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  • Beautiful Scars

    A short novel about the last people alive who carry proof that anything ever happened to them.

    Today is his daughter's birthday. She would be turning fifty-two, if she is turning anything at all.Sebastián is thirty. He has been thirty since before she was born. The pill is where it always is, on the left side of the sink, in the pale ring it has worn into the porcelain — a circle the exact diameter of the tablet, made one morning at a time for sixty years. Across his knuckles there are two ... Read more

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  • Coconut Oil

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    This book provides the health-care professional and knowledgeable layman a firm scientific understanding of the differences between coconut oil and other dietary fats. It tells the true story of coconut oil, its numerous health benefits, and why it has been maligned all these years. ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Politicization and Political Patronage

    Series series Elgar Handbooks in Public Administration and Management
    This expansive Handbook discusses key conceptual and theoretical issues in politicization and patronage. With contributions from leading academics across the globe, it presents diverse perspectives on politicization and patronage practices, exploring the positive and negative implications of both concepts.Chapters analyze detailed case studies from a range of countries, regime types and levels of ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Politicization and Political Patronage

    Series series Elgar Handbooks in Public Administration and Management
    This expansive Handbook discusses key conceptual and theoretical issues in politicization and patronage. With contributions from leading academics across the globe, it presents diverse perspectives on politicization and patronage practices, exploring the positive and negative implications of both concepts.Chapters analyze detailed case studies from a range of countries, regime types and levels of ... Read more

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  • Multidimensional Approach to Local Development and Poverty: Causes, Consequences, and Challenges Post COVID-19

    The phenomenon of poverty, despite being aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is recurrent and very harmful in peripheral countries. There seems to be no single solution, as each country faces its specificities, requiring an immersion into its causes and consequences. Multidimensional Approach to Local Development and Poverty: Causes, Consequences, and Challenges Post COVID-19 discusses the ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Latin America

    Constitutional law in Latin America embodies a mosaic of national histories, political experiments, and institutional transitions. No matter how distinctive these histories and transitions might be, there are still commonalities that transcend the mere geographical contiguity of these countries. This Handbook depicts the constitutional landscape of Latin America by shedding light on its most ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Latin American Central Administrations

    Series series Pitt Latin American Series
    Although merit system selection and management of public personnel is thought of as the standard for good governance, public employees frequently are appointed by political officials rather than being members of a career civil service. In fact, there has been an increase in the level of patronage appointments and politicization of public administration over the past several decades as political ... Read more

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  • The Emerald Handbook of Public Administration in Latin America

    While most scholarship on public administration in Latin America has taken an overtly legal approach, this handbook examines the subject from a political and public management perspective. In so doing, this handbook brings the study of public administration in Latin America more in line with studies conducted in other parts of the world, providing a basis for much more fruitful comparison.The ... Read more

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  • Strategy and Superior Performance of Micro and Small Businesses in Volatile Economies

    Companies operating in countries with volatile economies face an environment subject to turbulence. It is important to understand how these companies can overcome adversity, establish competitive advantage, and achieve superior performance. The selection of competitive drivers can help to improve the ability to capture, process, and manage information that can generate knowledge and innovation in ... Read more

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    Proceedings of the 32nd Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
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  • A Spirit of Revolt

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    A tale of solidarity in the Colorado coal fields.A Spirit of Revolt examines the lives and histories of mine workers who were at the center of an understudied statewide strike led by the Industrial Workers of the World in Colorado from 1927 to 1928. The book explores the biographies and genealogies of union activists from southern Colorado, roughly half of whom were Spanish speakers. These miners' ... Read more

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  • Latinx Comics Studies

    Critical and Creative Crossings

    Series series Critical Graphics
    Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings offers an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to analyzing Latinx studies and comics studies. The book draws together groundbreaking critical essays, practical pedagogical reflections, and original and republished short comics. The works in this collection discuss the construction of national identity and memory, undocumented ... Read more

    $25.19 USD