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The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)

2 reviews

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007

"We do not torture..."
So says the current administration, and so say most Americans--which is precisely why William Schulz's collection is so timely and important. Surely one of the explanations for why so many people deny that waterboarding or sensory deprivation is torture is lack of clarity on what the phenomenon of torture actually is. The essays in this anthology go a long way to clear up the confusion. ...

Miguel Covarrubias: 4 Visions
Eva Ayala, Juan Rafael Rivera, ...

Editorial RM, 2007

Mexican artist Miguel Couvarrubias (1904-1957) was a prolific illustrator, caricaturist, muralist, archeologist and anthropologist. Moving to New York in 1924, working for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, he was famous within months. A major participant in the Harlem Renaissance, he understood the cultural rediscovery of that time as expressed in the creative arts and folk arts. As a world traveler, his understanding that indigenous peoples were ...

Black Farmers in America

4 reviews
John Francis Ficara, Juan Williams

University Press of Kentucky, 2006

A Masterpiece: Unsurpassed photography done with great integrity.
John Ficara, a well respected photojournalist, undertook this ambitious documentary project on his own. With a world filled with "celebrity" journalisim, Ficara devoted a major period of time to document the plight of Black Farmers in America. Not done with pity or cheap shots, Ficara brought us a book with integrity, remarkably strong images, and an understanding of an issue overlooked by the ...

Walt Disney's Comics And Stories #680 (Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Graphic Novels))
William Van Horn, Floyd Gottfredson, ...

Gemstone Publishing, 2007

In "Blowhards," Uncle Scrooge is giving away an island to either Donald Duck or Gladstone Gander, depending on who can sail to the island first! Next, in Part 1 of Floyd Gottfredson's long-awaited "The Gleam," Mickey battles a devious swami with designs on Minnie's family fortune! "Bargain Basement" tells of the Ducks' visit to an entirely pork-themed supermarket. "The Honey Sucker" brings back fan favorite Brer Rabbit for outrageous down-south ...

This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience

4 reviews
Juan Williams

Amistad, 2004

The Power of Faith
If you have ever wondered how people who lived during slavery survived, THIS FAR BY FAITH is the book you need to read. It is about how religious faith inspired one of the greatest movements in American history, the U.S. Civil Rights movement. With stories told regarding politics, tent revivals and ministers leading rebellions against slavery, you see how in the most trying of times the faith in ...

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (African American History (Penguin))

9 reviews
Juan Williams

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1988

An Excellent Primer
By now the number of volumes written on the Civil Rights Movement could fill whole libraries. Yet fifteen years later, this book still stands as one of the best introduction to the early years of the movement. Books such as Taylor Branch's Pillar of Fire and Parting the Waters may cover the same era of 1954 to 1965; this book is a good introduction for those who may be intimidated by Branch's ...

Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and ...

90 reviews
Juan Williams

Three Rivers Press, 2007

A voice of reason.
This book was one that far exceeded my expectations. I came in to expecting to find the work of an elitist conservative what I found instead was the calm voice of an everyday normal man. He is no patsy either for slick attempts to repair race relations even going as far as to strike down idiotic proposals for reperations by arguing that both conservatives and liberals advocating reparations are ...

Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary

15 reviews
Juan Williams

Three Rivers Press, 2000

Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
I think this book a "must read" for anyone who wants to know the truth about "back in the days" and "Jim Crow" days and such. Thurgood Marshall was the most inportant African-American man of the 20th century and probably of all time! The things he did have never nor will they ever be equaled. I only wish I'd had the pleasure and blessing of meeting this great man and shaking his hand. I recommend ...

Three Lives for Mississippi

3 reviews
William Bradford Huie

University Press of Mississippi, 2000

Buy it!
What makes this book interesting is that it was written between the murders and the trial. Huie knew who the murderers were, how they did it, and never expected a guilty verdict. The book introduces you in detail to Michael (Mickey) Schwerener and all the details leading up to his murder. This detail will help you understand exactly why and how these murders took place. This latest edition ...

Global Dictionary of Theology

IVP Academic, 2008

Aztec Empire, The

1 review
Roberto Velasco Alonso, Frances Berdan, ...

Guggenheim Museum, 2004

Outstanding!!!
This is one of the best books about the Aztecs I have seen. Despite its price it offers great and beautiful color photographs as well as very interesting and well written essays. You will not regret it!!!

El conejo de terciopelo
Margery Williams Bianco, Juan Gonzalez Alvaro

Everest Publishing, 1996

El conejo de terciopelo sólo deseaba una cosa: ¡ser REAL! Un cuento tierno que describe la relación entre un juguete y su pequeño dueño.

Cantos/Cuentos Colombianos
Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Fern n Gonz lez, ...

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2005

Description: Cantos/Cuentos Colombianos is the most comprehensive exhibition of contemporary Colombian art ever shown in Europe. Ten widely recognized Colombian artists present a previously unknown world of images and experience worthy of international attention. With great formal and substantive rigor, the artists deal with their country and its troubled past and present through installation, video, photography, objects, performance, and sound ...

I'll Find a Way or Make One: A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Dwayne Ashley, Juan Williams, ...

Amistad, 2004

From Juan Williams, author of Eyes on the Prize , and the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund comes a must-have gift book and definitive resource that explores the historical, social, and cultural importance of America's 107 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). HBCUs have graduated such illustrious leaders as Oprah Winfrey, Thurgood Marshall, Spike Lee, W. E. B. DuBois, Debbie Allen, Alain Locke, Samuel L. Jackson, and Nikki ...

My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience (AARP)

2 reviews
Juan Williams

Sterling, 2005

INCREDIBLE
I saw this book on display at a large bookstore and i was instantly attracted to it by merely reading the first page. It tells of the personal first hand experiences of couragous men and women who throughout history have stood up against injustice. Though many accounts are from the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s many others are on the womens movement, native american, latin american and ...

Palliative Medicine: Expert Consult: Online and Print
T. Declan Walsh, Kathleen M. Foley, ...

Saunders, 2008

As a palliative medicine physician, you struggle every day to make your patients as comfortable as possible in the face of physically and psychologically devastating circumstances. This new reference equips you with all of today's best international approaches for meeting these complex and multifaceted challenges. In print and online, it brings you the world's most comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of your field. You'll find the answers ...

Platero and I
Juan Ramon Jimenez

Signet Books, 1960

The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth: The Hohokam Chronicles
Donald Bahr, Juan Smith, ...

University of California Press, 1994

In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist, recorded Allison's words verbatim. The resulting document, the "Hohokam Chronicles," is the most complete ...

Texas and Northeastern Mexico,1630-1690

1 review

University of Texas Press, 2008

Fantastic Journey
"Compadre, I entreat you to do me the favor of taking my son, Antonio, among your troops, that when he is old he may have a tale to tell." This was a request of a certain Escobedo asking Alonso (the younger) de León to allow his son to join the anticipated entrada into Texas in 1689. Although the expedition was intended as a punative military campaign against the French incursion into Spanish ...

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