Author: Maria Hinojosa
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140296365
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Mexican-born journalist describes her rise to success in the world of broadcast journalism and explains how the birth of her first son, Raul, transformed her life.
Raising Raul
Author: Maria Hinojosa
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140296365
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Mexican-born journalist describes her rise to success in the world of broadcast journalism and explains how the birth of her first son, Raul, transformed her life.
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140296365
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Mexican-born journalist describes her rise to success in the world of broadcast journalism and explains how the birth of her first son, Raul, transformed her life.
Raul
Author: Anita Arbelaez Rosas
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1644266938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Raul By: Anita Rosas Raul has been disabled since birth. His family moved to America from Mexico when he was ten, in hopes that the American doctors could fix his legs. Raul’s first day at school was so traumatic that he dropped out. The school children couldn’t pronounce his name and they starred at his small legs. He was humiliated. A neighborhood girl befriends him and changes his life. He, in turn, grows to help other disabled children.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1644266938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Raul By: Anita Rosas Raul has been disabled since birth. His family moved to America from Mexico when he was ten, in hopes that the American doctors could fix his legs. Raul’s first day at school was so traumatic that he dropped out. The school children couldn’t pronounce his name and they starred at his small legs. He was humiliated. A neighborhood girl befriends him and changes his life. He, in turn, grows to help other disabled children.
Raising a Socially Successful Child
Author: Dr. Stephen Nowicki
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316516872
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
“A brilliant…and perfectly timed” (William Stixrud, co-author of The Self-Driven Child) book showing how parents and educators can help children master the nonverbal language of social connection and success We all want our kids learn the social skills they need to thrive. Yet many of today’s kids are struggling to connect, often with no apparent reason why. In most cases, the explanation is simple: a child hasn’t fully mastered the nonverbal language of everyday social interaction, like how to take turns in a conversation, how to respect boundaries of personal space, or how to tell whether a friend is feeling happy or sad. And yet, children aren’t taught nonverbal skills in the same formalized way they are taught reading and writing. Instead, they are expected to absorb these skills at school, home, and on the playground. But between the steep rise in screen time and the social learning lost to Covid quarantines and school closures, today’s kids have had fewer opportunities to learn the rules of nonverbal behavior. Fortunately, parents and teachers can help kids shore up these essential skills. In Raising a Socially Successful Child, Dr. Stephen Nowicki reveals how to identify the nonverbal areas where a child might be struggling, and equips readers with a set of simple exercises to help any child learn how to: Follow the rhythm of conversations Express and read emotions in facial expressions and body language Understand the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touch Sense a person’s mood based on their tone of voice And more Drawing on decades of research, as well as dozens of stories from across the country, Raising a Socially Successful Child is the practical guide to helping children master the nonverbal skills they need to succeed in childhood, and their adult lives.
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316516872
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
“A brilliant…and perfectly timed” (William Stixrud, co-author of The Self-Driven Child) book showing how parents and educators can help children master the nonverbal language of social connection and success We all want our kids learn the social skills they need to thrive. Yet many of today’s kids are struggling to connect, often with no apparent reason why. In most cases, the explanation is simple: a child hasn’t fully mastered the nonverbal language of everyday social interaction, like how to take turns in a conversation, how to respect boundaries of personal space, or how to tell whether a friend is feeling happy or sad. And yet, children aren’t taught nonverbal skills in the same formalized way they are taught reading and writing. Instead, they are expected to absorb these skills at school, home, and on the playground. But between the steep rise in screen time and the social learning lost to Covid quarantines and school closures, today’s kids have had fewer opportunities to learn the rules of nonverbal behavior. Fortunately, parents and teachers can help kids shore up these essential skills. In Raising a Socially Successful Child, Dr. Stephen Nowicki reveals how to identify the nonverbal areas where a child might be struggling, and equips readers with a set of simple exercises to help any child learn how to: Follow the rhythm of conversations Express and read emotions in facial expressions and body language Understand the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touch Sense a person’s mood based on their tone of voice And more Drawing on decades of research, as well as dozens of stories from across the country, Raising a Socially Successful Child is the practical guide to helping children master the nonverbal skills they need to succeed in childhood, and their adult lives.
God Above
Author: Duane Andry
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467081736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
It is said that space is the final frontier, but there is another. In many ways the two are related. Mankind on earth has yet to fully explore the actual final frontier. Indeed, mankind does not fully realize that it truly exists. Mankind is content with postponing the evaluation of this frontier, but the frontier is about to come to man and introduce itself. Its initial introduction came to the human, Andre. As a result of the introduction of a new kind of reality, Andre has embraced this reality and he is about to embark on a journey into the true final frontier. This frontier is beyond space, and even beyond time. Andre has opened his mind to a quest that will only be completed when he is introduced to the God Above. Accompanying Andre is a select group of individuals from two different worlds. Their assignment is to merge the best from these two worlds, with a mysterious mix of another, somewhat mystical, component that is not of either one. This is the quest that will take him to a point that is Beyond Reality.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467081736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
It is said that space is the final frontier, but there is another. In many ways the two are related. Mankind on earth has yet to fully explore the actual final frontier. Indeed, mankind does not fully realize that it truly exists. Mankind is content with postponing the evaluation of this frontier, but the frontier is about to come to man and introduce itself. Its initial introduction came to the human, Andre. As a result of the introduction of a new kind of reality, Andre has embraced this reality and he is about to embark on a journey into the true final frontier. This frontier is beyond space, and even beyond time. Andre has opened his mind to a quest that will only be completed when he is introduced to the God Above. Accompanying Andre is a select group of individuals from two different worlds. Their assignment is to merge the best from these two worlds, with a mysterious mix of another, somewhat mystical, component that is not of either one. This is the quest that will take him to a point that is Beyond Reality.
The Last Best Place?
Author: Leah Schmalzbauer
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804792976
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Southwest Montana is beautiful country, evoking mythologies of freedom and escape long associated with the West. Partly because of its burgeoning presence in popular culture, film, and literature, including William Kittredge's anthology The Last Best Place, the scarcely populated region has witnessed an influx of wealthy, white migrants over the last few decades. But another, largely invisible and unstudied type of migration is also present. Though Mexican migrants have worked on Montana's ranches and farms since the 1920s, increasing numbers of migrant families—both documented and undocumented—are moving to the area to support its growing construction and service sectors. The Last Best Place? asks us to consider the multiple racial and class-related barriers that Mexican migrants must negotiate in the unique context of Montana's rural gentrification. These daily life struggles and inter-group power dynamics are deftly examined through extensive interviews and ethnography, as are the ways gender structures inequalities within migrant families and communities. But Leah Schmalzbauer's research extends even farther to highlight the power of place and demonstrate how Montana's geography and rurality intersect with race, class, gender, family, illegality, and transnationalism to affect migrants' well-being and aspirations. Though the New West is just one among many new destinations, it forces us to recognize that the geographic subjectivities and intricacies of these destinations must be taken into account to understand the full complexity of migrant life.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804792976
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Southwest Montana is beautiful country, evoking mythologies of freedom and escape long associated with the West. Partly because of its burgeoning presence in popular culture, film, and literature, including William Kittredge's anthology The Last Best Place, the scarcely populated region has witnessed an influx of wealthy, white migrants over the last few decades. But another, largely invisible and unstudied type of migration is also present. Though Mexican migrants have worked on Montana's ranches and farms since the 1920s, increasing numbers of migrant families—both documented and undocumented—are moving to the area to support its growing construction and service sectors. The Last Best Place? asks us to consider the multiple racial and class-related barriers that Mexican migrants must negotiate in the unique context of Montana's rural gentrification. These daily life struggles and inter-group power dynamics are deftly examined through extensive interviews and ethnography, as are the ways gender structures inequalities within migrant families and communities. But Leah Schmalzbauer's research extends even farther to highlight the power of place and demonstrate how Montana's geography and rurality intersect with race, class, gender, family, illegality, and transnationalism to affect migrants' well-being and aspirations. Though the New West is just one among many new destinations, it forces us to recognize that the geographic subjectivities and intricacies of these destinations must be taken into account to understand the full complexity of migrant life.
Learning to Salsa
Author: Vicki Huddleston
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815704321
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Today the United States has little leverage to promote change in Cuba. Indeed, Cuba enjoys normal relations with virtually every country in the world, and American attempts to isolate the Cuban government have served only to elevate its symbolic predicament as an "underdog" in the international arena. A new policy of engagement toward Cuba is long overdue. —From the Introduction As longtime U.S. diplomats Vicki Huddleston and Carlos Pascual make painfully clear in their introduction, the United States is long overdue in rethinking its policy toward Cuba. This is a propitious time for such an undertaking—the combination of change within Cuba and in the Cuban American community creates the most significant opening for a reassessment of U.S. policy since Fidel Castro took control in 1959. To that end, Huddleston and Pascual convened opinion leaders in the Cuban American community, leading scholars, and international diplomats from diverse backgrounds and political orientations to seek common ground on U.S. policy toward Cuba. This pithy yet authoritative analysis is the result. In the quest for ideas that would support the emergence of a peaceful, prosperous, and democratic Cuba—one in which the Cuban people shape their political and economic future—the authors conducted a series of simulations to identify the critical factors that the U.S. government should consider as it reformulates its Cuba policies. The advisers' wide-ranging expertise was applied to a series of hypothetical scenarios in which participants tested how different U.S. policy responses would affect a political transition in Cuba. By modeling and analyzing the decisionmaking processes of the various strategic actors and stakeholders, the simulations identified factors that might influence the success or failure of specific policy options. They then projected how key actors such as the Cuban hierarchy, civil society, and the international and Cuban American communities
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815704321
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Today the United States has little leverage to promote change in Cuba. Indeed, Cuba enjoys normal relations with virtually every country in the world, and American attempts to isolate the Cuban government have served only to elevate its symbolic predicament as an "underdog" in the international arena. A new policy of engagement toward Cuba is long overdue. —From the Introduction As longtime U.S. diplomats Vicki Huddleston and Carlos Pascual make painfully clear in their introduction, the United States is long overdue in rethinking its policy toward Cuba. This is a propitious time for such an undertaking—the combination of change within Cuba and in the Cuban American community creates the most significant opening for a reassessment of U.S. policy since Fidel Castro took control in 1959. To that end, Huddleston and Pascual convened opinion leaders in the Cuban American community, leading scholars, and international diplomats from diverse backgrounds and political orientations to seek common ground on U.S. policy toward Cuba. This pithy yet authoritative analysis is the result. In the quest for ideas that would support the emergence of a peaceful, prosperous, and democratic Cuba—one in which the Cuban people shape their political and economic future—the authors conducted a series of simulations to identify the critical factors that the U.S. government should consider as it reformulates its Cuba policies. The advisers' wide-ranging expertise was applied to a series of hypothetical scenarios in which participants tested how different U.S. policy responses would affect a political transition in Cuba. By modeling and analyzing the decisionmaking processes of the various strategic actors and stakeholders, the simulations identified factors that might influence the success or failure of specific policy options. They then projected how key actors such as the Cuban hierarchy, civil society, and the international and Cuban American communities
Once I Was You
Author: Maria Hinojosa
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982128666
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"Emmy Award-winning NPR journalist Maria Hinojosa shares her personal story interwoven with American immigration policy's coming-of-age journey at a time when our country's branding went from "The Land of the Free" to "the land of invasion.""--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982128666
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"Emmy Award-winning NPR journalist Maria Hinojosa shares her personal story interwoven with American immigration policy's coming-of-age journey at a time when our country's branding went from "The Land of the Free" to "the land of invasion.""--
America Libre
Author: Raúl Ramos y Sánchez
Publisher: Raul Ramos Sanchez
ISBN: 0595426069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
In the second decade of the 21st century, as the immigration crisis reaches the boiling point, once-peaceful Latino protests explode into riots. Exploiting the turmoil, a congressional demagogue succeeds in passing legislation that transforms the nation's teeming inner-city barrios into walled-off Quarantine Zones. In this chaotic landscape, Manolo Suarez is struggling to provide for his family. Under the spell of a beautiful Latina radical, the former U.S. Army Ranger eventually finds himself questioning his loyalty to his wife--and his country.
Publisher: Raul Ramos Sanchez
ISBN: 0595426069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
In the second decade of the 21st century, as the immigration crisis reaches the boiling point, once-peaceful Latino protests explode into riots. Exploiting the turmoil, a congressional demagogue succeeds in passing legislation that transforms the nation's teeming inner-city barrios into walled-off Quarantine Zones. In this chaotic landscape, Manolo Suarez is struggling to provide for his family. Under the spell of a beautiful Latina radical, the former U.S. Army Ranger eventually finds himself questioning his loyalty to his wife--and his country.
Draw!
Author: Raúl Colón
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 144249493X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
“A wordless picture book celebrates the power of art and imagination.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Young artists will love this book, as will all children who know the joy of exploring their own imaginations.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “A strongly developed and executed account of a childhood fantasy, urging all young artists to dream and to draw.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A true celebration of where our imaginations can take us.” —Booklist (starred review) “A marvelous wordless adventure in which a bedbound artist takes readers on safari via his imagination.” —Shelf Awareness (starred review) Based on his own childhood, beloved and award-winning artist Raúl Colón’s wordless book is about the limitless nature of creativity and imagination. A boy alone in his room. Pencils. Sketchbook in hand. What would it be like to go on safari? Imagine. Draw… A boy named Leonardo begins to imagine and then to draw a world afar—first a rhinoceros, and then he meets some monkeys, and he always has a friendly elephant at his side. Soon he finds himself in the jungle and carried away by the sheer power of his imagination, seeing the world through his own eyes and making friends along the way.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 144249493X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
“A wordless picture book celebrates the power of art and imagination.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Young artists will love this book, as will all children who know the joy of exploring their own imaginations.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “A strongly developed and executed account of a childhood fantasy, urging all young artists to dream and to draw.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A true celebration of where our imaginations can take us.” —Booklist (starred review) “A marvelous wordless adventure in which a bedbound artist takes readers on safari via his imagination.” —Shelf Awareness (starred review) Based on his own childhood, beloved and award-winning artist Raúl Colón’s wordless book is about the limitless nature of creativity and imagination. A boy alone in his room. Pencils. Sketchbook in hand. What would it be like to go on safari? Imagine. Draw… A boy named Leonardo begins to imagine and then to draw a world afar—first a rhinoceros, and then he meets some monkeys, and he always has a friendly elephant at his side. Soon he finds himself in the jungle and carried away by the sheer power of his imagination, seeing the world through his own eyes and making friends along the way.
Latino Writers and Journalists
Author: Jamie Martinez Wood
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438107854
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Provides short biographies of Latino American writers and journalists and information on their works.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438107854
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Provides short biographies of Latino American writers and journalists and information on their works.