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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “roberto campos”
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  • Reflections on Latin American Development

    by Roberto de Olivera Campos ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    Economic development has been an challenge facing the countries of Latin America. Because the United States, from the very nature of its geographic and economic relationship with its southern neighbors, must inevitably exercise a strong influence on the course which that development takes, it is important that North Americans understand conditions in Latin America and the attitudes of its peoples. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Nematodes as Model Organisms

    by Sigal Braun Miyara, Fernando Calahorro, Ioannis Eleftherianos, James Dillon, Katarzyna Dudkiewicz, Birgit Gansfort, Heidi Goodrich-Blair, Alex S. Grossman, Selcuk Hazir, Jennifer K. Heppert, Ivan Hiltpold, Lindy Holden-Dye, Sebastian Höss, Anil Kumar, Emilie Lefoulon, James W. Lightfoot, Terra J. Mauer, Vincent O’Connor, Ratnasri Pothula, Elizabeth M. Ransone, Sara Sánchez Moreno, Glen Stevens, Ralf J. Sommer, S. Patricia Stock, Ghada Tafesh-Edwards, Heidi A. Tissenbaum, Professor Walter Traunspurger, Robert J Walker, Dayong Wang, Raquel Campos Herrera, Edwin Lewis ...
    Nematodes are small multicellular organisms that have been used as biological models since the 1960s. For example, Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living nematode worm, about 1mm in length, that lives in temperate soil environments. It is made up of about 1000 cells, and has a short life cycle of only two weeks. It was the first multicellular organism to have its whole genome sequenced. The book ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

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    Adventures from the Far Side of Diplomacy

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    Series Book 12 - Latin American and Caribbean
    In Whose Man in Havana? the author offers an unconventional, often dark, but more often hilarious view of diplomacy in settings as varied as Haiti, London, the Dominican Republic, the Balkans, Palestine, Paraguay, Guyana, and Kyrgyzstan, including covert monitoring of Soviet military operations in Cuba on behalf of the CIA with the blessing of President Kennedy and Prime Minister Pearson. In a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Decentralization and Popular Democracy

    Governance from Below in Bolivia

    by Jean-Paul Faguet ...
    Bolivia decentralized in an effort to deepen democracy, improve public services, and make government more accountable. Unlike many countries, Bolivia succeeded. Over the past generation, public investment shifted dramatically toward primary services and resource distribution became far more equitable, partly due to the creation of new local governments. Many municipalities responded to ... Read more

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  • Making Brazil Work

    Checking the President in a Multiparty System

    by M. Melo, C. Pereira ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers the first conceptually rigorous analysis of the political and institutional underpinnings of Brazil's recent rise. Using Brazil as a case study in multiparty presidentialism, the authors argue that Brazil's success stems from the combination of a constitutionally strong president and a robust system of checks and balances. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Lavil

    Life, Love, and Death in Port-au-Prince

    Edited by Peter Orner, Evan Lyon ...
    Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisisSeven years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck Haiti, the island nation remains in crisis, all but ignored by the international community. At the center of this crisis is Lavil—“The City” in Kreyol, as Port-au-Prince is known to Haitians—the cultural, political, and economic capital of Haiti ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Oil and Nation

    A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector

    by Stephen C. Cote ...
    Series series Energy and Society
    Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia’s contentious twentieth-century history. Bolivia’s oil, Cote argues, instigated the largest war in Latin America in the 1900s, provoked the first nationalization of a major foreign company by a Latin American state, and shaped both the course and the consequences of Bolivia’s transformative National Revolution of 1952. Oil and natural gas ... Read more

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  • Black Bodies, Black Rights

    The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil

    by Elizabeth Farfán-Santos ...
    Under a provision in the Brazilian constitution, rural black communities identified as the modern descendants of quilombos—runaway slave communities—are promised land rights as a form of reparations for the historic exclusion of blacks from land ownership. The quilombo provision has been hailed as a success for black rights; however, rights for quilombolas are highly controversial and, in many ... Read more

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  • Military Missions in Democratic Latin America

    by David Pion-Berlin ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book demonstrates through country case studies that, contrary to received wisdom, Latin American militaries can contribute productively, but under select conditions, to non-traditional missions of internal security, disaster relief, and social programs. Latin American soldiers are rarely at war, but have been called upon to perform these missions in both lethal and non-lethal ways. Is this ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Latin America's Radical Left

    Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century

    Edited by Steve Ellner ...
    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    This timely book explores the unique challenges facing the left in Latin America today. The contributors offer clear and comprehensive assessments of the difficult conditions and conflicting forces that have brought to power the current leftist regimes in Latin American and the Caribbean and are shaping their development. Avoiding the widely accepted but simplistic dichotomy of “good” and “bad” ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Legitimacy of Regional Integration in Europe and the Americas

    Edited by Steffen Schneider, Achim Hurrelmann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Based on cutting-edge research, this edited volume examines how citizens and political elites perceive the legitimacy of regional integration in Europe and the Americas. It analyses public opinion and political discourse on the EU, NAFTA and MERCOSUR, arguing that legitimation patterns shape the development of regional governance. ... Read more

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  • Journeys in Caribbean Thought

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    by Paget Henry ...
    Series series Creolizing the Canon
    For the past 30 years, Paget Henry has been one of the most articulate and creative voices in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean political economy, C.L.R. James studies, critical theory, phenomenology, and Africana philosophy. In the case of Afro-Caribbean philosophy, he inaugurated a new philosophical school of inquiry.Journeys in Caribbean Thought: The ... Read more

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