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Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia records the contribution of women of Latin American birth or heritage to the economic and cultural development of the United States. The encyclopedia, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez-Korrol, is the first comprehensive gathering of scholarship on Latinas. This encyclopedia will serve as an essential reference for decades to come. In more than 580 entries, the historical and cultural narratives of Latinas come to life. From mestizo settlement, pioneer life, and diasporic communities, the encyclopedia details the contributions of women as settlers, comadres, and landowners, as organizers and nuns. More than 200 scholars explo...
For the first time, this book presents the distinguished, prolific, and highly experimental writer Juan Felipe Herrera. This wide-ranging collection of essays by leading experts offers critical approaches on Herrera, who transcends ethnic and mainstream poetics. It expertly demonstrates Herrera’s versatility, resourcefulness, innovations, and infinite creativity. As a poet Herrera has had an enormous impact within and beyond Chicano poetics. He embodies much of the advancements and innovations found in American and Latin American poetry from the early l970s to the present. His writings have no limits or boundaries, indulging in the quotidian as well as the overarching topics of his era at ...
High-quality rehabilitation care represents a constitutive element of health systems worldwide. The harmonization of staff education both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level is a key element for ensuring the highest standard of rehabilitation care. International bodies, like the UEMS Board for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) or the International Society for PRM, have already delivered regulatory documents setting standards in postgraduate PRM education. The implementation of such rules is to be validated worldwide with special attention to low and middle income countries. This Research Topic aims to stimulate awareness in the scientific community, especially for those invo...
Arboleya also analyzes the role played by Cuban immigrants to the United States and the perspectives for improvement in relations between the two nations as a result of the generational and social changes that have been occurring in the Cuban-American community."--BOOK JACKET.
Would you try a new drug, harmless, cheap, legal, without side effects and 100% technological? Julián Konks and Anthony Somoza are two 24-year-old computer genius who have created an algorithm based on Artificial Intelligence capable of modifying and controlling human emotions from a App. It's called Synchro and it works with a microchip that is ingested in the form of a black jelly ball; a minute later, connected by Bluetooth to a mobile device, it is capable of generating any emotion upon demand. The arrival of this technology is a revolution in the world drug market that moves 390,000 million euros a year. The drug cartels know that this will represent the fall of their empires and nobody is going to remain still contemplating the end of such a profitable business. Mexico and the United States are the places where the plot of this disturbing story unfolds and that can be taking place right now. This technology that is going to change the life of Humanity already exists; it is only a matter of time that someone discovers the formula. Go ahead to the future. Would you dare to try Synchro?
Reform and revolution -- Betrayal and dissent -- Faith community -- Identity and ideology -- The social question -- "Just and necessary war"--Ethnicity and rights -- U.S. Hispanic Catholicism -- Dialogue.
A comprehensive, historical encyclopedia that covers the full range of Latina economic, political, and cultural life in the United States.
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