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As children, Minerva and her sister dreamed of opening a home where people could come and stay to find direction and catch their breath from the race of life.
Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich.
One of this book's goals is to evaluate the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco dictatorship to the present.
Although many depictions of the city in prose, poetry, and visual art can be found dating from earlier periods in human history, Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City emphasizes a particular phase in urban development.
At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time.
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human RightsThis new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous.
Es una obra literaria extraordinaria y unica en su tipo por su naturaleza, la cual merece la oportunidad de ser conocida por el resto del mundo, y lo hara.
Do, Die, or Get Along weaves together voices of twenty-six people who have intimate connections to two neighboring towns in the southwestern Virginia coal country.
All Americans should welcome the opportunity to move forward into a better future for America and for all Americans while mending ancient wounds from the nations original sin and at the same time seek to remediate the lingering ills and inflicted hardships still present to this day that divides the nation's people such that some Americans still feel relegated to second class citizenship.
Mi origen, Tepuche, mi destino, la historia de vida contada con lujo de detalle que llevara al lector a explorar todos los acontecimientos mas relevantes, y que lo haran vivir paso a paso esta aventura, desde el momento mismo de mi nacimiento en una zona rural en condiciones de pobreza, donde con grandes sacrificios familiares y personales logre salir adelante.
For the first time, music legend Rudy Perez shares his remarkable journey from a poor refugee kid in Miami to composing the greatest hit songs on the world stage.
For more than one hundred years, the Conquest of the Desert (1878-1885) has marked Argentina's historical passage between eras, standing at the gateway to the nation's "e;Golden Age"e; of progress, modernity, and-most contentiously-national whiteness and the "e;invisibilization"e; of Indigenous peoples.
In 1997, when Lucia Guerra-Reyes began research in Peru, she observed a profound disconnect between the birth care desires of health personnel and those of indigenous women.
Mexico's National Indigenist Institute (INI) was at the vanguard of hemispheric indigenismo from 1951 through the mid-1970s, thanks to the innovative development projects that were first introduced at its pilot Tseltal-Tsotsil Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas.
Considering, the inevitable calamities of life, A Journey to Freedom, the Divine Dreamer offers everyone an understanding of God's best for us in our darkest moments.
En el ano de 1948 se presenta la muerte del caudillo del pueblo Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, al mismo tiempo en Colombia la violencia desatada por la supremacia de los partidos tradicionales Liberal y Conservador, sumio al pais en un caos de violencia.
For the Love of Mama is a candid and explicit look into the life of a young, confused woman through the eyes of her daughter who is trying to make sense of her life while trying to find her own way.
Caught between family demands, social groups, and ostracized as a member of the religious "e;Holy Rollers,"e; the author of AMERICAN ROBOT: A Cultural Chameleon Rising Above Race & Religious Traumas balances on precarious razor edges of sacred edicts, genetic mental illnesses, and toxic social stress.
Comme premier acte de sa retraite de paysan-arboriculteur, Ignace Pittet s'engage à fond dans une grande aventure : une marche en direction de Bruxelles.
Dancing with Wolves is a homeless tale of one man's struggle to find affordable housing in New York City at a time where the Bloomberg Administration would have not given any priority to the plight of the now seventy thousand men, women, and children that experienced homelessness in New York City on a nightly basis.
Blood in the Streetz is a story about three men that go by the names of Young Don, Trill, and G Money who are in a drug trade on the streets of Washington, DC.
To the best of my knowledge understandably when I first saw the New Yorkers, I was in a state of euphoria concerning the awesome lifestyles of the great people on earth.
One of this book's goals is to evaluate the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco dictatorship to the present.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, Cuba found itself struggling to find its place in a new geopolitical context, while dealing with an unprecedented agricultural and food crisis that experts feel foreshadows the future of many countries across the globe.
Rachael KraMer is on fire in this book, using her past experiences to drive real, actionable, and astounding methods to holistically improve your health.
