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My Art, My Life

An Autobiography

by Diego Rivera, with Gladys March ...

Series series 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 ... Read more

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"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
... Read more
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Spanish Mastery Unveiled: A Journey from Beginner to Intermediate

Unlock Grammar, Vocabulary, Conversations, Stories, and 1001 Phrases – Your Comprehensive Guide to Learn Spanish with Ease!

by Alejandro Ramírez ...

Narrated by Javier Martínez, Diego Rivera, Alejandro Cordero, Javier Mendoza ...

Unabridged

34 hours 23 min

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. ... Read more

$21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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.
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Ultra and Extreme Right-Wing in Latin America

Flight Lines, Resistances and Appropriation

Edited by Diego Rivera López, Jùlio Antonio Bonatti Santos, Fabián Bustamante Olguín ...

Series series 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 ... Read more

$204.99 CAD

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
... Read more
Andean Hydrology

Edited by Diego A. Rivera, Alex Godoy-Faundez, Mario Lillo Saavedra ...

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. ... Read more

$97.55 CAD

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.
... Read more
Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs

by Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández ...

Translated by Isis Sadek ...

Series series 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 ... Read more

$64.99 CAD

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
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Date Palm

by Professor Jameel M Al-Khayri, Professor Shri Mohan Jain, Professor Dennis V Johnson, Dr Robert R Krueger, Dr Larbi Abahmane, Dr Mohamed Ait-El-Mokhtar, Dr Fatima-Zahra Akensous0, Dr M. Tahir Akram1, Dr Salah Mohammed Aleid2, Dr Melkamu Alemayehu3, Dr Abda Ali4, Dr Latifa Al-Kharusi5, Dr Mohammed Al-Mahish6, Dr Abdulrasoul Mosa Al-Omran7, Dr Lyutha Al-Subhi8, Dr Rashid Al-Yahyai9, Asunción Amorós0, Dr Mohamed Anli1, Dr Mohamed Marouf Aribi2, Dr Raja Ben-Laoaune3, Dr Houda Besser4, Dr Neeru Bhatt5, Dr Abderrahim Boutasknit6, Dr Roshini Brizmohun7, Dr Latifa Dhaouadi8, Dr Gisela Díaz9, Dr Raga Elzaki0, Dr Abdessamad Fakhech1, Dr Mohamed Abusaa Fennir2, Dr Ibrahim E. Greiby3, Dr Ayah R. Hilles4, Rhonda Janke5, Dr Muhammad Jafar Jaskani6, Dr Imran Ul Haq Khan7, Dr M Mumtaz Khan8, Dr Rashad Rasool Khan9, Dr Mithlesh Kumar0, Dr Abdelilah Meddich1, Dr C. M. Muralidharan2, Dr Summar Abbas Naqvi3, Dr Taseer Abbas Naqvi4, Dr Concepción Obón5, Dr Redouane Ouhaddou6, Dr Ozcan Ozturk7, Dr Ouissame Raho8, Dr Diego Rivera9, Dr Ricardo Salomón-Torres0, Dr Kapil Mohan Sharma1, Mostafa I. Waly2, Dr Muhammad Waseem3, Dr Glenn C. Wright4 ...

Series series 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, ... Read more

$116.99 CAD

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,
... Read more
Score Reporting Research and Applications

Edited by Diego Zapata-Rivera ...

Series series 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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more

Woes of the True Policeman

by 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. ... Read more

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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.
... Read more

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The Zapatista Experience

Rebellion, Resistance, and Autonomy

by Jérôme Baschet ...

Translated by 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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
We Created Chávez

A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution

by 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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
Horizontal Vertigo

A City Called Mexico

by Juan Villoro ...

Translated by 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 ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

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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
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Autonomy Is in Our Hearts

Zapatista Autonomous Government through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language

by Dylan Eldredge Fitzwater ...

Series series Kairos
Following the Zapatista uprising on New Year’s Day 1994, the EZLN communities of Chiapas began the slow process of creating a system of autonomous government that would bring their call for freedom, justice, and democracy from word to reality. Autonomy Is in Our Hearts analyzes this long and arduous process on its own terms, using the conceptual language of Tsotsil, a Mayan language indigenous to ... Read more

$10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Following the Zapatista uprising on New Year’s Day 1994, the EZLN communities of Chiapas began the slow process of creating a system of autonomous government that would bring their call for freedom, justice, and democracy from word to reality. Autonomy Is in Our Hearts analyzes this long and arduous process on its own terms, using the conceptual language of Tsotsil, a Mayan language indigenous to
... Read more

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