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El Narcotraficante: Narcocorridos and the Construction of a Cultural Persona on the U.S.–Mexico Border (Inter-America Series)

University of Texas Press, 2004

Since the late 1970s, a new folk hero has risen to prominence in the U.S.-Mexico border region and beyond—the narcotrafficker. Celebrated in the narcocorrido, a current form of the traditional border song known as the corrido, narcotraffickers are often portrayed as larger-than-life "social bandits" who rise from poor or...

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Civil Rights: A Public Policy Agenda for Uniting a Divided America

Routledge, 2014

This book could be aptly entitled After MarriageâWhat Is Next for the LGBT Community? Now that marriage is increasingly being institutionalized in many states within the United States it is quite likely that marriage will be acceptable in all 50 states (dependent upon action of the U.S. Supreme Court). What lesbian, gay, bisexual,...

Immunology and Immunopathogenesis of Malaria (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology)

Springer, 2005

Malaria is still a major global health problem, killing more than one million people every year. Almost all of these deaths are caused by Plasmodium falciparum, one of the four species of malaria parasites infecting humans. This high burden of mortality falls heavily on sub-Saharan Africa, where over 90% of these deaths are...

Narrating Narcos: Culiacán and Medellín (Pitt Illuminations)

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013

Narrating Narcos presents a probing examination of the prominent role of narcotics trafficking in contemporary Latin American cultural production. In her study, Gabriela Polit Dueñas juxtaposes two infamous narco regions, Culiacán, Mexico, and Medellín, Colombia, to demonstrate the powerful forces of violence,...

Poverty in Guatemala

World Bank Publications, 2003

Poverty in Guatemala is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to communicate the results of the Bank's work on the economic and related conditions of member countries to governments and to the development community. This report is part of a collaborative multi-year...

Access to Financial Services in Brazil

World Bank Publications, 2004

There has been a growing awareness worldwide that financial exclusion reduces the potential welfare of individuals and the productivity of enterprises in an economy. This study focuses on the delivery of financial services to one of the world’s most important emerging financial markets, Brazil.

Despite concerns regarding diminishing bank...

The Engaging Leader: Winning with Today's Free Agent Workforce

Kaplan Business, 2003

During the summer of 1999, I was reading about the collapse of the Colorado Rockies baseball team under manager Jim Leyland. Leyland came to Colorado as a high-priced savior, but he and the team never meshed. Things got so bad that he announced his resignation before the first season was over. This came as a mystery to the...

Microfinance, Risk-taking Behaviour and Rural Livelihood

Springer, 2013

Nearly 60 % of India’s mammoth 1.2 billion population lives in rural areas. Unfortunately, India’s rural population contributes only 8 % of the gross domestic product. India’s formal financial services sector is yet to meet the growing need of the rural population. The testimony is India’s booming informal...

Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management focuses on manifested threats to humans and their welfare as a result of natural disasters. The book uses an integrative approach to address socio-cultural, political and physical components of the disaster process. Human and social vulnerability as well as risk...

City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city’s lifeline is brutally severed.

Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring San...

Beyond the Market: Designing Nonmarket Accounts for the United States

National Academy Press, 2004

One of the long-standing goals of the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) is the improvement of economic measurement and the data sources crucial to that measurement. In working toward that goal, recent CNSTAT panels have produced reports on price and cost-of-living indexes, poverty measurement, measurement of the economy’s government...

An Introduction to International Health

Canadian Scholars Press, 2007

An Introduction to International Health crafts an intricate history of of overseas aid and an intense look at the determinants of population health, poverty, developing world debt and malnutrition. Solutions are examined via primary health care strategies, poverty alleviation, developing world relief, as well as human rights...

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