Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in Changing America by Roberto Suro, ISBN 0679744568
Strangers Among Us is a lucid, informed, and cliche-shattering examination of Latino immigration to the United States--its history, the vast transformations it is fast producing in American society, and the challenges it will present for decades to come. In making vivid an array of people, places, and events that are
little known to most Americans, the author--an American journalist who is himself the son of Latino immigrants--makes an often bewildering phenom-enon vastly more understandable.
He tells the stories of a number of large Latino communities, linked in a chronological narrative that starts with the Puerto Rican migration to East Harlem in the 1950s and continues through the California-bound rush of Mexicans and Central Americans in the 1990s. He takes us into the world of Mexican-American gang members; Guatemalan Mayas in suburban Houston; Cuban businessmen in Miami; Dominican bodega owners in New York. We see people who represent a unique transnationalism and a new form of immigrant assimilation--foreigners who come from close by and visit home frequently, so that they virtually live in two lands.
Like other groups of immigrants who preceded them onto American shores, Latinos, as they begin to find a place for themselves here, are changing the way this nation thinks of itself. These are people who defy easy categorization: they are neither white nor black; their households often include both legal and illegal immigrants; most struggle toward some kind of economic stability, but so many others fall short that they have become the new face of the urban poor. Some Latinos endure the special poverty of people who work long hours for wages that barely ensure survival.Their children grow up learning more from their televisions than from their teachers, knowing what they want from America but not how to get it.
The Night the Wheels Fell Off: More Tales about Family, Growing Up, and Other Goofy Stuff
Mike Redmond returns with a follow-up to his Indiana bestseller Six of One, Half Dozen of Antoher. This time, on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday, the hilarious stories center on change. The changes you bring upon yourself. The need to embrace change. the need to count your change before you leave the drive-through window. Mike's detailed reminiscences and spot-on funny stories are sure to win him a new legion of readers, especially among those old enough to remember rotary telephones, black-and-white televisions, and ashtrays on airplanes.
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The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey, ISBN 1572702443
When Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is confined to a hospital bed, a friend brings him an assortment of pictures of famous historical figures. Grant is captivated by a portrait of King Richard III and wonders how such a sensitive-appearing soul could have murdered his own nephews to secure the British crown for himself. Grant reconsiders 500-year-old evidence pertaining to one of the most intriguing mysteries of all time. Who really killed the princes in the Tower of London? Josephine Teys answer to this question has fascinated readers since the books publication in 1951. This classic mystery has been ranked fourth by the Mystery Writers of America on its list of the Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. Fans of public televisions Cadfael or I, Claudius know Jacobis work and he is unsurpassed here in his rich reading.
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey, ISBN 1572702443
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EasyMount Adapter Plate for Large Screens, EZADP-02
- The EasyMount EZADP-02 expands the maximum bolt pattern for certain large televisions
- Increases vertical spacing by 5.5"
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- This adapter is necessary with the EZLCDP-02 for Phillips flat panel televisions 42" and larger.
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Servicing Series: RCA/GE Televisions by Bob Rose, ISBN 0790611716
Servicing Series: RCA/GE Televisions by Bob Rose, ISBN 0790611716
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America's Test Kitchen Live!: All-New Recipes, Techniques, Equipment Ratings, Food Tastings and More from the Hit Public Televisions Show
In this companion to "Cook's Illustrated's" #1 cooking show on public television, "America's Test Kitchen," readers step inside the 2,500 square-foot Test Kitchen just outside of Boston with host Chris Kimball. 26 new episodes launch in January 2005 across the country.
America's Test Kitchen Live!: All-New Recipes, Techniques, Equipment Ratings, Food Tastings and More from the Hit Public Televisions Show
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America's Test Kitchen Live!: All-New Recipes, Techniques, Equipment Ratings, Food Tastings and More from the Hit Public Televisions Show
In this companion to "Cook's Illustrated's" #1 cooking show on public television, "America's Test Kitchen," readers step inside the 2,500 square-foot Test Kitchen just outside of Boston with host Chris Kimball. 26 new episodes launch in January 2005 across the country.
America's Test Kitchen Live!: All-New Recipes, Techniques, Equipment Ratings, Food Tastings and More from the Hit Public Televisions Show
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Servicing Series: RCA/GE Televisions by Bob Rose, ISBN 0790611716
Servicing Series: RCA/GE Televisions by Bob Rose, ISBN 0790611716
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AXIS 255-202GOLD S-Video Connecting Cable (12 ft)
Designed for all S-video compatible DVDs, DBS receivers, VCRs, camcorders, and televisions, the AXIS 255-202GOLD S-Video connecting cable offers superior signal transfer and optimum low signal loss capability, making it the perfect accessory for your system. AXIS 255-202GOLD S-Video connecting cable 12 feet long Superior signal transfer & optimum low signal loss capability Designed for all S-video compatible DVDs, DBS receivers, VCRs, camcorders & televisions Permits full use of S-video separated...
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Children and Television
Television is often cited as a cause of violent crime or behaviour. Usually, this connection is made in the context of the behaviour of young people - as another way of blaming them for the broader ills of society. It is rare, however, for even a single reference to television to be included in the index of reports on juvenile crime. Television, it seems, is presented as an increasingly influential force in society, even though there has been scant discussion on how it really influences the behaviour...
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Measuring The Marginal Social Costs Of Transport
Many transport economists have for some time proposed marginal social cost as the principle on which prices in the transport sector should be based and, in recent years, their prescription has come to be taken more and more seriously by policy-makers. However, in order to properly test the possible implications of implementing pricing based on marginal social cost and, ultimately, to introduce such a system, it is necessary to actually measure the marginal social costs concerned, and how they vary...
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