World of Books - Find your book here

Sonia Sotomayor: First Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Sonia Sotomayor: First Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Lisa Tucker McElroy

She travels to Puerto Rico once or twice a year to visit cousins and relatives who live there. June25,1954 1972 1976 1979 1979–1984 1983 1984–1992 1992 Sonia Sotomayor. FUN FACTS ABOUT SONIA SOTOMAYOR IMPORtant DatEs 40 ...
Who Is Sonia Sotomayor?

Who Is Sonia Sotomayor?

Megan Stine

The truly inspiring story of the first Latina Supreme Court Justice. Outspoken, energetic, and fun, Sonia Sotomayor has managed to turn every struggle in life into a triumph.
Sonia Sotomayor:

Sonia Sotomayor:

Zella Williams

Sonia Sotomayor is a truly inspiring figure. This bilingual edition presents her stirring story, from her early life in a housing project to her success at Princeton and Yale.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Analysis of Selected Opinions

Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Analysis of Selected Opinions

Anna C. Henning

Several weeks later, President Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor, whocurrently serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to fill his seat.
Sonia Sotomayor: A Biography

Sonia Sotomayor: A Biography

Meg Greene

This insightful biography introduces readers to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a remarkable woman with a single-minded pursuit of educational excellence, who rose from poverty in a Bronx housing project to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. * ...
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx/La juez que ...

Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx/La juez que ...

Jonah Winter

Before Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor took her seat in our nation's highest court, she was just a little girl in the South Bronx.
Sonia Sotomayor: The Supreme Court's First Hispanic Justice

Sonia Sotomayor: The Supreme Court's First Hispanic Justice

Richard Barrington

This book recounts the story of Sonia Sotomayor, the third female and first Hispanic associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and her journey from a housing project to the Ivy League and then through all three levels of the ...
Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of ...

Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of ...

Joan Biskupic

The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice Joan Biskupic. passive.” The Reverend James Sugrue, pastor of All Saints Church in Harlem, was quoted as saying, “We never expected this to hap- pen in this part of Harlem. It's not that  ...
My Beloved World

My Beloved World

Sonia Sotomayor

Here is the story of a precarious childhood, with an alcoholic father (who would die when she was nine) and a devoted but overburdened mother, and of the refuge a little girl took from the turmoil at home with her passionately spirited ...
Bill Gates: A Biography

Bill Gates: A Biography

Michael B. Becraft

... Biography Robert B. Broadwater Thurgood Marshall: A Biography Glenn L. Starks and F. Erik Brooks Katy Perry: A Biography Kimberly Dillon Summers Sonia Sotomayor: A Biography Meg Greene Stephen Colbert: A Biography Catherine M.
Sonia Sotomayor: Supreme Court Justice

Sonia Sotomayor: Supreme Court Justice

Martin Gitlin

Traces the life of the Supreme Court justice, from her childhood growing up in the Bronx to her achivements as a lawyer and judge, and her nomination to the Supreme Court.
Memorias de la ciudad de Lucena y su territorio, etc

Memorias de la ciudad de Lucena y su territorio, etc

Fernando José LOPEZ DE CARDENAS

rt ' D.Gazpar Alvarez de Sotomayor y Florez, 'I enienre Co. r'onel de Mili;ias,del Regimiento de Ezija: Don Miguel, y Don Gas'p'ar Alvarez' de 'Sotomayor , y Ru_eda (hijos ... aprtan en el Regimiento de Milicias -' de Bu]:rlauze:l). i'elagío Antonio García de Baena, y jurado, Capi¡ande Granaderos del mismo. D.Luis,- y Don Josef de la Carrera Alvarez de Sotomayor, Capitanes delpRegimiento de la Reyna.
Sonia Rykiel

Sonia Rykiel

Sonia Rykiel

Provides the biography of Sonia Rykiel, who celebrated forty years in fashion in 2008 and remains one of the world's pre-eminent designers.
Sonia Gandhi:

Sonia Gandhi:

Arun Bhanot

Arun Bhanot, Suraj Prasad Verma, Mahesh Sharma. Citizen. Sonia. The question of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi's citizenship is a strictly legal issue which deplorably is being given racist and xenophobic overtones. The Indian Constitution does not ...
Sonia Begonia

Sonia Begonia

Joanne Rocklin

Eleven-year-old Sonia determines to be a businesswoman and follow in the footsteps of her parents and elder brother but discovers that success in business isn't everything.
Cazadores de Cuerpos/The Body Hunters: La Experimentacion ...

Cazadores de Cuerpos/The Body Hunters: La Experimentacion ...

Sonia Shah

Sonia Shah describe con precisión estos atropellos, y se atreve a poner nombre y apellido a los responsables.
Commercial Law

Commercial Law

Alan Paul Dobson

In making the contracts of 10 and 12 November, Sonia is acting outside the actual authority given to her by Tristan, in that she has been forbidden to ... That is why it will become important to look later at Tristan's power to ratify Sonia's actions.
Commercial Law Q and A 2003-2004

Commercial Law Q and A 2003-2004

Taylor & Francis Group

In making the contracts of 10 and 12 November, Sonia is acting outside the actual authority given to her by Tristan, in that she has been forbidden to ... That is why it will become important to look later at Tristan's power to ratify Sonia's actions.
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

Sonia Shah

In The Fever, the journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer this question, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its influence on human lives.
The Unofficial Guide to Collecting Antiques

The Unofficial Guide to Collecting Antiques

Sonia Weiss

Sonia Weiss. The meaning of the word 'antique' is often confusing, overused, and rarely defined. — Frank Farmer Loomis IV, Is It Antique Yet? 99. classical decorative devices such as the Greek key and the urn. The American interpretation of ...
Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey into the Secret ...

Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey into the Secret ...

Sonia Faruqi

Sonia Faruqi, an Ivy League graduate and investment banker, had no idea that the night she arrived at the doorstep of a dairy farm would mark the beginning of a journey that would ultimately wind all the way around the world.
The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning ...

The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning ...

Sonia Nieto

In this 10th Anniversary Edition of her popular text, Sonia Nieto reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools.
Razones del profesorado para seguir con entusiasmo

Razones del profesorado para seguir con entusiasmo

Sonia Nieto

Sonia Nieto, una reconocida formadora de profesorado, nos acerca a lo que se puede aprender de docentes experimentados que no sólo continúan enseñando sino que además lo hacen con entusiasmo.
Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International ...

Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International ...

Sonia Cardenas

In Conflict and Compliance, Sonia Cardenas examines responses to such pressure and challenges conventional views of the reasons states do—or do not—comply with international law.
Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change: Assessing ...

Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change: Assessing ...

Preview

Government Human Rights Commissions in Africa (New York: HRW, 2001); Sonia Cardenas and Andrew Flibbert, “National Human Rights Institutions in the Middle East,” Middle East Journal 59 (2005), 411–36; Sonia Cardenas, “National  ...
When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life Under ...

When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life Under ...

Anna Shternshis

In pursuit of an answer, Anna Shternshis's groundbreaking When Sonia Met Boris draws on nearly 500 oral history interviews on the Soviet Jewish experience with Soviet citizens who were adults by the 1940s.
Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the ...

Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the ...

N. Couldry

... UK Sonia Livingstone London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Tim Markham Birkbeck, University of London, UK © Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham 2007, 2010. Media Consumption and Public Engagement.
Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope

Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope

Sonia Cardenas

Human rights in Latin America: a politics of terror and hope / Sonia Cardenas. p. cm. — (Pennsylvania studies in human rights) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8122-4197-6 (alk. paper) 1. Human rights— Latin ...

who called from an unknown number?