Python aims to help beginner
Bayesian practitioners to become intermediate modelers. It uses a
hands on approach with PyMC3, Tensorflow Probability, ArviZ and
other libraries focusing on the practice of applied statistics with
references to the underlying mathematical theory. The book starts
with a refresher of the Bayesian Inference concepts. The second
chapter introduces modern methods for Exploratory Analysis of
Bayesian Models. With an understanding of these two fundamentals
the subsequent chapters talk through various models including
linear regressions, splines, time series, Bayesian additive
regression trees. The final chapters include Approximate Bayesian
Computation, end to end case studies showing how to apply Bayesian
modelling in different settings, and a chapter about the internals
of probabilistic programming languages. Finally the last chapter
serves as a reference for the rest of the book by getting closer
into mathematical aspects or by extending the discussion of certain
topics. This book is written by contributors of PyMC3, ArviZ,
Bambi, and Tensorflow Probability among other libraries.
This volume sheds light on the development of squatting practices
and movements in nine European cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville,
Rome, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Brighton) by
examining the numbers, variations and significant contexts in their
life course. It reveals how and why squatting practices have
shifted and to what extent they engender urban movements. The book
measures the volume and changes in squatting over various decades,
mostly by focusing on Squatted Social Centres but also including
squatted housing. In addition, it systematically compares the
cycles, socio-spatial structures and the political implications of
squatting in selected cities. This collection highlights how
squatters' movements have persisted over more than four decades
through different trajectories and circumstances, especially in
relation to broader protest cycles and reveals how political
opportunities and constraints influence the conflicts around the
legalisation of squats. p>
Innovation and Technology - Strategies and Policies contains a
selection of outstanding contributions by world experts on how a
culture of innovation is able to produce a response to fast global
changes affecting society. The book describes major evolutionary
directions and foreseen trends in: environment versus industry;
technology breakthroughs; energy planning; education and research;
intangible investment requirements; new health technologies; and
economics and management of innovative actions at strategic,
organisational and technological levels. The actual percolation of
the innovative process throughout the multiple facets of society is
presented in relation to the main challenges facing us in the 21st
Century. The book is addressed to all those concerned with
innovation in dynamic terms as a creative response to the ongoing
changes in society integrating sciences, technologies, humanities,
life-long education and training, and other disciplines.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book offers an interdisciplinary effort to address global
health issues grounded on a human rights framework seen from the
perspective of those who are more vulnerable to be sick and die
prematurely: the poor. Combining his scholarship and service in
impoverished communities, the author examines the connection
between poverty and health inequalities from an ethical perspective
that considers contributions from different disciplines and the
voices of the poor.
This book offers an elementary and engaging introduction to
operator theory on the Hardy-Hilbert space. It provides a firm
foundation for the study of all spaces of analytic functions and of
the operators on them. Blending techniques from "soft" and "hard"
analysis, the book contains clear and beautiful proofs. There are
numerous exercises at the end of each chapter, along with a brief
guide for further study which includes references to applications
to topics in engineering.
It had never been attempted before, and might never be done again.
One man watching another man write a novel from beginning to end.
On September 1, 2014, in an 11th floor apartment in New York, Lee
Child embarked on the twentieth book in his globally successful
Jack Reacher series. Andy Martin was there to see him do it,
sitting a couple of yards behind him, peering over his shoulder as
the writer took another drag of a Camel cigarette and tapped out
the first sentence: "Moving a guy as big as Keever wasn't easy."
Miraculously, Child and Martin stuck with it, in tandem, for the
next 8 months, right through to the bitter-sweet end and the last
word, "needle". Reacher Said Nothing is a one-of-a-kind meta-book,
an uncompromising account in real time of the genesis, evolution
and completion of a single work, Make Me. While unveiling the art
of writing a thriller Martin also gives us a unique insight into
the everyday life of an exemplary writer. From beginning to end,
Martin captures all the sublime confidence, stumbling uncertainty,
omniscience, cluelessness, ecstasy, despair, and heart-thumping
suspense that go into writing a number-one bestseller.
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