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Coloring into Existence
Argues that queer picture books with main characters of color can disrupt structures of power in both literature and real life Coloring into Existence investigates the role of authors, illustrators, and independent publishers in producing alternative narratives that disrupt colonial, heteropatriarchal notions of childhood. These texts or characters unsettle the category of the child, and thus pave the way for broader understandings of childhood. Often unapologetically politically motivated, queer and trans of color picture books can serve as the basis for fantasizing about disruptions to structures of power, both within and outside literary worlds. Fusing literary criticism and close reading...
Social Strategies Building the City
Social housing is a complex system integrated by social, economic, political and city making processes. Social practices in the called social production of the habitat provide clues to understand an alternative way to approach housing solutions in which several dimensions coexist. Through the rationalization of social (self-management), economic (social economy) and urban principles, it was possible the construction of typologies to document and evaluate 3 case studies in Latin America. This book provides a foundation for future research and conception of social housing policies and programs.
Who, How, and why
Pamphlet on rural migration in Peru - presents the results of a survey of migrants to lima, their background, motivation, migration itinerary, social adjustment, etc. References and statistical tables.
Regional Development Dialogue
An international journal focusing on third world development problems.
Congressional Record
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
My Life with Mario Vargas Llosa
Living in a Paris garret with a struggling young writer who has since become a famous author was not fictional for Julia Urquidi Illanes as the wife of Mario Vargas Llosa. This English translation is an incredible but true «portrait of an artist as a young man» and of his aunt by marriage, whom he later fictionalized in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. Married for 9 years, Julia typed the first of his best-selling novels, The Time of the Hero, only to be abandoned when Mario fell in love with his first cousin Patricia, who is now his second wife. Readers will find this behind the scene account of a writer nominated for the Nobel prize gives insights into the creative processes of a novelist as it relates the range of human emotions in real life.
Heroes of Bataan, Corregidor, and Northern Luzon
From Alibris: A pictorial history of the American men & women who became Japanese POWs with the surrender of the Philippines. It contains 1800+ individual photos with biographies, numerous unit group, & candid photos of before, during, & after imprisonment, maps & alphabetical & unit indexes. It is also a valuable genealogical source. Those who were Japanese POWs treasure it for the memories it recalls & it is a source of information & pride for families of POWs who did not survive or are not now living. A WWII chronology helps those who did not live through the war to better understand wartime events.
