Download or read book Pedro s Monster written by Fran Manushkin and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro is obsessed with monster trucks. He plays with his toy truck, writes about them at school, and even gets to go to a rally with his friends. He simply can't stop thinking about them! But can his love of monster trucks help him stop the monsters in his dreams? In the back matter, a glossary and discussion questions round out the learning and a collection of jokes rounds out the fun!
Download or read book The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography written by Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any on-screen schmuck can take down a wolfman with a silver bullet. It takes a certain kind of hero to hoist that wolfman overhead into an airplane spin, follow with a body slam, drop an atomic elbow across his mangy neck, leg-lock him until he howls, and pin his furry back to the mat for a three-count. It takes a Mexican masked wrestler. Add a few half-naked vampire women, Aztec mummies, mad scientists, evil midgets from space, and a goateed Frankenstein monster, and you have just some of the elements of Mexican masked wrestler and monster movies, certainly among the most bizarre, surreal and imaginative films ever produced. This filmography features some of the oddest cinematic showdowns ever concocted--Mexican masked wrestlers battling monsters, evil geniuses and other ne'er-do-wells, be it in caves, cobwebbed castles or in the ring. From the 1950s to the 1970s, these movies were staples of Mexican cinema, combining action, horror, sex, science fiction and comedy into a bizarre amalgam aimed to please the whole family. Chapters examine the roots of the phenomenon, including the hugely popular masked wrestling scene and the classic Universal horror films from which Mexican filmmakers stole without compunction. Subsequent chapters focus on El Santo, Blue Demon, and Mil Mascaras, the three most prominent masked wrestlers; wrestling women; other less prominent masked wrestlers; and the insane mish-mash of monsters pitted against the heroes. Each chapter includes background information and a full filmography, and a wide assortment of striking illustrations--posters, lobby cards and other graphic material, some better than the movies they advertised--accompany the text.
Download or read book Monster of the Andes written by Gist Hub and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the blood-soaked annals of serial killer lore, one name reigns supreme in sheer depravity and body count: Pedro Lopez, The Monster of the Andes. This remorseless child predator crisscrossed the remote indigenous villages of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia for over a decade, raping and strangling over 300 young girls in ritualistic fashion. Yet despite the mind-numbing scale of his atrocities, Lopez's tale remains obscured from wider infamy - his unspeakable crimes carried out along society's periphery, targeting the most vulnerable and voiceless. This tome finally shines a searing light into the abyss, uncovering the root causes and societal failures that enabled a monster's reign of terror from 1969-1980. From the killing fields of La Violencia civil war that birthed him to the twisted psyche that reveled in extinguishing youthful "innocence," no stone is left unturned. These pages provide an uncensored glimpse into the institutional incompetence, bureaucratic apathy, and criminal injustice system that ultimately released the "werewolf" to vanish into the ether after merely a token prison stint. So where is the elusive Pedro Lopez today? Over 20 years since his last confirmed sighting in public, does the Monster of the Andes yet stalk from the shadows, forever outrunning the long arm of the law? Or did this immortal embodiment of evil ultimately meet a fitting demise at the hands of vigilantes, karma, or his own haunted damnation?
Download or read book Pedro s Big Goal written by Fran Manushkin and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro dreams of playing goalie for the next big soccer match in this e-book. But he worries he's too slow and too small. Will Pedro meet his big goal?
Download or read book Pedro s Pan written by Matthew Lasley and published by Alaska Northwest Books. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Public Library "Best Books for Kids 2019" choice in nonfiction history. Discover the whimsical tale of friendship between one man and his gold pan, and their journey in the wake of the Gold Rush. Pedro and his pan go on an exciting adventure together--to strike gold! They hike mountains, whack through bushes, and wade through streams as they sift through dirt and gravel in search of the hidden nuggets. But as time goes by without any success, Pan begins to worry that he is broken. Will he and Pedro ever find what they're looking for? Inspired by the true story of Felix Pedro, a prospector who launched one of the richest gold rushes in Alaska's history, Pedro's Pan offers a glimpse into American history as well as educates how gold panning works in a fun and exciting way.
Download or read book Pedro First Class Friend written by Fran Manushkin and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes Pedro a first-class friend? One, he will bravely search out the classroom stink. Two, he loves driving monster trucks. Three, he knows how to have fun, even with a broken arm. And four, he's even a friend to his little brother! Read his latest adventures in this early chapter book from author Fran Manushkin and join in the fun!
Download or read book Green Eyed Monster written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George, Bess, and I were so excited when we won an amazing vacation at an eco-resort in Costa Rica. Fun, sun, surf -- all in the name of ecology and helping to keep our planet clean. But, as always, dirty business seems to follow me wherever I go, and this resort isn't as spic 'n' span as we originally thought. After a string of increasingly dangerous "accidents," it seems that there is a jealous predator staying at the resort, making trouble for the management and the guests. Against the urging of my friends, I know that I need to take this case and get to the bottom of it before our entire week at Casa Verde is ruined -- or worse. Can I uncover who is sabotaging the press tour before it's too late? Or will our vacation come to an unhappy end?
Download or read book Monsters by Trade written by Lisa Surwillo and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic studies have begun to explore the lasting influence of Spain on its former colonies and the surviving ties between the American nations and Spain. In Monsters by Trade, Lisa Surwillo takes a different approach, explaining how modern Spain was literally made by its Cuban colony. Long after the transatlantic slave trade had been abolished, Spain continued to smuggle thousands of Africans annually to Cuba to work the sugar plantations. Nearly a third of the royal income came from Cuban sugar, and these profits underwrote Spain's modernization even as they damaged its international standing. Surwillo analyzes a sampling of nineteenth-century Spanish literary works that reflected metropolitan fears of the hold that slave traders (and the slave economy more generally) had over the political, cultural, and financial networks of power. She also examines how the nineteenth-century empire and the role of the slave trader are commemorated in contemporary tourism and literature in various regions in Northern Spain. This is the first book to demonstrate the centrality of not just Cuba, but the illicit transatlantic slave trade to the cultural life of modern Spain.
Download or read book The Vanishing Frame written by Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism have been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art—especially the claim that political freedom can be achieved by promoting a more direct experience between the textual subject (often a victim) and the reader by eliminating the division between art and life. The Vanishing Frame argues against this conception of freedom, demonstrating how it is based on a politics of human rights complicit with economic injustices. Presenting a provocative counternarrative, Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano examines literary, visual, and interdisciplinary artists who insist on the autonomy of the work of art in order to think beyond the politics of human rights and neoliberalism in Latin American theory and culture. Di Stefano demonstrates that while artists such as Diamela Eltit, Ariel Dorfman, and Albertina Carri develop a concept of justice premised on recognizing victims’ experiences of torture or disappearance, they also ignore the injustice of economic inequality and exploitation. By examining how artists such as Roberto Bolaño, Alejandro Zambra, and Fernando Botero not only reject an aesthetics of experience (and the politics it entails) but also insist on the work of art as a point of departure for an anticapitalist politics, this new reading of Latin American cultural production offers an alternative understanding of recent developments in Latin American aesthetics and politics that puts art at its center and the postdictatorship at its end.
Download or read book Feeding the Green Monster written by Rob Neyer and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeding the Green Monster is an invaluable and unique addition to baseball writing from one of its best informed columnists. In the spring of 2000, baseball fanatic and ESPN.com columnist Rob Neyer set out to live every baseball fan's dream. He would spend the next six months attending every one of the Boston Red Sox's home games. His journal of the season that followed, "Feeding the Green Monster," is a candid look at baseball as it's played today. While there are the ups (when the Red Sox led their division) and the downs (when the Red Sox eventually
Download or read book LGBTQ Intimacies in Southern Europe written by Ana Cristina Santos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access book argues that Southern European countries offer valuable, though historically overlooked, knowledge regarding intimate citizenship. Guided by the fundamental sociological question of how change takes place and, concomitantly, how law and social policy adjust to and/or shape the practices and expectations of individuals in the sphere of intimacy, this edited volume explores partnering, parenting and friendship issues from the perspective of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people in Italy, Portugal and Spain. Chapters offer a cross-national understanding of the relationship between everyday practices of intimacy amongst LGBTQ people and national legal, political and policy contexts in terms of the recognition of otherwise ‘intimate strangers’. The book contributes to further theoretical and policy debates about citizenship, care and choice, as well as, more broadly, sexuality, welfare, health and justice. This book will be of interest to scholars across Gender and Feminist Studies as well as Citizenship Studies, Law, Policy, and Politics.
Download or read book Conrad s Victory written by Basil Macdonald Hastings and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basil Macdonald Hastings's dramatization of Joseph Conrad's Victory enjoyed a run of over eighty performances at London's Globe Theatre in 1919 with actor-producer Marie Löhr in the role of Lena. It remains the most successful stage adaptation of Conrad's fiction and Conrad himself was closely involved in the development of the script. This generously illustrated volume presents the complete script of Macdonald Hastings's play, the collected theatre reviews of the production, and the stage censor's confidential report on the script. The volume also features a substantial introduction placing the original novel and its subsequent dramatization in a stimulating critical and cultural context.
Download or read book Through Texas written by Walter Barlow Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pedro First Class Friend written by Fran Manushkin and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the adventures of a first-grade Hispanic American boy as he battles his bad dreams, breaks his arm while riding his bike, visits the amusement park with his friends, and befriends the new boy in school.
Download or read book Pedro and the Monster Eaters Pedro y los devoradores de monstruos written by Xequina María Berbér and published by Arte Público Press. This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro came from a family of artists who created papier-mâché sculptures. With newspaper, cardboard and glue, they made piñatas, masks and mojigangas, giant puppets used in parades and festivals in Mexico. As a boy, he helped his family by collecting newspapers in the neighborhood. When he got older, he began making the large figures himself. The family had to make new ones every year because all the mojigangas were burned after the events! One day, Pedro became very sick. He had a high fever, slept a lot and had very scary nightmares. In his dreams, the giant puppets came to life and chased him. But suddenly, fierce animals with long, sharp teeth and claws came to his defense and ate up all the monsters! The animals called themselves alebrijes. When he was well, he began to recreate the beasts from his dream using paper and glue; he painted his creations with bright colors and intricate patterns. Soon, people came from all over to buy Pedro’s monster eaters. Loosely based on the life of artist Pedro Linares, this bilingual picture book for young readers pairs the fascinating origin story of one of Mexico’s most well-known folk arts with striking illustrations of the magical creatures. This is a perfect choice for parents and teachers interested in sharing the world of art with their kids.
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1965-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book En Route to Modern Growth written by José Márcio Camargo and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses questions of international trade policy and the relationship between growth, distribution, and human resource development in the Latin American region.
