This book presents the fundamental theory for non-standard diffusion problems in movement ecology. Levy processes and anomalous diffusion have shown to be both powerful and useful tools for qualitatively and quantitatively describing a wide variety of spatial population ecological phenomena and dynamics, such as invasion fronts and search strategies. Adopting a self-contained, textbook-style approach, the authors provide the elements of statistical physics and stochastic processes on which the modeling of movement ecology is based and systematically introduce the physical characterization of ecological processes at the microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic levels. The explicit definition of these levels and their interrelations is particularly suitable to coping with the broad spectrum of space and time scales involved in bio-ecological problems. Including numerous exercises (with solutions), this text is aimed at graduate students and newcomers in this field at the interface of theoretical ecology, mathematical biology and physics.

Chronicles grassroots efforts to recover, rebuild, and enjoy architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rust Belt. A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary iron mill at the edge of Pittsburgh. A campus of concrete grain elevators in Buffalo. Two monumental train stations, one in Buffalo, the other in Detroit. These once-noble sites have since fallen from their towering grace. As local elected leaders did everything they could to destroy what was left of these places, citizens saw beauty and utility in these industrial ruins and felt compelled to act. Postindustrial DIY tells their stories. The culmination of more than a dozen years of on-the-ground investigation, ethnography, and historical analysis, author and urbanist Daniel Campo immerses the reader in this postindustrial landscape, weaving the perspectives of dozens of DIY protagonists as well as architects, planners, and preservationists. Working without capital, expertise, and sometimes permission in a milieu dominated by powerful political and economic interests, these do-it-yourself actors are driven by passion and a sense of civic duty rather than by profit or political expediency. They have craftily remade these sites into collective preservation projects and democratic grounds for arts and culture, environmental engagement, regional celebrations, itinerant play, and in-the-moment constructions. Their projects are generating excitement about the prospect of Rust Belt life, even as they often remain invisible to the uninformed passerby and fall short of professional preservation or environmental reclamation standards. Demonstrating that there is no such thing as a site that is “too far gone� to save or reuse, Postindustrial DIY is rich with case studies that demonstrate how great architecture is not simply for the elites or the wealthy. The citizen preservationists and urbanists described in this book offer looser, more playful, and often more publicly satisfying alternatives to the development practices that have transformed iconic sites into expensive real estate or a clean slate for the next profitable endeavor. Transcending the disciplinary boundaries of architecture, historic preservation, city planning, and landscape architecture, Postindustrial DIY suggests new ways to engage, adapt, and preserve architecturally compelling sites and bottom-up strategies for Rust Belt revival.

At once narrative and reflective, Loving Immigrants in America: An Experiential Philosophy of Personal Interaction is a philosophical account of Daniel Campos's experience as a Latin American immigrant to the United States of America. A series of interrelated personal essays together convey this experience of walking or sauntering, going on road trips, reading American literature in the southern United States, playing association football (soccer or futbol), churchgoing, and Latin dancing in the U.S. This book's central motif is the caring saunterer, who is understood to be a person who makes him or herself at home anywhere, even as a Latino immigrant in the U.S. The narrative essays convey one immigrant's experience seeking an affective, social, and intellectual home in a new land. The intertwined philosophical reflections lead to the recommendation of an ethic of love-resilient love-for the day-to-day interactions and long-term relations between immigrants and hosts in this country. The author's aim is to establish an open and earnest philosophical dialogue with critical readers interested in the problems surrounding immigration in the U.S. today. He writes as an American philosopher-in the continental sense of North, Central, and South America-whose reflections provide an accessible and provocative angle for the development of insight into the experiences of immigrants in the United States. Thus he brings philosophical reflection drawn from experience, in the broad American tradition, to bear on current issues-on the problems of people and not of philosophers, as John Dewey might put it.

At once narrative and reflective, Loving Immigrants in America: An Experiential Philosophy of Personal Interaction is a philosophical account of Daniel Campos's experience as a Latin American immigrant to the United States of America. A series of interrelated personal essays together convey this experience of walking or sauntering, going on road trips, reading American literature in the southern United States, playing association football (soccer or futbol), churchgoing, and Latin dancing in the U.S. This book's central motif is the caring saunterer, who is understood to be a person who makes him or herself at home anywhere, even as a Latino immigrant in the U.S. The narrative essays convey one immigrant's experience seeking an affective, social, and intellectual home in a new land. The intertwined philosophical reflections lead to the recommendation of an ethic of love-resilient love-for the day-to-day interactions and long-term relations between immigrants and hosts in this country. The author's aim is to establish an open and earnest philosophical dialogue with critical readers interested in the problems surrounding immigration in the U.S. today. He writes as an American philosopher-in the continental sense of North, Central, and South America-whose reflections provide an accessible and provocative angle for the development of insight into the experiences of immigrants in the United States. Thus he brings philosophical reflection drawn from experience, in the broad American tradition, to bear on current issues-on the problems of people and not of philosophers, as John Dewey might put it.

This book is a manual for self-application of the Attachment-Based Compassion Therapy (ABCT) protocol, that can be either self-applied by any individual in a psychoeducational context or as a support for a therapeutic process guided by a professional. Compassion therapy is a third-generation psychotherapy that has been used in association with mindfulness in recent years. In particular, attachment-based compassion therapy (ABCT) is a protocol that can be used in both the general and psychiatric population with the aim of promoting compassion and self-compassion. ABCT is based on attachment theory and, therefore, includes practices to raise awareness and/or address maladaptive aspects, where appropriate, of the attachment styles developed with parents. This process is taught as a form of both compassion and self-compassion in order to improve present-day interpersonal relationships and well-being in general. In the face-to-face group format, ABCT has been demonstrating efficacy and applicability for healthy people and for the treatment of fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety and adjustment disorders. This book presents a self-applied version of ABCT that operates along the lines of the original model and has been adapted and developed to be fully self-applied via the Internet in 8 sequential modules: Introduction to attachment-based compassion therapy Preparing ourselves for compassion: kind attention Discovering our compassionate world Developing our compassionate world Understanding our relationship with compassion Working on ourselves Understanding the importance of forgiveness Consolidating the practice of compassion The content is presented through texts, pictures, tables and figures, including links to downloadable audio files for formal meditation practices with specific guides and instruction for each meditation. The transcripts to each guided meditation are also included as appendices.

This book presents the fundamental theory for non-standard diffusion problems in movement ecology. Levy processes and anomalous diffusion have shown to be both powerful and useful tools for qualitatively and quantitatively describing a wide variety of spatial population ecological phenomena and dynamics, such as invasion fronts and search strategies. Adopting a self-contained, textbook-style approach, the authors provide the elements of statistical physics and stochastic processes on which the modeling of movement ecology is based and systematically introduce the physical characterization of ecological processes at the microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic levels. The explicit definition of these levels and their interrelations is particularly suitable to coping with the broad spectrum of space and time scales involved in bio-ecological problems. Including numerous exercises (with solutions), this text is aimed at graduate students and newcomers in this field at the interface of theoretical ecology, mathematical biology and physics.

El Fin de las Multinacionales repasa la crisis del capitalismo desde agosto del 2007, primero en EE.UU con las caidas de Bear Sterns, AIG, Lehman Brothers y luego como la crisis se fue extendiendo para afectar al mundo entero. Examina los cambios politicos que provoco en EE.UU, Europa y Medio Oriente. El libro traza una comparacion entre la actual crisis y la de 1929, analiza la posterior evolucion del capitalismo en el siglo XX, el "boom" de posguerra, el surgimiento de las multinacionales y la crisis de los '70. Evalua la globalizacion, la aparicion de las Corporaciones multinacionales, la evolucion del capital financiero y los Bancos de Inversion. Finalmente hace un analisis del capitalismo a lo largo de la historia, las grandes crisis que sufrio y su vinculo con los fenomenos sociales y politicos. Siguiendo los lineamientos de Marx, El Fin de las Multinacionales recorre el largo camino del capitalismo desde su nacimiento, para examinar los hechos y leyes que explican de como se produjo y hacia donde va la crisis actual. HIGHLIGHTS "Las multinacionales son una forma superior de acumulacion, que contienen y superan a los monopolios. Con las multinacionales, el capitalismo paso de una forma de acumulacion y concentracion de capitales inferior a otra superior, pero como vimos en el capitulo I, ese proceso no fue pacifico. Para pasar de una forma de acumulacion y concentracion de capitales a otra, mediaron 30 anos y 2 guerras mundiales con el saldo de millones de muertos, ciudades arrasadas, naciones e infraestructura destruida" "Cuando los "keynesianos" como Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz y Nouriel Roubini afirman que el capitalismo puede recrear el "regimen keynesiano" en la actualidad y reclaman a viva voz estimulos economicos, obra publica, impuestos a las ganancias, y afirman que con esas medidas se puede salir de la grave crisis abierta en el 2007, simplemente mienten. Ocultan que el regimen inspirado por Lord Keynes fue posible porque previamente se destruyeron ciudades, puentes, vias, condados, municipios y fabricas." "La crisis economica que atraviesa la economia mundial desde el ano 2007 es la mas importante de la historia del capitalismo. Su expresion mas espectacular son los "salvatajes," una operacion masiva de inyeccion de fondos que lleva ya mas de mas 60 billones U$S...estas cifras, las mas grandes de la historia, permitirian reconstruir 40 veces Haiti, desterrar el hambre en el mundo o poner fin a la destruccion del medio ambiente" "La caida del Muro de Berlin y la crisis actual, en la que se produjo el infarto de miocardio en el corazon del sistema capitalista mundial, son los acontecimientos mas importantes de esta nueva etapa mundial. Y preparatorios, del advenimiento de los acontecimientos politicos y sociales mas importantes de la historia." "La actual crisis, comenzada en el 2007, muestra el agotamiento del regimen de la globalizacion... Las transnacionales son la mas alta expresion de la valorizacion del capital y la propiedad privada, concentran aproximadamente el 30% del PBI mundial y 25% del comercio, pero de no haber sido por la intervencion masiva de los bancos centrales y el respaldo de los estados del G7, habrian desaparecido." "La crisis esta instalada en el centro, en la economia de los paises del G7. Esto ocurre porque el infarto lo sufrio el corazon del sistema capitalista mundial, las multinacionales, las grandes empresas y bancos...cuyos intereses estan cada vez mas profunda e intimamente entrelazados. Del colapso de la actual crisis solo pudieron reanimarse con la intervencion masiva de capitales de los estados del G7 y los paises atrasados.

Title: De Tarija a la Asuncio n. Expedicio n boliviana de 1883. Informe. With plates, including a portrait, and a map.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Titles in this collection provide cultural, statistical, commercial, chronological and geo-economic histories of Central and South America. This series also includes texts, reports, letters, and illustrated and interpretive histories of indigenous peoples, and the natural and built environments that have fascinated historians for centuries. Along with written records, the collection features transcribed oral histories and traditions spanning the range of cultures and civilisations in the southern hemisphere. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Campos, Daniel; 1888. xxv. 785 p.; 8 . 10481.i.10.

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