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Book American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book

Download or read book American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book written by American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief history of Hereford cattle: v. 1, p. 359-375.

Book Matadora

Download or read book Matadora written by Steve Perry and published by Ace Books. This book was released on 2002-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now back in print, Perry's cult-classic Matador series picks up where "The Man Who Never Missed" left off. At Matador Villa, the training center for the best fighters in the galaxy, a dangerous drifter, a dark-skinned beauty named Dirisha Zuri, draws attention. The school wants her talents--and the galaxy desperately needs her deadly skills. Reissue.

Book Mosaic Fictions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emily Robins Sharpe
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 1487501420
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Mosaic Fictions written by Emily Robins Sharpe and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mosaic Fictions reveals the tensions between national and global affiliations in Spanish Civil War literature, highlighting writers such as Leonard Cohen, Dorothy Livesay, and Mordecai Richler.

Book Shumora

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  • Author : Johnathan R. Summage
  • Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
  • Release : 2013-09-30
  • ISBN : 143493506X
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Shumora written by Johnathan R. Summage and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} Shumora is a nonfiction story. It has a lot of elements that the author knew as a young man, he could relate to it in so many ways. He feels that after you read this story, you will relate to Shumora as well.

Book Matadora

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Ruth
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781770862081
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Matadora written by Elizabeth Ruth and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Spain and Mexico during the 1930s, Matadora tells the story of Luna Caballero Garcia, an impoverished and intrepid servant attempting to make her name in the bullring at a time when it was illegal for a girl to do so. Matadora carries readers from bohemian artistic circles in Mexico City and Andalusia to Norman Bethune's mobile blood transfusions on the Madrid front. Against a backdrop of rising fascism and the Spanish Civil War, Elizabeth Ruth has created a powerful and compelling exploration of love, art, and politics, and an intelligent mirror for our times. Boldly sensual, with a cast of unforgettable characters and a plot that will keep readers on the edge of their seats, Matadora is easily one of the most original books of the year.

Book ELLEgirl

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-05
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book ELLEgirl written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ELLEgirl, the international style bible for girls who dare to be different, is published by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc., and is accessible on the web at ellegirl.elle.com/. ELLEgirl provides young women with insider information on fashion, beauty, service and pop culture in a voice that, while maintaining authority on the subject, includes and amuses them.

Book Hispania

Download or read book Hispania written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1 includes "Organization number," published Nov. 1917.

Book Yankees in the Afternoon

Download or read book Yankees in the Afternoon written by Lyn Sherwood and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader where only brave souls dare to compete--the world of bullfighting. Matadors risk serious injury or death to compete in their art, one that has been a part of Spanish and Latin American culture for centuries. Beginning with an introduction to bullfighting as it relates to American culture (not overlooking the negative views it often attracts), the book profiles 21 American matadors in detail, including women bullfighters, and novilleros (beginners). Chapters within each section are devoted to individual bullfighters. A major feature of this work are the numerous action photographs, many of which were taken by the author himself and impressively portray the flair, skill, emotion, and faces of bullfighting.

Book Late Self Portraits

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  • Author : Mary Morris
  • Publisher : MSU Press
  • Release : 2022-02-01
  • ISBN : 1628954558
  • Pages : 107 pages

Download or read book Late Self Portraits written by Mary Morris and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling collection of poems, Late Self-Portraits conveys an intimate description of lives through a collage of portraits and affliction. Weaving history and the sacred, both intimate and worldly, one encounters a blind Jorge Luis Borges with his mother, a glass confessional in the of Notre Dame Cathedral, Frida Kahlo in Mexico, ghosts, a neurosurgeon’s prognosis, and Marie Laveau in New Orleans. Whether in a field with Joan of Arc, encountering the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, or having dinner with Hades, these are haunting poems of loss and unearthing, equally bold, personal, and tender. From “Dinner with Hades”: He shows me a birthday cake, candled. My name is written in pomegranate seeds. It’s like vertigo. Just before he seeks to devour, he halts to birdsong— sound of goldfinch, bluebird, hawk, lilting of sparrows. Of whippoorwill and dove. Wings flap, so many wings, a cool breeze as leaves unfurl into a once forgotten green and I am back on earth, held in my mother’s arms.

Book Rant  Chant  Chisme

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  • Author : Amalia Ortiz
  • Publisher : Wings Press
  • Release : 2015-09-01
  • ISBN : 1609404459
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Rant Chant Chisme written by Amalia Ortiz and published by Wings Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rant. Chant. Chisme. is the debut collection of poetry by south Texas native Amalia Ortiz, featuring writing from the first decade of her career. Readers will get a taste of life on the border from the perspective of a young woman of color struggling to write herself into existence. These poems introduce a unique new transcultural feminist viewpoint as the poems call for social and political change along the borderlands. Ortiz, an award-winning performance poet known for her dynamic delivery style, relinquishes control of her writing to the reader, but not without first imparting the theatrical stage directions stated in the book's title, which commands readers to recite these poems aloud in a spoken word celebration exploring culture, music, and place while encouraging the reader to embrace diversity and find their own storytelling voice.

Book The American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book

Download or read book The American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book written by American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief history of Hereford cattle: v. 1, p. 359-375.

Book The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup

Download or read book The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup written by Susan Orlean and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book is back with this delightfully entertaining collection of her best and brightest profiles. Acclaimed New Yorker writer Susan Orlean brings her wry sensibility, exuberant voice, and peculiar curiosities to a fascinating range of subjects—from the well known (Bill Blass) to the unknown (a typical ten-year-old boy) to the formerly known (the 1960s girl group the Shaggs). Passionate people. Famous people. Short people. And one championship show dog named Biff, who from a certain angle looks a lot like Bill Clinton. Orlean transports us into the lives of eccentric and extraordinary characters—like Cristina Sánchez, the eponymous bullfighter, the first female matador of Spain—and writes with such insight and candor that readers will feel as if they’ve met each and every one of them. The result is a luminous and joyful tour of the human condition as seen through the eyes of the writer heralded by the Chicago Tribune as a “journalist dynamo.”

Book On My Honor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jay Mechling
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2004-05
  • ISBN : 9780226517056
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book On My Honor written by Jay Mechling and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a timely contribution to current debates over the psychology of boys and the construction of their social lives, On My Honor explores the folk customs of adolescent males in the Boy Scouts of America during a summer encampment in California's Sierra Nevada. Drawing on more than twenty years of research and extensive visits and interviews with members of the troop, Mechling uncovers the key rituals and play events through which the Boy Scouts shapes boys into men. He describes the campfire songs, initiation rites, games, and activities that are used to mold the Scouts into responsible adults. The themes of honor and character alternate in this new study as we witness troop leaders offering examples in structure, discipline, and guidance, and teaching scouts the difficult balance between freedom and self-control. What results is a probing look into the inner lives of boys in our culture and their rocky transition into manhood. On My Honor provides a provocative, sometimes shocking glimpse into the sexual awakening and moral development of young men coming to grips with their nascent desires, their innate aggressions, their inclination toward peer pressure and violence, and their social acculturation. On My Honor ultimately shows how the Boy Scouts of America continues to edify and mentor young men against the backdrop of controversies over freedom of religious expression, homosexuality, and the proposed inclusion of female members. While the organization's bureaucracy has taken an unyielding stance against gay men and atheists, real live Scouts are often more open to plurality than we might assume. In their embrace of tolerance, acceptance, and understanding, troop leaders at the local level have the power to shape boys into emotionally mature men.

Book The Lady Matador s Hotel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cristina Garcia
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1439181756
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Lady Matador s Hotel written by Cristina Garcia and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a hotel in an unnamed Latin American country in the midst of political turmoil.

Book The Man who Never Missed

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Perry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780747403487
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book The Man who Never Missed written by Steve Perry and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces us to Emile Khadaji, a man of justice in a universe ruled by the brutal forces of the galactic confederation. He never kills, only stuns and confounds the confederation, and although he gives himself up and is executed, his legend lives on.

Book Matadora

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Perry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780747403494
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book Matadora written by Steve Perry and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concerns the incredible exploits of a single woman, the matadora, a dangerous drifter, a dark skinned beauty who is superbly trained and deadly as she wreaks havoc on the confederation.

Book Postcards from the R  o Bravo Border

Download or read book Postcards from the R o Bravo Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history in postcards of Mexican tourist towns in the first half of the twentieth century, with nearly two hundred illustrations. Between 1900 and the late 1950s, Mexican border towns came of age both as tourist destinations—in some cases by luring Americans who wanted to escape Prohibition—and as emerging cities. Commercial photographers produced thousands of images of their streets, plazas, historic architecture, and tourist attractions, which were reproduced as photo postcards. Daniel Arreola has amassed one of the largest collections of these border town postcards, and in this book he uses this amazing visual archive to offer a new way of understanding how the border towns grew and transformed themselves in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as how they were pictured to attract American tourists. Postcards from the Río Bravo Border presents nearly two hundred images of five towns on the lower Río Bravo: Matamoros, Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo, Piedras Negras, and Villa Acuña. Using multiple images of sites within each city, Arreola tracks changes both within the cities as places and in the ways in which they’ve been pictured for tourist consumption. He also shows how postcard images, when systematically and chronologically arranged, can tell us a great deal about how Mexican border towns have been viewed over time. This innovative visual approach demonstrates that historical imagery, no less than text or maps, can be assembled to tell a fascinating geographical story. “This is masterful cultural geography with rich visual materials, delivered in a unique and compelling fashion.” —Journal of Latin American Geography