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Author : Bud Hedrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997517408
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Cruise of the Gringo Vagabundos written by Bud Hedrick and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bud Hedrick
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ISBN 13 : 9781320576710
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Cruise of the Gringo Vagabundos written by Bud Hedrick and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bud Hedrick
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ISBN 13 : 9781320576741
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (767 download)
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Author : Bud Hedrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781364929527
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Cruise of the Gringo Vagabundos written by Bud Hedrick and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bud Hedrick and his life-long pal flip Hoffman take us on an exciting, wonder – filled voyage – a gunk-hole cruise the length of the Sea of Cortez, across the Gulf and down the mainland coast of Mexico in an open catamaran powered by two outboard engines, fishing, diving, surfing. This trip wasn't about cheating death, but expanding life.….Kevin Short,artist, author "Trestles"
Author : Mike Tapia
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0875656641
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (756 download)
Download or read book The Barrio Gangs of San Antonio, 1915-2015 written by Mike Tapia and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barrio Gangs is the most comprehensive academic case study of barrio group dynamics in a major Texas city to date. This is a sociological work on the history of barrio gangs in San Antonio and other large Texas cities to the present day. It examines the century-long evolution of urban barrio subcultures using public archives, oral histories, old photos, and other forms of qualitative data. The study gives special attention to the barrio gangs’ “heyday,” from the 1940s through the 1960s, comparing their attributes to those of modern groups. It illustrates how social and technological changes have affected barrio networking processes and the intensity of the street lifestyle over time. Intergenerational shifts and the tension that accompanies such changes are also central themes in the book. Few other places are so conducive to such historical exploration as is San Antonio. Street ignobility in the barrio no doubt mirrors processes found in other Chicano communities in Texas and the Southwest. The gang contexts in major Chicano population centers have lengthy historical bases rooted in weak opportunity structures, oppression, and discrimination. This work shows that participation in street violence, drug selling, and other parts of the informal economy are functional adaptations to the social structure; the forces propelling the formation of barrio gangs are not temporary social phenomena.
Author : Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292706811
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Mexican Americans and World War II written by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable book and the first significant scholarship on Mexican Americans in World War II. Up to 750,000 Mexican American men served in World War II, earning more Medals of Honor and other decorations in proportion to their numbers than any other ethnic group.
Author : Neil Kelly
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780929637006
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Baja Catch written by Neil Kelly and published by Sunbelt Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a completely revised & expanded edition of the best selling classic on primitive camping & fishing in Mexico's remote Baja California peninsula. This book has become the "Bible" for fishing remote locations in Baja. The authors are expert anglers who have caught & released over 30,000 game fish in Baja California using small aluminum boats that they have trailered into Mexico, either on the 1,050-mile long Transpeninsular Highway, or on dirt backroads & trails. This is not a book for someone who wants to fly into a resort & hire a charter boat! Detailed fishing maps of more than 40 remote hot spots on both coasts. Detailed travel directions on access roads & primitive camping locations. Detailed tips on safety, obtaining supplies, fish identification, language, off-road travel, primitive conditions, equipment, seasons, & specific techniques on how to catch more than 50 species of game fish in Baja using artificial lures. Specific boat recommendations & techniques for trailering & launching successfully over-the-beach in remote locations. Many rare photos showing remote camping locations & launch spots.
Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466880368
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Haitian Trilogy written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three plays by the Nobel-laureate Derek Walcott, brought together for the first time in The Haitian Trilogy In the history plays that comprise The Haitian Trilogy--Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours and The Haytian Earth--Derek Walcott, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, uses verse to tell the story of his native West Indies as a four-hundred-year cycle of war, conquest and rebellion. In Henri Christophe and The Haytian Earth, Walcott re-casts the legacy of Haiti's violent revolutionaries--led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, Jean Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe--whose rebellion established the first black state in the Americas, but whose cruelty becomes a parable of racial pride and corruption. Drums and Colours, commissioned in 1958 to celebrate the first parliament in Trinidad, is a grand pageant linking the lives of complex, ambiguous heroes: Columbus and Raleigh; Toussaint; and George William Gordon, a martyr of the constitutional era. From Henri Christophe's high style to the bracing vernacular of The Haytian Earth, to the epic scale and scope of Drums and Colours, in these plays Walcott, one of our most celebrated poets, carved a place in the modern theater for the history of the West Indies, and a sounding room for his own maturing voice.
Author : John Beverley
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822382199
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Subalternity and Representation written by John Beverley and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term “subalternity” refers to a condition of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic, and/or cultural dominance. Subaltern studies is, therefore, a study of power. Who has it and who does not. Who is gaining it and who is losing it. Power is intimately related to questions of representation—to which representations have cognitive authority and can secure hegemony and which do not and cannot. In this book John Beverley examines the relationship between subalternity and representation by analyzing the ways in which that relationship has been played out in the domain of Latin American studies. Dismissed by some as simply another new fashion in the critique of culture and by others as a postmarxist heresy, subaltern studies began with the work of Ranajit Guha and the South Asian Subaltern Studies collective in the 1980s. Beverley’s focus on Latin America, however, is evidence of the growing province of this field. In assessing subaltern studies’ purposes and methods, the potential dangers it presents, and its interactions with deconstruction, poststructuralism, cultural studies, Marxism, and political theory, Beverley builds his discussion around a single, provocative question: How can academic knowledge seek to represent the subaltern when that knowledge is itself implicated in the practices that construct the subaltern as such? In his search for answers, he grapples with a number of issues, notably the 1998 debate between David Stoll and Rigoberta Menchú over her award-winning testimonial narrative, I, Rigoberta Menchú. Other topics explored include the concept of civil society, Florencia Mallon’s influential Peasant and Nation, the relationship between the Latin American “lettered city” and the Túpac Amaru rebellion of 1780–1783, the ideas of transculturation and hybridity in postcolonial studies and Latin American cultural studies, multiculturalism, and the relationship between populism, popular culture, and the “national-popular” in conditions of globalization. This critique and defense of subaltern studies offers a compendium of insights into a new form of knowledge and knowledge production. It will interest those studying postcolonialism, political science, cultural studies, and Latin American culture, history, and literature.
Author : Michele Wucker
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1466867884
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Why the Cocks Fight written by Michele Wucker and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like two roosters in a fighting arena, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They co-inhabit the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto. Yet, despite their antagonism, the two countries share a national symbol in the rooster--and a fundamental activity and favorite sport in the cockfight. In this book, Michele Wucker asks: "If the symbols that dominate a culture accurately express a nation's character, what kind of a country draws so heavily on images of cockfighting and roosters, birds bred to be aggressive? What does it mean when not one but two countries that are neighbors choose these symbols? Why do the cocks fight, and why do humans watch and glorify them?" Wucker studies the cockfight ritual in considerable detail, focusing as much on the customs and histories of these two nations as on their contemporary lifestyles and politics. Her well-cited and comprehensive volume also explores the relations of each nation toward the United States, which twice invaded both Haiti (in 1915 and 1994) and the Dominican Republic (in 1916 and 1965) during the twentieth century. Just as the owners of gamecocks contrive battles between their birds as a way of playing out human conflicts, Wucker argues, Haitian and Dominican leaders often stir up nationalist disputes and exaggerate their cultural and racial differences as a way of deflecting other kinds of turmoil. Thus Why the Cocks Fight highlights the factors in Caribbean history that still affect Hispaniola today, including the often contradictory policies of the U.S.
Author : Edouard Glissant
Publisher : Three Continents Press
ISBN 13 : 9780894108709
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Monsieur Toussaint written by Edouard Glissant and published by Three Continents Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint tells the tragic story of Toussaint Louverture, the charismatic leader of the revolution - the only successful slave revolt in history - that led to Haiti's independence two-hundred years ago. Translated by the author himself in collaboration with J. Michael Dash, this new edition captures the striking essence of the original French play (first published in 1961).
Author : George Abagnalo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970667700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Boy on a Pony written by George Abagnalo and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative story of love and sexual awakening, Boy On A Pony raises the controversial issue of privileged sexual abuse within our health care system.
Author : Carl Laurence Duaine
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book With All Arms written by Carl Laurence Duaine and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical material on maternal ancestors of the author and their contemporaries with hisorical background of the times back to the conquest of Mexico by Cortez. The authors ancestor's were among the founders of Monterrey, Saltillo, and other areas. Duaine's mother was the daughter of Juan Rios and Macadonia Ramirez of Mier, Mexico.
Author : Mayra Montero
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book In the Palm of Darkness written by Mayra Montero and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Palm of Darkness" tells the story of American herpetologist Victor Griggs and Haitian guide Thierry Adrien, who are searching for an amphibian known as the blood frog in the mountains of violence-torn Haiti. The rich and tragic tale of Thierry's family, his life and loves, and his curious destiny, forms a backdrop for the obsessive search of the two men from different cultures and opens a window onto another way of understanding the world.
Author : Ford, Gerald R.
Publisher : Best Books on
ISBN 13 : 1623768454
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, 1974 written by Ford, Gerald R. and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Author : Andrew Hudson
Publisher : Sams
ISBN 13 : 9780672329296
Total Pages : 1091 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Red Hat Fedora Core 6 Unleashed written by Andrew Hudson and published by Sams. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1091 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing with the tradition of offering the most comprehensive coverage of Red Hat Linux on the market, Fedora Core 6 Unleashed includes new and additional material based on the latest release of Red Hat's Fedora Core Linux distribution. Incorporating an advanced approach to presenting information about Fedora, the book aims to provide the best and latest information that intermediate to advanced Linux users need to know about installation, configuration, system administration, server operations, and security. Fedora Core 6 Unleashed thoroughly covers all of Fedora's software packages, including up-to-date material on new applications, Web development, peripherals, and programming languages. It also includes updated discussion of the architecture of the Linux kernel, USB, KDE, GNOME, Broadband access issues, routing, gateways, firewalls, disk tuning, GCC, Perl, Python, printing services (CUPS), wireless support, international support (Unicode 5.0 support), Java programs support (Eclipse), and security.
Author : Ben Bradlee Jr.
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316084484
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Kid written by Ben Bradlee Jr. and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed journalist Ben Bradlee Jr. comes the epic biography of Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams that baseball fans have been waiting for. Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. His batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been topped since, and no player who has hit more than 500 home runs has a higher career batting average. Those totals would have been even higher if Williams had not left baseball for nearly five years in the prime of his career to serve as a Marine pilot in WWII and Korea. He hit home runs farther than any player before him -- and traveled a long way himself, as Ben Bradlee, Jr.'s grand biography reveals. Born in 1918 in San Diego, Ted would spend most of his life disguising his Mexican heritage. During his 22 years with the Boston Red Sox, Williams electrified crowds across America -- and shocked them, too: His notorious clashes with the press and fans threatened his reputation. Yet while he was a God in the batter's box, he was profoundly human once he stepped away from the plate. His ferocity came to define his troubled domestic life. While baseball might have been straightforward for Ted Williams, life was not. The Kid is biography of the highest literary order, a thrilling and honest account of a legend in all his glory and human complexity. In his final at-bat, Williams hit a home run. Bradlee's marvelous book clears the fences, too.
