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.
Summer Fun Jumble: Lazy Day Word Play by Cheryl Leonhardt, ISBN 1572431148
Everyone who has read a newspaper recognizes Jumble "RM", the clever and humorous scrambled word game. Featuring a series of scrambled words coupled with a cartoon and riddle, these puzzles are a national tradition.
- Carried daily in nearly 500 major newspapers around the world
- Enjoyed by millions of readers
- Mentioned in hit televisions shows Friends, Seinfeld, and The Simpsons
Check out this new eclectic collection of Jumbles "RM", pulled straight from our puzzle files.
Summer Fun Jumble: Lazy Day Word Play by Cheryl Leonhardt, ISBN 1572431148
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Crystal Clear: The Struggle for Reliable Communications Technology in World War II
Quartz crystal— a technology that changed the tide of World War II
Some of the defining leaps in technology in the twentieth century occurred during the Second World War, from radar to nuclear energy. Often left out of historical discussions are quartz crystals, which proved to be just as pivotal to the Allied victory— and to post-war development— as other technologies. Quartz crystals provided the U.S. military, for the first time, with reliable communication on the front lines, and then went on to become the core of some of the most basic devices of the post-war era, from watches, clocks, and color televisions, to cell phones and computers.
In Crystal Clear, Richard Thompson relates the story of the quartz crystal in World War II, from its early days as a curiosity for amateur radio enthusiasts, to its use by the United States Armed Forces. It follows the intrepid group of scientists and engineers from the Office of the Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army as they...
Crystal Clear: The Struggle for Reliable Communications Technology in World War II
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Cracking the ACT with DVD
"Cracking the ACT" now offers MAJOR new features on DVD, in addition to free full length practice tests and expert advice online. Of course, book buyers also get all the test-prep techniques they expect from The Princeton Review, as well as two full length practice exams inside the book.
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Cracking the ACT with DVD
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