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The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the country's imagination. Since 2008, the UFW has lent its rallying cry to a presidential campaign and been the subject of no less than nine books, two documentaries, and one motion picture. Yet the full story of the women, men, and children who powered this social movement has not yet been told. Based on more than 200 hours of original oral history interviews conducted with Coachella Valley residents who participated in the UFW and Chicana/o movements, as well as previously unused oral history collections of Filipino farm workers, bracero workers, and UFW volunteers throughout the United States, this st...
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Interest in the postharvest behavior of fruits and vegetables has a history as long as mankind's. Once we moved past mere survival, the goal of postharvest preservation research became learning how to balance consumer satisfaction with quantity and quality while also preserving nutritional quality. A comprehensive overview of new postharvest techno
Complete with headnotes, summaries of decisions, statements of cases, points and authorities of counsel, annotations, tables, and parallel references.
A pesar de que sobre los moriscos de Granada y Valencia se ha escrito una gran cantidad de obras y se han tratado los temas con bastante profundidad, no se puede decir lo mismo en el caso de los moriscos de Aragon y del reino de Murcia; menos aun de un pueblo murciano. Es curioso, pero en Murcia existian en 2001 solamente dos libros de bolsillos que tratan sobre los moriscos. Al parecer esta especie de vacio historico es el mejor testimonio del desinteres de los historiadores en cuanto no sean fuentes y puntos de vista oficiales. Y termino con las palabras del historiador de la Universidad de Harvard, Prof. Francisco Marquez Villanueva, que escribio el prologo en este libro: "Govert Westerveld reempalma noblemente con su compatriota el arabista Reinhart P. Dozy para hacer justicia a realidades ocultas adrede, porque "la historia de Espana esta falsamente escrita, echando culpas erroneas a vencidos, calumniandolos."
The ultimate road map for landing your dream job, packed with true inspiring stories from more than sixty people who made profound changes in their lives and careers, plus practical advice from experts. “If you are ready to go for the life and the job you really want, Take the Leap is the go-to book for anyone making a career change” (Bobbi Brown). Take the Leap features inspiration and advice from game changers, rule breakers, and side hustlers who once stood where you are now, wondering if they should take a risk. They went from production assistant to million-dollar screenplay writer; attorney to surf instructor; mom to DJ; hairdresser to firefighter; real estate agent to award-winnin...