The Children Of The Revolución

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771076312

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Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson Pdf

By Canada's premier, bestselling crime fiction writer, the twenty-first book in the much-loved Inspector Banks series, now a television series on PBS, for readers of Ian Rankin and Michael Connelly. A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Banks, much to the chagrin of Detective Chief Superintendent Gervaise, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with the victim going back to the early '70s at the University of Essex, then a hotbed of political activism. When Banks suspects that Lady Chalmers is not telling him the whole truth and pushes his inquiries a bit too far, he is brought on the carpet and warned to lay off. He must continue to conduct his investigation surreptitiously, under the radar, with the help of new DC Geraldine Masterson, while DI Annie Cabbot and DS Winsome Jackman continue to rattle skeletons at Eastvale College. When the breakthroughs come, they are not the ones that Banks and his team expected, and everything turns in a different direction, and moves into higher gear.

Author : Lionel Sosa,Neftalí García
Publisher : Sosa and Sosa Consultation and Design, San Antonio, Texas
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292748582

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The Children of the Revolución by Lionel Sosa,Neftalí García Pdf

Between 1910 and 1929, the two decades that history defines as the Mexican Revolution, almost a million people left Mexico to escape the war’s devastation. This exodus jump-started the growth of the U.S. Latino population, a group which now numbers well over 50 million. These political refugees established productive new lives in the United States. Countless numbers of their descendants, now American citizens, are highly accomplished individuals, including both community and national leaders. To capture these never-before-told stories, Lionel and Kathy Sosa, together with KLRN public television in San Antonio and Jesus Ramirez and his My Story, Inc., wrote and produced a twenty-part documentary series titled Children of the Revolución: How the Mexican Revolution Changed America's Destiny. In this companion volume, some of these descendants tell the stories of life in Mexico, the chaos that their families endured during the Revolution, their treacherous trek to America, and their settlement in a strange new country. In these stories, we discover the heart of the Latino soul, rich in spirit, patriotism, and a fierce commitment to the United States. Their many contributions cannot be ignored. With Professor Neftalí García providing the historic backdrop, editor Lionel Sosa offers new insights into how the Mexican Revolution changed America.

Author : Anita Casavantes Bradford
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469611525

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The Revolution is for the Children by Anita Casavantes Bradford Pdf

Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962

Author : Robert Gildea
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0674032098

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Children of the Revolution by Robert Gildea Pdf

For those who lived in the wake of the French Revolution, its aftermath left a profound wound that no subsequent king, emperor, or president could heal. "Children of the Revolution" follows the ensuing generations who repeatedly tried and failed to come up with a stable regime after the trauma of 1789.

Author : Jonathan Kozol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015031605200

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Children of the Revolution by Jonathan Kozol Pdf

Tells of how one hundred thousand students helped bring an education to Cuba's illiterate adults as part of the Great Campaign of 1961 and looks at the Cuban school system today.

Author : Dinaw Mengestu
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448163564

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Children of the Revolution by Dinaw Mengestu Pdf

Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Sepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind, aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington D.C. Sepha spends his days in a sort of limbo: quietly running his grocery store into the ground, revisiting the Russian classics, and toasting the old days with his friends Kenneth and Joseph, themselves emigrants from Africa. But when a white woman named Judith moves next door with her only daughter, Naomi, Sepha's life seems on the verge of change...

Author : Wolfgang Leonhard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Communism
ISBN : OCLC:1043432838

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Child of the Revolution by Wolfgang Leonhard Pdf

Author : Anne Luke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498532075

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Youth and the Cuban Revolution by Anne Luke Pdf

Youth and the Cuban Revolution: Youth Culture and Politics in 1960s Cuba is a new history of the first decade of the Cuban Revolution, exploring how youth came to play such an important role in the 1960s on this Caribbean island. Certainly, youth culture and politics worldwide were in the ascendant in that decade, but in this pioneering and thought-provoking work Anne Luke explains how the unique circumstances of the newly developing socialist revolution in Cuba created an ethos of youth which becomes one of the factors that explains how and why the Cuban Revolution survives to this day. By examining how youth was constructed and constituted within revolutionary discourse, policy, and the lived experience of young Cubans in the 1960s, Luke examines the conflicted (but ultimately successful) development of a revolutionary youth culture. She explores the fault lines along which the notion of youth was created—between the internal and the external, between discourse and the everyday, between politics and culture. Luke looks at how in the first decade of the Cuban Revolution a young leadership—Fidel, Raúl and Che—were complemented by a group of new protagonists from Cuba’s young generation. These could be literacy teachers, party members, militia members, teachers, singers, poets… all aiming to define and shape the Cuban Revolution. Together young Cubans took part in defining what it meant to be young, socialist and Cuban in this effervescent decade. The picture that emerges is one in which neither youth politics nor youth culture can alone help to explain the first decade of the Revolution; rather through the sometimes conflicted intersection of both there emerged a generation constantly to be renewed—a youth in Revolution.

Author : Michele Landsberg
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926920399

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Writing the Revolution by Michele Landsberg Pdf

A collection of journalist Michele Landsberg's Toronto Star columns, where she was a regular columnist for more than twenty-five years between 1978 and 2005. Michele has chosen her favorite and most relevant columns, using them as a lens to reflect on the the second wave of feminism and the issues facing women then and now. An icon of the feminist movement and a hero to many, through her writing and activism Michele played an important role in fighting for the rights of women, children, and the disenfranchised. Her insights are as powerful for the generation of women who experienced the second wave as for the rising tide of young feminists taking action today.

Author : David Kamp
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501137808

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Sunny Days by David Kamp Pdf

From bestselling writer David Kamp, the engrossing, behind-the-scenes story of the cultural heroes who created the beloved children’s TV programs Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Free to Be...You and Me, and Schoolhouse Rock!—which collectively transformed American childhood for the better, teaching kids about diversity, the ABCs, and feminism through a fun, funky 1970s lens. With a foreword by Questlove In 1970, on a soundstage on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a group of men, women, and Muppets of various ages and colors worked doggedly to finish the first season of a children’s TV program that was not yet assured a second season: Sesame Street. They were conducting an experiment to see if television could be used to better prepare disadvantaged preschoolers for kindergarten. What they didn’t know then was that they were starting a cultural revolution that would affect all American kids. In Sunny Days, bestselling author David Kamp captures the unique political and social moment that gave us not only Sesame Street, but also Fred Rogers’s gentle yet brave Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood; Marlo Thomas’s unabashed gender-politics primer Free to Be...You and Me; Schoolhouse Rock!, an infectious series of educational shorts dreamed up by Madison Avenue admen; and more, including The Electric Company, ZOOM, and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. It was a unique time when an uncommon number of media professionals and thought leaders leveraged their influence to help children learn—and, just as notably, a time of unprecedented buy-in from American parents. Kamp conducted rigorous research and interviewed such Sesame Street figures as Joan Ganz Cooney, Lloyd Morrisett, Sonia Manzano, Emilio Delgado, Loretta Long, Bob McGrath, and Frank Oz, along with Free to Be’s Marlo Thomas and The Electric Company’s Rita Moreno—and in Sunny Days, he explains how these and other like-minded individuals found their way into children’s television not for fame or money, but to make a difference. Fun, fascinating, and a masterful work of cultural history, Sunny Days captures a wondrous period in the US when a determined few proved that, with persistence and effort, they could change the lives of millions. It’s both a rollicking ride through a turbulent time and a joyful testament to what Americans are capable of at their best.

Author : Fabrice Jaumont
Publisher : TBR Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781947626003

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The Bilingual Revolution by Fabrice Jaumont Pdf

The Bilingual Revolution is a collection of inspirational vignettes and practical advice that tells the story of the parents and educators who founded dual language programs in New York City public schools. The book doubles as a "how to" manual for setting up your own bilingual school and, in so doing, launching your own revolution.

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541922020

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The Russian Revolution - History Books for Kids | Children's History by Baby Professor Pdf

Different countries carry revolutions differently. You probably know how Americans carried theirs, but do you know how the Russian Revolution went? If not, then this is the book to read. Inside its pages are important facts that will help create an overall picture of the key players and events that brought about change in the Russian leadership and society. Grab a copy today!

Author : Anna Louise Strong
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781794775206

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Children of the Revolution by Anna Louise Strong Pdf

Author : Caroline Cox
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469627540

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Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution by Caroline Cox Pdf

Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not men, but boys, many of whom were under the age of sixteen, and some even as young as nine. In Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution, Caroline Cox reconstructs the lives and stories of this young subset of early American soldiers, focusing on how these boys came to join the army and what they actually did in service. Giving us a rich and unique glimpse into colonial childhood, Cox traces the evolution of youth in American culture in the late eighteenth century, as the accepted age for children to participate meaningfully in society--not only in the military--was rising dramatically. Drawing creatively on sources, such as diaries, letters, and memoirs, Caroline Cox offers a vivid account of what life was like for these boys both on and off the battlefield, telling the story of a generation of soldiers caught between old and new notions of boyhood.

Author : Laura J. Enriquez
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503631298

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Children of the Revolution by Laura J. Enriquez Pdf

Andrea, Silvia, Ana, and Pamela were impoverished youth when the Sandinista revolution took hold in Nicaragua in 1979. Against the backdrop of a war and economic crisis, the revolution gave them hope of a better future — if not for themselves, then for their children. But, when it became clear that their hopes were in vain, they chose to emigrate. Children of the Revolution tells these four women's stories up to their adulthood in Italy. Laura J. Enríquez's compassionate account highlights the particularities of each woman's narrative, and shows how their lives were shaped by social factors such as their class, gender, race, ethnicity, and immigration status. These factors limited the options available to them, even as the women challenged the structures and violence surrounding them. By extending the story to include the children, and now grandchildren, of the four women, Enríquez demonstrates how their work abroad provided opportunities for their families that they themselves never had. Hence, these stories reveal that even when a revolution fails to fundamentally transform a society in a lasting way, seeds of change may yet take hold.