In the last ten thousand years, we've gone from hieroglyphics, papyrus scrolls, stone tablets, and smoke signals to telegraphs, telephones, cell phones, computers, and virtual reality, thinking these would help improve communications between people. With great expectations we experienced Manifest Destiny and World War I and II, thinking these would finally unite us globally in prosperity and peace. Then we went to the moon and sent rovers to Mars. All this and more we've accomplished, and...
On 14 June 1928, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born in Rosario, Argentina.A charismatic boy who loved jokes and shunned bathing, the first signs of Che's radical perspective began to show long beofre his famous motorcycle journey around South America in 1953.Assembled from two separate books- My Son Che and A Soldier of the Americas- written by Che's father, The Young Che is a wonderfully vivid narrative through Che's bourgeois but nonconformist childhood, the people, books and political event...
When I Was Puerto Rican (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by Esmeralda Santiago
Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an echanted yet harsh life chronicle, as a young girl leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success.
La dramaturga ganadora del premio Pulitzer y coguionista de In the Heights cuenta en sus memorias la experiencia de crecer en un barrio pobre de Filadelfia junto a su numerosa familia puertorriqueña. “Quiara Alegría Hudes está en su propia liga. Sus frases te dejarán sin aliento. Qué suerte tenemos de que sea ella quien cuente nuestras historias”. - Lin-Manuel Miranda, creador de Hamilton y In the Heights Quiara Alegría Hudes era la niña de ojos penetrantes que permanecía resguardada en las...
"No estoy roto es un libro para sobrevivientes y para aquellos que tienen en sus vidas a alguien que esperan que se salve.” —Sandra Cisneros “Esta memoria es el recuento de una vida llena de experiencias desgarradoras, pero también renovada gracias a una profunda fortaleza interior y a una determinación imparable por superarse”. —Darren Walker, Presidente de la Fundación Ford Nacido en San Diego, en 1970, e hijo de inmigrantes mexicanos indígenas y de clase trabajadora, la infancia de Jesse...
Cheech Marin came of age at an interesting time in America and became a self-made counterculture legend with his other half, Tommy Chong. This long-awaited memoir delves into how Cheech dodged the draft, formed one of the most successful comedy duos of all time, became the face of the recreational drug movement with the film Up in Smoke, forged a successful solo career with roles in The Lion King and, more recently, Jane the Virgin, and became the owner of the most renowned collection of Chi...
Extraordinary Latinas Vol III
by Adriana Vaccaro and Clara Angelina Diaz-Anderson