Valencia

Author : Michelle Tea
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 0786750847
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Valencia written by Michelle Tea and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Michelle Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding Marta, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex; Willa, Michelle's tormented poet-girlfriend; Iris, the beautiful boy-dyke who ran away from the South in a dust cloud of drama; and Iris's ex, Magdalena Squalor, to whom Michelle turns when Iris breaks her heart.

Author : Mark D. Meyerson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520334957
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel written by Mark D. Meyerson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kingdom of Valencia was home to Christian Spain's largest Muslim population during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Fernando and Isabel. How did Muslim-Christian coexistence in Valencia remain relatively stable in this volatile period that saw the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, the Expulsion of the Jews, the conquest of Granada, and the conversion of the Muslims of Granada and Castile? In explanation, Mark Meyerson achieves the first thorough analysis of Fernando and Isabel's policy toward both Muslims and Jews. His findings will stimulate much discussion among Hispanists, Arabists, and historians. Meyerson argues that the key to the persistence of Muslim-Christian coexistence in Valencia lies in the hitherto unexamined differences between the royal couple concerning matters of religion. More than a study of the minority policy of the Catholic Monarchs, however, The Muslims of Valencia is an exemplary analysis of the economic life of Valencia's Muslims and the complex institutional and social network that held them suspended "between coexistence and crusade." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Author : Heather Valencia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671797239
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen of Dreams written by Heather Valencia and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Carlos Castaneda and Lynn Andrews, this book presents the fascinating true story of a woman's dramatic spiritual odyssey as the wife of a Yaqui Indian chief and sorcerer. Drawing readers into an intriguing world, Valencia describes her shamanistic experiences among the Native American people and their rich spiritual tradition. Lightning Print On Demand Title

Author : James Casey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521084048
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kingdom of Valencia in the Seventeenth Century written by James Casey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores two major themes in Spanish historiography - the consequences of the expulsion of the Moriscos and the way in which the Habsburg Monarchy kept or lost control over its peripheral provinces.

Author : Felicia Hemans
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551114422
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Siege of Valencia written by Felicia Hemans and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This parallel text edition of Felicia Hemans’s important dramatic poem presents the 1823 publication alongside a transcription of the original manuscript, offering a unique glimpse at her compositional process. Situated in medieval Spain, in the heat of Moorish-Christian conflicts, this complex political tragedy is both a rich historical narrative and a commentary by the poet on her own post-Napoleonic world. The Broadview edition also includes selections of related poetry, excerpts from source texts, and contemporary reviews.

Author : Jason Webster
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448139392
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Death in Valencia written by Jason Webster and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Max Cámara is under pressure. A renowned paella chef has been found dead; the town hall are set on demolishing El Cabanyal, the colourful fisherman's quarter on Valencia's sea-front; an abortionist has been kidnapped and with the Pope due to visit the city, the police are summoned to offer protection from crowds of the faithful and the danger of anti-religionists alike. When one of Cámara's long term adversaries is put in charge of the missing abortionist case, tensions are quickly running high, and with ominous cracks spreading across the walls of his flat, Cámara soon has nowhere to turn.

Author : Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Valencia's Garden written by Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard R. Valencia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136988084
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking written by Richard R. Valencia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deficit thinking is a pseudoscience founded on racial and class bias. It "blames the victim" for school failure instead of examining how schools are structured to prevent poor students and students of color from learning. Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking provides comprehensive critiques and anti-deficit thinking alternatives to this oppressive theory by framing the linkages between prevailing theoretical perspectives and contemporary practices within the complex historical development of deficit thinking. Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking examines the ongoing social construction of deficit thinking in three aspects of current discourse – the genetic pathology model, the culture of poverty model, and the "at-risk" model in which poor students, students of color, and their families are pathologized and marginalized. Richard R. Valencia challenges these three contemporary components of the deficit thinking theory by providing incisive critiques and discussing competing explanations for the pervasive school failure of many students in the nation’s public schools. Valencia also discusses a number of proactive, anti-deficit thinking suggestions from the fields of teacher education, educational leadership, and educational ethnography that are intended to provide a more equitable and democratic schooling for all students.

Author : Stephen Hunter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743282019
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now Playing at the Valencia written by Stephen Hunter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pulitzer Prize-Winning Movie Critic Stephen Hunter Comes A Brilliant, Freewheeling, And Witty Look At The Movies. Evanston, Illinois, was an idyllic 1950s paradise with stately homes, a beautiful lake, a world-class university, two premier movie houses, and one very seedy movie theater -- the Valencia. This was the site of Washington Post film critic Stephen Hunter's misspent youth. Instead of going to school, picking up girls, or tossing a football, Hunter could be found sitting in the fifteenth row, right-hand aisle seat of the Valencia, sating himself on one B-list movie after another. The Valencia had a sticky floor, smelly bathrooms, ancient popcorn, and a screen set in a hideously tacky papier-mache castle wall. It was also the only place in town to see westerns, sci-fi pictures, cops 'n' robbers flicks, slapstick comedy, and Godzilla. In Now Playing at the Valencia, the author of such bestselling novels as Havana and Pale Horse Coming has compiled his favorite movie reviews written between 1997 and 2003, bringing to the discussion the passionate feelings for cinema he discovered in the '50s, a time when genres were forming, mesmerizing stars played unforgettable characters, and enduring classics were made. While filmmaking has changed tremendously since Hunter first frequented the Valencia, the view from the fifteenth row, and the thrill of down and dirty entertainment, has remained the same.

Author : Lope De Vega
Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madness in Valencia/Peribanez written by Lope De Vega and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madness in Valencia, in a version by David Johnston, exploresthe thin divide between sanity and madness in a world where no one is quite what they appear to be. Peribañez and the Comendador of Ocaña, in a version by Nick Drake, is the tale of a brave peasant, bound to defend the honour of his beautiful wife against a tyrannical overlord intent on seducing her. With an introduction by Isabel Torres.