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B as in Beauty

By: Alberto Ferreras

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Everyone in the world, it seems, is either prettier or thinner (or both) than Beauty Marie Zavala. And the only thing "B" resents more than her name is the way others judge her for the extra 40 pounds she can't lose. At least she has her career. Or did, until she overhears her boss criticizing her weight and devising a scheme to keep her from being promoted. Enter B's new tax accountant, a modern-day matchmaker determined to boost B's flagging self-esteem by introducing her to rich, successful men who will accept her for who she is. As B's confidence blossoms, so do her fantasies of revenge. But will B find true happiness or true disaster when she unwittingly falls for the one guy she shouldn't?

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446550817

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9780446550819

B as in Beauty

By: Alberto Ferreras

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Raising the Living Dead

Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean

By: Alberto Ortiz Díaz

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Raising the Living Dead

Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean

By: Alberto Ortiz Díaz

Raising the Living Dead is a new history of Puerto Rico's carceral rehabilitation system in the middle decades of the twentieth century that brings to life the interactions of incarcerated people, their wider social networks, and health care professionals. The book addresses key issues in the history of prisons and the histories of medicine and belief, including how prisoners' different racial, class, and cultural identities shaped their incarceration and how professionals living in a colonial society dealt with the challenge of rehabilitating prisoners for citizenship. The main idea of the book is that, in the region, multiple communities of care came together both inside and outside of prisons to imagine and imperfectly enact solution-oriented cultures of rehabilitation. Specifically, Alberto Ortiz Díaz argues that scientific and humanistic approaches to well-being were deliberately fused to raise the "living dead" (an expression that reemerged in the modern Caribbean to refer to prisoners). These reform groups sought to raise incarcerated people physically, mentally, socially, spiritually, and civically. The book is based on deep, original archival research into the Oso Blanco (White Bear) penitentiary in Puerto Rico, yet it situates its study within Puerto Rico's broader carceral archipelago and other Caribbean prisons. The agents of this history include not only physical health professionals, but also their mental health counterparts (psychologists and psychiatrists), social workers, spiritual and religious practitioners, and, of course, the prisoners and their families. By following all these groups and emphasizing the interpersonal exercise of power, Ortiz Díaz is able to tell a story that goes beyond structural and social control debates. Raising the Living Dead is not just about convicts, their immediate interlocutors, and their contexts, however, but about how together these open a window into the history of social uplift projects within the (neo)colonial societies of the Caribbean. There is no book like this in Caribbean historiography and few examine these themes in the larger literature on the history of prisons"--

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270

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University of Chicago Press

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0226824519

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9780226824512

The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia (Update)

A Supplemental Bibliography, 2007-2009

By: Alberto Ferreiro

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The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia (Update)

A Supplemental Bibliography, 2007-2009

By: Alberto Ferreiro

This bibliography is a supplement to the three volumes previously published by Brill. This one covers material from 2007 to 2009. The chronology covers form the fourth to the eighth century. All of the Iberian Church Fathers are represented as in the previous ones. The book contains author and subject indexes and is cross-referenced throughout.

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449

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BRILL

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9004212221

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9789004212220

José, Can You See?

Latinos on and Off Broadway

By: Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez

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José, Can You See?

Latinos on and Off Broadway

By: Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez

Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez is among the most interesting and original minds at work in performance studies and American studies. José, Can You See? is a landmark achievement, an important contribution to 20th century American cultural history. Quite simply, there is no other critic of Latino popular culture who speaks with so much wisdom and wit, so much eloquence and expertise."--David Roman, University of Southern California

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294

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299162044

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9780299162047

Anaconda

By: Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa

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Anaconda

By: Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa

El autor nos lleva desde las Canarias (Tenerife) a la Escuela Oficial de Periodismo, en Madrid, donde se formó técnicamente como el gran periodista y escritor que es. En Anaconda, obra que se lee con el mismo interés que la más apasionante de sus novelas, Vázquez-Figueroa relata su infancia, su juventud y su extraordinaria trayectoria como reportero. Esta edición digital cuenta, además, con espectaculares fotografías del archivo personal del autor.

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200

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Grupo Planeta Spain

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8427040229

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9788427040229

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B as in Beauty

B as in Beauty

B as in Beauty

B as in Beauty

Raising the Living Dead

Raising the Living Dead

The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia (Update)

The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia (Update)

José, Can You See?

José, Can You See?

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