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Edited by Christopher Chase, Kaitlyn Lutz, Erica McKenzie, Ahmed Tibary ...

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Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Ruminant, Second Edition keeps practitioners completely current with the latest in disease management for ruminants and camelids.Updates the first all-in-one ruminant resource designed specifically for quick information retrievalProvides identically formatted topics for easy searching by alphabetical listing or by discipline, with each topic indicating ... Read more

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Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Ruminant, Second Edition keeps practitioners completely current with the latest in disease management for ruminants and camelids.Updates the first all-in-one ruminant resource designed specifically for quick information retrievalProvides identically formatted topics for easy searching by alphabetical listing or by discipline, with each topic indicating
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This interdisciplinary book investigates privacy concerns in the digital age, enhancing understanding through theoretical insights and empirical research across diverse contexts. Leading experts study the nuances of privacy cynicism, apathy, and resignation by exploring the roots, manifestations, and implications of such attitudes.Bringing together perspectives from communication studies, ... Read more

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This interdisciplinary book investigates privacy concerns in the digital age, enhancing understanding through theoretical insights and empirical research across diverse contexts. Leading experts study the nuances of privacy cynicism, apathy, and resignation by exploring the roots, manifestations, and implications of such attitudes.Bringing together perspectives from communication studies,
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Faces of Resistance

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by S. Ashley Kistler, Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Allen J. Christenson, Stephanie J. Litka, Christopher H. Lutz, Judith M. Maxwell, Betsy Konefal, Abigail E Adams, Ixnal Ambrocia Cuma Chávez, Kevin Young0, David Carey Jr.1, W. George Lovell Jr.2 ...

Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and powerIn the sixteenth century, Q’eqchi’ Maya leader Aj Poop B’atz’ changed the course of Q’eqchi’ history by welcoming Spanish invaders to his community in peace to protect his people from almost certain violence. Today, he is revered as a powerful symbol of Q ... Read more

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Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and powerIn the sixteenth century, Q’eqchi’ Maya leader Aj Poop B’atz’ changed the course of Q’eqchi’ history by welcoming Spanish invaders to his community in peace to protect his people from almost certain violence. Today, he is revered as a powerful symbol of Q
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“Strange Lands and Different Peoples”

Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala

by W. George Lovell, Christopher H. Lutz, Wendy Kramer, William R. Swezey ...

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Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “many different peoples” was brutal and prolonged. “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” examines the myriad ramifications of Spanish intrusion, especially Maya resistance to it and the changes that took ... Read more

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Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “many different peoples” was brutal and prolonged. “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” examines the myriad ramifications of Spanish intrusion, especially Maya resistance to it and the changes that took
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Strike Fear in the Land

Pedro de Alvarado and the Conquest of Guatemala, 1520–1541

by W. George Lovell, Christopher H. Lutz, Wendy Kramer ...

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The conquest of Guatemala was brutal, prolonged and complex, fraught with intrigue and deception, and not at all clear-cut. Yet views persist of it as an armed confrontation whose stakes were evident and whose outcomes were decisive, especially in favor of the Spaniards. A critical reappraisal is long overdue, one that calls for us to reconsider events and circumstances in the light of not only ... Read more

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The conquest of Guatemala was brutal, prolonged and complex, fraught with intrigue and deception, and not at all clear-cut. Yet views persist of it as an armed confrontation whose stakes were evident and whose outcomes were decisive, especially in favor of the Spaniards. A critical reappraisal is long overdue, one that calls for us to reconsider events and circumstances in the light of not only
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Reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue

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After Virtue is a watershed in MacIntyre's career. It follows his emergence from Marxism, but draws on Marxist sources and arguments. It precedes his move to Thomism, but already draws on Augustine and Aquinas. Because of its watershed nature, it has gained a wide readership in various fields but it treats a variety of issues in ways that are unfamiliar either to Marxists schooled in the social ... Read more

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After Virtue is a watershed in MacIntyre's career. It follows his emergence from Marxism, but draws on Marxist sources and arguments. It precedes his move to Thomism, but already draws on Augustine and Aquinas. Because of its watershed nature, it has gained a wide readership in various fields but it treats a variety of issues in ways that are unfamiliar either to Marxists schooled in the social
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Cooperatively Interacting Vehicles

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La Patria del Criollo

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This translation of Severo Martínez Peláez’s La Patria del Criollo, first published in Guatemala in 1970, makes a classic, controversial work of Latin American history available to English-language readers. Martínez Peláez was one of Guatemala’s foremost historians and a political activist committed to revolutionary social change. La Patria del Criollo is his scathing assessment of Guatemala’s ... Read more

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This translation of Severo Martínez Peláez’s La Patria del Criollo, first published in Guatemala in 1970, makes a classic, controversial work of Latin American history available to English-language readers. Martínez Peláez was one of Guatemala’s foremost historians and a political activist committed to revolutionary social change. La Patria del Criollo is his scathing assessment of Guatemala’s
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The growth of peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation has been remarkable. However, the rapid expansion of the phenomenon has yielded several concerns over its potentially negative economic, social and environmental impacts. These impacts are highlighted in policy agendas as an emerging problem encountered by many local communities in destinations experiencing a boom in P2P accommodation. Specifically, ... Read more

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The growth of peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation has been remarkable. However, the rapid expansion of the phenomenon has yielded several concerns over its potentially negative economic, social and environmental impacts. These impacts are highlighted in policy agendas as an emerging problem encountered by many local communities in destinations experiencing a boom in P2P accommodation. Specifically,
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In 1569 the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered more than one million native people of the central Andes to move to newly founded Spanish-style towns called reducciones. This campaign, known as the General Resettlement of Indians, represented a turning point in the history of European colonialism: a state forcing an entire conquered society to change its way of life overnight. But while ... Read more

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In 1569 the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered more than one million native people of the central Andes to move to newly founded Spanish-style towns called reducciones. This campaign, known as the General Resettlement of Indians, represented a turning point in the history of European colonialism: a state forcing an entire conquered society to change its way of life overnight. But while
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