America Libre

Author : Raul Ramos y Sanchez
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780446551472

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Fast-paced and action-packed, America Libre is an award-winning novel that explores just how explosive the immigration crisis can be, and provides a wake-up call to the dangers of extremism on all sides. After years of anti-immigrant backlash, anger seethes in the nation's Latino communities. The crowded streets bristle with restless youth, idled by a deep recession. When undercover detectives in San Antonio accidentally kill a young Latina bystander during a botched drug bust, riots erupt across the Southwest. As the inner-city violence escalates, Anglo vigilantes strike back with shooting rampages. Exploiting the turmoil, a congressional demagogue succeeds in passing legislation that transforms the nation's Hispanic enclaves into walled-off Quarantine Zones. Citizens tagged Class H-those who are Hispanic, are married to a Hispanic, or have at least one grandparent of Hispanic origin-are forced into detention centers. Amid the chaos in his L.A. barrio, Manolo Suarez is out of work and struggling to support his growing family. But under the spell of a beautiful Latina radical, the former U.S. Army Ranger and decorated war veteran now finds himself questioning his loyalty to his wife-and to his country.

Author : Raúl Ramos y Sánchez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Hispanic Americans
ISBN : OCLC:1341829880

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"How will today's immigration crisis shape our nation? Fast-paced and action-packed, America Libre is a wake-up call to the dangers of extremism - on both sides of this explosive issue."--Provided by the publisher.

Author : Ephraim George Squier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022425514

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Travels in Central America, Particularly in Nicaragua by Ephraim George Squier Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:LI2BIU

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State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States, from the Accession of George Washington to the Presidency by Anonim Pdf

Author : L. Fawcett,M. Serrano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230523029

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Regionalism and Governance in the Americas by L. Fawcett,M. Serrano Pdf

This book links contemporary thinking on global and regional governance to the recent experience of the Americas. It offers fresh insights into understanding the processes of order and change in the region, and in the broader international system. A particular concern is to reveal the changing contours of regional governance, whether in terms of actors, issue areas and relations with global structures.

Author : Joyce Gelb,Marian Lief Palley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851099894

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Women and Politics around the World [2 volumes] by Joyce Gelb,Marian Lief Palley Pdf

A unique two-volume examination of the progress women have made in achieving political equality, Women and Politics around the World addresses both transnational and gender-related issues as well as specific conditions in more than 20 countries. Women and Politics around the World: A Comparative History and Survey is an exploration of the role of women in political systems worldwide, as well as an examination of how government actions in various countries have an impact on the lives of the female population. Women and Politics around the World divides its coverage into two volumes. The first looks at such crucial issues facing women today as health policy, civil rights, and education, comparing conditions around the world. The second volume profiles 22 different countries, representing a broad range of governments, economies, and cultures. Each profile looks at the history and current state of women's political and economic participation in a particular country, and includes an in-depth look at a representative policy. The result is a resource unlike any other—one that gives students, researchers, and other interested readers a fresh new way of investigating a truly global issue.

Author : Andrew Madsen Smith
Publisher : Philadelphia, Pa. : [s.n.]
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Numismatics
ISBN : NYPL:33433066589122

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Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Gold and Silver Coins of the World by Andrew Madsen Smith Pdf

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : World politics
ISBN : OSU:32435063983886

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Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf

Author : Fernanda Cahen,Lourdes Casanova,Anne Miroux
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108486866

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Innovation from Emerging Markets by Fernanda Cahen,Lourdes Casanova,Anne Miroux Pdf

Reveals the breadth of innovation in emerging markets, from drivers and types to outcomes and implications.

Author : Andrew James Wulf
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442246430

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U.S. International Exhibitions during the Cold War by Andrew James Wulf Pdf

Although cultural diplomacy has become an increasingly fashionable term embraced by academics, foreign-service personnel, and private sector commercial and cultural interests, the very practice of this idea remains conspicuously challenging to define. This book takes on this problem, advancing a new understanding of cultural diplomacy that results from a historical investigation of a single area of government and private sector partnership, and what became in the mid-twentieth century the most prominent manifestation of this alliance—the cultural exhibitions sent abroad to “tell America’s story” with the goal of “winning hearts and minds.” To illustrate this point, selected exhibitions and the intentions of the policymakers who proposed them are interrogated for the first time beside archival documentation, writings from the history of design, advertising, science, as well as art historical and museum studies theories that address various aspects of the history of collecting and display, all of which explore the reality of how these exhibitions were conceived and prepared for foreign audiences. Most importantly, personal interviews with the designers and government representatives responsible for the ultimate appearance of these events upturn preconceived notions of how these events came to be. Seventy-five photographs from the exhibits make this history come alive. Through this discussion these questions are answered: What was America showing of itself through these exhibitions? And, more urgently, what do these exhibitions tell us about U.S. interest in verisimilitude? This investigation spans the crucial years of American exhibitions abroad (1955-1975), beginning with the formation of an official system of exhibiting American commercial wares and political ideas at trade fairs, through official exchanges with the U.S.S.R., to pavilions at world's fairs, and finally to museum exhibitions that signaled a return to the display of founding American values. They are thus complex ideological symbols in which concepts of national identity, globalization, technology, consumerism, design, and image management both coincided and clashed. The investigation of these exhibitions enhances the understanding of a significant chapter of U.S. cultural diplomacy at the height of the Cold War and how America constantly reimagined itself.

Author : Tomasz Kalaga
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527520691

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Bridges between Cultures by Tomasz Kalaga Pdf

Centred on the metaphor of bridges and knots, this volume investigates the dialogic and dialectical relationships between socially dissimilar and topographically distant cultures. The contributions here explore various methodological frameworks for discourses and theories that purport to conceptualize cultural spaces, which – as opposed to objective, geographical areas – are characterized by the propensity to bind topographical distances by means of symbolic ties and perimeters. The chapters address possible juxtapositions and intersections of spatial and temporal dimensions of cultural practice, religious and ethical “ties and knots” between lands and cultures, disconnections between historical, literary and cultural epochs, discourses of cultural entanglement and cultural ensnarement on individual and social levels, and the possibilities of raising aesthetic bridges between various cultures in music, poetry and visual arts, among other topics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Communism
ISBN : UIUC:30112101049374

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"In a Place Without a Soul" by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112119313200

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Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112119313150 and Others by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : United States
ISBN : PSU:000055571159

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Niles' Weekly Register by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elvira Sánchez-Blake,Laura Kanost
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476621104

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Latin American Women and the Literature of Madness by Elvira Sánchez-Blake,Laura Kanost Pdf

At the turn of the millennium, narrative works by Latin American women writers have represented madness within contexts of sociopolitical strife and gender inequality. This book explores contemporary Latin American realities through madness narratives by prominent women authors, including Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay), Lya Luft (Brazil), Diamela Eltit (Chile), Cristina Rivera Garza (Mexico), Laura Restrepo (Colombia) and Irene Vilar (Puerto Rico). Close reading of these works reveals a pattern of literary techniques—a “poetics of madness”—employed by the writers to represent conditions that defy language, make sociopolitical crises tangible and register cultural perceptions of mental illness through literature.