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Download or read book LatinoLand written by Marie Arana and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging overview of the turbulent and little-known history of the diverse Latino experience in America is based on hundreds of interviews and research about the fastest-growing minority in America.
Book Synopsis Stories from Latin America/Historias de Latinoamerica, Second Edition by : Genevieve Barlow
Download or read book Stories from Latin America/Historias de Latinoamerica, Second Edition written by Genevieve Barlow and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the tales of Latin America--in Spanish and in English! In Stories from Latin America/Historias de Latinoamerica, we've placed the Spanish and English stories side by side--lado a lado--so you can practice and improve your reading skills in your new language while enjoying the support of your native tongue. This way, you'll avoid the inconvenience of constantly having to look up unfamiliar words and expressions in a dictionary. Read as much as you can understand, and then look to the facing page for help if necessary. As you read, you can check your comprehension by comparing the two versions of the story. You'll also find a bilingual vocabulary list at the end of the book, so you'll have a handy reference for new words. Stories from Latin America/Historias de Latinoamerica gives you the chance to Enjoy 16 fascinating short stories from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela, and more Fine-tune your language skills while gaining insight into the rich cultural heritage of the people of Latin America Improve your reading and listening skills with free audio downloads of four chapters from the book at mhprofessional.com Genevieve Barlow is an experienced Spanish educator and author.
Book Synopsis Short Stories in Latin American Spanish by : Alexander Iglesias
Download or read book Short Stories in Latin American Spanish written by Alexander Iglesias and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short Stories in Latin American Spanish has been written and designed for learners from beginner to intermediate level to both entertain and provide a sense of achievement while reading. If there's a word or grammar structure you are not familiar with, you'll find the English translation just below, which makes reading these stories an enjoyable and stress-free experience. This book includes: Eight fun, easy-to-read short stories in a variety of genres that will give you hours of enjoyment while you acquire a wide range of new vocabulary. Authentic Latin American expressions and cultural knowledge that will prove very useful for any student interested in the amazing variety of this Spanish-speaking area. Spanish-English parallel text that will help you feel safe throughout your reading experience, so you learn new vocabulry and grammatical structures naturally, in a stress-free way while focusing on content and having fun. At the end of the book you'll find the text in Spanish without the English translation so you can read it when you feel confident enough. Research has demonstrated that reading improves vocabulary and fluency in a foreing language. Short Stories in Latin American Spanish is the perfect companion on your journey to mastery of Spanish with friendly, parallel text stories that will make you feel confident while you learn the language and culture of this fascinating part of the world.
Download or read book American Chica written by Marie Arana and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. But only when she immigrated with her family to the United States did she come to understand that she was a hybrid American whose cultural identity was split in half. Coming to terms with this split is at the heart of this graceful, beautifully realized portrait of a child who “was a north-south collision, a New World fusion. An American Chica.” Here are two vastly different landscapes: Peru—earthquake-prone, charged with ghosts of history and mythology—and the sprawling prairie lands of Wyoming. In these rich terrains resides a colorful cast of family members who bring Arana’s historia to life...her proud grandfather who one day simply stopped coming down the stairs; her dazzling grandmother, “clicking through the house as if she were making her way onstage.” But most important are Arana’s parents: he a brilliant engineer, she a gifted musician. For more than half a century these two passionate, strong-willed people struggled to overcome the bicultural tensions in their marriage and, finally, to prevail.
Book Synopsis Silver, Sword, and Stone by : Marie Arana
Download or read book Silver, Sword, and Stone written by Marie Arana and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, American Library Association Booklist’s Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction Acclaimed writer Marie Arana delivers a cultural history of Latin America and the three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). “Meticulously researched, [this] book’s greatest strengths are the power of its epic narrative, the beauty of its prose, and its rich portrayals of character…Marvelous” (The Washington Post). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level in the Andean cordillera of Peru, the highest human habitation on earth. Like her late husband, she works the gold mines much as the Indians were forced to do at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Illiteracy, malnutrition, and disease reign as they did five hundred years ago. And now, just as then, a miner’s survival depends on a vast global market whose fluctuations are controlled in faraway places. Carlos Buergos is a Cuban who fought in the civil war in Angola and now lives in a quiet community outside New Orleans. He was among hundreds of criminals Cuba expelled to the US in 1980. His story echoes the violence that has coursed through the Americas since before Columbus to the crushing savagery of the Spanish Conquest, and from 19th- and 20th-century wars and revolutions to the military crackdowns that convulse Latin America to this day. Xavier Albó is a Jesuit priest from Barcelona who emigrated to Bolivia, where he works among the indigenous people. He considers himself an Indian in head and heart and, for this, is well known in his adopted country. Although his aim is to learn rather than proselytize, he is an inheritor of a checkered past, where priests marched alongside conquistadors, converting the natives to Christianity, often forcibly, in the effort to win the New World. Ever since, the Catholic Church has played a central role in the political life of Latin America—sometimes for good, sometimes not. In this “timely and excellent volume” (NPR) Marie Arana seamlessly weaves these stories with the history of the past millennium to explain three enduring themes that have defined Latin America since pre-Columbian times: the foreign greed for its mineral riches, an ingrained propensity to violence, and the abiding power of religion. Silver, Sword, and Stone combines “learned historical analysis with in-depth reporting and political commentary...[and] an informed and authoritative voice, one that deserves a wide audience” (The New York Times Book Review).
Download or read book Bolivar written by Marie Arana and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative portrait of the Latin-American warrior-statesman examines his life against a backdrop of the tensions of nineteenth-century South America, covering his achievements as a strategist, abolitionist, and diplomat.
Download or read book Lima Nights written by Marie Arana and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlos Bluhm leads the good life in upper-class Lima: He attends social functions with his elegant wife, goes out drinking with his three best friends, and has the occasional, fleeting assignation. Then he meets Maria Fernandez, a dancer at a tango bar in a rough part of town. The beautiful fifteen-year-old intoxicates him. An indigenous dark-skinned Peruvian, she represents everything his safe white world does not, and soon he can’t get her out of his mind. They begin a passionate affair, one that will destroy his marriage and shatter the only reality he’s ever known. Flash forward twenty years: Against all odds, Carlos and Maria have remained together. But when Maria finally presses for a formal commitment, feelings long suppressed erupt in a tense endgame that sends both of them hurtling toward a dangerous resolution that will forever alter their lives.
Download or read book Cellophane written by Marie Arana and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Victor Sobrevilla, a lovable, eccentric engineer, always dreamed of founding a paper factory in the heart of the Peruvian rain forest, and at the opening of this miraculous novel his dream has come true—until he discovers the recipe for cellophane. In a life already filled with signs and portents, the family dog suddenly begins to cough strangely. A wild little boy turns azurite blue. All at once Don Victor is overwhelmed by memories of his erotic past; his prim wife, Doña Mariana, reveals the shocking truth about her origins; the three Sobrevilla children turn their love lives upside down; the family priest blurts out a long-held secret.... A hilarious plague of truth has descended on the once well-behaved Sobrevillas, only the beginning of this brilliantly realized, generous-hearted novel. Marie Arana’s style, originality, and trenchant wit will establish her as one of the most audacious talents in fiction today and Cellophane as one of the most evocative and spirited novels of the year.
Book Synopsis A Trip to Latin America by : Ventura Fuentes
Download or read book A Trip to Latin America written by Ventura Fuentes and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Book Synopsis A Trip To Latin America (In Very Simple Spanish) by : Victor Emmanuel François
Download or read book A Trip To Latin America (In Very Simple Spanish) written by Victor Emmanuel François and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Trip To Latin America (In Very Simple Spanish): With Conversation And Composition Exercises And Vocabulary II. Style. The book has been written in such simple Spanish that no notes are needed, and no previous prepara tion is required to read the first five or six lessons. As we assume that a grammar is being used in conjunction with the Reader, by the time the sixth or seventh lesson of the latter is reached, the student has progressed sufficiently in the study of the verb to permit him to continue his reading without great trouble. Following the great pedagogical principle of proceeding from the known to the unknown, we have made a liberal use of words having great similarity in form and meaning in both Spanish and English. As a further aid, the same words occur again and again in new combinations, thus becoming soon so familiar that the help of the vocabulary is no longer needed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book La Huida written by Alejandra Garcia and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written in simple Spanish. Short chapters and simple grammar ensure a fast success while reading. The best way to learn a language on your own is to read a book. Besides the reader gets exciting views of the current situation at the border between the USA and Mexico. Mexico is the most important transit country for migrants (mainly from Central and South America) who want to reach the United States. Many children and young people are currently trying to reach the United States in order to escape the hopelessness of their home country. This book tells the story of a courageous and intelligent boy from Guatemala who dreams of crossing the border to Mexico and reaching the United States. Once there, he realizes that life in this country is not so pleasant for him as an illegal immigrant. México es el principal país de tránsito para los migrantes (principalmente de Centroamárica y Sudamérica) que buscan llegar a Estados Unidos y aunque ésto no es un fenómeno nuevo, recientemente ha recibido una notable atención por parte del gobierno, la sociedad civil y la academia. En la actualidad niños y adolescentes de México y otros paises fundamentalmente centroamericanos tratan de emigrar hacia los Estados Unidos a través de la frontera con México el cual por su naturaleza se caracteriza, por ser un país de origen, tránsito y destino de migrantes. Este libro titulado La Huida narra la historia de un niño guatemalteco adudaz e inteligente, que sueña con cruzar las fronteras de Guatemala y México y llegar a Estados Unidos y una vez allá, se da cuenta que la vida en ese país no le resultó tan placentera y de paso es repatriado de nuevo a su país.
Download or read book The Writing Life written by Marie Arana and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2003-05-08 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dazzling collection of essays, today's most celebrated writers explore their personal relationships with the literary life.
Book Synopsis Doing Business in the New Latin America by : Thomas H. Becker
Download or read book Doing Business in the New Latin America written by Thomas H. Becker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hands-on guide teaches executives of small and medium-size U.S. companies how to establish and maintain profitable business in Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Unlike the "old" Latin America, today's Latin America is both readily accessible to smaller North American companies and is being transformed into a bustling business environment. However, for those without a native, in-depth understanding of the emerging changes within today's Latin American marketplace and a grasp of the cultural implications at hand, doing business in Latin America can still be challenging for smaller U.S. exporters and importers. Doing Business in the New Latin America: Keys to Profit in America's Next-Door Markets, Second Edition serves as an insider's travel guide and trader's manual for understanding the region's market environment and best export sales opportunities in each of its countries. It lays the groundwork for finding and developing ideal prospects while avoiding pitfalls and foreigners' faux pas. Part I familiarizes readers with Latin America in general, profiling its nations from a business perspective; Part II explains how Latin American business attitudes developed from a historical perspective. The third section of the text focuses on the all-important art of making—and keeping—the deal.
Book Synopsis Inventing Latinos by : Laura E. Gómez
Download or read book Inventing Latinos written by Laura E. Gómez and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR An NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos’ new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword by the author Who are Latinos and where do they fit in America’s racial order? In this “timely and important examination of Latinx identity” (Ms.), Laura E. Gómez, a leading critical race scholar, argues that it is only recently that Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central Americans, and others are seeing themselves (and being seen by others) under the banner of a cohesive racial identity. And the catalyst for this emergent identity, she argues, has been the ferocity of anti-Latino racism. In what Booklist calls “an incisive study of history, complex interrogation of racial construction, and sophisticated legal argument,” Gómez “packs a knockout punch” (Publishers Weekly), illuminating for readers the fascinating race-making, unmaking, and re-making processes that Latinos have undergone over time, indelibly changing the way race functions in this country. Building on the “insightful and well-researched” (Kirkus Reviews) material of the original, the paperback features a new afterword in which the author analyzes results of the 2020 Census, providing brilliant, timely insight about how Latinos have come to self-identify.
Book Synopsis Spanish Settlement in North America by : Matthew Kachur
Download or read book Spanish Settlement in North America written by Matthew Kachur and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Latin-American Spanish for Travellers written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Alex & Grandma in Latin America by : Eleni Rivers
Download or read book Alex & Grandma in Latin America written by Eleni Rivers and published by Pld Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover "Alex & Grandma in Latin America" An exciting journey for young explorers! Are you ready to experience exciting adventures and learn valuable lessons at the same time? Do you want to learn Spanish and discover important values for your life? Join Alex and his grandma on their journey through Latin America! Why should you read "Alex & Grandma in Latin America"? Learn Spanish playfully: The stories are bilingual, on each page you will find both Spanish and English versions. This way, you can easily learn new words and expressions and improve your language skills. Experience authentic Latin American festivals: Immerse yourself in the colourful world of significant festivities in Rio de Janeiro, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, and Ecuador. You will learn more about this culture and traditions. Learn important values: In each story, important values like responsibility, perseverance, forgiveness, discipline, honesty, or empathy are conveyed. You will learn valuable lessons that will enrich your life. Realize your adventurous spirit: Are you ready to embark on an exciting adventure? "Alex & Grandma in Latin America" takes you on a thrilling journey where you not only learn new languages but also discover important values for your life. It's time to explore the world and be part of this unique adventure! Embark on the journey with Alex and his grandma now! Open the pages of "Alex & Grandma in Latin America" and let yourself be enchanted by the magic of language and the exciting stories. What are you waiting for? The adventure begins now!
