Download or read book Pepito s Cuba the Avocado Baseballs written by Rene' Abril de Cubria and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of Pepito’s story came from the living conditions in Cuba over the last fifty plus years; chiefly, the absence of nourishing food, manufactured conveniences of every imaginable type, and the lack of common over-the-counter drugs as well as late generation medicines. The foregoing issues principally related to Fidel Castro’s attack on American-style civil liberties and the right of self-determination. The focus of the book however, is the part true but mostly fictional tale of a young boy born to an aristocratic birthright, his few early years of earthly bliss, and his emotional detachment from the nation’s poverty-politics through his obsession with the game of baseball and the baseball games he plays with significant difficulties. The backdrop, and no-less-moving than Pepito’s story, is the living kaleidoscope of characters around Pepito and their own very personal challenges living in the `so called’ communist state. If you appreciate reality and truth in fiction, this is one story you may truly like.
Download or read book Resonances of El Chavo del Ocho in Latin American Childhood Schooling and Societies written by Daniel Friedrich and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Chavo del Ocho is one of the most influential pieces of popular culture to have hit Latin America in the last 50 years, having, at the peak of its popularity in the mid-1970s, reached an approximate audience of 350 million across the Americas. It is also a rare example of a cultural product that has travelled through Latin America, leaving a lasting impact for several decades. Resonances of El Chavo del Ocho in Latin American Childhood, Schooling, and Societies analyses the phenomenon of El Chavo, and its images of schooling and childhood, Latin American-ness, class and experience. With contributions from scholars emerging from or based in countries including Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia and the US, the book combines reflections from a variety of international perspectives without attempting to compare or reach consensus on any ultimate meaning(s) of the work. The book explores themes such as images of schooling and childhood, romantization of poverty, the prevalence of non-traditional families and the bordering cynicism towards the economic structures and inequalities which, some argue, make the show transgressive and quite uniquely Latin American. Investigating the connection between visual culture studies and transcultural curriculum studies, this innovative title provides scholars with original new insights into conceptualizing childhood, schooling and society in Latin America.
Download or read book Pepito s Cuba the Avocado Baseballs written by Rene' Abril and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passion for life, freedom, & baseball. Pepito's Cuba & the Avocado Baseballs personifies the absence of the free enterprise way of life and the problems suffered living under the shroud of strict government rule and a fixed economy. Featuring nostalgic, fictionalized games with Yankee greats, such as Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Elston Howard, Whitey Ford and others, the story teaches young and old alike the value of free enterprise in a very remarkable way. It is a fascinating, creative tale highlighted by Pepito, a small boy whose only goal is to play baseball amidst his family's misery living on a communist Caribbean island. A fascinating, creative story featuring Pepito, a small boy whose only goal is to play baseball, amidst his family's misery and hardships due to living on a communist Caribbean island without the luxury of a free economy.
Download or read book Pepito s Cuba the Avocado Baseballs written by Rene Abril and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pepito's Cuba & the Avocado Baseballs is based on the historical circumstances of an aristocratic Caribbean family and their two boys before the successes of Fidel Castro's revolution and after the wholesale communist transformation's eventualities post the American embargo that results in an unrecognizable, poverty stricken island world of food shortages, forced relocations, and the mere luxuries of children's toys are forces of family reckonings.
Download or read book Spain Third Edition written by John A. Crow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-05-10 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A readable and erudite study of the cultural history of Spain and its people.
Download or read book The Poetry Teatime Companion written by Julie Bogart and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of public domain poems and images to celebrate the practice of poetry teatime with children.
Download or read book Shakespeare Stories written by Leon Garfield and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1985 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By skillfully weaving his own prose with Shakespeare's language, Leon Garfield has refashioned twelve of the Elizabethan playwright's most memorable dramas into stories, capturing all the richness of the characters, plot, mood, and setting. This format will delight both those who know the great dramatist's works and those who are new to them. Michael Foreman's dramatic color illustrations and varied black-and-white line drawings are the perfect complement to this celebration of Shakespeare's genius.
Download or read book Coastal Plant Communities of Latin America written by Ulrich Seeliger and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vegetation ecology of rocky shores, Macroalgae of the Cabo Frio upwelling region, Brazil: ordination of communities, Mangrove macroalgal communities of Latin America: The state of art and perspectives, Effect of human exploitation on the intertidal community structure at the Valdivian Coast, Chile, Lessonia trabeculata, a subtidal bottom kelp in Northern Chile: a case study for a structural and Geographical comparison, Algal communities of a wave-protected intertidal rocky shore in Southern Chile, The seagrass ecosystem and Resources in Latin America.
Download or read book Louisiana Trail Riders written by Jeremiah Ariaz and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Trail Riding Clubs have their roots in the Creole culture formed in South Louisiana in the eighteenth century. Today trail rides are an opportunity for generations of people to gather, celebrate, and ride horseback. The riders form a distinctive yet little-known sub-culture in Southwest Louisiana. In addition to sharing an important aspect of Louisiana's cultural heritage, Ariaz's photographs assert a counter-narrative to historic representations of the cowboy and prevailing images of difference and despair in Black America.
Download or read book Sonia Flew written by Melinda Lopez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: When Sonia learns of her son's decision to leave college, enlist in the military and fight against terror in Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11, memories of her own childhood overwhelm her. She struggles to reconcile being forced as
Download or read book Operina written by Ludovico degli Arrighi and published by Operina LLC. This book was released on 2001 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Will Survive written by Gloria Gaynor and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Will Survive is the story of Gloria Gaynor, America's "Queen of Disco." It is the story of riches and fame, despair, and finally salvation. Her meteoric rise to stardom in the mid-1970s was nothing short of phenomenal, and hits poured forth that pushed her to the top of the charts, including "Honey Bee," "I Got You Under My Skin," "Never Can Say Goodbye," and the song that has immortalized her, "I Will Survive," which became a #1 international gold seller. With that song, Gloria heralded the international rise of disco that became synonymous with a way of life in the fast lane - the sweaty bodies at Studio 54, the lines of cocaine, the indescribable feeling that you could always be at the top of your game and never come down. But down she came after her early stardom, and problems followed in the wake, including the death of her mother, whose love had anchored the young singer, as well as constant battles with weight, drugs, and alcohol. While her fans always imagined her to be rich, her personal finances collapsed due to poor management; and while many envied her, she felt completely empty inside. In the early 1980s, sustained by her marriage to music publisher Linwood Simon, Gloria took three years off and reflected upon her life. She visited churches and revisited her mother's old Bible. Discovering the world of gospel, she made a commitment to Christ that sustains her to this day.
Download or read book Among the Lost written by Emiliano Monge and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the desolate wastelands between the sierra and the jungle, under an all-seeing, unforgiving sun, a single day unfolds as relentlessly as those that have gone before. People are trafficked and brutalised, illegal migrants are cheated of their money, their dreams, their very names even as countless others scrabble to cross the border, trying to reach a land they call El Paraíso. In this grim inferno, a fierce love has blossomed — one that was born in pain and cruelty, and one that will live or die on this day. Estela and Epitafio too were trafficked, they grew together in the brutal orphanage, fell in love, but were ripped apart. They have played an ugly role in the very system that abused them, and done the bidding of the brutal old priest for too long. They have traded in migrants, put children to work as slaves, hacked off limbs and lives without a thought, though they have never forgotten the memory of their own shackles. Like the immigrants whose hopes they extinguish, they long to be free; free to be together and alone. Here in an unnamed land that could be a Mexico reimagined by Breughel and Dante, on the border between purgatory and inferno, where Paradise is the mouth of hell and cruelty the only currency, lives are spent, bartered and indentured for it. Must all be bankrupt among the lost?
Download or read book The Back in the Swing Cookbook written by Barbara C. Unell and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderful resource . . . to help all of us in the kitchen to eat great, to have wonderful meals, and to combine science with common sense.”(Sheryl Crow, Grammy award winning artist and breast cancer survivor) The Back in the Swing Cookbook is a life-affirming book full of 150 feel-good recipes that are easy to prepare, with fresh ingredients specifically designed to help breast cancer survivors get back in the swing of joyful, healthy living. It's a book that you will love to hold in your hands, and use in the kitchen, as a friend and guide to delicious meals and a lifestyle that makes you feel positive. In addition to fabulous food and drinks, the beautiful pages include luscious photographs and fun-to-read, smart, friendly nuggets on topics ranging from genetics, lifestyle choices, and the environment to the influence of all three on living a full and happy life. Created specifically for breast cancer survivors by the national grassroots nonprofit organization Back in the Swing, The Back in the Swing Cookbook answers the number-one question on every cancer survivor's mind: “How do I safely and smartly get back in the swing of life every day after experiencing breast cancer?” Every page is brilliantly designed to nurture your mind, body, and spirit with new information not found in any other cookbook. It is a special gift of goodness to give oneself, a friend, a coworker, or a family member that will reap healthy rewards for a lifetime.
Download or read book Jazz Cooks written by Bob Young and published by Stewart Tabori & Chang. This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety of the top international jazz musicians share their culinary secrets in a unique collection of recipes from the world's greatest improvisational artists. Original.
Download or read book Apalachee written by John H. Hann and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
