Reassembling Social Security. A Survey of Pensions and Health Care Reforms in Latin America, Paperback - Carmelo Mesa-Lago

The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social lab...

Reducere. Let's be honest, Social Security can be complicated.Social Security is vital to many people's retirement plans. Yet is so shrouded in uncertainty. ...

Examines how public fears about Muslims in the United States compare with the reality of American Muslims' attitudes on a range of relevant issues....

Carlos Eduardo Martins ' essential update of the, still indispensable, Marxist Theory of Dependency.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 13 Line drawings, black and white; 25 Tables, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and whiteNum...

This book analyses the arrival of emerging and traditional information and technology for public and economic use in Latin America. It focuses on t...

A comprehensive analysis, "Magical Reels" charts the development of Latin American film industries in a world increasingly dominated by the advance...

Reducere. (Radical) Functionalism in Latin America is an introduction to the production and theorization of functionalist architecture in Latin America from ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book presents the histories of the revolutions in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela as the latest demonstrations of the price the popu...

This book highlights the importance of strategy, revealing that gradual reforms produce better results than drastic overhauls imposed by political ...

Muslims in a Post-9/11 America examines how public fears about Muslims in the United States compare with the reality of American Muslims' attitudes...

Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction ...

Reducere. DescriptionA beautifully packaged and profound exploration of human desire and queer sexuality in Latin America by the acclaimed Argentinian photog...

DescriptionRevolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 19...

Much has been made of the dramatic rise of Protestantism in Latin America. Overlooked by journalists and scholars has been the parallel growth of C...

Reducere. The entrepreneurial journey is lonely-especially if you're looking to start a business in Latin America, where opportunities are ripe but resources...

Health and legal experts from England and Canada consider the influence of medical doctors on reforms in this comparative study. With reflections o...

Latin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, cont...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry Louis Gates JrSelected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Lib...

Reducere. This powerful study makes a compelling case about the key U.S. role in state terrorism in Latin America during the Cold War. Long hidden from publi...

This Element expands on alternative political identifications as a result of decaying party identification to better understand different levels of...

Reducere. The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across th...

Reducere. Latin American athletes have achieved iconic status in global popular culture, but what do we know about the communities of women in sport? Futbole...

Promoting true development requires the guarantee of an adequate healthy diet. This can only be achieved through the commitment of States, which is...

A compelling account of a neglected but intense air campaign of the interwar period.

This text offers a unique philosophical and historical inquiry into the educational vision of Luis Emilio Recabarren, and his pivotal role in secur...

Contributor(s): Author: Benjamin LessingOver the past thirty years, a new form of conflict has ravaged Latin America's largest countries, with well...

Reducere. Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary ...

In Parenting Empires, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites to analyze how everyday experiences of w...

Combining cross-national quantitative research covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research, Human Capital versus B...

Written by noted experts in the field, Wealth After Work presents proposals to show how policymakers can help all Americans gain access to retireme...

This book examines the contemporary art world in Latin America from an anthropological and historical perspective, and recognises the recent reconf...

This Element seeks to address the lack of a comprehensive research agenda in Latin American and Caribbean environmental politics and helps integrat...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America, Second Edition, is a comprehensive yet concise analysis of U.S. policies in La...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the mid-nineteenth century until the 1930s, many Latin American leaders faced a difficult dilemma regarding the idea of race. On th...

Performance Constellations maps transnational protest movements and the dynamics of networked expressive behavior in the streets and online, as peo...

Provides a view of Jewish experiences through history, literature, painting, anthropology, poetry, sociology, and politics. This title explores and...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jerry MincheyIn this stunning new book, Jerry Minchey takes you on a journey that lets you discover how you can travel arou...

The first section of this Element reviews the history of LGBTQ rights in the region since the 1960s. The second section reviews explanations for th...

This biography of Beatriz Allende - revolutionary doctor and daughter of Salvador Allende - portrays what it means to live, love, and fight for cha...

This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes and protecting targeted victims-including the dead-d...