Jose Pancho's Books

Tepozteco’s Belly

By: Jose Agustin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Alain’s parents have a home in Tepoztlan, outside of Mexico City, and he invites a group of friends to spend the long Mexican Independence weekend there. They can’t wait to hang out, play video games and climb up to the Toltec pyramid that’s in the town! Once there, the city kids meet some of the locals, including Pancho, who’s about their age, and his mother, a curandera who does cleansings. The young people are thrilled to be able to watch the indigenous ceremony that involves copal incense, candles and rubbing an egg along the body. But more exciting is Pancho’s invitation to explore a large cave he has recently discovered. They set out early the next day and find the cave entrance without too much trouble, but soon things get weird. In the huge, dark cavern, they encounter an assortment of odd people. Before long, the friends realize they’ve accidentally entered Tepozteco’s Belly, where the ancient Aztec gods live. Mother figure and the goddess of sustenance, Tonantzin, and the lord of fire, Xiutecutli, want to help the kids escape, but others, including the fearsome earth mother goddess Coatlicue, want to subject the intruders to a bloody sacrifice! Soon the gods agree to a test to decide whether they will live or die. Introducing teens to Mexico’s pre-Hispanic culture and religion, this adventure novel blending fantasy and myth races to an exciting conclusion sure to satisfy young readers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

132

Publisher

Arte Publico Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1518507905

ISBN 13

9781518507908

The Truth about Them

By: Jose Yglesias

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Truth about Them

By: Jose Yglesias

A saga of the Cuban-American Morejon family's experiences in New York City and Tampa's Ybor City

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

224

Publisher

Arte Publico Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1558852735

ISBN 13

9781558852730

Ni OS de La Guerrilla

By: Jose Cruz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ni OS de La Guerrilla

By: Jose Cruz

NIÑOS DE LA GUERRILLA (Ak'alab' reche le guerrilla). Es la historia que nos revela como la tranquilidad, la paz, y la armonía de las comunidades campesinas, repentinamente fue arrebatada con violencia incendiaria; al irrumpir en esas pacíficas comunidades el fuego destructor del comunismo internacional. Y cómo esa impactante violencia vino a destruir las familias y los poblados; arrasando no solamente con los míseros valores materiales sino también con todos los valores familiares; hasta con la identidad, la espiritualidad y el misticismo de los pueblos mayas, con toda aquella horrible destrucción y muerte. Esta desgraciada experiencia se agigantó dolorosamente cuando recayó en niños inocentes, imberbes, y analfabetas; que fueron arrastrados violentamente desde sus comunidades hasta cruzar por las montañas y los ríos, la frontera del vecino país. Para cumplir con los planes estratégicos y políticos de la guerrilla. Esta no es la historia del inmigrante común, que con natural entusiasmo anhela alcanzar "El Sueño Americano". Esta es la historia de los niños que espantados ante la violencia y el secuestro; aún en sus míseras condiciones escapan y luchan por alejarse de aquellas organizaciones de terror que solamente les mostró una violencia que nunca habían conocido; cuyo fin único era transformarlos en niños guerrilleros. Es la transformación total de su pacifica vida desde el seno familiar. Desde la tranquilidad del campo hasta el infierno de la violencia en las acciones de guerra, la soledad y el abandono en un país extraño. La fuga de Atanasio Pu de los solapados campos de concentración en México, dirigidos por el Comunismo Internacional. El sentimiento de persecución que siempre lo atormentó. Su desastrosa infancia, sin familia, sin amigos, en la más triste y aberrante miseria. Encarna el sufrimiento al cual fueron sometidas esas familias guatemaltecas especialmente las familias mayas. Todo esto constituye sin duda un trauma familiar y social que lamentablemente atormentará a esas comunidades y a los guatemaltecos por muchos años más.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

285

Publisher

Palibrio

Published Date

ISBN 10

146333334X

ISBN 13

9781463333348

Explainable Fuzzy Systems

Paving the Way from Interpretable Fuzzy Systems to Explainable AI Systems

By: Jose Maria Alonso Moral,Ciro Castiello,Luis Magdalena,Corrado Mencar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Explainable Fuzzy Systems

Paving the Way from Interpretable Fuzzy Systems to Explainable AI Systems

By: Jose Maria Alonso Moral,Ciro Castiello,Luis Magdalena,Corrado Mencar

The importance of Trustworthy and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is recognized in academia, industry and society. This book introduces tools for dealing with imprecision and uncertainty in XAI applications where explanations are demanded, mainly in natural language. Design of Explainable Fuzzy Systems (EXFS) is rooted in Interpretable Fuzzy Systems, which are thoroughly covered in the book. The idea of interpretability in fuzzy systems, which is grounded on mathematical constraints and assessment functions, is firstly introduced. Then, design methodologies are described. Finally, the book shows with practical examples how to design EXFS from interpretable fuzzy systems and natural language generation. This approach is supported by open source software. The book is intended for researchers, students and practitioners who wish to explore EXFS from theoretical and practical viewpoints. The breadth of coverage will inspire novel applications and scientific advancements.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

303071098X

ISBN 13

9783030710989

The Last Red Sunset

By: Jose Luis Almazan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Last Red Sunset

By: Jose Luis Almazan

Bringing back in time, life through the 1950’s. This is a great untold story. A unique adventure into a world of wild imagination. The struggle of two families for survival. One, firmly seeking to look in the right direction. The other with tremendous inclination for wrong doings. Both victims of their own ignorance. THE LAST RED SUNSET describes with complete details the knowing-mess that ignorance can create. And how it impacts the life of others for better or worse. Taking me back in time to my childhood in 1970’s, connecting me to some sources of strange events. The novel tells the unthinkable adventure of three brothers that sat foot in a remote farm in 1955, the struggle for survival, and their tragic demise. And those that once lived under the rain of happiness and fear around them. Just living the life day by day, even if that day was destined to be the last red sunset.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

164

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1796092274

ISBN 13

9781796092271

Conspiración en el Sur

By: Jose Mauri Creus

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Conspiración en el Sur

By: Jose Mauri Creus

Desde Cataluna a Estados Unidos. La vida cruzada de dos familias catalanas que apoyaron la segregacion de los Estados del Sur en favor de los cubanos exiliados que la impulsaron.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

201

Publisher

Trafford Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1425123201

ISBN 13

9781425123208

The Dork Side of the Moon

Adventures in Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror

By: Jose Rodriguez

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Dork Side of the Moon

Adventures in Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror

By: Jose Rodriguez

This is the second collection of short stories by this author. With a mix of genres and writing styles, it’s sure to appeal to different audiences as well.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

126

Publisher

Outskirts Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

147878900X

ISBN 13

9781478789000

The Secret of the Bulls

By: Jose Raul Bernardo

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Secret of the Bulls

By: Jose Raul Bernardo

The Secret of the Bulls is a thoroughly enchanting and lush romantic novel, a passionate family saga that brings to life the brilliantly-colored world of prerevolutionary Cuba. It is a love story, the story of Maximiliano and Dolores's lifelong passionate love for one another, anchored firmly in a world where love stories are larger than life, where desires are shamelessly hot, where male pride is fierce, and family loyalty sacred. Bernardo's original and spellbinding novel explores three generations of love and passion, forbidden kisses, and enduring family pride. The Secret of the Bulls is an epic, lusty novel, sometimes comic, sometimes tragic-a novel that seeks to understand the psychology of machismo in a culture steeped in both tradition and tragedy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

308

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

0684831376

ISBN 13

9780684831374

Squint

My Journey with Leprosy

By: Jose P. Ramirez

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Squint

My Journey with Leprosy

By: Jose P. Ramirez

Lying in a hospital bed, José P. Ramirez, Jr. (b. 1948) almost lost everything because of a misunderstood disease. When the health department doctor gave him the Handbook for Persons with Leprosy, Ramirez learned his fate. Such a diagnosis in 1968 meant exile and hospitalization in the only leprosarium in the continental United States—Carville, Louisiana, 750 miles from his home in Laredo, Texas. In Squint: My Journey with Leprosy, Ramirez recalls being taken from his family in a hearse and thrown into a world filled with fear. He and his loved ones struggled against the stigma associated with the term “leper” and against beliefs that the disease was a punishment from God, that his illness was highly communicable, and that persons with Hansen's disease had to be banished from their communities. His disease not only meant separation from the girlfriend who would later become his wife, but also a derailment of all life's goals. In his struggle Ramirez overcame barriers both real and imagined and eventually became an international advocate on behalf of persons with disabilities. In Squint, titled for the sliver of a window through which persons with leprosy in medieval times were allowed to view Mass but not participate, Ramirez tells a story of love and perseverance over incredible odds.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

240

Publisher

Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published Date

ISBN 10

160473339X

ISBN 13

9781604733396

Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago

My Life, My Work, My Art

By: Jose Gamaliel Gonzalez

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago

My Life, My Work, My Art

By: Jose Gamaliel Gonzalez

Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago is the autobiography of Jóse Gamaliel González, an impassioned artist willing to risk all for the empowerment of his marginalized and oppressed community. Through recollections emerging in a series of interviews conducted over a period of six years by his friend Marc Zimmerman, González looks back on his life and his role in developing Mexican, Chicano, and Latino art as a fundamental dimension of the city he came to call home. Born near Monterey, Mexico, and raised in a steel mill town in northwest Indiana, González studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame. Settling in Chicago, he founded two major art groups: El Movimiento Artístico Chicano (MARCH) in the 1970s and Mi Raza Arts Consortium (MIRA) in the 1980s. With numerous illustrations, this book portrays González's all-but-forgotten community advocacy, his commitments and conflicts, and his long struggle to bring quality arts programming to the city. By turns dramatic and humorous, his narrative also covers his bouts of illness, his relationships with other artists and arts promoters, and his place within city and barrio politics.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

202

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0252035380

ISBN 13

9780252035388

Cousins and Strangers

Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930

By: Jose C. Moya

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cousins and Strangers

Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930

By: Jose C. Moya

Moya commands not only the statistical sources but the literary and folklorical ones as well, weaving them in a history that is both analytical and narrative...A superb book that will be a standard monument, not only for Spanish migration and Argentine history, but for migration history in general." Walter Nugent, University of Notre Dame "A major achievement, it represents a vast, comprehensive research effort on two continents, using a world-wide background literature and a stunning array of research techniques, all well integrated, on a topic of large scope and significance. The entire enterprise is watched over by an acute, curious, lively mind in notable equilibrium and equanimity, bringing the research to life, fereting out the implications of widely scattered and apparently disparate facts, and reaching many new, significant, and well founded conclusions." James Lockhart, University of California, Los Angeles "By far the most original on its subject, this book will become a landmark study in Latin American history." David Rock, University of California, Santa Barbara "The scope and depth of Moya's research are impressive...His imaginative use of sources and evidence and lively, frequently entertaining prose make this a stimulating, satisfying, and ascinating study...This is scholarship that is meticulous, well-reasoned, and highly original." Ida Altman, University of New Orleans "One of the truly first-rate studies in the vast migration literature--an authentic tour-de-force." William Douglass, University of Nevada, Reno

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

586

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520215265

ISBN 13

9780520215269

José Clemente Orozco

An Autobiography

By: Jose Clemente Orozco

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

José Clemente Orozco

An Autobiography

By: Jose Clemente Orozco

The artistic eminence of José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) is such that he has been called “the greatest painter the Americas have produced.” In his Autobiography he also attains literary distinction. He is a writer who recounts the history of his period from a personal point of view and yet scarcely mentions himself. He is an observer who writes about the history of his country and of his country’s art, yet makes his own character implicit in the narrative. The character that emerges is charming. It is that of a man strong but retiring, sharply critical of what he disapproves yet generous in praise of what he admires, decided in his views but modest in his assumptions and given to understatement in describing his own activities, averse to war and political struggle yet eager for conflict of ideas, always dedicated to the welfare of humanity. Through the details of day-by-day living, he presents the panorama of the Mexican Revolution and of events in other parts of the world to which he traveled. His is a personal story of the Revolution, giving his reactions (as those of any common man) to the barbarities of war: “Insolent leaders, inflamed with alcohol, taking whatever they wanted at pistol point. . . . By night in dark streets the sound of gunplay, followed by screams, blasphemies, and vile insults. Breaking windows, sharp blows, cries of pain, and shots again.” Orozco’s ability, as a painter, to see the details and to sense the mood of a place is apparent in his word pictures of the places he visited: “After six in the evening Paris is an immense brothel.” “London was like the seat of a noble family which had been exceedingly rich but had lost its fortune.” “Old, old Montmartre [is] a moldering cadaver . . .” Orozco also makes some penetrating observations on art itself. Although he emphasizes individuality and freedom from tradition in art, he abhors unschooled art, especially such extremes as primitive Impressionism and other groups that lack instruction in the general principles of art, in technique, in theory of color, in perspective. He says ironically of the artistically uneducated: “Blessed are the ignorant and the imbecile, for theirs is the supreme glory of art! Blessed are the idiots and the cretins, for masterpieces of painting shall issue from their hands!” Orozco believes in education, not only for the artists but for their public. Taste in art can come only through understanding of the purpose and the techniques of art—through knowledge. Without training, public taste “mostly likes sugar, honey, and candy. Diabetic art. The greater the amount of sugar, the greater the—commercial—success.”

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

206

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0292766335

ISBN 13

9780292766334

American Encounters

Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture

By: Jose Limon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

American Encounters

Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture

By: Jose Limon

The idea of crossing the border between the United States and what award-winning anthropologist José Limón calls "Greater Mexico" has always conjured images of racial hostility and exclusion. Through literature, film, song, and dance, American Encounters explores an alternative history of attraction and desire between the U.S. and Greater Mexico, offering a vision of hope for the future.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

268

Publisher

Beacon Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0807002372

ISBN 13

9780807002377

Mexican Americans of Wichita’s North End

By: Anita Mendoza, Jose Enrique Navarro & Jay Price

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mexican Americans of Wichita’s North End

By: Anita Mendoza, Jose Enrique Navarro & Jay Price

While the North End has long been the beginning of the American dream for many peoples including African Americans, Southeast Asians, and Anglo Americans, it is perhaps the Mexican American community that most visibly embodies the hopes and struggles in this part of the city. The first wave worked in the packinghouses, and communities with names such as El Huarache, La Topeka, and El Rock Island emerged nearby. As the 20th century unfolded, their children and grandchildren established a vibrant neighborhood along Twenty-First Street and Broadway. In recent years, the old industries of the area have faded, while a new wave of immigrants from Latin America has been able to redefine an area. Today, the Mexican American heritage in the North End has become one of its most defining features, an example of a broader diversity that has always made this part of the city special.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

128

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1467107697

ISBN 13

9781467107693

The Magic Lantern

Having a Ball and Christmas Eve

By: Jose Tomas de Cuellar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Magic Lantern

Having a Ball and Christmas Eve

By: Jose Tomas de Cuellar

José Tomas de Cuéllar (1830-1894) was a Mexican writer noted for his sharp sense of humor and gift for caricature. Having a Ball and Christmas Eve are two novellas written in the costumbrista style, made popular in the mid-nineteenth century by the periodical press in which these sketches of contemporary manners were first published. The stories are a sensitive reflection of the effects of modernization brought by an authoritarian regime dedicated to order and progress. Christmas Eve describes a volatile middle class in which people pursue pleasure and entertainment without regard to morality. Having a Ball depicts women and their dedication to fashion. It is through them that Cuellar examines a society susceptible to foreign values, the importation of which radically altered the face of Mexico and its traditional customs.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

203

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0195354109

ISBN 13

9780195354102

The Death of the Brown Americano

By: Jose N. Uranga

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Death of the Brown Americano

By: Jose N. Uranga

The Death of theBrown Americano follows on The Buenavida Dilemma and examines the experiences of one Hispanic family living in the territory of New Mexico from 1850 through 1913. Th e author details the life and times of the Buenavida family as it struggles to survive and adapt to a new country while preserving its cultural values. PRAISE FOR THE BUENAVIDA DILEMMA The author has written a compact and poignant treatment of the subject (the experiences of the Hispanics who settled the Southwest) which not only informs us of the history of Hispanics in the Southwest, but also of the impact of that history on the social structure of southwest society and the success of Hispanic peoples. Barbara Couture, PhD, President, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico PRAISE FOR THE DEATH OF THE BROWN AMERICANO I could imagine my own ancestors in these situations (those of the Buenavidas)in fact much of what Jose Uranga recounts is probably very similar to what most early Hispanics experienced. Some had the foresight and courage to cope with the situations proactively as the Buenavida family did, but others obviously did not and many opportunities were lost or not fully exploited. Many, however, through the generations not only persevered but succeeded wildly. Manuel Pacheco, PhD, Phoenix, Arizona, President Emeritus, University of Missouri, University of Arizona A touching story of a traditional Hispanic family which brings to life key events in the history of New Mexico during the late 1800s by weaving them with family history. An excellent supplement for New Mexico history teachers. Cynthia Castaeda, PhD, Professor of Government, Eastfield College, Dallas, Texas

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

181

Publisher

iUniverse

Published Date

ISBN 10

1450266991

ISBN 13

9781450266994

Dancing Mestizo Modernisms

Choreographing Postcolonial and Postrevolutionary Mexico

By: Jose Luis Reynoso

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dancing Mestizo Modernisms

Choreographing Postcolonial and Postrevolutionary Mexico

By: Jose Luis Reynoso

This book analyzes how national and international dancers contributed to developing Mexico's cultural politics and notions of the nation at different historical moments. It emphasizes how dancers and other moving bodies resisted and reproduced racial and social hierarchies stemming from colonial Mexico (1521-1821). Relying on extensive archival research, choreography as an analytical methodology, and theories of race, dance, and performance studies, author Jose Reynoso examines how dance and other forms of embodiment participated in Mexico's formation after the Mexican War of Independence (1821-1876), the Porfirian dictatorship (1876-1911), and postrevolutionary Mexico (1919-1940). In so doing, the book analyzes how underlying colonial logics continued to influence relationships amongst dancers, other artists, government officials, critics, and audiences of different backgrounds as they refashioned their racial, social, cultural, and national identities. The book proposes and develops two main concepts that explore these mutually formative interactions among such diverse people: embodied mestizo modernisms and transnational nationalisms. 'Embodied mestizo modernisms' refers to combinations of indigenous, folkloric, ballet, and modern dance practices in works choreographed by national and international dancers with different racial and social backgrounds. The book contends that these mestizo modernist dance practices challenged assumptions about racial neutrality with which whiteness historically established its ostensible supremacy in constructing Mexico's 'transnational nationalisms'. This argument holds that notions of the nation-state and national identities are not produced exclusively by a nation's natives but also by historical transnational forces and (dancing) bodies whose influences shape local politics, economic interests, and artistic practices.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

297

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0197622550

ISBN 13

9780197622551

The Making of a Chicano Militant

Lessons from Cristal

By: Jose Angel Gutierrez

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Making of a Chicano Militant

Lessons from Cristal

By: Jose Angel Gutierrez

Texas, for years, was a one-party state controlled by white democrats. In 1962, a young eighteen-year-old heard the first rumblings of Chicano community organization in the barrios of Cristal. The rumor in the town was that five Mexican Americans were going to run for all five seats on the city council. But first, poor citizens had to find a way to pay the $1.75 poll tax. Money had to be raised—through bake sales of tamales, cake walks, and dances. So began the political activism of José Angel Gutiérrez. Gutiérrez's autobiography, The Making of a Chicano Militant, is the first insider's view of the important political and social events within the Mexican American communities in South Texas during the 1960s and 1970s. A controversial and dynamic political figure during the height of the Chicano movement, Gutiérrez offers an absorbing personal account of his life at the forefront of the Mexican-American civil rights movement—first as a Chicano and then as a militant. Gutiérrez traces the racial, ethnic, economic, and social prejudices facing Chicanos with powerful scenes from his own life: his first summer job as a tortilla maker at the age of eleven, his racially motivated kidnapping as a teenager, and his coming of age in the face of discrimination as a radical organizer in college and graduate school. When Gutiérrez finally returned to Cristal, he helped form the Mexican American Youth Organization and, subsequently the Raza Unida Party to confront issues of ethnic intolerance in his community. His story is soon to be a classic in the developing literature of Mexican American leaders.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

349

Publisher

Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0299159841

ISBN 13

9780299159849

A Cup O' Kapeng Barako

Collections of My Best and Most-Hated Writings

By: Jesse Jose

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Cup O' Kapeng Barako

Collections of My Best and Most-Hated Writings

By: Jesse Jose

While in the Navy, he won three Chief of Information (CHINFO) Merit Awards for writing and the Thomas Jefferson Award from the Department of Defense (DOD) for a photo feature. He was also the recipient of the 2002 Pluma Award in Journalism from the Gintong Pamana Awards Foundation, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois. He lives in Seattle, Washington, where he writes his weekly column, A Cup o' Kapeng Barako.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

128

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1503539873

ISBN 13

9781503539877

The Dark Design

The Third Book of the Riverworld Series

By: Philip Jose Farmer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Dark Design

The Third Book of the Riverworld Series

By: Philip Jose Farmer

A New York Times bestsesller, The Dark Design is the third novel in Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction legend Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series. Milton Firebrass, once Mark Twain's enemy and now his greatest ally, plans to build a giant airship that can fly to the North Pole of Riverworld. Once there, he hopes to learn the secret of the mysterious tower that dominates the landscape and find the answer to his most urgent question: could the tower contain the Ethicals, the enigmatic beings that created Riverworld? Meanwhile, Jill Gulbirra is challenged for the job of piloting the airship by none other than Cyrano de Bergerac. As if there were not enough challenges facing the crew, they soon suspect there is an agent of the Ethicals among their number, plotting their destruction.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

525

Publisher

Tor Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1429949147

ISBN 13

9781429949149

Lives in Limbo

Undocumented and Coming of Age in America

By: Roberto G. Gonzales,Jose Antonio Vargas

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Lives in Limbo

Undocumented and Coming of Age in America

By: Roberto G. Gonzales,Jose Antonio Vargas

Over two million of the nation's eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow up to uncertain futures. In Lives in Limbo, Roberto G. Gonzales introduces us to two groups: the college-goers, like Ricardo, whose good grades and strong network of community support propelled him into higher education, only to land in a factory job a few years after graduation, and the early-exiters, like Gabriel, who failed to make meaningful connections in high school and started navigating dead-end jobs, immigration checkpoints, and a world narrowly circumscribed by legal limitations. This ethnography asks why highly educated undocumented youth ultimately share similar work and life outcomes with their less-educated peers, even as higher education is touted as the path to integration and success in America. Gonzales bookends his study with discussions of how the prospect of immigration reform, especially the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, could impact the lives of these young Americans"--Provided by publisher.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

318

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520287258

ISBN 13

9780520287259

The Mangy Parrot, Abridged

By: Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Mangy Parrot, Abridged

By: Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi

David Frye's abridgment of his 2003 translation of The Mangy Parrot captures all of the narrative drive, literary innovation, and biting social commentary that established Lizardi's comic masterpiece as the Don Quixote of Latin America.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

252

Publisher

Hackett Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1603840648

ISBN 13

9781603840644

Hard Measures

How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives

By: Jose A. Rodriguez,Bill Harlow

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hard Measures

How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives

By: Jose A. Rodriguez,Bill Harlow

An explosive memoir about the creation and implementation of the controversial Enhanced Interrogation Techniques by the former Chief Operations Officer for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

294

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

145166348X

ISBN 13

9781451663488

The Power of the Relic

By: Jose V. Bonilla

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Power of the Relic

By: Jose V. Bonilla

In this exciting and suspenseful story with a deep spiritual backdrop, two teenagers embark on an adventure looking for the Fountain of Youth and the magical city of El Dorado.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

361

Publisher

Milat Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0976515105

ISBN 13

9780976515104

Tristan and The Hispanics

By: Jose Yglesias

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Tristan and The Hispanics

By: Jose Yglesias

A young manÍs riotous introduction to his familyÍs Cuban heritage. In the sequel to YglesiasÍ comic novel, Home Again, PinpinÍs grandson Tristan goes to Ybor City after PinpinÍs death, only to be engulfed by the madcap and offbeat Cuban-American family once again led by TristanÍs great uncle, Tom-tom. Yale Freshman Tristan Granados is sent by his bourgeouis Boston family to Tampa, Florida to resolve his grandfatherÍs estate as quickly as possible. Like his grandfather before him, TristanÍs plans are undermined at every turn by the bevy of Latino cousins who try to impress him even as they try to connive him out of his and his familyÍs inheritance. As he watches the antics of his fiery and hilarious family, Tristan is forced to confront his own identity and his heritage.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

244

Publisher

Arte Publico Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1611923158

ISBN 13

9781611923155

Home Again

By: Jose Yglesias

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Home Again

By: Jose Yglesias

A quietly humorous look at one manÍs return to his childhood world. ñWhat are you doing here!î From the moment the cantankerous narrator Pinpin answers the phone in an empty house in Tampa, Florida, the question asked by his cousin Tom-Tom echoes in his mind. Having left the Anglo-Saxon gentry of BostonÍs Louisburg Square and the contentious left-wing intelligentsia of New YorkÍs Greenwich Village, Pinpin, a retired novelist, wants nothing more than to be left alone. His wife dead, his books out of print, his sons lost to the seductive wiles of word processors and movie development deals, until finally, at the end of his ñtetherî, Pinpin goes back to Tampa. But he is quick to assert, ñI am not returning, touching base, none of that Tampa is where I came from thatÍs all you could say for it.î As soon as Pinpin sets foot back in his parents house?against his will and better judgement?he finds himself snared in the mire of family politics and demands, with one cousin telling him not to trust another. Not knowing what to think, Pinpin is dragged along on a bizarre and hilarious quest through the back streets of Tampa on a mission to rescue his misguided young grand-niece.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

Arte Publico Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1611921775

ISBN 13

9781611921779

The Old Gents

By: Jose Yglesias

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Old Gents

By: Jose Yglesias

ItÍs the last go-round for Germàn Moran, an elderly writer with the courage to stare death in the eye, but who nevertheless bemoans the frailties and indignities of old age. His rival in the pursuit of a lovely young actress is a handsome, dashing, but insensitive?and also very married?movie producer who happens to be his son. Populated with lively and unforgettable characters from the New York art and literary scene, this novel entertains and diverts us from the larger underlying, eternal questions about death and dying.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

188

Publisher

Arte Publico Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1611922399

ISBN 13

9781611922394

Rainhouse and Ocean

Speeches for the Papago Year

By: Ruth M. Underhill,Donald M. Bahr,Baptisto Lopez,Jose Pancho

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rainhouse and Ocean

Speeches for the Papago Year

By: Ruth M. Underhill,Donald M. Bahr,Baptisto Lopez,Jose Pancho

The Tohono O'odham of southern Arizona, formerly known as the Papago, have made a life in a place that many would consider uninhabitable. These desert people were converted to Catholicism by early Spanish missionaries, yet they retain much of their earlier lifeway as a means of continuing adaptation to their desert environment. This book is a restudy of speeches and ritual information collected by anthropologist Underhill beginning in 1931 and published in her book Papago Indian Religion (1946). It describes the Native—as opposed to the Christian—side of the yearly ritual cycle of the Tohono O'odham, showing how seven rites form a system of meanings that grew from the relation between these people and their desert homeland. The rites presented focus on the summer wine feast, salt pilgrimage, hunting, war, and flood.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

160

Publisher

University of Arizona Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0816547068

ISBN 13

9780816547067

McGraw-Hill's Complete Medical Spanish, Second Edition

By: Joanna Rios,Jose Fernandez Torres

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

McGraw-Hill's Complete Medical Spanish, Second Edition

By: Joanna Rios,Jose Fernandez Torres

All the tools you need to communicate confidently and effectively with your Spanish-speaking patients As a dedicated healthcare provider you know that effective communication is key to providing patients with the high quality of care they deserve. And for medical professionals working in North America that often entails communicating with Spanish-speaking patients and their families. A valuable resource for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, hospital technicians, emergency care providers, and medical administrators with little or no Spanish-language experience, this book provides you with all the Spanish you need to do your job. More than a mere phrase book, McGraw-Hill’s Complete Medical Spanish features a complete, time-tested program guaranteed to help you: Understand and use a Spanish vocabulary of more than 3,000 general and medical terms Confidently interview patients, take histories, conduct physical exams, prescribe medication, and give follow-up instructions in Spanish Carry on spontaneous dialogues in Spanish using verbs in the past, present, future, and command forms Become more aware of major attitudinal differences between Latino and Anglo-American cultures and how they impact healthcare decisions McGraw-Hill's Complete Medical Spanish will teach you the skills needed to formulate original Spanish sentences and confidently dialogue with Spanish-speaking patients and their families. This indispensable "tool of the trade" is also available as a part of a three-CD audio package, McGraw-Hill’s Spanish for Healthcare Providers (ISBN: 978-0-07-166427-1)

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

493

Publisher

McGraw Hill Professional

Published Date

ISBN 10

0071814027

ISBN 13

9780071814027

Book's by Jose Pancho

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email