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  • Esthetic Implant Surgery

    by Jaime A. Gil, Robert A. Sader, Alfonso Gil ...
    Series series IFED Esthetic Treatment Guide
    Within the scope of the ever-evolving and exciting speciality of esthetic dentistry, Volume 1 of the IFED Esthetic Treatment Guide, edited and curated by Jaime A. Gil, Robert A. Sader, and Homayoun H. Zadeh, is a welcome and timely addition to current knowledge. From chapters on esthetic implant site development and ridge augmentation to how best to manage esthetic complications in implant ... Read more

    $144.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quality of Life in Mexico

    State of the Art, Dimensions, and Future Developments

    Edited by Jorge Oseguera Gamba, Alfonso Méndez, Juan Jaime Loera-Gonzalez, Roberto Castellanos Cereceda ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers insights into what it means and how to understand and measure quality of life (QoL) in the context of Mexico, taking into account its history, culture, and demographic characteristics. It also describes current research on different topics related to QoL and looks at future research developments that are important to engage with. It especially highlights the contributions that a ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

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  • Skin Color and Identity Formation

    Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth

    by Edward Fergus ...
    Series series Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
    The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based on skin color. ... Read more

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  • Funds of Knowledge

    Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms

    Edited by Norma Gonzalez, Luis C. Moll, Cathy Amanti ...
    The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions.Drawing from both ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • High-Risk Feminism in Colombia

    Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts

    by Julia Margaret Zulver ...
    High-Risk Fe**minism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia’s armed conflict. In doing so, it illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger. Despite a well-established ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • English Language Teaching in South America

    Policy, Preparation and Practices

    Edited by Lía D. Kamhi-Stein, Gabriel Díaz Maggioli, Luciana C. de Oliveira ...
    Series Book 109 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    This book investigates new English language policies and initiatives which have been introduced and implemented across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela. Chapters are organized around three themes. Chapters in the first section critically examine newly-implemented English language policies, as well as factors that contribute to and prevent the implementation of ... Read more

    $1.00 USD

  • Latin American Perspectives on the Sociology of Health and Illness

    Edited by Fernando De Maio, Ignacio Llovet, Graciela Dinardi ...
    The sociology of health and illness is a rapidly growing field. Yet, as a field, it has suffered from a remarkably limited perspective dominated by scholarship produced in the global north. Scholars in the sociology of health and illness have been late to enter debates in global health and have generally failed to learn lessons from work originating in the global south. To begin to address this ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Cuba’s Academic Advantage

    Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School

    by Martin Carnoy ...
    In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing the case for Cuba's supportive social context and centralized management of education, Carnoy asks important questions about educational systems in general. How responsible should government be for ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Race Migrations

    Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race

    by Wendy Roth ...
    In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United States, Wendy D. Roth explores the influence of migration on changing cultural conceptions of race—for the newcomers, for their host society, and for those who remain in the countries left behind. Just as migrants can gain new language proficiencies, they can pick up new understandings of race. But adopting an ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Exclusionary Rationalities in Brazilian Schooling

    Decolonizing Historical Studies

    by Natália Gil ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Decolonizing Education
    Through in-depth socio-historical analysis of discourses and processes of quantification around school performance and student failure rates in Brazil, this volume highlights the prevalence of Eurocentric colonized thought that results in the persistence of exclusion bottlenecks; different trajectories according to gender, race, and class; and significant regional variations in the rates of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Latino Families in Therapy

    A Guide to Multicultural Practice

    by Celia Jaes Falicov, Ph.D. ...
    This acclaimed work--now in an extensively revised second edition--provides an up-to-date conceptual framework and hands-on strategies for culturally competent clinical practice with Latino families and individuals. Practitioners and students gain an understanding of the family dynamics, migration experiences, ecological stressors, and cultural resources that are frequently shared by Latino ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Globalization and Health Inequities in Latin America

    Edited by Ligia Malagón de Salazar, Roberto Carlos Luján Villar ...
    This book critically analyses the influence of international policies and guidelines on the performance of interventions aimed at reducing health inequities in Latin America, with special emphasis on health promotion and health in all policies strategies. While the implementation of these interventions plays a key role in strengthening these countries’ capacity to respond to current and future ... Read more

    $143.09 USD