Somos la última generación que puede salvar el planeta / We Are the Last Generation that Can Save the Planet


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Somos la última generación que puede salvar el mundo y a la que las futuras generaciones mirarán a los ojos y dirán: «Y tú, ¿qué hiciste?». Carlota Bruna prologa y edita este alegato a cinco voces a favor del medioambiente, porque sí que estamos a tiempo de salvar el planeta, pero no hay más tiempo que perder. Como tú, estas cinco autoras saben que nuestra generación tiene la última oportunidad para darle la vuelta a la historia y se han propuesto hacer todo lo que esté en su mano para conseguirlo. Ellas no van a quedarse mirando. ¿Y tú? ENGLISH DESCRIPTION We are the last generation that can save the world and to whom future generations will look in the eyes and ask: "And you, what did you do?" Carlota Bruna prefaces and edits this plea of five voices in favor of the environment, because we do have time to save the planet, but there is no more time to lose. Like you, these five authors know that our generation has the last chance to turn history around and they have set out to do everything in their power to achieve it. They’re not going to just sit there. And you?




Somos la última generación que puede salvar el planeta


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Somos la última generación que puede salvar el mundo y a la que las futuras generaciones mirarán a los ojos y dirán: «Y tú, ¿qué hiciste?». Carlota Bruna prologa y edita este alegato a cinco voces a favor del medioambiente, porque sí que estamos a tiempo de salvar el planeta, pero no hay más tiempo que perder. Como tú, estas cinco autoras saben que nuestra generación tiene la última oportunidad para darle la vuelta a la historia y se han propuesto hacer todo lo que esté en su mano para conseguirlo. Ellas no van a quedarse mirando. ¿Y tú? Un manifiesto con las voces de: Carlota Bruna @carlotabruna (Barcelona, 1997), estudiante de Nutrición y Dietética, autora de Camino a un mundo vegano y activista por el medioambiente y por los derechos de los animales. Connie Isla @coisla (Buenos Aires, 1994), cantautora, actriz, autora y activista vegana a favor de los derechos de los animales. Monica Rosquillas @monicarosquillas (San Diego, 1986), bloguera de girlforacleanworld.com, aventurera y activista por la sostenibilidad ambiental, económica y social. Claudia Ayuso @claudiaayuso (Madrid, 1995), autora y activista, ha presentado una serie de ocho mini documentales para Greenpeace y es la host y productora de su podcast en inglés The Cheeky Revolution, co-fundadora de El Intercambio. Patricia Ramos @PatiRamosGlez (Madrid, 2000), estudiante de Medicina y portavoz en la Cumbre Juvenil sobre el Clima de Naciones Unidas. Mariana Matija @marianamatija (Medellín, 1984), diseñadora, autora, oradora en TEDxColombia y fundadora del colectivo ecologista Hola Eco.




Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage


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This volume provides an unparalleled exploration of ethics and museum practice, considering the controversies and debates which surround key issues such as provenance, ownership, cultural identity, environmental sustainability and social engagement. Using a variety of case studies which reflect the internal realities and daily activities of museums as they address these issues, from exhibition content and museum research to education, accountability and new technologies, Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage enables a greater understanding of the role of museums as complex and multifaceted institutions of cultural production, identity-formation and heritage preservation. Benefitting from ICOM’s unique position in the museum world, this collection brings a global range of academics and professionals together to examine museums ethics from multiple perspectives. Providing a more complete picture of the diverse activities now carried out by museums, Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage will appeal to practitioners, academics and students alike.




Salsa Consciente


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This volume explores the significations and developments of the Salsa consciente movement, a Latino musico-poetic and political discourse that exploded in the 1970s but then dwindled in momentum into the early 1990s. This movement is largely linked to the development of Nuyolatino popular music brought about in part by the mass Latino migration to New York City beginning in the 1950s and the subsequent social movements that were tied to the shifting political landscapes. Defined by its lyrical content alongside specific sonic markers and political and social issues facing U.S. Latinos and Latin Americans, Salsa consciente evokes the overarching cultural-nationalist idea of Latinidad (Latin-ness). Through the analysis of over 120 different Salsa songs from lyrical and musical perspectives that span a period of over sixty years, the author makes the argument that the urban Latino identity expressed in Salsa consciente was constructed largely from diasporic, deterritorialized, and at times imagined cultural memory, and furthermore proposes that the Latino/Latin American identity is in part based on African and Indigenous experience, especially as it relates to Spanish colonialism. A unique study on the intersection of Salsa and Latino and Latin American identity, this volume will be especially interesting to scholars of ethnic studies and musicology alike.




Women's Writing in Colombia


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Winner of the Montserrat Ordóñez Prize 2018 This book provides an original and exciting analysis of Colombian women’s writing and its relationship to feminist history from the 1970s to the present. In a period in which questions surrounding women and gender are often sidelined in the academic arena, it argues that feminism has been an important and intrinsic part of contemporary Colombian history. Focusing on understudied literary and non-literary texts written by Colombian women, it traces the particularities of Colombian feminism, showing how it has been closely entwined with left-wing politics and the country’s history of violence. This book therefore rethinks the place of feminism in Latin American history and its relationship to feminisms elsewhere, challenging many of the predominant critical paradigms used to understand Latin American literature and culture.




Poetry in Pieces


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Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892–1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings—Peru and Paris—which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life; his poetry and prose therefore need to be read in connection with modernity in all its forms and spaces. Michelle Clayton combines close readings of Vallejo’s writings with cultural, historical, and theoretical analysis, connecting Vallejo—and Latin American poetry—to the broader panorama of international modernism and the avant-garde, and to writers and artists such as Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce, Georges Bataille, and Charlie Chaplin. Poetry in Pieces sheds new light on one of the key figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature, while exploring ways of rethinking the parameters of international lyric modernity.




A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish


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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.




The Spanish American Reader


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An Introduction to the Old Testament


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This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. A scholarly conservative study of the literary characteristics of the books of the Old Testament. Young argues for the inner harmony and underlying unity of the literary units that make up the Old Testament. Includes special bibliographies for each chapter, a general bibliography, and three indexes.




Teaching Tech Together


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Hundreds of grassroots groups have sprung up around the world to teach programming, web design, robotics, and other skills outside traditional classrooms. These groups exist so that people don't have to learn these things on their own, but ironically, their founders and instructors are often teaching themselves how to teach. There's a better way. This book presents evidence-based practices that will help you create and deliver lessons that work and build a teaching community around them. Topics include the differences between different kinds of learners, diagnosing and correcting misunderstandings, teaching as a performance art, what motivates and demotivates adult learners, how to be a good ally, fostering a healthy community, getting the word out, and building alliances with like-minded groups. The book includes over a hundred exercises that can be done individually or in groups, over 350 references, and a glossary to help you navigate educational jargon.