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Date Published:2025

The Great Wall of China

DuTemple, Lesley A.


A history of the building of the various pieces of the Great Wall of China, with details of how the walls were built through the ages.
Date Published:2003

Congress and the great issues, 1945-1995


Includes index.
Date Published:1996

The diary of Frida Kahlo : an intimate self-portrait

Kahlo, Frida,


Introduction / Carlos Fuentes -- Essay / Sarah M. Lowe -- Facsimile of the diary of Frida Kahlo -- Translation of the diary with commentaries -- Chronology. This volume relates Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's (1919- 1954) images of pain, loss, mutilation and transcendence to Mexico's historic cycles of revolution and reaction. This work reproduces her personal journal that she kept during the last 10 years of her life -- handwritten, colored-ink entries and accompanying self-portraits, sketches, doodles and paintings, which fuse surrealism, pre-Columbian gods and myths, biomorphic forms, animal-human hybrids, archetypal symbols. Readers get a taste of Kahlo's preoccupation with death, brought on by declining health, isolation and repeated surgical operations resulting from the bus accident that severely damaged her spine, pelvic bones, right leg and right foot at the age of 18. The author intends to place the journal in the context of the painter's shattered life. Sprinkled with irony, black humor, even joy, and augmented with translations of the diary entries plus commentaries and photographs, this work is a testament to Kahlo's resilience and courage.
Date Published:2005

Introduction / Carlos Fuentes -- Essay / Sarah M. Lowe -- Facsimile of the diary of Frida Kahlo -- Translation of the diary with commentaries -- Chronology. This volume relates Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's (1919- 1954) images of pain, loss, mutilation and transcendence to Mexico's historic cycles of revolution and reaction. This work reproduces her personal journal that she kept during the last 10 years of her life -- handwritten, colored-ink entries and accompanying self-portraits, sketches, doodles and paintings, which fuse surrealism, pre-Columbian gods and myths, biomorphic forms, animal-human hybrids, archetypal symbols. Readers get a taste of Kahlo's preoccupation with death, brought on by declining health, isolation and repeated surgical operations resulting from the bus accident that severely damaged her spine, pelvic bones, right leg and right foot at the age of 18. The author intends to place the journal in the context of the painter's shattered life. Sprinkled with irony, black humor, even joy, and augmented with translations of the diary entries plus commentaries and photographs, this work is a testament to Kahlo's resilience and courage.

Date Published:2005

Critical perspectives on the Vietnam War


Global connections -- Individuals, groups, and institutions -- Culture -- Power, authority, and governance -- Time, continuity, and change. Contains a collection of nonfiction writings from newspapers, periodicals, books, and other sources, that provide critical perspectives on issues related to the Vietnam War.
Date Published:2005

Drug abuse : opposing viewpoints


How serious a problem is drug abuse? -- How should the war on drugs be waged? -- Should drug testing be used in the workplace? -- How should prescription drugs be regulated? -- How can drug abuse be reduced? Presents differing opinions on the causes of drug abuse, the effectiveness of the war on drugs, drug testing, and other related issues.
Date Published:1994

Redlands

Bellaire, Jordie,


Description based on volume one. "A mysterious coven of witches runs the town of Redlands, Florida -- and in order to stay on top, sacrifices must be made. When possession turns into friendship, and when love evolves into spite, the witches' reign is challenged." -- Back cover.
Date Published:2018

Para servir a Dios y al rey : La música novohispana en el siglo XVI

Álvarez Moctezuma, Israel.


"Edad lectora: 14" -- Publisher. "En la Nueva España, casi todas las actividades tenían que ser aprobadas por las uatoridades relihiosas y por el rey. La música no fue la excepción. Sin embargo, al ser interpretadas por españoles, indígenas y negros, las composiciones musicales -tanto religiosas como rpofanas- adquirieron un matiz original, que presentaba el modo de ser y sentir novohispano." -- Publisher.
Date Published:2007

"Edad lectora: 14" -- Publisher. "En la Nueva España, casi todas las actividades tenían que ser aprobadas por las uatoridades relihiosas y por el rey. La música no fue la excepción. Sin embargo, al ser interpretadas por españoles, indígenas y negros, las composiciones musicales -tanto religiosas como rpofanas- adquirieron un matiz original, que presentaba el modo de ser y sentir novohispano." -- Publisher.

Date Published:2007

Licanrayén : Cuento basado en una leyenda Mapuche

Seguel Burgos, Mireya.


“Licanrayén, una joven mapuche, iba a carase con Quitralpiuque, cuando sucedió algo inesperado. El Pillán, quien vivía en lo alto del volcán Osorno, hizo que la tierra temblara, y que desde el volcán brotara lava. Todo ello provocó inundaciones, pestes y mortandad. La única manera de calmar al perverso espíritu del Pillán era entregándole a la joven más hermosa, que resultó ser Licanrayén.” – P. [4] cover.
Date Published:2003

“Licanrayén, una joven mapuche, iba a carase con Quitralpiuque, cuando sucedió algo inesperado. El Pillán, quien vivía en lo alto del volcán Osorno, hizo que la tierra temblara, y que desde el volcán brotara lava. Todo ello provocó inundaciones, pestes y mortandad. La única manera de calmar al perverso espíritu del Pillán era entregándole a la joven más hermosa, que resultó ser Licanrayén.” – P. [4] cover.

Date Published:2003

El secreto de la Nana Jacinta

Roselló Soberón, Estela.


Bernardo, a Creole boy, is sad because his sister has entered the convent, but Jacinta, his nanny, tells him three stories to cheer him up and at the end she tells him a secret.
Date Published:2009

El enigma de La Goupil

Mourlevat, Jean-Claude.


Translation of: La balafre. Translated from French. "Edad lectora: 12" -- Publisher. "Olivier se muda a La Goupil, un desolado pueblo donde deberá vivir durante un año. Al lado de su nuevo hogar hay una casa en apariencia abandonada; sin embargo, allí habita una niña con un perro y sólo él puede verlos. Obsesionado con estas presencias, Olivier decide investigar y descubre la trágica historia que ocurrió en aquella vivienda durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una novela de iniciación que, a través del suspenso, transporta al lector a uno de los acontecimientos más desgarradores de la historia contemporánea." -- Publisher.
Date Published:2015

Translation of: La balafre. Translated from French. "Edad lectora: 12" -- Publisher. "Olivier se muda a La Goupil, un desolado pueblo donde deberá vivir durante un año. Al lado de su nuevo hogar hay una casa en apariencia abandonada; sin embargo, allí habita una niña con un perro y sólo él puede verlos. Obsesionado con estas presencias, Olivier decide investigar y descubre la trágica historia que ocurrió en aquella vivienda durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una novela de iniciación que, a través del suspenso, transporta al lector a uno de los acontecimientos más desgarradores de la historia contemporánea." -- Publisher.

Date Published:2015

The body of Christopher Creed

Plum-Ucci, Carol, 1957-


Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.
Date Published:2000