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This is a book of multiple voices. Its 32 authors think about the sense, the challenge and options, memories and expectations that the bicentennial presents. They are voices of historians, architects, philosophers, scientists, professors, public dignitaries, social...The Global Economic Crisis in Latin America: Impacts and Responses / Michael Cohen (ed.)
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(Un) Anticipated Futures, Symposium Proceedings, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, February 2012
This book is a compilation of the essays that were presented during the First International Symposium: (Un) Anticipated Futures, Bangkok-Buenos Aires-Nueva York. It was organized by The New School through The Observatory on Latin America (OLA) and Parsons, the...Building Bicentennials in the Age of Globalization
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