Download or read book Alejandro s Gift written by Richard E. Albert and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This uplifting story about one man's gift to the desert and the gift he receives in return has a powerful environmental lesson. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which will look almost identical to the print version. Additionally for devices that support audio, this ebook includes a read-along setting.
Download or read book Alejandro s Gift written by Richard E. Albert and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely in his house beside a road in the desert, Alejandro builds an oasis to attract the many animals around him.
Download or read book Happy Birthday Una The Big Birthday Activity Book written by BirthdayDr and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-14 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happy Birthday Una is a personalized kids activity book, it includes personalized crosswords, word searches, number puzzles, jokes, drawing and coloring >It is suitable for children between 6-11 years old It is the perfect birthday present for Una, and is a great keepsake for parents to remember their child's early years and birthdays This personalized book is available for other names also This is a great gift for children and an amazing keepsake for parents Happy Birthday Una
Download or read book You re the Only Friend I Need written by Alejandro Heredia and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Winner of the 2019 Gold Line Press Fiction Chapbook Contest. The stories in Alejandro Heredia's YOU'RE THE ONLY FRIEND I NEED offer new possibilities for transnational storytelling and the Dominican diaspora by centering Blackness and queerness. In these stories; friendship is a vehicle to understand what lies between and within people. A young Dominican immigrant makes an unlikely friend in her Bronx building. Two queer teens venture into the streets of Santo Domingo in search of queer belonging. A 20-something lost in existential thought finds a home in a gay Latin club. In Heredia's stories; friendship is at once balm; poison; wound; and respite from the troubles that society places on migrants; on queer people; on Black folks across the diaspora. YOU'RE THE ONLY FRIEND I NEED cuts through received notions and sings with emotional honesty and lyrical prose.
Download or read book Create Your Own Wealth written by Alejandro Cardona and published by Am Education & Services. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My great purpose in writing this book is to give you concrete and very specific tools for a simple and practical way to begin your success in the stock market. For you to also understand the management of these tools that only a privileged minority use almost in secret, to earn a lot of money. Are you ready? Prepare yourself, I will take you from the very basics to the most complex so that you may begin your path to economic progress; which is not easy, but is worth knowing. Once you have learned the way, I assure you, you will differ from 90% of the people. You will no longer prefer, like them, to hand your money over to others to obtain average gains without you becoming aware of what is really happening in the financial world.
Download or read book The Stars Within You written by Juliana McCarthy and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh introduction to astrology that will provide a contemporary perspective on this age-old practice. Where have we been? Where are we going? There is no greater roadmap than the stars for helping us to recognize habitual patterns, discovering our gifts, and figuring out how to move toward greater joy and contentment. A Modern Guide to Astrology provides readers with a fresh perspective on the fundamentals of astrology and how to read their own birth charts. With accessible depictions of the astrological signs and symbols, this guide opens up the rich world of astrology as a tool to deepen self-awareness and lead a more fulfilling life. The book highlights the basic concepts of astrology that provide entryways into an understanding of the factors that shape our lives in fundamental ways. This book weaves together the whole tapestry, showing readers that reading and understanding astrology charts is within reach.
Download or read book Botanic Chic written by Robert Alejandro and published by Pelluceo Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -This beautifully designed book showcases the unique fashion illustrations of Robert Alejandro, an artist based in Manila who begins each drawing with a single leaf -Original, humorous fashion illustrations -Great gift book for anyone interested in fashion, design, art, illustration or nature -Part of the revival of the unique art of fashion illustration When artist Robert Alviola Alejandro looks at a simple leaf he sees an entire fashion scene: Women dance in 1920s flapper dresses, couples in chic overcoats walk arm in arm, bearded men head out in bowler hats, and elegantly turned out gals take their pooches for a walk. There are cowgirls and mods, ladies in waiting and ladies who lunch, urban fashionistas and fans of the avant-garde. The leaf, of course, becomes a seamless part of each garment. Fashion designers have long been inspired by the natural world so it comes as no surprise that the greenery that surrounds Alejandro in his native Phillipine Islands have led to such creative sartorial illustrations.
Download or read book The Boatbuilder written by Daniel Gumbiner and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 28 years old, Eli "Berg" Koenigsberg has never encountered a challenge he couldn't push through, until a head injury leaves him with lingering headaches and a weakness for opiates. Berg moves to a remote Northern California town, seeking space and time to recover, but soon finds himself breaking into homes in search of pills. Addled by addiction and chronic pain, Berg meets Alejandro, a reclusive, master boatbuilder, and begins to see a path forward. Alejandro offers Berg honest labor, but more than this, he offers him a new approach to his suffering, a template for survival amid intense pain. Nurtured by his friendship with Alejandro and aided, too, by the comradeship of many in Talinas, Berg begins to return to himself. Written in gleaming prose, this is a story about resilience, community, and what it takes to win back your soul.
Download or read book My Documents written by Alejandro Zambra and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archived in a folder on award-winning author Alejandro Zambra's desktop are 11 stories of liars and ghosts, armed bandits and young lovers. Intimate, mysterious, and uncanny, these stories reveal a mind that is as undeniably singular as it is universal. Together, they constitute the debut short-story collection from Zambra, whose first novel was heralded as a “bloodletting in Chilean literature.” Whether chronicling the return of a mercurial godson or the disappearance of a trusted cousin, the worlds of these stories are so powerful and deep that the works might better be described as brief novels. My Documents is by turns hilarious and heart-stopping, tragic and tender, but most of all, it is unflinchingly human and essential evidence of a sublimely talented writer working at the height of his powers.
Download or read book Gifts written by Angie Harrelson and published by PRUFROCK PRESS INC.. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifts, a book in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 1-3, gives students the opportunity to discover extrinsic and intrinsic gifts available to them in their everyday lives. The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 1-3, students will discover the gifts around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. Sentimental, personal, historical, symbolic, endangered, and fragile gifts are explored. Students also will learn the concept of supply and demand when assessing value or worth. The process and science of the preservation of national treasures also is investigated by students. From Egyptian pharaohs to poor farmers, students will find that everyone has gifts to offer. Gifts, along with the other books in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 1-3 (Discoveries, Faces, Cycles, and Symbols), makes teaching advanced learners easier! Grades 1-3 This curriculum unit makes use of the following great children's literature books: Tutankhamen's Gift by Robert Sabuda; Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman; Alejandro's Gift by Richard E. Albert; This is Our Earth by Laura Lee Benson; The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein; The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams; Aunt Claire's Yellow Beehive Hair by Deborah Blumenthal; The Pain and the Great One by Judy Blume; and The Great Trash Bash by Loreen Leedy.
Download or read book The Town of Babylon written by Alejandro Varela and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 – Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, LitHub, Electric Literature, LGBTQ Reads, Latinx in Publishing *Recommended by The New York Times* In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband’s infidelity. There he finds himself with no excuse not to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, and hesitantly begins to reconnect with people he used to call friends. Over the next few weeks, while caring for his aging parents and navigating the neighborhood where he grew up, Andrés falls into old habits with friends he thought he’d left behind. Before long, he unexpectedly becomes entangled with his first love and is forced to tend to past wounds. Captivating and poignant; a modern coming-of-age story about the essential nature of community, The Town of Babylon is a page-turning novel about young love and a close examination of our social systems and the toll they take when they fail us.
Download or read book Ten Little Rabbits written by Virginia Grossman and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spirited picture book celebrates Native American traditions as it teaches young children to count from one to ten. The whimsical illustrations of Ten Little Rabbits, reminiscent of Beatrix Potter, glow with brilliant color and are filled with fascinating detail. Each number introduces a facet of traditional Native American culture, such as Pueblo corn dances or Navajo weaving, and the simple, rhyming text is enhanced by a brief afterword on Native American customs. Ideal for story time or bedtime, this is a book sure to leave children counting rabbits instead of sheep. Winner of the International Reading Association Children’s Book Award Praise for Ten Little Rabbits “Writer Virginia Grossman and artist Sylvia Long, a Dakota Indian, have created this book with honestly and careful attention to authenticity and beauty, and the result is a high-quality combination of rhyme, culture, and artistic expression that will please children.” —Booklist “A valuable replacement for the old, stereotypical ten little Indians rhyme. . . . A delightful visual treat.” —TheFive Owls “A quiet, respectful survey of some Native American customs organized through the structure of a counting rhyme, populated by rabbits dressed in traditional garb. . . . Notes at the back identify each tribe represented (Plains, Pueblo, Great Lakes, Northwestern, and Southwestern peoples), and provide information about the pictures. The rabbits have an earnest charm reminiscent of Marjorie Flack’s industrious family.” —School Library Journal
Download or read book Humanoids Presents The Jodoverse written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and published by Humanoids Inc. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A peek into the mind-blowing works of Alexandro Jodorowsky!
Download or read book Fragmented Lives Assembled Parts written by Alejandro Lugo and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2008 Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award, 2009 Established in 1659 as Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Norte, Ciudad Juárez is the oldest colonial settlement on the U.S.-Mexico border-and one of the largest industrialized border cities in the world. Since the days of its founding, Juárez has been marked by different forms of conquest and the quest for wealth as an elaborate matrix of gender, class, and ethnic hierarchies struggled for dominance. Juxtaposing the early Spanish invasions of the region with the arrival of late-twentieth-century industrial "conquistadors," Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts documents the consequences of imperial history through in-depth ethnographic studies of working-class factory life. By comparing the social and human consequences of recent globalism with the region's pioneer era, Alejandro Lugo demonstrates the ways in which class mobilization is itself constantly being "unmade" at both the international and personal levels for border workers. Both an inside account of maquiladora practices and a rich social history, this is an interdisciplinary survey of the legacies, tropes, economic systems, and gender-based inequalities reflected in a unique cultural landscape. Through a framework of theoretical conceptualizations applied to a range of facets—from multiracial "mestizo" populations to the notions of border "crossings" and "inspections," as well as the recent brutal killings of working-class women in Ciudad Juárez—Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts provides a critical understanding of the effect of transnational corporations on contemporary Mexico, calling for official recognition of the desperate need for improved working and living conditions within this community.
Download or read book Sandinista Economics in Practice written by Alejandro Martínez Cuenca and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the Sandinistas' 1990 electoral defeat, Sandinista economist Martinez Cuenca offers this frank and engaging assessment of the Nicaraguan revolution and its prospects for the future.
Download or read book The Word of the Speechless written by Julio Ramón Ribeyro and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available in English for the first time, a collection of deeply humane stories depicting marginalized populations by one of the greatest South American writers of the 20th century. The Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro is one of the masters of the short story and a major contributor to the great flourishing of Latin American literature that followed the Second World War. In a letter to an editor, Ribeyro said about his stories, “in most of [them] those who are deprived of words in life find expression—the marginalized, the forgotten, those condemned to an existence without harmony and without voice. I have restored to them the breath they’ve been denied, and I’ve allowed them to modulate their own longings, outbursts, and distress.” This is work of deep humanity, imbued with a disorienting lyricism that is Ribeyro’s alone. The Word of the Speechless, edited and translated by Katherine Silver, introduces readers to an indispensable and unforgettable voice of Latin American fiction.
Download or read book Disposable City written by Mario Alejandro Ariza and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. From sunny day flooding caused by higher tides to a sewer system on the brink of total collapse, the city undeniably lives in a climate changed world. In Disposable City, Miami resident Mario Alejandro Ariza shows us not only what climate change looks like on the ground today, but also what Miami will look like 100 years from now, and how that future has been shaped by the city's racist past and present. As politicians continue to kick the can down the road and Miami becomes increasingly unlivable, real estate vultures and wealthy residents will be able to get out or move to higher ground, but the most vulnerable communities, disproportionately composed of people of color, will face flood damage, rising housing costs, dangerously higher temperatures, and stronger hurricanes that they can't afford to escape. Miami may be on the front lines of climate change, but the battle it's fighting today is coming for the rest of the U.S. -- and the rest of the world -- far sooner than we could have imagined even a decade ago. Disposable City is a thoughtful portrait of both a vibrant city with a unique culture and the social, economic, and psychic costs of climate change that call us to act before it's too late.
