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Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient ...

Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient ...

Denise Y Arnold

35–69. Eds. Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell (New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002). Courtesy of Sergio Chávez. From Sergio Chávez (2002:41). (Marx 1973 [1894], Vol. 3:337–38). So, for Marx, fetishism would seem ...
Handbook of South American Archaeology

Handbook of South American Archaeology

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These styles were categorized by Karen and Sergio Chavez with the Quechua term, "Yaya-Mama" (K. Chavez 1988; S. Chavez and K. Chavez 1975); Portugal Ortiz used the Aymara term "Pa'Ajano" (1981) as did Browman writing "Pajano" ...
Ancient South America

Ancient South America

Karen Olsen Bruhns

186 12.2 Site of Pucara, Peru (photograph courtesy of Karen Mohr Chavez and Sergio Chavez) 187 12.3 Kidder Temple, Pucara (photograph courtesy of Karen Mohr Chavez and Sergio Chavez) 188 12.4 Pucara-style figure 189 12.5 Recuay  ...
Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society

Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society

Leo R. Chavez

Janice E. Stockard & George Spindler, CSCA Series Coeditors, 2006 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Leo R. Chavez was born in Alamogordo, New Mexico. His family has a long history in New Mexico. Chavez is a thirteenth—generation New Mexican ...
The Short Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez

The Short Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez

Angelico Chavez

This anthology is the first collection of fiction published since 1957 by one of New Mexico's leading men of letters.
The migrant workers and Cesar Chavez

The migrant workers and Cesar Chavez

Jan Young

Describes the causes and events of the California grape picker's strike and the role of Cesar Chavez in its successful resolution.
La Conquistadora: The Autobiography of an Ancient Statue

La Conquistadora: The Autobiography of an Ancient Statue

Angelico Chavez

Fray Angelico Chavez has been called a renaissance man and New Mexico's foremost twentieth-century humanist by biographer Ellen McCracken.
Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez

Ginger Wadsworth

During the Great Depression, many people had to work long hours and were barely paid enough to survive. Cesar Chavez felt this treatment was unfair and worked to secure more rights.
Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez

Lola M. Schaefer

Simple text and photographs depict the life of Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American labor leader who achieved justice for migrant farm workers by creating a union to protect their rights.
Chávez: A Distinctive American Clan of New Mexico

Chávez: A Distinctive American Clan of New Mexico

Angelico Chavez

Following his ordination as a Franciscan priest in 1937, Chvez performed the difficult duties of an isolated back-country pastor, an army chaplain in World War II, and became an author of note, as well as something of an artist and muralist ...
I, Sami: 65 Years on the Road

I, Sami: 65 Years on the Road

Samuel Silverman

Sam Silverman's autobiography tells how a poor boy from Pinsk built a thriving business in Chicago; weathered two World Wars, the Depression, and the vagaries of fashion; raised a large, talented family; and made the force of his shrewd and ...
To Trap a Savage

To Trap a Savage

Dixon Green

Rina Jacobs was not only Hollywood's biggest star, but also was the mistress of Sam Silverman, the unscrupulous head of Trans-International films. Sam Silverman had fought his way out of a New York east- side jungle to finally emerge as ...
Recovering the U. S Hispanic Literary Heritage Series: ...

Recovering the U. S Hispanic Literary Heritage Series: ...

Angelico Chavez

This collection contains poems composed during the years 1925 through 1932 and gathered privately by the poet Fray (or Friar) Angélico Chávez of New Mexico who gained wide renown as an artist and man of letters.
Cesar Chavez: A Photo-illustrated Biography

Cesar Chavez: A Photo-illustrated Biography

Lucile Davis

Presents the biography of Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American labor leader who achieved justice for migrant farm workers by creating a union to protect their rights.
Who?s Better, Who?s Best in Football?: Setting the Record ...

Who?s Better, Who?s Best in Football?: Setting the Record ...

Steve Silverman

Who is the greatest football player of all time? Jerry Rice? Lawrence Taylor? Jim Brown? Such are the questions pondered by pro football writer Steve Silverman late at night (and during the day).
Cesar Chavez: Crusader for Social Change

Cesar Chavez: Crusader for Social Change

Brenda Haugen

Presents the life of Cesar Chavez, focusing primarily on his work organizing the National Farm Workers Association and working for improved working and living conditions for all Mexican Americans.
Radiology of Birds - E-Book: An Atlas of Normal Anatomy and ...

Radiology of Birds - E-Book: An Atlas of Normal Anatomy and ...

Sam Silverman

Sam Silverman and Lisa Tell This text and its companion volume, Radiology of Rodents, Rabbits, and Ferrets, are the product of 7 years of effort by the authors. I could not ask for a harder working, more conscientious, and organized co-author  ...
Love Suzanne

Love Suzanne

Glen Laws

Frank and Suzanne were holding hands as they walked down to the meadow. Suddenly, Suzanne broke loose and began running and skipping through the flowers. She would dart in and out around Frank as he attempted to catch her.
The Phantom Punch: The Story Behind Boxing's most ...

The Phantom Punch: The Story Behind Boxing's most ...

Rob Sneddon

ike Sam Michael, his friend and counterpart in Lewiston, Sam Silverman had knocked around the New England fight scene for decades. In fact, his first experience in boxing had been in Maine (Bath, to be exact), in 1930. Silverman, a student ...
Recreating the Rhône: nature and technology in France since ...

Recreating the Rhône: nature and technology in France since ...

Sara B. Pritchard

... Karin Ellison, Martina Kaup, Ari Kelman, Matthew Klingle, Neil Maher, Betsy Mendohlson, Suzanne Moon, Linda Nash, Jared Orsi, Karen Oslund, Adam Rome, Josh Silverman, Adam Sowards, Ellen Stroud, Greg Summers, Joseph Taylor, ...
Cesar Chavez: Champion of Workers

Cesar Chavez: Champion of Workers

Tyler Schumacher

"A brief introduction to the life of Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American activist who founded the first successful farm workers' union in the United States"--Provided by publisher.
César Chávez

César Chávez

Elizabeth Hudson-Goff

Elizabeth Hudson-Goff, Kerri O'Hern, Jonatha A. Brown. Chávez began to believe that farm workers did not have to live in terrible conditions. They could organize and work together. Poor people could change their own lives! In i952, the CSO ...
The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez: Crossing ...

The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez: Crossing ...

Luis D. Leon

The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez: Crossing Religious Borders maps and challenges many of the mythologies that surround the late iconic labor leader.
Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca

Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca

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The YatjoMama Religious Tradition as an Antecedent of Tiwanaku, Sergio Chavez 3,1; Map concept by Karen and Sergio Chavez, drawn by Sue Cary, Melissa Nethery, and Jennifer Shonrz; 3.2-4^ Drawings and photos by Karen and Sergio ...
Border Lives: Fronterizos, Transnational Migrants, and ...

Border Lives: Fronterizos, Transnational Migrants, and ...

Sergio Chávez

In Border Lives, Sergio Chávez moves past Tijuana's notorious image as a hub of sex, drugs, and crime to tell the story of the diverse group of individuals who use both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border as a resource to construct their ...
Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes

Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes

Juan Felipe Herrera

In this volume: Adelina Otero-Warren, Bernardo de Galvez, Cesar Chavez, David Farragut, Dennis Chavez, Desi Arnaz, Dolores Huerta, Ellen Ochoa, Helen Rodríguez Trías, Hero Street USA, Ignacio Lozano, Jaime Escalante, Joan Baez, Judy Baca, ...
Suzanne Somers' Eat Great, Lose Weight: Eat All the Foods ...

Suzanne Somers' Eat Great, Lose Weight: Eat All the Foods ...

Suzanne Somers

No one knows the self-denial--and the failure rate--of dieting better than Suzanne Somers.
The Handbook of Style: Expert Fashion and Beauty Advice

The Handbook of Style: Expert Fashion and Beauty Advice

Francine Maroukian

by Suzanne Williamson Pollak of Suzanne Pollak Designs Inc. Suzanne Williamson Pollak has crossed the country lecturing on topics ranging from business etiquette to entertaining and wedding planning. The former interior design ...
Good Girls Don't Get Fat

Good Girls Don't Get Fat

Robyn Silverman

Based on Dr. Robyn Silverman's groundbreaking research at Tufts University, and filled with searingly honest young voices, Good Girls Don't Get Fat: – Decodes the ripple effects of actions that damage our girls—and provides tools to ...

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