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Book Social Sciences

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence Boudon
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2003-09-01
  • ISBN : 9780292705357
  • Pages : 998 pages

Download or read book Social Sciences written by Lawrence Boudon and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 2001, and Katherine D. McCann has been assistant editor since 2000. The subject categories for Volume 59 are as follows: Anthropology Economics Geography Government and Politics International Relations Sociology Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences

Book Entrepreneurship in Latin America

Download or read book Entrepreneurship in Latin America written by Scott Tiffin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurship drives growth in any economy. It is about combining people with good ideas, vision, and courage, who risk their own capital—and their investors'—to develop new products and services. It is about innovation, technology development, and wealth creation. As a field of research and education, it is relatively new, and in the case of Latin America, it is full of promise. Studies undertaken by Babson College, one of the world's premier centers of entrepreneurship, show that Latin America is a hotbed of new business creation, but largely without the educational or institutional infrastructure to support it. This volume, the first of its kind, documents the initial state of the art in Latin American entrepreneurship—in practice, research, and education. This volume, the first of its kind, documents the initial state of the art in Latin American entrepreneurship—in practice, research, and education. Featuring contributions from local experts, the book explores a wide range of issues, including startups, venture capital and angel financing, technology incubators, family businesses, and management and gender issues, against the backdrop of innovations in education and government policies designed to develop entrepreneurial skills and promote economic growth through new business creation.

Book Latin America in the New International System

Download or read book Latin America in the New International System written by Joseph S. Tulchin and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tulchin and Espach (both are at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars) have collected ten essays on the place, choices, dangers, and options of Latin America in the context of economic globalization. The contributors are political scientists, scholars on international affairs, and specialists in Latin America. Three essays feature Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico separately; the rest consider Latin America as a whole, particularly in terms of its foreign and economic policies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Book In the Name of the Poor

Download or read book In the Name of the Poor written by Neil Webster and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current discourse on poverty reduction emphasises the roles of the state and the market. This text stresses the importance of exploring and understanding the poor's own actions.

Book Neo liberal Educational Reforms

Download or read book Neo liberal Educational Reforms written by David Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers a cast of eminent scholars for a critical and comparitive analysis of how neoliberal education policies have functioned in a range of countries in different stages of economic development. Treating case studies from Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East, the volume shows how globalization operates differently in different societal contexts.

Book Privatisation and Human Rights in the Age of Globalisation

Download or read book Privatisation and Human Rights in the Age of Globalisation written by Felipe Gómez Isa and published by Intersentia nv. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Result of a joint research project ... under the auspices of the Center for Human Rights (University of Maastricht, the Netherlands) and the Institute of Human Rights Pedro Arrupe (University of Deusto, Basque Country, Spain).--P. v

Book Handbook of Latin American Studies

Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LEV

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Book Contribuci  n al desarrollo de la sociedad del conocimiento

Download or read book Contribuci n al desarrollo de la sociedad del conocimiento written by Margarita Almada de Ascencio and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La sociedad del conocimiento es aquella sociedad globalizada y altamente tecnologizada, mercantilizada y dinámica que existe, funciona y se desarrolla gracias al conocimiento, objetivado en instrumentos que poseen o deben poseer en su gran mayoría los seres sociales para actuar en esa sociedad". Esta es la definición de sociedad del conocimiento que se propuso durante el XVII Coloquio de Investigación Bibliotecológica. Dado que las formas de investigar, y por tanto de generar y transmitir conocimiento, empiezan a modificarse con la presencia de las tecnologías de información y con la globalización, la bibliotecología tiene que estudiar esta problemática.Los cambios no son sólo evidentes en la práctica bibliotecaria, ni son sólo los medios digitales las nuevas formas físicas en las que se representa el conocimiento, también la configuración de los ambientes en red está modificando las prácticas sociales de los espacios físicos, del acceso a la información, de los servicios, de las formas de trabajo, y de los usos y el manejo de la información. Ha surgido un nuevo fenómeno para la investigación bibliotecológica: el medio de información digital, pero también otros fenómenos que forman parte de la sociedad de la información como la globalización, la diversidad, la educación, el patrimonio cultural y ecológico, la inter y la multidisciplina. y la democracia, que de manera tan importante transforma la mentalidad de los integrantes de las sociedades. Esta obra da cuenta de lo anterior y pretende, a través de la revisión del cuerpo de conocimientos de la bibliotecología. coadyuvar a construir e innovar los fundamentos que subyacen a su propia producción de conocimiento: para poder generar un espacio en la sociedad del conocimiento.

Book International Protection of Human Rights  Achievements and Challenges

Download or read book International Protection of Human Rights Achievements and Challenges written by Felipe Gómez Isa and published by Universidad de Deusto. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the nineties, there was an expectation within the human rights community that the next decade would be a period of consolidation for the international human rights regime. This did not happen. In fact, the human rights regime underwent dramatic changes in response to new circumstances. We have tried to highlight both the achievements and the challenges ahead in this Manual, the result of a joint project under the auspices of HumanitarianNet, a Thematic Network on Humanitarian Development Studies leaded by the University of Deusto (Bilbao, the Basque Country, Spain), and the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC, Venice, Italy).

Book Kultur Diskurs

Download or read book Kultur Diskurs written by Michael Riekenberg and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book M  xico econ  mico  retrovisi  n y perspectivas  1940 1997

Download or read book M xico econ mico retrovisi n y perspectivas 1940 1997 written by José Guadalupe Narro Reyes and published by Universidad Autonoma Agraria Antonio Narro. This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rational Spirit in Modern Continuum Mechanics

Download or read book The Rational Spirit in Modern Continuum Mechanics written by Chi-Sing Man and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-07-06 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his voluminous and in?uential writings, editorial activities, organi- tional leadership, intellectual acumen, and strong sense of history, Clifford - brose Truesdell III (1919–2000) was the main architect for the renaissance of - tional continuum mechanics since the middle of the twentieth century. The present collection of 42 essays and research papers pays tribute to this man of mathematics, science, and natural philosophy as well as to his legacy. The ?rst ?ve essays by B. D. Coleman, E. Giusti, W. Noll, J. Serrin, and D. Speiser were texts of addresses given by their authors at the Meeting in memory of Clifford Truesdell, which was held in Pisa in November 2000. In these essays the reader will ?nd personal reminiscences of Clifford Truesdell the man and of some of his activities as scientist, author, editor, historian of exact sciences, and principal founding member of the Society for Natural Philosophy. The bulk of the collection comprises 37 research papers which bear witness to the Truesdellian legacy. These papers cover a wide range of topics; what ties them together is the rational spirit. Clifford Truesdell, in his address upon receipt of a Birkhoff Prize in 1978, put the essence of modern continuum mechanics succinctly as “conceptual analysis, analysis not in the sense of the technical term but in the root meaning: logical criticism, dissection, and creative scrutiny.

Book The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017

Download or read book The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017 written by United Nations Publications and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this report is to present an overview of the 17 Goals using data currently available to highlight the most significant gaps and challenges.

Book Climate Change and Tourism

Download or read book Climate Change and Tourism written by World Tourism Organization and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains the key proceedings and technical report of the Second International Conference on Climate Change and Tourism, held in Davos, Switzerland, 1-3 October 2007. The Davos Declaration and the summary of the conference debates demonstrate a clear commitment of the tourism sector to address climate change issues, and provide concrete recommendations for actions. The extensive technical report included in this publication was commissioned to an international team of experts by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It provides a synthesis of the state of knowledge about current and future likely impacts of climate change on tourism destinations around the world, possible implications for tourist demand, current levels and trends in GHG emissions from the tourism sector, and an overview of policy and management responses adopted by the key stakeholder groups (international organizations, public administrations, the tourism industry) with respect to adaptation to and mitigation of climate change. This publication is principally aimed at the tourism industry and government organizations at the different levels, who will have the primary responsibility of developing mitigation and adaptation strategies to respond to the challenges that global climate change will bring to the tourism sector. It also constitutes an important tool for international agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and financial institutions.

Book How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease

Download or read book How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease written by United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report considers the biological and behavioral mechanisms that may underlie the pathogenicity of tobacco smoke. Many Surgeon General's reports have considered research findings on mechanisms in assessing the biological plausibility of associations observed in epidemiologic studies. Mechanisms of disease are important because they may provide plausibility, which is one of the guideline criteria for assessing evidence on causation. This report specifically reviews the evidence on the potential mechanisms by which smoking causes diseases and considers whether a mechanism is likely to be operative in the production of human disease by tobacco smoke. This evidence is relevant to understanding how smoking causes disease, to identifying those who may be particularly susceptible, and to assessing the potential risks of tobacco products.