Mexico's Ruins

Mexico's RuinsExplores the trope of modernity in Garca Ponce's writings. At face value, the concept of modernity seems to reference a stream of social and historical traffic headed down a utopian one way street named "progress." Mexico's Ruins examines modernity in twentieth century Mexican culture as a much more ambiguous concept, arguing that such a single minded notion is inadequate to comprehend the complexity of modern Mexico's national projects and their

based on recent developments in understanding of the physical and chemical properties of soil deterioration

The emergence and proliferation of resistant pathogens and the cognate decrease in the efficacy of antibiotic therapy pose a concrete risk to public health and sustainable farming

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This poetry book is a grain of seed in light of the poet's longing for warm human nature

the occupation of ladies of leisure—one scene after another is unfolded in her writing that reveals not only a mind that observes and records but a human being who attempts to feel and understand a different culture

Explores the significance of Alexander the Great in French medieval literature and culture

we assess future SIC losses under anticipated global change processes such as increased N deposition and fertilization

and archaeology of the greater Eastern Mediterranean region: from Pre-Dynastic Egypt to the Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia

The chapter provides an analytical review of the adoption of CA in Sub-Saharan Africa by smallholder farmers

The chapter indicates the important avocado producing regions in the different countries and their characteristics and potentials

causing economic losses due to condemnation or downgrading of carcasses

Based on personal interviews with six men and women who survived Enver Hoxha’s communist regime