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This study examines Latino national political coalitions in the United States with a focus on Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans. It argues that Latino national political coalitions are an avenue of political empowerment for the Latino Community, but face social, economic, and political challenges in the Latino community.
Recent debates about the Anthropocene have prompted a
re-negotiation of the relationship between human subjectivity and
nonhuman matter within a wide range of disciplines. This collection
builds on the assumption that our understanding of the nonhuman
world is bound up with the experience of space: thinking about and
with nonhuman spaces destabilizes human-scale assumptions. Literary
form affords this kind of nonanthropocentric experience; one role
of the critic in the Anthropocene is to foreground the function of
space and description in challenging the conventional link between
narrative and human (inter)subjectivity. Bringing together New
Formalism, ecocriticism, and narrative theory, the included essays
demonstrate that literature can transgress the strong and
long-established boundary of the human frame that literary and
narrative scholarship clings to. The focus is firmly on the
contemporary but with strategic samplings in earlier cultural texts
(the American transcendentalists, modernist fiction) that
anticipate present-day anxieties about the nonhuman, while at the
same time offering important conceptual tools for working through
them.
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The Lost World (Paperback)
David Rodriguez; Illustrated by Pietro; Translated by Trusted Trusted Translations
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Hidden somewhere in South America, a world full of adventure
awaits, but only the extravagant Professor Challenger believes in
its existence. When he joins a reporter in search of adventure, a
brave nobleman and a colleague ready to prove him wrong, Challenger
will, at last, have the opportunity to discover the lost world.
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Moby Dick (Paperback)
David Rodriguez; Illustrated by Ignacio Segesso
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Readers encounter the environment through literature in ways not
available to everyday perception. This is especially clear when a
text integrates the grand vistas of what is known as the bird's-eye
view. In this welcome contribution to the contemporary theoretical
discussion about storied environments and non-human perceptions,
David Rodriquez presents an original interpretation of the
aesthetics of the view from above. Focusing on fiction by
twentieth-century American writers including Willa Cather, Paul
Bowles and Don DeLillo, Rodriguez skilfully combines ecocriticism,
narrative theory and phenomenological approaches to literature to
develop the term 'form of environment'. This theory of literary
fiction foregrounds the environment not as setting or historical
context, but as an equal agent with the human figures and scales
that are normally the focus of literary analysis.
Authored by renowned leaders in the field, this comprehensive
volume covers all aspects of drug-drug interactions, including
preclinical, clinical, toxicological, and regulatory perspectives.
Thoroughly updated, this second edition reflects the significant
advances and includes extensive new material on: key interplay
between transporters and enzymes in drug metabolism and drug
interactions the integral role of pharmacogenetics in
metabolism-based drug-drug interactions in vivo - in vitro
correlations (reversible, mechanism-based inhibition, induction) in
silico approaches enabling structure-activity and
structure-function studies high-throughput screening and GLP
methods for evaluating drug interactions in vitro the use of
transgenic animal models to evaluate drug interactions Providing
helpful case examples and computer-aided modeling, Drug-Drug
Interactions is filled with over 200 invaluable tables, equations,
and figures to clarify key concepts, and incorporates critical new
updated information.
This study examines Latino national political coalitions in the
United States with a focus on Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans.
It argues that Latino national political coalitions are an avenue
of political empowerment for the Latino Community, but face social,
economic, and political challenges in the Latino community.
This book presents a study to determine the current limitations in
the area of Photovoltaics (PV) as a source of renewable energy and
proposes strategies to overcome them by applying optimization
approaches in three main areas, namely related to photovoltaic
solar cells, modules, and systems. These include grid metallization
design of Si-based solar cells and modules; cost-effectiveness
analysis between Si-based monofacial and bifacial grid-connected PV
systems; optimal diesel replacement strategy for the progressive
introduction of PV and batteries; dispatch strategy optimization
for PV hybrid systems in real time. The novelty of the work
presented in this book is of high interest to the scientific
community but also to the PV manufacturers, installation companies,
and investors.
This book offers a theoretical and practical overview of the
specific ethical and legal issues in pediatric organ
transplantation. Written by a team of leading experts, Ethical
Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation addresses those difficult
ethical questions concerning clinical, organizational, legal and
policy issues including donor, recipient and allocation issues.
Challenging topics, including children as donors, donation after
cardiac death, misattributed paternity, familial conflicts of
interest, developmental disability as a listing criteria, small
bowel transplant, and considerations in navigating the media are
discussed. It serves as a fundamental handbook and resource for
pediatricians, transplant health care professionals, trainees,
graduate students, scholars, practitioners of bioethics and health
policy makers.
This book is the first green criminology text to focus specifically
on Latin America. Green criminology has always adopted a broad
horizon and explicitly emphasised that environmental crimes and
harms affect countries and cultures around the world. The chapters
collected here illuminate and describe the "theft of nature" and
the "poisoning of the land" in Latin America through and from
processes of agro-industry expansion, biopiracy, legal and illegal
trafficking of free-born non-human animals, and mining. An
interdisciplinary study, this collection draws on research from a
wide range of international experts on not only green criminology,
but also social justice, political ecology and sociology. An
engaging and thought-provoking work, this book will be an essential
text for anyone interested in current issues in environmental
crime.
This book offers a theoretical and practical overview of the
specific ethical and legal issues in pediatric organ
transplantation. Written by a team of leading experts, Ethical
Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation addresses those difficult
ethical questions concerning clinical, organizational, legal and
policy issues including donor, recipient and allocation issues.
Challenging topics, including children as donors, donation after
cardiac death, misattributed paternity, familial conflicts of
interest, developmental disability as a listing criteria, small
bowel transplant, and considerations in navigating the media are
discussed. It serves as a fundamental handbook and resource for
pediatricians, transplant health care professionals, trainees,
graduate students, scholars, practitioners of bioethics and health
policy makers.
The pressing nature of environmental threats, such as: climate
change, land-grabbing, biopiracy, animal exploitation and human
environmental victimisation, are pushing the entire world to seek
alternatives to prevent environmental damage in every corner of the
globe. Southern Green Criminology focuses on the threat the western
world poses to the rest of the globe, and how Western imposed ideas
of progress are damaging the planet, especially the southern
hemisphere. In the past five years, the attention of green
criminologists has been directed at the Global South as the
geographical site that experiences the severest consequences of
harmful environmental practices. Such criminological direction is
aimed at combating the environmental harms that affect the
geographical and the metaphorical Souths. The main topic of this
book is the conflicts that arise in the interaction between human
beings and our natural environment, seen from a Southern
perspective with a focus on the victimisation of the South. This
book is simultaneously a scientific and a political endeavour, and
will prove invaluable to students, researchers and environmental
enthusiasts alike.
This book presents a study to determine the current limitations in
the area of Photovoltaics (PV) as a source of renewable energy and
proposes strategies to overcome them by applying optimization
approaches in three main areas, namely related to photovoltaic
solar cells, modules, and systems. These include grid metallization
design of Si-based solar cells and modules; cost-effectiveness
analysis between Si-based monofacial and bifacial grid-connected PV
systems; optimal diesel replacement strategy for the progressive
introduction of PV and batteries; dispatch strategy optimization
for PV hybrid systems in real time. The novelty of the work
presented in this book is of high interest to the scientific
community but also to the PV manufacturers, installation companies,
and investors.
The promotion of a high level of food safety and quality is of
major importance world-wide. Aspects of food quality such as
genetically modified organisms (GMOs), food allergens and food
authentication have become increasingly important while food-borne
diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites continue to be a
significant problem. The application of real-time PCR is one of the
most promising advances in food safety and quality providing rapid,
reliable and quantitative results. In recent years real-time PCR
has become a valuable alternative to traditional detection methods
in the agricultural and food industries. The advantages of
quantitative real-time PCR include speed, an excellent detection
limit, selectivity, specificity, sensitivity and the potential for
automation.
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Justice Fallen (Paperback)
Jose Fernandez; Cover design or artwork by David Rodriguez
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R596
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