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And there were red geraniums everywhere

Women's voices of the Italian diaspora in North America

by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto, Kathy Curto, Rita Ciresi, Joanna Clapps Herman, Luisa Del Giudice, Loretta D'Orsogna, Jean Feraca, Nadina Laspina, Maria Laurino, Marianne Leone, Chiara Montalto-Giannini, Gail Reitano, Jennifer Romanello, Mary Saracino, Rosanna Staffa, Karen Tintori ...

Ethnic literature has, at times, relied on rhetoric imbued with folklore, grandmothers, recipes, and prejudices. That's not the case here. While grandmothers, recipes, and prejudices appear, we believe the reader will have no doubts about the honesty of these texts. The pain of recalling the immigration experience, the nostalgia, the arduous recovery of roots, the scents, the music, and the irony ... Read more

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Ethnic literature has, at times, relied on rhetoric imbued with folklore, grandmothers, recipes, and prejudices. That's not the case here. While grandmothers, recipes, and prejudices appear, we believe the reader will have no doubts about the honesty of these texts. The pain of recalling the immigration experience, the nostalgia, the arduous recovery of roots, the scents, the music, and the irony
... Read more
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City of Champions

A History of Triumph and Defeat in Detroit

by Stefan Szymanski, Silke-Maria Weineck ...

Narrated by Leon Nixon ...

Unabridged

15 hours 20 min

From Ty Cobb and Hank Greenberg to the Bad Boys, from Joe Louis and Gordie Howe to the Malice at the Palace, City of Champions explores the history of Detroit through the stories of its most gifted athletes and most celebrated teams, linking iconic events in the history of Motown sports to the city's shifting fortunes.In an era when many teams have left rustbelt cities to relocate elsewhere, ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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From Ty Cobb and Hank Greenberg to the Bad Boys, from Joe Louis and Gordie Howe to the Malice at the Palace, City of Champions explores the history of Detroit through the stories of its most gifted athletes and most celebrated teams, linking iconic events in the history of Motown sports to the city's shifting fortunes.In an era when many teams have left rustbelt cities to relocate elsewhere,
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Modernity for the Masses

Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires

by Ana María León ...

Series series Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
2022 PROSE Award Finalist in Architecture and Urban Planning2022 Association for Latin American Art Arvey Foundation Book Award, Honorable MentionThroughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where should these restive populations be situated relative to the city’s spatial politics? Might housing ... Read more

$44.99 USD

2022 PROSE Award Finalist in Architecture and Urban Planning2022 Association for Latin American Art Arvey Foundation Book Award, Honorable MentionThroughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where should these restive populations be situated relative to the city’s spatial politics? Might housing
... Read more
Parkinson's Diva

by Maria De Leon MD ...

Parkinson’s disease affects all sides of you: your inside, your outside, and your “right” side—that is, the side where you feel positive, balanced, and beautiful. How do you find that edge when you’re not feeling very sharp at all?Parkinson’s Diva is a personal and professional accounting of a young Parkinson’s doctor’s experience with the disease in all realms of her life . . . from doctor, ... Read more

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Parkinson’s disease affects all sides of you: your inside, your outside, and your “right” side—that is, the side where you feel positive, balanced, and beautiful. How do you find that edge when you’re not feeling very sharp at all?Parkinson’s Diva is a personal and professional accounting of a young Parkinson’s doctor’s experience with the disease in all realms of her life . . . from doctor,
... Read more
Breaking the Bronze Ceiling

Women, Memory, and Public Space

by Valentina Rozas-Krause, Andrew M. Shanken, Carolina Aguilera, Manuela Badilla Rajevic, Daniel E. Coslett, Erika Doss, Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy, Daniel Herwitz, Katherine Hite0, Lauren Kroiz1, Ana Maria León2, Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral3, Pia Montealegre4, Sierra Rooney5, Daniela Sandler6, Kirk Savage7, Susan Slyomovics8, Marita Sturken9, Amanda Su0, Dell Upton1, Nathaniel Robert Walker2, Mechtild Widrich3 ...

Series series Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this ... Read more

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Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this
... Read more
Elegance in Motion: A Parkinson's Diva Journey of Faith & Perseverance

by Maria De Leon MD ...

Elegance in Motion is more than a title—it's a way of life.In her fourth book, Maria De León (a.k.a. the Parkinson's Diva) shares an extraordinary journey of perseverance, grace, and reinvention. From defying the odds to become a physician and movement disorder specialist to facing an unexpected Parkinson's diagnosis at the height of her career, Maria's story is one of resilience, transformation, ... Read more

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Elegance in Motion is more than a title—it's a way of life.In her fourth book, Maria De León (a.k.a. the Parkinson's Diva) shares an extraordinary journey of perseverance, grace, and reinvention. From defying the odds to become a physician and movement disorder specialist to facing an unexpected Parkinson's diagnosis at the height of her career, Maria's story is one of resilience, transformation,
... Read more
Emotional Bodies

The Historical Performativity of Emotions

by Beatriz Pichel, Jon Arrizabalaga, Rob Boddice, Leticia Fernández-Fontecha, Emma Hutchison, Dolores Martín-Moruno, Piroska Nagy, María Rosón, Pilar León-Sanz0, Bertrand Taithe1, Gian Marco Vidor2 ...

Series series The History of Emotions
What do emotions actually do? Recent work in the history of emotions and its intersections with cultural studies and new materialism has produced groundbreaking revelations around this fundamental question. In Emotional Bodies, contributors pick up these threads of inquiry to propose a much-needed theoretical framework for further study of materiality of emotions, with an emphasis on emotions' ... Read more

$14.39 USD

What do emotions actually do? Recent work in the history of emotions and its intersections with cultural studies and new materialism has produced groundbreaking revelations around this fundamental question. In Emotional Bodies, contributors pick up these threads of inquiry to propose a much-needed theoretical framework for further study of materiality of emotions, with an emphasis on emotions'
... Read more
Music and Cultural Rights

by Andrew N. Weintraub, Bell Yung, Nimrod Baranovitch, Adriana Helbig, Javier F León, Ana María Ochoa, Silvia Ramos, Helen Rees, Felicia Sandler0, Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman1, Ricardo D Trimillos2 ...

Framing timely and pressing questions concerning music and cultural rights, this collection illustrates the ways in which music--as a cultural practice, a commercial product, and an aesthetic form--has become enmeshed in debates about human rights, international law, and struggles for social justice. The essays in this volume examine how interpretations of cultural rights vary across societies; ... Read more

$14.39 USD

Framing timely and pressing questions concerning music and cultural rights, this collection illustrates the ways in which music--as a cultural practice, a commercial product, and an aesthetic form--has become enmeshed in debates about human rights, international law, and struggles for social justice. The essays in this volume examine how interpretations of cultural rights vary across societies;
... Read more
Viviendo más allá del párkinson: explorando las posibilidades

by Maria De Leon MD ...

La enfermedad del párkinson afecta todo nuestro ser desde lo profundo e invisible hasta lo visible y superficial, aunque el efecto es diferente para cada individuo. A pesar de no parecernos físicamente, todos tenemos una cosa en común—el querer vivir una vida mejor, llena de éxito, felicidad, y amor; en si una, vida abundante. Queremos aprender a caminar con la enfermedad al lado pero no ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

La enfermedad del párkinson afecta todo nuestro ser desde lo profundo e invisible hasta lo visible y superficial, aunque el efecto es diferente para cada individuo. A pesar de no parecernos físicamente, todos tenemos una cosa en común—el querer vivir una vida mejor, llena de éxito, felicidad, y amor; en si una, vida abundante. Queremos aprender a caminar con la enfermedad al lado pero no
... Read more
Written Spanish: idea and drafting

Proposals for writing workshop

by Pilar Úcar Ventura, María Antonia Olalla Marañón, Marta Sierra Amoedo ...

Translated by Sonia Velázquez León ...

Series Book 5 - Biblioteca Comillas. Educación
This text presents an explanatory synthesis of the main competence tools needed to create a written message in its different forms or models, while at the same time indicates not only correct linguistic patterns, but also the main mistakes made in writing, which have to be avoided for a precise essay. Outlines and mind maps are presented together with theoretical concepts, to try to sum up, as a ... Read more

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This text presents an explanatory synthesis of the main competence tools needed to create a written message in its different forms or models, while at the same time indicates not only correct linguistic patterns, but also the main mistakes made in writing, which have to be avoided for a precise essay. Outlines and mind maps are presented together with theoretical concepts, to try to sum up, as a
... Read more
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Plays

by Ricardo A. Bracho, Juana María Rodríguez ...

Ricardo A. Bracho is a queer Chicano Marxist playwright from Los Angeles whose theatrical works dramatize the lives of gay Black and Brown partisans of anti-capitalism and decolonization. Characterized by their playful use of theory, Bracho’s plays utilize the stage as a place for characters to debate questions of sexual and political liberation. Though Bracho’s work has been breaking ground ... Read more

$21.59 USD

Ricardo A. Bracho is a queer Chicano Marxist playwright from Los Angeles whose theatrical works dramatize the lives of gay Black and Brown partisans of anti-capitalism and decolonization. Characterized by their playful use of theory, Bracho’s plays utilize the stage as a place for characters to debate questions of sexual and political liberation. Though Bracho’s work has been breaking ground
... Read more
Learning Pediatric Imaging

100 Essential Cases

by María I. Martínez-León, Luisa Ceres-Ruiz, Juan E. Gutierrez ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
This book, in a user-friendly format, is an ideal introduction to pediatric diagnostic imaging. It presents 100 cases drawn from clinical practice that range from commonly encountered disorders to complex and infrequent situations which must be recognized by the practitioner. Each case serves to identify essential imaging features of the pathology under consideration and will assist the reader in ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This book, in a user-friendly format, is an ideal introduction to pediatric diagnostic imaging. It presents 100 cases drawn from clinical practice that range from commonly encountered disorders to complex and infrequent situations which must be recognized by the practitioner. Each case serves to identify essential imaging features of the pathology under consideration and will assist the reader in
... Read more

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And there were red geraniums everywhere

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Modernity for the Masses

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Breaking the Bronze Ceiling

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Viviendo más allá del párkinson: explorando las posibilidades

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