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Book Novena del m  rtir San Lorenzo

Download or read book Novena del m rtir San Lorenzo written by Modesto de Iturbe and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Novena del esclarecido y glorioso Martir espa  ol Sr  San Lorenzo

Download or read book Novena del esclarecido y glorioso Martir espa ol Sr San Lorenzo written by and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Western Astrology

Download or read book A History of Western Astrology written by S. J. Tester and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1987 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superb general account.' Times Literary Supplement The story of the history of Western astrology begins with the philosophers of Greece in the 5th century BC. To the magic and stargazing of Egypt the Greeks added numerology, geometryand rational thought. The philosophy of Plato and later of the Stoics made astrology respectable, and by the time Ptolemy wrote his textbook the Tetrabiblos, in the second century AD, the main lines of astrological practice as it is known today had already been laid down. In future centuries astrology shifted to Islam only to return to the West in medieval times where it flourished until the shift of ideas during the Renaissance.

Book Coercion  Capital  and European States  AD 990 1992

Download or read book Coercion Capital and European States AD 990 1992 written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irish Witchcraft and Demonology

Download or read book Irish Witchcraft and Demonology written by St. John Drelincourt Seymour and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages

Download or read book Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages written by Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1988 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Portuguese Original. Translated Into English With Notes Additions And Comments By A.X. Soares.

Book The Power of Latino Leadership

Download or read book The Power of Latino Leadership written by Juana Bordas and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embracing diversity, valuing people, taking action Over 50 million Latinos live in the United States, and it’s estimated that by 2050 one in three of the US population will be Hispanic. What does it take to lead such a varied and vibrant people who hail from twenty-two different countries and are a blend of different races? And what can leaders of all cultures and ethnicities learn from how Latinos lead? Juana Bordas takes us on a journey to the very heart and soul of Latino leadership. She offers ten principles that richly illustrate the inclusive, people-oriented, socially responsible, and life-affirming way Latinos have led their communities. Bordas includes the voices and experiences of other distinguished Latino leaders and vivid dichos (traditional sayings) that illustrate positive aspects of the Latino culture. This unprecedented book illustrates powerful and distinctive lessons that will inform leaders of every background. “America grows more diverse by the day. Leaders want to understand and motivate those they lead but may feel intimidated by the complex history and culture of Latinos in America. Juana Bordas has written a handbook for making sense of it all. The Power of Latino Leadership helps the reader decode the coming America and the changing workforce.” —Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, PBS News Hour, and former host, Talk of the Nation, NPR “Bordas has mentored generations of young Hispanics throughout her distinguished career. [Here] she presents a compelling case for how the strengths Hispanics bring to the table...can infuse new life into leadership development for all of our country’s current and future leaders.” —Janet Murguía, President, National Council of La Raza “Juana Bordas provides timely insight into Latino contributions to our nation’s future and why their influence will continue to increase.” —Arturo Vargas, Executive Director, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials “To develop a deeper appreciation for the countless contributions the Latino community is making to America’s multicultural leadership journey, read this book!” —Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Great Leaders Grow

Book A Radical Green Political Theory

Download or read book A Radical Green Political Theory written by Alan Carter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original, provocative and cutting-edge Author is well-respected and well-networked Controversial and topical subject

Book El Cinco de Mayo

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Hayes-Bautista
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2012-05-05
  • ISBN : 0520951794
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book El Cinco de Mayo written by David Hayes-Bautista and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-05-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is Cinco de Mayo—a holiday commemorating a Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862—so widely celebrated in California and across the United States, when it is scarcely observed in Mexico? As David E. Hayes-Bautista explains, the holiday is not Mexican at all, but rather an American one, created by Latinos in California during the mid-nineteenth century. Hayes-Bautista shows how the meaning of Cinco de Mayo has shifted over time—it embodied immigrant nostalgia in the 1930s, U.S. patriotism during World War II, Chicano Power in the 1960s and 1970s, and commercial intentions in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, it continues to reflect the aspirations of a community that is engaged, empowered, and expanding.

Book Evaluation of Recent Changes in the Financing of Health Services

Download or read book Evaluation of Recent Changes in the Financing of Health Services written by WHO Study Group on the Evaluation of Recent Changes in the Financing of Health Services and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the past decade, fundamental developments have occurred in the financing of health services, coinciding with economic, political and social changes in many parts of the world. The role of government in the funding and provision of health care is being reconsidered, often with far-reaching consequences for the relation between health care providers and consumers, access to health facilities, and the health status of populations. This report presents the conclusions and recommendations of a WHO Study Group that met to review recent changes in health financing and to evaluate their effects on the provision and utilization of health services. Drawing on specific examples from both developing and developed countries, the report identifies trends in sources of finance, payment mechanisms, and the roles of health care consumers, purchasers and providers, and emphasizes that too little is known about the impact of these changes on health status. In discussing the implications of recent developments, the Study Group stresses the responsibilities of governments in policy-making, regulation, and information gathering and dissemination, and the need to evaluate options for health financing in the context of national policy objectives, with the ultimate aim of improving the performance of health systems."--

Book Health and Disease in Tribal Societies

Download or read book Health and Disease in Tribal Societies written by Katherine Elliott and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.

Book The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos

Download or read book The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos written by Marie-Theresa Hernández and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden lives, hidden history, and hidden manuscripts. In The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos, Marie-Theresa Hernández unmasks the secret lives of conversos and judaizantes and their likely influence on the Catholic Church in the New World. The terms converso and judaizante are often used for descendants of Spanish Jews (the Sephardi, or Sefarditas as they are sometimes called), who converted under duress to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. There are few, if any, archival documents that prove the existence of judaizantes after the Spanish expulsion of the Jews in 1492 and the Portuguese expulsion in 1497, as it is unlikely that a secret Jew in sixteenth-century Spain would have documented his allegiance to the Law of Moses, thereby providing evidence for the Inquisition. On a Da Vinci Code – style quest, Hernández persisted in hunting for a trove of forgotten manuscripts at the New York Public Library. These documents, once unearthed, describe the Jewish/Christian religious beliefs of an early nineteenth-century Catholic priest in Mexico City, focusing on the relationship between the Virgin of Guadalupe and Judaism. With this discovery in hand, the author traces the cult of Guadalupe backwards to its fourteenth-century Spanish origins. The trail from that point forward can then be followed to its interface with early modern conversos and their descendants at the highest levels of the Church and the monarchy in Spain and Colonial Mexico. She describes key players who were somehow immune to the dangers of the Inquisition and who were allowed the freedom to display, albeit in a camouflaged manner, vestiges of their family's Jewish identity. By exploring the narratives produced by these individuals, Hernández reveals the existence of those conversos and judaizantes who did not return to the “covenantal bond of rabbinic law,” who did not publicly identify themselves as Jews, and who continued to exhibit in their influential writings a covert allegiance and longing for a Jewish past. This is a spellbinding and controversial story that offers a fresh perspective on the origins and history of conversos.

Book Cemeteries of Ambivalent Desire

Download or read book Cemeteries of Ambivalent Desire written by Marie Theresa Hernández and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up as the daughter of a funeral director in Fort Bend County, Texas, Marie Theresa Hernández was a frequent visitor to the San Isidro Cemetery, a burial place for Latino workers at the Imperial Sugar Company, based in nearby Sugar Land. During these years she acquired from her father and mother a sense of what it was like to live as an ethnic minority in Jim Crow Texas. Therefore, returning to the cemetery as an ethnographer offered Hernández a welcome opportunity to begin piecing together a narrative of the lives and struggles of the Mexican American community that formed her heritage. However, Hernández soon realized that San Isidro contained hidden depths. The cemetery was built on the former grounds of an old slave-owning plantation. Her story quickly burgeoned from one of immigrant laborers working the land of the giant sugar company to one of the slave laborers who had worked the sugar plantations decades before, but whose history had been largely wiped out of the narrative of the affluent, white-majority county. Much like an archeologist, Hernández began carefully brushing away layers of time to reveal the fragile, entombed remnants of a complex, unknown past. A professional photographer as well as a scholar, Hernández provides visual images to spur the reader’s imagination and anchor the narrative in historical reality. She mines interviews, newspaper accounts, and other primary sources—interpreted through her own rich sense of place and time—to reconstruct the identity of a community where the Old South, the wealthy New South, and the culture from south of the border all comingle to form an almost iconic symbol for today’s America. In this complex and nuanced, self-reflexive ethnography, Hernández interweaves personal memory and group history, ethnic experience and class . . . even death and life.

Book Eyewitness

    Book Details:
  • Author : JesÏs Salvador TreviÐo
  • Publisher : Arte Publico Press
  • Release : 2001-09-30
  • ISBN : 9781611921434
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Eyewitness written by JesÏs Salvador TreviÐo and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2001-09-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted filmmaker Jesús Salvador Treviño participated in and documented the most important events in the Mexican American civil rights movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s: the farm workers' strikes and boycotts, the Los Angeles school walk-outs, the Chicano Youth Conference in Denver, the New Mexico land grant movement, the Chicano moratorium against the Vietnam War, the founding of La Raza Unida Party, and the first incursion of Latinos into the media. Coming of age during the turmoil of the sixties, Treviño was on the spot to record the struggles to organize students and workers into the largest social and political movement in the history of Latino communities in the United States. As important as his documentation of historical events is his self-reflection and chronicling of how these events helped to shape his own personality and mission as one of the most renowned Latino filmmakers. Treviño's beautifully written memoir is fascinating for its detail, insight, and heretofore undisclosed reports from behind the scenes by a participant and observer who is able to strike the balance between self-interest and reportage.

Book Eminent Orientalists

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anon
  • Publisher : Asian Educational Services
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9788120606975
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Eminent Orientalists written by Anon and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1991 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers Eminent Personalities Such As Max Muller, William Jones, Ralph T Griffiths, Macdonell,Dr Bhandarkar, Buhler, Monier Williams Vincent Smith And Many More.

Book The Border Is Burning

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  • Author : Ito Romo
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2013-08-01
  • ISBN : 0826353355
  • Pages : 66 pages

Download or read book The Border Is Burning written by Ito Romo and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loners, families, fathers, wives—anyone who lives on the border between Mexico and the United States also lives on a border of violence and complexity. Here a master of Chicano noir explores that world in lean and haunting stories that you will never forget.

Book Delirio   The Fantastic  the Demonic  and the R  el

Download or read book Delirio The Fantastic the Demonic and the R el written by Marie Theresa Hernández and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking, inexplicable stories circulate among the people of Nuevo León in northern Mexico. Stories of conversos (converted Jews) who fled the Inquisition in Spain and became fabulously wealthy in Mexico. Stories of women and children buried in walls and under houses. Stories of an entire, secret city hidden under modern-day Monterrey. All these stories have no place or corroboration in the official histories of Nuevo León. In this pioneering ethnography, Marie Theresa Hernández explores how the folktales of Nuevo León encode aspects of Nuevolenese identity that have been lost, repressed, or fetishized in "legitimate" histories of the region. She focuses particularly on stories regarding three groups: the Sephardic Jews said to be the "original" settlers of the region, the "disappeared" indigenous population, and the supposed "barbaric" society that persists in modern Nuevo León. Hernández's explorations into these stories uncover the region's complicated history, as well as the problematic and often fascinating relationship between history and folklore, between officially accepted "facts" and "fictions" that many Nuevoleneses believe as truth.