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A Primer for Spanish Language, Culture and Economics

Author : Lucila Ortiz
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524599115
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Book Synopsis A Primer for Spanish Language, Culture and Economics by : Lucila Ortiz

Download or read book A Primer for Spanish Language, Culture and Economics written by Lucila Ortiz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To strengthen the development of the United States-Latin America relationship, author Maria Lucila Ortiz presents A Primer for Spanish Language, Culture and Economics: Spanish Instructive Planner Ian informative guide that helps English-speaking individuals grasp, manage, and conduct business in Spanish. Useful and edifying, this book offers more than twelve Spanish lessons in a simple and easy reference format. Each lesson contains a specific Latin American country with a brief description of its economic facts and other relevant cultural information, including basic terms and common conversations in Spanish. A useful and edifying read, Spanish Instructive Planner I is easy to carry around, simple to follow, and very practical for anyone who travels to Spanish-speaking countries for business or pleasure. The included countries are Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature

Author : Antonio D. Tillis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136662545
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature by : Antonio D. Tillis

Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature written by Antonio D. Tillis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction to the literary worlds and perceptions of national culture and identity of authors from Spanish-America, Brazil, and uniquely, Equatorial Guinea, thus contextually connecting Africa to the history of Spanish colonization. The importance of Latin America literature to the discipline of African Diaspora studies is immeasurable, and this edited collection provides a ripe cultural context for critical comparative analysis among the vast geographies that encompass African and African Diaspora studies. Scholars in the area of African Diaspora Studies, Black Studies, Latin American Studies, and American literature will be able to utilize the eleven essays in this edition to enhance classroom instruction and further academic research.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture

Author : David T. Gies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521574297
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture by : David T. Gies

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture written by David T. Gies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide analyses of the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of the major autonomous regions (notably Castile, Catalonia, and the Basque Country), and the country's literature: narrative, poetry, theatre and the essay. Spain's recent development is divided into three main phases: from 1868 to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War; the period of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco; and the post-Franco arrival of democracy. The concept of 'Spanish culture' is investigated, and there are studies of Spanish painting and sculpture, architecture, cinema, dance, music, and the modern media. A chronology and guides to further reading are provided, making the volume an invaluable introduction to the politics, literature and culture of modern Spain.

Pop Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author : Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis Pop Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean by : Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols

Download or read book Pop Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book introduces the most important trends, people, events, and products of popular culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. In recent times, Latin American influences have permeated American culture through music, movies, television, and literature. This sweeping volume serves as a ready-reference guide to pop culture in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, focusing on Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Costa Rica, among other areas. The work encourages hands-on engagement with the popular culture in these places, making such suggestions as Brazilian films to rent or where to find Venezuelan music on the Internet. To start, the book covers various perspectives and issues of these regions, including the influence of the United States, how the idea of machismo reflects on the portrayal of women in these societies, and the representation of Latino-Caribo cultures in film and other mediums. Entries cover key trends, people, events, and products from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. Each section gives detailed information and profound insights into some of the more academic—and often controversial—debates on the subject, while the inclusion of the Internet, social media, and video games make the book timely and relevant.

Learning to Read, Learning Religion

Author : Britta Juska-Bacher
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027254958
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Learning to Read, Learning Religion by : Britta Juska-Bacher

Download or read book Learning to Read, Learning Religion written by Britta Juska-Bacher and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catechism primers are inconspicuous but telling little books for children combining the teaching of reading skills and religious catechesis. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, they have been produced, disseminated and used in huge numbers in many regions of the world, in particular in Europe. Remarkably, similar texts appeared across the continent, spanning confessional traditions that were in other respects highly divergent. In different places, and across the whole period, different denominations used not only similar pedagogical and religious strategies, but also shared the same formats and iconography. This volume, edited by scholars from Finland, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, is the result of a collaborative transnational and interdisciplinary effort including education, language teaching, children’s literature, book history, and religious studies. With contributions on seventeen European countries and regions, it sheds new light on a fascinating but largely neglected part of European cultural heritage, and, by establishing a comprehensive and authoritative summary of the field, offers fresh impetus for further transnational research.

Intellectual and Cultural Relations Between the United States and the Other Republics of America

Author : Harry Erwin Bard
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Intellectual and Cultural Relations Between the United States and the Other Republics of America by : Harry Erwin Bard

Download or read book Intellectual and Cultural Relations Between the United States and the Other Republics of America written by Harry Erwin Bard and published by Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. This book was released on 1914 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report on a tour of the principal capitals of South America by a party of university men under the auspices of the American Association for International Conciliation.

Resources in Education

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History

Author : Francesco Boldizzoni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317561864
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History by : Francesco Boldizzoni

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History written by Francesco Boldizzoni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History documents and interprets the development of economic history as a global discipline from the later nineteenth century to the present day. Exploring the normative and relativistic nature of different schools and traditions of thought, this handbook not only examines current paradigmatic western approaches, but also those conceived in less open societies and in varied economic, political and cultural contexts. In doing so, this book clears the way for greater critical understanding and a more genuinely global approach to economic history. This handbook brings together leading international contributors in order to systematically address cultural and intellectual traditions around the globe. Many of these are exposed for consideration for the first time in English. The chapters explore dominant ideas and historiographical trends, and open them up to critical transnational perspectives. This volume is essential reading for both academics and students in economic and social history. As this field of study is very much a bridge between the social sciences and humanities, the issues examined in the book will also have relevance for those seeking to understand the evolution of other academic disciplines under the pressures of varied economic, political and cultural circumstances, on both national and global scales.

Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina

Author : Julia AlbarracÍn
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268107637
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Book Synopsis Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina by : Julia AlbarracÍn

Download or read book Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina written by Julia AlbarracÍn and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina, Julia Albarracín argues that modern Argentina's selection of immigrants lies at the intersection of state decision-making processes and various economic, cultural, and international factors. Immediately after independence, Argentina designed a national project for the selection of Western European immigrants in order to build an economically viable society, but also welcomed many local Latin Americans, as well as Jewish and Middle Eastern immigrants. Today, Argentines are quick to blame Latin American immigrants for crime, drug violence, and an increase in the number of people living in shantytowns. Albarracín discusses how the current Macri administration, possibly emulating the Trump administration's immigration policies, has rolled back some of the rights awarded to immigrants by law in 2003 through an executive order issued in 2017. Albarracín explains the roles of the executive and legislative branches in enacting new policies and determines the weight of numerous factors throughout this process. Additionally, Albarracín puts Argentine immigration policies into a comparative perspective and creates space for new ways to examine countries other than those typically discussed. Incorporating a vast amount of research spanning 150 years of immigration policies, five decades of media coverage of immigration, surveys with congresspersons, and interviews with key policy makers, Albarracín goes beyond the causes and consequences of immigration to assess the factors shaping policy decisions both in the past and in modern Argentina. This book will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers with an interest in immigration, democratization, race, history, culture, nationalism, Latin American studies, and representation of minorities in the media.

Spanish in the United States

Author : Jon Amastae
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521286893
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Spanish in the United States written by Jon Amastae and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-08-31 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this book was first published in 1982, there were approximately eleven million Spanish-speaking people in the United States. This volume constitutes a comprehensive and accessible set of readings on the Spanish spoken in the United States. The authors examine various aspects of language structure and language use by the American Chicano, Puerto Rican and Cuban populations. Chapters include descriptions of language variation, reports of language contact and language change and analyses of the ethnography of language use in bilingual communities with particular emphasis on code-switching. Several chapters explore the educational implications of language structure and language use. This collection will be of interest to a wide range of linguists, anthropologists and sociologists. Bilingual educators and language planners in bilingual communities will find it of particular value and students of sociolinguistics will discover in it the main trends of sociolinguistic analysis usefully exemplified.

Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Currency of Cultural Patrimony: The Spanish Golden Age

Author : Robert Bayliss
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1835532756
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (355 download)

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Book Synopsis The Currency of Cultural Patrimony: The Spanish Golden Age by : Robert Bayliss

Download or read book The Currency of Cultural Patrimony: The Spanish Golden Age written by Robert Bayliss and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Golden Age, a cultural narrative that has developed and over four centuries, remains a key element of how Spaniards articulate cultural identities, both within Spain and to the outside world. The Currency of Cultural Patrimony examines the development of this narrative by artists, intellectuals, historians, academics, and institutions. By defining the Spanish Golden Age as a diachronic problem, it examines several of Spain’s most canonical golden-age literary narratives (including Don Quixote, Fuenteovejuna, and Las mocedades del Cid) as texts whose institutionalization, mediation, and commercialization over the course of four hundred years inform their meaning both for contemporary Spaniards and for the field of Hispanic Studies around the world. Spain’s persistent deployment of this cultural patrimony as the canonical epicentre of a national literary tradition has stimulated diverse and often contradictory interpretations, the cumulative effect of which informs their reception by each new generation of Spaniards. This book’s analysis of how this patrimony is interpreted according to both tradition and current circumstances illuminates new angles from which scholars can approach some of Hispanism’s most persistent and vexing questions, including the growing divide between popular and academic understandings of the Spanish nation’s “classics.”

Economic Nationalism and Globalization

Author : Henryk Szlajfer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004231544
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Economic Nationalism and Globalization written by Henryk Szlajfer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Economic Nationalism and Globalization Henryk Szlajfer offers, against the background of developments in Latin America and Central Europe in times of globalization from late 19th century until late 1930s, a reinterpretation of economic nationalism both as an analytical category and historical experience.

Latino/a Thought

Author : Francisco Hernández Vázquez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847699414
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (994 download)

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Book Synopsis Latino/a Thought by : Francisco Hernández Vázquez

Download or read book Latino/a Thought written by Francisco Hernández Vázquez and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latino/a Thought brings together the most important writings that shape Latino consciousness, culture, and activism today. This historical anthology is unique in its presentation of cross cultural writings especially from Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban writers and political documents that shape the ideology and experience of U.S. Latinos. Students can read, first hand, the works or authors who most shaped their cultural heritage. They are guided by vivid introductions that set each article or document in its historical context and describe its relevance today. The writings touch on many themes, but are guided by this book's concern for a quest for public citizenship among all Latino populations and a better understanding of racialized populations in the U.S. today. No other book offers readers such a rich history of the Latino heritage experienced in this book in the voices and political actions whose influence reached across generations."

Inequality and Nutritional Transition in Economic History

Author : Francisco J. Medina-Albaladejo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000864510
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Inequality and Nutritional Transition in Economic History by : Francisco J. Medina-Albaladejo

Download or read book Inequality and Nutritional Transition in Economic History written by Francisco J. Medina-Albaladejo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards driven by socioeconomic, gender, generational and geographical reasons. Nutrition directly impacts mortality, life expectancy, height and illness and thus becomes a good indicator of living standards and their evolution over time. However, one issue that remains unresolved is how to measure past diet inequalities with the available sources. This book evaluates nutritional inequalities in Spain from the nineteenth century to the present day. It explores the socioeconomic, gender, generational and geographical variations in food consumption and nutrition in Spain during this period. Deriving historical data on nutrition and diet has always been difficult due to issues with available sources. This book adopts a multi-dimensional approach and two complementary methodologies capable of presenting a more comprehensive picture: the first analyses diets based on primary sources, while the second examines the effect of nutritional inequalities on biological living standards, with special emphasis on average height. This combination allows for greater precision than previous studies on the impacts of food inequality. This book will be of significant interest to scholars from different academic branches, especially historians, economic historians and historians of science, economists, and also doctors, endocrinologists, paediatricians, anthropologists, nutritionists and expert in cooperation and development.

The Economics of the Multilingual Workplace

Author : François Grin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136978283
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Economics of the Multilingual Workplace written by François Grin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a path-breaking study of the economics of multilingualism at work, proposing a systematic approach to the identification and measurement of the ways in which language skills and economic performance are related. Using the instruments of economic investigation, but also explicitly relating the analysis to the approaches to multilingualism at work developed in the language sciences, this interdisciplinary book proposes a systematic, step-by-step exploration of the issue. Starting from a general identification of the linkages between multilingualism and processes of value creation, it reviews the contributions of linguistics and economics before developing a new economic model of production in which language is taken into account. Testing of the model using data from two countries provides quantitative estimations of the influence of multilingualism on economic processes, showing that foreign language skills can make a considerable contribution to a country’s GDP. These findings have significant implications for language policy and suggest strategies helping language planners to harness market forces for increased effectiveness. A technical appendix shows how the novel technical and statistical procedures developed in this study can be generalized, and applied wherever researchers or decision makers need to identify and measure the value of multilingualism.

Advanced Mathematical Methods for Economic Efficiency Analysis

Author : Pedro Macedo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031295838
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Advanced Mathematical Methods for Economic Efficiency Analysis written by Pedro Macedo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic efficiency analysis has received considerable worldwide attention in the last few decades, with Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) establishing themselves as the two dominant approaches in the literature. This book, by combining cutting-edge theoretical research on DEA and SFA with attractive real-world applications, offers a valuable asset for professors, students, researchers, and professionals working in all branches of economic efficiency analysis, as well as those concerned with the corresponding economic policies. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which is devoted to basic concepts, making the content self-contained. The second is devoted to DEA, and the third to SFA. The topics covered in Part 2 range from stochastic DEA to multidirectional dynamic inefficiency analysis, including directional distance functions, the elimination and choice translating algorithm, benefit-of-the-doubt composite indicators, and internal benchmarking for efficiency evaluations. Part 3 also includes exciting and cutting-edge theoretical research on e.g. robustness, nonparametric stochastic frontier models, hierarchical panel data models, and estimation methods like corrected ordinary least squares and maximum entropy.