Sol y viento

Sol y viento

Author: Bill VanPatten

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education

Published: 2011-01-11

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 0077433173

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The Wind That Lays Waste

The Wind That Lays Waste

Author: Selva Almada

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2019-07-09

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 1555978908

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A taut, lyrical portrait of four people thrown together on a single day in rural Argentina The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their car breaks down. This act of God or fate leads them to the workshop and home of an aging mechanic called Gringo Brauer and a young boy named Tapioca. As a long day passes, curiosity and intrigue transform into an unexpected intimacy between four people: one man who believes deeply in God, morality, and his own righteousness, and another whose life experiences have only entrenched his moral relativism and mild apathy; a quietly earnest and idealistic mechanic’s assistant, and a restless, skeptical preacher’s daughter. As tensions between these characters ebb and flow, beliefs are questioned and allegiances are tested, until finally the growing storm breaks over the plains. Selva Almada’s exquisitely crafted debut, with its limpid and confident prose, is profound and poetic, a tactile experience of the mountain, the sun, the squat trees, the broken cars, the sweat-stained shirts, and the destroyed lives. The Wind That Lays Waste is a philosophical, beautiful, and powerfully distinctive novel that marks the arrival in English of an author whose talent and poise are undeniable.


Voices from the Ancestors

Voices from the Ancestors

Author: Lara Medina

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 0816539561

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Voices from the Ancestors brings together the reflective writings and spiritual practices of Xicanx, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx womxn and male allies in the United States who seek to heal from the historical traumas of colonization by returning to ancestral traditions and knowledge. This wisdom is based on the authors’ oral traditions, research, intuitions, and lived experiences—wisdom inspired by, and created from, personal trajectories on the path to spiritual conocimiento, or inner spiritual inquiry. This conocimiento has reemerged over the last fifty years as efforts to decolonize lives, minds, spirits, and bodies have advanced. Yet this knowledge goes back many generations to the time when the ancestors understood their interconnectedness with each other, with nature, and with the sacred cosmic forces—a time when the human body was a microcosm of the universe. Reclaiming and reconstructing spirituality based on non-Western epistemologies is central to the process of decolonization, particularly in these fraught times. The wisdom offered here appears in a variety of forms—in reflective essays, poetry, prayers, specific guidelines for healing practices, communal rituals, and visual art, all meant to address life transitions and how to live holistically and with a spiritual consciousness for the challenges of the twenty-first century.


Asi lo veo: Gente, Perspectivas, Comunicación

Asi lo veo: Gente, Perspectivas, Comunicación

Author: Michael Leeser

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Published: 2010-01-08

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780073534404

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Increase students' ability to comprehend spoken Spanish; express their ideas & opinions; and analyze cultural perspectives while challenging fixed beliefs and cultural stereotypes. These outcomes motivated the respected author team of Así lo veo, the first Intermediate Spanish program to use a documentary, filmed specifically for the program, as the basis for instruction and learning. Since a documentary captures real situations and personal perspectives it is the perfect vehicle for increasing student engagement. With Así lo veo, the documentary motivates the presentation of content—vocabulary, grammar, and culture—and by extension, the learning. Specifically, Así lo veo documents how six Spanish speakers view timely, provocative themes. Because these are everyday people, not actors, they bring unscripted, real language as well as fresh ideas to the context of learning Spanish.


Accompany Sol Y Viento

Accompany Sol Y Viento

Author: Bill VanPatten

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9780072965728

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Student Viewers Guide to Accompany Sol y Viento.


It's Pumpkin Time!

It's Pumpkin Time!

Author: Zoe Hall

Publisher:

Published: 1999-09-01

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780590558495

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A sister and brother plant and tend their own pumpkin patch so they will have jack-o-lanterns for Halloween.


Sun and Moon

Sun and Moon

Author: Marcus Pfister

Publisher: North-South Books

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781558589957

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Day after day, the Sun and the Moon follow their lonely, separate paths across the sky. How they wish they could meet and become friends. One sunny day, their paths finally cross--with dramatic results! Pfister illustrates this fanciful explanation of eclipses in vivid colors, finding bold shapes and patterns in the earth and sky, in stormy and sunny weather.


The Wind from the Sun

The Wind from the Sun

Author: Arthur Charles Clarke

Publisher: Phoenix

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 9780575600522

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A volume containing all 18 short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke in the 1960s. They depict a future in which technologies are beginning to dictate man's lifestyle - even to demand life for themselves.


From Input to Output

From Input to Output

Author: Bill VanPatten

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780072825619

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This new title in the McGraw-Hill Second Language Professional Series provides an eminently accessible overview of key issues in second language acquisition research, written expressly for second language teachers. Avoiding highly technical jargon and terminology, the author gives a compelling account of current research while couching it within a framework that is of particular relevance to classroom practitioners. The result is an engaging reference that should be required reading for all language instructors and department heads. This book is also ideal for a teaching methods course or an introductory seminar on second language acquisition.


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Published:

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 125017001X

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