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Author
Publisher
Aladdin libros en rústica
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
Presents the authors' retellings of traditional tales. Este hermoso texto tiene como objetivo mostrarles a los m s peque os del hogar las historias m s fant sticas que han pasado de generaci n en generaci n gracias a la cultura oral que a n prevalece en las abuelas de todas las familias. El libro cuenta con doce cuentos populares de la cultura, hebrea, africana, rabe, y espa ola. Cada una de ella permite conocer aquellos relatos que muchos adultos...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Is it possible to identify a starting point in history from which everything else unfolds--a single moment that can explain the present and reveal the essence of our identities? According to Massimo Montanari, this is just a myth: by themselves, origins explain very little and historical phenomena can only be understood dynamically--by looking at how events and identities develop and change as a result of encounters and combinations that are often...
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Jasminne Mendez didn't speak English when she started kindergarten, and her young, white teacher thought the girl was deaf because in Louisiana, you were either black or white. She had no idea that a black girl could be a Spanish speaker. In this memoir for teens about growing up Afro Latina in the Deep South, Jasminne writes about feeling torn between her Dominican, Spanish-speaking culture at home and the American, English-speaking one around her....
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peace. Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free trade and globalization in fact have roots in nineteenth-century left-wing politics. In this counter-history of an idea, Palen...
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"...An imagined life, with Faulkner's tragic sensibility and Beckett's relentless grief."- Ricardo Baixeras, El Periodico From one of Mexico's leading writers-a memoir about three men who are driven to escape the confines of their traditional lives and roles. In 1958, Carlos Monge McKey sneaks out of his home in the middle of the night to fake his own death. He does not return for four years. A decade later, his son, Carlos Monge Sánchez, deserts...
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Whether it's correctly naming the parts of a horse, knowing how lords and ladies address one another, or building a realistic fantasy army, getting the details right takes fantasy writing to the next level. Featuring some of the most popular articles from Dan Koboldt's Fact in Fantasy blog as well as several never-before-seen essays, this book gives aspiring and established fantasy writers alike an essential foundation to the fascinating history...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America. Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American tribes, African slaves, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in the colonization of North America. Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire continent,...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction--the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas--has long been the symbol of Cortés's bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched...
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