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"¡Mi Raza Primero!" (My People First!): Nationali...
$38.46
¡Mi Raza Primero! is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. Ernesto Chávez focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: The B..
Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the...
$11.03
When the Soviet Union dissolved, so did the easy credit, cheap oil, and subsidies it had provided to Cuba. The bottom fell out of the Cuban economy, and many expected that Castro’s revolution-the one that had inspired the Left throughout Latin America and elsewhere-would soon be gone as well. More t..
Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of LA Causa
$18.17
Numerous interviews with Chavez and people who have known him together with excerpts from his speeches, lectures, and reports comprise an account of his dramatic role, in changing the farm worker's outlook and fight for social justice Author: Chavez, Cesar Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc Binding: Har..
In an Angry Season (Camino del Sol)
$13.54
A white woman navigates her fear and uncertainty to learn the ways of the people she called savages, until she begins to dream “in Dakota, syllables sliding / on my tongue like tender pieces of meat.” An African man, on display as a cannibal at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, sees into the..
Mathematical Models in Population Biology and Epid...
$12.93
The goal of this book is to search for a balance between simple and analyzable models and unsolvable models which are capable of addressing important questions on population biology. Part I focusses on single species simple models including those which have been used to predict the growth of human a..
University of California Press
Mexico: A Brief History
$9.63
Beginning with the pre-Hispanic period and ending with the latest democratic developments of the twenty-first century, this definitive one-volume history of Mexico analyzes the ways that economic, social, and political dynamics have interacted to shape the nation's past. Alicia Hernández Chávez take..
Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mother of the Civilization ...
$11.17
Nearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a hostile colonial government and Native Americans wary of conversion, the newly-appointed bishop-elect of Mexico wrote to tell the King of Spain that, unles..
SAM for Lovik’s Vorsprung: A Communicative Intro...
$30.40
A new and improved workbook, lab manual, and video guide provides more extensive practice for each section of each chapter, giving the learner more differentiated practice and the instructor greater support. Author: Chavez, Monika Publisher: Cengage Learning Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN..
Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in America...
$8.45
One of the few case studies of undocumented immigrants available, this insightful anthropological analysis humanizes a group of people too often reduced to statistics and stereotypes. The hardships of Hispanic migration are conveyed in the immigrants' own voices while the author's voice raises quest..
The Rule of Law in Nascent Democracies: Judicial P...
$87.86
This book explains how the rule of law emerges and how it survives in nascent democracies.The question of how nascent democracies construct and fortify the rule of law is fundamentally about power. By focusing on judicial autonomy, a key component of the rule of law, this book demonstrates that the ..
Tu hijo, tu espejo (Spanish Edition)
$9.10
El libro que sigue abriendo corazones y tocando las fibras de sus lectoresLos padres proyectamos en nuestros hijos nuestras expectativas de vida, nuestras frustraciones, nuestros problemas sin resolver de la infancia o adolescencia, nuestros “si hubiera” y nuestras necesidades insatisfechas, esperan..
Vorsprung, Enhanced Edition (World Languages)
$18.49
VORSPRUNG is an innovative and lively first-year program that uses a five-skills approach, emphasizing the acquisition of communicative as well as cultural competence without sacrificing attention to formal accuracy. Utilizing "focus on form" activities in an engaging, personalized fashion, VORSPRUN..
Vorsprung: A Communicative Introduction to German ...
$10.46
Vorsprung is an innovative and lively first-year program that uses a five-skills approach, emphasizing the acquisition of communicative as well as cultural competence without sacrificing attention to formal accuracy. Utilizing "focus on form" activities in an engaging, personalized fashion, Vorsprun..
What It Is... What It Was!; The Black Film Explosi...
$28.52
An entertaining, full-color survey of the best films of the so-called "Blaxploitation" genre of the 1970s presents captivating interviews with the films' stars and reproduces the distinctive film posters of the period. Original. 25,000 first printing. Author: Chavez, Andres Publisher: Hyperion Books..