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Hashemi, Manata. "Journey into America." American Journal of Islam and Society 28, no. 2 (April 1, 2011): 126–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v28i2.1257.
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Akbar Ahmed’s latest book, Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam,has become one of the first comprehensive ethnographic studies of theMuslim community in America. Ahmed and his team of young researchersoffer a keen anthropological analysis of American Muslims that spans overseventy-five cities, one hundred mosques, and two thousand interviews.A modern-day version of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America,Journey into America charts the various historical, social, and ideologicaltrajectories that have shaped both American and Muslim identities. Assuch, the work represents one of the first post-9/11 sociological commentariesthat attempt to define the nature of American Muslim identity and thepossibilities for its reevaluation. Over the course of nine chapters, Ahmedlays out for a general audience the groundwork for precisely such anendeavor ...
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Hughes, Jennifer Scheper. "A Materialist Theory of Religion: The Latin American Frame." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 24, no. 4-5 (2012): 430–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341236.
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Abstract This review essay engages Manuel Vásquez’s new book, More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion, from the perspective of Latin American religious practice and thought. Vásquez’s materialist theory of religion is shaped by Latin American intellectual strands, including liberationist intellectual concerns and commitments. While Vásquez’s focus remains primarily on the body, his work allows for and invites a more extended theorization of material religion (or material culture)—bringing new attention to the “objects,” the “things,” that so often anchor and define religious practice in Latin America and across the globe.
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Eaton, Kent. "Federalism in Europe and Latin America: Conceptualization, Causes, and Consequences." World Politics 60, no. 4 (July 2008): 665–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wp.0.0017.
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Recent events in Europe and Latin America have triggered serious debate over federalism. In response, political scientists have turned to the new institutionalism literature in the attempt to understand both the causes and the consequences of federal institutions. Continuing a long tradition in the scholarship on federalism, each of the books under review defines the term differently, reflecting a lack of conceptual agreement that may complicate the development of more robust theories.Despite these conceptual differences, and their focus on very different time periods, the four books under review are alike in the emphasis they place on bargaining between national and subnational politicians. While this interest in bargaining clearly demonstrates the continuing impact of William Riker's work, much of the new research challenges parts of the Rikerian framework. As a measure of their quality, these four books will significantly shape the course of the emerging literature on comparative federalism, but future work should pay greater attention to interests, ideas, and international factors.
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Wilding, Denise, Clare Rowan, Bill Maurer, Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Denise Wilding, Clare Rowan, Bill Maurer, and Denise Schmandt-Besserat. "Tokens, Writing and (Ac)counting: A Conversation with Denise Schmandt-Besserat and Bill Maurer." Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 5, no. 1 (October 27, 2017): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v5i1.196.
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In her foundational study of Neolithic clay tokens, the renowned archaeologist Denise Schmandt-Besserat identified that different token shapes represented different goods and were used in accounting and distribution. When these tokens came to be stored in sealed clay envelopes (likely representing a debt), each token was impressed on the outside of the envelope before being placed inside (thus allowing people to see quickly what was within). Three-dimensional objects were thus reduced to two-dimensional representations, the first form of writing (and contributing to cuneiform script). These clay envelopes in turn developed into pictographic tablets; here each token did not have to be impressed into the clay in a 'one, one, one' system, but instead quantity was indicated by a numerical symbol - abstract number was born. Much of Schmandt-Besserat’s work can be found online at https://sites.utexas.edu/dsb/. Her book ‘How Writing Came About’ was listed by American Scientist magazine as one of the 100 books that shaped science in the 20th century, and she remains an active expert on all things ‘token’.
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Jato, Mónica. "Concha Zardoya: The Intellectual in Exile." Culture & History Digital Journal 8, no. 1 (July 17, 2019): 007. http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2019.007.
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The intellectual life of Concha Zardoya (1914-2004) was shaped significantly by its transnational dimension. While Chile was her country of birth, Spain was the place where her university education took place and the United States where her academic and intellectual career developed. The atmosphere of political repression experienced in the 1940s in Spain forced her to look for a new home in the USA. There she obtained her PhD, developing a successful academic career that spanned the next twenty-nine years of her life. Her work as a literary critic was, however, intrinsically linked to her work as a poet, which first began with the publishing of Pájaros del Nuevo Mundo in 1946. This article considers Zardoya’s poetry in light of her experience as a political exile. The fact that her departure from Spain did not coincide with the mass exodus of 1939 has caused many critics to view her residence in the USA as “emigration.” My analysis will focus, instead, on the exilic dimension of her work as an act of affective citizenship, paying particular attention to three books of poetry written in America: Desterrado ensueño, Corral de vivos y muertos and Hondo Sur.
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Yarbou, Foday. "THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT POLICY ON THE INTEGRATION AND DEPORTATION OF AFRICAN MIGRANTS." POLITICO 22, no. 2 (November 27, 2022): 71–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.32528/politico.v22i2.7482.
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Migration from Africa to Europe and Germany is a complex and controversial phenomenon with major socioeconomic impacts on countries. The phenomenon reached an unprecedented level at the dawn of the 21st century hitting records globally. Migration in Africa has been preoccupied and shaped by pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial eras. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade is a typical example of this which shows the movement of millions of Africans to America and Europe in particular. To migrate means to move from one settlement to the other and this movement is always guided by policies and regulations. The stay of African migrants in Germany has both advantages and disadvantages. German policy on the integration and deportation of African migrants is well outlined and discussed in the work. Evidence shows that the country’s migrant policy comprises a set of rules and regulations that respect humanity and order. The author discussed the key main policies on integration and deportation and propose some recommendations to the German policymakers. This work used a qualitative research method to build a convincing chain of evidence, which entails the exploration of scholarly works such as books, journal articles, newspapers, magazines, etc. However, in this paper, only field notes and secondary data are utilized. Furthermore, theoretical analysis and approaches are also used.
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Paiva Ponzio, Angelica. "Gio Ponti’s Latin [American] Encounters: A Reading from the Archives." Journal of Design History 32, no. 4 (April 25, 2019): 356–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epz011.
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Abstract The design languages and forms of knowledge used by architects and other designers indicate that they not only operate ‘within the same domains of knowledge and action’, but also share similar historical contexts. Latin American modern architecture and design histories constitute an account of cultural exchanges between architectural and design practitioners working on a trans-national and multidisciplinary basis. Reviewing these practices today may help break the tendency of historical accounts to focus on a ‘diffusionist model’ and reinforce the critical acknowledgement of the modern legacy in Latin America. The work of architect and designer Gio Ponti is an example of this. During the 1950s Ponti travelled to many countries and built one of his masterpieces, Villa Planchart, in Caracas. Although much has been published about Ponti’s Venezuelan project, his letters reveal other lesser known but significant encounters with Latin American culture. Using his Domus editorials and readings from his correspondence as guidelines, complemented by articles, seminal books, and projects, this article will explore, from a more plural point of view, how Ponti’s experiences and relationships developed in Latin America, especially those lesser known relationships in Brazil, helped shape some of his design processes and conceptualizations.
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Toski, Mike. "Book Review: Historic Sites and Landmarks That Shaped America: From Acoma Pueblo to Ground Zero." Reference & User Services Quarterly 56, no. 3 (April 3, 2017): 218. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.56n3.218a.
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This new work explores 260 celebrated locations of historical import in the United States. A unique publication, the only similar undertaking in the recent past is Thomas W. Paradis’s The Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Landmarks (Lorenz 2011). This older Lorenz edition is not widely held in American academic or public libraries, focuses more on the visual, and also highlights seemingly less-compelling sites such as state capitol buildings, marketplaces, and warehouses. Newton-Matza’s book, on the other hand, hones in on places more widely acknowledged as historically significant, such as the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the Grand Canyon. Other locations included here may be closely associated with major battles or well-known figures of the American past—US presidents, writers, and inventors, for example. The latter type of entry tends to be largely biographical (e.g., the Booker T. Washington National Monument in Virginia) while others focus chiefly on whatever significant event took place there, such as Woodstock or Ground Zero.
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Weisbard, Eric. "American music writing: an unruly history." Popular Music 40, no. 3-4 (October 25, 2021): 388–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143021000441.
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AbstractPopular music writing has made for strange colleagues and quickly lost legacies. I want to sketch some of them and suggest how they continue to influence the US version of popular music studies, arguably more so in our moment than in the previous period that codified an academic approach. I'll be anecdotal, alive to particulars of language, affiliation, method and form rather than attempting a quantification. Ranging from William Billings in 1770 to Daphne Brooks in 2021, I'll explore how such key framings as vernacular, sentimental and literary have shaped the nature of books on song. My hope is that, in synthesizing the larger history, I can suggest why so often this work could be characterized as, to use one of Robert Palmer's favourite words, unruly.
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Gunnell, John G. "Louis Hartz and the Liberal Metaphor: A Half-Century Later." Studies in American Political Development 19, no. 2 (October 2005): 196–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898588x0500012x.
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In his introduction to the 1991 edition of Louis Hartz's The Liberal Tradition in America, journalist Tom Wicker noted its relevance for understanding the ambivalent appeal of values that had led both to the downfall of communism and to the “demonization” of Saddam Hussein. Wicker also noted that Hartz's synoptic use of “liberal” as encompassing what is commonly referred to in American political discourse as “liberal” and “conservative” ideologies might “add to some Americans' confusion” about the already “confused and abused” use of the term. As we reach the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Hartz's book, it is important to reassess the work, especially in light of what might seem an obvious parallel between his concerns in the context of the Cold War and contemporary worries about the relationship between American foreign policy and domestic politics that has evolved since 2001. Whether the valence has been negative or positive, Hartz's image of a liberal consensus in the United States has created a picture that has held the academic mind captive and shaped its approach to both scholarship and political analysis.
Books on the topic "Books that Shaped Work in America"
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Conn, Peter J. Great American bestsellers: The books that shaped America. Chantilly, VA: Teaching Co., 2009.
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ill, Lin Grace, ed. Round is a mooncake: A book of shapes. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000.
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ill, Lin Grace, ed. Round is a mooncake: A book of shapes. New York: Scholastic, 2001.
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illustrator, Lin Grace, ed. Round is a mooncake: A book of shapes. Mankato, MN: Amicus illustrated, 2015.
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Linklater, Andro. Measuring America: How an untamed wilderness shaped the United States and fulfilled the promise of democracy. Waterville, Me: Thorndike Press, 2003.
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Page, Joanna. "5. Albums, Atlases, and their Afterlives." In Decolonial Ecologies, 163–200. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0339.05.
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The first part of this chapter discusses art projects that intervene directly into the books and other materials created by travelling European naturalists of the later colonial period, whose conception of nature has so thoroughly shaped representations of Latin America’s landscapes. I explore projects by Rodrigo Arteaga (Chile), Antonio Bermúdez (Colombia), Claudia Coca (Peru), Tiago Sant’ana (Brazil), Oscar Santillán (Ecuador) and others that stage material interventions or performances in relation to the printed images, atlases, albums and catalogues that recorded the findings of scientific expeditions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As well as combating the particular images of Latin America forged in these works, these artists reflect more broadly on the affordances of different material technologies—such as printing, engravings and the book—used to create and disseminate knowledge. The second part of the chapter brings together projects that engage with the scientific, commercial and artistic afterlives of the iconic images that emerged from Humboldt’s journey across the Americas (1799–1804). Bermúdez demonstrates how Humboldt’s images of Latin American landscapes—such as the famous views of the Chimborazo—live on through different kinds of cultural mediation and commercial accumulation. The relationship between Humboldt’s science and extractivism in Latin America, suggested in a poetic mode by Santillán, is explicitly developed in the expansive Archivo Humboldt (2011–), a set of performances, documentation, and (mock) archives created by Fabiano Kueva (Ecuador). These remediations and re-enactments recuperate archives of all kinds for decolonial purposes, reworking them in ways that decentre the ocularcentric, logocentric bias of Western modernity while exploring the power of published words and images to represent the colonial other.
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Auspos, Patricia. "3. Separate Careers, Separate Lives." In Breaking Conventions, 175–258. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0318.03.
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Elsie Clews Parsons (1874-1941) and her husband Herbert Parsons (1869-1925) present a very different pattern of conflict and accommodation in a marriage shaped by the wife’s determination to work. Both Elsie and Herbert came from wealthy and prominent New York families. When they married in 1900, after a six-year courtship, Elsie was an atheist, a feminist, and a social rebel who openly challenged female stereotypes and traditional roles. A Ph.D. in sociology, she was teaching at Barnard College and insisted on keeping her job. Herbert, a deeply religious and rather staid man, was a successful lawyer and politician. Although Elsie and Herbert seemed mismatched, I argue, in contrast to other of Elsie’s biographers, that their marriage was a love match. Their troubles began after Herbert was elected to Congress in 1904. Elsie gave up her teaching job, moved to Washington with their two children, and had four more children (two died shortly after birth). When the controversial views she espoused in her first book set off a public furor that offended and embarrassed Herbert, she stopped publishing under her own name. A few years later, she was wracked with jealousy when she thought he had fallen in love with another woman. Elsie and Herbert did not divorce, but they led increasingly separate lives after they returned to New York in 1911. Elsie organized her personal and domestic life around two new careers. After establishing a foothold in the feminist, bohemian intellectual world in Greenwich Village, she became a sought-after, influential social critic, writing for The Masses and The New Republic. Then she connected with Franz Boas’s professional circle and became a highly respected anthropologist, studying indigenous peoples in the American Southwest, the Caribbean, and South America. Elsie had two lengthy love affairs, with the architect Grant LaFarge, and the novelist Robert Herrick. She deliberately chose lovers who – unlike Herbert – were adventurous, interested in her work, and eager to travel with her. In the late teens and twenties, her relationship with Herbert gradually improved, in part because he took on more responsibility for their four surviving children. His unexpected death in 1925, while she was involved with Herrick, was a blow for Elsie. Deeply in love with Elsie, Herrick wrote about her in several novels and short stories in the 1920s. Initially supportive of her work, he became increasingly jealous of her success and deeply angry at being reduced to what he thought was a subordinate role in her life. His last book about her, published in 1932, several years after their affair ended, cruelly disparaged her and her work. Elsie was repeatedly disappointed by the men in her life, but she never stopped trying to implement her feminist vision of a more equitable and intimate relationship grounded in work rather than domestic life.
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Guinot-Ferri, Laura. "The Production and Circulation of Literature for Women Between Europe and America: A Perspective from the Hispanic-American World." In Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century, 315–37. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46939-8_13.
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AbstractThis essay aims to analyse how literature “for women” and the image of the ideal female reader were shaped in the eighteenth century by focusing on relations between Spain and colonial Latin America and comparing them with the situation elsewhere in Europe. The tendency has been to adopt a “national approach” to the study of women as potential readers and moral subjects with little regard for the similarities and differences between disparate geographical spaces. To overcome these limitations, this essay will apply a comparative and transnational perspective. I shall set out a general overview of works addressed to women in Spain and New Spain that were published or translated in the second half of the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the transatlantic circulation of this kind of literature. By drawing on a variety of sources, such as newspaper advertisements and bibliographic catalogues relating to book production in America and Spain, I shall present a dynamic vision of the complex relationship between gender and reading, one that belies any simplistic and increasingly outdated assertions of Hispanic and Iberian backwardness in comparison with the rest of Europe during the Enlightenment.
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Appel, Charlotte. "Chapter 11. Translating, transforming, and targeting books for children." In Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 250–72. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/clcc.15.11app.
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This chapter investigates the work of Morten Hallager (1740–1803), one of the most productive figures in the emerging market for children’s books in Denmark. With strong language skills in German and French, know-how as a former printer, and a career as a schoolmaster, he had important qualifications and experiences for transmitting books and transforming them for a Danish audience. Based on analyses of 38 publications for children by Hallager, mostly from the 1790s, the chapter demonstrates the importance of analysing different variables and dimensions, when mapping translation practices, not least the number of source texts and the degree of “localization”. Being shaped by, and taking advantage of, specific developments in Denmark, Hallager needs also to be seen as one of many European transnational agents dealing with children’s books during the late Enlightenment.
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Masschelein, Anneleen. "Introduction: Literary Advice from Quill to Keyboard." In New Directions in Book History, 1–43. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53614-5_1.
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AbstractThis chapter presents a brief history of the dominant, Anglo-American literary advice tradition from the nineteenth century to the present as well as a state of the art of the existing scholarship on literary advice. We focus on several key moments for literary advice in the USA and in the UK: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Philosophy of Composition” (1846), the debate between Sir Walter Besant and Henry James surrounding “The Art of Fiction” (1884), the era of the handbook (1880s–1930s), the “program era” (McGurl 2009) and postwar literary advice, the rise of the “advice author” in the 1980s and 1990s, and finally advice in the “digital literary sphere” (Murray 2018). The overview captures both the remarkable consistency and the transformations of advice, against the background of changes in the literary system, the rise of creative writing, changes in the publishing world, and the rise of the Internet and self-publishing. It highlights the role of some specific actors in the literary advice industry, such as moguls, women, and gurus, and draws attention to a number of subgenres (genre handbooks, self-help literary advice, and the writing memoir), as well as to counter-reactions and resistance to advice in literary works and in avant-garde manuals. Advice is regarded both in the context of the professionalization of authorship in a literary culture shaped by cultural and creative industries, and of the exponential increase of amateur creativity.
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Evelev, John. "{ Introduction }." In Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874, 1–23. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192894557.003.0001.
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Introducing the book as a whole, this chapter argues that the rise in popularity of the picturesque in mid-nineteenth-century America was a discipline of transforming landscapes to serve bourgeois ideological purposes, not simply a vogue in landscape aesthetics. Centering on the work of Andrew Jackson Downing (1815–1852), whose influential writings and designs shaped the creation of the suburbs, new urban parks, and reconfigured domestic spaces, the Introduction traces the social meanings of the picturesque in late eighteenth-century England and its popularization in the United States in scenery books, aesthetic treatises, and design books in the 1830s and 1840s. Literary landscape genres had a role in popularizing the picturesque and helping middle-class Americans to imagine a new national landscape. In theorizing this role, the Introduction also recovers a literary tradition that has been largely excluded from the dominant narratives about nineteenth-century American literature.
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Boes, Tobias. "Interlude II: Lotte in Weimar (1939)." In Thomas Mann's War, 114–21. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0006.
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Literary tradition, and specifically the question of how the public perception of an author is shaped by circulation and criticism, is one of the main topics of the first fictional work that Mann completed during his American exile: the novel Lotte in Weimar. This book was first published in America in 1940 as ...
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Díez-Canedo, Aurora. "Francisca Perujo y sus ediciones mexicanas de Gemelli Careri, Francesco Carletti y Antonio de Morga." In America: il racconto di un continente | América: el relato de un continente. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-319-9/016.
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Highlighted here is the historiographical contribution of Francisca Perujo Álvarez, writer, philologist, translator and historian, by way of her academic edition of two books on Italian travellers of the 16th and 17th century (Gemelli Careri and Francesco Carletti), and the work she undertook, in 2007, for the second Mexican edition of Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas by the Sevillian official Antonio de Morga. Seen together, these three volumes confirm today’s accepted view of a first globalisation during the Spanish empire’s expansion and show, through first-hand testimony, not only navigation and commercial routes, product consumption and exchange, but a truly intercultural world where American and Asian local names became assimilated into Spanish, and different kinds of skills and experience shaped the destinies and mobility of people despite the distances and the great risks involved.
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Lynn, Andrew. "More than Toil." In Saving the Protestant Ethic, 21—C1.P42. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190066680.003.0002.
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Abstract This chapter introduces the American evangelical faith and work movement. Beginning in the mid-century decades, American evangelicals began pouring resources and energies into organizations and efforts that could confer meaning on secular work. A review of books published through this era reveals a growing worry about the secular world of “Monday,” a term that represents larger anxieties of the economic realm. A sociological analysis suggests that this concern was a product of changing social-institutional dynamics that shaped the lifeworlds of conservative evangelicalism. The result of these shifts was a constituency of conservative religious adherents operating at the intersection of two highly demanding meaning systems: a conservative religious framework demanding whole-life devotion and a careerist-based orientation to high-status work also making demands on energy and identity. The faith and work movement is presented as a means of negotiating American evangelicalism’s entry into these work-intensive, career-centric spaces, a space the author labels “creative-class capitalism.”
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Smith, Erin A. "Introduction." In What Would Jesus Read?, 1–18. University of North Carolina Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469621326.003.0012.
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This book is a historical examination of selected popular religious books from the twentieth century, as well as the communities of readers and writers for whom they were important. It emphasizes the enduring importance of religious publishing in the history of print culture in twentieth-century America, and of religion in American literature more generally. Working at the intersection of three fields of scholarship—the history of the book, lived religion, and consumer culture—it shows how religious reading continues to shape the ideas and assumptions of millions of modern and contemporary Americans by citing works such as Charles Sheldon's In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Kathleen Norris's The Cloister Walk, Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul, Bruce Barton's The Man Nobody Knows, Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking, and other religious self-help books authored by ministers, priests, and rabbis. The book also describes what it calls “middlebrow” reading of popular religious books.
Conference papers on the topic "Books that Shaped Work in America"
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Fortin, Moira. "Practice as Research a collective form of activism from a South American perspective." In LINK 2023. Tuwhera Open Access, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2022.v4i1.202.
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As a Chilean living in Aotearoa/ New Zealand I am constantly looking to Latin and South America. Living in the diaspora has allowed me to examine and reflect upon the different socio-political issues arising in the region from afar and with perspective. As an actress and researcher, I am on an ongoing exploration considering how to share research projects from a creative activist standpoint, moving beyond traditional academic research publications into forms that are situated and accessed in the exchanges of everyday relationships and resistance. Written academic outputs are primarily intended for reading, although some contain images or photographs that complement and / or enrich the verbal content. These outputs tend to reach a small portion of the population, the highly educated elite with economic means to access books and participate in conferences or symposiums. Practice as research emerges from a rigorous process of research, critical analysis, and embodied distillation of academic texts. Practice as research relates to my aim to share research not only with wider audiences reaching communities with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. It also relates to my intention to create work that could resonate outwards, across borders and boundaries, transferring content from one format to another, from the academic world to a medium of expression such as theatre, illustration, dance and/or digital. The concept of transposition emphasizes the creative process that operates in the transition from one medium to another, it “designates the idea of transference, but also that of transplantation, of putting something in another place, of removing certain models, but thinking of another register or system” (Wolf, 2001, p. 16). The transposition process creates a new object, precisely from other languages, cultural contexts, and disciplinary formats (Wolf, 2001). The idea of transmedia transformation certainly applies to my way of finding spaces to share research. Working across languages, Spanish, English, German and French has enabled me to work collectively and in collaboration with other artists, researchers, and activists. These collective actions have been produced through different media and artistic languages where each of us bring our specific artistic experiences, aesthetic incarnations, and gender experiences to inform our research practices.
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Lauritano, Steven. "The Case for Survey Eclecticism." In 108th Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.108.95.
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Imagine an architectural history survey course in which the diversity of interpretive approaches takes precedence over any attempted comprehensiveness of content. This paper examines the merits, and possible pitfalls, of such a class. Instead of asking students to work through a single textbook, an “eclectic survey” presents a chapter from a different book every week with each chapter carefully selected to highlight a distinctive interpretive tradition: Sigfried Giedion on Paleolithic Europe, Vibhuti Sachdev on Ancient South Asia, George Kubler on Ancient America . . . and so on. Together with the relevant details of buildings and artifacts, lectures in an “eclectic survey” course unpack the contexts and strategies that shaped each author’s approach to history. Working through such historiographical variety poses challenges for students and instructors alike, but the difficulties created by this “eclectic” approach are worth embracing – or so this paper argues – to the extent that they escape the expansionist mode of today’s global surveys, many of which are fueled by the misguided belief that an ever-more-granular expertise will one day deliver an all-encompassing picture of historical reality. If history has taught us anything, it is that its own interpretation remains perpetually in flux. Historians’ methodologies shift, often seismically, from one generation to the next. Why not equip architectural students to understand such changes and their motivations? Ultimately, an architectural survey guided by an ethos of eclecticism creates a better framework to discuss the consequences of choices historians have made and are still making.
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Krug, Lindsey. "Corpus Comunis: precedent, privacy, and the United States Supreme Court, in seven architectural case studies." In 111th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.57.
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Following World War II, as America grappled with the cultural revolution of the 1950s and 60s and defining its identity domestically and on the world stage, a core tenet of American life bubbled to the surface of political, social, and aesthetic discourse: privacy. Once the revelry of the Allies’ win in the World War cooled into the precarity of the Cold War, American democracy and the culture it afforded its citizens were positioned and advertised, first and foremost, in opposition to the totalitarian government and culture of the Soviet Union. In her book Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America (2002), American literature scholar Deborah Nelson attributes the eulogizing of privacy that emerged in Cold War America to heightened national security discourse and the accompanying fear of the Eastern Bloc.1 The trajectory of American life would be forever shaped by this discourse, and nowhere is its lasting influence more evident than in two layers of American infrastructure: law and the built environment. Conceptually, privacy presents a straightforward notion, so much so that it’s often defined and understood in a binary condition: that which is not public. However, the public versus private dichotomy quickly dissolves when presented in legal and architectural contexts. Perhaps surprisingly, the word privacy does not appear in the United States Constitution and, thus, has not always been a guar-anteed, fundamental right. Privacy was first acknowledged as a right bestowed in America’s founding documents in the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) case of Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). This case granted married couples the right to use contraception on the grounds that this was within the confines of their private lives and not to be meddled with by the government. Justice William Douglas wrote for the Court’s majority: “Specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance. Various guarantees create zones of privacy.”2 Exceedingly spatial in this description, these shadowy zones of implied privacy rights can be located in the First, Third, Fourth, Ninth, or Fourteenth Amendments, or some combination therein, depending on constitutional interpretation. In the discipline of architecture, where we construct and delineate private and public spaces, it’s worth mapping the evolution of legal privacy with the evolution of private space. Where do these zones of privacy exist spatially, and how are they occupied? How can we begin to characterize the role of architecture, past and present, as good or bad, antagonistic or protective, and as an active player in this discourse? Using digital modeling and imaging tools, Corpus Comunis assembles and excavates material from a lineage of seven Supreme Court cases from 1965 to 2022 to establish a cohesive visual language through which we can speculate on how law and architecture together have, and may continue to, define the extents of our private, interior lives.
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Lopez, Juan D., Juan P. Cuenca, Alex Dante, Renato T. Bellini, Paulo H. Silva, Regina C. Allil, and Marcelo M. Werneck. "U-shaped POF sensor coated with Cu2O applied to H2S sensing." In Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference. Washington, D.C.: Optica Publishing Group, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/laop.2022.w4a.26.
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This work presents two U-shaped Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) coated with Cu2O applied in Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) sensing. The POF sensors presented a rise time of around 10 min when tested with 200 ppm H2S.
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Gironi, Roberta. "The Diagonal City: crossing the social divisions." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.6266.
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Roberta Gironi Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos, UPV. Camino de Vera, s/n. 46022 Valencia Joint Doctorate Dipartimento di Architettura – Teorie e Progetto. “Sapienza” Università degli Studi di Roma. Via Gramsci, 53. 00100 Roma E-mail: roberta.gironi@gmail.com Keywords (3-5): Informal processes, dynamic transformation, new planning approach, flexible space, self-organization Conference topics and scale: Reading and regenerating the informal city Contemporary cities are affected by transformations that put in discussion the claim of control and stability to which the urban project aspires. All those gradual adjustments are manifested according to the demand, bring toward a less formal and more flexible spatial order, for which the traditional forms of the "static" city become the background of the "kinetic" landscape of informal cities. On the contrary of the formal processes of urban planning, informality process is configured as an organic development model and a flexible dynamic system opened to changes. The informal space is produced according to principles of spontaneity and self-organization. A consideration on the possibility to assume different approaches can be proposed. Those approaches should integrate in the design reasoning all the dynamics usually excluded by the discourse on the urban project, which processes can become catalysts to enrich the methods of planning and design of the urban space. Through the analysis of the case-study Previ Lima and the Living Room at the Border of St. Ysidro, the aim is to delineate in which way the contemporary architecture can absorb and metabolize these processes, triggering a different approach to a different method to intervene in the spaces of relationship among formal and informal. It is believed that the informal urban qualities cannot be eliminated and is impossible to ignore the inhabitants' practices, but rather to work on the intersection between collective and individual actions. References Brillembourg A., Feireiss K., Klumpner H. (2005), Informal City (Prestel Publishing, Munich) Cruz T. (2008), "De la frontière globale au quartier de frontière: pratiques d'empiètement", Multitudes, 31(1). Davis M. (2006), Planet of Slums (Verso, London). Hernandez F., Kellett P., Allen L.K. (2010), Rethinking the informal city: critical perspectives from Latin America (Berghahn books, New York, Oxford). McFarlane C., Waibel M., (2012), Urban Informalities: Reflections on the Formal and Informal (Ashgate, Farnham). Jacobs J. (1961), The death and life of great American cities(Random House, New York- Toronto). Roy A., Alsayyad N., (2004) Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (Lexington Books, Lanham)
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Kive, Solmaz. "The Order of the World in James Fergusson’s Histories of Architecture." In 108th Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.108.82.
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James Fergusson created one of the earliest comprehensive narratives that systematically incorporated non-Western traditions within the history of European architecture. Although it was later overshadowed by Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture, Fergusson’s work played a significant role in establishing the common structure of future survey books. Fergusson’s history of architecture (first appeared in 1849) was shaped through three different versions. Throughout these three versions, he explored different methods of groupings, exclusions, and distortions in order to create a comprehensive, yet cohesive narrative. From the first book’s chronological arrangement, he moved to a combination of geographical and religious classifications in the second and eventually established his narrative around a central, Eurocentric narrative in the third. Fergusson considered this arrangement his main contribution to architectural history. Nevertheless, this new structure was also supported by a methodological shift from universalism towards ethnography. This paper compares Fergusson’s three surveys to explore the development of his narrative of world architecture. Despite many differences in methods and materials, his work bears many similarities to the mainstream approach to surveys of architecture in the twentieth century. Most significantly, the classificatory system that he gradually developed would eventually establish the binary division between Western and non-Western traditions. While the current desire to go beyond the Western canons in history courses and textbooks has faced many practical, pedagogical, and ideological challenges, this paper explores some of their roots in the early phases of the global history.
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Jasim MOHAMMED, Ahmed, and Hussein Ismael KADHIM. "THE IMPACT OF THE JEWISH FAITH IN MODERN HEBREW POETRY "SHABBAT FOR EXAMPLE." In I V . I N T E R N A T I O N A L C O N G R E S S O F L A N G U A G E A N D L I T E R A T U R E. Rimar Academy, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/lan.con4-14.
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This study is an attempt to shed light on a central and important issue in the lives of any nation or society or group of people, and it is the issue of "faith". One of the most important foundations in the Jewish faith is the "Sabbath" or day of rest for the Jews, which they respect and sanctify from all the other six days of the week. This study discusses the different representations of Saturday in Hebrew poetry. This study examined different representations of the theme of Saturday in Hebrew poetry with special emphasis on the significance of these representations shaped their worldview of the Jews on the topic flowing. Saturday is a day of rest and weekly holy people of Israel, the first deadline dates prescribed in the Torah. When there was a regular basis every seven days, on the seventh day a week. Saturday is the start of Friday's end, a little before sunset - the time called "Saturday Night", and tip the next day, with nightfall - long known as "Saturday". Jewish Saturday is considered the most sacred date. Saturday observance is one of the central commandments in Judaism; According to Judaism, this is the first commandment given to man, on the day he removed and weighed against all the commandments of the Torah. Judaism Saturday symbolizes the creation of the world by God and the holiness constant since the world was created by God. Reasons for the mitzvot and customs specific biblical command to sit origin consecrate this day and strike him from work, God's act of creation after the completion of the six days of creation. Saturday is used only for rest and refraining from doing work, and has been caught during today's Bible Holiness, pleasure, study Torah and elation. Observance of the Saturday, according to Judaism, is a practical admission creation of the world, reinforces the belief and non-observance leads to weakening of the Jewish faith, as well as keeping the Saturday brings a person to the Creator and secrete more physical nuns. Israel was set Saturday to officially rest. Sanctity of "on Saturday" is based - according to tradition - the thinking that thought that the God who created the heavens and the earth in six days, and Ahri-cc, he rested on the seventh day his work which he worked it, and he ordered them to stop all this day according craft books mentioned several books of the Bible. At the beginning of this study will be discussed at the origin of the word "Sabbath" (Saturday) in the Hebrew language, and the meaning of the word "Sabbath" in the Bible, Then, will be discussed on the types Saturday among the Jews, except they have a regular Sabbath day three ten types of Saturdays, expressing the various events and occasions and have various rituals and special customs. Too, will be discussed on the customs and rituals that the Jews do them during the entry to his departure on Saturday. Even so, it is during this study for some changes in different terms to Saturday, which the Jews call them the Sabbath. These names were used most by the Hebrew writers in modern times in their songs and stories that written in honor of this day, and Hebrew poets wrote poetry on Saturday: Bialik wrote the song "Saturday queen", poet Amir Gilboa wrote the song "Cch Cmo Sani the up" and others. By analysis of these literary works can be seen that the authors of these works depict through which all customs and ceremonies on Saturday in detail from beginning to end, especially the poet Bialik's poem "Saturday queen". And the end of the study conclusions and sources will come
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Sawaryn, Steven J., Ross Lowdon, and John L. Thorogood. "Some Technical and Economic Consequences of Directional Drilling and Surveying Progress and Success." In SPE/IADC International Drilling Conference and Exhibition. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/204027-ms.
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Abstract Directional drilling and surveying methods and capabilities have advanced considerably over the last four decades. Progress in this field represents some of the most innovative and notable technical achievements in recent years. However, these successes have introduced a level of complexity which may be hampering further progress. Some of the consequences are identified and examined and suggestions made as to how these might be managed. The developments have resulted in greater accuracy and reliability of tools and systems with associated economic advantages. Step outs have grown four-fold, horizontal laterals are routine and closely spaced wells can be drilled with confidence. Using steerable systems, well inclinations have reached 164.7° and more recently a horseshoe shaped well has been reported. The earlier software tools and analytic methods did not envisage these situations, but their capabilities have evolved. In this specialist field, heavy reliance has been placed on the work and de-facto standards of the various sub-committees that comprise the SPE Well Positioning Technical Section (WPTS) involving both operators and service companies. The tradition of cooperation between these volunteers is strong and together they have produced a range of technical papers, error models, e-books and training courses. Formal regulation and recommended practices have not kept pace with these developments. Work on the proposed API RP 78 has progressed more slowly than the ambitious timeline envisioned at the outset. With the burgeoning introduction of new systems and methods, complexity has also grown. The accumulated material poses an increasing maintenance burden, increasing cycle times and slowing both technical and administrative developments. By their nature, models are approximations and a balance between simplicity and complexity is required to ensure their predictions are fit for purpose and control can be maintained over their development without stifling innovation. Many of the tasks associated with managing the WPTS knowledge base are administrative and do not require extensive technical expertise. Alleviating this burden from the volunteers would free up valuable time to address important technical advancements and refine the framework in which these are managed. The loss of expertise in this specialist subject is being accelerated by the recent down-turn and exacerbated by the COVID pandemic. We conclude that there is a need to move the administration of the WPTS resources onto a more sustainable footing and that external funding will ensure that the knowledge base is consolidated and keeps pace with continuing developments. Funding alone is not a guarantee of success as the activities are still subject to the vagaries of volunteer commitment and careful management will be required. However, the WPTS has a sound 25-year track record of proven delivery and it remains the natural choice to spearhead these activities.
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Дмитренко, Л. М. "ON THE ISSUE OF STUDYING POTTERY TECHNOLOGY OF THE KALCHAKI CULTURE (SALTA PROVINCE, NORTHWESTERN ARGENTINA)." In Вестник "История керамики". Crossref, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.25681/iaras.2022.978-5-94375-369-5.121-135.
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Данная статья посвящена изучению некоторых вопросов технологии изготовления керамических сосудов культуры кальчаки из раскопок поселения Ла-Пайя (провинция Сальта, Аргентина), коллекция которых хранится в МАЭ РАН. Изучение технологии велось с позиций историко-культурного подхода к изучению керамики, разработанного А.А. Бобринским. В результате сравнительного изучения керамических сосудов и этнографических образцов корзин, которые широко использовались племенами Южной Америки, было установлено, что по крайней мере часть изученных мисок изготавливались в формахемкостях, которыми служили корзины, выполненные в определенной технике плетения. В ряде случаев в формах-емкостях изготавливались только отдельные части сосудов, которые потом соединялись вместе. К таким сосудам можно отнести асимметричные сосуды, сосуды с широким горлом, сосуды с носиком для слива, а также погребальные урны с тремя сужениями. Данная гипотеза получила подтверждение в ходе работы автора Самарской экспедиции по экспериментальному изучению древнего гончарства в августе 2021 г. Полученные результаты технологического анализа существенно дополнили изучение гончарного производства культуры кальчаки. The article is devoted to the study of some issues of the pottery technology of the Kalchaki culture from the excavations of the settlement of La Paya (Salta province, Argentina), the collection of which is kept in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. e technology was studied from the standpoint of the historical and cultural approach to the study of ceramics, developed by A. A. Bobrinsky. The comparative study of ceramic vessels and ethnographic samples of baskets that were widely used by the tribes of South America has revealed that at least part of the studied bowl-shaped vessels were formed in baskets made in a certain weaving technique, which served as molds. In some cases, only parts of vessels were formed in molds and then joined together. Such vessels include asymmetric vessels, vessels with a wide neck, vessels with a beak for decanting, as well as funeral urns with three taperings. This hypothesis was experimentally conrmed during the work of the author in the Samara expedition for the experimental study of ancient pottery in August of 2021. The obtained results of technological analysis supplemented signicantly the study of the pottery production of the Kalchaki culture.
Reports on the topic "Books that Shaped Work in America"
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Kantis, Hugo, David Rosas-Shady, Andrea Presbitero, Roberta Rabellotti, Fernando Vargas, Juan Jung, Pierluigi Montalbano, et al. Firm Innovation and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Engine of Economic Development (Summary). Inter-American Development Bank, July 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006321.
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The full version of this book compiles several empirical works that, through different lenses, aim to reveal which variables may have a systematiceffect on the productivity evolution observed at a firm and sectorial level in LAC countries. The book emphasizes knowledge generation, diffusion, and implementation mainly through innovation, while exploring the roles of human capital, financial resources, and linkages that also shape firm inspiration.
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Lacunza, Hernán, and Martín Redrado. A New Approach to Trade Development in Latin America. Inter-American Development Bank, May 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008562.
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The present work is motivated by the desire to share with those in the political and academic arenas in Latin America my experience with a distinguished team of professionals. This included two years creating and implementing trade policy in Argentina, as well as several years devoted to research concerning the region¿s relations with the rest of the world and the creation of an export model that could serve as a source of growth for developing countries. This paper is an abridged version of my book, "Exportar para crecer" (Editorial Planeta, 2003). The management model created at the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Relations draws on both public and private intellectual contributions. Together, they led to an aggressive trade policy designed to open markets for Argentine products through trade negotiations. The policy attempted to transcend false antagonisms concerning the geographic destinations of our exports, focusing, moreover, on an indispensable complementary element: developing markets as a means of ensuring the effective use of opportunities created.
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Ideas for Development in the Americas (IDEA): Volume 23 : September-December, 2010: How Democracy Works in Latin America. Inter-American Development Bank, December 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008386.
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This issue of IDEA explores the workings of democratic institutions in Latin America and how they shape economic and other policies. It analyzes the roles, incentives, capabilities and interaction of key political players: the legislature, business, organized labor and the media. Based on a recent IDB book, How Democracy Works: Political Institutions, Actors, and Arenas in Latin American Policymaking, the newsletter provides a taste of the multiple, complex actors at work on the region¿s policymaking stage.