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Morir en el Intento: La Peor Tragedia de Immigrantes en la Historia de los Estados Unidos
Jorge Ramos
Rayo, 2006
Excelente crónica de una tragedia
Magníficamente narrado y con excelente ritmo, el libro atrapa y ya no suelta: el lector permanece enganchado a esa historia terrible y no puede dejarla hasta terminar. Un libro que todo el mundo debería leer.
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
David Harvey
Wiley-Blackwell, 1992
Po-Mo Schmomo?
Ask ten academics about what to call our present fin-de-siecle epoch and you'll get ten different labels, but "postmodernism" seems always the default term. Although it's twelve years old, Harvey's book is the best I've read about the pluralistic fabric we daily ...
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500 Years of Chicana Women's History/ Anos de Historia de las Chicanans
Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez
Rutgers University Press, 2007
The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to the story of Chicanas. 500 Years of Chicana Women's History offers a powerful antidote to this omission with a ...
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Stories from Latin America : Historias de Latinoamerica
Genevieve Barlow
McGraw-Hill, 1995
Great stories
Excellent stories covering the history and culture of Latin American countries. Makes for great reading and a valuable learning tool.
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Stories from Mexico : Historias de Mexico
Genevieve Barlow, William N. Stivers
McGraw-Hill, 1995
Historias de Mexico
This is a small book, but great reading. When the space shuttle was visible from Mexico a friend saw it with great delight and found out that
a young gentleman talked about the rabbit on the moon, which she had never heard of before, so the first story is all about ...
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The Democratization of American Christianity
Nathan O. Hatch
Yale University Press, 1991
A Christian perspective.
If you want to understand why the twenty-first century American Evengelical Church is rife with heretical teachings and outright apostasy, read this book. In The Democratization of American Christianity, Nathan Hatch demonstrates how the American Revolution spawned ...
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Donde viven los monstruos
Rayo, 1996
I enjoyed this book all over again!
Where the Wild Things Are was one of my very favorite books as a child. My nieces and nephew live in Mexico, so I bought this book for them. I cannot remember how many times I read it sitting on the couch with them in my lap. They loved it and I loved it. Very well ...
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Moorish Spain
Richard Fletcher
University of California Press, 2006
Riveting, accurate and succinct
For all students of Islam, Richard Fletcher's 175 pages of text are critical reading that dispel the myths wide of a kind, gentle "golden age" of Andalusian Islam.
Many accounts exist from Islamic conquerors and subjugated Christians, but only three important ...
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90 minutos en el cielo: Una historia real de Vida y Muerte
Don Piper, Cecil Murphey
Revell, 2006
New look on Heaven - Nueva vision del cielo
It is very refreshing to read Don's description of Heaven in today's language. After and accident he was 90 minutes in Heaven before he came back to life. I storngly recommend this book
Leer la descripcion que este pastor hace de los 90 minutos que paso en el cielo ...
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Stories from Spain / Historias de España (Side by Side Bilingual Books)
Genevieve Barlow, William N. Stivers
McGraw-Hill, 1999
Great true dual translation book
This is a true bilingual book in Spanish and English. I love the format of presenting the Spanish on one page and the English equivalent on the facing page. You can easily go from one to the other. Because the stories are short and pretty basic, if you are trying to ...
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It Doesn't Have to Be This Way/No tiene que ser asi: A Barrio Story/Una historia del barrio
Luis J. Rodriguez
Children's Book Press, 2004
Must have for any teacher
This book is the best book I have read dealing with the pressures and dangers of joining a gang. The author gives you a realistic view of what it means to be a part of a gang. The story follows a young boys quest to belong. You get to watch this young boy slowly ...
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The Story of Colors / La Historia de los Colores: A Bilingual Folktale from the Jungles of Chiapas
Subcomandante Marcos
Cinco Puntos Press, 2003
A Rhapsody of a Folktale
This book is a wonderful folktale from the idigenous people of Chiapas, Mexico. The original text is taken from the communiqué dated October 27, 1994 from Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos to the Mexican People. Originally published in Mexico with illustrations by ...
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Fascism (Oxford Readers)
Oxford University Press, USA, 1995
FIRE IN THE MINDS OF MEN !!!
FIRE IN THE MINDS OF MEN !!!!!
An astounding piece of work, Roger Griffin's political and social insight into Fascism is Godly. Although the book is 90% full of political and philosophical contributions from writers around the world, R. Griffin's introductions ...
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La Historia de la Belleza
Umberto Eco
Random House Mondadori, 2007
Belleza
Como su título lo dice, el libro es una belleza. Excelentes ilustraciones. La revisión histórica de la belleza es de gran valor.
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Lives of the Desert Fathers: The Historia Monachorum in Aegypto (Cistercian Studies No. 34)
Benedicta Ward, Norman Russell
Andrew Mowbray Incorporated, Publishers, 1981
Ancient Mysticism
The book attributed to the recording keeping of a 394AD journeyman and his companions as they traveled through the deserts of Egypt meeting the acetic fathers. The book is as stunning as it is simple. Basic records of extraordinary lives will immediately provoke ...
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