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Never Tango with a Stranger

Love in Peron's Argentina

By: Nancy de Herrera

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Never Tango with a Stranger

Love in Peron's Argentina

By: Nancy de Herrera

1951, Paris. San Francisco socialite Nancy Cooke meets Luis de Herrera, a dashing sports car driver from Argentina who is driving with the American team at Le Mans. It is love at first sight for the couple, but several obstacles keep them apart. After heartbreaking separations and months of uncertainty, they finally marry. Is it happily ever after? Not quite . Nancy's divorce isn't recognized by the strict Catholic country of Argentina, and she struggles to be accepted as de Herrera's wife. But as time passes, Nancy becomes more familiar with the people of Argentina, especially of Juan Peron and his wife, Evita. She witnesses the country's fictitious agony over Evita's illness, and the choreographed, Hollywood-like production mourning her death. Later, Nancy even participates in the revolution to overthrow Peron. But while visiting the United States, Nancy and Luis are exposed to atomic radiation fallout, resulting in Luis's tragic death. Such a horrific event spurs Nancy's search for answers, and begins a new, lifelong spiritual quest that continues to this day. With amazing candor and heartbreaking emotion, Never Tango with a Stranger tells Nancy's bittersweet story of love, loss, and illumination, and provides a compelling portrait of the power and strength of the human spirit.

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iUniverse

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0595475949

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All You Need Is Love

An Eyewitness Account of When Spirituality Spread from East to West

By: Nancy Cooke de Herrera

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All You Need Is Love

An Eyewitness Account of When Spirituality Spread from East to West

By: Nancy Cooke de Herrera

Written decades before Eat, Pray, Love, this inspiring memoir details one woman’s incredible journey through India to bring Eastern spirituality to the Western world. Even before she arrived at the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation, in Rishikesh, India, a city at the foothills of the Himalayas along the banks of the Ganges River, in 1962, Nancy Cooke de Herrera lived a lifetime of adventure. During the 1950s, she traveled the globe as a goodwill ambassador of the US State Department, giving lectures on American fashion, culture, and customs. But when her beloved husband, Luis, died, de Herrera sought a life of greater meaning. The Maharishi became her guru, mentor, and friend, and in return she served as his publicist, spreading his message of peace and love wherever she went. In this remarkable autobiography, with a foreword by Deepak Chopra, de Herrera recounts not only her international escapades but also her inner journey to spiritual enlightenment. Trained by the Maharishi, she returned home and taught meditation to troubled youth, HIV/AIDS patients, and celebrities such as Madonna, Sheryl Crow, and Greta Garbo. Her publicity efforts led to the explosion of interest in meditation, yoga, and Eastern spirituality in America. Rich in endearing anecdotes about life at the ashram with famous visitors, including the Beatles, Mia Farrow, and Mike Love, and pieces of timeless wisdom, All You Need Is Love reveals a life lived with compassion, open-mindedness, and the belief that one person can change the world.

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Open Road Media

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1504038584

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9781504038584

Embodying the Sacred

Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima

By: Nancy E. van Deusen

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Embodying the Sacred

Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima

By: Nancy E. van Deusen

In seventeenth-century Lima, pious Catholic women gained profound theological understanding and enacted expressions of spiritual devotion by engaging with a wide range of sacred texts and objects, as well as with one another, their families, and ecclesiastical authorities. In Embodying the Sacred, Nancy E. van Deusen considers how women created and navigated a spiritual existence within the colonial city's complex social milieu. Through close readings of diverse primary sources, van Deusen shows that these women recognized the divine—or were objectified as conduits of holiness—in innovative and powerful ways: dressing a religious statue, performing charitable acts, sharing interiorized spiritual visions, constructing autobiographical texts, or offering their hair or fingernails to disciples as living relics. In these manifestations of piety, each of these women transcended the limited outlets available to them for expressing and enacting their faith in colonial Lima, and each transformed early modern Catholicism in meaningful ways.

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Duke University Press

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0822372282

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9780822372288

Fallen Founder

The Life of Aaron Burr

By: Nancy Isenberg

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Fallen Founder

The Life of Aaron Burr

By: Nancy Isenberg

From the author of White Trash and The Problem of Democracy, a controversial challenge to the views of the Founding Fathers offered by Ron Chernow and David McCullough Lin-Manuel Miranda's play "Hamilton" has reignited interest in the founding fathers; and it features Aaron Burr among its vibrant cast of characters. With Fallen Founder, Nancy Isenberg plumbs rare and obscure sources to shed new light on everyone's favorite founding villain. The Aaron Burr whom we meet through Isenberg's eye-opening biography is a feminist, an Enlightenment figure on par with Jefferson, a patriot, and—most importantly—a man with powerful enemies in an age of vitriolic political fighting. Revealing the gritty reality of eighteenth-century America, Fallen Founder is the authoritative restoration of a figure who ran afoul of history and a much-needed antidote to the hagiography of the revolutionary era.

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Penguin

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110120236X

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9781101202364

Between the Sacred and the Worldly

The Institutional and Cultural Practice of Recogimiento in Colonial Lima

By: Nancy van Deusen

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Between the Sacred and the Worldly

The Institutional and Cultural Practice of Recogimiento in Colonial Lima

By: Nancy van Deusen

This groundbreaking work argues that the seminal concept of recogimiento functioned as a metaphor for the colonial relationship between Spain and Lima. Ubiquitous and flexible, recogimiento had three related meanings—two cultural and one institutional—that developed over a 200-year period in Renaissance Spain and the viceregal capital, Lima. Female and male religious conceptualized recogimiento as a mystical praxis that aspired toward "union" with God, and it was also articulated as a fundamental virtue of enclosure and quiescent conduct for women. As an institutional practice, recogimiento involved substantial numbers of women and girls living in convents, lay pious houses, schools, and institutions (called recogimientos) that admitted schoolgirls, prostitutes, women petitioning for divorce, and the spiritually devout. In a broader sense, practices of recogimiento both conformed to and transgressed imagined boundaries of the sacred and the worldly in colonial Lima. Recogimiento also reflected the process of transculturation, or the adaptation of particular cultural values to local contingencies. Through an analysis of more than 600 ecclesiastical litigation suits, and drawing on an impressive array of primary and secondary sources, the author shows how recogimiento was experienced by a range of individuals: from viceroys and archbishops to female foodsellers, shop owners, and secluded mystics. She argues that by 1650 women representing different races and classes in Lima claimed recogimiento as integral to their public, familial, and internal identities. The social and cultural history of Lima between 1550 and 1713 illustrates the complexities of conjugal relations, sexuality, and social norms in the viceregal capital, demonstrates the inextricable link between sacred and secular realms in colonial society, and delineates the process of transculturation between Spain and Lima.

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Stanford University Press

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080478048X

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9780804780483

Turning Adversity to Advantage

A History of the Lipan Apaches of Texas and Northern Mexico, 1700-1900

By: Nancy McGown Minor

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Turning Adversity to Advantage

A History of the Lipan Apaches of Texas and Northern Mexico, 1700-1900

By: Nancy McGown Minor

This book tells the story of the Lipan Apaches, once one of the largest and most aggressive tribes of the Rio Grande region. The story of the history of the Lipan Apaches is a tale of survival and preservation in the face of incredible challenges.

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University Press of America

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0761848592

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9780761848592

Global Indios

The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain

By: Nancy E. van Deusen

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Global Indios

The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain

By: Nancy E. van Deusen

In the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of indios—indigenous peoples from the territories of the Spanish empire—were enslaved and relocated throughout the Iberian world. Although various laws and decrees outlawed indio enslavement, several loopholes allowed the practice to continue. In Global Indios Nancy E. van Deusen documents the more than one hundred lawsuits between 1530 and 1585 that indio slaves living in Castile brought to the Spanish courts to secure their freedom. Because plaintiffs had to prove their indio-ness in a Spanish imperial context, these lawsuits reveal the difficulties of determining who was an indio and who was not—especially since it was an all-encompassing construct connoting subservience and political personhood and at times could refer to people from Mexico, Peru, or South or East Asia. Van Deusen demonstrates that the categories of free and slave were often not easily defined, and she forces a rethinking of the meaning of indio in ways that emphasize the need to situate colonial Spanish American indigenous subjects in a global context.

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329

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Duke University Press

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0822375699

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9780822375692

Central America

By: Nancy J. Keller,Tom Brosnahan,Rob Rachowiecki

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Central America

By: Nancy J. Keller,Tom Brosnahan,Rob Rachowiecki

A paradise of color and climate, Central America is a compelling, fascinating part of the world. Though best known for the turbulent politics of some of its countries, it is an area of magnificent beaches, fascinating relics of Mayan civilization, fine parks and diverse cultures, all covered in this practical guide.

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Lonely Planet

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0864421222

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9780864421227

Jorge Manrique's Coplas Por la Muerte de Su Padre

A History of the Poem and Its Reception

By: Nancy F. Marino

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Jorge Manrique's Coplas Por la Muerte de Su Padre

A History of the Poem and Its Reception

By: Nancy F. Marino

An elegy composed on the death of his father, Jorge Manrique's 'Coplas' has occupied a prominent position in the literature of Spain from its original composition in the 15th century to the present day. The author of this book examines its sources, structure, transmission, critical reception and fame throughout the centuries.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1855662310

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9781855662315

Encyclopedia of Louisiana

By: Nancy Capace

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Encyclopedia of Louisiana

By: Nancy Capace

The Encyclopedia of Louisiana contains detailed information on States: Symbols and Designations, Geography, Archaeology, State History, Local History on individual cities, towns and counties, Chronology of Historic Events in the State, Profiles of Governors, Political Directory, State Constitution, Bibliography of books about the state and an Index.

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Somerset Publishers, Inc.

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0403098165

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9780403098163

Which Business?

Help in Selecting Your New Venture

By: Nancy Drescher

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Which Business?

Help in Selecting Your New Venture

By: Nancy Drescher

Discusses opportunities in such fields as retail, consulting, computer services, engineering, entertainment, food service, financial and accounting services, and home imporvement.

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Bookworld Services

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1555713904

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9781555713904

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Never Tango with a Stranger

Never Tango with a Stranger

All You Need Is Love

All You Need Is Love

Embodying the Sacred

Embodying the Sacred

Fallen Founder

Fallen Founder

Between the Sacred and the Worldly

Between the Sacred and the Worldly

Turning Adversity to Advantage

Turning Adversity to Advantage

Global Indios

Global Indios

Central America

Central America

Jorge Manrique's Coplas Por la Muerte de Su Padre

Jorge Manrique's Coplas Por la Muerte de Su Padre

Encyclopedia of Louisiana

Encyclopedia of Louisiana

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