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Book Humanidad

    Book Details:
  • Author : Americo Paredes
  • Publisher : University of California, Los Angeles, Chicano Studies Research, Center, Publications Unit
  • Release : 1977-12
  • ISBN : 9780895510075
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Humanidad written by Americo Paredes and published by University of California, Los Angeles, Chicano Studies Research, Center, Publications Unit. This book was released on 1977-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forgotten People

Download or read book Forgotten People written by George Isidore Sánchez and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published originally in 1940, Forgotten People is a classic of Depression-era social protest scholarship. Directly challenging Turnerian frontier history, Sanchez argues that conquest, marginalization, and impoverishment have dominated the history of Spanish-speaking New Mexicans since the Mexican-American War. Ninety years of social and economic marginalization defined Mexican-Americans as a distinct indigenous group. Anglo educational systems culturally discriminated against Spanish-speaking children, while federal and state land policy economically strangled New Mexican families. Focusing his study on Taos County, New Mexico, during 1938 and 1939, Sanchez holds that the federal government should recognize the unique history and place of Spanish-speaking citizens in the Southwest and create educational and economic programs to empower and acculturate them.

Book A Place Unchanged

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Sanchez
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2015-12-14
  • ISBN : 9781511525046
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book A Place Unchanged written by George Sanchez and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third Jeff Chaussier mystery finds Jeff returning to New Orleans. This time he has marriage on his mind. New Orleans, though, is far too seductive a lady and too wrapped in secrecy for a straightforward narrative to unfold. Things seem hopeful at the start. Bryna no longer has her brother's child to care for. Jeff is tired of the life of an itinerant actor and is also unusually flush with money from a London engagement. Things are on track, even though the flight home (his least favorite form of transportation) has left him woozy from self-medication. He wakes to an uncertain morning, unclear whose bed it is he finds himself in. Luckily, it's Bryna who is obeying his mother instructions on what to do with him on arrival. Memory happily restored, Jeff lolls in bed as Bryna goes downstairs to prepare breakfast. Jeff expects a meal, not muffled screams and a slamming door. Dashing downstairs, he chases the intruders out the door, handicapped by his lack of clothing and irked that Bryna was taken in the same state. Obviously, he has to call on his family and friends to get her back. Before he can, he dives into a sea of alcohol where he finds interesting new acquaintances from Indiana who want to tour the bars and a literary co-ed who wants to instruct him in other arts. With the help of his family and friends and some new acquaintances who are friends of a stockbroker and a doctor he is able to function again. His boozy excursion means that the trail has gone cold until a hurried postcard from Bryna sends him north across Lake Pontchartrain to the rolling hills of horse country and south of New Orleans to the trackless swamps. Allies turn up in both places but Jeff still needs the good services of a quiet, but efficient Sheriff and a swamp rat with multiple names and odd connections. Bryan's rescue is ready, except for the unfortunate appearance of a monster storm that renders the swamps impassable for all except the foolhardy, a description that seems written for Jeff and his friends. An interesting cast tackles the swamps: an ex-Marine female impersonator, Skinny, who isn't, "Paul Bunyan" who has no blue ox, a gospel singing mother and daughter, and the provident misplacing of supplies and boats by the Sheriff's Office. Bryan's captors are armed and dangerous. The storm is fierce. Their chances are small. Exactly the right circumstances for this group of untraditional extroverts. The storm once conquered, another trip across the lake to horse country is needed to ace a group with automatic weapons and a will to use them. That's of no concern to Jeff who has interesting friends who, in turn, have even more interesting friends. If all works out, the landscape will be clear for Jeff and Bryna to take that trip down the aisle before sailing away on that romantic honeymoon. Won't they? Nothing is ever quite that clear cut in a Jeff Chaussier mystery. Nor are New Orleans mysteries that easily resolved. The city and its inhabitants are too quirky and their surrounding aura too exotic. The only thing to do is to hop on for the the fastest-paced, widest-ranging Jeff Chaussier tale to date.

Book The George A  Young Swine Conference   Annual Nebraska SPF Swine Conference

Download or read book The George A Young Swine Conference Annual Nebraska SPF Swine Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biographic Register of the Department of State

Download or read book Biographic Register of the Department of State written by United States. Dept. of State and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Faculty Directory

Download or read book National Faculty Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stages of Life

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  • Author : Alberto Sandoval-S‡nchez
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2001-10
  • ISBN : 0816518297
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Stages of Life written by Alberto Sandoval-S‡nchez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An analytical companion to the authors' groundbreaking anthology of Latina theater, Puro Teatro, this volume presents a theoretical perspective from which to understand and contextualize Latina theater as a genre in its own right. Applying feminist and postcolonial theory as well as theories of transculturation, they show how these works form a unified body that contributes to the formation of Latina identity in America today".

Book Official Army Register

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  • Author : United States. Adjutant-General's Office
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1940
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1280 pages

Download or read book Official Army Register written by United States. Adjutant-General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Boyle Heights

    Book Details:
  • Author : George J. Sánchez
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2022-07-12
  • ISBN : 0520391640
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book Boyle Heights written by George J. Sánchez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. “When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.”—George J. Sánchez The vision for America’s cross-cultural future lies beyond the multicultural myth of the "great melting pot." That idea of diversity often imagined ethnically distinct urban districts—the Little Italys, Koreatowns, and Jewish quarters of American cities—built up over generations and occupying spaces that excluded one another. But the neighborhood of Boyle Heights shows us something altogether different: a dynamic, multiracial community that has forged solidarity through a history of social and political upheaval. Boyle Heights is an in-depth history of the Los Angeles neighborhood, showcasing the potent experiences of its residents, from early contact between Spanish colonizers and native Californians to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the hunt for hidden Communists among the Jewish population, negotiating citizenship and belonging among Latino migrants and Mexican American residents, and beyond. Through each period and every struggle, the residents of Boyle Heights have maintained remarkable solidarity across racial and ethnic lines, acting as a unified polyglot community even as their tribulations have become more explicitly racial in nature. Boyle Heights is immigrant America embodied, and it can serve as the true beacon on a hill toward which the country can strive in a time when racial solidarity and civic resistance have never been in greater need.

Book Proceedings   Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Download or read book Proceedings Institution of Mechanical Engineers written by Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Experimental Collaborations

Download or read book Experimental Collaborations written by Adolfo Estalella and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the accounts compiled in this book, ethnography occurs through processes of material and social interventions that turn the field into a site for epistemic collaboration. Through creative interventions that unfold what we term as “fieldwork devices”—such as coproduced books, the circulation of repurposed data, co-organized events, authorization protocols, relational frictions, and social rhythms—anthropologists engage with their counterparts in the field in the construction of joint anthropological problematizations. In these situations, the traditional tropes of the fieldwork encounter (i.e. immersion and distance) give way to a narrative of intervention, where the aesthetics of collaboration in the production of knowledge substitutes or intermingles with participant observation. Building on this, the book proposes the concept of “experimental collaborations” to describe and conceptualize this distinctive ethnographic modality.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson written by Cristanne Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson is designed to engage, inform, interest, and delight students and scholars of Emily Dickinson, of nineteenth-century US literature and cultural studies, of American poetry, and of the lyric. It also establishes potential agendas for future work in the field of Dickinson studies. This is the first collection on Dickinson to foreground the material and social culture of her time while opening new windows to interpretive possibility in ours. The volume strives to balance Dickinson's own center of gravity in the material culture and historical context of nineteenth-century Amherst with the significance of important critical conversations of our present, thus understanding her poetry with the broadest "Latitude of Home"—as she puts it in her poem "Forever-is composed of Nows." Debates about the lyric, about Dickinson's manuscripts and practices of composition, about the viability of translation across language, media, and culture, and about the politics of class, gender, place, and race circulate through this volume. These debates matter to our moment but also to our understanding of hers. Although rooted in the evolving history of Dickinson criticism, the chapters foreground truly new original research and a wide range of innovative critical methodologies, including artistic responses to her poetry by musicians, visual artists, and other poets. The suppleness and daring of Dickinson's thought and uses of language remain open to new possibilities and meanings, even while they are grounded in contexts from over 150 years ago, and this collection expresses and celebrates the breadth of her accomplishments and relevance.

Book Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Naval Research and Marine Corps Reserve

Download or read book Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Naval Research and Marine Corps Reserve written by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Becoming Mexican American

Download or read book Becoming Mexican American written by George J. Sanchez and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 1995-03-23 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth century Los Angeles has been the focus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between distinct cultures in U.S. history. In this pioneering study, Sanchez explores how Mexican immigrants "Americanized" themselves in order to fit in, thereby losing part of their own culture.

Book Handbook of Seed Physiology

Download or read book Handbook of Seed Physiology written by Roberto Benech-Arnold and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-09-21 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest findings in seed physiology—discussed as they relate to agricultural problems! Presenting the latest findings in the area of seed physiology as well as the practical applications of that knowledge in the field, the Handbook of Seed Physiology: Applications to Agriculture provides a comprehensive view of seed biology and its role in crop performance. Key topics include seed germination, crop emergence, crop establishment, dormancy, preharvest sprouting, plant hormones, abscisic and giberellic acids, weeds, grain quality, oil crops, and malting quality. Abundant case studies provide information of value to researchers, students, and professionals in the fields of seed science, field crop research, crop science, agronomy, and seed technology. The Handbook of Seed Physiology discusses vital topics which serve as the basis for the development of techniques and processes to improve seed performance and crop yield. In this text, you will explore: the effect of the soil physical environment on seed germination the roles of physiology, genetics, and environment in the inception, maintenance, and termination of dormancy the relationship between the termination of dormancy and the synthesis and signaling of gibberellins and abscisic acid mechanisms of orthodox seed deterioration and approaches for repair of seed damage characteristics, behavior, and mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in recalcitrant seeds the role of seed moisture in free radical assaults on seeds and the protective function of raffinose oligosaccharides the production of free radicals and their effect on lipids and lipid peroxidation components of grain quality in oil crops and factors influencing them structural components and genotypic and environmental factors affecting barley malting quality In addition to the latest scientific information in the area of seed physiology, this text provides insights into practical applications of that knowledge through the description of: screening protocols for germination tolerance to temperature and water stress methods for improving seed performance in the field techniques for controlling preharvest sprouting of cereals breeding and production strategies for improving grain quality population-based threshold models in the prediction of germination and emergence patterns modeling changes in dormancy to predict weed emergence Extensive reference sections accompanying each chapter include both foundation texts and current research. Principles and concepts discussed in the text are elaborated upon through equations, figures, and tables covering such topics as water and soil thermal regimes; seed water potential; temperature and water effects on germination; free radical attack; and molecular structures. Exploring concepts, techniques, and processes related to seed germination and crop establishment, this comprehensive, one-of-a-kind reference is an indispensable tool for seed scientists and agricultural professionals. Add it to your library today and put seed physiology research to work in establishing high-quality “next crops”!

Book Burning Dislike

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Sanchez-Jankowski
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2016-05-17
  • ISBN : 0520963873
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book Burning Dislike written by Martin Sanchez-Jankowski and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence in schools has more potential to involve large numbers of students, produce injuries, disrupt instructional time, and cause property damage than any other form of youth violence. Burning Dislike is the first book to use direct observation of everyday violent interactions to explore ethnic conflict in high schools. Why do young people engage in violence while in school? What is it about ethnicity that leads to fights? Through the use of two direct observational studies conducted twenty-six years apart, Martín Sánchez-Jankowski documents the process of ethnic school violence from start to finish. In addition to shedding light on what causes this type of violence and how it progresses over time, Burning Dislike provides strategic policy suggestions to address this troubling phenomenon.

Book Transcript of the Enrollment Books

Download or read book Transcript of the Enrollment Books written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Elections and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: