This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary urban space in twenty-first century Latin American fiction. The contributors to this volume seek to understand the characteristics that make the representation of the postmodern city in a Latin American context unique. The chapters focus on cities from a wide variety of countries in the region, highlighting the cultural and political effects of neoliberalism and globalization in the contemporary urban scene. Twenty-first century authors share an interest for images of ruins and dystopian landscapes and their view of the damaging effects of the global market in Latin America tends to be pessimistic. As the book demonstrates, however, utopian elements or "spaces of hope" can also be found in these narrations, which suggest the possibility of transforming a capitalist-dominated living space.

This collection of essays on popular culture and politics in the Americas presents the study of ethnographic and historical data from different countries: Canada, United States, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. Each chapter brings to light a distinct focus on the way in which popular cultural practices evolve in the context of contemporary globalization. Accordingly, this book aims to improve our understanding of the way in which subordinate groups participate in the process of state building and in the reproduction (or rejection) of the major macroeconomic and cultural processes shaping contemporary societies.

Jorge Luis Borges-one of the most important Latin American writers-has also attained considerable international stature, and his work is commonly cited in a wide array of scholarship on contemporary fiction. Partly as a consequence of Borges' international identity, and partly because of a long-standing view in Borges criticism that his writing is principally concerned with abstract ideas, critics have been reluctant to address the question of politics in his writing Filling this critical gap, Gonzalez begins by rejecting the proposition that Borges withdraws from the "real," and provides a detailed analysis of the various political issues that Borges takes up in his essays and short stories. The author places particular emphasis on the turbulent questions that shaped Argentine social history during the period of Borges' output.

Jorge Luis Borges-one of the most important Latin American writers-has also attained considerable international stature, and his work is commonly cited in a wide array of scholarship on contemporary fiction. Partly as a consequence of Borges' international identity, and partly because of a long-standing view in Borges criticism that his writing is principally concerned with abstract ideas, critics have been reluctant to address the question of politics in his writing
Filling this critical gap, Gonzalez begins by rejecting the proposition that Borges withdraws from the "real," and provides a detailed analysis of the various political issues that Borges takes up in his essays and short stories. The author places particular emphasis on the turbulent questions that shaped Argentine social history during the period of Borges' output.

En el Adviento y en la Navidad nos ponemos en contacto con Jesus de Nazaret, quien supo de movimiento y de caminos aun desde antes de nacer. Ya en el seno de su madre viaja rumbo hacia Belen. Huye, exiliado, junto con Jose y Maria, a Egipto. Desde entonces, sus discipulos tambien habremos de alistar las sandalias y el baston La vida es un viaje y la libertad no tiene precio. Nuestro mejor pan para darle sentido a nuestro peregrinar y para satisfacer nuestra hambre es la Palabra. Estas paginas son una fraterna invitacion a dejar que el Senor del tiempo toque nuestra jornada diaria, ponga su mano en nuestra historia, para que entonces, nuestro tiempo sea divino y humano. Se convierta en... tiempo para Dios. The true meaning of Advent and Christmas finds its voice in "Tiempo Para Dios" for Every Day of Advent and the 12 Days of Christmas. From the First Sunday of Advent through Christmas and Epiphany for each liturgical year (A, B, and C), this book will help prepare for and deepen our experience this holy season.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Smart Technology, MTYMEX 2017, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in May 2017. The 19 full papers were selected from 30 submissions and cover smart technologies for education, health, robotics, internet of things, virtual augmented and mixed reality technologies, artificial intelligence, gaming, software development, and digital arts.

En este libro Eduardo Gonzalez Castillo presenta el estudio de una de las manifestaciones de la cultura popular urbana menos estudiadas en el Mexico contemporaneo: el medio sonidero. Desarrollado por los habitantes pobres de ese pais y por algunos de sus inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos, este medio de consumo cultural representa un caso ejemplar del modo como las culturas juveniles, las practicas de economia popular y la industria cultural convergen en la definicion de las practicas subalternas dentro de la sociedad mexicana. Un marco teorico multitematico permite al autor tanto explicar los origenes de este medio asi como entender los significados que los jovenes "sonideros" de la ciudad de Puebla asocian al mismo. Rico en consideraciones de tipo historico y etnografico, el estudio muestra por que ahora mas que nunca los estudios sobre cultura popular son necesarios para entender la evolucion de la sociedad mexicana. La lectura de este libro sera particularmente util para los investigadores y profesores universitarios interesados en los estudios culturales y en la cuestion de lo popular en America latina.

This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary urban space in twenty-first century Latin American fiction. The contributors to this volume seek to understand the characteristics that make the representation of the postmodern city in a Latin American context unique. The chapters focus on cities from a wide variety of countries in the region, highlighting the cultural and political effects of neoliberalism and globalization in the contemporary urban scene. Twenty-first century authors share an interest for images of ruins and dystopian landscapes and their view of the damaging effects of the global market in Latin America tends to be pessimistic. As the book demonstrates, however, utopian elements or "spaces of hope" can also be found in these narrations, which suggest the possibility of transforming a capitalist-dominated living space.

This text is aimed at defining the current concepts that define trauma induced coagulopathy by critically analyzing the most up-to-date studies from a clinical and basic science perspective. It will serve as a reference source for any clinician interested in reviewing the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of the coagulopathic trauma patient, and the data that supports it. By meticulously describing the methodology of most traditional as well as state of the art coagulation assays the reader will have full understanding of the tests that are used to study trauma induced coagulopathy. The evolving use of blood products as well as recently introduced hemostatic medications are reviewed in detail. Trauma Induced Coagulopathy will also be a valuable source for quick reference to the clinician that is faced with specific clinical challenges when managing coagulopathy.

Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work. In this study, Jose Eduardo Gonzalez focuses on Rama's response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg Lukacs. Gonzalez argues that Rama realized the inapplicability of many of their theories and descriptions of cultural modernization to Latin America, and thus reworked them to produce his own discourse that challenged prevailing notions of social and cultural modernization.

Manual de la asignatura Analisis Competitivo de la Empresa, de los Grados en Administracion de Empresas y Economia de la Universidad de Oviedo. El libro revisa los modelos clasicos de competencia y aplica la teoria de juegos para el analisis de la conducta competitiva. Dicho analisis se centra en el estudio de las barreras de entrada y la rivalidad en precios.