As the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early '70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance. Thus, Chicano Movement For Beginners is an important attempt to stave off historical amnesia. It seeks to shed light on the multifaceted civil rights struggle known as 'El Movimiento' that galvanized the Mexican American community, from laborers to student activists, giving them not only a political voice to combat prejudice and inequality, but also a new sense of cultural awareness and ethnic pride.
Beyond commemorating the past, Chicano Movement For Beginners seeks to reaffirm the goals and spirit of the Chicano Movement for the simple reason that many of the critical issues Mexican American activists first brought to the nation's attention then-educational disadvantage, endemic poverty, political exclusion, and social bias-remain as pervasive as ever almost half a century later.
If taught well, especially at an early age, financial literacy can pave the way for generational wealth.The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich have acquired the habit of educating themselves and their children about money as early as possible.
This turns small acts such as saving into lifelong habits that build and sustain wealth. If we want our own children to get a proper head start in this world, then we must help them adopt positive practices.In Meet the Moneypennys, we follow the story of Timmie and Tammie Moneypenny as they discover benefits of smart money management.
Upon learning about the rise in power of a family enterprise like theirs, they are eager to pursue huge goals. They quickly implement the habits they have learned and this has immediate impact on their daily lives.Now is the best time to teach children the values of budgeting, investing, and entrepreneurship.
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating a mixed reaction from contemporary readers and critics. The novel's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernist literature; it prefigures the works of American novelists.
The most famous and inspirational works of Kate Chopin include: The Awakening, At the Cadian Ball, At the Cadian Ball, The Story of an Hour, The Story of an Hour, Désirée's Baby, The Storm, A Pair of Silk Stockings and many more.
Crónica del surgimiento, desarrollo y transformaciones del Cártel de las drogas más peligroso de México.
El cártel de Sinaloa explica y detalla el mundo del narco: desde los pioneros del negocio como Pedro Avilés, los sicarios desalmados que matan gobernadores como el Gitano, policías corruptos al estilo Guillermo González Calderoni, hasta hechos sorprendentes como la expulsión masiva de chinos durante la segunda década del siglo XX, las primeras rutas trasnacionales de la cocaína, o la fuga de Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán.
Aquí todos cuentan su versión sobre el lucrativo tráfico de drogas en Sinaloa, que es la historia misma del narcotráfico en México. Este libro da voz al hijo de un narcotraficante que relata cómo es vivir con ese estigma; también aparece un abogado de la mafia que abre puertas de tribunales y prisiones de máxima seguridad; soldados oaxaqueños que erradican cultivos de mariguanaen la sierra de Badiraguato; un comandante guerrillero del ERPI en Guerrero, o un político y empresario millonario de San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León. Todos ellos son piezas clave en el mundo del narco y aquí ofrecen testimonios reveladores. La PGR, la DEA y el Ejército mexicano lo hacen a través de expedientes oficiales, algunos publicados por primera vez en este libro.
Se da a conocer asimismo la versión directa de capos como Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, el Jefe de Jefes, cuyos escritos de puño y letra acusan a las autoridades de ser las auténticas responsables de crear y organizar la distribución de los llamados cárteles. Diego Enrique Osorno, a través de una ágil narración periodística, nos ofrece el más completo panorama del cártel fundacional del narcotráfico y uno de los más poderosos que han existido en México.
From Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age—and why we can’t stop falling for them.
'Scams are hot right now, and Bluestone covers the hottest here.' –
Booklist
We live in an age where scams are the new normal. A charismatic entrepreneur sells thousands of tickets to a festival that never happened. Respected investors pour millions into a start-up centered around fake blood tests. Reviewers and celebrities flock to London’s top-rated restaurant that’s little more than a backyard shed. These unsettling stories of today’s viral grifters have risen to fame and hit the front-page headlines, yet the curious conundrum remains: Why do these scams happen?
Drawing from scientific research, marketing campaigns, and exclusive documents and interviews, Vice reporter Gabrielle Bluestone delves into the irresistible hype that fuels our social media ecosystem, whether it’s from the trusted influencers that peddled Fyre or the consumer reviews that sold Juicero. A cultural examination that is as revelatory as it is relevant, Hype pulls back the curtain on the manipulation game behind the never-ending scam season—and how we as consumers can stop getting played.
“Juicy, sharp, savage and wildly entertaining” – Cat Marnell, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Murder Your Life
'A must read for all wildlife lovers' Dominic Dyer
Foxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, kites - Britain and Ireland's predators are impressive and diverse and they capture our collective imagination. But many consider them to our competition, even our enemies.
The problem is that predators eat what we farm or use for sport. From foxes and ravens attacking new-born lambs to weasels eating game-bird chicks, predators compete with us, putting them directly into the firing line. Farming, fishing, sport and leisure industries want to see numbers of predators reduced, and conservation organisations also worry that predators are threatening some endangered species. Other people, though, will go to great lengths to protect them from any harm. This clashing of worlds can be intense. So, what do we do? One of the greatest challenges facing conservation today is how, when and where to control predators. It is a highly charged debate.
Mary Colwell travels across the UK and Ireland to encounter the predators face to face. She watches their lives in the wild and discovers how they fit into the landscape. She talks to the scientists studying them and the wildlife lovers who want to protect them. She also meets the people who want to control them to protect their livelihoods or sporting interests.
In this even-handed exploration of the issues, Mary provides a thoughtful and reasoned analysis of the debates surrounding our bittersweet relationship with predators.
The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first century
The Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries.
Zachary Schrag begins by explaining how to ask good questions and then guides listeners step-by-step through all phases of historical research, from narrowing a topic and locating sources to taking notes, crafting a narrative, and connecting one's work to existing scholarship. He shows how researchers extract knowledge from the widest range of sources, such as government documents, newspapers, unpublished manuscripts, images, interviews, and datasets. He demonstrates how to use archives and libraries, read sources critically, present claims supported by evidence, tell compelling stories, and much more.
The world is becoming less religious. Since 2007, there has been a pervasive decline in religious belief and most of the world's people now say that God is less important in their lives than they said He was in the quarter century before 2007.
Many factors contributed to this dramatic shift, but as Inglehart shows, certain ones stand out. For centuries, virtually all major religions sternly discouraged divorce, abortion, homosexuality, contraception, and any other form of sexual behavior not linked with reproduction. These norms were necessary for societies to survive when facing high infant mortality and low life expectancy. Recent technological advances have greatly increased life expectancy and cut infant mortality to a tiny fraction of its historic levels, making these norms no longer necessary for societal survival. These norms require repressing strong natural urges, but, since they present traditional norms as absolute values, most religions strongly resist change. The resulting tension, together with the fact that rising existential security has made people less dependent on religion, opened the way for an exodus from religion. Utilizing a massive global data base, Inglehart analyzes the conditions under which religiosity collapses, and explores its implications for the future.
Do you know what's the greatest threat to Women's Sports is? It's Transwomen competing and obliterating the competition. In this book, you'll find out how inclusivity is devastating and destroying female sporting events as biological males are allowed to not only compete but completely dominate female sporting events and how no matter how the Progressive Liberals try to defend it, transwomen athletes will always come in first place compared to their cisgender counterparts.
Transwomen are destroying the competition... literally.
As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada's East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterward, while preparing to leave the province to find work elsewhere, Rogers noticed a lone gravestone across the road from his home in Shelburne County that commemorates the life of Donald McDonald, a crofter from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, who "departed this life" in 1881. Rogers wondered if there might be a connection between the necessity of his own departure, and McDonald's lonely presence on the nearby Atlantic shore, linking them as members of local communities that were displaced in the name of "economic progress."
In Rough and Plenty: A Memorial, Rogers explores the parallel processes of dispossession suffered by nineteenth-century Scottish crofters expelled from their ancestral lands during the Highland Clearances, and by the marginalization of coastal fishing communities in Nova Scotia. The book aims to memorialize local ways of life that were destroyed by the forces of industrial production, as well as to convey the experience of dislocation using first-hand narratives, recent and historical. The author makes the case that in a world where capital abhors all communities but itself, remembering becomes a form of advocacy that can challenge dominant structures.
Este libro corresponde al taller sobre feminismo y literatura impartido por la escritora Laura Freixas, centrado más concretamente en el papel de la mujer en el mundo literario tanto desde una perspectiva actual como histórica. En él analiza diferentes textos escritos por autoras, amén de realizar un repaso histórico de la presencia o ausencia de la mujer como autora en la escena literaria.
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Laura Freixas es una escritora nacida en Barcelona en 1958. Su producción, de un marcado corte feminista y centrada en la literatura escrita por mujeres, abarca la novela, el relato, el ensayo, los artículos periodísticos y la crítica literaria. Es fundadora de la asociación para la igualdad de género Clásicas y Modernas, que promueve políticas culturales que apoyen a la producción e investigación de la literatura escrita por mujeres.
Where did the Coronavirus outbreak originate and was the pandemic predicted?
Did aliens help to build the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, and what were they trying to tell us?
Is the food industry colluding to make us addicted to sugar?
Prepare yourself for some startling revelations on these topics and many more in this updated and expanded compendium of the world's scariest and strangest conspiracy theories. Leaving no stone unturned, it delves into such conundrums as:
the growing number of people who believe the Earth is flat
the unsolved disappearance of Flight MH370
the uncertainties surrounding the assassination of Osama Bin Laden
the mysterious circumstances of Bruce Lee's death
Whether you're a doubter or a self-confessed conspiracy junkie, you'll find a cover-up for every occasion. And remember, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you...
