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Mexican American Boxing from the Golden State

By: Gene Aguilera

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Mexican American Boxing from the Golden State

By: Gene Aguilera

The Mexican American boxer is one who leaves it all in the ring. They have been described as devastating punchers, fearless fighters, and tough competitors by boxing fans, sportswriters, and commentators alike. Mexican American boxers have long carried a reputation in boxing circles as being the ultimate crowd-pleasers. In continuing that tradition, the dramatic testimonies of seven distinct, valiant, and dashing warriors from the Golden State of California are presented here in intricate detail: Aurelio Herrera, Art Aragon, Mando Ramos, Bobby Chacon, "Yaqui" Lopez, Arturo Frias, and Oscar Muniz. By exposing new generations to their action-packed stories, new life is breathed into these talented and gifted boxers, ensuring their fighting spirit and heartfelt memories will never die. This volume salutes these pioneers of Mexican American boxing for opening the doors for today's boxers.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1540260747

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9781540260741

Lost Stories of West Coast Latino Boxing

By: Gene Aguilera

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Lost Stories of West Coast Latino Boxing

By: Gene Aguilera

Many West Coast Latino boxers have entered and departed the ring, their anecdotes left behind like another stain on the mat. Latino boxing stories have floated around for ages without the benefit of being passed down from generation to generation. Buried tales and colorful narratives of beloved Mexican ring idols such as Ruben Olivares, Mando Ramos, Carlos Zarate, Danny "Little Red" Lopez, Bobby Chacon, Carlos Palomino, and Alberto Davila are showcased in these pages, their stories revived because no champion deserves to be forgotten. Other overlooked heroes and one-hit wonders of the golden era of Southland boxing (1940s-1970s) will also be saluted, along with the bygone contenders of the barrio who never saw their name in neon lights.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467107328

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9781467107327

Latino Boxing in Southern California

By: Gene Aguilera

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Latino Boxing in Southern California

By: Gene Aguilera

Southern California, with its burgeoning Latino population, marked the spot as the proving ground for world-class boxers from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua, and El Salvador to showcase their talent with exciting and unforgettable bouts. Latino Boxing in Southern California tells the true, heartfelt stories of Latino and Mexican ring idols who did battle on the West Coast, while exploring the mythical devotion boxing purists and fans have for their boxers. This colorful tribute to the sweet science, Los Angeles-style, keeps the memory alive of when boxing in this town revolved around the beloved Olympic Auditorium, Main St. Gym, and the Forum.

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Arcadia Publishing

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146712883X

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9781467128834

Mexican American Boxing in Los Angeles

By: Gene Aguilera

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Mexican American Boxing in Los Angeles

By: Gene Aguilera

Welcome to the colorful, flamboyant, and wonderful world of Mexican American boxing in Los Angeles. From the minute they stepped into the ring, Mexican American fighters have electrified fans with their explosiveness and courage. These historical images bring to life a sociological culture consisting of knockouts, the Main Street Gym, the Olympic Auditorium, neighborhood rivalries, Mexican idols, posters, and promoters. Like a winding thread, the Golden Boy Art Aragon bobs and weaves throughout the book. From Mexican Joe Rivers to Oscar De La Hoya, the true stories of their sensational ring wars are told while keeping alive the spirit and legacy of Mexican American boxing from the greater Los Angeles area.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439642729

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9781439642726

Chasing Cool

Standing Out in Today's Cluttered Marketplace

By: Noah Kerner,Gene Pressman

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Chasing Cool

Standing Out in Today's Cluttered Marketplace

By: Noah Kerner,Gene Pressman

Cool isn't just a state of mind, a celebrity fad, or an American obsession -- it's a business. In boardrooms across America, product managers are examining vodka bottles and candy bars, tissue boxes and hamburgers, wondering how do we make this thing cool? How do we make this gadget into the iPod of our industry? How do we do what Nike did? How do we get what Target got? How do we infuse this product with that very desirable, nearly unattainable it factor? In this wide-ranging exploration the authors Noah Kerner, a celebrated marketing maverick, and Gene Pressman, legendary creative visionary and former co-CEO of Barneys New York, have uncovered surprising and universal patterns and trends. They systematically parse the successes and failures of the last few decades -- in music and fashion, magazines and food, spirits and hip-hop culture. Their discoveries are pulled together in this definitive book on the commerce of cool. Nike and Target endure as relevant brands not because of a shortsighted and gimmicky campaign. A dash of bling and a viral website don't amass long-term value. Brands are effectively developed when companies take substantial risk -- and face the possibility of real failure -- in order to open up the opportunity for real success. Chasing Cool includes interviews with more than seventy of today's most respected innovators from Tom Ford and Russell Simmons to Ian Schrager and Christina Aguilera. And through this accomplished assemblage, Pressman and Kerner dig beneath the surface and reveal how emphasizing long-lasting relevance trumps a fleeting preoccupation with what's hot and what's not. In a multidimensional, entertaining, and eminently readable book that redefines how to appeal to today's savvy consumer, Kerner and Pressman explore the lessons to be learned by America's ongoing search for the ever-changing concept of cool. Readers will learn how to apply these lessons to their own businesses and creative projects in order to stand out in today's cluttered marketplace. "Simply chasing cool is really a bad idea; inspired by cool is a great idea. Walk the street, see what's going on, and spit it out in your own way. Don't do it because you research it, do it because you breathe it." -- Russell Simmons, chairman and CEO of Rush Communications "I can't imagine having to hire a so-called Cool Hunter. If I had to go to someone else to be cool, I'd just pack up my bags and find a new profession." -- Tony Hawk, professional skateboarder "It's possible to be both mainstream and edgy. You can be the Goliath but you always have to think and behave like the David." -- Scott Bedbury, former Nike and Starbucks marketing executive "I love looking at trend reports because then I know exactly what I shouldn't be doing." -- John Demsey, group president, Estée Lauder, MAC Cosmetics, Prescriptives, Sean John, and Tom Ford Beauty "I don't believe in creation by committee. I think it's impossible." -- Bonnie Fuller, chief editorial director and executive vice president of American Media Inc. "We had to make a big decision at MTV when I was there. Do we grow old with our audience or are we going to be the voice of young America? We made the decision to be the voice of young America, which meant we had to let people grow out of MTV." -- Bob Pittman, cofounder of MTV, former president of AOL

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Simon and Schuster

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1416538879

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9781416538875

Florence's Standard Baseball Card Price Guide

By: Gene Florence

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Florence's Standard Baseball Card Price Guide

By: Gene Florence

An easy-to-use guide for anyone interested in baseball cards. Over 60,000 alphabetical listings include the new 1992 rookie players. A color section showing both the front and back of the card identifies these collectibles throughout the years. Prices are included for cards in mint, extra fine, and very good condition.

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0891455086

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9780891455080

Banned in the Bronx

By: Gene Hutmaker

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Banned in the Bronx

By: Gene Hutmaker

Baseball fans will relive the past 50 years of America's greatest pastime through the eyes of the Yankee Hater. This book chronicles the year-by-year account of each baseball season with little or no mention of the success of the New York Yankees, but rather a highlight of their failures. This is the Yankee Hater's narration of 50+ years of baseball, life and everything in between.

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Virtualbookworm Publishing

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1589398416

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9781589398412

Highway 61 Revisited

The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music

By: Gene Santoro

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Highway 61 Revisited

The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music

By: Gene Santoro

What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common? In Highway 61 Revisited, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro says the answer is jazz--not just the musical style, but jazz's distinctive ambiance and attitudes. As legendary bebop rebel Charlie Parker once put it, "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Unwinding that Zen-like statement, Santoro traces how jazz's existential art has infused outstanding musicians in nearly every wing of American popular music--blues, folk, gospel, psychedelic rock, country, bluegrass, soul, funk, hiphop--with its parallel process of self-discovery and artistic creation through musical improvisation. Taking less-traveled paths through the last century of American pop, Highway 61 Revisited maps unexpected musical and cultural links between such apparently disparate figures as Louis Armstrong, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and Herbie Hancock; Miles Davis, Lenny Bruce, The Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen, and many others. Focusing on jazz's power to connect, Santoro shows how the jazz milieu created a fertile space "where whites and blacks could meet in America on something like equal grounds," and indeed where art and entertainment, politics and poetry, mainstream culture and its subversive offshoots were drawn together in a heady mix whose influence has proved both far-reaching and seemingly inexhaustible. Combining interviews and original research, and marked throughout by Santoro's wide ranging grasp of cultural history, Highway 61 Revisited offers readers a new look at--and a new way of listening to--the many ways jazz has colored the entire range of American popular music in all its dazzling profusion.

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320

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Oxford University Press

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0190288604

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9780190288600

García Márquez

The Man and His Work

By: Gene H. Bell-Villada

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García Márquez

The Man and His Work

By: Gene H. Bell-Villada

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential writers of our time, with a unique literary creativity rooted in the history of his native Colombia. This revised and expanded edition of a classic work is the first book of criticism to consider in detail the totality of Garcia Marquez's magnificent oeuvre. In a beautifully written examination, Gene Bell-Villada traces the major forces that have shaped the novelist and describes his life, his personality, and his politics. For this edition, Bell-Villada adds new chapters to cover all of Garcia Marquez's fiction since 1988, from The General in His Labyrinth through Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and includes sections on his memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, and his journalistic account, News of a Kidnapping. Moreover, new information about Garcia Marquez's biography and artistic development make this the most comprehensive account of his life and work available.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807895385

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9780807895382

Garca Mrquez

The Man and His Work

By: Gene H. Bell-Villada,Professor Department of Romance Languages Gene H Bell-Villada

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Garca Mrquez

The Man and His Work

By: Gene H. Bell-Villada,Professor Department of Romance Languages Gene H Bell-Villada

Gabriel Garca Mrquez is one of the most influential writers of our time, with a unique literary creativity rooted in the history of his native Colombia. This revised and expanded edition of a classic work is the first book of criticism to consider in detail the totality of Garca Mrquezs magnificent oeuvre. In a beautifully written examination, G...

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458755142

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9781458755148

Modern Panama

From Occupation to Crossroads of the Americas

By: Michael L. Conniff,Gene E. Bigler

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Modern Panama

From Occupation to Crossroads of the Americas

By: Michael L. Conniff,Gene E. Bigler

Provides a comprehensive overview of the political and economic developments in Panama from 1980 to the present day.

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367

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Cambridge University Press

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110847666X

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9781108476669

What Works in Girls' Education

Evidence for the World's Best Investment

By: Gene B Sperling,Rebecca Winthrop

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What Works in Girls' Education

Evidence for the World's Best Investment

By: Gene B Sperling,Rebecca Winthrop

Hard-headed evidence on why the returns from investing in girls are so high that no nation or family can afford not to educate their girls. Gene Sperling, author of the seminal 2004 report published by the Council on Foreign Relations, and Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education, have written this definitive book on the importance of girls’ education. As Malala Yousafzai expresses in her foreword, the idea that any child could be denied an education due to poverty, custom, the law, or terrorist threats is just wrong and unimaginable. More than 1,000 studies have provided evidence that high-quality girls’ education around the world leads to wide-ranging returns: Better outcomes in economic areas of growth and incomes Reduced rates of infant and maternal mortality Reduced rates of child marriage Reduced rates of the incidence of HIV/AIDS and malaria Increased agricultural productivity Increased resilience to natural disasters Women’s empowerment What Works in Girls’ Education is a compelling work for both concerned global citizens, and any academic, expert, nongovernmental organization (NGO) staff member, policymaker, or journalist seeking to dive into the evidence and policies on girls’ education.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815728611

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9780815728610

Conquering Life's Curves

Baseball, Battles & Beyond

By: Ed Hearn,Gene Frenette

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Conquering Life's Curves

Baseball, Battles & Beyond

By: Ed Hearn,Gene Frenette

Ed Hearn has seen the thrill of victory and faced the agony of life's big league challenges. After a ten-year struggle in the minor leagues, he coped with a shoulder injury that prematurely ended his career. Then, less than one year later, Ed rebounded from three potentially life-threatening health conditions. His story shows how God can use even the worst circumstances to accomplish His purposes.

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1887002324

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9781887002325

Latino Boxing in Southern California

By: Gene Aguilera

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Latino Boxing in Southern California

By: Gene Aguilera

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146712883X

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Amole, One More Time

By: Gene Amole

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Amole, One More Time

By: Gene Amole

For more than 20 years, Gene Amole's columns have been delighting readers of the "Rocky Mountain News". This book features a selection of those well-loved columns--his first new collection in more than ten years.

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Big Earth Publishing

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155566217X

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9781555662172

Overseas American

Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics

By: Gene H. Bell-Villada

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Overseas American

Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics

By: Gene H. Bell-Villada

A moving exploration of what it means to be an American born and reared abroad

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1617032220

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Mexican American Boxing from the Golden State

Mexican American Boxing from the Golden State

Lost Stories of West Coast Latino Boxing

Lost Stories of West Coast Latino Boxing

Latino Boxing in Southern California

Latino Boxing in Southern California

Mexican American Boxing in Los Angeles

Mexican American Boxing in Los Angeles

Chasing Cool

Chasing Cool

Florence's Standard Baseball Card Price Guide

Florence's Standard Baseball Card Price Guide

Banned in the Bronx

Banned in the Bronx

Highway 61 Revisited

Highway 61 Revisited

García Márquez

García Márquez

Garca Mrquez

Garca Mrquez

Modern Panama

Modern Panama

What Works in Girls' Education

What Works in Girls' Education

Conquering Life's Curves

Conquering Life's Curves

Latino Boxing in Southern California

Latino Boxing in Southern California

Amole, One More Time

Amole, One More Time

Overseas American

Overseas American

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