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"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
Las enfermedades infecciosas han estado a punto de extinguir a Homo sapiens en varias ocasiones a lo largo de la historia, de la misma manera como han participado en la desaparición de otras 31 especies animales de la Tierra y amenazan la existencia de 223 adicionales. Los patógenos humanos pueden ser parásitos, hongos, bacterias, virus o priones, pero las especies que nos infectan son minoría. La gran mayoría de los miembros del mundo microbiano del planeta está representada por cohabitantes inocentes, tan esenciales para la vida que, como en el caso de la microbiota humana, superan por un orden de magnitud el número de células eucariotas que conforman nuestro cuerpo. La implicació...
This contributed volume is the first book in English to offer a current and critical vision of regional problems and policies in the countries of Latin America. The book is in three main parts: a general overview of regional processes and trends in Latin America as a whole; country-level coverage of seven individual countries; and comparative analyses of common major problems such as migration, education, labor, poverty, decentralization, exports and foreign direct investments. Written by renowned academics and experts from the region, the book seeks to provide a better understanding of regional challenges and trends, regional disparities that exist in many Latin American countries and the increasing importance of metropolitan areas.
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