Sonia: 769 books
by Laura Hickey, Arlene F. Lane, Sonia M. Schoenfield
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
A turning point for Libertyville came in the 1950s. The town was growing up, transitioning from a quaint farming community into a vibrant upper�middle class suburban village. Carl Cizek documented this change in a series of photographs. Recaptured today, the images offer a visual journey of a maturing town. .
The Art of Transition
Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2001
The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what...
by Sonia Beatriz Cabral
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Chat with Elizabeth Bishop: After being hosted at Casa Mariana and listen to many reports about the Elizabeth Bishop's by her friends called Linda and Jose Alberto, I decided to write a story about the writer for teenagers. As a way to captivate the public, the text has as backdrop a fictional story...
by Sonia Faruqi
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
A Globe and Mail "Best Book of the Year"
Two worlds collide when a mermaid and human man meet, plunging readers into a vast underwater realm brimming with adventure and intrigue.
The mermaid’s scales were bronze, and they shimmered like hundreds of pennies arranged close together....
by Sonia Kefer
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Your company's Vision statement is not just a grouping of words in a pretty frame that greets visitors as they enter your business. Each part of a company's Vision, the Value, Vision, and Mission statement are powerful statements of purpose each organization, just starting out or established, need...
Las hijas de Juan
Daughters Betrayed
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse...
“Her” Story
Tests, Trials, & Triumphs Women of Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This is a book about six women to whom life has presented hurt, pain, tragedy, molestation, and rape, but they did not stop. They believed there was more in life than the difficulties that had presented themselves. These women are from different walks of life, but they all believed God had greater...
by Marc Becker, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
In June 1990, Indigenous peoples shocked Ecuadorian elites with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week. Militants insisted that the government address Indigenous demands for land ownership, education, and economic development. This uprising was a milestone in the history of Ecuador’s...
Racial Revolutions
Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of pardos (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous descent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indians. In *Racial Revolutions—*the first book-length study of racial formation...
Battling for Hearts and Minds
Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973–1988
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2006
Battling for Hearts and Minds is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from the 1973 military coup in which he seized power through his defeat in a 1988 plebiscite. Steve J. Stern provides a...
Simple ways to step outside of your comfort zone
Letting go of an outdated life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Stepping Outside of your Comfort Zone; Comfort zones are a protection from the unknown. This 7 day program is about self-discovery. As human beings choices and emotions change in an instant. Despite these gradual and ongoing changes at times we may find ourselves stuck in set behaviors, lifestyles...
by Rodolfo Kusch, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922–79) to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an...
Reckoning with Pinochet
The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet’s legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America’s “dirty war” dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base. Hero to...
We Have Not Been Moved
Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A compendium of writings that detail the grassroots actions of social and political activists from the civil rights era of the early 1960s to the present day, this book reviews the major points of intersection between white supremacy and the war machine through historic and contemporary articles from...