Marie Acosta's Books

Border Bodies

Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands

By: Bernadine Marie Hernández

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Border Bodies

Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands

By: Bernadine Marie Hernández

In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Marie Hernandez brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history. Elaborating on the concept of sexual capital, she uses little-known newspapers and periodicals, letters, testimonios, court cases, short stories, and photographs to reveal how sex, violence, and capital conspired to govern not only women's bodies but their role in the changing American Southwest. Hernandez focuses on a time when the borderlands saw a rapid influx of white settlers who encountered elite landholding Californios, Hispanos, and Tejanos. Sex was inseparable from power in the borderlands, and women were integral to the stabilization of that power. In drawing these stories from the archive, Hernandez illuminates contemporary ideas of sexuality through the lens of the borderland's history of expansionist, violent, and gendered conquest. By extension, Hernandez argues that Mexicana, Nuevomexicana, Californiana, and Tejana women were key actors in the formation of the western United States, even as they are too often erased from the region's story.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

245

Publisher

UNC Press Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1469667908

ISBN 13

9781469667904

Invisibility and Influence

A Literary History of AfroLatinidades

By: Regina Marie Mills

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Invisibility and Influence

A Literary History of AfroLatinidades

By: Regina Marie Mills

A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century. Invisibility and Influence demonstrates how a century of AfroLatinx writers in the United States shaped life writing, including memoir, collective autobiography, and other formats, through depictions of a wide range of “Afro-Latinidades.” Using a woman-of-color feminist approach, Regina Marie Mills examines the work of writers and creators often excluded from Latinx literary criticism. She explores the tensions writers experienced in being viewed by others as only either Latinx or Black, rather than as part of their own distinctive communities. Beginning with Arturo (Arthur) Schomburg, who contributed to wider conversations about autobiographical technique, Invisibility and Influence examines a breadth of writers, including Jesús Colón; members of the Young Lords; Piri Thomas; Lukumi santera and scholar Marta Moreno Vega; and Black Mexican American poet Ariana Brown. Mills traces how these writers confront the distorted visions of AfroLatinxs in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and how they created and expressed AfroLatinx spirituality, politics, and self-identity, often amidst violence. Mapping how AfroLatinx writers create their own literary history, Mills reveals how AfroLatinx life writing shapes and complicates discourses on race and colorism in the Western Hemisphere.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

256

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1477329145

ISBN 13

9781477329146

Stories to Be Told

Tales About the Pioneer People and Places in Little Santa Clara River Valley, Southern California

By: Marie Wren

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Stories to Be Told

Tales About the Pioneer People and Places in Little Santa Clara River Valley, Southern California

By: Marie Wren

“Stories to be told----” is a series of vignettes Marie Wren wrote and donated to the Fillmore Herald and Sespe Sun as a weekly column under the titles Facts Fun and Fiction and Fly-By several years ago. After years of collecting oral stories from local families and also doing lots of reading and research, she put together these interesting tales---some are true and some may be fiction, but each of them is fun! Learning about the way pioneers lived and thought and acted, adds to our own lives in many ways. Story telling brings the old ways and tales to life for each of us.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

371

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1796088307

ISBN 13

9781796088304

Silver, Sword, and Stone

Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story

By: Marie Arana

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Silver, Sword, and Stone

Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story

By: Marie Arana

Winner, American Library Association Booklist’s Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction Acclaimed writer Marie Arana delivers a cultural history of Latin America and the three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). “Meticulously researched, [this] book’s greatest strengths are the power of its epic narrative, the beauty of its prose, and its rich portrayals of character…Marvelous” (The Washington Post). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level in the Andean cordillera of Peru, the highest human habitation on earth. Like her late husband, she works the gold mines much as the Indians were forced to do at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Illiteracy, malnutrition, and disease reign as they did five hundred years ago. And now, just as then, a miner’s survival depends on a vast global market whose fluctuations are controlled in faraway places. Carlos Buergos is a Cuban who fought in the civil war in Angola and now lives in a quiet community outside New Orleans. He was among hundreds of criminals Cuba expelled to the US in 1980. His story echoes the violence that has coursed through the Americas since before Columbus to the crushing savagery of the Spanish Conquest, and from 19th- and 20th-century wars and revolutions to the military crackdowns that convulse Latin America to this day. Xavier Albó is a Jesuit priest from Barcelona who emigrated to Bolivia, where he works among the indigenous people. He considers himself an Indian in head and heart and, for this, is well known in his adopted country. Although his aim is to learn rather than proselytize, he is an inheritor of a checkered past, where priests marched alongside conquistadors, converting the natives to Christianity, often forcibly, in the effort to win the New World. Ever since, the Catholic Church has played a central role in the political life of Latin America—sometimes for good, sometimes not. In this “timely and excellent volume” (NPR) Marie Arana seamlessly weaves these stories with the history of the past millennium to explain three enduring themes that have defined Latin America since pre-Columbian times: the foreign greed for its mineral riches, an ingrained propensity to violence, and the abiding power of religion. Silver, Sword, and Stone combines “learned historical analysis with in-depth reporting and political commentary...[and] an informed and authoritative voice, one that deserves a wide audience” (The New York Times Book Review).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

496

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501105019

ISBN 13

9781501105012

Blood Lines

Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature

By: Sheila Marie Contreras

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Blood Lines

Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature

By: Sheila Marie Contreras

2009 — Runner-up, Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature examines a broad array of texts that have contributed to the formation of an indigenous strand of Chicano cultural politics. In particular, this book exposes the ethnographic and poetic discourses that shaped the aesthetics and stylistics of Chicano nationalism and Chicana feminism. Contreras offers original perspectives on writers ranging from Alurista and Gloria Anzaldúa to Lorna Dee Cervantes and Alma Luz Villanueva, effectively marking the invocation of a Chicano indigeneity whose foundations and formulations can be linked to U.S. and British modernist writing. By highlighting intertextualities such as those between Anzaldúa and D. H. Lawrence, Contreras critiques the resilience of primitivism in the Mexican borderlands. She questions established cultural perspectives on "the native," which paradoxically challenge and reaffirm racialized representations of Indians in the Americas. In doing so, Blood Lines brings a new understanding to the contradictory and richly textured literary relationship that links the projects of European modernism and Anglo-American authors, on the one hand, and the imaginary of the post-revolutionary Mexican state and Chicano/a writers, on the other hand.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

233

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0292782527

ISBN 13

9780292782525

Random Iterative Models

By: Marie Duflo

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Random Iterative Models

By: Marie Duflo

An up-to-date, self-contained review of a wide range of recursive methods for stabilization, identification and control of complex stochastic models (guiding a rocket or a plane, organizing multi-access broadcast channels, self-learning of neural networks ...). Suitable for mathematicians (researchers and also students) and engineers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

394

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

3662128802

ISBN 13

9783662128800

On Location in Cuba

Street Filmaking [sic] During Times of Transition

By: Ann Marie Stock

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

On Location in Cuba

Street Filmaking [sic] During Times of Transition

By: Ann Marie Stock

This study focusses on what the author calls Street Filmmaking - the production of audiovisual artists who work outside the state film industry - to examine the island's transformation and changing notions of Cuban identity.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

370

Publisher

Univ of North Carolina Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0807832693

ISBN 13

9780807832691

The Counselor and the Law

A Guide to Legal and Ethical Practice

By: Anne Marie Wheeler,Burt Bertram

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Counselor and the Law

A Guide to Legal and Ethical Practice

By: Anne Marie Wheeler,Burt Bertram

This eighth edition provides a current and comprehensive discussion of counselors’ legal and ethical responsibilities, an examination of state and federal laws as they relate to practice, and helpful risk management strategies. Attorney Nancy Wheeler and Burt Bertram, a private practitioner and counselor educator, offer real-world practical tips to help navigate professional risks while providing competent clinical care. New or updated topics include matters surrounding informed consent, current case law on duty to warn/protect and issues surrounding suicide in college/university settings, electronic records and ransomware concerns, and updates on state licensure board data regarding boundary violations. The authors' legal and ethical decision-making model will assist counselors and students with processing their own legal and ethical dilemmas, and the ACA Code of Ethics is included as a handy reference. *Requests for digital versions from ACA can be found on www.wiley.com *To request print copies, please visit the ACA https://imis.counseling.org/store/detail *Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA should be directed to publications@counseling.org

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

372

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

1119602114

ISBN 13

9781119602118

When Humans Become Migrants

Study of the European Court of Human Rights with an Inter-American Counterpoint

By: Marie-Bénédicte Dembour

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

When Humans Become Migrants

Study of the European Court of Human Rights with an Inter-American Counterpoint

By: Marie-Bénédicte Dembour

The issue of migration presents clear challenges to international human rights courts due to its political sensitivity. This book contrasts the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights, showing how their rulings differ on this issue. It argues that the Inter-American Court's approach is more sympathetic to the individuals involved.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

577

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199667837

ISBN 13

9780199667833

Memory

Neuropsychological, Imaging and Psychopharmacological Perspectives

By: Gérard Emilien,Cécile Durlach,Elena Antoniadis,Martial Van der Linden,Jean-Marie Maloteaux

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Memory

Neuropsychological, Imaging and Psychopharmacological Perspectives

By: Gérard Emilien,Cécile Durlach,Elena Antoniadis,Martial Van der Linden,Jean-Marie Maloteaux

Reviews the impact of recent neuropsychological and biological discoveries on our understanding of human memory and its pathology.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

422

Publisher

Psychology Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135424438

ISBN 13

9781135424435

Murder Makes a Pilgrimage

A Sister Mary Helen Mystery

By: Sister Carol Anne O'Marie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Murder Makes a Pilgrimage

A Sister Mary Helen Mystery

By: Sister Carol Anne O'Marie

Vivacious and outgoing, Lisa Springer was the most unlikely member of the free pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the birthplace of Christianity in Spain. And Sister Mary Helen soon had reason to suspect the auburn-haired knockout knew the other members of the tour group--and some of their ugliest secrets--all too well. So when Lisa was discovered strangled to death in a saint's crypt, Sister Mary faced no end of likely suspects-from Lisa's dangerously disaffected "best friend" to the group's charming, unreliable guide to the mild-mannered professor with a relentlessly snobbish wife. And when Sister Mary Helen becomes the target of a number of frightening "accidents," she and Sister Eileen must race to uncover Lisa's past and expose a clever killer hellbent on prematurely sending one sleuthing nun to her heavenly reward.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

285

Publisher

Minotaur Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1429907606

ISBN 13

9781429907606

Fast Facts about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Nursing

Building Competencies for an Antiracism Practice

By: Sandra Davis, PhD, DPM, ACNP-BC, FAANP,Anne Marie O'Brien, PhD, MA, WHNP-BC

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Fast Facts about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Nursing

Building Competencies for an Antiracism Practice

By: Sandra Davis, PhD, DPM, ACNP-BC, FAANP,Anne Marie O'Brien, PhD, MA, WHNP-BC

Delivers a comprehensive toolbox for understanding race and racism at structural, institutional, and individual levels This nursing handbook introduces and defines key terms about race and racism for nurses, nursing students, and nurse educators. It addresses how race and racism act as structural and core social determinants of health and propel health inequities. It moves beyond a focus on multicultural approaches for understanding inequity toward a recognition of the broader impact that both systemic and structural racism have had on inequality in health and life opportunities. Through a social justice lens, the book underscores how nurses, as frontline health professionals, need to understand racism as a factor behind these inequities and its significance to their working environment and nursing practice. In concise chapters with brief paragraphs and bulleted information, this practical handbook offers strategies for how to productively engage in a dialogue about race and racism. It considers the history of racism in the United States and then breaks down how it operates at structural, institutional, and individual levels. Case studies illustrate such concepts as microaggressions, implicit bias, power, privilege, and intersectionality in order to foster understanding and provide opportunities for both self-reflection and collective conversation. Key Features: Delivers clear and easy-to-read content in concise, bulleted format Empowers nurses to initiate conversations about race and racism in the workplace and classroom with confidence and ease Provides an historical context for understanding how racism contributes to inequities in health and economic opportunities Illustrates concepts with case studies and reflection questions Features "Fast Facts" boxes that highlight essential information at a glance Promotes the concepts of antiracism, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

195

Publisher

Springer Publishing Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

082617731X

ISBN 13

9780826177315

The Art of the Shoe

By: Marie-Josèphe Bossan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Art of the Shoe

By: Marie-Josèphe Bossan

Abandoning a French look on the subject, Mrs. Bossan, the author, develops her study with a dichotomous vision: that of time that touches the history of mankind and that of geography and sociology, which lead to an almost ethnographic analysis. The author dissects the shoe and all that surrounds it: from its history to painting and literature. After this book, it will be difficult to publish a book with a more complete treatment of the subject. Illustrated with an iconography that is exceptional both for its aestheticism and the pieces chosen, this book is a reference for historians, sociologists and for the fashion victims and designers...

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

703

Publisher

Parkstone International

Published Date

ISBN 10

1783107332

ISBN 13

9781783107339

Aut Caesar Aut Nihil

Vol. II

By: Marie Bothmer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Aut Caesar Aut Nihil

Vol. II

By: Marie Bothmer

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

318

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3385300320

ISBN 13

9783385300323

Beyond the Box

Television and the Internet

By: Sharon Marie Ross

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Beyond the Box

Television and the Internet

By: Sharon Marie Ross

Beyond the Box gives students and couch potatoes alike a better understanding of what it means to watch television in an era of profound technological change. Charts the revolution in television viewing that is currently underway in living rooms across the world Probes how the Internet’s development has altered how television is made and consumed Looks at a range of topics and programmes - from voting practices on American Idol to online forums for Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans Offers a fresh and innovative perspective that focuses on the shift in audience experience and how it has blurred established boundaries

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

258

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

1444358650

ISBN 13

9781444358650

Saints

Becoming an Image of Christ Every Day of the Year

By: Dawn Marie Beutner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Saints

Becoming an Image of Christ Every Day of the Year

By: Dawn Marie Beutner

Jesus told us to be perfect, and the Second Vatican Council highlighted this command by speaking of the universal call to holiness for all Christians. How do we answer this call? One great way is to learn from and pray with the saints, the ordinary men and women who fought the good fight to be holy until the end of their lives – and won. The saints have inspired Christians for more than two thousand years because they show us what it looks like to follow Jesus Christ despite countless challenges and obstacles. This unique book contains short biographies of several saints, along with prayers to each one, for every day of the year. It also provides definitions of Church terms and other helpful back - ground information. The saints in this collection come from every period of Church history and all walks of life. They represent numerous countries, cultures, age groups, and vocations. They show us that holiness truly is a path open to anyone, and by their example and prayers they help us to follow it.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

550

Publisher

Ignatius Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1621643417

ISBN 13

9781621643418

Population, Migration, and Socioeconomic Outcomes among Island and Mainland Puerto Ricans

La Crisis Boricua

By: Marie T. Mora,Alberto Dávila,Havidán Rodríguez

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Population, Migration, and Socioeconomic Outcomes among Island and Mainland Puerto Ricans

La Crisis Boricua

By: Marie T. Mora,Alberto Dávila,Havidán Rodríguez

At the landmark centennial anniversary of the 1917 Jones-Shafroth Act, which granted Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship, the island confronts an unfolding humanitarian crisis initially triggered by an acute economic crisis surging since 2006. Analyzing large datasets such as the American Community Survey and the Puerto Rican Community Survey, this book represents the first comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic and demographic consequences of “La Crisis Boricua” for Puerto Ricans on the island and mainland, including massive net outmigration from the island on a scale not seen for sixty years; a shrinking and rapidly aging population; a shut-down of high-tech industries; a significant loss in public and private sector jobs; a deteriorating infrastructure; higher sales taxes than any of the states; $74 billion in public debt plus another $49 billion in unfunded pension obligations; and defaults on payments to bondholders. This book also discusses how the socioeconomic and demographic outcomes differ among stateside Puerto Ricans, including recent migrants, in traditional settlement areas such as New York versus those in newer settlement areas such as Florida and Texas. Florida is now home to 1.1 million Puerto Ricans (essentially the same number as those living in New York) and received a full third of the migrants from the island to mainland during this time. Scholars interested in the transition of migrants into their receiving communities (regardless of the Puerto Rican case) will also find this book to be of interest, particularly with respect to the comparative analyses on earnings, the likelihood of being impoverished, and self-employment.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

243

Publisher

Lexington Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1498516874

ISBN 13

9781498516877

Forward Falcons

Women's Sports at Bowling Green State University, 1914-1982

By: Janet B. Parks,Ann Marie Bowers,Adelia Hostetler Muti

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Forward Falcons

Women's Sports at Bowling Green State University, 1914-1982

By: Janet B. Parks,Ann Marie Bowers,Adelia Hostetler Muti

Also available from Lulu.com in a CD version in .pdf format.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

404

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

0557908183

ISBN 13

9780557908189

Junípero Serra

California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary

By: Rose Marie Beebe,Robert M. Senkewicz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Junípero Serra

California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary

By: Rose Marie Beebe,Robert M. Senkewicz

In Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary, Beebe and Senkewicz focus on Serra’s religious identity and his relations with Native peoples. They intersperse their narrative with new and accessible translations of many of Serra’s letters and sermons, which allows his voice to be heard in a more direct and engaging fashion.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

531

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0806149663

ISBN 13

9780806149660

Fundamentals of Cavitation

By: Jean-Pierre Franc,Jean-Marie Michel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Fundamentals of Cavitation

By: Jean-Pierre Franc,Jean-Marie Michel

This book treats cavitation, which is a unique phenomenon in the field of hyd- dynamics, although it can occur in any hydraulic machinery such as pumps, propellers, artificial hearts, and so forth. Cavitation is generated not only in water, but also in any kind of fluid, such as liquid hydrogen. The generation of cavitation can cause severe damage in hydraulic machinery. Therefore, the prevention of cavitation is an important concern for designers of hydraulic machinery. On the contrary, there is great potential to utilize cavitation in various important applications, such as environmental protection. There have been several books published on cavitation, including one by the same authors. This book differs from those previous ones, in that it is both more physical and more theoretical. Any theoretical explanation of the cavitation phenomenon is rather difficult, but the authors have succeeded in explaining it very well, and a reader can follow the equations easily. It is an advantage in reading this book to have some understanding of the physics of cavitation. Therefore, this book is not an introductory text, but a book for more advanced study. However, this does not mean that this book is too difficult for a beginner, because it explains the cavitation phenomenon using many figures. Therefore, even a beginner on cavitation can read and can understand what cavitation is. If the student studies through this book (with patience), he or she can become an expert on the physics of cavitation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

321

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1402022336

ISBN 13

9781402022333

Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World

15,000 Years of Inventions and Innovations

By: Emory Dean Keoke,Kay Marie Porterfield

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World

15,000 Years of Inventions and Innovations

By: Emory Dean Keoke,Kay Marie Porterfield

Describes the lives and achievements of American Indians and discusses their contributions to the world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

401

Publisher

Infobase Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1438109903

ISBN 13

9781438109909

Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City

How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds

By: Sabrina Marie Chase

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City

How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds

By: Sabrina Marie Chase

Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City explores the survival strategies of poor, HIV-positive Puerto Rican women by asking four key questions: Given their limited resources, how did they manage an illness as serious as HIV/AIDS? Did they look for alternatives to conventional medical treatment? Did the challenges they faced deprive them of self-determination, or could they help themselves and each other? What can we learn from these resourceful women? Through an exploration of life and death among these resourceful women, thebook provides the groundwork for inciting positive change in the U.S.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

227

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0813552591

ISBN 13

9780813552590

Principles and Practice of Toxicology in Public Health

By: Ira S. Richards,Marie Bourgeois

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Principles and Practice of Toxicology in Public Health

By: Ira S. Richards,Marie Bourgeois

All public health professionals should have some level of knowledge of the basic principles of Toxicology. Whether dealing with issues as diverse as a workers’ compensation claim for a job-related exposure and injury or the removal of toxic wastes from an urban community, public health professionals must be able to communicate with each other, the public, and our political leaders concerning how chemicals can, and the conditions under which they may, realistically produce harm. Principles and Practice of Toxicology in Public Health provides students with an understanding of the nature and scope of the discipline, so that they may be prepared to participate in a meaningful way in the often highly visible problem-solving and decision-making processes required of public health professionals. In four sections, it offers an introduction to the field, as well as the basics of toxicology principles, systemic toxicity, and toxicology practice. The text is immediately readable for the student with little technical background. The Second Edition is a thorough update that has been expaneded with a new chapter on endocrine toxicology. Instructor Resources: Instructor Manual, PowerPoint, TestBank

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

559

Publisher

Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published Date

ISBN 10

1284065995

ISBN 13

9781284065992

Good Girl's Guide to County Jail for the Bad Girl in Us All

Your Guide to the Incarcer Nation

By: Ellen Marie Francisco

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Good Girl's Guide to County Jail for the Bad Girl in Us All

Your Guide to the Incarcer Nation

By: Ellen Marie Francisco

This good girl did everything right for years. So why has everything gone so wrong for this selfmade business woman, Realtor, and mother of two? On a hot day in August she’s arrested for car-jacking, assault with a deadly weapon, and robbery. She’s just landed in the Incarcer Nation without a passport. Like the millions of women who came before her, she wants to leave the land of chain link, and barbed wire behind her. Fifty-nine days later this good girl gone bad walks out a free woman-or so she thinks. This Good Girl gone BAD wants to help you: ● stay out of jail ● know how to use your rights ● understand the court process ● plea down your charges to minimize the risk of re-arrest ● understand how a conviction affects your future beyond bars Filled with good advice from BAD GIRLS on the inside, and criminal law attorneys who tell it like it is. Cover your assets with these legal forms (and others you didn’t know you needed). They’re easy to fill-in, and are ready for the Notary Public ● Power of Attorney ● Caregiver’s Authorization Affidavit ● Temporary Custody Order ● Letter to CPS Social Worker ● Consent for International Travel

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

177

Publisher

FriesenPress

Published Date

ISBN 10

1460284771

ISBN 13

9781460284773

Bribes, Bullets, and Intimidation

Drug Trafficking and the Law in Central America

By: Julie Marie Bunck,Michael Ross Fowler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bribes, Bullets, and Intimidation

Drug Trafficking and the Law in Central America

By: Julie Marie Bunck,Michael Ross Fowler

Bribes, Bullets, and Intimidation is the first book to examine drug trafficking through Central America and the efforts of foreign and domestic law enforcement officials to counter it. Drawing on interviews, legal cases, and an array of Central American sources, Julie Bunck and Michael Fowler track the changing routes, methods, and networks involved, while comparing the evolution and consequences of the drug trade through Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama over a span of more than three decades. Bunck and Fowler argue that while certain similar factors have been present in each of the Central American states, the distinctions among these countries have been equally important in determining the speed with which extensive drug trafficking has taken hold, the manner in which it has evolved, the amounts of different drugs that have been transshipped, and the effectiveness of antidrug efforts.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

392

Publisher

Penn State Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0271059478

ISBN 13

9780271059471

New Latina Narrative

The Feminine Space of Postmodern Ethnicity

By: Ellen Marie McCracken

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

New Latina Narrative

The Feminine Space of Postmodern Ethnicity

By: Ellen Marie McCracken

During the last two decades of the twentieth century, U.S. Latina writers have made a profound impact on American letters with fiction in both mainstream and regional venues. Following on the heels of this vibrant and growing body of work, New Latina Narrative offers the first in-depth synthesis and literary analysis of this transethnic genre. Focusing on the dynamic writing published in the 1980s and 1990s by Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and Domincan American women, New Latina Narrative illustrates how these writers have redefined the concepts of multiculturalism and diversity in American society. As participants in both mainstream and grassroots forms of multiculturalism, these new Latina narrativists have created a feminine space within postmodern ethnicity, disrupting the idealistic veneer of diversity with which publishers often market this fiction. In this groundbreaking study, author Ellen McCracken opens the conventional boundaries of Latino/a literary criticism, incorporating elements of cultural studies theory and contemporary feminism. Emphasizing the diversity within new Latina narrative, McCracken discusses the works of more than two dozen writers, including Julia Alvarez, Denise Ch‡vez, Sandra Cisneros, Cristina Garcia, Graciela Lim—n, Demetria Mart’nez, Pat Mora, Cherr’e Moraga, Mary Helen Ponce, and Helena Mar’a Viramontes. She stresses such themes as the resignification of master narrative, the autobiographical self and collective identity, popular religiosity, subculture and transgression, and narrative harmony and dissonance. New Latina Narrative provides readers an enriched basis for reconceiving the overall Latino/a literary field and its relation to other contemporary literary and cultural trends. McCracken's original approach extends the Latina literary canonÑboth the works to be studied and the issues to be examinedÑresulting in a valuable work for all readers of women's studies, contemporary American literature, ethnic studies, communications, and sociology.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

252

Publisher

University of Arizona Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0816519412

ISBN 13

9780816519415

Krause's Food & the Nutrition Care Process

By: L. Kathleen Mahan,Sylvia Escott-Stump,Janice L. Raymond,Marie V. Krause

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Krause's Food & the Nutrition Care Process

By: L. Kathleen Mahan,Sylvia Escott-Stump,Janice L. Raymond,Marie V. Krause

The most respected nutrition text for more than 50 years, Krause's Food & the Nutrition Care Process delivers comprehensive and up-to-date information from respected educators and practitioners in the field. The latest recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010, new and expanded chapters, and a large variety of tables, boxes, and pathophysiology algorithms provide need-to-know information with ease, making this text perfect for use in class or everyday practice. Clear, logical organization details each step of complete nutritional care from assessment to therapy. UNIQUE! Pathophysiology algorithms clarify the illness process and to ensure more effective care. New Directions boxes reflect the latest research in emerging areas in nutrition therapy. Focus On boxes provide additional detail on key chapter concepts. Clinical Insight boxes and Clinical Scenarios with detailed Sample Nutrition Diagnosis statements help ensure the most accurate and effective interventions in practice. Key terms listed at the beginning of each chapter and bolded within the text provide quick access to important nutrition terminology. More than 1,000 self-assessment questions on a companion Evolve website reinforce key textbook content. Reorganized table of contents reinforces the Nutrition Care Process structure endorsed by the American Dietetic Association (ADA). New recommendations reflect a comprehensive approach to diet and nutrition that incorporates the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010, the MyPyramid food guide, and the Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide recommendations. MNT for Thyroid Disorders chapter details important nutrition considerations for managing thyroid disorders. New calcium and vitamin D Dietary Recommended Intakes (DRIs) improve monitoring of nutrient intake. Expanded Nutrition in Aging chapter includes assessment and nutritional care guidelines for the growing elderly patient population. Growth grids for children detail proper patient nutrition during infancy and early childhood. Extensively revised MNT for Food Allergies chapter highlights the importance of food allergy management in clinical nutrition therapy. Updated appendices enhance assessment accuracy with the latest laboratory findings and normal values.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1255

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

1437722334

ISBN 13

9781437722338

Rancho Guadalasca: Last Ranch of California's Central Coast

By: Colleen Marie Delaney

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rancho Guadalasca: Last Ranch of California's Central Coast

By: Colleen Marie Delaney

A journey through Ventura County history. A Mexican land grant awarded in 1836, Rancho Guadalasca lay at the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains along the eastern Oxnard Plain. Grantee Ysabel Yorba, an illiterate widow who successfully managed the ranch for over 35 years, is just one of many fascinating people who once lived there. Indigenous Chumash, Californio ranchers, Anglo-American farmers, Japanese fishermen, and Basque sheepherders all left their marks on the land, along with local institutions like Camarillo State Hospital and CSU Channel Islands. Join archaeologist and anthropology professor Colleen M. Delaney as she traces the 5,000 years of community and lifeways that shaped Ventura County.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

192

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1467151149

ISBN 13

9781467151146

The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630

By: Marie Boas Hall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630

By: Marie Boas Hall

A noted historian of science examines the Coperican revolution, the anatomical work of Vesalius, the work of Paracelsus, Harvey's discovery of the circulatory system, the effects of Galileo's telescopic discoveries, more.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

408

Publisher

Courier Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

0486144992

ISBN 13

9780486144993

The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos

Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico

By: Marie-Theresa Hernández

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos

Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico

By: Marie-Theresa Hernández

Hidden lives, hidden history, and hidden manuscripts. In The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos, Marie-Theresa Hernández unmasks the secret lives of conversos and judaizantes and their likely influence on the Catholic Church in the New World. The terms converso and judaizante are often used for descendants of Spanish Jews (the Sephardi, or Sefarditas as they are sometimes called), who converted under duress to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. There are few, if any, archival documents that prove the existence of judaizantes after the Spanish expulsion of the Jews in 1492 and the Portuguese expulsion in 1497, as it is unlikely that a secret Jew in sixteenth-century Spain would have documented his allegiance to the Law of Moses, thereby providing evidence for the Inquisition. On a Da Vinci Code – style quest, Hernández persisted in hunting for a trove of forgotten manuscripts at the New York Public Library. These documents, once unearthed, describe the Jewish/Christian religious beliefs of an early nineteenth-century Catholic priest in Mexico City, focusing on the relationship between the Virgin of Guadalupe and Judaism. With this discovery in hand, the author traces the cult of Guadalupe backwards to its fourteenth-century Spanish origins. The trail from that point forward can then be followed to its interface with early modern conversos and their descendants at the highest levels of the Church and the monarchy in Spain and Colonial Mexico. She describes key players who were somehow immune to the dangers of the Inquisition and who were allowed the freedom to display, albeit in a camouflaged manner, vestiges of their family's Jewish identity. By exploring the narratives produced by these individuals, Hernández reveals the existence of those conversos and judaizantes who did not return to the “covenantal bond of rabbinic law,” who did not publicly identify themselves as Jews, and who continued to exhibit in their influential writings a covert allegiance and longing for a Jewish past. This is a spellbinding and controversial story that offers a fresh perspective on the origins and history of conversos.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

275

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0813565707

ISBN 13

9780813565705

Children, Nature, Cities

By: Ann Marie F. Murnaghan,Laura J. Shillington

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Children, Nature, Cities

By: Ann Marie F. Murnaghan,Laura J. Shillington

Why does the way we think about urban children and urban nature matter? This volume explores how dichotomies between nature/culture, rural/urban, and child/adult have structured our understandings about the place of children and nature in the city. By placing children and youth at the center of re-theorising the city as a socio-natural space, the book illustrates how children and youth's relations to and with nature can change adultist perspectives and help create more ecologically and socially just cities. As a key contribution to children's studies, the book engages and enlivens debates in urban political ecology and urban theory, which have not yet treated age as an important axis of difference. With examples from ten localities, the chapters in this volume ask how we can subvert both romanticized and modernist conceptualizations of nature and childhood that conflate innocence and purity with children and nature; the volume asks what happens when we re-invent urban natures with children's needs and perspectives in mind.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

356

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317167678

ISBN 13

9781317167679

A Culture of Everyday Credit

Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750-1920

By: Marie Eileen Francois

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Culture of Everyday Credit

Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750-1920

By: Marie Eileen Francois

A study of the role of pawnshops in the lives and culture of working and middle-class families in Mexico City from the eighteenth century to the present.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

432

Publisher

U of Nebraska Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0803269234

ISBN 13

9780803269231

Book's by Marie Acosta

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email