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I Have to Live with Myself, and so,: A Personal Narrative

I Have to Live with Myself, and so,: A Personal Narrative

Armando Monroy

Before I was married, it would have been an offer I might have accepted. But now ? I thanked them but declined their offer. Howard Kirby Comes to My Rescue Somehow or other, Howard Kirby heard about me looking for a permanent position.
The Borders Within: Encounters Between Mexico and the U.S.

The Borders Within: Encounters Between Mexico and the U.S.

Douglas Monroy

Douglas Monroy, a noted Mexican American historian, has for many years pondered the historical and cultural intertwinings of the two nations.
The San Diego World's Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880-1940

The San Diego World's Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880-1940

Matthew Bokovoy

Douglas Monroy has written extensively on the fantasy heritage in his numerous publications; see Douglas Monroy Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier Cali ornia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) ...
The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint ...

The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint ...

Armando Maggi

Together these works, Armando Maggi contends, reveal Pasolini’s obsession with sodomy and its role within his apocalyptic view of Western society.
Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology

Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology

Armando Maggi

With this probing new contribution to the study of Christianity, Armando Maggi examines this dialogue, exploring how evil spirits interacted with mankind during the early modern period.
Preserving the Spell: Basile's "The Tale of Tales" and Its ...

Preserving the Spell: Basile's "The Tale of Tales" and Its ...

Armando Maggi

armando maggi is professor of romance languages and literatures and a member of the Committee on the History of Culture at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Satan's Rhetoric and The Resurrection of the ...
Geothermal Resources Council Bulletin

Geothermal Resources Council Bulletin

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The winners in 2000 were Armando Arciaga for the Mitsubushi prize, James Jumawan for the Century Drilling prize and Mochamad Thamrin for the GNS prize . Armando and James are from PNOC and Mochamad from Pertamina. Several of  ...
Social Work: A Profession of Many Faces

Social Work: A Profession of Many Faces

Armando Morales

A Profession of Many Faces Armando Morales, Bradford W. Sheafor. Nava, J., 296 Newberry, P., 200 Nixon, Richard M., 22, 45 Nkumah, Kwame, 312 North, C. C, 36 Nosow, Sigmund, 50n O'Connell, Brian, 346 Ohlin, Lloyd E., 105 Ortiz, ...
Uttering the Word: The Mystical Performances of Maria ...

Uttering the Word: The Mystical Performances of Maria ...

Armando Maggi

The Mystical Performances of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, a Renaissance Visionary Armando Maggi ... Borrowing from Lacan, de Certeau, and Deleuze, Maggi analyzes de' Pazzi's unique mystical discourse and studies how the Florentine ...
Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the ...

Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the ...

Douglas Monroy

This extremely accessible work uncovers the human stories of a dynamic immigrant population and shows the emergence of a truly transnational history and culture.
Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in ...

Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in ...

Douglas Monroy

In this work I proceed neither to dubunk nor to reconcile these contrary notions of the missions and Indians but to present a new and, I hope, deeper understanding of the complex interaction of the two antithetical cultures.
Working People of California

Working People of California

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Mission. Douglas Monroy EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Nowhere in North America was the labor of Native Americans more important than in California, first to the European settlers and then to the Yankees. In most other areas of North America,  ...
Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in ...

Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in ...

Douglas Monroy

'Thrown Among Strangers represents a notable attempt to reassess the forces that shaped California's society and culture during the region's formative years of growth and development spanning the period from initial Spanish colonization ...
The German Girl: A Novel

The German Girl: A Novel

Armando Lucas Correa

Based on a true story, this masterful novel gives voice to the joys and sorrows of generations of exiles, forever seeking a place called home.
Armando and the Blue Tarp School

Armando and the Blue Tarp School

Edith Hope Fine

Now in paperback, the story of a young Mexican boy living in a colonia (trash dump community) who takes the first steps toward realizing his dream of getting an education.
Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s

Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s

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... Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993); Douglas Monroy, Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression ...
In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and ...

In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and ...

Armando Maggi

As Robert Lamberton explains in Homer the Theologian (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), Neoplatonic readers such as Porphyry or Proclus " transform [ed] the [Homeric] poems into revelations concerning the nature of the ...
Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People

Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People

David Reimers

Armando C. Alonzo, Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734–1900 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998), 40–41. 61. De León, Mexican Americans, 19–22. 62. Gonzales, Mexicanos, 38–40; Nugent, Into  ...
The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical ...

The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical ...

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... Armando Rodrigues of Portugal, was officially celebrated on 10 September 1964. See Rita Chin, The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany ( Cambridge, 2007), 1–6. According to the Statistisches 262 • Rita Chin.
Armando Morales: Catalogue/ Raisonne, 1974 - 2004

Armando Morales: Catalogue/ Raisonne, 1974 - 2004

Raquel Tibol

This 3-volume set with nearly 2000 color plates covers the second phase of this important Nicaraguan artist?s career from 1974 onwards where he explores the human form with his series of nudes, and plays with surrealist techniques in his ...
La Raza Unida Party: A Chicano Challenge to the U.S. ...

La Raza Unida Party: A Chicano Challenge to the U.S. ...

Armando Navarro

In January 1974, CJ member Gary Garrison was arrested and charged with attempted bombing. Three months later, six young people died in two explosions that left a sole survivor burned and maimed. Vigil writes, "The Crusade's most ...
Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?

Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?

David Hulme

Also thanks to colleagues who provided specialist guidance on the analysis: Nicola Banks, Armando Barrientos, Admos Chimhowu, Sam Hickey, Heiner Janus, Uma Kothari, Fabiola Mieres, James Scott, Kunal Sen, Rorden Wilkinson and ...
Social Work: A Profession of Many Faces

Social Work: A Profession of Many Faces

Armando T. Morales

Timely issues that this edition addresses include the following: the events of 9/11 and their dramatic influence on human services in the United States; the United States involvement in Middle East warfare; the physical and emotional damage ...
The Immigration Crisis: Nativism, Armed Vigilantism, and the ...

The Immigration Crisis: Nativism, Armed Vigilantism, and the ...

Armando Navarro

Representing the three board members, attorney Jim Lucey said, “We're willing to do whatever it takes to preserve the Minutemen Project. This is all about Jim Gilchrist and his ego.”134 On March 6, Coe abruptly resigned from the MP board  ...
Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of ...

Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of ...

David Igler

According to Armando Alonzo's recent study, te- janos in the Lower Valley of Texas continued to hold small tracts of land into the early twentieth century, though these unirrigated tracts were "less conducive to successful commercial ranching.
The Italian Emblem: A Collection of Essays

The Italian Emblem: A Collection of Essays

Donato Mansueto

See Armando Maggi, Mentha e impresa rinascimentale (Ravenna: Longo. 1998). pp. 47-78; Jerry C. Nash. The Love Aesthetics of Maurice Sceve (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991); Paul Ardouin, Devises et emblemes d'amour  ...

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