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Illustrated by Juli Litkei ...

by Maria Murillo ...

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Dive into the heartwarming world of Sascha, a lovable dog, and Loops, her human best friend. This is a charming tale about their incredible journey of friendship and finding joy in the little things. From the chilly fields of Montana to the sunny vasts of Texas, this duo's adventures are a reminder of how wonderful life can be with a friend by your side.Perfect for young readers, this book ... Read more

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Dive into the heartwarming world of Sascha, a lovable dog, and Loops, her human best friend. This is a charming tale about their incredible journey of friendship and finding joy in the little things. From the chilly fields of Montana to the sunny vasts of Texas, this duo's adventures are a reminder of how wonderful life can be with a friend by your side.Perfect for young readers, this book
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Fighting for Control

Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands

by Lina-Maria Murillo ...

Series series Justice, Power, and Politics
The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez have confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, including a heavily funded international population control campaign led by Planned Parenthood Federation of America as well as the Catholic Church and ... Read more

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The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez have confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, including a heavily funded international population control campaign led by Planned Parenthood Federation of America as well as the Catholic Church and
... Read more
The Nursing Clio Reader

Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice

by Jacqueline D. Antonovich, Jacqueline D. Antonovich, Emily Beckman, Cassandra Berman, Ciara Breathnach, Scottie Hale Buehler, John A. Carranza, Sara Collini0, Kathleen Crowther1, Cara Delay2, Catherine Denial3, Nora Doyle4, Michelle Drew5, Averill Earls6, Lea Eisenstein7, Mary Fissell8, Gillian Frank9, Lara Freidenfelds0, Joseph Gamble1, Evan Elizabeth Hart2, Sharon Folkenroth Hess3, Katrina Kimport4, Rebecca M. Kluchin5, Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich6, Modupe Labode7, Judith Walzer Leavitt8, Ian Lekus9, Kirsten Leng0, Amanda Mahoney1, Elizabeth Garner Masarik2, Michelle Moravec3, Lina-Maria Murillo4, Elizabeth Nelson5, W. Jake Newsome6, P. Mimi Bhatt7, Ayah Nuriddin8, Kelly S. O'Donnell9, Udodiri Okwandu0, Sarah Pripas-Kapit1, Elizabeth Reis2, Susan M. Reverby3, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez4, J. Nalubega Ross5, Ronit Stahl6, Sarah Swedberg7, Brianna Theobald8, Lauren MacIvor Thompson9, Stephanie Tillman0, Felicity M. Turner1, Theresa Ventura2, Maggie Vinter3, Anna Weerasinghe4, Karen Weingarten5, Caitlin Reed Wiesner6, Samantha M. Williams7, Shannon Withycombe8, Cookie Woolner9, Professor Janet Golden0, Dr. Kylie Smith, Ph.D1, Professor Alicia Gutierrez-Romine2, Dr. Nina Studer, Ph.D3 ...

Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of individual states. This monumental shift in policy underscores the need for deeper historical perspectives on reproductive rights.The Nursing Clio Reader answers that call, bringing together essays ... Read more

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On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of individual states. This monumental shift in policy underscores the need for deeper historical perspectives on reproductive rights.The Nursing Clio Reader answers that call, bringing together essays
... Read more
Understanding Institutional Weakness

Power and Design in Latin American Institutions

by Daniel M. Brinks, Steven Levitsky, Maria Victoria Murillo ...

Series series Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America
This Element introduces the concept of institutional weakness, arguing that weakness or strength is a function of the extent to which an institution actually matters to social, economic or political outcomes. It then presents a typology of three forms of institutional weakness: insignificance, in which rules are complied with but do not affect the way actors behave; non-compliance, in which state ... Read more

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This Element introduces the concept of institutional weakness, arguing that weakness or strength is a function of the extent to which an institution actually matters to social, economic or political outcomes. It then presents a typology of three forms of institutional weakness: insignificance, in which rules are complied with but do not affect the way actors behave; non-compliance, in which state
... Read more
Non-Policy Politics

Richer Voters, Poorer Voters, and the Diversification of Electoral Strategies

by Ernesto Calvo, Maria Victoria Murillo ...

Calvo and Murillo consider the non-policy benefits that voters consider when deciding their vote. While parties advertise policies, they also deliver non-policy benefits in the form of competent economic management, constituency service, and patronage jobs. Different from much of the existing research, which focuses on the implementation of policy or on the delivery of clientelistic benefits, this ... Read more

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Calvo and Murillo consider the non-policy benefits that voters consider when deciding their vote. While parties advertise policies, they also deliver non-policy benefits in the form of competent economic management, constituency service, and patronage jobs. Different from much of the existing research, which focuses on the implementation of policy or on the delivery of clientelistic benefits, this
... Read more
Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities

by Maria Victoria Murillo ...

Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
This book studies policymaking in the Latin American electricity and telecommunication sectors. Murillo's analysis of the Latin American electricity and telecommunications sectors shows that different degrees of electoral competition and the partisan composition of the government were crucial in resolving policymakers' tension between the interests of voters and the economic incentives generated ... Read more

$27.89 USD

This book studies policymaking in the Latin American electricity and telecommunication sectors. Murillo's analysis of the Latin American electricity and telecommunications sectors shows that different degrees of electoral competition and the partisan composition of the government were crucial in resolving policymakers' tension between the interests of voters and the economic incentives generated
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The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America

Edited by Daniel M. Brinks, Steven Levitsky, María Victoria Murillo ...

Analysts and policymakers often decry the failure of institutions to accomplish their stated purpose. Bringing together leading scholars of Latin American politics, this volume helps us understand why. The volume offers a conceptual and theoretical framework for studying weak institutions. It introduces different dimensions of institutional weakness and explores the origins and consequences of ... Read more

$36.09 USD

Analysts and policymakers often decry the failure of institutions to accomplish their stated purpose. Bringing together leading scholars of Latin American politics, this volume helps us understand why. The volume offers a conceptual and theoretical framework for studying weak institutions. It introduces different dimensions of institutional weakness and explores the origins and consequences of
... Read more
Content and Language Integrated Learning in Spanish and Japanese Contexts

Policy, Practice and Pedagogy

Edited by Keiko Tsuchiya, María Dolores Pérez Murillo ...

Series series Education (R0)
This edited book compiles pedagogical practices and studies of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) from two sites: Spain, where CLIL has been widely implemented for more than a decade, and Japan, where the CLIL approach is still in its relative infancy, and quickly gaining momentum. Focusing on three aspects of the CLIL implementations: policy, practice and pedagogy, the authors ... Read more

$143.09 USD

This edited book compiles pedagogical practices and studies of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) from two sites: Spain, where CLIL has been widely implemented for more than a decade, and Japan, where the CLIL approach is still in its relative infancy, and quickly gaining momentum. Focusing on three aspects of the CLIL implementations: policy, practice and pedagogy, the authors
... Read more

Fatal Invention

How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

by Dorothy Roberts ...

An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a ... Read more

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An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a
... Read more

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Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America

Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development

by Ben Ross Schneider ...

Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
This book argues that Latin America has a distinctive, enduring form of hierarchical capitalism characterized by multinational corporations, diversified business groups, low skills and segmented labor markets. Over time, institutional complementarities knit features of corporate governance and labor markets together and thus contribute to institutional resiliency. Political systems generally ... Read more

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This book argues that Latin America has a distinctive, enduring form of hierarchical capitalism characterized by multinational corporations, diversified business groups, low skills and segmented labor markets. Over time, institutional complementarities knit features of corporate governance and labor markets together and thus contribute to institutional resiliency. Political systems generally
... Read more
Killing the Black Body

Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

by Dorothy Roberts ...

Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication.**"A must-read for all those who claim to care about racial and gender justice in America." —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowIn 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful ... Read more

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Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication.**"A must-read for all those who claim to care about racial and gender justice in America." —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowIn 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful
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Does North America Exist?

Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11

by Stephen Clarkson ...

In the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, renowned public intellectual and scholar Stephen Clarkson asks whether North America "exists" in the sense that the European Union has made Europe exist.Clarkson's rigorous study of the many political and economic relationships that link Canada, the United States, and Mexico answers this unusual ... Read more

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In the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, renowned public intellectual and scholar Stephen Clarkson asks whether North America "exists" in the sense that the European Union has made Europe exist.Clarkson's rigorous study of the many political and economic relationships that link Canada, the United States, and Mexico answers this unusual
... Read more

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