The South American Eremodraba (Brassicaceae)

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

9. the South American Monsoon System

The main characteristics of the South American monsoon system are reviewed. According to some diagnostics, the wet season in tropical South America begins in early October over the Brazilian highlands and spreads northward. Wet season rain rates are somewhat smaller than those in other continental monsoons. The annual cycle of precipitation is most pronounced in the southern Amazon, where some ...

Connectivity in the South American Internet

The Conquest of South American Inflation

We infer determinants of Latin American hyperinflations and stabilizations by using the method of maximum likelihood to estimate a hidden Markov model that potentially assigns roles both to fundamentals in the form of government deficits that are financed by money creation and to destabilizing expectations dynamics that can occasionally divorce inflation from fundamentals. Our maximum likelihoo...

Disease and distinctiveness in the American South

to a blatant neglect of workers' well-being and to deteriorating health standards on the job, which were in turn obscured by a corrupt establishment medical profession which was predominantly in the pay of the bosses. Thirdly, and most significantly, this account has firmly undermined the stereotypical myths of a fatalistic working class quietly and passively accepting monstrous risks to life a...