Author: Pat MoraPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618111441
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : es
Pages : 32
Book Description
A bilingual poem which describes some of the sounds of nature in a desert.
Listen to the Desert/Oye Al Desierto
Author: Pat MoraPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618111441
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : es
Pages : 32
Book Description
A bilingual poem which describes some of the sounds of nature in a desert.
Desierto es mi madre
Author: Pat MoraPublisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781558851580
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A poetic depiction of the desert as the provider of comfort, food, spirit, and life.
El Desierto / In the Desert
Author: Silver DolphinPublisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417633197
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : es
Pages :
Book Description
Vultures
Author: JoAnn Early MackenPublisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1433944499
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
A short introduction to vultures and their world.
Battles in the Desert & Other Stories
Author: Jose Emilio PachecoPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811225496
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Intense, despairing accounts of life in Mexico City. Seven stories depict harsh realities of life in urban Mexico and the tragedies of childhood innocence betrayed.
Sirena Del Desierto
Author: Alberto BlancoPublisher: Children's Book Press (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A desert mermaid living in an oasis seeks to save her people by rediscoveringthe forgotten songs of their ancestors.
Desert Blood
Author: Alicia Gaspar de AlbaPublisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611921168
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
It's the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the Chihuahua desert outside of Juárez, México, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants on both sides of the border. El Paso native Ivon Villa has returned to her hometown to adopt the baby of Cecilia, a pregnant maquiladora worker in Juárez. When Cecilia turns up strangled and disemboweled in the desert, Ivon is thrown into the churning chaos of abuse and murder. Even as the rapes and killings of "girls from the south" continue, their tragic stories written in desert blood, a conspiracy covers up the crimes that implicate everyone from the Maquiladora Association to the Border Patrol. When Ivon's younger sister gets kidnapped in Juárez, Ivon knows that it's up to her to find her sister, whatever it takes. Despite the sharp warnings she gets from family, friends, and nervous officials, Ivon's investigation moves her deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of silence. From acclaimed poet and prose-writer Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Desert Blood is a gripping thriller that ponders the effects of patriarchy, gender identity, border culture, transnationalism, and globalization on an international crisis.
Sahara
Author: Jil FineDesert Memories
Author: Ariel DorfmanPublisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1426209029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The Norte Grande of Chile, the world's driest desert, had ''engendered contemporary Chile, everything that was good about it, everything that was dreadful,'' writes Ariel Dorfman in his brilliant exploration of one of the least known and most exotic corners of the globe. For 10,000 years the desert had been mined for silver, iron, and copper, but it was the 19th-century discovery of nitrate that transformed the country into a modern state and forced the desert's colonization. The mines' riches generated mansions and oligarchs in Chile's more temperate region—and terrible inequalities throughout the country. The Norte Grande also gave birth to the first Chilean democratic and socialist movements, nurturing every major political figure of modern Chile from Salvador Allende to Augusto Pinochet. In this richly layered personal memoir, illustrated with the author's own photographs, Dorfman sets out to explore the origins of contemporary Chile—and, along the way, seek out his wife's European ancestors who came years ago to Chile as part of the nitrate rush. And, most poignantly, he looks for traces of his friend and fellow 1960s activist, Freddy Taberna, executed by a firing squad in a remote Pinochet death camp.
The Conquest of the Desert
Author: Carolyne R. LarsonPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826362087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
For more than one hundred years, the Conquest of the Desert (1878–1885) has marked Argentina’s historical passage between eras, standing at the gateway to the nation’s “Golden Age” of progress, modernity, and—most contentiously—national whiteness and the “invisibilization” of Indigenous peoples. This traditional narrative has deeply influenced the ways in which many Argentines understand their nation’s history, its laws and policies, and its cultural heritage. As such, the Conquest has shaped debates about the role of Indigenous peoples within Argentina in the past and present. The Conquest of the Desert brings together scholars from across disciplines to offer an interdisciplinary examination of the Conquest and its legacies. This collection explores issues of settler colonialism, Indigenous-state relations, genocide, borderlands, and Indigenous cultures and land rights through essays that reexamine one of Argentina’s most important historical periods.