Manual of the vascular plants of Wyoming (Garland reference library of science and technology)

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Aptly Titled.......2000-03-25

Being an annual visitor to Colonial Williamsburg I was very thoroughly pleased with the extrodinary color photos of The Majesty of Williamsburg. This book is aptly titled and a wonderful addition to anyone interested in Colonial Williamsburg or 18th century America.

Their Majesties' Royall Colledge: William and Mary in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

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Their Majesties' Royall Colledge: William and Mary in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
J. E Morpurgo
Manufacturer: College of William and Mary in Virginia
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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The Sourcebook of Artists Designer's Edition 10: Design Elements for Interiors
Guild The , and Guild
Manufacturer: Whitney Library of Design
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ASIN: 0823065294

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Guild 10: Design Elements
Kraus Sikes Inc
Manufacturer: McNally & Loftin Publishers
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ASIN: 0688144160

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This book provides straightforward advice about species selection, tank setup, maintenance, and the best way to achieve breeding success.

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Bettas, Gouramis and Other Anabantoids
Jorg Vierke
Manufacturer: TFH Publications
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Labyrinth Fish: The Bubble Nest Builders

ASIN: 0866228977

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Hollywood Movie Songs is the fifth book in Marion Short's popular series about collectible sheet music, taking up where she left off in From Footlights to "The Flickers." This time she concentrates on movie music after sound took over. The golden years, from the dazzling Busby Berkeley movies of the 1930s to the present day, are presented in an exciting kaleidoscope of more than 700 colorful and dramatic sheet music covers from famous movies that feature photos of the world's most beloved film stars. The first section sets the stage for the new Hollywood that took on the challenge of adding sound to motion pictures, and follows significant trends from Al Jolson's first astounding declaration in The Jazz Singer, "You ain't heard nothing yet!" through each decade of increasingly sophisticated development. The second part features brief biographical sketches of 170 well-known film stars with a listing of their movies that yielded sheet music, and representative photos of each star on selected movie covers. This most requested book also includes extensive indexes of songs, stars, and movies, and a thoughtful price guide that will prove invaluable to movie buffs, nostalgia seekers, and dedicated sheet music collectors.

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Founded in Vienna in 1992 under the guidance of artist Robert Jelinek, the provocative art collective Sabotage Communications has just celebrated its 10th anniversary. Sabotage: Torments & Vices contains all the collective's local and international activities -- artworks that disturb, including social distortions and politicized goods -- brought together and published in this magazine/book for the first time.

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In this powerful and moving biography of one of the greatest labor leaders in the history of America, students come face-to-face with an inspirational man whose trials and tribulations echoed the struggles of modern America and whose courage, simplicity and faith changed agriculture in America forever.

Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each of the titles in the Library of American Biography series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times. This text focuses on Chavez, but also provides the much needed background of the farm workers movement, the formation of the UFW and the history of migrant workers in the U.S. This text incorporates the latest scholarship on Chavez’s life and times, but makes the story accessible to students in both survey and upper division courses in American history.

Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance (Texas Film and Media Studies Series)

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Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance (Texas Film and Media Studies Series)
Charles Ramírez Berg
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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ASIN: 0292709072

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"This book fills a void in bringing together Hollywood stereotyping and Latino self-representation in one study. With clarity and insight, Berg demonstrates why it is so important to take such an approach."

—Chon Noriega, author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema

The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady—these have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a century. In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of such images in U.S. popular culture. He also explores how Latino actors and filmmakers have actively subverted and resisted such stereotyping.

In the first part of the book, Berg sets forth his theory of stereotyping, defines the classic stereotypes, and investigates how actors such as Raúl Julia, Rosie Pérez, José Ferrer, Lupe Vélez, and Gilbert Roland have subverted stereotypical roles. In the second part, he analyzes Hollywood's portrayal of Latinos in three genres: social problem films, John Ford westerns, and science fiction films. In the concluding section, Berg looks at Latino self-representation and anti-stereotyping in Mexican American border documentaries and in the feature films of Robert Rodríguez. He also presents an exclusive interview in which Rodríguez talks about his entire career, from Bedhead to Spy Kids, and comments on the role of a Latino filmmaker in Hollywood and how he tries to subvert the system.

Tio Cowboy: Jaun Salinas, Rodeo Roper and Horseman (Fronteras Series)

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Good Read On an Interesting Cowboy

Tio Cowboy: Jaun Salinas, Rodeo Roper and Horseman (Fronteras Series)
Ricardo D. Palacios
Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
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Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer

ASIN: 1585445274

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One of the best tie-down calf ropers ever to come out of South Texas, Juan Salinas grew up on a 15,000-acre ranch near Laredo, with the finest of horses to ride and hundreds of head of cattle to practice on. He roped in Texas rodeos large and small from the mid-1920s to 1935. From 1936 to 1946, he followed the national rodeo circuit, competing from Texas to New York's Madison Square Garden. At the time, few if any other Mexican Americans competed in rodeo, and Salinas drew a lot of attention.

Salinas also operated his family's Texas ranch, where he ran cattle and raised prize roping quarter horses. In this account of his life and career, Salinas's nephew, Ricardo Palacios, recounts the many tales his uncle told him--tales of friendship with Gene Autry, going to Sally Rand's wedding reception, riding on the Rodeo Train, and sponsoring seven-time world champion tie-down calf roper Toots Mansfield. He also narrates life on the range, with his uncle riding across a pasture at full speed, gingerly holding the reins and a thirty-five foot coil of rope in his left hand while swinging the roping loop overhead with his right hand as he chased a three-hundred-pound calf for the throw.

The story of Juan Salinas is also the story of the people of Mexican origin who live on the ranches of the South Texas brush country. Strong, rugged, independent, and hard-working, they knew social and economic success that has all too seldom been chronicled.

TÃo Juan was the family cowboy, the hero, the rodeo star, and Palacios tells his uncle's story with warmth and admiration. In 1991 Salinas was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. He was also named Rancher of the Year by Laredo's Borderfest and won the Ranching Heritage Award given by the King Ranch and Texas A&M-Kingsville. In 1993, he was inducted into the LULAC International Sports Hall of Fame. These were, Palacios writes, "fitting tributes to a champion and fine additions to his collection of trophy roping saddles, silver trophies, and champion's buckles."

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Good Read On an Interesting Cowboy.......2007-05-16

Juan Salinas is not one of the better known cowboys in the history of rodeo, but he should be. He was and is a legend in South Texas. His great-nephew, Ricardo Palacios, does a good job of telling the Salinas story, although at times he races through his uncle's life. But it is also hard to cram 90 years of living into 200 pages.

The book offers a good overview of the world of rodeo back in the 1930s, but the book would be a better read for rodeo fans if more detail could have been given to the stories regarding Salinas' exploits in the rodeo arena. Salinas was one of the greats during his era, but was best known as a horseman and roping horse trainer. This would have been an interesting area to explore. Also Toots Mansfield was one of the all-time great calf ropers and was a close friend and traveling partner with Salinas. I would have enjoyed more information about this relationship.

The book also offers a glimpse into the Hispanic culture on the Texas border and these stories play a bigger part in the book that Salinas' exploits in rodeo. At time it seems there is too much effort to include every name that Salinas ever encountered or dealt with, but still some interesting tidbits.

Palacios deserves credit for making the effort to preserve his uncle's legacy and stories. Salinas was a great role model and hopefully readers will find inspiration in his story.

Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler (Ohio RIS Latin America Series)

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Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler (Ohio RIS Latin America Series)
Marjorie Agosin
Manufacturer: Ohio University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0896802302

Rita Moreno (Hispanics of Achievement Series)

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Rita Moreno (Hispanics of Achievement Series)
Susan Suntree
Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0791012476

Border Boss: Manuel B. Bravo and Zapata County (The Canseco-Keck History Series , No 1)

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Wondrously researched and informative.

Border Boss: Manuel B. Bravo and Zapata County (The Canseco-Keck History Series , No 1)
J. Gilberto Quezada
Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Wondrously researched and informative........2004-11-24

I simply could not believe what a gem of a book this turned out to be! The insight the author has for all the personal relationships behind the public eyes and the pictures that detailed the chapters were so marvelous I could not believe this has not been made as a starting point for ones research into the history of Texas. I highly recommend this book!

Famous People of Hispanic Heritage: Famous People of Hispanic Heritage Robert Rodriguez; Josefina Lopez; Afredo Estrada; Selena Quintanilla Perez (Mitchell Lane Multicultural Biography Series)

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Very educational!!

Famous People of Hispanic Heritage: Famous People of Hispanic Heritage Robert Rodriguez; Josefina Lopez; Afredo Estrada; Selena Quintanilla Perez (Mitchell Lane Multicultural Biography Series)
Barbara J. Marvis , and Barbara Tidman
Manufacturer: Mitchell Lane Publishers
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ASIN: 1883845297

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Very educational!!.......1999-04-14

Good for school instruction about diversity inUSA

Romance of a Little Village Girl (Paso Por Aqui : Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage)

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Romance of a Little Village Girl (Paso Por Aqui : Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage)
Cleofas M. Jaramillo
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0826322867

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Cleofas M. Jaramillo (1878-1956) grew up in northern New Mexico, and her memoir, originally published in 1955, offers a unique and engaging portrait of daily life and customs from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century. The story of her life in a prominent family steeped in the traditions of Old Spain takes us into village life of a bygone period. Jaramillo's vivid recollection of a time when tradition clashed with modernization and New Mexican cultures nevertheless came together to form a richly diverse society makes her autobiography not only the story of one woman's life but of changing lifeways on the edge of a new era.

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Prior to statehood, the Llano Estacado, the great plains of northeastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas, were colonized by Hispanic ranchers. Cabeza de Baca's beloved memoir of the era has been reissued as part of the Pasó Por Aquí Series on Nuevomexicano Literature.

A member of an old Hispanic family, Cabeza de Baca celebrates her Spanish heritage rather than the Mestizo culture embraced by later writers. She portrays the erosion of Hispanic folkways under American influence, but by recording a combination of oral narrative, autobiography, family history, recipes, and poetry, she has helped to preserve these unique expressions of Hispanic culture.

Documents the daily activities of Hispanic pioneers--buffalo hunting, horse breaking, sheep herding, preparing and preserving food, sewing, tending the sick, and educating children are included in this rich recuerdo, as well as stories of Comancheros, Tejanos, Americanos, and outlaws.

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tasty pioneer stories!.......2000-03-31

I adore this slice of life on the eastern New Mexico plains, the Llano Estacado. Cabeza de Baca is an amazing lady, and her childhood remembrances are well worth reading for history buffs, who've probably already enjoyed it, as well as for people who just like to know how people lived on ranches in this era.

All Rise: Reynaldo G. Garza, the First Mexican American Federal Judge (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas a&M University, No. 62)

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Somewhat disappointing biography of a South Texas legend

All Rise: Reynaldo G. Garza, the First Mexican American Federal Judge (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas a&M University, No. 62)
Louise Ann Fisch , and Reynaldo G. Garza
Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Somewhat disappointing biography of a South Texas legend.......1998-06-15

Reynaldo G. Garza is a giant in the political and legal history of Texas and is most deserving of biographical treatment. All Rise successfully recounts many of the highlights of Judge Garza's life and career. It ultimately disappoints, however. First, the author lacks the legal background necessary to explain the significance of many of Judge Garza's judicial opinions. Second, the book fails to fully introduce the reader to the biographical subject himself, leaving him portrayed as two-dimensional and leaving the reader wanting more.

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