Governing the Metropolis

Governing the Metropolis
Author: Eduardo Rojas
Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish
Author: Mark Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1457
Release: 2017-12-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134874537

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and full English translation. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguistics. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way.

Juan de la Rosa

Juan de la Rosa
Author: Nataniel Aguirre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1999-04-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0199938873

Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, the novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. Juan recreates his childhood in the rebellious town of Cochabamba, and with it a large cast of full bodied, Dickensian characters both heroic and malevolent. The larger cultural dislocations brought about by Bolivia's political upheaval are echoed in those experienced by Juan, whose mother's untimely death sets off a chain of unpredictable events that propel him into the fiery crucible of the South American Independence Movement. Outraged by Juan's outspokenness against Spanish rule and his awakening political consciousness, his loyalist guardians banish him to the countryside, where he witnesses firsthand the Spaniards' violent repression and rebels' valiant resistance that crystallize both his personal destiny and that of his country. In Sergio Gabriel Waisman's fluid translation, English readers have access to Juan de la Rosa for the very first time.

The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises

The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises
Author: Dr. Cecilia Menjívar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 953
Release: 2019-01-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0190856920

The objective of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises is to deconstruct, question, and redefine through a critical lens what is commonly understood as "migration crises." The volume covers a wide range of historical, economic, social, political, and environmental conditions that generate migration crises around the globe. At the same time, it illuminates how the media and public officials play a major role in framing migratory flows as crises. The volume brings together an exceptional group of scholars from around the world to critically examine migration crises and to revisit the notion of crisis through the context in which permanent and non-permanent migration flows occur. The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises offers an understanding of individuals in societies, socio-economic structures, and group processes. Focusing on migrants' departures and arrivals in all continents, this comprehensive handbook explores the social dynamics of migration crises, with an emphasis on factors that propel these flows as well as the actors that play a role in classifying them and in addressing them. The volume is organized into nine sections. The first section provides a historical overview of the link between migration and crises. The second looks at how migration crises are constructed, while the third section contextualizes the causes and effects of protracted conflicts in producing crises. The fourth focuses on the role of climate and the environment in generating migration crises, while the fifth section examines these migratory flows in migration corridors and transit countries. The sixth section looks at policy responses to migratory flows, The last three sections look at the role media and visual culture, gender, and immigrant incorporation play in migration crises.

Command in War

Command in War
Author: Martin Van Creveld
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0674257219

Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communications methods and technologies, weaponry, and logistics. And it analyzes the relationship between these problems and military strategy. In vivid descriptions of key battles and campaigns—among others, Napoleon at Jena, Moltke’s Königgrätz campaign, the Arab–Israeli war of 1973, and the Americans in Vietnam—Martin van Creveld focuses on the means of command and shows how those means worked in practice. He finds that technological advances such as the railroad, breech-loading rifles, the telegraph and later the radio, tanks, and helicopters all brought commanders not only new tactical possibilities but also new limitations. Although vast changes have occurred in military thinking and technology, the one constant has been an endless search for certainty—certainty about the state and intentions of the enemy’s forces; certainty about the manifold factors that together constitute the environment in which war is fought, from the weather and terrain to radioactivity and the presence of chemical warfare agents; and certainty about the state, intentions, and activities of one’s own forces. The book concludes that progress in command has usually been achieved less by employing more advanced technologies than by finding ways to transcend the limitations of existing ones.

Highway and Urban Environment

Highway and Urban Environment
Author: G.M. Morrison
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2007-09-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1402060106

With half of the world’s population now living in urban areas, and rapid urbanization continuing apace, it is essential that the growth of urban areas is supported by the development of adequate and sustainable infrastructure. This work offers comprehensive coverage of critical issues on the highway and urban environment which are key to understanding sustainability in the world's expanding urban areas.

Draft Eis

Draft Eis
Author: United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2018-08-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781725607576

Draft Eis

Striking the Balance in Microfinance

Striking the Balance in Microfinance
Author: Brian Branch
Publisher: P A C T Pub
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781888753264

This new book from the World Council of Credit Unions is a groundbreaking practical guide to mobilizing savings, written by practitioners for practitioners. It takes readers through the whole process of savings mobilization, from determining whether their own institutions are prepared to capture deposits responsibly, through establishing policies and procedures, developing products and marketing them, to measuring the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and determining the costs of mobilizing savings. Case studies from Ecuador and Nicaragua illustrate how credit unions were able to implement successful savings programs to grow their institutions and better serve their communities. The toolbox section provides worksheets, surveys and sample forms for readers to utilize in their own organizations.