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"Pepe Rios" is the story of a young man's search for peace as the world around him becomes a battlefield. The Mexican Revolution of 1910 has broken out and the death of the protagonist's father sets in motion a chain of events that sends Pepe Rios on a long journey across a confused and angry country. His adventures of love, war and revenge create the irrevocable momentum that make this novel a sure page-turner. The texture of the novel is drawn from the vivid depiction of the Revolution and the social chaos that it produced.
Daniel A. Pepe's "'101 Romantic Ideas for Your Someone Special'" is a tremendous resource for both men and women who desire a better, more romantic nature to their relationships. Chock full of refreshing ideas to add romance, spontaneity, and new life to your relationship whether single or married.
Henrietta Boggs-MacGuire, originally from Birmingham, Alabama and now residing in Montgomery is the 1st First Lady of Costa Rica. Married to a Legend, Don Pepe is the autobiography of Dona Henrietta's life during her time in Costa Rica and marriage to Don Pepe Figueres, former President of Costa Rica. From a young student at Birmingham Southern College to the first, First Lady of the Second Republic of Costa Rica, Henrietta propels us into her life of adventure, marriage, exile, motherhood, revolution, and leadership in this remarkable memoir. It begins in 1940 when Dona Henrietta received a postcard from an aunt and uncle who had settled in Costa Rica after living in several Latin American countries. After falling in love with the postcard, the audacious young Henrietta started one of her many astounding life journeys, literally following the card to Costa Rica. The rest as they say, is history-literally.
"The objective of this study is to attempt to characterize the influence and impact of IFPRI in relation to the Mexican PROGRESA/Oportunidades anti-poverty and human resource program with its conditional cash transfers (CCT)—conditional on specific investments in education, health, and nutrition. The paper first describes PROGRESA/Oportunidades and estimates of the impact and benefits-to-costs of this program; then discusses the challenges in assessing the influence and impact of IPRRI on and through PROGRESA/Oportunidades; and then presents the information sources used in this study to attempt to identify the influence and impact of IFPRI on PROGRESA/Oportunidades including interviews wit...
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We are a shadow in the darkness. A whisper in the wind. So writes Elsie, looking at the world and her place in it with the angst-ridden intensity, confusion, hope, despair and naivety of a teenager giving her thoughts and opinions on the world as she sees it. With help from the literary greats, in these pages the eloquent young woman covers love, friendship, life and death, among other subjects, with the passion of youth and the earnestness of someone trying to work out who she is, what the future is, and what her part in that future might be. You are your own destiny, your own saviour and your own problem, use your life to find your own solution… --- Now in her early twenties, Doncaster-based Louise Kirk recently graduated from the University of Hull with a first-class degree in psychology. Louise currently works as a support worker for young people and adults with autism, and is also a befriender for the Alzheimer's Society.
When Karin Roth goes to Bogotá as an exchange student she quickly falls in love with the country and its people. Lively, attractive and opinionated, she soon has a wide circle of Colombian friends, and is studying and partying in equal measure. A trip to stay in a friend’s finca farm, however, awakens her to the beauty and grandeur of the Colombian landscape while an encounter with the strange, fair-headed El Mono – a ‘mountain man’ with a profound, near-mystical connection to the Andean people and wildlife – conjures deep, troubling emotions. Offered a summer internship in a top-flight multinational in Bogotá, Karen finds her loyalties are divided. Caught between the dazzling, c...