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A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner from the Black Mountain Institute: Senselessness, acclaimed Salvadoran author Horacio Castallanos Moya's astounding debut in English, explores horror with hilarity and electrifying panache.

A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writer's job is to tidy it up: he rants, "that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a manicure to the Catholic hands that were piously getting ready to squeeze the balls of the military tiger." Mesmerized by the strange Vallejo-like poetry of the Indians' phrases ("the houses they were sad because no people were inside them"), the increasingly agitated and frightened writer is endangered twice over: by the spell the strangely beautiful heart-rending voices exert over his tenuous sanity, and by real danger—after all, the murderers are the very generals who still run this unnamed Latin American country..
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Paul Castellano headed New York's immensely powerful Gambino crime family for more than ten years. On December 16, 1985, he was gunned down in a spectacular shooting on Manhattan's fashionable East Side.

At the time of his death, Paul Castellano was under indictment. So were most of the major Mafia figures in New York. Why? Because in 1983 the FBI had hidden a microphone in the kitchen of Castellano's Staten Island mansion. The 600 hours of recorndings led to eight criminal trials. And this book.

Agents Joe O'Brien and Andris Kurins planted that mike. They listened to the voices. Now they bring you the most revealing look inside the Mafia ever ... in the Mafia's own words..
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This book brings home to law enforcement officers and their families an appreciation for what each other are going through and how to foster "mutual support" . Law enforcement developed from simple, uncomplicated functions involving little stress into complex and stressful endeavors requiring highly trained personnel. Authors, James T. Reese, PhD and Cherie Castellano CSW, LPC, have spearheaded the essential psychological services that have become common place in law enforcement organizations today.
More importantly, this book is an attempt to assist officers and their families in restoring order in their personal lives.
This book offers suggestions for solutions. During discussions with law enforcement officers and their families, the authors have learned that without a support system, cops fail. Thus, the theme of this book emerges: our families are our ultimate backup. Without them, we lose, and America loses.
Who Should Read This Book
It should be read by officers and their spouses alike. If the shoe fits, wear it. Don t beat yourself up, have a pity party, blame the job, or live in the past. If you are divorced or separated, and believe the job may have been the culprit, realize that it could have never been more than a partial factor. Ensure that it was not caused solely by your behavior and/or attitude. Would a new job have saved your marriage? Or would a new attitude have served you better, regardless of your job? If we find other things, such as our jobs, to blame our failures on, none of our failures will ever be our fault. We will continue to find ourselves in new relationships and will not feel obliged to change. If you always do what you ve always done, you ll always be what you ve always been. Our remedies to repair family issues should begin in our homes with an honest evaluation of how our behavior affects those we love.
It seems logical to ask, "What makes this book unique from any other book on police families?" The authors both have extensive (possibly unequaled) experience and training in this field. However, they come from very different backgrounds, and, therefore, have different perspectives. Both are authors and give keynote presentations throughout the world on topics of law enforcement stress, trauma, and coping. One is a law enforcement officer and the other a law enforcement spouse. What they found as two unrelated practitioners in the areas of police wellness was a need to portray the law enforcement officer s family plight in proper perspective, and expose others to the stress and pressures on the officer, the officer s spouse, and their children.
It takes very special people to make up a law enforcement family. As officers, we must help families understand who we are and why we think the way we do. Only then can they support us, help us, and, hopefully, change us.
Law Enforcement Families: The Ultimate Backup will shed light on the issues and provide some solutions. Law enforcement is a wonderful and rewarding profession, employing some of the brightest and most sensitive people in the world. The authors challenge us as officers examine the job, the changes it creates in officers, and its impact upon families. Only then can we truly "serve and protect," not only the public, but the ones we love, to the best of our abilities.
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LIDERAZGO DE ÉXITO A TRAVES DE LOS DOCE

En este libro el Pastor César Castellanos enseña las claves principales para un liderazgo eficaz y las estrategias para construir la iglesia que puede cambiar una nación y alcanzar el mundo. La inquietud personal y la continua búsqueda del por qué el Señor escogió a doce hombres para discipularlos reveló al Pastor César Castellanos el modelo del Gobierno de los doce, el cual explica en detalle en esta obra. Igualmente, esta publicación le será de gran ayuda para romper los esquemas y colocar a su iglesia, a su liderazgo y a todo su ministerio en una nueva dimensión de poder..
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In the years following Cuba's independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to create a unified polity, yet racial and cultural heterogeneity posed continual challenges to these liberal notions of citizenship. Alejandra Bronfman traces the formation of Cuba's multiracial legal and political order in the early Republic by exploring the responses of social scientists, such as Fernando Ortiz and Israel Castellanos, and black and mulatto activists, including Gustavo Urrutia and Nicolas Guillen, to the paradoxes of modern nationhood.

Law, science, and the social sciences--which, during this era, enjoyed growing status in Cuba as well as in many other countries--played central roles in producing knowledge and shaping social categories in postindependence Cuba. Anthropologists, criminologists, and eugenicists embarked on projects intended to employ the tools of science to rid Cuba of the last vestiges of a colonial past. Meanwhile, the legal arena created both new freedoms and new modes of repression. Black and mulatto intellectuals and activists, working to ensure that citizenship offered concrete advantages rather than empty promises, appropriated changing social scientific and legal categories and turned them to their own uses. In the midst of several decades of intermittent racial violence and expanding social and political mobilization by Cubans of African descent, debates among intellectuals and activists, state officials, and legislators transformed not only understandings of race, but also the terms of citizenship for all Cubans..
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The lead character of Baldo, Baldo Bermudez, is a 15-year-old Latino teen with visions of creating the perfect low rider and being popular with the girls. Meanwhile, the strip's creators, Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos, began the strip in 2000 with dreams of creating a comic rooted in Latin American heritage that would have wide appeal and soar in popularity. Judging by the pieces of car in the driveway and yet another dateless weekend for Baldo, it's fair to say Cantu and Castellanos are having all the luck, and Baldo's readers are having all the laughs. Night of the Bilingual Telemarketers is a compilation of strips from the increasingly popular comic's second year. When it launched in April 2000, the strip appeared in nearly 100 papers. Only three other strips in Universal Press Syndicate history had a larger circulation when they began, and all went on to have stellar careers: For Better or For Worse, Calvin & Hobbes, and The Boondocks. Baldo is primed to follow in those successful footsteps. The strip centers around Baldo and his humorous observations on teenage life in school and with family. On the home front is Baldo's relationship with his single-parent dad, his younger sister and budding political activist Gracie, and his live-in Old World aunt Carmen. Cantu and Castellanos know firsthand the experience of growing up within two cultures. Consequently, Baldo's daily adventures challenge him to balance his mainstream sensibilities with his Latino heritage. The result is the humorous mix of teenage silliness rooted in reality found in Night of the Bilingual Telemarketers, a book that will delight readers of ages and cultures..
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ESTE ES UN MAGNIFICO CD QUE CON SU SELECTA MUSICATE GUIARA EN LA MEDITACION PARA ENCONTRAR CON TU SER SUPERIOR.
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stories, Mexico, tr R Rudder & G de Arjona .
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"When people reread her vork it will become evident that nobody in her time had as clear a consciousness of the twofold condition of being a woman and a Mexican. " --José Emilio Pacheco Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play, The Eternal Feminine. Translated with fidelity to language and cultural nuance, many of these works appear here in English for the first time, allowing English-speaking readers to see the depth and range of Castellanos' work. In her introductory essay, "Reading Rosario Castellanos: Contexts, Voices, and Signs," Maureen Ahern presents the first comprehensive study of Castellanos' work as a sign or signifying system. This approach through contemporary semiotic theory unites literary criticism and translation as an integral semiotic process. Ahern reveals how Castellanos integrated women's images, bodies, voices, and texts to feminize her discourse and create a plurality of new signs/messages about women in Mexico. Describing this process in The Eternal Feminine, Castellanos observes, ". . . it's not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.".
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Novela que relata una serie de sucesos cotidianos que tienen lugar en un poblado chiapaneco cercano a Guatamela, Balún-Canán. En medio de la tensión en que coexisten dos mundos opuestos -el del hombre blanco y del indio chontal- se mueven diversos personajes en cuya vida se refleja una lucha dramática y ancestral entre dos razas..
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