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Reliving the Past

By: Vanessa Espinosa

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It’s Serena Snydes first day at the office. She’s beautiful; flawless to the unsuspecting and untrained eye. They don’t see the dark cloud of the past that hangs over her head or the scars that can be found in any randomly chosen spot on her dreamy figure. No one knows… but one… Jake Simmons is suddenly partnered with a mysterious woman from across the country and is given the biggest case being investigated since the year began. They find the culprit and raid his home. Everything goes great until one shot ruins his and his partner’s lives.

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0595178928

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9780595178926

Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture

Looking Through the Kaleidoscope

By: Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez

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Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture

Looking Through the Kaleidoscope

By: Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez

Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture exposes the ways in which colonialism is expressed in the literary and cultural production of the U.S. Southwest, a region that has experienced at least two distinct colonial periods since the sixteenth century. Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez traces how Spanish colonial texts reflect the motivation for colonial domination. She argues that layers of U.S. colonialism complicate how Chicana/o literary scholars think about Chicana/o literary and cultural production. She brings into view the experiences of Chicana/o communities that have long-standing ties to the U.S. Southwest but whose cultural heritage is tied through colonialism to multiple nations, including Spain, Mexico, and the United States. While the legacies of Chicana/o literature simultaneously uphold and challenge colonial constructs, the metaphor of the kaleidoscope makes visible the rupturing of these colonial fragments via political and social urgencies. This book challenges readers to consider the possibilities of shifting our perspectives to reflect on stories told and untold and to advocate for the inclusion of fragmented and peripheral pieces within the kaleidoscope for more complex understandings of individual and collective subjectivities. This book is intended for readers interested in how colonial legacies are performed in the U.S. Southwest, particularly in the context of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. Readers will relate to the book’s personal narrative thread that provides a path to understanding fragmented identities.

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181

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University of Arizona Press

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0816541922

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9780816541928

We Never Asked for Wings

A Novel

By: Vanessa Diffenbaugh

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We Never Asked for Wings

A Novel

By: Vanessa Diffenbaugh

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Language of Flowers comes her much-anticipated new novel about young love, hard choices, and hope against all odds. For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children—Alex, fifteen, and Luna, just six—in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty’s parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is challenging for Letty, especially as Luna desperately misses her grandparents and Alex, who is falling in love with a classmate, is unwilling to give his mother a chance. Letty comes up with a plan to help the family escape the dangerous neighborhood and heartbreaking injustice that have marked their lives, but one wrong move could jeopardize everything she’s worked for and her family’s fragile hopes for the future. Vanessa Diffenbaugh blends gorgeous prose with compelling themes of motherhood, undocumented immigration, and the American Dream in a powerful and prescient story about family. Praise for We Never Asked for Wings “Deftly blends family conflict with reassurance: Wings is like Parenthood with class and immigration issues added for gravitas.”—People (Book of the Week) “This poignant story will stay in readers’ hearts long after the last page. . . . Diffenbaugh weaves in the plight of undocumented immigrants to her tale of first- and second-generation Americans struggling to make their way in America. Moving without being maudlin, this story avoids the stereotypes in its stark portrayal of mothers who just want the best for their children.”—RT Book Reviews (Top Pick) “Diffenbaugh is a storyteller of the highest order: her simple but poetic prose makes even this most classically American story sing with a special kind of vulnerable beauty.”—Bustle “[A] gripping, heartfelt exploration of a mother’s love, resilience and redemption.”—Family Circle “Satisfying storytelling . . . Diffenbaugh delivers a heartwarming journey that mixes redemption and optimistic insight [and] confirms her gift for creating shrewd, sympathetic charmers.”—Kirkus Reviews

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329

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Ballantine Books

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0553392328

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9780553392326

From Telenovelas to Netflix: Transnational, Transverse Television in Latin America

By: Joseph Straubhaar,Melissa Santillana,Vanessa de Macedo Higgins Joyce,Luiz Guilherme Duarte

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From Telenovelas to Netflix: Transnational, Transverse Television in Latin America

By: Joseph Straubhaar,Melissa Santillana,Vanessa de Macedo Higgins Joyce,Luiz Guilherme Duarte

This book is about television in Latin America. Its national and regional industries create most television programming there within genres developed over time in the region. However, part of the programming has always come from the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. With cable, satellite and now streaming TV, that inflow of foreign programming has increased substantially. While many in the audience still prefer national or regional programs for their cultural proximity, an increasing number among the upper-middle and middle classes, particularly the young, are turning to the new foreign services, like Netflix, Amazon and Disney for class distinction, cosmopolitanism or other motives. Among the television industries, global, regional and national actors are creating a variety of programs and channels (broadcast, pay-TV and streaming) to segment and appeal to different parts of the audience.

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276

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Springer Nature

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3030774708

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9783030774707

Infancy

The Development of the Whole Child

By: Lisa M. Oakes,Vanessa Lobue,Marianella Casasola

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Infancy

The Development of the Whole Child

By: Lisa M. Oakes,Vanessa Lobue,Marianella Casasola

Lisa M. Oakes, Vanessa Lobue, and Marianella Casasola′s Infancy: The Development of the Whole Child unites historically important and cutting-edge theories and research to illustrate the development of the whole child from birth to age three. Topically organized and written in a conversational tone, the text illustrates the interconnected nature of development through links within its bio-psycho-social coverage. Through its inclusive approach, students see individual similarities and differences in development as a function of factors such as culture, language experience, parenting style, and socioeconomic status. Stories from the authors′ own experiences with infants highlight connections between research and parenting, social policy, and everyday contexts, effectively bringing the topics to life for students. Included with this title: LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

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735

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SAGE Publications

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1071831003

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9781071831007

Organic and Carbon Gels

From Laboratory Synthesis to Applications

By: Ana Arenillas,J. Angel Menéndez,Gudrun Reichenauer,Alain Celzard,Vanessa Fierro,Francisco José Maldonado Hodar,Esther Bailόn-Garcia,Nathalie Job

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Organic and Carbon Gels

From Laboratory Synthesis to Applications

By: Ana Arenillas,J. Angel Menéndez,Gudrun Reichenauer,Alain Celzard,Vanessa Fierro,Francisco José Maldonado Hodar,Esther Bailόn-Garcia,Nathalie Job

This expert volume provides specialized coverage of the current state of the art in carbon gels. Carbon gels represent a promising class of materials with high added value applications and many assets, like the ability to accurately tailor their structure, porosity, and surface composition and easily dope them with numerous species. The ability to obtain them in custom shapes, such as powder, beads, monoliths, or impregnated scaffolds opens the way towards numerous applications, including catalysis, adsorption, and electrochemical energy storage, among others. Nevertheless, it remains a crucial question as to which design synthesis and manufacturing processes are viable from an economic and environmental point of view. The book represents the perspectives of renowned specialists in the field, specially invited to conduct a one-day workshop devoted to carbon gels as part of the 19th International Sol-Gel Conference, SOL-GEL 2017, held on September 3rd, 2017 in Liège, Belgium. Addressing properties and synthesis through applications and industry outlook, this book represents essential reading for advanced graduate students through practicing researchers interested in these exciting materials.

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Springer

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3030138976

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9783030138974

Targeting the Powerful

International Prospect Research

By: Vanessa Hack

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Targeting the Powerful

International Prospect Research

By: Vanessa Hack

If your organisation wants to tap into the wealth and influence of the rich and powerful, you need to know as much about them as possible. Prospect research, already used by fund-raisers with considerable success in the USA to target key people, can make all the difference to the success or failure of your initial approach. Targeting the powerful: international prospect research is a highly practical guide to prospect research, written by a leading expert. It explains how to conduct in-depth research into a person, company or charitable foundation, and how to use the information to recommend a line of approach most likely to succeed. Contents:What is prospect research?; Setting up a prospect research department; Online, CD-ROM, the Internet or paper? Ethics, security and confidentiality; Day to day questions; Finding the prospects; Marketing your organisation to the prospect; People; Company information; Foundations and trusts; International comparisons; A report on a new country; General sources for a new country; Specific international resources; The United Kingdom; Western Europe and Scandinavia; Central and Eastern Europe; Asia-Pacific; The United States; Canada; The rest of the world; Addresses; Index.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000941256

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9781000941258

Rogue Revolutionaries

The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean

By: Vanessa Mongey

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Rogue Revolutionaries

The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean

By: Vanessa Mongey

In 1822, the Mary departed Philadelphia and sailed in the direction of the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico. Like most vessels that navigated the Caribbean, the Mary brought together men who had served under a dozen different flags over the years. Unlike most crews, those aboard the Mary were in a different line of commerce: they exported revolution. In addition to rifles and pistols, the Mary transported a box filled with proclamations announcing the creation of the "Republic of Boricua." This imagined republic rested on one principle: equal rights for all, regardless of birthplace, race, or religion. The leaders of the expedition had never set foot in Puerto Rico. And they never would. When we think of the Age of Revolutions, George Washington, Robespierre, Toussaint Louverture, or Simón Bolívar might come to mind. But Rogue Revolutionaries recovers the interconnected stories of now-forgotten "foreigners of desperate fortune" who dreamt of overthrowing colonial monarchy and creating their own countries. They were not members of the political and economic elite; rather, they were ship captains, military veterans, and enslaved soldiers. As a history of ideas and geopolitics grounded in the narratives of extraordinary lives, Rogue Revolutionaries shows how these men of different nationalities and ethnicities claimed revolution as a universal right and reimagined notions of sovereignty, liberty, and decolonization. In the midst of wars and upheavals, the question of who had the legitimacy to launch a revolution and to start a new country was open to debate. Behind the growing power of nation-states, Mongey uncovers a lost world of radical cosmopolitanism grounded in the pursuit of material interests and personal prestige. In demonstrating that these would-be revolutionaries and their fleeting republics were critical to the creation of a new international order, Mongey reminds us of the importance of attending to failures, dead ends, and the unpredictable nature of history.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812297571

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9780812297577

Citizens of Scandal

Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico

By: Vanessa Freije

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Citizens of Scandal

Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico

By: Vanessa Freije

In Citizens of Scandal, Vanessa Freije explores the causes and consequences of political scandals in Mexico from the 1960s through the 1980s. Tracing the process by which Mexico City reporters denounced official wrongdoing, she shows that by the 1980s political scandals were a common feature of the national media diet. News stories of state embezzlement, torture, police violence, and electoral fraud provided collective opportunities to voice dissent and offered an important, though unpredictable and inequitable, mechanism for political representation. The publicity of wrongdoing also disrupted top-down attempts by the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional to manage public discourse, exposing divisions within the party and forcing government officials to grapple with popular discontent. While critical reporters denounced corruption, they also withheld many secrets from public discussion, sometimes out of concern for their safety. Freije highlights the tensions—between free speech and censorship, representation and exclusion, and transparency and secrecy—that defined the Mexican public sphere in the late twentieth century.

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187

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Duke University Press

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1478012390

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9781478012399

We Never Asked for Wings

By: Vanessa Diffenbaugh

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We Never Asked for Wings

By: Vanessa Diffenbaugh

For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs to make ends meet while her mother raised her children. But Letty's parents are returning to Mexico and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is challenging for Letty,

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Reliving the Past

Reliving the Past

Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture

Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture

We Never Asked for Wings

We Never Asked for Wings

From Telenovelas to Netflix: Transnational, Transverse Television in Latin America

From Telenovelas to Netflix: Transnational, Transverse Television in Latin America

Infancy

Infancy

Organic and Carbon Gels

Organic and Carbon Gels

Targeting the Powerful

Targeting the Powerful

Rogue Revolutionaries

Rogue Revolutionaries

Citizens of Scandal

Citizens of Scandal

We Never Asked for Wings

We Never Asked for Wings

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