Encrucijadas Crossroads
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Encrucijadas Crossroads
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Author : Jonathan Franzen
language : es
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2022-01-18
Encrucijadas Crossroads written by Jonathan Franzen and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-18 with Fiction categories.
Seleccionado como uno de los mejores libros de ficción del 2021 por Publishers Weekly Uno de los libros favoritos de Obama en el 2021 Vuelve Franzen con una gran saga familiar. Su mejor novela desde Libertad Estamos a 23 de diciembre de 1971, y la familia Hildebrandt se halla en una encrucijada. Russ, el patriarca, pastor adjunto en una iglesia de Chicago, está a punto de liberarse del yugo de un matrimonio que considera infeliz... Suponiendo que Marion, su brillante e inestable esposa, no se libere primero. Tras haber hecho algo que va a destrozar al padre, el primogénito, Clem, regresa a casa para pasar las vacaciones. Su hermana Becky, que desde hace tiempo es la indiscutible reina de la vida social de su colegio, ha virado hacia la contracultura de la época. Y Perry, el pequeño, harto de vender hierba para mantener su adicción a las drogas, está decidido a ser una persona mejor. Por caminos muy distintos, los Hildebrandt ansían una libertad que los demás amenazan con complicar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Publishers Weekly Best Book 2021 Fiction ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 It’s December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless―unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem’s sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who’s been selling drugs to seventh graders, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandt's seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate. Jonathan Franzen’s novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity, and with even greater warmth, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own. A tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen’s gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident.
Discovering Successful Pathways In Children S Development
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Author : Thomas S. Weisner
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2005-02-15
Discovering Successful Pathways In Children S Development written by Thomas S. Weisner and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-15 with Education categories.
Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life. Successful development is enhanced when communities provide meaningful life pathways that children can seek out and engage. Successful pathways include both a culturally valued direction for development and competence in skills that matter for a child's subsequent success as a person as well as a student, parent, worker, or citizen. To understand successful pathways requires a mix of qualitative, quantitative, and ethnographic methods—the state of the art for research practice among developmentalists, educators, and policymakers alike. This volume includes new studies of minority and immigrant families, school achievement, culture, race and gender, poverty, identity, and experiments and interventions meant to improve family and child contexts. Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development will be of enormous value to everyone interested in the issues of human development, education, and social welfare, and among professionals charged with the task of improving the lives of children in our communities.
La Encrucijada The Crossroads
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Author : Alexandra Diaz
language : es
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-12-04
La Encrucijada The Crossroads written by Alexandra Diaz and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-04 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Jaime y Ángela descubren lo que es vivir como inmigrantes indocumentados en los Estados Unidos en la continuación de El único destino, libro ganador del premio Pura Belpré Honor. Jaime Rivera pensó que después de cruzar México y entrar en Estados Unidos, lo peor había quedado atrás. No podía ser muy dificil comenzar en una escuela nueva. Pero lo es. Y no solamente porque casi no habla inglés. Mientras que su prima hermana Ángela se adaptó rapidamente e hizo nuevos amigos y se envolvió en actividades después de clases, Jaime siente que este lugar extraño no es su “hogar.” Su hogar de verdad es con sus padres, con abuela y con el resto de su familia y no en este lugar donde hay más cactus y ganado que personas y donde él siente que no puede ser él mismo—un muchacho de Guatemala. Cuando llegan malas noticias de sus padres en Guatemala sentimientos de impotencia y culpa atormentan a Jaime. La violencia de las pandillas en Guatemala significa que no puede regresar. Pero tampoco está seguro de que se quiera quedar. Los Estados Unidos no son la maravilla que todos le habían dicho que era, especialmente si no tienes papeles, si estás indocumentado. Pero cuando las cosas lucen sombrias la esperanza llega de lugares inesperados: un muchacho callado en el autobús, una maestra de música, un viejo que trabaja en el rancho. Con su cuaderno de dibujar siempre en sus manos Jaime comienza a usar sus dibujos para demostrar lo que significa ser un ciudadano de verdad.
The Crossroads
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Author : Alexandra Diaz
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-09-03
The Crossroads written by Alexandra Diaz and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-03 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Jaime, twelve, and Angela, fifteen, discover what it means to be living as undocumented immigrants in the United States, while news from home gets increasingly worse.
Cervantes And Modernity
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Author : Eric Clifford Graf
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2007
Cervantes And Modernity written by Eric Clifford Graf and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Collections categories.
Graf argues that the doubts expressed by both historicists and postmodernists regarding the progressive nature of Don Quijote are exaggerated. Neither do interpretations that abstain from this debate by emphasizing authorial ambivalence or positioning the novel at a crossroads seem as responsible as they once did. Beyond these skeptical and neutral alternatives, there are key steps forward in Cervantes's worldview. These four essays detail Don Quijote's anticipations of many of the same ideas and values that drive today's multiculturalism, feminism, secularism, and materialism. An important thesis here is that the Enlightenment remains the best vantage point from which to appreciate the novel's relation to the discourses of such movements. Thus Voltaire's Candide (1759), Feijoo's Defensa de las mujeres (1726), and Hobbes' Leviathan (1651) are each shown to be logical extensions of some of Cervante's most fundamental propositions. Finally, this book will still be of interest to specialists immune to the ideological anxieties arising from debates over notions of modernity. Graf also explores the interrelated meaning of a number of Don Quijote's symbols, characters, and episodes, pinpoints several of the novel's most important classical and medieval sources, and unveils for us its first serious English reader.
In The Light Of Contradiction
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Author : RobertaAnn Quance
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
In The Light Of Contradiction written by RobertaAnn Quance and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Foreign Language Study categories.
In 1926, as a young man of 28 with a growing reputation as an oral poet, Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) toyed with the idea of proving his worth in writing by bringing out a boxed set of three volumes of his verse. Because the Suites , Canciones , and the Poema del cante jondo eventually came out singly (in the case of the Suites , posthumously), readers have not always realised that they formed a single body of work -- one which, Lorca himself was surprised to note, has 'una rarisima unidad', an odd unity of aims and accomplishment. This is poetry which takes up the question of desire in progressively depersonalizing ways, and shows modernism coming into being. Through renunciation, by cutting away the personal and the taboo, Lorca created a poetry that, like no other in Europe, stood between the avant-garde and oral traditions, making their contradictions his truth. Roberta Ann Quance is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Queen's University, Belfast.
Bridging Multiple Worlds
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Author : Catherine R. Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-26
Bridging Multiple Worlds written by Catherine R. Cooper and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with Education categories.
Considering research, practice, and policies on opening pathways to overcome educational disparities, this book offers new quantitative and qualitative evidence to introduce a multi-level theory on how youth navigate across the cultural worlds of their families, schools, peers, and community programs to access academic opportunities.
Unassimilable Feminisms
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Author : L. Gillman
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-07-19
Unassimilable Feminisms written by L. Gillman and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
In an important new book, Laura Gillman argues that in this post-identity politics era, identities can still yield reliable knowledge. Focusing on womanist and mestiza theoretical writings, literary texts, and popular cultural representations, Gillman advances a comparative theoretical model of identity and consciousness that foregrounds a naturalist-realist account. She demonstrates that reason and knowledge originate from diverse human practices enacted in the social and natural world and can be explained and justified entirely in terms of them.
Latino Children And Families In The United States
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Author : Josefina M. Contreras
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2002-09-30
Latino Children And Families In The United States written by Josefina M. Contreras and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-30 with Family & Relationships categories.
The Latino population in the United States continues to grow and now represents 12% of the population. Yet, remarkably little attention has been paid to understanding parenting and child development processes among Latino families. Although research on Latino parenting is beginning to emerge, the field is in need of further structure and direction. This volume addresses this need and advances the field both by presenting state-of-the-art research on Latino parenting and also by proposing conceptual and methodological frameworks that can provide the field with further integration and direction. In addition to presenting innovative research examining parental beliefs and practices of Latino families from different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, authors provide frameworks for identifying the origins of these beliefs and practices, and provide a rich picture of both the values that can be considered Latino and the social and demographic normative and at-risk Latino samples. Finally, methodological and conceptual recommendations for future research on each cited area, as well as the field, are presented.
Don Quijote Dictionary
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Author : Thomas A. Lathrop
language : en
Publisher: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs
Release Date : 2005
Don Quijote Dictionary written by Thomas A. Lathrop and has been published by Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.