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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American ...

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American ...

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Mona Ruiz, a former gang member, became a police officer and, with the Los Angeles Times journalist Jeff Boucher, produced Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997). Ruiz not only renders gang life from the female point of view, but she  ...
One Upon the Throne and the Lamb: A Tradition ...

One Upon the Throne and the Lamb: A Tradition ...

Russell S. Morton

Recent Tradition Historical Analyses and Revelation 4-5 Jean-Pierre Ruiz Here we will focus our discussion upon Jean-Pierre Ruiz's 1989 book, Ezekiel in the Apocalypse}5 Ruiz pays special attention to Rev. 16:17-19:10 because it displays, ...
From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century ...

From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century ...

Vicki L. Ruiz

For this new edition of From Out of the Shadows, Ruiz has written an afterword that continues the story of the Mexicana experience in the United States, as well as outlines new additions to the growing field of Latina history.
Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz

Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz

Mona Ruiz

The author describes how she went from a gang member, married to an abusive husband, and on welfare to becoming a member of the Santa Ana police force.
Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz

Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz

Mona Ruiz

For use in schools and libraries only. The author describes how she went from a gang member, married to an abusive husband, and on welfare to becoming a member of the Santa Ana police force.
The Harmony of Nature and Spirit

The Harmony of Nature and Spirit

Irving Singer

Martin Morillas, Jose M. Ruiz Ruiz, Cayetano Estebanez, Francisco Garcia Tortosa, Leocadio Martin Mingorance, Barbara Ozieblo Rajkowska, and their colleagues. Toward Willis G. Regier, who guided my book as one of his first projects as ...
Odisea nº 15: Revista de estudios ingleses

Odisea nº 15: Revista de estudios ingleses

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This essay aims at observing the way Luis Rodríguez's Always Running (1993) and Mona Ruiz's Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997), memoirs ofgang members who have grasped education as a means of escape from their dramatic  ...
CMJ New Music Monthly

CMJ New Music Monthly

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Sniff Minty Fresh It's not surprising that Jim Ruiz namechecks the Housemartins, the Jazz Butcher and Aztec Camera on "Goodbye To All That," the eighth track on his band's second album, Sniff. Like those artists, the Legendary Jim Ruiz ...
Affordable Remodel: How to Get Custom Results on Any Budget

Affordable Remodel: How to Get Custom Results on Any Budget

Fernando Pages Ruiz

This book, as with all my endeavors, is dedicated to my beautiful wife and best friend, Deborah A. Pagés; my sons, Fernando and Alejandro; and my parents, Myrtha Elba Ruiz de Pagés and Fernando Pagés Larraya. ACkNOwlEdgMENTS Like ...
Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet

Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet

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Kristin McGee, celebrity yoga/Pilates instructor and trainer Martha “Pati” Ruiz Corzo —Martha “Pati” Ruiz Corzo, co-founder and. Of course I think humanity can find a way past the current global environmental and social crises. I believe in our  ...
Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics ...

Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics ...

Josephine Metcalf

Mona Ruiz, for example, was a member of a Santa Ana Latina gang. Her Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997) tells about her gang life and how she went on to become a member of the Santa Ana police force. She had made the ...
Colección de pintura

Colección de pintura

Museo Nacional de Colombia

... Jaqueline Ruiz Casallas Coordinadora de Exposiciones Itinerantes Luz Edilma Ruiz Casallas Curadora Jefe del Departamento de Arte e Historia Cristina Lleras Figueroa Asistentes del Departamento de Curaduria de Arte e Historia Ángela ...
Cuentos de la Generación de 1898:

Cuentos de la Generación de 1898:

Miguel de Unamuno

These 13 short stories by 5 authors of the era include 4 tales by Miguel de Unamuno along with the works of Valle-Inclán, Blasco Ibánez, Baroja, and "Azorín" (José Martínez Ruiz). nez, Baroja, and "Azorín" (José Martínez Ruiz).
Marina

Marina

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I have seen that boy wandering through the mist of the railway station, and the name of Marina has flared up again like a fresh wound. We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine.
Women's Travel Writings in Iberia

Women's Travel Writings in Iberia

José Ruiz Mas

Lisbon and the Pyrenees form the basis of this lively collection of firsthand accounts of travel within Portugal and Spain in the early nineteenth century.
Females in Gangs

Females in Gangs

Mona Ruiz

Female gang membership is on the rise and part of the next generation of offenders. Understand the phenomenon of why females join gangs as well as the necessary steps for intervention and prevention.
Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington

C. J. Ruiz

Arianna Huffington has become one of the most powerful people in the media today.
Marina

Marina

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

"We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine." When Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in Barcelona, no one knows his whereabouts for seven days and seven nights.
The Latin Americanist

The Latin Americanist

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Abel Escriba Folch Dictadores, instituciones y derechos de propiedad Alba E. dame/ v Manuel Angeles El trabajo femenino en el contexto de la reestructuracion economica mundial defines de sigh XX Jorge Fernandez Ruiz La deuda publico ...
Conflicted Boundaries in Wisdom and Apocalypticism

Conflicted Boundaries in Wisdom and Apocalypticism

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M.-E. Bois- mard, Albert Vanhoye, Jean-Pierre Ruiz, and others have argued that the harlot's purple, scarlet, gold, jewels, and pearls are modeled on Ezek 16 and 23,4 while John Court has proposed Jer 4:30 as a source.5 But such prophetic ...
Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research

Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research

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2002. Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmilan. Speed, Shannon. 2004. “ Luchapor la tierra: globalización e identidad: La etnohistoria yetnopresente de Nicolás Ruiz.
Cuban Journal of Agricultural Science

Cuban Journal of Agricultural Science

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R.O. Martinez and M.A. Menchaca 25 The effect of the grazing schedule and concentrate fractioning on the performance of Holstein cows. R. Garcia Lopez, R. Ruiz, A. Elias, M.A. Menchaca and E. Gomez 105 A study on the habit of selection ...

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