Author: Alan Riding
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: mexicans, portrait, neighbors, distant
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1989-10-23
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0679724419
ISBN-13: 9780679724414
A study of Mexico - political, social, cultural, economic - by a journalist who was for the past 6 years the NYT bureau chief in Mexico City. With portraits of Mexico’s top leaders, about a nation whose stability is vital to our national well-being.
Author: Ph.D. Santos C. Vega
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, tempe, mexicans
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-02-18
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738570567
ISBN-13: 9780738570563
San Pablo was settled in the early 1800s by Mexican pioneers, also known as ?Tempeneos,? south of the Tempe butte. By the 1870s, Mexicans were vital to Tempe?s economical growth, assisting in the construction of the C. H. Kirkland and McKinney Canal and the Hayden Flour Mill, and with agriculture soon after the establishment of Fort McDowell. The agricultural field cultivated by the settlers of San Pablo is now Arizona State University?s main campus. Over time, the Mexican settlers of San Pablo were subjected to eminent domain and were dispersed throughout Maricopa County. To this day, the Me
Author: William George Rasmussen
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Keywords: border, angel, mexicans
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2007-09-07
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 141967367X
ISBN-13: 9781419673672
The whole NSA team is back; join Phil Bragg and the good guys in this exciting drama of Intrigue, Mystery, Terror and Suspense. Action abounds where the defenders of the nation are at work against the perpetrators of evil. What devious devices are used, what international assets are employed, what mysterious minds are at work? It’s all cloaked in subterfuge, crossing continents and oceans; all bent on death and destruction in the cities of the U.S. How do you uncover their workings and what remains hidden? Outcomes are rarely evident where events turn on the compulsive behavior of m
Author: Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: mexicans, thirteen, train
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2002-09-13
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802139477
ISBN-13: 9780802139474
Jimmy Santiago Baca’s brilliantly received memoir, A Place to Stand, earned him the prestigious International Prize and offered a keyhole view into the brutal personal history that shaped -- and continues to inform -- his raw, incisive voice. In C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans, he trains his hallmark lyrical intensity on the dark underbelly of addiction and takes us on an unforgettable guided tour of the darkest corners of a brutal, unjust world. C-Train is a heartstopping series of episodes from the life of Dream-boy, a young man who finds himself seduced, and later enslaved, by the siren
Author: Manuel G. Gonzale
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: states, united, mexicans, history, mexicanos
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0253214009
ISBN-13: 9780253214003
"Exhaustive and destined for controversy, this survey of the historical literature about Mexicans in what has become the United States is also a critique of the Chicano studies field. . . . In the end, Gonzales brings a bracing perspective to this epic story." --Publishers Weekly "A thoughtful, thorough survey of events in the history of Mexican-Americans, Chicanos, Mexicanos, Hispanos, and Latinos." --Kirkus Reviews " . . . Gonzales’s overview [takes] advantage of significant new scholarship on a variety of subjects over the past two decades; he incorporates that material gracefully in
Author: Andrea Mandel-Campbell
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Keywords: molson, drink, don, mexicans
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1553654064
ISBN-13: 9781553654063
Canada has all the makings of a global leader, yet it has opted to become a laggard, frittering away its jackpot of rich resources rather than building viable multinationals that are ultimately the countrys best defence in a globalized world. Andrea Mandel-Campbell interviews some of Canadas leading executives and behind-the-scenes movers and shakers to reveal the hidden challenges to Canadas global success and the perils of continued complacency.A lively and authoritative compendium of never-before-heard tales of Canadian companies abroad, Why Mexicans Dont Drink Molson is also a hands-on
Author: Ned Crouch
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Keywords: reference, shelf, code, culture, americans, cracking, mexicans
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-06-25
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 185788342X
ISBN-13: 9781857883428
From the workplace to the Mall, Americans and Mexicans come together as co-workers, students, friends, and neighbors. For any American who encounters some of the millions of Mexicans residing in the U.S?as well as travelers to Mexico, retirees contemplating a move, businesspeople looking to build U.S.-Mexico collaboratives?MEXICANS & AMERICANS: Cracking the Cultural Code gets to the very heart of our cultural differences and demonstrates what it takes to build a cultural fluency essential to success, on both sides of the border.
