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Shake Your Assets: Dance and the Performance of Latina ...

Priscilla Peña Ovalle

Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen

Kathleen Rowe Karlyn

Jennifer Freyd, Michael Hames-Garcia, and Priscilla Peña Ovalle shared their expertise on key sections of the book. Priscilla also stepped in for a last- minute rescue with the illustrations, even though that last “minute” became hours. Michael ...

Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of ...

Amalia Pallares

... Culture Marci R. McMahon, Domestic Negotiations: Gender, Nation, and Self- Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art A. Gabriel Meléndez, Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands Priscilla Peña Ovalle, ...

American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century

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294–8. Elizabeth MacLachlan and Geok-lian Chua, 'Defining Asian femininity: Chinese viewers of Japanese TV dramas in Singapore', in Iwabuchi (ed.), Feeling Asian Modernities, pp. 155–75; Priscilla Peña Ovalle, 'Pocho.com: reimagining ...

Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom

Priscilla Peña Ovalle

This slippage—between Spain/Mexico and fact/fiction—remains so entrenched that even Joanne Hershfield's otherwise comprehensive research on Del Rio overlooks the complex racial-cultural relationship among Spain, Mexico, and the ...

Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video

Peter Alilunas

Michael Aronson, Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Daniel Steinhart, Michael Allan, Sergio Rigoletto, Sangita Gopal, Dong Hoon Kim, Quinn Miller, Masami Kawai, and Andre Sirois have made something really wonderful with the Cinema Studies ...

Chester 5000-XYV

Jessica Fink

When Priscilla's inventor husband Robert creates Chester 5000, a sex robot built to fulfill Priscilla's needs, no one foresees that Chester would have human emotions, or that he would fall in love with Priscilla.

The Journey Back

Priscilla Cummings

OTHER BOOKS YOU MAY ENJOY Al Capone DoesMyShirts GenniferCholdenko Blindsided Priscilla Cummings Buddy M. H. Herlong The Call of the Wild Jack London A Face First Priscilla Cummings The Great Wide Sea M. H. Herlong One ...

Infinity Ring Book 8: Eternity

Matt de la Peña

The New York Times bestselling series returns . . . and so does Matt de la Peña!

Last Stop on Market Street

Matt de la Peña

This energetic ride through a bustling city highlights the wonderful perspective only grandparent and grandchild can share, and comes to life through Matt de la Pena’s vibrant text and Christian Robinson’s radiant illustrations.

We Were Here

Matt de la Peña

Newbery Award-winning author Matt de la Peña's We Were Here is a "fast, funny, smart, and heartbreaking" novel [Booklist].

Música Tejana: The Cultural Economy of Artistic Transformation

Manuel H. Peña

Pena traces the history of musica tejana from the fandangos and bailes of the nineteenth century through the cancion ranchera and the politically informed corrido to the most recent forms of Tejano music.

Mexican Americans and the Environment: Tierra Y Vida

Devon Gerardo Pe–a

For a critique, see D. G. Pena and R. O. Martinez, "The Capitalist Tool, the Lawless, and the Violent: A Critique of Recent Southwestern Environmental History," in Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics: Subversive Km, ed. D. G. Pena ( Tucson: ...

Red Kayak

Priscilla Cummings

Soon, Brady discovers the terrible truth behind the kayak’s sinking, and it will change the lives of those he loves forever. Priscilla Cummings deftly weaves a suspenseful tale of three teenagers caught in a wicked web of deception.

Discerning the Voice of God: How to Recognize When He Speaks

Priscilla Shirer

—PASTOR STOVALL AND KERRI WEEMS CELEBRATION CHURCH, JACKSONVILLE, FL “Priscilla digs deep into Scripture and pulls out life-changing nuggets that bring people to a whole new level of understanding God's Word and ...

Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative

Priscilla Wald

DIVShows how narratives of contagion structure communities of belonging and how the lessons of these narratives are incorporated into sociological theories of cultural transmission and community formation./div "Priscilla Wald stunningly ...

Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the ...

Priscilla Pope-Levison

In this ground-breaking study, Priscilla Pope-Levison dusts off the unpublished letters, diaries, sermons, and yearbooks of these pioneers to share their personal tribulations and public achievements. The effect is staggering.

The courtship of Miles Standish, and other poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... that terrible winter, Letters written by Alden, and full of the name of Priscilla, Full of the name and the fame of the Puritan maiden Priscilla ! II. LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. Nothing was heard in the room THE COURTSHIP OF JULES STANDISH.

Vietnam Larry Graham

Priscilla T Graham

Priscilla T Graham. Dear Larry, You're the sweetest person I've ever known. I'll never forget you ever. Love you always, Diane Lovejoy the one and only Larry Graham, the Lover... Marie. 19.

The Women of Berkshire Hathaway: Lessons from Warren ...

Karen Linder

Richard Perez-Pena, “Washington Post Names Publisher.” New York Times, February 8, 2008. Harry Jaffe, “Katharine the Second.” The Washingtonian, August 1, 2008. Richard Perez-Pena, 2008. Harry Jaffe, 2008. David S. Broder, “ Farewell ...

Peace and Justice

Rachel Kerr

Hayner, Priscilla. 'Commissioning the Truth: Further Research Questions', Third World Quarterly 17/1 (1996). Hayner, Priscilla. 'Fifteen Truth Commissions — 1974 to 1994: A Comparative Study', Human Rights Quarterly 16 (1994). Hayner ...

Geometric Control and Non-holonomic Mechanics: Conference on ...

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Roberto Martine2- Villa, and Jos£ Antonio de la Pena, Editors, Representation theory of algebras and related topics 18 Raymundo Bautista, Roberto Martine2- Villa, and .i<>.i'. Antonio de la Pena, Editors, Representation theory of algebras 17 ...

Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with ...

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Priscilla B. Hayner1 I. Truth Commissions: An Overview ...Truth commissions can play ... Excerpted from Priscilla B. Hayner, "Fifteen Truth Commissions — 1974 to 1994: A Comparative Study," Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 16. no. 4,(1994), pp.