 | Rereading the Spanish American Essay: Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women's Essays (Texas Pan American Series)
Publication Date: 1995| Series: Texas Pan American Series Latin American intellectual history is largely founded on essayistic writing. Women's essays have always formed a part of this rich tradition, yet they have seldom received the respect they merit and are often omitted entirely from anthologies.This volume and its earlier companion, Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay: Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries, seek to remedy that neglect. This book collects thirty-six notable essays by twenty-two women writers, including Flora Tristan, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Clorinda ...
 |  | Miss Fannie Mae's Girls
Publication Date: January 9, 2012Fannie Mae Turner died on New Years Eve, December 31, 2008. She was the daughter of sharecroppers. She was born in a shack on a dusty, dirt road in the backwoods of Macon County, Georgia in 1922. Fannie Mae had skin the color of red Georgia clay. On the day she was born her mother screamed, not because of the difficult childbirth, but for the mere fact that her baby girl was the color of dirt with eyes as black as coal dust. And so begins and eventually ends the life of Fannie Mae Turner from Macon County, Georgia. A true native of the Deep South, Fannie Mae ...
|  | Joan of Arc: In her own words
Release Date: June 18, 2004The only available source for the exact words of Joan of Arc, compiled from the transcript of her trials and rearranged as an autobiography by Willard Trask. ...
|  | The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options (Latin America Otherwise)
Publication Date: December 16, 2011| Series: Latin America Otherwise During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and controlled by Western men and institutions from the Renaissance, when it was driven by Christian theology, through the late twen...
|  | Eva Luna (Spanish Language Edition)
Release Date: March 17, 1995Las aventuras picarescas de una Sherezade latinoamericana, relatando su nacimiento ilegÍtimo, su orfandad, su adolescencia sin rumbo, sus actividades contra el gobierno, y su romance con un problemÁtico director de pelÍculas documentales. Por medio de su don narrativo, Eva Luna inventa una realidad personal determinada por la magia y el destino. ...
|  | Stranger In Paradise (Jesse Stone)
Release Date: February 3, 2009| Series: Jesse Stone An Apache hit man arrives in Paradise to find a missing girl and snuff out her mother. But his conscience is getting the best of him. If he doesn’t make the hit, he’ll pay for it. So might Jesse Stone, who’s been enlisted to protect them all. ...
|  | Our New Baby (First-Time Stories)
Publication Date: April 14, 2005| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Self Esteem Angel Book 1 Being Different is Cool - Bullying and Self Esteem
Publication Date: November 15, 2004Our differences make us valuable, one-of-a-kind people. The Self-Esteem Angel gently guides Melanie, Shane, and Ashley from feeling hurt by being teased to feeling valued and happy. The simple, yet powerful message of this story will provide children with the opportunity to learn answers to these questions: What is self-esteem? Why does teasing hurt? How do I deal with teasing and hurt feelings in a healthy way? How do my differences make me special? Children of all ages will learn that each of us is valuable no matter what others say, do or think. These bo...
|  | The Top Ten Inventors (Crafty Inventions (Picture Window))
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|  | The Election Book: The People Pick a President
Publication Date: July 1, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up The U.S. Presidential Election is the toughest race in the world to win. Find out what it takes to become the Commander in Chief1Since we have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, it's important the people--including you--know what goes on during an election year and how the people pick a president.Every four years, Americans elect a new president. The election is the top story on television shows and in the news nearly every day for the year leading up to the election. Yet most people don't know very much about ho...
|  | Fashion (Folens Photopacks)
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|  | A Guide to Retreat for All God's Shepherds
Publication Date: September 1994A Guide To Retreat is designed to assist you in a time of reflection, prayer, and renewal. The resources included are intended to help you turn more fully towards God, to drink more deeply of God, and to prepare you for faithful ministry.The author examines facing the desert times in our lives, explores personal identity and its meaning in ministry, and much more. A book for conducting one's own ministerial/spiritual retreat, facing such concerns as "When All I Hear is Silence," "The Tension Between Doing and Being," and "Who Really Calls and Sends?" ...
|  | Three Simple Rules (Korean): A Wesleyan Way of Living
Publication Date: May 2008Now available in Korean, in Three Simple Rules - A Wesleyan Way of Living, Rueben Job offers an interpretation of John Wesley's General Rules for today's readers. For individual reading or group study, this insightful work calls us to mutual respect, unity and a deeper daily relationship with God. This simple but challenging look at three commands, "do no harm, do good, stay in love with God," calls us to mutual respect, unity, and a deeper relationship with God.Also available:Three Simple Rules - A Wesleyan Way of LivingThree Simple Rules DVD - A Conversation with ...
|  | Acceptance Sampling in Quality Control, Second Edition (Statistics:A Series of Textbooks and Monographs)
Publication Date: March 2, 2009| ISBN-10: 1584889527 | ISBN-13: 978-1584889526| Edition: 2 State-of-the-Art Coverage of the Most Widely Used Acceptance Sampling TechniquesCohesively Incorporates Theory and PracticeReflecting the recent resurgence of interest in this field, Acceptance Sampling in Quality Control, Second Edition presents the state of the art in the methodology of sampling and explores its advantages and limitations. The book also looks at how acceptance control can support applications of statistical process control and help in the evaluation of products.New to the Second ...
|  | The HMSO Recycled Paper Register: October 1994
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| | Macroeconomic Theory
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|  | Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Business Writing*
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|  | Stuffed: An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat and How the Food Industry Can Fix It
Release Date: February 2, 2010For more than thirty years, Hank Cardello was an executive and adviser to some of the largest food and beverage corporations in the world. For more than thirty years, he watched as corporate profits-and America′s waistlines-ballooned: fattening consumers meant fattening profits. Now, in this fascinating and timely book, Cardello offers a behind-the-scenes look at the business of food,providing an insider′s account of food company practices, failed government regulations, and misleading media coverage that...
|  | Purchasing and Material Management
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| | Investing in Money Market Securities (The Investor's Self-Teaching Seminars)
Publication Date: January 1991| Series: The Investor's Self-Teaching Seminars Money market instruments such as T-bills, CDs, commercial paper, repos, U.S. Government agencies, et al, have a place in every investor's portfolio yet few really understand what they are, how the money is invested, how rates of returns arc calculated, how levels of safety are determined. This grade explains all of this. ...
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