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Henos aquí ante un libro absolutamente insólito, explosivo por su contenido, escrito por un simple campesino cubano que en 1957, por razones más personales que ideológicas, se convierte en soldado de la guerrilla encabezada por Fidel Castro y el Che Guevara en la Sierra Maestra, lucha al lado de éstos hasta la victoria de la Revolución, comparte responsabilidades con los vencedores, es reclutado por el Che en Africa y, en 1966, parte con éste a la «campaña» de Bolivia, donde el Che encontrará la muerte al año siguiente y de donde él sale como un superviviente algo desengañado, lo cual no le impide volver a Bolivia por segunda vez.

An unusual memoir of explosive content written by a humble Cuban farmer who joined the guerilla headed by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in the Sierra Maestra in 1957 and went on to fight with Che in Africa and Bolivia, where Guevara found his death a year later..
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In Economic Growth, Benigno Valdes distills the fundamental issues of growth theory and covers the important new ideas in the field in a clear, accessible, and even entertaining way..
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Dopamine is a phenethylamine naturally produced by the human body. In the brain, dopamine functions as a neurotransmitter, activating the five types of dopamine receptor - D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5, and their variants Dopamine is produced in several areas of the brain, including the substantia nigra. Dopamine is also a neurohormone released by the hypothalamus. Its main function as a hormone is to inhibit the release of prolactin from the anterior lobe of the pituitary. Dopamine can be supplied as a medication that acts on the sympathetic nervous system, producing effects such as increased heart rate and blood pressure.However, since dopamine cannot cross the blood-brain barrier, dopamine given as a drug does not directly affect the central nervous system. To increase the amount of dopamine in the brains of patients with diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Dopa-Responsive Dystonia, L-DOPA (levodopa), which is the precursor of dopamine, can be given because it can cross the blood-brain barrier. This book presents new research in the field..
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Es la experiencia literaria algo inefable e intransferible? Es la escritura creativa el reflejo de una interioridad refinada al alcance tan sólo de una inmensa minoría?... Este libro da una respuesta negativa a estos interrogantes y muestra con claridad que es posible educar en el conocimiento y en el aprecio de la expresión literaria, en el estímulo de los hábitos de lectura y en las estrategias de la escritura creativa..
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Foucault and Latin America is the first volume to trace the influence of Foucault's theories on power, discourse, government, subjectivity, and sexuality in Latin American thought..
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An interdisciplinary study of the widespread metaphors for Latin America as a subject of crisis..
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Among the elements that define the classic film noir-chiaroscuro lighting, voice-over narration, and such archetypal characters as the world-weary private eye and the femme fatale-perhaps no element is more responsible for the genre's continued popularity among movie buffs, filmmakers, and critics than the palpable sense of anxiety that emanates from the screen. Because the genre emerged in the shadow of the Second World War, this profound psychological and philosophical unease is usually ascribed either to postwar fears about the atomic bomb or to the reactions of returning soldiers to a new social landscape. In Noir Anxiety, however, Kelly Oliver and Benigno Trigo interpret what has been called the "free-floating anxiety" of film noir as concrete apprehensions about race and sexuality.

Applying feminist and postcolonial psychoanalytic theory to traditional noir films (Murder, My Sweet; The Lady from Shanghai; Vertigo; and Touch of Evil) and the "neo-noirs" of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s (Chinatown, Devil in a Blue Dress, and Bound), the authors uncover a rich array of unconscious worries and desires about ambiguous sexual, racial, and national identities, often displaced onto these films' narrative and stylistic components. In particular, Oliver and Trigo focus on the looming absence of the mother figure within the genre and fears about maternal sexuality and miscegenation. Drawing on the work of Freud and Julia Kristeva, Noir Anxiety locates film noir's studied ambivalence toward these critical themes within the genre's social, historical, and cinematic context.

Kelly Oliver is professor of philosophy and women's studies and Benigno Trigo is associate professor of Hispanic languages and literature, both at Stony Brook University. Oliver is the author of five books, including Witnessing: Beyond Recognition (Minnesota, 2001). Trigo is author of Subjects of Crisis: Race and Gender as Disease in Latin America (1999)..
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