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Diego Rivera, with Gladys March

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Dover Fine Art, History of Art

"Engrossing as a novel … throws a clear white light on one of the most spectacular artists of our time." — Chicago Sunday TribuneThis remarkable autobiography began with a newspaper interview the artist gave journalist Gladys March in 1944. From then until the artist's death in 1957, she spent several months each year with Rivera, eventually filling 2,000 pages with his recollections and interpretations of his art and life. Written in the first person, this book is a richly...

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Alejandro Ramírez

Narrated by

Javier Martínez, Diego Rivera, Alejandro Cordero, Javier Mendoza

Welcome to our innovative audio course for learning Spanish!If you're pressed for time and unable to attend a traditional Spanish school, yet passionate about mastering our language, then this course is tailor-made for you. Love and immerse yourself in Spanish anytime, anywhere.Are you eager to grasp the basics of Spanish for everyday conversations? Look no further than this comprehensive course. Dive into practical dialogues relevant to ...

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Social Sciences (R0)

This book examines the radicalisation of political discourse in Latin America, where historical grievances and media ecosystems shape social imaginaries and political practices. It is organised into four parts. Part I: Introduction sets the research context. Part II: Critical Apparatus provides the analytical foundation, addressing the theologisation of politics, hate discourses, and subjectivation processes. Part III: Case Studies offers detailed analyses of Arg...

This book describes the ecosystem of the Andean watersheds, covering the Californian valley, tropical Andes, and southern Andes. Case studies of the new methods and techniques used for hydrological research in the Andes are provided, and sustainability issues pertaining to Andean water resources are discussed in the context of climate change, social and economic issues, and public policy. Furthermore, the impact of economic development on the Andean ecosystem, specifically the effect on th...

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Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández

Translated by

Isis Sadek

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Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

This book explores the current human rights crisis created by the War on Drugs in Mexico. It focuses on three vulnerable communities that have felt the impacts of this war firsthand: undocumented Central American migrants in transit to the United States, journalists who report on violence in highly dangerous regions, and the mourning relatives of victims of severe crimes, who take collective action by participating in human rights investigations and searching for their missing loved ones. ...

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Dr Larbi Abahmane, Dr Mohamed Ait-El-Mokhtar, Dr Fatima-Zahra Akensous, Dr M. Tahir Akram, Dr Salah Mohammed Aleid, Dr Melkamu Alemayehu, Dr Abda Ali, Dr Latifa Al-Kharusi, Professor Jameel M Al-Khayri, Dr Mohammed Al-Mahish, Dr Abdulrasoul Mosa Al-Omran, Dr Lyutha Al-Subhi, Dr Rashid Al-Yahyai, Asunción Amorós, Dr Mohamed Anli, Dr Mohamed Marouf Aribi, Dr Raja Ben-Laoaune, Dr Houda Besser, Dr Neeru Bhatt, Dr Abderrahim Boutasknit, Dr Roshini Brizmohun, Dr Latifa Dhaouadi, Dr Gisela Díaz, Dr Raga Elzaki, Dr Abdessamad Fakhech, Dr Mohamed Abusaa Fennir, Dr Ibrahim E. Greiby, Dr Ayah R. Hilles, Professor Shri Mohan Jain, Rhonda Janke, Dr Muhammad Jafar Jaskani, Professor Dennis V Johnson, Dr Imran Ul Haq Khan, Dr M Mumtaz Khan, Dr Rashad Rasool Khan, Dr Robert R Krueger, Dr Mithlesh Kumar, Dr Abdelilah Meddich, Dr C. M. Muralidharan, Dr Summar Abbas Naqvi, Dr Taseer Abbas Naqvi, Dr Concepción Obón, Dr Redouane Ouhaddou, Dr Ozcan Ozturk, Dr Ouissame Raho, Dr Diego Rivera, Dr Ricardo Salomón-Torres, Dr Kapil Mohan Sharma, Mostafa I. Waly, Dr Muhammad Waseem, Dr Glenn C. Wright

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Crop Production Science in Horticulture

Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a tree belonging to the palm family (Arecaceae) and is cultivated for its sweet edible fruits. Over the past century, it has become a major commercial fruit crop and a key component of agricultural production in the world's subtropical arid and semiarid regions. A crop suited both to the low-input small-farmer and the modern high-input commercial plantation, the date palm provides a livelihood for millions of people living in marginal land areas where ...

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NCME APPLICATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT

Score reporting research is no longer limited to the psychometric properties of scores and subscores. Today, it encompasses design and evaluation for particular audiences, appropriate use of assessment outcomes, the utility and cognitive affordances of graphical representations, interactive report systems, and more. By studying how audiences understand the intended messages conveyed by score reports, researchers and industry professionals can develop more effective mechanisms for interpret...

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Roberto Bolaño

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, The Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Amalfitano—an exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter—as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa Teresa, Mexico. This border town is haunted by dark tales of murdered women and populated by characters such as...

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Jérôme Baschet

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Traductores Rebeldes Autónomos Cronopios

An exploration of the Zapatista project, from its conception to the present.On the thirtieth anniversary of the Mayan Indigenous uprising in Chiapas, The Zapatista Experience reconstructs the trajectory of the Zapatista struggle over the last three decades, both in its concrete achievements and in its contributions to the renewal of critical and antisystemic thinking. The Zapatista rebellion has become a reference and source of inspiration for many struggl...

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Geo Maher

Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chávez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country’s Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Chávez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and during the Chávez era, Ciccariello-Maher provides a broader, more nuanced account of Chá...

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Juan Villoro

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Alfred MacAdam

At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city.Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly w...

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Steve J. Stern, Walter D. Mignolo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Irene Silverblatt

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Latin America Otherwise

During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this compelling work, Stern shares the recollections of individual Chileans and draws on their stories to provide a framework for understanding memory struggles in history.“A thoughtful, nuanced study o...