Borderlands: they stretch across national boundaries, and they create a unique space that extends beyond the international boundary. They extend north and south of what we think of as the actual “border,” encompassing even the urban areas of San Antonio, Texas, and Monterrey, Nueva León, Mexico, affirming shared identities and a sense of belonging far away from the geographical boundary.In Bridging Cultures: Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands

Este libro reúne las voces de estudiantes, docentes, administrativos, operativos, egresados, directivos y profesionales jubilados que comparten aprendizajes únicos y significativos; fruto de la convivencia en los rincones cotidianos de la Red Universitaria. La Universidad como verdadero hogar, las ausencias, los encuentros, el auténtico sentido de la profesión, la empatía que florece en lugares insospechados, la capacidad de aprender del otro y la defensa de la dignidad a toda costa son al...

Liliana Wilson’s art of resistance and protest, dissidence and dreams, consistently calls attention to injustice.Wilson belongs to a group of Chilean artists who were intimately shaped by the political turmoil and repression in Chile in the 1970s and 1980s and who have become self-exiled artists working outside of Chile but who are still tied to the political period and to its issues and concerns.From a working class family that struggled financially, Wilson nonetheless was...

This volume collects selected, peer-reviewed contributions from the 2nd Conference of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS), held in Cádiz (Spain) between June 11–16 2014, and sponsored by the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.The 15 articles are a representative sample of t...