Download or read book Yo soy Santiago written by Miguel Luis Sancho and published by Palabra. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La vida de Santiago está muy ligada a su predicación en Hispania, donde sembró la semilla del cristianismo, en el confín del mundo conocido entonces.
Download or read book When I Was Puerto Rican written by Esmeralda Santiago and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually a new identity. In the first of her three acclaimed memoirs, Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous journey from the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years, to translating for her mother at the welfare office, and to high honors at Harvard.
Download or read book Corrido written by and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present compilation of ballads from the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca documents one of the world's great traditions of heroic song, a tradition that has thrived continuously for the last hundred years. The 107 corridos presented here, gathered during ethnographic research over a period of twenty-five years in settlements on Mexico's Costa Chica and Costa Grande, offer a window into the ethos of heroism among the cultures of Mexico's southwestern coast, a region that has been plagued by recurrent cycles of violence. John Holmes McDowell presents a richly annotated field collection of corridos, accompanied by musical scores and transcriptions and translations of lyrics. In addition to his interpretation of the corridos' depiction of violence and masculinity, McDowell situates the songs in historical and performance contexts, illuminating the Afro-mestizo influence in this distinctive population.
Download or read book Salt in the Sand written by Lessie Jo Frazier and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-17 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on northern Chile, which figures prominently in the nation’s history as a site of military glory during the period of national conquest, of labor strikes and massacres in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, and of state detention and violence during World War II and the Cold War. It was also the site of a mass-grave excavation that galvanized the national human rights movement in 1990, during Chile’s transition from dictatorship to democracy. Frazier analyzes the creation of official and alternative memories of specific instances of state violence in northern Chile from 1890 to the present, tracing how the form and content of those memories changed over time. In so doing, she shows how memory works to create political subjectivities mobilized for specific political projects within what she argues is the always-ongoing process of nation-state formation. Frazier’s broad historical perspective on political culture challenges the conventional periodization of modern Chilean history, particularly the idea that the 1973 military coup marked a radical break with the past. Analyzing multiple memories of state violence, Frazier innovatively shapes social and cultural theory to interpret a range of sources, including local and national government archives, personal papers, popular literature and music, interviews, architectural and ceremonial commemorations, and her ethnographic observations of civic associations, women's and environmental groups, and human rights organizations. A masterful integration of extensive empirical research with sophisticated theoretical analysis, Salt in the Sand is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on human rights, democratization, state formation, and national trauma and reconciliation.
Download or read book Conversational Spanish written by Authentic Language Books and published by Authentic Language Books. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was created with the listener in mind. Please purchase the Audiobook version of this book for the best and most effective learning experience! Conversational Spanish: This Book Includes: Conversational Spanish Dialogues for Beginners Volume I, II, III, IV, V and VI If you are looking to learn Spanish in a fast, simple way without entering a classroom then you have chosen the perfect book. Conversational Spanish Dialogues for Beginners Volume I, II, III, IV, and VI a comprehensive and simple program for learning Spanish in fast, simple and interactive lessons that will help you Learn Fluent Conversations With Step By Step Spanish Conversations Quick And Easy In Your Car Lesson By Lesson native-level fluency in no time . Learning Spanish can be a daunting experience. Most people start learning a new language in formal classes or try by stalking aps to learn how to speak in Spanish without any positive results. Through this book you will learn Conversational Spanish Dialogues for beginners through lessons that will help you develop your vocabulary and teach you how to communicate and hold short conversations Through these book’s lessons you will learn basic interactions in different and useful topics for travel. The following book on conversational Spanish will give you the necessary tools for learning a new language in simple and quick lessons. It’s time to begin the adventure of learning Spanish, through simple and quick lessons you can study everywhere. Inside You Will Find How to ask about the time of day and how to understand currency in quick and easy lessons for native like fluency in no time All the Spanish you need to be able to describe people and things through didactive dialogues Learn and expand your vocabulary and how to use adjectives with their correct gender and number Learn quick Spanish understand vocabulary and interactions and learn correct pronunciation through this simple audio lessons Get this book NOW, embrace these simple, yet effective language lessons that will have you speaking Spanish like a native in no time!
Download or read book Santiago s Road Home written by Alexandra Diaz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing abusive relatives and extreme poverty in Mexico, young Santiago endures being detained by ICE while crossing the border into the United States.
Download or read book The Michener Companion written by Sue Binkley Tatem and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a reference guide to James Michener and his work. A general section about Michener relating to his origins in Bucks County is followed by synopses of Michener’s books. The focus is on information that does not appear elsewhere and a bit of a tour of Doylestown. Meet a Michener you may not have met before.
Download or read book Bienvenidos written by Conrad J. Schmitt and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conversational Spanish Dialogues For Beginners Volume VI written by Authentic Language Books and published by Authentic Language Books. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was created with the listener in mind. Purchase the audiobook version of this book for the best and most effective learning experience! Conversational Spanish Dialogues for Beginners Volume VI If you are looking to learn Spanish in a fast, simple way without entering a classroom then you have chosen the perfect book. Conversational Spanish Dialogues for Beginners Volume 6 a comprehensive and simple program for learning Spanish in fast, simple and interactive lessons that will help you Learn Fluent Conversations With Step By Step Spanish Conversations Quick And Easy In Your Car Lesson By Lesson native-level fluency in no time . Learning Spanish can be a daunting experience. Most people start learning a new language in formal classes or try by stalking aps to learn how to speak in Spanish without any positive results. Through this book you will learn Conversational Spanish Dialogues for beginners through lessons that will help you develop your vocabulary and teach you how to communicate and hold short conversations Through these book’s lessons you will learn basic interactions in different and useful topics for travel. The following book on conversational Spanish will give you the necessary tools for learning a new language in simple and quick lessons. It’s time to begin the adventure of learning Spanish, through simple and quick lessons you can study everywhere. Inside You Will Find How to do an interview for school or for a job and how to answer about yourself in native like fluency in no time. You will also see a bonus vocabulary for professions All the Spanish you need to know communicate effectively with those around you, and how to ask where things are, buy food and shop in the market through didactive dialogues Learn quick Spanish understand vocabulary and interactions and learn correct pronunciation through this simple audio lessons Get this book NOW, embrace these simple, yet effective language lessons that will have you speaking Spanish like a native in no time!
Download or read book For a Proper Home written by Edward Murphy and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1967 to 1973, a period that culminated in the socialist project of Salvador Allende, nearly 400,000 low-income Chileans illegally seized parcels of land on the outskirts of Santiago. Remarkably, today almost all of these individuals live in homes with property titles. As Edward Murphy shows, this transformation came at a steep price, through an often-violent political and social struggle that continues to this day. In analyzing the causes and consequences of this struggle, Murphy reveals a crucial connection between homeownership and understandings of proper behavior and governance. This link between property and propriety has been at the root of a powerful, contested urban politics central to both social activism and urban development projects. Through projects of reform, revolution, and reaction, a right to housing and homeownership has been a significant symbol of governmental benevolence and poverty reduction. Under Pinochet's neoliberalism, subsidized housing and slum eradication programs displaced many squatters, while awarding them homes of their own. This process, in addition to ongoing forms of activism, has permitted the vast majority of squatters to live in homes with property titles, a momentous change of the past half-century. This triumph is tempered by the fact that today the urban poor struggle with high levels of unemployment and underemployment, significant debt, and a profoundly segregated and hostile urban landscape. They also find it more difficult to mobilize than in the past, and as homeowners they can no longer rally around the cause of housing rights. Citing cultural theorists from Marx to Foucault, Murphy directly links the importance of home ownership and property rights among Santiago's urban poor to definitions of Chilean citizenship and propriety. He explores how the deeply embedded liberal belief system of individual property ownership has shaped political, social, and physical landscapes in the city. His approach sheds light on the role that social movements and the gendered contours of home life have played in the making of citizenship. It also illuminates processes through which squatters have received legally sanctioned homes of their own, a phenomenon of critical importance in cities throughout much of Latin America and the Global South.
Download or read book 1956 Historias de la pelota Parte 1 written by Octavio Rivero Álvarez and published by Caligrama. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La selección de España siempre fue un cúmulo de talento, pero tuvieron que pasar más de ochenta años para que volviera a conjuntar lo que tuvo en los años treinta, un titán en la portería, un coloso en la defensa, una media cancha de ensueño y una delantera mágica. Solo Mussolini y la guerra evitaron su consagración. 1956 es una novela inspirada en la vida de Gabriel Hanot, futbolista y periodista francés nacido a finales del siglo XIX. En ella, nos narra la historia del fútbol durante los primeros cincuenta y seis años del siglo XX. La fundación de los organismos internacionales, la creación de las primeras competiciones de clubes a nivel internacional y nacional, así como el surgimiento de las copas del mundo. Todo nos guía al 13 de junio de 1956, fecha en la que se enfrentan Real Madrid y Stade de Reims, en París, para disputar la primera final de la Copa de Campeones de Europa; torneo creado por Gabriel y apoyado por Santiago Bernabéu, quien, tras llegar al club como un niño, se convierte mucho tiempo después en el más grande dirigente deportivo de la historia. 1956 habla dela vida de aquellos que ahora están en el olvido, pero gracias a los que hoy podemos gritar «¡gol!».
Download or read book Grandes aventuras de un peque o viajero written by R.C. ONTIVEROS and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hay quienes nacen con el privilegio de poder viajar cuando ellos quieran. Hay otros que sólo cuentan con la mano de Dios y el poder de soñar. Como Rubén, el joven de esta historia, al que conocerás a través de las memorias de sus aventuras en Semana Santa.”
Download or read book Santiago s Road Home written by Alexandra Diaz and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With every chapter, readers will be further immersed in Santiago’s story as they root for his triumph over injustice.” —Booklist (starred review) “With unflinching conviction, Diaz sketches a frank, brief account of refugee youth in an uncaring bureaucratic system.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Harrowing but deeply illuminating.” —School Library Journal “Diaz’s crucial narrative shines a disconcerting light on the plight of children in US detention centers along the southern border.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A young boy gets detained by ICE while crossing the border from Mexico to the United States in this timely and unflinching novel by award-winning author Alexandra Diaz. The bed creaks under Santiago’s shivering body. They say a person’s life flashes by before dying. But it’s not his whole life. Just the events that led to this. The important ones, and the ones Santiago would rather forget. The coins in Santiago’s hand are meant for the bus fare back to his abusive abuela’s house. Except he refuses to return; he won’t be missed. His future is uncertain until he meets the kind, maternal María Dolores and her young daughter, Alegría, who help Santiago decide what comes next: He will accompany them to el otro lado, the United States of America. They embark with little, just backpacks with water and a bit of food. To travel together will require trust from all parties, and Santiago is used to going it alone. None of the three travelers realizes that the journey through Mexico to the border is just the beginning of their story.
Download or read book Enamorados written by Antonio López and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santiago Narbona es un joven aspirante a actor sevillano que acababa de sufrir un desamor y cuya ilusión de hallar un amor se encontraba en dificultades. Jessica Sobral es una modelo argentina de gran renombre y sueña con hallar el amor verdadero. El destino les permite encontrarse y vivir el romance con el que siempre soñaron, junto con la realización de sus sueños. Luís Minguez, el mejor amigo de Santiago, no lo pasa demasiado bien, sueña con una chica con la que no puede tener una fácil relación, su familia está casi desintegrada y, poco a poco, ve como su relación con Santiago se deteriora. Y, dentro de sí mismo, hay un terrible secreto que ni el propio Luís conoce.
Download or read book Genetic Memory of the Cazadores written by J. W. Reed and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cutting edge of human brain research is exploring how to download our own individual memory for digital storage and later shared access. In the near future, the brilliant neuro-scientist Steven Marshall collaborates with his devious post-doc student to discover access to “Genetic Memory” residing in us all. Identify your own fleeting ability to access your own inherited memory as déjà vu, mystical or religious visions, certain types of creative thought, vivid repeating dreams, infatuation with the past and genealogy, artistic inspiration, child prodigies, or even the monster within. This science fiction novel, “The Genetic Memory of the Cazadores,” elaborates upon the plausible science of translating the locked codes of genetic memory to re-create a compelling story of human experience. Join a typical middle-aged man, Robert Walker, as he undertakes his dangerous journey of the mind and uncovers a past available to us all – hidden deep in the abyss of human history. You are invited to discover your own ancestral ‘genetic memory’!
Download or read book El Avaro written by Molière and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avaricious One. Provided in Spanish only.
Download or read book Cuba written by Christopher P. Baker and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this title, colour photography and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations of important buildings combine with in-depth descriptions of major cultural, architectural and historical sites. A directory includes practical information such as telephone numbers and opening times.
