Vaquera S Haven

Author : Stefani Wilder
Publisher : Brown Wing Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781946238146

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Vaquera's Haven by Stefani Wilder Pdf

Holly lost everything when her husband was thrown in prison. Divorced and broke, the only thing she has to fall back on is her cousin's offer to set her up in a little house at the edge of a ranch called the Tipped Z. Holly has never spent time on a working ranch before. Though she grew up wealthy in California and once hoped to complete on horseback in the Olympics, by the time her cousin's wife invites her to go riding she hasn't been in a saddle in 20 years. She's not that interested in the idea of climbing onto a stock horse. But then she runs into her former trainer and secret love of her youth, Diego. She can't help but hope he'll be her second chance to live the life she feels she missed out on. Meanwhile, there's a mansion going up on the ridge behind her tiny house. It's presence represents the loss of important grazing to the Tipped Z. Holly finds herself with an opportunity to help the owner with his own horses. She needs the money, and she finds she doesn't mind spending time with the super friendly and super rich Luke Rastenhaus despite the fact her cousin despises him. Suddenly riding with Diego, Luke, and also at the ranch, Holly finds herself pulled in three very different directions. She realizes she's going to have to deal with some unresolved aspects of her past if she hopes to figure out which path forward will lead to happiness. --- Vaquera's Haven can be read as a stand-alone novel, but it is the fourth book in the Tipped Z series. These novels combine horsemanship, family, love, and the Tucson desert into thoughtful, heart-warming reads.

Author : Carlos Velázquez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781632060228

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The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories by Carlos Velázquez Pdf

The provocateur and cult sensation Carlos Velazquez has earned comparisons to Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski and William S. Burroughs, and has been called 'a grand storyteller' (Diario Jornada), 'an icon'(Frente) and 'one of the most original and entertaining voices of contemporary Mexican literature' (Revista Gatopardo). His English-language debut, a collection of seven surreal, unrelentingly ironic and unsettling tales, portrays the comedy and brutal tragedies of a region that occupies a unique place in the North American imagination.

Author : Mark Hunter
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780847867592

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The Cobrasnake by Mark Hunter Pdf

A love letter to a time before Instagram and the legendary party scenes of the 2000s that brought together the new millennium’s rising stars of pop culture. Under the moniker the Cobrasnake, the photographer Mark Hunter captured the party scenes of Los Angeles and New York during the hipster-glam heyday of the 2000s—and in doing so defined the look of a generation. Armed with just a Polaroid and a primitive website, Cobrasnake captured pioneers of youth culture from Kanye West and Steve Aoki to Jeremy Scott, Katy Perry, and Virgil Abloh—icons of the indie pop world in the making. Intimately connected with the people around him and keyed-in to the edgier fringes of the fashion, music, and art worlds, Hunter photographed influencers before they were influencers, in the wild and at play from the streets of LA to NYC and beyond. Collected here for the first time are more than three hundred of Cobrasnake’s favorite images alongside ephemera, from concert tickets and backstage passes to outtakes and unseen photographs from his many adventures. These photographs are records of the last generation of partiers to predate the livestreaming of culture afforded by today’s social media—capturing the energy and vibrancy of a time before Instagram.

Author : Natasha Stagg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781635900965

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Sleeveless by Natasha Stagg Pdf

Essays and stories on fashion, art, and culture in the New York of the 2010s. We were supposed to meet Rose McGowan at Café d'Alsace after the party, but she cancelled at the last minute. I saw on Twitter that she had been hit with a drug possession charge, which she insisted was a scheme to keep her Weinstein dirt quiet. I hadn't even read her Weinstein story… I still wanted to know that the articles were being published, and in large quantities, but reading stories of abuse and humiliation was as stupefying as a hangover. I didn't feel empowered; I only felt more hopeless. I wanted to watch the patriarchy go up in flames, but I wasn't excited about what was being pitched to replace it. If we got all of it out in the open, what would we have left? My fear was that guilt would destroy the classics and there'd be no one left to fuck. All movies would be as low-budget and as puritanical as the stuff they play on Lifetime, all of New York would look like a Target ad, every book or article would be a cathartic tell-all, and I'd be sexually frustrated but too ashamed to hook up with assholes, or even to watch porn. —from Sleeveless Eve Babitz meets Roland Barthes in Sleeveless, Natasha Stagg's follow up to Surveys, her 2016 novel about internet fame. Composed of essays and stories commissioned by fashion, art, and culture magazines, Sleeveless is a scathing and sensitive report from New York in the 2010s. During those years, Stagg worked as an editor for V magazine and as a consultant, creating copy for fashion brands. Through these jobs, she met and interviewed countless industry luminaries, celebrities, and artists, and learned about the quickly evolving strategies of branding. In Sleeveless, she exposes the mechanics of personal identity and its monetization that propelled the narrator of Surveys from a mall job in Tucson to international travel and internet fame.

Author : Marie NDiaye
Publisher : Influx Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910312902

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Self Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye Pdf

'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.

Author : Eric Garcia
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781328587848

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We're Not Broken by Eric Garcia Pdf

"This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It's also my love letter to autistic people. For too long, we have been forced to navigate a world where all the road signs are written in another language." With a reporter's eye and an insider's perspective, Eric Garcia shows what it's like to be autistic across America. Garcia began writing about autism because he was frustrated by the media's coverage of it; the myths that the disorder is caused by vaccines, the narrow portrayals of autistic people as white men working in Silicon Valley. His own life as an autistic person didn't look anything like that. He is Latino, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, and works as a journalist covering politics in Washington D.C. Garcia realized he needed to put into writing what so many autistic people have been saying for years; autism is a part of their identity, they don't need to be fixed. In We're Not Broken, Garcia uses his own life as a springboard to discuss the social and policy gaps that exist in supporting those on the spectrum. From education to healthcare, he explores how autistic people wrestle with systems that were not built with them in mind. At the same time, he shares the experiences of all types of autistic people, from those with higher support needs, to autistic people of color, to those in the LGBTQ community. In doing so, Garcia gives his community a platform to articulate their own needs, rather than having others speak for them, which has been the standard for far too long.

Author : Baris Biçakçi
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477321119

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The Mosquito Bite Author by Baris Biçakçi Pdf

Originally published in 2011, The Mosquito Bite Author is the seventh novel by the acclaimed Turkish author Barış Bıçakçı. It follows the daily life of an aspiring novelist, Cemil, in the months after he submits his manuscript to a publisher in Istanbul. Living in an unremarkable apartment complex in the outskirts of Ankara, Cemil spends his days going on walks, cooking for his wife, repairing leaks in his neighbor’s bathroom, and having elaborate imaginary conversations in his head with his potential editor about the meaning of life and art. Uncertain of whether his manuscript will be accepted, Cemil wavers between thoughtful meditations on the origin of the universe and the trajectory of political literature in Turkey, panic over his own worth as a writer, and incredulity toward the objects that make up his quiet world in the Ankara suburbs.

Author : University of Michigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015071520228

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Student Directory by University of Michigan Pdf

Author : Alison Cook-Sather,Melanie Bahti,Anita Ntem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : College teaching
ISBN : 1951414012

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Pedagogical Partnerships by Alison Cook-Sather,Melanie Bahti,Anita Ntem Pdf

Pedagogical Partnerships and its accompanying resources provide step-by-step guidance to support the conceptualization, development, launch, and sustainability of pedagogical partnership programs in the classroom and curriculum. This definitive guide is written for faculty, students, and academic developers who are looking to use pedagogical partnerships to increase engaged learning, create more equitable and inclusive educational experiences, and reframe the traditionally hierarchical structure of teacher-student relationships. Filled with practical advice, Pedagogical Partnerships provides extensive materials so that readers don't have to reinvent the wheel, but rather can adapt time-tested and research-informed strategies and techniques to their own unique contexts and goals.

Author : Grace Kao,Elizabeth Vaquera,Kimberly Goyette
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745664569

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Education and Immigration by Grace Kao,Elizabeth Vaquera,Kimberly Goyette Pdf

Education is a crucially important social institution, closely correlated with wealth, occupational prestige, psychological well-being, and health outcomes. Moreover, for children of immigrants – who account for almost one in four school-aged children in the U.S. – it is the primary means through which they become incorporated into American society. This insightful new book explores the educational outcomes of post-1965 immigrants and their children. Tracing the historical context and key contemporary scholarship on immigration, the authors examine issues such as structural versus cultural theories of education stratification, the overlap of immigrant status with race and ethnicity, and the role of language in educational outcomes. Throughout, the authors pay attention to the great diversity among immigrants: some arrive with PhDs to work as research professors, while others arrive with a primary school education and no English skills to work as migrant laborers. As immigrants come from an ever-increasing array of races, ethnicities, and national origins, immigrant assimilation is more complex than ever before, and education is central to their adaptation to American society. Shedding light on often misunderstood topics, this book will be invaluable for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate-level courses in sociology of education, immigration, and race and ethnicity.

Author : Alejandro Portes,Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000328127

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The End of Compassion by Alejandro Portes,Patricia Fernandez-Kelly Pdf

This book brings together the most recent and the most comprehensive collection of articles on a population at risk: the children of immigrants in the United States, especially those children whose parents came to the country without legal authorization. The end of compassion and the shift to temporary migration to source the labour needs of the American economy have brought in their wake a series of consequences, some of which were predictable and others unexpected. The chapters fully document the nature and implications of the enforcement initiatives implemented by the American government in recent years and their interaction with state policies and local contexts of reception. This collection provides an exhaustive testimony of the severe conditions faced by unauthorized migrant families and their children today and their repercussions in both countries of origin and those where they currently live. The End of Compassion will be of interest to researchers and academics studying migration in the United States and ethnic and racial studies, and to advanced students of sociology, public policy, law and political science. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Author : Manuel G Gonzales
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253041753

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Mexicanos, Third Edition by Manuel G Gonzales Pdf

Responding to shifts in the political and economic experiences of Mexicans in America, this newly revised and expanded edition of Mexicanos provides a relevant and contemporary consideration of this vibrant community. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and put its distinctive mark on what became the southwestern United States. Shaped by their Indian and Spanish ancestors, deeply influenced by Catholicism, and often struggling to respond to political and economic precarity, Mexicans play an important role in US society even as the dominant Anglo culture strives to assimilate them. With new maps, updated appendicxes, and a new chapter providing an up-to-date consideration of the immigration debate centered on Mexican communities in the US, this new edition of Mexicanos provides a thorough and balanced contribution to understanding Mexicans’ history and their vital importance to 21st-century America.

Author : H. Bates
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368133177

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Illustrated Travels by H. Bates Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Author : Xinyin Chen,Kenneth H. Rubin
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781609181888

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Socioemotional Development in Cultural Context by Xinyin Chen,Kenneth H. Rubin Pdf

Filling a significant gap in the literature, this book examines the impact of culture on the social behaviors, emotions, and relationships of children around the world. It also explores cultural differences in what is seen as adaptive or maladaptive development. Eminent scholars discuss major theoretical perspectives on culture and development and present cutting-edge research findings. The volume addresses key aspects of socioemotional functioning, including emotional expressivity, parent–child and peer relationships, autonomy, self-regulation, intergroup attitudes, and aggression. Implications for culturally informed intervention and prevention are highlighted.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1896 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ann Arbor (Mich.)
ISBN : UOM:39015066169585

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Ann Arbor, Michigan City Directory by Anonim Pdf

Jan. 2003- : "7 directories in 1: section 1: alphabetical section; section 2: business section; section 3: telephone number section; section 4: street guide; section 5: map section; section 6: movers & shakers; section 7: demographic summary."