Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Government Publications written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Quality in the Mexico Megacity written by L. Molina and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, experts in atmospheric sciences, human health, economics, social and political sciences contribute to an integrated assessment of the complex elements needed to structure air quality policy in the 21st century. The analysis is developed through a case study of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area - one of the world's largest megacities in which air pollution grew unchecked for decades. The international research team is led by Luisa T. and Mario J. Molina, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Improvements in Mexico City's air quality in the last decade testifies to the power of determined and enlightened policy making, and throws into relief the tough problems that remain to be solved. The volume's first six chapters, including the contributions of over 50 distinguished scholars from Mexico and the US, outline the fundamental areas of knowledge policy makers must accommodate. The message is that only good science and well-chosen technologies can direct the way to corrective regulatory measures; but without strong commitment from government, no amount of science or technology can help.
Download or read book Mexico s Indigenous Communities written by Ethelia Ruiz Medrano and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and detailed account of indigenous history in central and southern Mexico from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, Mexico's Indigenous Communities is an expansive work that destroys the notion that Indians were victims of forces beyond their control and today have little connection with their ancient past. Indian communities continue to remember and tell their own local histories, recovering and rewriting versions of their past in light of their lived present. Ethelia Ruiz Medrano focuses on a series of individual cases, falling within successive historical epochs, that illustrate how the practice of drawing up and preserving historical documents-in particular, maps, oral accounts, and painted manuscripts-has been a determining factor in the history of Mexico's Indian communities for a variety of purposes, including the significant issue of land and its rightful ownership. Since the sixteenth century, numerous Indian pueblos have presented colonial and national courts with historical evidence that defends their landholdings. Because of its sweeping scope, groundbreaking research, and the author's intimate knowledge of specific communities, Mexico's Indigenous Communities is a unique and exceptional contribution to Mexican history. It will appeal to students and specialists of history, indigenous studies, ethnohistory, and anthropology of Latin America and Mexico
Download or read book Foundations of Intelligent Systems written by Ning Zhong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-10-22 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the 14th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2003, held in Maebashi City, Japan, 28–31 October, 2003. The symposium was organized by the Maebashi Institute of Technology in co-operation with the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. It was sponsored by the Maebashi Institute of Technology, Maebashi Convention Bureau, Maebashi City Government, Gunma Prefecture Government, US AFOSR/AOARD, the Web Intelligence Consortium (Japan), Gunma Information Service Industry Association, and Ryomo Systems Co., Ltd. ISMIS is a conference series that was started in 1986 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Since then it has been held in Charlotte (North Carolina), Knoxville (Tennessee), Turin (Italy), Trondheim (Norway), Warsaw (Poland), Zakopane (Poland), and Lyon (France). The program committee selected the following major areas for ISMIS 2003: active media human-computer interaction, autonomic and evolutionary computation, intelligent agent technology, intelligent information retrieval, intelligent information systems, knowledge representation and integration, knowledge discovery and data mining, logic for artificial intelligence, soft computing, and Web intelligence.
Download or read book Developing Innovation Systems written by Mario Cimoli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico provides a case study of a cornerstone economy in the development of the hemospheric free trade zone in the Americas, an adjusting economy which has been integrated into uneven economies (Canada and the US). This volume examines the Mexican economy and its attempt to develop an innovation system, providing an example of the dynamics that are of concern to evolutionary economists.
Download or read book High Performance Computing written by Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernández and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Latin American Conference on High Performance Computing, CARLA 2016, held in Mexico City, Mexico, in August/September 2016. The 30 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: HPC Infrastructure and Applications; Parallel Algorithms and Applications; HPC Applications and Simulations.
Download or read book Data Analysis Learning Symbolic and Numeric Knowledge written by E. Diday and published by Nova Biomedical Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data Analysis, Learning Symbolic & Numeric Knowledge Proceedings Of The Conference On Data Analysis, Learning Symbolic & Numeric Knowledge
Download or read book Chapulhuac n estado de Hidalgo Cuaderno estad stico municipal 1996 written by INEGI and published by INEGI. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El contenido específico del Cuaderno está organizado bajo una estructura temática que inicia con un marco geográfico a manera de referencia del medio físico, continúa con los temas de población y su dinámica; luego se abordan tres temas básicos relacionados al bienestar de aquella, como son vivienda, salud y educación; posteriormente se incluye un tema relativo a la impartición de justicia y en seguida el de empleo y salarios, como preámbulo de los temas eminentemente económicos. Dentro de estos últimos, primero se considera un apartado en el que de manera integrada y agregada, se presenta la información de los Censos Económicos y del Agropecuario y Ejidal, proporcionando con esto, un panorama del conjunto de las actividades económicas; posteriormente se va abordando, a partir de estadísticas de registros administrativos, cada uno de los temas específicos que corresponden a las actividades primarias, secundarias y terciarias que se registran localmente.
Download or read book Negotiation Within Domination written by Ethelia Ruiz Medrano and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiation within Domination examines the formation of colonial governance in New Spain through interactions between indigenous peoples and representatives of the Spanish Crown. The book highlights the complexity of native negotiation and mediation with colonial rule across time, culture, and place and how it shaped colonial political and legal structures from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Although indigenous communities reacted to Spanish presence with significant acts of resistance and rebellion, they also turned to negotiation to deal with conflicts and ameliorate the consequences of colonial rule. This affected not only the development of legal systems in New Spain and Mexico but also the survival and continuation of traditional cultures. Bringing together work by Mexican and North American historians, this collection is a crucially important and rare contribution to the field. Negotiation within Domination is a valuable resource for native peoples as they seek to redefine and revitalize their identities and assert their rights relating to language and religion, ownership of lands and natural resources, rights of self-determination and self-government, and protection of cultural and intellectual property. It will be of interest primarily to specialists in the field of colonial studies and historians and ethnohistorians of New Spain
Download or read book The Life and Writings of Bartolome de Las Casas written by Henry Raup Wagner and published by Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bartolomé de las Casas spent 50 years of his life actively fighting slavery and the violent colonial abuse of indigenous peoples, especially by trying to convince the Spanish court to adopt a more humane policy of colonization. And although he failed to save the indigenous peoples of the Western Indies, his efforts resulted in several improvements in the legal status of the natives, and in an increased colonial focus on the ethics of colonialism. Las Casas is often seen as one of the first advocates for universal Human Rights. he was also appointed as Bishop of Chiapas, a newly established diocese of which he took possession in 1545 upon his return to the New World. He was consecrated in the Dominican Church of San Pablo on march 30th 1544, the ceremonied being officiated by two Bishops instead of by archbishop Loaysa who strongly disliked Las Casas.[54] As a Bishop Las Casas was involved in frequent conflicts with the encomenderos and secular of his diocese, among them the conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo. In a Pastoral letter issued on march 20th 1545 he refused absolution to slave owners and encomenderos even on their death bed, unless all their slaves had been set free and their property restituted to them.[55] Las Casas furthermore threatened that anyone who mistreated Indians within his jurisdiction would be ex-communicated. He also came into conflict with the Bishop of Guatemala Francisco Marroquín, to whose jurisdiction the diocese had previously belonged. Bishop Marroquín openly defied the New Laws to Las Casas's dismay. The New Laws were repealed on October 20, 1545, and riots broke out against Las Casas.[55] After a year he had made himself so unpopular among the Spaniards of the area that he had to leave.
Download or read book The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts written by Maarten Jansen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook surveys and describes the illustrated Mixtec manuscripts that survive in Europe, the United States and Mexico.
Download or read book Conquered Conquistadors written by Florine Asselbergs and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2008-08-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conquered Conquistadors, Florine Asselbergs reveals that a large pictorial map, the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, long thought to represent a series of battles in central Mexico, was actually painted in the 1530s by Quauhquecholteca warriors to document their invasion of Guatemala alongside the Spanish and to proclaim themselves as conquistadors. This painting is the oldest known map of Guatemala and a rare document of the experiences of indigenous conquistadors. The people of the Nahua community of Quauhquechollan (present-day San Martín Huaquechula), in central Mexico, allied with Cortés during the Spanish-Aztec War and were assigned to the Spanish conquistador Jorge de Alvarado. De Alvarado and his allies, including the Quauhquecholteca and thousands of other indigenous warriors, set off for Guatemala in 1527 to start a campaign against the Maya. The few Quauhquecholteca who lived to tell the story recorded their travels and eventual victory on the huge cloth map, the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan. Conquered Conquistadors, published in a European edition in 2004, overturned conventional views of the European conquest of indigenous cultures. American historians and anthropologists will relish this new edition and Asselbergs's astute analysis, which includes context, interpretation, and comparison with other pictographic accounts of the "Spanish" conquest. This heavily illustrated edition includes an insert reproduction of the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan.
Download or read book Maya Worldviews at Conquest written by Leslie G. Cecil and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya Worldviews at Conquest examines Maya culture and social life just prior to contact and the effect the subsequent Spanish conquest, as well as contact with other Mesoamerican cultures, had on the Maya worldview. Focusing on the Postclassic and Colonial periods, Maya Worldviews at Conquest provides a regional investigation of archaeological and epigraphic evidence of Maya ideology, landscape, historical consciousness, ritual practices, and religious symbolism before and during the Spanish conquest. Through careful investigation, the volume focuses on the impact of conversion, hybridization, resistance, and revitalization on the Mayans’ understanding of their world and their place in it. The volume also addresses the issue of anthropologists unconsciously projecting their modern worldviews on the culture under investigation. Thus, the book critically defines and strengthens the use of worldviews in the scholarly literature regardless of the culture studied, making it of value not only to Maya scholars but also to those interested in the anthropologist’s projection of worldview on other cultures in general.
Download or read book Tamoanchan Tlalocan written by Alfredo López Austin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from historical sources, iconography, and beliefs of modern Indians, Lopez Austin (philosophy and letters, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) offers a new interpretation of the two mysterious places in the world vision of the Aztecs. Chapters on each of the two are supported with discussions of the relationships of the essences and making a model based on contemporary native concepts. The Spanish version was published in 1994 by Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Huautla estado de Hidalgo Cuaderno estad stico municipal 1996 written by INEGI and published by INEGI. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El contenido específico del Cuaderno está organizado bajo una estructura temática que inicia con un marco geográfico a manera de referencia del medio físico, continúa con los temas de población y su dinámica; luego se abordan tres temas básicos relacionados al bienestar de aquella, como son vivienda, salud y educación; posteriormente se incluye un tema relativo a la impartición de justicia y en seguida el de empleo y salarios, como preámbulo de los temas eminentemente económicos. Dentro de estos últimos, primero se considera un apartado en el que de manera integrada y agregada, se presenta la información de los Censos Económicos y del Agropecuario y Ejidal, proporcionando con esto, un panorama del conjunto de las actividades económicas; posteriormente se va abordando, a partir de estadísticas de registros administrativos, cada uno de los temas específicos que corresponden a las actividades primarias, secundarias y terciarias que se registran localmente.
Download or read book Invasion and Transformation written by Rebecca Parker Brienen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Including full-color reproductions of seventeenth-century paintings of the Conquest, Invasion and Transformation will appeal to scholars and students of Latin American history and anthropology, art history, colonial literature, and transatlantic studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Sweeping the Way written by Catherine DiCesare and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many disasters originate from a force of nature, such as an earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, volcanic eruption, drought, or flood. But that is only half of the story; decisions of people and their particular cultural lifeways are the rest. Sociocultural fact
