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This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of Bus Rapid
Transit (BRT), examining the opportunities it presents along with
the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A
wide range of contributors bring expertise from both developed and
developing countries, to provide a big picture assessment of BRT as
part of a process for restructuring transit systems.
What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the
physical? What is it the relation between ascribing mental states
to an organism and understanding its behavior? Are animals and
complex systems vehicles of inner evolutionary environments? Is
there a difference between personal and sub-personal level
processes in the brain? Answers to these and other questions were
developed in Daniel Dennett's first book, Content and Consciousness
(1969), where he sketched a unified theoretical framework for views
that are now considered foundational in cognitive science and
philosophy of mind. Content and Consciousness Revisited is devoted
to reconsider the ideas and ideals introduced in Dennett's seminal
book, by covering its fundamental concepts, hypotheses and
approaches and taking into account the findings and progress which
have taken place during more than four decades. This book includes
original and critical contributions about the relations between
science and philosophy, the personal/sub-personal level
distinction, intelligence, learning, intentionality, rationality,
propositional attitudes, among other issues of scientific and
philosophical interest. Each chapter embraces an updated approach
to several disciplines, like cognitive science, cognitive
psychology, philosophy of mind and cognitive psychiatry.
When we finally arrived at my brother's house in the United States,
I thought about how far I was from home in Mexico. I looked back,
saw the sun setting, and thought about my father and what he might
be doing. I thought, 'Why did I come so far, and how am I going to
return?' Before I left my father asked me why I wanted to leave. He
said he thought we would never see each other again. My brother
told him not to worry and that he would return me in a year. . . .
He was right, because we never did. Irma Luna recalls her
experience of migration, from Communities without BordersIn his
stunning work of photojournalism and oral history, David Bacon
documents the new reality of migrant experience: the creation of
transnational communities. Today's indigenous migrants don't simply
move from one point to another but create new communities all along
the northern road from Guatemala through Mexico into the United
States, connected by common culture and history. Drawing on his
experience as a photographer and a journalist and also as a former
labor organizer, Bacon portrays the lives of the people who migrate
between Guatemala and Mexico and the United States. He takes us
inside these communities and illuminates the ties that bind them
together, the influence of their working conditions on their
families and health, and their struggle for better lives. Bacon
portrays in photographs and their own words Mixtec and Triqui
migrants in Oaxaca, Baja California, and California; Guatemalan
migrants in Huehuetenango and Nebraska; miners and indigenous
communities in Sonora and Arizona; and veterans of the bracero
program of the 1940s and 1950s. Bacon's interviews with this first
wave of guest workers are especially relevant in light of the
current political focus on guest-worker programs as a model for
reforming immigration, an approach with which Bacon strongly
disagrees.Throughout Communities without Borders, Bacon emphasizes
the social movements migrants organize to improve their own working
conditions and the well-being of their enclaves. U.S. border policy
treats undocumented immigrants as an aggregation of individuals,
ignoring the social pressures that force whole communities to move
and the networks of families and hometowns that sustain them on
their journeys. Communities without Borders makes an urgent appeal
for understanding the human reality that should inform our national
debate over immigration."
Miedo. Confusion. Perplejidad y asombro, harto originales. Aunque
se note la mano, no adivinaremos nunca de donde vino la "cachetada
metafisica" que diria Cortazar. Un narrador enfrentado a su primera
mayoria de edad es este que ahora ustedes van a leer (antes fue "La
Segunda Persona" de 1999). Entonces pongan mucha atencion a los
imperceptibles matices que sus veloces historias les depararan. Un
parpadeo puede ser fatal. Miren Donde? Que? Y se acabo.
Primeras fi guraciones es un estudio po tico acerca de la
descomposici n. Las dos partes que lo componen giran en torno de fi
guras centrales, sea el hundimiento de una embarcaci n o la
deformaci n de un cuerpo. A manera de puntos de fuga, la creaci n
po tica parte de un punto que luego se propaga en diversas
direcciones. Los cuerpos, vistos as, est n sometidos al arte fi
gurativo pero, de igual modo, a un proceso de ptica en el cual las
fi guras se apartan cada vez m s del foco, hasta que apenas son
reconocibles. La creaci n po tica es en esta obra un acto de
transfi guraci n.
Youth, Identity, Power is the classic study of the origins of the
1960s Chicano civil rights movement. Written by a leader of the
Chicano student movement who also played a key role in the creation
of the wider Chicano Movement, this is the first full-length work
to appear on the subject. It fills an important gap in the history
of political and social protest in the United States. Carlos Munoz
places the Chicano Movement in the context of the political and
intellectual development of people of Mexican descent in the USA,
tracing the emergence of student activists and intellectuals in the
1930s and their initial challenge to the dominant white racial and
class ideologies. He then documents the rise and fall of the
Chicano Movement of the 1960s, situating it within the 1960s civil
rights and radical movements and assessing the Chicano Movement's
contribution to the development of the Mexican American population
and the Latino population as a whole. In an afterword to this new
edition, Munoz charts the burgeoning growth of US Latino
communities, assesses the nativist backlash against them, and
argues that Latinos must play a central role in a new movement for
multiracial democracy.
"Youth, Identity, Power" is the classic study of the origins of the
1960s Chicano civil rights movement. Written by a leader of the
Chicano student movement who also played a key role in the creation
of the wider Chicano Movement, this is the first full-length work
to appear on the subject. It fills an important gap in the history
of political and social protest in the United States.
Carlos Munoz places the Chicano Movement in the context of the
political and intellectual development of people of Mexican descent
in the USA, tracing the emergence of student activists and
intellectuals in the 1930s and their initial challenge to the
dominant white racial and class ideologies. He then documents the
rise and fall of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, situating it
within the 1960s civil rights and radical movements and assessing
the Chicano Movement's contribution to the development of the
Mexican American population and the Latino population as a whole.
In an afterword to this new edition, Munoz charts the burgeoning
growth of US Latino communities, assesses the nativist backlash
against them, and argues that Latinos must play a central role in a
new movement for multiracial democracy.
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Various Artists - En Er Mundo (CD)
Juan Carlos Munoz, Paul Leenhouts, The Royal Wind Music, Julio Salvador Sagreras Ramirez, Cesar Franck, …
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This book is a dialogue about poverty in North America,
especially in Mexico and the United States. Poverty has different
roots and different manifestations, and requires different
responses, whether in the Mississippi delta, in Native American
reservations, among single-parent families in inner cities, or in
Mexico's rural southern states and in its urban areas.
In this book, twelve poverty scholars in Mexico and the United
States contribute to the understanding of the roots of poverty and
build knowledge about effective policy alleviation strategies.
After setting the context of poverty and place in North America,
the book focuses on three areas of policy response: macroeconomic
policy, education policy, and safety nets. Within each section, the
authors explore the dimensions of the poverty problem and
alternative responses. A final chapter by the editors--from the
United States and from Mexico--raises provocative questions about
poverty in North America as a whole.
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