Essentials of bacterial physiology

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Since its creation in 1973, the award-winning Moon Handbooks series has become a top choice among travelers who want a completely unique experience, a new perspective -- and a few new stories to tell. Want to know about your destination's history, culture, and social issues? Looking for the lowdown on recreational opportunities, dining and accommodations options, and the most interesting regional sights and entertainment? No problem. Big or small, mainstream or obscure, every worthwhile detail is included in these books. Moon Handbooks: New Zealand highlights outdoor activities, like rafting, fishing, caving, and skiing, and provides fascinating local history and tips on Kiwi phrases. Beautiful color photos, illustrations and helpful maps are included. "You won't have to inquire about where to eat ... stay or what to see or do with this complete guide." -- Los Angeles Times

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Used 4 yrs ago- will not go again without it.......1998-08-15

A must for traveling and truly enjoying the people and countryside. Details of out-of-the-way places as well as the city life. Able to get around without driving (on the wrong side of the road). Will long remember all of the friendly people and the cleanliness of cities and countryside.

informative and resourseful.......1998-02-17

This book is great for backpackers and students. It is also helpful members of Hostelling International and VIP backpackers. It explains the cheapest way to travel and the must sees in New Zealand

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Moon New Zealand (Moon Handbooks)
Andrew Hempstead
Manufacturer: Avalon Travel Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

New Zealand | Australia & South Pacific | Travel | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 1566917166

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Australia native Andrew Hempstead knows the best way to experience nearby New Zealand, from kayaking through the Bay of Island and skiing in the Southern Alps to sampling a glass of vino at a local wine tasting. Hempstead includes unique trip ideas such as Maori Culture and History and Tramping Through New Zealand. Packed with information on dining, transportation, and accommodations, Moon New Zealand has lots of options for a range of travel budgets. Every Moon guidebook includes recommendations for must-see sights and many area, regional, and city-centered maps. Complete with details on enjoying the land with children, fine-dining in Auckland, and rafting near Queenstown, Moon New Zealand gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience. With expert writers, first-rate strategic advice, and an essential dose of humor, Moon guidebooks are the cure for the common trip.

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This book is a photographic recreation of pivotal moments in the Battle of Gettysburg. Modern battlefield photographs, reenactor images and computer graphics details yield a uniquely realilstic, time-machine-like portrayal of Pickett's charge.

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a Killer Angel's picture book.......2003-08-20

if you liked the Killer Angels then you'll like this book the battle information isn't to indepth which allows even novice Civil War buffs to enjoy it and though some of the things in the pictures look kind of corny overall they look very stunning.

An amazing book, a fascinating read!.......2003-06-28

Having recently visited Gettysburg, I picked up Clasby's reconstruction of the fateful battle and found this to be an amazing book. Starting from the disastrous Union rout at Chancellorsville, Clasby takes us through the reasoning that led Robert Lee on his invasion of the North. In part, Lee was overly confident after repeated Confederate battlefield victories. More importantly, he was driven to desperate measures by the knowledge that Grant's Army of the Tennessee was on the point of seizing Vicksburg and sundering the Confederacy, making the ultimate outcome of the Civil War a foregone conclusion in favor of the Union. In many ways, Lee's bold drive into Maryland and Pennsylvania was strategically brilliant given his dire circumstances. This final throw of the dice was doomed however with Lee's commanders, especially J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry, letting him down at key times and Lee himself making critical errors at Gettysburg. Clasby's reconstruction of the battle, from the gathering of the forces, to the opening skirmishes west of Gettysburg, right to the bloody climax of Pickett's fateful charge is excellently told. The heart of the book however is a series of over a dozen large computer-manipulated photographs. Starting with present-day digital photos of key battleground sites, software was used to edit out all traces of present day structures like bridges, modern roads, railway lines etc. The edited images were then populated with photographs of Union and Confederate re-enactors to simulate actual scenes of fighting. The result is startling to say the least, as one views what appear to be actual battle photographs. However the pristine condition of the green grass (almost like mowed lawns!) and the absence of blood and gore, to say nothing of torn up earth, makes the pictures resemble stylized paintings or video game imagery rather than reconstructed reality. Towards the end, I found the photographs to be more a distraction, even an annoyance, rather than an aid to understanding. In fact, Clasby would have done better to include maps of the region along with his re-telling of the battle. The only map is the battlefield tour of Gettysburg offered by the National Park Service! Civil war buffs and all who remember Abraham Lincoln's immortal words at the Gettysburg cemetery after the battle will find this book a fascinating read.

A unique look at a great Civil War battle.......2003-05-23

Considering the extraordinary number of books published about the American Civil War, it is unusual when some previously unexplored niche is found by yet another new volume. But Robert Clasby's "Gettysburg: You Are There" is such a work. The heart of Clasby's book is formed by 15 photographs, 15 large computer enhanced and mainipulated images. In each case Clasby started with a modern photograph of a key combat site during the Gettysburg battle, ranging from Buford's defensive action on McPherson Ridge to the Angle of the third day's fighting. He then, with computer graphics, subtracted away or covered up post-battle clutter - monuments, roads, buildings - and then meticulously added photographs of reenactors taken upon many occasions, building up a reconstruction of what the fighting would have looked like in 1863: lines of battle, artillery batteries, dead soldiers in the fields. It's as close a photograph approach to depicting actual combat during the Gettysburg battle as anyone has yet achieved. I will not claim that the end results would be readily mistaken for something shot from the window of a time machine - the uniforms are too neat and clean, the flags too crisp, the smoke too sparse, the grass too green, plowed ground too untrampled. Overall, the impact is perhaps one of exceptionally good graphics from a new Civil War computer game rather than actual battlefield combat photography, but Clasby's efforts have produced something nonetheless worth looking at. Given National Park Service restrictions, it is unlikely that we will otherwise ever see hordes of musket-firing reenactors amidst the rocks of the Devils Den.

Being a student of the 14th Connecticut Infantry, a regiment which defended the stretch of stone wall immediately north of the Angle during the July 3rd charge, I was pleased to see two of Clasby's photographs showing that position, including one quite literally from over the shoulders of the Connecticut men towards the advancing Confederates.

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Book written by a UK breeder of shelties.......1996-01-23

Not a bad book, but emphasis is on the British version of the sheltie, which is different than the American sheltie.

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Shetland Sheepdogs, Today -
Maurice Baker -
Manufacturer: Ringpress Publishing -
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O0C8X8

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With stunning illustrations from the Royal Horticultural Society's Lindley Library collection and concise text by Royal Horticultural Society archivist Dr. Brent Elliott, Flora tell the fascinating story of the worldwide botanical exploration undertaken over the past 500 years.

Founded in 1804, the RHS led the way in sending collectors around the world in search of new floral species, fostering the domestic cultivation of the garden flowers we know and love today. In the process the RHS has built an unrivaled collection of stunning artworks and rare books covering five centuries of plant history. The Society's Lindley Library is one of the world's finest horticulture archives, containing more than 250,000 paintings, illustrations and rare books.

The illustrations in Flora, many by the great names in botanical art, are notable not only for their historical value in charting the development of garden flowers, but also for their indisputable beauty and artistic merit. Flora is divided into six geographical sections: Europe; Middle East; Southern & Tropical Africa; Australasia & The Pacific; The Americas; and Asia. Biographies of the botanists and artists are also included.

The history of botanical illustration is long and broad. Today, the art is undergoing a renaissance: botanical illustrations are found on everything from greeting cards to wallpaper to expensive original artworks. This spectacular collection of Royal Horticultural Society illustrations will capture the attention of gardeners and art lovers alike.

Botanical Art. (Topical Reviews: Biology).: An article from: American Scientist

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Botanical Art. (Topical Reviews: Biology).: An article from: American Scientist
James J. White
Manufacturer: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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FLORA. An Illustrated History of the Garden Flower. With a Preface by Sir Simon Hornby.

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FLORA. An Illustrated History of the Garden Flower. With a Preface by Sir Simon Hornby.
Brent: Elliott
Manufacturer: Pan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000W31ARC

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Introducing tile and stone into the home gives designers and homeowners an artistic medium like no other. Reclaimed, antique terra-cotta tile can transform a high-rise city kitchen into a French countryside retreat. Italian mosaic tiles hand-assembled in geometric borders and colorful murals can turn an ordinary bathroom into an oasis of luxury.

This book traces the latest designs using tile, stone, and mosaic. Through beautiful photography and illustrative text, installations for every room in the house-kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, and more-are presented. Renowned designers and tile manufacturers from around the world share their exquisite creations.

In this high-tech world, tile, stone, and mosaics can fulfill our innate desire for tactile design. With these materials, we can create homes that are sensual places where the feel of cool stone beneath bare feet is as important as its deep, rich color or how the sunshine illuminates it.

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-Turn an ordinary bathroom into a wonderfully decorated retreat usingcolor and paint.

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Great ideas.......2007-02-01

What a great book to have for ideas for the bath. You get a lot more than what you'd get with just a magazine.

Mosaic: Home Decorating With Mosaic (Inspirations)

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Mosaic: Home Decorating With Mosaic (Inspirations)
Helen Baird
Manufacturer: Southwater Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Mosaic | Other Media | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 184215012X

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Decorating with Mosaics
hard to recommend this one

Decorating with Mosaics
Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell
Manufacturer: Collins & Brown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1855857219

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Although more-experienced mosaicists will want to look elsewhere, Decorating with Mosaics offers a decent introduction to the craft. Clear color photos illustrate every step of the directions, as well as the finished product. Utilizing shards of china and ceramic tiles with the occasional array of seashells or terra cotta, projects include bowls, plates, flowerpots, boxes, a small table, a birdbath, and a bathroom backsplash. The designs are not exceptional nor are the colors especially exciting, but the presentation is less intimidating than more-advanced guides and should prove helpful to the novice. --Amy Handy

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Mosaic artists of any skill level will want to try these 20 unique mosaic projects, which include furniture and home designs, mosaics for the garden, and gifts and accessories. Clear instructions and step-by-step photos ensure that even the beginner finds success. Experienced mosaic artists will be intrigued by the use of paper-mache, colored grout, and other innovative ideas not explored in other mosaic books.

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Decorating with Mosaics.......2000-02-05

This book is great for the begginer such as myself. Pleanty of ideas to try, and also the start of designing something on your own. I looked at several other books on mosaics, and found them interesting , however, for the begginer and/or the craft person who dosent need to know the why's and wherefores, these other books, I found, were for the art student, or perhaps art teacher. For someone who wants to learn how to do mosaics in her/his home for the FUN of crafting, this book answered my questions, and gave me the oportunity to make some very wonderful mosaics projects! My friends are asking me to make some projects for them. What better compliment can one have! Thank you.

hard to recommend this one.......1999-12-15

Besides being a mosaic artist, I am a collector of mosaic books (more than a dozen in all) and I can't recommend this book. Not only have you seen these projects executed in a more interesting fashion in other books, the technique (what technique?) is really poor. If you follow it, you will get poor results. Buy Cheek, Goodwin, Dierks or Biggs/Hunkin instead. They are mosaicists.

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TOO MUCH

This book will not surprise you

Fundamental

This is not old at all.

New York 1954.55
William Klein
Manufacturer: Dewi Lewis Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
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A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005

ASIN: 1899235256

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TOO MUCH.......2001-06-06

While the content of the photographs is timeless and Kleins genius evident, I still found myself disapointed with this book. The problem is the layout. All the images are full bleeds covering every inch of paper. This means lots of cropping, no borders,absolutely no "breathing space" for any of the images, and of course the book's center seam running thru all the pictures. If the intent of this layout was to further emphasize the claustrophobic feeling of NYC then the publishers have succeeded . I found it tedious and I am sorry I purchased it.

This book will not surprise you.......2000-05-14

I wish some innovative design could give a second chance to this book. These pictures look so common, now. The layout of the book is also so common that you feel you are reading a year book from Time-Life 1960. Yes, all this might have looked revolutionary in the 50's. To-day, you will buy this book because it will remind you of some place or some time that is important to you.

Fundamental.......2000-01-11

Fundamental book on photography. No more needed to say

This is not old at all........1999-02-13

I can't believe that this book was published such a long ago. It's not old at all. It's very new!! His work is eternal.

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New York 1954/55
William Klein
Manufacturer: Lunwerg Editores
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Differential equations with approximate and improper data: Lecture [given at] New York University, Fall 1954-55

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Differential equations with approximate and improper data: Lecture [given at] New York University, Fall 1954-55
Fritz John
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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New York 1954.55
William Klein
Manufacturer: Dewi Lewis
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J2SCQI

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Theatre World (1954-55)

Manufacturer: Greenberg
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000DIMG7O

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This is the Theatre Worlds complete pictorial, informational, and statistical yearbook of the 1954-55 New York theatrical season.

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Both Hollywood and corporate America are taking note of the marketing power of the growing Latino population in the United States. And as salsa takes over both the dance floor and the condiment shelf, the influence of Latin culture is gaining momentum in American society as a whole. Yet the increasing visibility of Latinos in mainstream culture has not been accompanied by a similar level of economic parity or political enfranchisement. In this important, original, and entertaining book, Arlene Dávila provides a critical examination of the Hispanic marketing industry and of its role in the making and marketing of U.S. Latinos.
Dávila finds that Latinos' increased popularity in the marketplace is simultaneously accompanied by their growing exotification and invisibility. She scrutinizes the complex interests that are involved in the public representation of Latinos as a generic and culturally distinct people and questions the homogeneity of the different Latino subnationalities that supposedly comprise the same people and group of consumers. In a fascinating discussion of how populations have become reconfigured as market segments, she shows that the market and marketing discourse become important terrains where Latinos debate their social identities and public standing.

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The best new work in media studies is from an anthropologist.......2001-12-09

Why are Latinos at the center of a pop-culture phenomenon in the United States? Arlene Davila argues it is not do to their rapid population growth, but the growth of their media image thanks to aggressive marketing and commercial advertising. Her second book to explore the commodification of Hispanic cultures, Latinos Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People, is a detailed analysis of the abundant images targeting Latino populations in the U.S., the worldviews of the executives who manufacture those images, and the clients who buy them. Davila seeks to explore the mechanics by which a population, situated in the midst of economic globalization, becomes a market.

Davila conducts her fieldwork in several New York City ad agencies managed by Latinos and whose principal interest is to target Latinos. Her technique includes interviews with executives and creatives, and participant observation at national marketing conventions. There is also some use of focus groups to examine the folk perceptions of these propagated images among individuals of different Hispanic nationalities.

The author questions in whose interest these commercials are being made, for ultimately they serve the ad client and not Latinidad. She concludes "the commercial representation of U.S. Latinos has sustained particular hierarchies of representation that are indicative of wider dynamics affecting contemporary Latino cultural politics" (p.20). Her work is sweeping in its scope, hence my review is limited to the construction of "Latino" and "Hispanic" as representative identities and linking it to the critiques she aims at the executives and creatives of the ad agencies. This not a book where audience response plays a large role, rather it is one that gives extensive coverage to the ad agencies themselves, and the knowledges they use to construct mass produced images.

The categories of "Hispanic" and "Latino" are invented and by definition presuppose some intrinsic difference, relative to Anglos. This intrinsic difference is what makes ethnic-specific marketing plausible and it is how ad agencies pitch their services to clients. Thus, the notion of a pan-Latino identity-that individuals from all Spanish speaking countries have a shared culture-originated in the United States from the Cuban intellectuals who so dominate the Latino advertising industry. Further complicating the matter, the category of "Latino" is constantly in flux, as is illustrated by a current trend towards ads that opt for whiter versions of Latinidad, reconfiguring Latino traditions within the borders of the American middle-class.

Davila shows there is a propensity for ads and TV programming to use unaccented, "good" Spanish, and never that increasingly common mixture of English vocabulary and Spanish language-Spanglish. Such observations form the cornerstone of Davila's critique: ad agency executives or creatives who claim to have made some sort of liberating political accomplishment are immediately compromised due to the manufactured nature of the category which supposedly indexes the population they are trying to represent.

While on the one hand, the book does speak to scholars of the broad genre of interdisciplinary studies, it is definitely aimed at Latino advertising executives and marketing insiders as well. In this text several biting critiques leveled at the preconceptions of the advertisers and their clients are present, and here I will address three of the most prominent. The first is that the growing influence of Hispanic music and food on American popular culture represents a "coming of age" (p.3) for Latino populations. Davila indicates that this equates economic empowerment with political enfranchisement without the transference of any actual power, only the illusion of the potential for that power.

Second is the belief that through marketing and advertising it is possible to right old wrongs by correcting the stereotypes of the past (e.g. the Frito Bandito). In fact, Davila argues, the stereotypes are either repackaged in a slightly permutated form or simply replaced with new kinds of stereotypes, rather than removed all together. They may be no longer dirty, lazy thieves, but are instead emotional, religious, and familial. This sort of lose-lose scenario is especially grim considering the effects it has on U.S. born Latinos, who are typically much more likely to absorb and internalize commercialized identities than are recent immigrants, thereby making themselves more responsive to future exposure to the same forms.

Third, she notes the overall failure of the advertising world relative to the truly great potential it has as a political tool, especially considering the many agency executives and creatives she met sympathetic to her agenda. For all their self-affirmations, they have not actually effected any positive changes and meanwhile, real minority access to media outlets is falling precipitously.

Latinos Inc. succeeds in broadening the discourse on race in the U.S. as well as interjecting anthropological methodology into a realm dominated by interdisciplinary scholars. This work illustrates the great promise and possibilities of media studies, a genre by no means lacking in interesting and prolific output, but one which is sorely in need of a coherent methodology that goes beyond simply reading the "texts" of popular culture. I am thinking here of figures such as Neil Postman, Michael Parenti, and John Fiske, all of whom are fascinating in their own right and with important things to say, yet their works do not have the rigor of Davila's

Latinos Inc. review.......2001-12-06

Americans buy more salsa than ketchup. This factoid illustrates well the fact that Latino culture and its products are becoming increasingly popular in today's American consumer sphere. In her book, Latinos Inc., The Making and Marketing of a People, Arlene Davila examines the processes and dynamics behind the marketing of Latino products and culture, and how the marketing practices associated with Latino culture are affecting the Latino population of America.

Davila frames the academic context into which this book fits. While there is a glut of marketing and advertising studies in general, ones pertaining specifically to Hispanics are noticeably lacking. She pompously generalizes the ones that do exist as "uncritical," stating that one after another they either assert Latino's "coming of age" or commodification in American society. It is in this framework that she fixes her more critical eye on the Latino marketing industry.

Davila does an excellent job of articulating the plight of Latino and other minority consumers. She details how advertising has marginalized Latinos and other minorities by relegating them to the status of "the other." This builds and reinforces racial hierarchies that serve to keep Latinos lock in an inferior status. While contemplating these divisions, Davila wonders aloud "whether the United States will ever truly be one nation." She emphasizes the oxymoron of a segmented and divided United States with her mantra of Latinos as a "nation within a nation."

Davila highlights the contradiction between the interests of advertisers and consumers in advertising. For advertisers, advertisements are a vehicle to make money. For consumers, they are a vehicle to represent themselves and have their voice heard by a larger audience. These interests often come into conflict with one another as prudent advertising sometimes calls for the misrepresentation or overgeneralization of Latino communities while prudent representation requires accuracy and destruction, not the building and reinforcement, of racial and ethnic stereotypes. Almost without fail, the interests of the advertising agencies win out, as they are the creators of the advertisements themselves.

Davila indeed has a sharply honed eye for criticism. In Latinos Inc. she is very adept at pointing out the wrongs of situations. By the end of the book, Davila has built a long list of these wrongs. However, she offers precious little in the way of solutions. For instance, in her lamentations about our divided nation, she points out what hasn't worked as a force uniting Latinos with the rest of the population (citizenship or consumership), but doesn't speculate about what could work to unit the entire population. Another example is her adamant denunciation of both advertiser's generalization and segmentation of the Latino population. She derides both of these advertising techniques and destructive and counter-productive for Latinos, yet offers nothing as an alternative to these approaches. She leaves the reader wondering if there is a happy median between generalization and segmentation on the representation spectrum, or of if the entire is invalid and an entirely different advertising paradigm is necessary. She sees bad advertising, but what is good advertising?

Davila's examination of the Latino marketing industry is Latino-specific, to be sure, but at times it could just as easily pertain to the advertising industry in general. As such, at these instances the book struggles to distinguish itself from the rest of the glut of advertising studies. For instance, she tries to that the Hispanic marketing industry is "uniquely revealing" because Hispanic advertising's need to "empathize, charm, appeal, or shock a potential consumer in thirty or sixty seconds entail a great deal of simplification and typification...bring to the surface the tropes, images, and discourses that have become widespread and generalized representations of Hispanidad." It seems that this observation can apply to any of the hundreds of generalized groups represented in advertising.

While Davila convincingly argues that the New York's Latino high diversity makes the city an appropriate focus of her study, readers may be left wondering if her study would not have been better served with a wider geographical focus. It is possible that Davila arrived at some erroneous conclusions based on this limited focus. She speaks of the political disenfranchisement of the Latino community, but in fact there are some unacknowledged segments of the Latino population outside of New York that wield considerable political influence. For instance, in 1998 in Texas, 20% of its U.S. House representatives and 19% of the representatives to its state house and are Latino (Marin, 1999 and State of Texas, 2001). George Bush enlisted the help of the Latino advertising agency Sosa, Bromley, Aguilar, & Associates to propel him to a landslide 1998 Texas gubernatorial and subsequent 2000 U.S. presidential victories (the agency helped Bush garner 49% of the Latino vote in Florida) (ABC News.com, 2001 and Hart, 2000). For comparison, Bush won 18% if the Latino vote in New York (ABC News.com, 2001). The Latino political climate of New York is not indicative of that elsewhere in the entire U.S. Nonetheless, Davilia relies heavily on examples from New York Lation political scene to back up her arguments. At the least, the counter evidence calls these arguments into question.

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A thourough analysis of the founding of California.......1999-05-09

In light of the divisive politics in California during the 1990s, it is a clear dose of reality to read Douglas Monroy's Thrown Among Strangers. I read this for a history of Los Angeles class at UCLA, and I can't recommend it enough. For anyone who wants to learn about the early history of Los Angeles and how far back the racial politics and injustice of California go back, look no further. This isn't light reading, however. Monroy writes from historical, anthropological, psychological, and cultural perspectives on the conquering of California--first by Spanish missionaries, then Mexican and American rancheros, and finally, the businessman. Victims to all of these are the native Indians of California, who Monroy lends a voice to and remembers. Monroy is angry, and you will be too after finishing this book.

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Hispanics in the USA: Making History
Arnhilda Badia
Manufacturer: Altea
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1594375712

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The biographies presented here will bring to life Hispanic individuals who have greatly contributed to the development and growth of this nation. They serve as role models for our present generation and will continue to do so with new generations of Latinos growing up in the United States.

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Texas, for years, was a one-party state controlled by white democrats. In 1962, a young eighteen-year-old heard the first rumblings of Chicano community organization in the barrios of Cristal. The rumor in the town was that five Mexican Americans were going to run for all five seats on the city council. But first, poor citizens had to find a way to pay the $1.75 poll tax. Money had to be raised-through bake sales of tamales, cake walks, and dances. So began the political activism of Jose Angel Gutierrez.

Gutierrez's autobiography, The Making of a Chicano Militant, is the first insider's view of the important political and social events within the Mexican American communities in South Texas during the 1960s and 1970s. A controversial and dynamic political figure during the height of the Chicano movement, Gutierrez offers an absorbing personal account of his life at the forefront of the Mexican-American civil rights movement-first as a Chicano and then as a militant.

Gutierrez traces the racial, ethnic, economic, and social prejudices facing Chicanos with powerful scenes from his own life: his first summer job as a tortilla maker at the age of eleven, his racially motivated kidnapping as a teenager, and his coming of age in the face of discrimination as a radical organizer in college and graduate school. When Gutierrez finally returned to Cristal, he helped form the Mexican American Youth Organization and, subsequently the Raza Unida Party to confront issues of ethnic intolerance in his community. His story is soon to be a classic in the developing literature of Mexican American leaders.

"One of the monumental narratives of the Chicano movement. . . . Gutierrez has had remarkable influence, not only on the Chicano social agenda, but on formation of minority political parties and the rise of local control over everyday life."-Genaro Padilla, professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

"Long overdue, this memoir of one of the giants that led the powerful Chicano movement is provocative, insightful, and extremely revealing. His candid portrayal of his life as a militant activist is a major contribution to the study of Chicano politics."-Armando Navarro, author of The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control

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Hitler salute on the cover of the book.......2005-02-21

We must fight all racism, including the racists like Gutierrez.

i still live in crystal.......2000-12-21

The events that took place in this book happened in my home town. The events started out as a good thing that was ment to help the hispanic comunity , in the end with poor planing it brought forth the slow death of a growing texas town.

i will be the first to admit that some thing had to change in order to help the hispanics, but after all was said done , the only major change that happened was the residence of the man that killed the town. if i sound harsh in my review , well i still live in the after shocks of the movment.

You feel the Coraje Chicanos experienced growing up in TX........1999-04-21

It's a book that tells generations born after el Movimiento that it took brave Chicanas(os) to make changes in politics, and education systems. This was done by Americans with coraje (anger) and who took this anger and put it into positive aciton. Having been part of the Movimiento Chicano this book brought back many memories. If you read "Rain of Gold" you'll like this book--it's the other story about those of us who the river crossed us, we did not cross the river. This book should be a must for every Chicano(a) in political science or Chicano studies.

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