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  • Latin American Plays in Translation

    Modern Stories of Gender, Class and Society in Latin America

    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    Six new plays from Latin America's most exciting and incisive playwrights, newly translated for an English-language audience.From streetwise urchins with a sharp eye for political discourse in Chile to artists who dream of better futures amidst crisis in Perú; from fairy-tale parodies of Princess Diana as an expression of gender-based violence to mundane, everyday acts of love amid hardship, Latin ... Read more

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  • The Theory of Statistical Implicative Analysis

    Or the Implausibility of Falsehood ... When the Exception Confirms the Rule

    This book summarizes the methods and concepts of Statistical Implicative Analysis (SIA), created by Régis Gras in the 1980s to study, in a new way, the behavioural responses of French pupils to mathematics tests. Using a multidimensional, non-symmetrical data analysis method, SIA crosses a set of subjects or objects with a set of variables. It effectively complements traditional correlational and ... Read more

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  • Thyroid Ablation

    An International Guide

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Minimally invasive ultrasound (US)-guided thyroid treatment modalities are becoming effective and safe alternatives to classic surgeries in patients with benign thyroid cysts, solid nonfunctioning benign thyroid nodules that grow or become symptomatic, and in solid hyper-functioning nodules. In addition, they have an effective role in the management of primary micropapillary tumors or recurrent ... Read more

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  • About Streets

    Perspectives on Urbanism, Architecture, and Placemaking

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Focusing on the street as a socio-spatial catalyst, this book fosters a comprehensive conversation on the past, present, and future of streets and public space. While 'the street' is commonly associated with urban form or the metropolitan context of social dynamics and design practices, this interdisciplinary anthology highlights that urban design challenges are global, multidimensional, and ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Informality and the City

    Theories, Actions and Interventions

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book advances the agenda of informality as a transnational phenomenon, recognizing that contemporary urban and regional challenges need to be addressed at both local and global levels. This project may be considered a call for action. Its urgency derives from the impact of the pandemic combined with the effects of climate change in informal settlements around the world. While the notion of ... Read more

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  • A Fight Against...

    by Pablo Manzi ...
    Translated by William Gregory ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    “He said, 'The day will come when they don't cut our heads off in front of people.' And I asked him, 'Why?' And he said, 'Because we'll cut them off ourselves.'”A lecturer in Chile. A study group in the USA. A guard in the desert. A hangman in Mexico. A woman who won't stop dancing in Peru.Pablo Manzi's darkly comic odyssey across the Americas explores whether violence brings us closer together ... Read more

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  • Urban Labyrinths

    Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America

    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America examines intervention initiatives in informal settlements in Latin American cities as social, spatial, architectural, and cultural processes.From the mid-20th century to the present, Latin America and other regions in the Global South have experienced a remarkable demographic trend, with millions of people ... Read more

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    Using an arts-based inquiry, Precarious Spaces addresses current concerns around the instrumentality and agency of art in the context of the precarity of daily life. The book offers a survey of socially and community-engaged art practices in South America, focusing in particular on Brazil’s 'informal' situation, and contributes much to the ongoing debate of the possibility for change through ... Read more

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  • Caresses

    by Sergi Belbel ...
    Translated by John London ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    Sergi Belbel's acclaimed Catalan drama presents a disturbing picture of contemporary Western society set against a background of urban alienation and violence.Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's play La Ronde, each of the ten scenes presents a pair of characters in a confused and contradictory relationship.Sergi Belbel's play Caresses was first performed in this English translation by John London at ... Read more

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    Part travelogue, part diary, part history of this hidden corner of Spain, In Extremadura is also a tragi-comic treatise on the nature of mortality, and a love letter to cinema & literature. It veers from the films of Orson Welles and Luis Bunuel to meditations on torture, terrorism and Welsh holidays, from peregrination (Islamic and Christian) to wild swimming in Scotland and the death of David ... Read more

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  • Children of Fate (Hechos Consumados)

    Translated by Robert Shaw ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
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