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Latin Americans in History

15 Inspiring Latinas and Latinos You Should Know

By: Monica Olivera

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Latin Americans in History

15 Inspiring Latinas and Latinos You Should Know

By: Monica Olivera

Amazing stories of Latin Americans who changed the world—for kids ages 8 to 12 Discover the incredible contributions that people of Latin American heritage have made to world history! Learn about Simón Bolívar, a Venezuelan soldier who helped many South American countries achieve independence from Spain. Meet Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro, a former journalist and the first female president of Nicaragua. And get to know Gloria Estefan, the Cuban singer and songwriter who became the "Queen of Latin Pop." From politicians and physicists to poets and painters, these biographies explore 15 incredible Latin American people who used their creativity, intelligence, and strong beliefs to improve the world around them. Detailed biographies—Dive deep with stories that cover each person's entire life, including their childhood, their accomplishments, and the challenges that they faced. Learn and grow—These impressive people will inspire you to discover your own talents and use them to achieve your dreams and support your community. Beyond this book—Want to learn more? Each biography includes activity ideas and suggestions for further reading so you can keep exploring. See how much there is to know about influential Latin Americans from all backgrounds with th is Latino children's book.

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ISBN 13

9798886084979

Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944-1964

Post-communist Remembering

By: Monica Ciobanu

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Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944-1964

Post-communist Remembering

By: Monica Ciobanu

This book examines how the process of remembering Stalinist repression in Romania has shifted from individual, family, and group representations of lived and witnessed experiences characteristic of the 1990s to more recent and state-sponsored expressions of historical remembrance through their incorporation in official commemorations, propaganda sites, and restorative and compensatory measures. Based on fieldwork dealing with Stalinist repression and memorialization, together with archival research on the secret police (Securitate), it adopts an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the resurfacing of particular themes. As such it draws on concepts from sociology, political science, and legal studies, related to memory, justice, redress, identity, accountability, and reconciliation. A study of competing narratives concerning the meaning of the past as part of a struggle over the legitimacy of the post-communist state, Repression, Resistance, and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944–1964 combines memory studies with a transitional justice approach that will appeal to scholars of sociology, heritage and memory studies, politics, and law.

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239

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Routledge

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ISBN 10

1351612786

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9781351612784

Santa Maria Valley

By: Carina Monica Montoya

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Santa Maria Valley

By: Carina Monica Montoya

Located in the heart of California's central coast, the Santa Maria Valley covers an area of mountains and hills that reaches the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County. The valley's early history dates back to the Portola Expedition, which passed through Santa Maria on the California Mission Trail--called El Camino Real--and ended near Monterey Bay. When early settlers arrived, the valley was dry and desolate. Nearby water sources, however, helped transform the land into one of the most fertile and beautiful valleys in California. The valley became a leader in innovative agriculture transport, a depot on the busiest short-line railroad system in the country, and a training ground for many World War II pilots at its renowned aeronautic college. Today, its landscape of richly colored agricultural fields is framed by rolling hills and scenic miles of grapevines that produce some of the world's most coveted wines. The valley is also famous for its Santa Maria-style barbecue.

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132

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738588806

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9780738588803

Advances in Food Bioproducts and Bioprocessing Technologies

By: Monica Lizeth Chavez-Gonzalez,Nagamani Balagurusamy,Cristobal Aguilar

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Advances in Food Bioproducts and Bioprocessing Technologies

By: Monica Lizeth Chavez-Gonzalez,Nagamani Balagurusamy,Cristobal Aguilar

The book explores and exploits the synergy and boundary between biotechnology, bioprocessing and food engineering. Divided into three parts, Advances in Food Bioproducts and Bioprocessing Technologies includes contributions that deal with new developments in procedures, bioproducts, and bioprocesses that can be given quantitative expression. Its 40 chapters will describe how research results can be used in engineering design, include procedures to produce food additives and ingredients, and discuss accounts of experimental or theoretical research and recent advances in food bioproducts and bioprocessing technologies.

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595

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CRC Press

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1000682579

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9781000682571

Politics and Education in Argentina, 1946-1962

By: Monica Rein

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Politics and Education in Argentina, 1946-1962

By: Monica Rein

This study focuses on the formal education system in Argentina during the 1940s, the 1950s, and the early 1960s. It analyzes the link between politics and education against the backdrop of changing social conditions in Argentina under the regimes of Peron, Lonardi and Aramburu (the Liberating Revolution), and Frondizi, by evaluating textbooks, official bulletins, childrens' periodicals, speeches, and personal interviews.

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244

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Routledge

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1315502712

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9781315502717

Our Kindred Creatures

How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals

By: Bill Wasik,Monica Murphy

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Our Kindred Creatures

How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals

By: Bill Wasik,Monica Murphy

A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, animals' suffering had rarely been discussed; horses pulling carriages and carts were routinely beaten in public view, and dogs were pitted against each other for entertainment and gambling. But in 1866, a group of activists began a dramatic campaign to change the nation’s laws and norms, and by the century’s end, most Americans had adopted a very different way of thinking and feeling about the animals in their midst. In Our Kindred Creatures, Bill Wasik, editorial director of The New York Times Magazine, and veterinarian Monica Murphy offer a fascinating history of this crusade and the battles it sparked in American life. On the side of reform were such leaders as George Angell, the inspirational head of Massachusetts’s animal-welfare society and the American publisher of the novel Black Beauty; Henry Bergh, founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Caroline White of Philadelphia, who fought against medical experiments that used live animals; and many more, including some of the nation’s earliest veterinarians and conservationists. Caught in the movement’s crosshairs were transformational figures in their own right: animal impresarios such as P. T. Barnum, industrial meat barons such as Philip D. Armour, and the nation’s rising medical establishment, all of whom put forward their own, very different sets of modern norms about how animals should be treated. In recounting this remarkable period of moral transition—which, by the turn of the twentieth century, would give birth to the attitudes we hold toward animals today—Wasik and Murphy challenge us to consider the obligations we still have to all our kindred creatures.

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465

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Knopf

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0525659064

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9780525659068

Early Santa Monica

By: Louise B. Gabriel,Santa Monica Historical Society Museum

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Early Santa Monica

By: Louise B. Gabriel,Santa Monica Historical Society Museum

As west as metropolitan Los Angeles's trendy Westside gets, Santa Monica has enjoyed a colorful history as both a resort community and a bedrock hometown on the Southern California coast. As a playground and ready-made set for Hollywood, traditional hotbed of progressive politics, and amorphous fun zone for a greater century of visitors, the city of Santa Monica has remained at the forefront of the evolution of California culture. Prior to World War II, Santa Monica was a collection of distinct neighborhoods--Santa Monica Canyon and Ocean Park among them--and its pier, built in 1909 beneath the bluffs of Palisades Park, became a regional draw, especially after the nation's largest dance emporium, La Monica Ballroom, was built on it. The vintage photographs in this tour through Santa Monica's beginnings and its growth through the early 20th century were selected from the archives of the Santa Monica Historical Society Museum.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738531448

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9780738531441

VideoHound's Independent Film Guide

By: Monica Sullivan

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VideoHound's Independent Film Guide

By: Monica Sullivan

The only video guide devoted exclusively to movies made outside the Hollywood studio system. Here are reviews of 1,000 films, many of which have moved out of the art houses and into mainstream theaters. The book brims with attitude and humor, trivia, 50 intriguing sidebars of information, and approximately 100 photos.

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1578590183

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9781578590186

Latin Americans in History

15 Inspiring Latinas and Latinos You Should Know

By: Monica Olivera

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Latin Americans in History

15 Inspiring Latinas and Latinos You Should Know

By: Monica Olivera

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My Multicultural Heritage Journal: (heritage Journals Series)

By: Monica Olivera

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My Multicultural Heritage Journal: (heritage Journals Series)

By: Monica Olivera

My Multicultural Heritage Journal is an opportunity for children to explore and record their own multicultural family heritage and history. Inside this journal are pages that allow kids to draw their own family tree, record and describe where in the world their family is from, paste photographs or draw images of family members, and record their favorite memories or stories. Cultural images from around the globe are scattered throughout the book. And there is even a section for writing down family recipes. This journal is meant to be a keepsake that kids can share with other family members and treasure for a long time.

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1793498288

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9781793498281

Book's by Monica Olivera

Latin Americans in History

Latin Americans in History

Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944-1964

Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944-1964

Santa Maria Valley

Santa Maria Valley

Advances in Food Bioproducts and Bioprocessing Technologies

Advances in Food Bioproducts and Bioprocessing Technologies

Politics and Education in Argentina, 1946-1962

Politics and Education in Argentina, 1946-1962

Our Kindred Creatures

Our Kindred Creatures

Early Santa Monica

Early Santa Monica

VideoHound's Independent Film Guide

VideoHound's Independent Film Guide

Latin Americans in History

Latin Americans in History

My Multicultural Heritage Journal: (heritage Journals Series)

My Multicultural Heritage Journal: (heritage Journals Series)

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