A return to servitude : Maya migration and the tourist trade in Cancún / M. Bianet Castellanos. by Castellanos, María Bianet

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: phantoms of modernity -- Devotees of the Santa Cruz: two family histories -- Modernizing Indigenous communities: agrarian reform and the cultural missions -- Indigenous education, adolescent migration, and wage labor -- Civilizing bodies: learning to labor in Cancún -- Gustos, goods, and gender: reproducing Maya social relations -- Becoming Chingón/a: Maya subjectivity, development narratives, and the limits of progress -- The phantom city: rethinking tourism as development after Hurricane Wilma -- Epilogue: resurrecting phantoms, resisting neoliberalism -- Appendix: Kin chart of Can Tun and May Pat families.…”
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Hurricane mitigation for the built environment Ricardo A. Alvarez. by Álvarez Salaverry, Ricardo A.

Table of Contents: “…Ten years later : higher vulnerability -- chapter 10. Hurricane Wilma : 2005 -- chapter 11. Classification and mitigation of damages -- chapter 12. …”
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Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on BioGeoSciences Modeling Natural Environments / edited by Rolando Cárdenas, Vladimir Mochalov, Oscar Parra, Osmel Martin.

Table of Contents: “…-Enlarging simple ecological models: subspecies, hidden symmetries and their implications -- Multi-agent question-answering system -- Seeding programming -- Schwarzschild Metric Disturbed by the Accelerated Expansion of the Universe -- Potential changes on anammox activity after Chicxulub asteroid impact -- Quantification of phytoplankton primary habitability in the Gulf of Ana María, Cuba -- On the Subaquatic Light Fields in Lakes of Southern Chile and their Photosynthetic Potential -- Coarse detrital deposits from hurricane Wilma on the western coast of Cojimar, Havana, Cuba -- Mathematical modeling of phosphorus dynamics in aquatic ecosystems -- Mozambican Adsorbents for Zinc (II) Removal in Aqueous Solutions -- Difusivity of Cd (II) Ions in Several Porous Adsorbents -- Increasing tolerance plants to heavy metals -- Increasing tolerance Agrostis stolonifera, Festuca rubra, Brachycome iberidifolia, Chrysanthemum carinatum to copper -- Environmentally Sustainable Management of Rice Cultivating Zones in Ukraine -- Development of a new formulation for Onychomycosis treatment using Furvina® as an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient -- Multipurpose sensor network for electromagnetic radiation monitoring -- Tilt and orientation of a flat solar collector to capture optimal solar irradiation in Chilean latitudes.…”
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Extreme events : observations, modeling, and economics / Mario Chavez, Michael Ghil, Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi, editors.

Table of Contents: “…Robertson, Yochanan Kushnir, Upmanu Lall, and Jennifer Nakamura -- Analysis of the Hazards and Vulnerability of the Cancun Beach System: The Case of Hurricane Wilma / Edgar Mendoza, Rodolfo Silva, Cecilia Enriquez-Ortiz, Ismael Mariño-Tapia, and Angélica Felix -- Observations and Modeling of Environmental and Human Damage Caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami / Kazuhisa Goto, Fumihiko Imamura, Shunichi Koshimura, and Hideaki Yanagisawa -- Extreme Capillary Wave Events Under Parametric Excitation / Michael G. …”
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Extreme events : observations, modeling, and economics / Mario Chavez, Michael Ghil, Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi, editors.

Table of Contents: “…Robertson, Yochanan Kushnir, Upmanu Lall, and Jennifer Nakamura -- Analysis of the Hazards and Vulnerability of the Cancun Beach System: The Case of Hurricane Wilma / Edgar Mendoza, Rodolfo Silva, Cecilia Enriquez-Ortiz, Ismael Mariño-Tapia, and Angélica Felix -- Observations and Modeling of Environmental and Human Damage Caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami / Kazuhisa Goto, Fumihiko Imamura, Shunichi Koshimura, and Hideaki Yanagisawa -- Extreme Capillary Wave Events Under Parametric Excitation / Michael G. …”
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