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Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity
Directed at a diverse audience of students, legal and public health practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding what human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) to health and development mean and why they matter, Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity provides a solid foundation for comprehending what a human rights framework implies and the potential for social transformation it entails. Applying a human rights framework to health demands that we think about our own suffering and that of others, as well as the fundamental causes of that suffering. What is our agency as human subjects with rights and dignity, and what prevents us from acting in certain circumstances? What roles a...
The Intelligence War in Latin America, 1914-1922
World War I did not bypass Latin America. Within days of the war's outbreak, European belligerents mobilized intelligence assets and secret diplomacy to compete for Latin America's allegiances and resources. This intelligence war entangled all of the American republics and even Japan. Dreary consular offices from the Rio Grande to the Straits of Magellan were abruptly thrust into covert activities, trafficking in fugitives, running contraband and conducting sabotage. Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements, big oil, international banks and businesses were also drawn in. Drawing on long-classified U.S. intelligence documents, this narrative of the Latin American intelligence war reveals the complexity and chaos behind the placid veneer of wartime Pan-America. The author connects the dots between Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Lima, Havana, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, London, Washington, Tokyo and dozens of safe houses, front companies, consulates, legations and headquarters in between. Scores of unrecognized veterans of the intelligence war are revealed.
El poder, el sufrimiento y la lucha por la dignidad
Este libro está dirigido a un público amplio, a cualquier persona interesada en comprender qué significa y por qué son importantes los enfoques de la salud basados en los derechos humanos. Proporciona una base sólida para comprender las implicaciones de un marco de derechos humanos y el potencial de transformación social que puede tener. La aplicación de tal marco a la salud exige que pensemos en nuestro propio sufrimiento y en el de los demás, así como en sus causas fundamentales.
La parola contesa
Dal Guatemala al Costa Rica, dalle autrici contemporanee centroamericane all’ecocritica: La parola contesa apre una finestra su luoghi, temi e prospettive ancora poco esplorate, in Italia, nello studio della narrativa latinoamericana. Il volume è il risultato del Progetto di Cooperazione Internazionale tra la Sapienza e l’Università Rafael Landivar sulla Formazione Interculturale che, nel 2020, ha dato vita a un Corso Intensivo sulla Formazione Interculturale e un Seminario sulla narrativa breve centroamericana. Ad alcune scrittrici protagoniste di quegli incontri sono dedicati gli studi e le interviste pubblicate all’interno del libro, completato da due saggi che allargano lo sguard...
En el filo del cenote
La presente publicación de Aida Toledo contiene un conjunto de reflexiones críticas sobre la literatura guatemalteca actual, si bien la mayoría de ellas conciernen a la poesía, la autora se detiene también para presentar los avances de una investigación sobre narrativa guatemalteca. Se presta especial atención a la producción literaria de grupos que muchas veces han sido invisibles -o invisibilizados- para la crítica literaria convencional. Es uno de los aportes principales del libro, pues no solo realiza un trabajo que de alguna manera ayuda a reconfigurar el canon de la literatura guatemalteca, sino que también constituye un ejemplo metodológico para abordar estas temáticas y estas problemáticas; y para hacer crítica literaria en la región. En uno de los ensayos más valiosos del texto, se presenta una investigación que ayuda a pensar la poesía contemporánea escrita por mujeres mayas.
Espirales
The first novel by Guatemalan writer (1961) the author of three published literary works. The narrative attempts to interpret the mechanism that transforms ordinary situations into incomprehensible, tragic, absurd or incredible ones.
Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics
The present book includes a set of selected papers from the fourth “International Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics” (ICINCO 2009), held in Milan, Italy, from 2 to 5 July 2009. The conference was organized in three simultaneous tracks: “Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization”, “Robotics and Automation” and “Systems Modeling, Signal Processing and Control”. The book is based on the same structure. ICINCO received 365 paper submissions, not including those of workshops, from 55 countries, in all continents. After a double blind paper review performed by the Program Committee only 34 submissions were accepted as full papers and thus selected for ...
Life in the Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is considered the most threatened sea on Earth. This book presents a scientific look at the past, present and future changes occurring in the Mediterranean Sea. In addition, this book also gives a background description of the geology, physical oceanography, marine chemistry and marine biology of the Mediterranean Sea. It provides an up-to-date summary of the human (anthropogenic) factors affecting the Mediterranean marine environment, as well as an estimate of the future of the Mediterranean Sea as related to local and global changes, with an emphasis on climate change.
Monkey Boy
'Full of rebellious comedy and vitality... Goldman's autobiographical immersion answers the urgent cry of memory... [He] is a natural storyteller - funny, intimate, sarcastic, all-noticing.' James Wood, New Yorker Francisco Goldman's first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling Say Her Name (winner of the Prix Femina étranger), Monkey Boy is a sweeping story about the impact of divided identity - whether Jewish/Catholic, white/brown, native/expat - and one misfit's quest to heal his damaged past and find love. Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, an American writer, has been living in Mexico when, because of a threat provoked by his journalism, he flees to New York City, hoping to s...
