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The military history of South America can be divided into two major periods, pre- and post-Columbian, marking the entrance of European forces to the region. The sudden introduction of steel, gunpowder weapons and horses into the Americas would revolutionise warfare. Within the post-Columbian period, the events of the early 19th century, when almost all of South America was marked by wars of independence, also forms a natural historical juncture. Throughout its history, South America has had distinct military features: it has been geographically separated from many major military powers by large oceans; its unique terrain has imposed major logistical challenges, and privileged naval lines of communications. Finally, since independence few other continents have seen internal politics as closely intertwined with military affairs. ... Read more

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Book is in the Spanish language. Benjamin Subercaseaux Zañatu (1902-1973) was a Chilean author whose writings emphasized understanding Chile's national character and history. This book is one of his important works. ... Read more

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In the tradition of her critically acclaimed memoir of her mother, A Cross and a Star, Marjorie Agosín traces the life story of her father, Moisés Agosín, a doctor, scientist, and classical pianist whose life reflects the lives of so many Jews of his generation, who were destined to be always refugees, always “others”—always from somewhere else.

In the search for her father’s origins, Agosín reaches into the past to the story of her grandparents, a tailor and a cigarette maker who met in Odessa in 1890. In their flight from persecution and their search for a better life, Abraham and Rachel Agosín traveled to Istanbul, then briefly to Marseilles, where Moisés is born in the interim between two long sea journeys, “saved from the waters” like the biblical Moses. The family’s continuing search for a home brings them at last to Chile—first to the port city of Valparaiso and then to the fertile central valley, to Quillota, “city of churches and avocados,” where they find a measure of stability but remain, as Jews, always outsiders.

Moisés Agosín studies in the capital, Santiago, and becomes a medical doctor and a respected research scientist. But decades after his parents’ voyages, as Chile falls under the dictatorship of Pinochet, he takes his family on their final journey of exile, to the United States. Here he is once again treated as an outsider—this time, as a refugee from the “Third World.” And here Marjorie herself grows up understanding that for her family, life has taken the form of “a fragile, incongruous thread,” destined to be spent “roaming from country to country, waiting for letters, inventing new languages, remembering distant ones.”

Marjorie Agosín weaves stories from the past and reflections from the present into a unique, poetic memoir. Her homage to her father becomes much more than a simple life story; it is a captivating and moving meditation on the boundaries of national and cultural identities, the meanings of exile andhome, and the legacies of storytelling, memory, and love. ... Read more

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A Story that is All of our Stories
Agosin creates yet another beautiful piece of literature in "Always from Somewhere Else."Her emotional and thought-provoking style provides the reader with an incredible inside view of Jewish life in Chile.A duet of pain and beauty, Agosin's memoir of her father's life is vivid and alive.This story, one of lost and newfound identity has the strong possibility of being close to us all. This book is a definite candidate for everyone's personal library of favorites. ... Read more

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Leftist journal of articles and poetry. This issue is focused on Pinochet's Chile. ... Read more

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One of Latin America's leading sociologists, Manuel Antonio Garreton explores contemporary challenges to democratization in Latin America in this work originally published in Spanish in 1995. He pays particular attention to the example of Chile, analyzing the country's return to democracy and its hopes for continued prosperity following the 1973 coup that overthrew democratically elected president Salvador Allende.

Garreton contends that the period of democratic crisis and authoritarian rule that characterized much of Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s was symptomatic of a larger breakdown in the way society and government worked. A new era emerged in Chile at the end of the twentieth century, Garreton argues--an era that partakes of the great changes afoot in the larger world. This edition updates Garreton's analysis of developments in Chile, considering the administration of current president Ricardo Lagos. The author concludes with an exploration of future prospects for democracy in Latin America. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Estudios Internacionales, published by Universidad de Chile, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales on September 1, 2008. The length of the article is 2231 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The role of the United Nations in the globalized world: promoting a new culture of international relations.(Documentos)
Author: Unavailable
Publication: Estudios Internacionales (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2008
Publisher: Universidad de Chile, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales
Volume: 41Issue: 161Page: 213(7)

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This digital document is an article from Byzantion Nea Hellas, published by Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofia y Humanidades on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 688 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mésogeios--Mediterranée / histoire, périples, langues, cultures No 12 (2000), Byzance sous la direction de Nicos Nicoloudis.(Reseña de periódico/revista)
Author: M. Castillo Didier
Publication: Byzantion Nea Hellas (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofia y Humanidades
Page: 281(2)

Article Type: Reseña de periódico/revista

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Stunning
This is a book of great beauty. The large format, single page photographs are a feast. The comments on the facing page are apt and cut to the chase. They are comprehensive enough to be educative. For more information one needs to go to another sort of book and format. This one is like a beautifully laid out museum.

Apart from the sheer pleasure of perusing this book and the knowledge I gained, I felt I was gently being led to appreciate how development and diversity characterises a tradition, in this case the Jewish one.

The book is massive. But don't let that deter you.

The Jewish Art Book for the home
This is a book ofphotos that represent the Jewish Ceremonial Art Collection of a Chilean Couple;Jacocbo and Asea Furman. Each page has a full size photograph of the object and a detailed description of it on the other page. The art is beautiful and the range is wide.The only slight flaw in this book is that I would have included more of the collectors notes.They were fascinating. This is a top rate book and I am pleased it is in my collection.Libraries should include this as an art reseach item and it is fabulous for a coffee table.

WONDERFUL!
IT WAS ENTERTAINING AND FUN TO READ AND I ENJOYED THE PICTURES VERY MUCH. ... Read more

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Much discussed but poorly understood, globalization is praised as the answer to all the world's problems and blamed for everything from pollution to poverty. In Many Globalizations, Peter Berger and Samuel Huntington bring together an array of scholars from around the world, who paint a far subtler and more richly shaded portrait, showing both the power and the unexpected consequences of this great force. Here the stereotypes of globalization as American imperialism on the one hand or economic cure-all on the other fall apart under the close scrutiny of these leading scholars. Looking at globalization in countries such as Chile, Japan, South Africa, Germany, Turkey, Hungary, Taiwan, India, and the United States, they show that an emerging global culture does indeed exist, one that is heavily American in origin and content, but that is far from a centrally directed force like classic imperialism--nor is it simply a "metastasized Disneyland." They examine the currents that carry this culture, from a worldwide class of young professionals to nongovernmental organizations, and define globalization's many variations (ranging from Buddhist influences to Islamic modernism) as well as subglobalizations that bind regions together. The authors also draw attention to globalizing forces that have escaped media scrutiny, such as the role of evangelical Protestantism (which both adapts to local languages and cultures, and introduce distinctively American values) and Opus Dei, the conservative Catholic movement that originated in Spain. Analytical, incisive and stimulating, Many Globalizations offers rare insight into perhaps the central issue of modern times, one that is changing the West as much as the developing world. ... Read more

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Book recieved
Book arrived in the condition listed, bargain price, and speedy arrival and response. I would highly recommend this company!

Very good book
Good overview of the theories and impact of globalization.I also recommend Haley's "Multinational corporations in political environments:Ethics, values and strategies" to understand the limits of the economic powers shaping our society.

Unbiased and sometimes informative book
First the good:

This book is an unbiased account of Globalization and it's effect in several different countries.Each section is written by a different Graduate student from that area of the world. Each account gives a first hand look at how the people of that coutnry view globalization through the eyes of one of it's members.

Second, the Bad:

As stated earlier these are grad students writing these passages so it's hit and mis with these articles.For instance the One on China I found to be very informative and well written while the one on India was poorly written and read more like a promotion for the writers religion.

This book is definately worth the time because it doesn't say Globalization is good or evil, it just gives unbiased information.Just take some of the passages as what they are, graduate study level work

The joke is on your conception of globalization
Imagine a field report from ten countries of the many ways that globalization is occurring, one of which explains globalization in Hungary in the form of the following common joke, as would the average person in the street:

"...I feel sorry for the enthusiasts of globalization too,especially since I have been told the following joke inBudapest, which ridicules the time/space compression, afavorite concept of globalization theorists.It goes likethis: How much time would Hungarians need not to stoplittering?The answer is, seven centuries and one second.Inthe first five centuries we get rid of the Turks, theHabsburgs, and the Russians, who - as is well known -mercilessly forced us to litter.Then about one century isabsolutely necessary to define the notion of "Hungarianrubbish" and another one to copy and then to approve thecurrent German law prohibiting littering.And what about that additional second?Ah, that we need to learn how to cheat thenew law" (from Janos Kovacs, "Rival Temptations and PassiveResistance," chapter 6:173).

Not all the articles in this compilation contain such amusing and illuminating insights as the above excerpt.Nonetheless, this is a treasure trove of papers that avoids the superficiality of the pop studies on globalization one hand ("Belly of the Beast," "McWorld"); and on the other hand mostly avoids the overly academic studies that lose the reader in a number of word abstractions ("time/space compression").As one author, Janos Kovacs, wryly points out, economists may count the growing number of baseball bats in Hungary and incorrectly conclude that mass consumer sports are pushing out traditional sports and even religion in the Third World.The supply and demand calculus of the economist would miss the cultural fact that baseball bats in Hungary are replacing knives and guns for street fighting and protection.

The book is the product of a three-year study that was initially framed in a "challenge-response" thesis of globalization, which ended up failing to reflect the reality of the phenomenon, much like rejecting a null hypothesis in science. As editor Peter Berger puts it: "the goal of every scholarly enterprise is to blow someone's theory out of the water.In this instance that someone was me."

The field accounts from political scientist Arturo Talavera on Chile, and Janos Kovacs on Hungary are worth the price of the book alone.Ann Bernstein's piece on globalization in South Africa reads a bit like a national chamber of commerce "promo" that glosses over the very tragic underside of globalization that is occurring in that country.

The book punctures the stereotypes of globalization on either side of the political or ideological spectrum.That Latin American women gain most under the influence of evangelical Protestant Christianity runs counter to the notion in America that woman suffer most under the influence of conservative religion.That Coca Cola often serves disaster victims in developing countries faster and better than U.N. aid programs is also likely to be a mind buster.But no matter what world-view (modern or traditional) that one might be seeking to affirm by reading this book, it is more likely than not that it will be disconfirmed (as even the editors preconceptions were not confirmed). As sociologists David Hunter and Joshua Yates aptly state in their concluding paper, the complexity and reality of globalization is likely to "burst the mental bubble," or cognitive map, of members of opposing organizations active in globalizing countries, such as Campus Crusade and Opus Dei on one side, or Planned Parenthood and Greenpeace on the other.
One minor criticism was the failure of the book to include Peter Berger's seminal article "The Four Faces of Global Culture" that formed the skeletal framework of the study.I would have also liked to see more emphasis on how globalization, especially immigration, is changing the West as much as the developing world.Highly recommended. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Atlantic Economic Journal, published by Atlantic Economic Society on June 1, 1994. The length of the article is 519 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Long-run price estimation. (Anthology)
Author: Neil B. Ridler
Publication: Atlantic Economic Journal (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1994
Publisher: Atlantic Economic Society
Volume: v22Issue: n2Page: p97(1)

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Jodorowsky’s memoirs of his experiences with Master Takata and the group of wisewomen--magiciennes--who influenced his spiritual growth

• Reveals Jodorowsky turning the same unsparing spiritual vision seen in El Topo to his own spiritual quest

• Shows how the author’s spiritual insight and progress was catalyzed repeatedly by wisewoman shamans and healers

In 1970, John Lennon introduced to the world Alejandro Jodorowsky and the movie, El Topo, that he wrote, starred in, and directed. The movie and its author instantly became a counterculture icon. The New York Times said the film “demands to be seen,” and Newsweek called it “An Extraordinary Movie!” But that was only the beginning of the story and the controversy of El Topo, and the journey of its brilliant creator. His spiritual quest began with the Japanese master Ejo Takata, the man who introduced him to the practice of meditation, Zen Buddhism, and the wisdom of the koans. Yet in this autobiographical account of his spiritual journey, Jodorowsky reveals that it was a small group of wisewomen, far removed from the world of Buddhism, who initiated him and taught him how to put the wisdom he had learned from his master into practice.

At the direction of Takata, Jodorowsky became a student of the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington, thus beginning a journey in which vital spiritual lessons were transmitted to him by various women who were masters of their particular crafts. These women included Doña Magdalena, who taught him “initiatic” or spiritual massage; the powerful Mexican actress known as La Tigresa (the “tigress”); and Reyna D’Assia, daughter of the famed spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. Other important wisewomen on Jodorowsky’s spiritual path include María Sabina, the priestess of the sacred mushrooms; the healer Pachita; and the Chilean singer Violeta Parra. The teachings of these women enabled him to discard the emotional armor that was hindering his advancement on the path of spiritual awareness and enlightenment. ... Read more

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Indeed...
I do so enjoy these short reviews. For This book is deeply profound and speaks for itself.

Jodorowsky y las Magas
Great book by this great surrealist master. His first encounter with Leonora Carrington as he described it is simply amazing! surreal surreal surreal surreal surreal surreal. If you are a big fan of Jodo buy this book but read first "La Danza de la Realidad" [The Dance of Reality].

Undoing yourself with Alejandro Jodorowsky
a beautifully sculpted ritual healing disguised as a autobiographical tale, this book will take you on a journey in to your own heart and confront you with the wondrousness of life and encounters with the incredibly rich mind that populates it.

it is truly a crime that more of Jodo's works are not translated into english, and that he should ever have trouble finding money to make his films. until people understand what jodo is trying to give them, they will never understand themselves. ... Read more

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"De Tagle is a truly gifted storyteller and is able to capture her life and the political circumstances of her time with great bravado. I found her book funny, entertaining, amusing, joyful, and sad. A wonderful memoir."--Marjorie Agosin, Professor and Chair of Spanish, Wellesley CollegeLillian Lorca de Tagle is living proof of women's progress in the twentieth century. Born into a privileged, yet circumscribed world in 1914 as the daughter of a wealthy Chilean diplomat, she became a translator and journalist at a time when few women of her class held jobs. Ordered into exile in the United States by her disapproving mother, she became a successful reporter, translator, and editor, while raising two daughters as a single working mother. In this beautifully written memoir, de Tagle looks back over a fascinating, cosmopolitan life. She describes how her upbringing in various European capitals prepared her for a life of continual change. She remembers the restrictions that upper class Chilean society placed on women and how these ultimately propelled her to a career in the United States that included an editorship at Américas magazine and work for the State Department, as well as a series of posts with the USIA/Voice of America. Woven throughout her memoir are vivid glimpses of family, friends, husbands, and lovers, including the artist Roberto Matta. This spicy blend of personalities, work, and culture tells a quintessential coming-of-age story of a thoroughly modern woman. ... Read more