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Par United States Commission on Civil Rights. 1979
Tells how and where to lodge discrimination complaints for reasons of race, color, sex, religion, and national origin. Also contains…
information on civil rights for the elderly, non-citizens, institutionalized or handicapped persons, and military personnel. Spanish languagePar Robert F Kennedy. 1968
An inside account of the Russo-American communications and the exhausting efforts of the president and his advisors to avoid war…
during an international crisis. Includes copies of some key documents and transcripts of dialogs between President Kennedy and Premier Kruschev. Spanish languagePar United States Civil Service Commission. 1977
Provides information concerning employment in the U.S. Federal Government. Reviews the "merit system" of hiring, describes the function of the…
Civil Service Commission, tells how to apply for federal employment and how job openings are filled, lists requirements for federal employees, and gives general information on salaries, promotions, work schedules, training programs, benefits, and other features of federal employment. Spanish languageCollection of 24 migration stories by Latin American authors, journalists, and academics. In one, a father never speaks of his…
time in the US. In another, a wife and her lover watch the 9/11 attacks on TV while wondering if her husband died in the Towers. Strong language. Spanish language. 2012Par Bob Woodward. 2020
The author of Fear: Trump in the White House (DB 91876) examines Trump's decision-making in the face of a global…
pandemic, an economic disaster, racial unrest, and more in the time leading up to the 2020 presidential election. Draws on hundreds of hours of interviews, personal letters, and participant records. Strong language. Spanish language. 2020Par Jose Antonio Vargas, Gabriel Pasquini. 2019
"Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called 'the most famous undocumented immigrant in America,' tackles one of the defining issues…
of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms. 'This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book - at its core - is not about immigration at all. This book is about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in the unsettled, unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like myself find ourselves in. This book is about lying and being forced to lie to get by; about passing as an American and as a contributing citizen; about families, keeping them together, and having to make new ones when you can't. This book is about constantly hiding from the government and, in the process, hiding from ourselves. This book is about what it means to not have a home. After 25 years of living illegally in a country that does not consider me one of its own, this book is the closest thing I have to freedom.' - Jose Antonio Vargas, from Dear America" -- Provided by publisherPar Darwin Pinto. 2013
The authors, award-winning journalists who start following Evo Morales as an agricultural organizer in the 1980s, share the unknown history…
of the former president of Bolivia. They reveal details from his childhood on the high plateau until his first term as president. Strong language and some violence. Spanish language. 2007Par Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford. 2021
"This bilingual biography for kids ages 8-14 follows the dreams and achievements of Raul H. Castro, who was the first…
Latino governor of Arizona and US Ambassador to El Salvador, Bolivia and Argentina." -- GoodreadsPar Alfredo Jalife-Rahme. 2020
Par David Jeremiah. 2020
"The book of Daniel offers some of the most vivid and descriptive portions of prophecy in all of God's Word.…
And through the instruction of world-renowned Bible teacher Dr. Jeremiah, Daniel's visions come alive like never before. For Christians of every generation, understanding the truth of biblical prophecy offers confidence and hope for the future. But that's not all--to know the book of Daniel is to open a pathway for dynamic, faithful living today." -- Provided by NLSPar Alfredo Jalife-Rahme. 2021
"Just as the 20th century was the era of the "oil/gas wars" that were part of the superpowers' geostrategic games,…
the 21st century is oriented towards the "global water wars" that have already begun in some areas of the planet, full of sea water and, paradoxically, where most humans are thirsty." -- Translation provided by NLSPar Enrique Del Risco. 2022
"|Our Hunger in Havana| is a book of personal memories of the 90s Cuban postwar period of peace that received…
the curious euphemism of "Special Period." In a tragicomic tone, the author describes and explains the debacle that brought cats and banana skins to the status of delicacies, pigs to that of urban pets raised in bathtubs, and the practical disappearance of public transportation, gastronomy, and alcoholic beverages. A national catastrophe told through the personal experiences of one who worked in a school, a museum, and a cemetery while trying to be young, free, and happy at the worst time in Cuba's history." -- Translation provided by NLSPar Sergio Ramírez. 2014
"Memory is also a sort of homage to the friends who have accompanied us throughout life, those with whom we…
share a table, books, travels and, in the case of Sergio Ramirez, revolution. In Juan de Juanes' vast map of memories, Ramirez traces the route that takes us from his beginnings as a writer, the triumph of the Sandinista revolution in his native Nicaragua, the Alfaguara Prize in 1998, to the awarding of the 2011 José Donoso Ibero-American Literature Prize, a few days before the suicide of the Chilean writer's only heir, Pilar Donoso. In the pages of Juan de Juanes, Sergio Ramírez tells us about memorable characters in his life, to whom he remained indebted, among others Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Augusto Monterroso, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Cardenal and Juan Cruz, his first editor and the starting point of this journey through Latin America." -- Translation provided by NLSPar Lydia Cacho. 2014
"In 2005, after publishing her book The Demons of Eden - where she denounced the very powerful men behind the…
a Mexican child pornography ring - Lydia Cacho became a target. Exactly eight months after the publication of the book, one morning as she was making her way to work, Lydia was apprehended by the police from the neighboring state of Puebla, and taken into custody during a nightmarish 24 hours during which she was tortured, intimidated and abused. In this chilling memoir, comparable to Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel, Lydia tells her story and exposes the horrific ways in which women - and young girls in particular - are abused then disposed of, while an oftentimes corrupt government simply sits and watches." -- GoodreadsPar Eduardo Lalo. 2019
"The winds are not random, even if they are a manifestation of chaos. I have decided to take advantage of…
them to "organize" this book that gathers a public activity apparently removed from the intimate writing workshop. None of these texts would have been written if someone had not requested them. The interventions of others created these interventions and opened for me an alternate stage for the rigors of thought. For many years, he was a studio writer, but this that the reader now receives is live writing, performance, singer-songwriter text. A writer bent on the discipline of brevity, he has produced an extensive book, which is nevertheless a collection of small pieces. The winds have engendered this daily life of letters and the winds, capricious and determining, have dictated the order of the texts that are grouped in three parts. All of them include lectures, columns, letters, pleadings and other materials, in a succession in which the chronologies have been altered. I thank readers (and, in due course, listeners) for their interest in and reception of this staged art of writing." -- Translation provided by NLSPar Leila Guerriero. 2020
"In this revised and expanded edition of |Strange Fruit|, Leila Guerriero shows us the most sensitive, vigorous and throbbing face…
of a profession that is going through difficult times and works the miracle of making us believe in the profession of journalism again. The articles collected in this book, written between 2001 and 2019, constitute a master class in journalism, show the world from a unique, intense and different perspective, and have the capacity to knock the reader out." -- Translation provided by NLSPar Vanessa Pérez Rosario. 2022
"Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her…
legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940. Pérez-Rosario situates Julia de Burgos as part of a transitional generation that helps to bridge the historical divide between Puerto Rican nationalist writers of the 1930s and the Nuyorican writers of the 1970s. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of de Burgos's life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico's peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Pérez-Rosario unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Julia de Burgos as they imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities." -- GoodreadsPar Maria Hinojosa. 2023
"There is no such thing as an illegal human being or an illegal immigrant. Maria Hinojosa is an Emmy award-winning…
journalist and was the first Latina to found a national independent non-profit newsroom in the United States. But before all that, she was a girl with big hair and even bigger dreams. Born in Mexico and raised in the vibrant neighborhood of Hyde Park, Chicago, Maria was always looking for ways to better understand the world around her and where she fit into it. Here, she combines stories from her life, beginning with her family's indelible experience of immigration all the way through the first time she heard her own voice on national radio, with truths about the United States' long and complicated relationship with immigrants. Funny, frank, and wise, Maria's story is one you will want to read again and again, and her voice will inspire you to find your own." -- Provided by publisherPar Gerardo Caetano. 2020
"Uruguay's uniqueness has been a much debated topic in the history of Latin America. This small country, especially when viewed…
between Argentina and Brazil, has often been perceived as a laboratory of unique experiences. In the colonial centuries, the border between the Portuguese and Spanish empires gave this territory a frontier profile that found continuity in the long dispute between its giant neighbors during the nineteenth and part of the twentieth century. This book, with all the rigor of historical knowledge, explains the main tracks of the Uruguayan past based on a careful selection of processes, events and actors that unfold over almost five centuries. It is a synthesis as honest as it is debatable, built from a critical and plural perspective." -- Translation provided by NLSPar Jos Fern ndez-Albertos, Gerson Damiani, Felipe Gonz lez. 2017
Un análisis lúcido y penetrante sobre la actual crisis de la democracia representativa. El modelo de gobernanza de las sociedades…
occidentales está en crisis. Los pilares básicos que sostenían las democracias representativas son cada vez más cuestionados por los ciudadanos que viven en ellas. Muchos votantes sienten que sus preferencias no son suficientemente tenidas en cuenta por los políticos, y se abren paso formas alternativas de canalizar las demandas ciudadanas. A su vez, los gobiernos se quejan de los cada vez mayores obstáculos y restricciones a las que se enfrentan a la hora de llevar a cabo sus políticas. Y los principios fundacionales de división de poderes, gobiernos de mayoría, y rendición de cuentas democrática, se ven erosionados. En ¿Quién manda aquí? La crisis global de la democracia representativa se recogen trabajos de algunos de los principales expertos que tratan de aportar luz a estos problemas, yofrecer algunas soluciones, organizados en torno a cuatro cuestiones básicas: ¿qué hace que los gobiernos sean hoy percibidos como inefectivos?, ¿por qué les cuesta a los parlamentos cumplir su papel representativo?, ¿cómo entender la creciente conflictividad en las relaciones entre poderes?, y ¿en qué medida la globalización afecta a viabilidad de la democracia representativa como forma de gobierno?