Alejandra S Quest

Author : Bettina Deynes,Robert Wiedefeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781475987607

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Alejandra's Quest by Bettina Deynes,Robert Wiedefeld Pdf

When Alejandra German first immigrates to America, she has great hope that her new life will be much better than the one she left behind in Uruguay. But as the years pass, Alejandra discovers that her challenges have followed her. Now the mother of two sons and stuck in an unfulfilling marriage and a disheartening career, Alejandra can only hope that the dreams she once nurtured have not been shattered by her circumstances. With a workaholic husband who barely knows she is alive and with professional success seemingly just beyond her reach, Alejandra reluctantly agrees to sacrifice her personal time to meet her business partner, Terry Longbow, and his son in Memphis for an impromptu meeting about a company for sale. It is not long before Alejandra and Terry purchase the small business without any idea that their lives are about to collide with a global economic meltdown. Now in a struggle for survival, a vulnerable Alejandra is led into the arms of another man who shows her that happiness may not be out of her reach after all. Alejandra’s Quest is the compelling tale of a woman trapped between two lives as she embarks on a relentless quest to make her dreams come true.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Editura Lumen
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789731663203

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Postmodern quests in applied philosophy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gilberto Q. Conchas,Briana M. Hinga
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807757031

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Cracks in the Schoolyard by Gilberto Q. Conchas,Briana M. Hinga Pdf

In Cracks in the Schoolyard, Conchas challenges deficit models of schooling and turns school failure on its head. Going beyond presenting critical case studies of social inequality and education, this book features achievement cases that depict Latinos as active actors-not hopeless victims- in the quest for social and economic mobility. Chapters examine the ways in which college students, high school youth, English language learners, immigrant Latino parents, queer homeless youth, the children of Mexican undocumented immigrants, and undocumented immigrant youth all work in local settings to improve their quality of life and advocate for their families and communities. Taken together, these counternarratives will help educators and policymakers fill the cracks in the schoolyard that often create disparity and failure for youth and young adults.

Author : American Heart Association
Publisher : CTI Meeting Technology
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780463292457

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AHA Scientific Sessions 2019 - Final Program by American Heart Association Pdf

The American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2019 is bringing big science, big technology, and big networking opportunities to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this November. This event features five days of the best in science and cardiovascular clinical practice covering all aspects of basic, clinical, population and translational content.

Author : Methodist Episcopal Church
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Methodist conferences
ISBN : WISC:89077112522

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Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church by Methodist Episcopal Church Pdf

Author : GURMEET SINGH DANG
Publisher : GURMEETWEB TECHNICAL LABS
Page : 1821 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9788196549718

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Fashion eBook by GURMEET SINGH DANG Pdf

Author : Kristy Wilson Bowers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000780918

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Renaissance Surgeons by Kristy Wilson Bowers Pdf

This book examines the lives, careers, and publications of a group of Spanish Renaissance surgeons as exemplars of both the surgical renaissance occurring across Europe and of the unique context of Spain. In the sixteenth century, European surgeons forged new identities as learned experts who combined university medical degrees with manual skills and practical experience. No longer merely apprentice-trained craftsmen engaged only with healing the exterior wounds and rashes of the body, these learned surgeons actively engaged with the epistemic shifts of the sixteenth century, including new forms of knowledge construction, based in empiricism, and knowledge circulation, based in printing. These surgeons have long been overshadowed by the innovative work of anatomists and botanists but were participants in the same intellectual currents reshaping many aspects of knowledge. Active in communities across both Castile and Aragon, learned surgeons formed an intellectual community of practitioners and scholars who helped reshape surgical knowledge and practice. This book provides an overview of the Spanish learned surgeons, known as médicos y cirujanos, who were influential in universities, on battlefields, at court, and in private practice. It argues that the surgeons’ larger significance rests in their collective identity as part of the broader intellectual shift to empiricism and innovation of the Renaissance. Renaissance Surgeons: Learning and Expertise in the Age of Print is essential reading for upper-level students and scholars of the history of medicine and early modern Spain.

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679744399

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All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Author : Alexander Samuel Wilkinson,Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004340381

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A Maturing Market by Alexander Samuel Wilkinson,Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo Pdf

A Maturing Market explores the Iberian book trade in the first half of the seventeenth century. It brings together contributions from leading specialists in the field, shedding new light on significant transformations in the industry.

Author : American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Industries
ISBN : UCSD:31822025405283

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Membership Directory by American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico Pdf

Author : Nancy P. Appelbaum,Anne S. Macpherson,Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807862315

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Race and Nation in Modern Latin America by Nancy P. Appelbaum,Anne S. Macpherson,Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt Pdf

This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Moving beyond debates about whether ideologies of racial democracy have actually served to obscure discrimination, the book shows how notions of race and nationhood have varied over time across Latin America's political landscapes. Framing the themes and questions explored in the volume, the editors' introduction also provides an overview of the current state of the interdisciplinary literature on race and nation-state formation. Essays on the postindependence period in Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Peru consider how popular and elite racial constructs have developed in relation to one another and to processes of nation building. Contributors also examine how ideas regarding racial and national identities have been gendered and ask how racialized constructions of nationhood have shaped and limited the citizenship rights of subordinated groups. The contributors are Sueann Caulfield, Sarah C. Chambers, Lillian Guerra, Anne S. Macpherson, Aims McGuinness, Gerardo Renique, James Sanders, Alexandra Minna Stern, and Barbara Weinstein.

Author : Robert R. Kaufman,Joan M. Nelson
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801880491

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Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives by Robert R. Kaufman,Joan M. Nelson Pdf

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives studies the politics of efforts to reform education and health services in Latin America in the 1990s. Both sectors were common targets of reform—education because of its economic importance, health care because of needs to reduce great inequities of access and opportunities to increase domestic savings presented by reforms. Both sectors also have large numbers of unionized public employees, whose presence affects patronage as well as political power. The book presents case studies that offer a wealth of new information not previously accessible to the English-speaking academic and policy community. For health care, these cover Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Peru; for eductaion, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Four chapters by the editors set out for each sector the goals, structure, and outcomes of reform efforts. Contributors are Marta Arretche, Josefina Bruni Celli, Mary A. Clark, Javier Corrales, Sonia M. Draibe, Christina Ewig, Alec Ian Gershberg, Alejandra Gonzalez Rossetti, Merilee S. Grindle, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Pamela S. Lowden, and Patricia Ramirez.

Author : Alejandra Zuccoli,Maximiliano E. Korstanje
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031215803

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The Role of Pleasure to Improve Tourism Education by Alejandra Zuccoli,Maximiliano E. Korstanje Pdf

This book discusses how pleasure, as an emotional motivation, can play a leading role in improving the learning of new cognitive skills and abilities. Set in a research center orientated to innovate educative techniques for optimizing the learning process, this case study is focusing on the power of pleasure (joy) as a strategy to better the standard education systems in Argentina and beyond. This editorial project is based on an efficient experiment known as “PANCOE” where pre-graduate students of tourism bachelor at the University of Palermo, Argentina, were subject to different pleasurable experiences mainly marked by eating, tasting dishes and non-alcohol drinks while cooking and kneading bread pieces. PANCOE aims to integrate students' senses with their emotions, academic performance, and digital platforms. PANCOE devotes efforts to transforming negative feelings like fear into positive ones like joy. As an outcome, students who had taken part in PANCOE not only obtained higher degrees but also completed their studies with a bachelor's degree. Therefore, PANCOE situates as a promising and exciting tourism education method to better the academic performance of low-grade students in tourism and to bring creativity to the tourism classroom for all students.

Author : Shawn McDaniel
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826502315

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Centenary Subjects by Shawn McDaniel Pdf

Centenary Subjects examines the ideological debates and didactic exercises in subject formation during the centenary era of independence (the decade of the 1910s)—the peak of arielismo—and proposes a new reading of the arielista archive that brings into focus the racial anxieties, epistemological and spiritual fissures, and iconoclastic agendas that structure, and at times smother, the ethos of that era. Arielismo takes its name from José Enrique Rodó’s foundational essay Ariel (1900), a wide‑ranging gospel dedicated to Latin American youth that incited a cultural awakening under the banner of the spirit throughout the Americas at an ominous juncture—when the US co-opted the Cuban War of Independence in 1898, effectively rebranding it as the Spanish‑American War. Rodó’s optimistic message of transcendence as an antidote to the encroaching empire quickly became one of the most pervasive and malleable paradigms of regional empowerment, reverberating throughout a range of Latin Americanist projects in the twentieth and twenty‑first centuries. Centenary Subjects recovers a series of important but understudied essays penned by arielista writers, radicals, pedagogues, prophets, and politicians of diverse stripes in the early twentieth century, and analyzes how, under the auspices of the arielista platform, young people emerged as historical subjects invested with unprecedented cultural capital, increasing political power, and an urgent mandate to break with the past and transform the sociopolitical and cultural landscape of their countries. But their respective designs harbor racial, epistemological, aesthetic, and anarchistic strains that bring into sharper relief the conflicting signals that the centenary subject had to parse with respect to race, reason, and rupture.

Author : Wanjala S. Nasong'o,Imali J. Abala,Kefa M. Otiso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666925050

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African Immigrants and the American Experience by Wanjala S. Nasong'o,Imali J. Abala,Kefa M. Otiso Pdf

"This book explores the lived experiences of African immigrants in the United States in their pursuit of the fabled American dream. It examines and documents their travails, successes, and fate vis-à-vis the problematics of race, ethnicity, and anti-Black violence"--