
La migra cuenta la historia de la policía fronteriza de los Estados Unidos, los orígenes y finalidades con que fue creada en 1924 y el proceso que la ha convertido en la policía especializada que aplica al límite las leyes migratorias vigentes en Estados Unidos. La contribución central de la obra es la explicación de cómo el tema del control fronterizo con México se vuelve un tema central en la agenda de Estados Unidos hacia México, a partir de fuentes secundarias pero sobre todo primarias.
Issue for Jan./Apr. 1979 called Special issue; consists of official proceedings of the International Colloquium on Contextual Theology.
Are public officials morally justified in threatening violence, engaging in deception, or forcing citizens to act for their own good? Can individual officials be held morally accountable for the wrongs that governments commit? Dennis Thompson addresses these questions by developing a conception of political ethics that respects the demands of both morality and politics. He criticizes conventional conceptions for failing to appreciate the difference democracy makes, and for ascribing responsibility only to isolated leaders or to impersonal organizations. His book seeks to recapture the sense that men and women, acting for us and together with us in a democratic process, make the moral choices that govern our public life. Thompson surveys ethical conflicts of public officials over a range of political issues, including nuclear deterrence, foreign intervention, undercover investigation, bureaucratic negligence, campaign finance, the privacy of officials, health care, welfare paternalism, drug and safety regulation, and social experimentation. He views these conflicts from the perspectives of many different kinds of public officials - elected and appointed executives at several levels ...
La Biblia bilingüe NLT/NTV provee los textos de la Nueva Traducción Viviente en español y de la New Living Translation en inglés en un formato paralelo. Estas dos traducciones excepcionales de la Biblia presentan la Palabra de Dios de una manera precisa y fiel, usando un lenguaje claro, cálido y de fácil comprensión que le hablará directamente al corazón. Ahora totalmente revisada y actualizada, sus características incluyen: Página de presentación Plan de lectura de 365 días Tabla de pesos y medidas Tres mapas a todo color The Bilingual Bible NLT/NTV provides the texts of the New Living Translation in English and the Nueva Traducción Viviente in Spanish in a parallel format. These two wonderful translations present God's Word accurately and faithfully in warm, inviting, and easy-to-understand language that will speak straight to your heart. Now completely revised and updated, its features include: Presentation Page 365-day Reading Plan Table of Weights and Measures Three full-color maps
En los últimos años, los estudios de identidad y género han enriquecido notablemente el panorama intelectual. Con una perspectiva multidisciplinaria que va de las representaciones artísticas a las lingüísticas, de las teorías académicas al activismo político y al compromiso intelectual, los presentes diálogos someten a análisis conceptos, normas, prácticas, mitologías y estereotipos asociados a la sexualidad y al erotismo y nos animan a revisar las formulaciones convencionales de género e identidad.
This Dictionary provides over 100,000 entries and over 135,000 equivalents covering all areas of law, plus relevant terms in related spheres of expertise. This is the Dictionary that lawyers, translators, and those working in English and Spanish in law and associated fields have been trusting since the First Edition was published in 1993. In order to prepare this Third Edition, The entire Second Edition was revised and updated, and over 40,000 new terms were added. Because of its straightforward and naturally intuitive format, there are no special rules or indications For The use of this Dictionary. The user simply looks up any desired word or phrase, gets the equivalent, and returns to whatever was being worked on. The general presentation of the Dictionary is easy on the eyes, and facilitates finding the desired terms and equivalents with the least time and effort.
A Spanish-English bilingual dictionary specifically written to meet the needs of Spanish learners of English.
Tracing musicology in Latin American during the twentieth century, this book presents case studies to illustrate how Latin American music has interacted with social and global processes. It addresses popular music, postcolonialism, women in music, tradition and modernity, musical counterculture, globalization, and identity construction.
"The seven texts in this cross-section of fiction and nonfiction reveal a nation at the brink of modernity, embracing revolutionary ideas and reeling in their explosive impact. The opening chapters establish the theoretical framework for Perez-Romero's analysis, describing the intellectual and social environments of medieval Spain and tracing the developments in Spanish historical and literary scholarship that point to the existence of a new path of investigation."--Jacket.
A Spanish-English bilingual dictionary specifically written to meet the needs of Spanish learners of English.
The story about a man that falls in love with a mermaid only to lose his soul. And how his soul must win him back again.
Those that condemn Jis as being immoral miss the point—he's amoral. His comics confront all forms of morality: that of the liberals and the conservatives; leftists and rightists; ethical people and those of questionable conscience. It is no mistake that Jis's favorite metaphor is that of a shipwrecked person, in a microcosmic world made up of only a lump of land and a single palm tree, questioning human nature. The island that Jis inhabits is one of a desk and a pen, from which come every Another Day in this serious, each which appeals to those with the the most astute and intelligent senses of humor.
Those that condemn Jis as being immoral miss the point—he's amoral. His comics confront all forms of morality: that of the liberals and the conservatives; leftists and rightists; ethical people and those of questionable conscience. It is no mistake that Jis's favorite metaphor is that of a shipwrecked person, in a microcosmic world made up of only a lump of land and a single palm tree, questioning human nature. The island that Jis inhabits is one of a desk and a pen, from which come every Another Day in this serious, each which appeals to those with the the most astute and intelligent senses of humor.
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