Free Download Science and Society in Latin America: Peripheral Modernities by Pablo Kreimer
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367218038, 1032093269 | 270 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In the form of a sociological pilgrimage, this book approaches some topics essential to understanding the role of science in Latin America, juxtaposing several approaches and exploring three main lines: First, the production and use of knowledge in these countries, viewed from a historical and sociological point of view; second, the reciprocal construction of scientific and public problems, presented through significant cases such as Latin American Chagas Disease; and third, the past and present asymmetries affecting the relationships between centers and peripheries in scientific research. These topics show the paradox of being at the same time "modern" and "peripheral."

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by Shan, Weijian;Yellen, Janet;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1394172583 | 498 pages | True PDF | 10.44 MB

Free Download America's Space Sentinels: The History of the DSP and SBIRS Satellite Systems (Modern War Studies) By Jeffrey T. Richelson
2012 | 406 Pages | ISBN: 0700618805 | PDF | 53 MB
Originally published in 1999, America's Space Sentinels won the American Astronautical Society's prestigious Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award and quickly established itself as the definitive book for understanding a crucial component of our national defense capabilities. It focused on the emergence and evolution of the Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite system, which came on line in 1970 and continued to perform at a high level through the turn of this century and beyond.For this new edition, Jeffrey Richelson covers significant developments during the last dozen years relating to the deployment of these satellites, especially the struggles to develop and launch the follow-on Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS), beginning in the late 1990s and continuing up to the present. The result is a book that remains the first and best source of information regarding these vital programs.As Richelson notes, SBIRS, like its aging but still functioning predecessor, has been designed primarily to provide instant early warning of missile launches from around the globe-particularly China, Russia, North Korea, Pakistan, India, and Iran-through the infra-red sensors carried on each satellite. But the new system-beset by hardware, software, fiscal, and political problems-has only managed to move forward in fits and starts. While it has done so, the DSP system has continued to monitor the skies above the earth; two key ground stations in Australia and Germany have closed; nuclear powers Russia and the United States conferred extensively over the so-called Y2K problem (concerned that a computer malfunction might produce false alarms of a missile attack); and worries over potential launches from nations perceived as hostile to American interests have increased substantially.

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Free Download Sherri L. Porcelain, "Public Health and Beyond in Latin America and the Caribbean "
English | ISBN: 036744075X | 2021 | 228 pages | EPUB | 1494 KB
Public Health and Beyond in Latin America and the Caribbean: Reflections from the Field explores the diverse and complex public health landscape, from global to regional to local, by considering historical and socio-cultural factors to contextualize the ongoing public health crisis.

Free Download Vanessa Walker, "Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy "
English | ISBN: 150171368X | 2020 | 360 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Vanessa Walker's Principles in Power explores the relationship between policy makers and nongovernment advocates in Latin America and the United States government in order to explain the rise of anti-interventionist human rights policies uniquely critical of U.S. power during the Cold War. Walker shows that the new human rights policies of the 1970s were based on a complex dynamic of domestic and foreign considerations that was rife with tensions between the seats of power in the United States and Latin America, and the growing activist movement that sought to reform them.

Free Download Thomas Edsall, "Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0465018157, 0465018165 | 336 pages | EPUB | 0.55 MB
This powerful examination of the present and future of American politics, by one of America's most distinguished political journalists, reveals how the Republican Party has gained a long-term institutional advantage that allows it to shrug off apparent setbacks like the 2006 elections. Building Red America takes us deeper than any previous book into the operations of the power brokers and issues that galvanize voters.

Free Download Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence (Pivotal Moments in World History) by John Charles Chasteen
English | January 28, 2008 | ISBN: 0195178815, 0195392361 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 3.3 MB
A premier volume in Oxford's Pivotal Moments in World History series, Americanos offers an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence.

Free Download Eugenie Blang, "America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics: Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1442210990, 0810894971 | 168 pages | EPUB | 0.36 MB
Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after the election of Barack Obama to the presidency.

The Knowledge Gap The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--And How to Fix It by Natalie Wexler | 1.09 MB
English | 336 Pages

Title: The Knowledge Gap
Author: Natalie Wexler
Year: 2019