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The People's Guide to Mexico

By: Carl Franz,Lorena Havens

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Over the past 35 years, hundreds of thousands of readers have agreed: This is the classic guide to "living, traveling, and taking things as they come" in Mexico. Now in its updated 14th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado. Features include: • Advice on planning your trip, where to go, and how to get around once you're there • Practical tips to help you stay healthy and safe, deal with red tape, change money, send email, letters and packages, use the telephone, do laundry, order food, speak like a local, and more • Well-informed insight into Mexican culture, and hints for enjoying traditional fiestas and celebrations • The most complete information available on Mexican Internet resources, book and map reviews, and other info sources for travelers

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770

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Rick Steves

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ISBN 10

1612380492

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9781612380490

Sustainable Places

Addressing Social Inequality and Environmental Crisis

By: David Adamson,Lorena Axinte,Mark Lang,Terry Marsden

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Sustainable Places

Addressing Social Inequality and Environmental Crisis

By: David Adamson,Lorena Axinte,Mark Lang,Terry Marsden

This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The authors suggest that ‘place’ is a critical window on how to conceive a resolution to the multiple and overlapping crises. As well as diagnosing the problem (the world as it is), this book also offers a normative advocacy (the world as it could/should be and proposed pathways to get there). A series of ‘Deep Place’ case studies from the UK, Australia, and Vanuatu help to illustrate this approach. Ultimately, the book argues for the need for a real and green ‘new deal’ and identifies what this should be like. It suggests that a new economic order, whilst eventually inevitable, requires radical change. This will not be easy but will be essential given the current impasse, caused, not least by the conjunction of carbon-based, neoliberal capitalism in crisis and the multifactorial global ecological crisis. Ultimately, it concludes that there is a need to develop a new model of ‘regenerative collectivism’ to overcome these crises. This book will be of interest to academics, policy practitioners, and social and climate justice advocates/activists.

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179

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Taylor & Francis

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1000644529

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9781000644524

La Gente

Struggles for Empowerment and Community Self-Determination in Sacramento

By: Lorena V. Márquez

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La Gente

Struggles for Empowerment and Community Self-Determination in Sacramento

By: Lorena V. Márquez

La Gente traces the rise of the Chicana/o Movement in Sacramento and the role of everyday people in galvanizing a collective to seek lasting and transformative change during the 1960s and 1970s. In their efforts to be self-determined, la gente contested multiple forms of oppression at school, at work sites, and in their communities. Though diverse in their cultural and generational backgrounds, la gente were constantly negotiating acts of resistance, especially when their lives, the lives of their children, their livelihoods, or their households were at risk. Historian Lorena V. Márquez documents early community interventions to challenge the prevailing notions of desegregation by barrio residents, providing a look at one of the first cases of outright resistance to desegregation efforts by ethnic Mexicans. She also shares the story of workers in the Sacramento area who initiated and won the first legal victory against canneries for discriminating against brown and black workers and women, and demonstrates how the community crossed ethnic barriers when it established the first accredited Chicana/o and Native American community college in the nation. Márquez shows that the Chicana/o Movement was not solely limited to a handful of organizations or charismatic leaders. Rather, it encouraged those that were the most marginalized—the working poor, immigrants and/or the undocumented, and the undereducated—to fight for their rights on the premise that they too were contributing and deserving members of society.

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305

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University of Arizona Press

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0816541973

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9780816541973

Hidden Heads of Households

Child Labor in Urban Northeast Brazil

By: Mary Lorena Kenny

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Hidden Heads of Households

Child Labor in Urban Northeast Brazil

By: Mary Lorena Kenny

Kenny treats the often taboo topic of child labor with clear-eyed perception and a bracing lack of sentimentality." - Barbara J. Price, Columbia University

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164

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University of Toronto Press

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ISBN 10

1442600845

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9781442600843

Betrayed

By: Lorena McCourtney

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Betrayed

By: Lorena McCourtney

The daughter of a wealthy midwestern family, young Rosalyn Fallon was sheltered from the struggles brought on by the Depression. But after the collapse of her father's company and the elopement of her fiancee and best friend, Rosalyn unexpectedly faces both hardship and heartbreak. Now pursuing a new life out West, Rosalyn finds herself drawn to the enigmatic logger who rescues her on a rain-swept Oregon road. But will Shea Donahue remain broken by the tragedy in his own past? Or can a man who is rough and rugged as the land itself help her recover from tremendous Betrayal?

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296

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Palisades Press (OR)

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0880707569

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9780880707565

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The People's Guide to Mexico

The People's Guide to Mexico

Sustainable Places

Sustainable Places

La Gente

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Hidden Heads of Households

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