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Speak of It: A Memoir
by Marcos McPeek VillatoroIn the face of clashing family backgrounds and sexual abuse as a child, Marcos's extraordinary memoir maps his journey through self-discovery, from his Salvadoran-Appalachian parentage to his success as a writer, his mental illness, and his healing in an extraordinary memoir.In Speak of It, Marcos McPeek Villatoro explores how he channeled his Latino roots to come to terms with the childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of a relative in his home in Appalachia, and he recounts his ensuing struggle with trauma and mental illness.The son of a Salvadoran mother and a Scotch Irish father, Marcos spent much of his life struggling to break away from the trauma he experienced in childhood by striving to get closer to his Salvadoran heritage. His journey includes steeping himself in the Spanish language and Latin American literature, especially the work of Gabriel García Marquez; a stint in Nicaragua with Witness for Peace, followed by missionary work in Guatemala; and social-justice work with Mexican migrant farmworkers in Alabama. Each experience brought him closer to understanding where he came from and to forging an identity as a whole self in the wake of trauma.Riveting, horrifying, moving, and inspiring, Speak of It is a testament to the healing power of language, books, and identity.
Flight from Chile: An Oral History of Exile
by Thomas Wright Rody Oñate2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of General Pinochet&’s coup on September 11, 1973. During the wave of mass arrests, torture, and executions that followed, people began fleeing Chile. Over the next fifteen years some two hundred thousand Chileans sought exile in countries around the world. Out of their anguish and anger come these moving and powerful testimonies of their fractured lives—the first oral history of the Chilean diaspora, now revised and updated.Many who fled had been tortured, and they clung to the principle that the dictatorship was an evil that had to be destroyed. But their zeal and solidarity with other refugees often failed to sustain families. Many marriages collapsed, and children lost interest in their native land and culture. After civilian rule returned in 1990, many returning exiles felt estranged from a homeland forever changed. This timely update of the 1998 collection continues to remind us of the fracturing legacy and enduring oppression of usurpation and authoritarian rule long after its time has passed.
The Goldilocks Zone (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)
by Kate Gale&“Welcome to Kate Gale&’s world. There are glass houses, a glass orchestra, sex on the roof. . . . Kate Gale knows her Bible and plays whatever music she wants on that musical instrument—but her música is always fresh, and it achieves wisdom.&”—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa&“The clipped jumpy rhythm of these poems with their sudden bursts of syntax prove repeatedly that Kate Gale possesses a poetic tone and pace all her own. She is also refreshingly out of step with today&’s poetry of self-absorption, for she is fascinated less by her ego than by the strange variety of the world around us.&”—Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate
Chile Peppers: A Global History
by Dave DeWittFor more than ten thousand years, humans have been fascinated by a seemingly innocuous plant with bright-colored fruits that bite back when bitten. Ancient New World cultures from Mexico to South America combined these pungent pods with every conceivable meat and vegetable, as evident from archaeological finds, Indian artifacts, botanical observations, and studies of the cooking methods of the modern descendants of the Incas, Mayas, and Aztecs. In Chile Peppers: A Global History, Dave DeWitt, a world expert on chiles, travels from New Mexico across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia chronicling the history, mystery, and mythology of chiles around the world and their abundant uses in seventy mouth-tingling recipes.
War and Diplomacy in Modern Japan: Prime Minister Kōki Hirota and His Times
by Ryuji HattoriThis open access book examines the life and work of Koki Hirota, who served as Japan's foreign minister and prime minister from 1933 to 1938 - the period that saw the final Japanese diplomatic attempts at achieving a modus vivendi with China before the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It looks at the failed attempts to prevent that war from evolving into a protracted conflict. Hirota's actions and inactions during this time resulted in a death sentence at the Tokyo Trials following the end of the Second World War, making him the only civilian official to meet such a fate. Hirota is seen as a martyr-like figure in Japan, but this book counters this public image by showing how, despite initially championing a cooperative relationship with China as foreign and prime minister, he continually acquiesced to the military's demands before being swept away by the rise of populist politics that followed early Japanese success in the Second Sino-Japanese War. As the first biography of Hirota to be published in English, this book provides an in-depth account of Sino-Japanese relations and Japanese diplomacy during this critical period and examines the ultimate failure of the civilian government to check the adventurism of the Japanese army. It is relevant to historians of Japan, and to those interested in diplomatic history, and the Second World War - as well as scholars working in various areas of contemporary East Asian politics.
Cybersicherheit in kritischen Infrastrukturen: Ein spieltheoretischer Zugang
by Quanyan Zhu Stefan Rass Stefan Schauer Sandra KönigDieses Buch stellt ein Kompendium ausgewählter spiel- und entscheidungstheoretischer Modelle zur Erreichung und Bewertung der Sicherheit kritischer Infrastrukturen vor. Angesichts aktueller Berichte über Sicherheitsvorfälle verschiedenster Art lässt sich ein Paradigmenwechsel hin zu immer heterogeneren Angriffen erkennen. Hierbei werden verschiedene Techniken kombiniert werden, was zu einer fortgeschrittenen, anhaltenden Bedrohung führen kann. Sicherheitsvorkehrungen müssen diesen vielfältigen Bedrohungsmustern in ebenso vielfältiger Weise gerecht werden. Als Antwort darauf bietet dieses Buch eine Fülle von Techniken zum Schutz vor und zur Abschwächung von IT-Angriffen. Ein Großteil der traditionellen Sicherheitsforschung konzentriert sich auf bestimmte Angriffsszenarien oder Anwendungen und ist bestrebt, einen Angriff "praktisch unmöglich" zu machen. Ein neueres Sicherheitskonzept betrachtet die Sicherheit als ein Szenario, in dem die Kosten eines Angriffs den möglichen Nutzen übersteigen. Dies schließt die Möglichkeit eines Angriffs nicht aus, sondern minimiert die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines solchen auf das geringstmögliche Risiko. Das Buch folgt dieser ökonomischen Definition von Sicherheit und bietet eine managementwissenschaftliche Sichtweise, die ein Gleichgewicht zwischen Sicherheitsinvestitionen und dem daraus resultierenden Nutzen anstrebt. Es konzentriert sich auf die Optimierung von Ressourcen angesichts von Bedrohungen wie Terrorismus und fortgeschrittenen, anhaltenden Bedrohungen. Ausgehend von der Erfahrung der Autoren und inspiriert von realen Fallstudien bietet das Buch einen systematischen Ansatz für die Sicherheit und Widerstandsfähigkeit kritischer Infrastrukturen. Das Buch ist eine Mischung aus theoretischer Arbeit und praktischen Erfolgsgeschichten und richtet sich vor allem an Studenten und Praktiker, die eine Einführung in spiel- und entscheidungstheoretische Techniken für die Sicherheit suchen. Die erforderlichen mathematischen Konzepte sind in sich abgeschlossen, werden rigoros eingeführt und durch Fallstudien illustriert. Das Buch bietet auch Software-Tools, die den Leser bei der praktischen Anwendung der wissenschaftlichen Modelle und Berechnungsrahmen unterstützen. Dieses Buch ist eine Übersetzung einer englischen Originalausgabe. Die Übersetzung wurde mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz (maschinelle Übersetzung durch den Dienst DeepL.com) erstellt. Eine anschließende menschliche Überarbeitung erfolgte vor allem in Bezug auf den Inhalt, so dass sich das Buch stilistisch anders liest als eine herkömmliche Übersetzung.
Loose Cannons: Selected Prose (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics)
by Christopher Middleton&“These thirty-three prose inventions of Christopher Middleton constitute the fourth pillar of an extraordinary literary oeuvre, the other three being his poetry, translations, and literary essays. Whatever one chooses to call these often astonishing miniatures, they are certainly Middleton&’s wildest, most accessible and entertaining work, and they count as some of his very finest writing.&”— August Kleinzahler, ForewordThese uncategorizable writings by a distinguished poet and translator are lively, erudite, and creative. Like his poetry, Middleton&’s prose pieces are alive with incongruity, collage, and surprising juxtapositions. This extensive collection is the perfect addition to every student&’s, scholar&’s, and avid reader&’s bookshelf.
Laguna Pueblo: A Photographic History
by Tom Corbett Lee MarmonThe distinguished American Indian photographer Lee Marmon has documented over sixty years of Laguna history: its people, customs, and cultural changes. Here more than one hundred of Marmon&’s photos showcase his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna people.Along with Marmon&’s own oral history of the tribe and his family photos dating back to 1872, Tom Corbett presents archival images and historical research, making this the most complete published history of any southwestern pueblo. Marmon and Corbett also interviewed noted tribal elders and oral historians regarding customs, religious practices, and events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The resulting narrative provides a fascinating story of survival through severe natural and man-made adversities, including droughts, plagues, marauding tribes, and cultural invasion. Through it all, Laguna has preserved its culture and retained sovereign powers over the pueblo and its territory.
Buffalo Bill on Stage
by Sandra K. SagalaBetween 1872 and 1886, before he achieved acclaim for his Wild West show, Buffalo Bill led a troupe of traveling actors known as a Combination across the country performing in frontier melodramas. Biographies of William Frederick Cody rarely address these fourteen rather obscure years when Cody honed the skills that would make him the world-renowned entertainer as he is now remembered.In this revision of her earlier book, Buffalo Bill, Actor, Sandra Sagala chronicles the decade and a half of Cody's life as he crisscrossed the country entertaining millions. She analyzes how the lessons he learned during those theatrical years helped shape his Wild West program, as well as Cody, the performer.
Velroy and the Madischie Mafia: Poems
by Sy HoahwahFrom the Comanche Tribal Housing of Madischie in southwestern Oklahoma comes a crew of young Comanche, Arapahoe, and Kiowa toughs hell-bent on gaining power within a subculture of organized crime. Led by a Comanche named Velroy, they find themselves caught in the century-long transformation from the old Comanche Nation to a modern-day casino-owning tribe. Hoahwah relays their story with a distinctive narrative flair, honed syntax, wild imagery, and a splash of lyricism.
A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands
by Dagoberto GilbWinner of the Pen/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Essays on the west, the Chicano movement, by one of its founders.Winner of the 2025 PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay A unique voice in American fiction, Dagoberto Gilb is also a singular writer of personal and journalistic essays. In A Passing West he casts a penetrating gaze upon the culture and history of the Southwest, Mexican American identity, and his own family. Gilb has a forceful message for readers: there is a Mexican America, and its culture is the lifeblood of the Southwest United States, which was Mexican land until the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The rest of the country, Gilb declares, does not want to know or respect the long history of Mexican America. His mission is to defend and proclaim its beauty and importance. Ranging from accounts of research in Spain&’s Archivo General de Indias and the culture of farming corn in Iowa to meditations on Mexican and Mexican American writers, deconstructions of Mexican American food, and the experience of teaching students confused about their own culture and identity, these sharply observed portraits are both thought provoking and entertaining. His parents, his youth and manhood, his new disabled life, and snapshots of Mexico City and Guatemala, California, and Texas—all are unforgettable thanks to Gilb&’s brilliant vision and style.
Tortillas, Tiswin, and T-Bones: A Food History of the Southwest
by Gregory McNameeIn this entertaining history, Gregory McNamee explores the many ethnic and cultural traditions that have contributed to the food of the Southwest. He traces the origins of the cuisine to the arrival of humans in the Americas, the work of the earliest farmers of Mesoamerica, and the most ancient trade networks joining peoples of the coast, plains, and mountains. From the ancient chile pepper and agave to the comparatively recent fare of sushi and Frito pie, this complex culinary journey involves many players over space and time. Born of scarcity, migration, and climate change, these foods are now fully at home in the Southwest of today—and with the &“southwesternization&” of the American palate at large, they are found across the globe. McNamee extends that story across thousands of years to the present, even imagining what the southwestern menu will look like in the near future.
Commissions y Corridos: Poems (The Albuquerque Poet Laureate Series)
by Hakim BellamyHakim Bellamy&’s latest collection rings with the same power and grace as the people he lauds within its pages, including Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King Jr. He celebrates Albuquerque and New Mexico, taking the good with the bad, and reminds Burqueños that any day when you wake up along the Río Grande is a good day. As Bellamy celebrates the power of creativity and community within the city and the nation, he also demands that we face our society&’s faults, especially those of racism, racial profiling, and law-enforcement violence. The poems collected here insist that with the power to do right, people also have a responsibility to themselves, their loved ones, and complete strangers to be better and strive harder. Undoubtedly Bellamy is leading this charge, lighting the way for anyone ready to listen.
Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn: The Collected Letters (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics)
by Claudia Moreno PisanoFrom the end of the 1950s through the middle of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) and Edward Dorn (1929–99), two self-consciously avant-garde poets, fostered an intense friendship primarily through correspondence. The early 1960s found both poets just beginning to publish and becoming public figures. Bonding around their commitment to new and radical forms of poetry and culture, Dorn and Baraka created an interracial friendship at precisely the moment when the Civil Rights Movement was becoming a powerful force in national politics. The major premise of the Dorn-Jones friendship as developed through their letters was artistic, but the range of subjects in the correspondence shows an incredible intersection between the personal and the public, providing a schematic map of what was so vital in postwar American culture to those living through it.Their letters offer a vivid picture of American lives connecting around poetry during a tumultuous time of change and immense creativity. Reading through these correspondences allows access into personal biographies, and through these biographies, profound moments in American cultural history open themselves to us in a way not easily found in official channels of historical narrative and memory.
An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine in Belize
by James B. WaldramJames B. Waldram&’s groundbreaking study, An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q&’eqchi&’ Maya Medicine in Belize, explores how our understanding of Indigenous therapeutics changes if we view them as forms of &“medicine&” instead of &“healing.&” Bringing an innovative methodological approach based on fifteen years of ethnographic research, Waldram argues that Q&’eqchi&’ medical practitioners access an extensive body of empirical knowledge and personal clinical experience to diagnose, treat, and cure patients according to a coherent ontology and set of therapeutic principles. Not content to leave the elements of Q&’eqchi&’ cosmovision to the realm of the imaginary and beyond human reach, Q&’eqchi&’ practitioners conceptualize the world as essentially material and meta/material, consisting of complex but knowable forces that impact health and well-being in real and meaningful ways—forces with which Q&’eqchi&’ practitioners must engage to cure their patients.
Family Resemblances: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)
by Carrie ShipersThe poems in Family Resemblances unfold in a series of overlapping narratives in which characters struggle with injury and healing, violence and fear, courage and forgiveness. Throughout this beautiful volume, the multiple meanings of family—whether formed by biology or choice—are questioned through careful attention to the often conflicting notions of connection, inheritance, absence, and escape. The truths these poems find are much like life itself: complex, provisional, and rich.
Good Naked: How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier. Revised and Expanded Edition.
by Joni B. ColeFrom veteran teacher and acclaimed author Joni B. Cole comes the revised and expanded edition of her popular writing guide Good Naked. Once again, Cole&’s humor and wisdom shine through as she debunks long-held misconceptions of how we&’re supposed to write, replacing them with advice that works. Feeling overwhelmed? Having trouble getting started or staying motivated? In this edition, Cole offers more stories, strategies, tips on craft, and exercises to serve new and seasoned writers from the first draft to the final edit. Writers will even find help making peace with rejection.Admirers as well as newcomers to Cole&’s work appreciate her uniquely cheerful approach, time tested to foster creativity and productivity. Keeping this generous and essential guide close by will provide a jump start to inspiration and a daily reminder of the meaning, humor, and happiness that can be discovered in your own writing life.
Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico (Diálogos Series)
by Anne Rubenstein Víctor M. Macías-GonzálezIn Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico, historians and anthropologists explain how evolving notions of the meaning and practice of manhood have shaped Mexican history. In essays that range from Texas to Oaxaca and from the 1880s to the present, contributors write about file clerks and movie stars, wealthy world travelers and ordinary people whose adventures were confined to a bar in the middle of town. The Mexicans we meet in these essays lived out their identities through extraordinary events--committing terrible crimes, writing world-famous songs, and ruling the nation--but also in everyday activities like falling in love, raising families, getting dressed, and going to the movies. Thus, these essays in the history of masculinity connect the major topics of Mexican political history since 1880 to the history of daily life.Part of the Diálogos Series of Latin American Studies
New Mexico Transportation and Planning in 2050
by Aaron SussmanAs professional transportation planner Aaron Sussman notes, &“Where we live, how we live, and how we travel are deeply intertwined.&” This E-short edition from New Mexico 2050 concentrates on developments in transportation and the factors that will continue to shape the state&’s future, from population and housing to travel patterns and funding.
The Jailing of Cecelia Capture
by Janet Campbell HaleCecelia Capture Welles, an Indian law student and mother of two, is jailed on her thirtieth birthday for drunk driving. Held on an old welfare fraud charge, she reflects back on her life on the reservation in Idaho, her days as an unwed mother in San Francisco, her marriage to a white liberal, and her decision to return to college. This mixed inheritance of ambition and despair brings her to the brink of suicide. The Jailing of Cecelia Capture is a beautifully written book. Janet Campbell Hale's gifts are genuine and deeply felt.‚ Toni Morrison
Illustrated Guide to Saddle Fitting
by Beverly HarrisonAn engaging handbook chock full of all the right information for fitting English saddles to both horse and rider, ensuring comfort, health, and performance at a glance. If horseback riders could do one thing that would save them money, ensure their horse&’s health and performance, and help them ride better (and feel better afterward), it would be assuring that their saddle fits their horse correctly, and that it is suitable for their own body and desired activities. Unfortunately, most riders don&’t have access to or the money to pay experienced saddle fitters, who can analyze their equipment and help them determine whether the fit is passable or problematic. This means that a large number of riders just &“hope for the best&” with what they have, or struggle to grasp lengthy explanations of optimal fit and how to achieve it. And, in the end, a large number of horses suffer the consequences. Beverly Harrison started as a rider herself, and when she opened a tack shop, she quickly noticed the need for someone to guide horse owner&’s in choosing a new saddle or refitting an older one. In order to be better informed for her customers, she became a Qualified SMS Saddle Fitter, and she made it her mission to help educate anyone involved with horses: 4-Hers, backyard riders, competitors, veterinarians—you name them, she&’s probably taught them. Harrison figured that her educational efforts would benefit from colorful visual aids to engage her students. And so, a handbook full of her own delightful hand-painted illustrations was born. Readers easily gain a basic understanding of the different parts of the saddle, how they work and how they should fit, as well as what the addition of a rider means to it all. Topics include: Terminology and saddle construction Basic anatomy and physiology of horse and rider relative to the saddle Safety of materials and condition Step-by-step evaluations of fit for both horse and rider Instructions for creating a paper template Indicators of fit under saddle Impacts of girths and saddle pads Repair and maintenance advice A saddle is part of most horses&’ lives. It is anything but a benign piece of equipment: its placement on the horse&’s back—a vital source of strength and locomotion—and its location between horse and rider, means that it can have either a negative or a positive impact on everything from health to performance. Harrison&’s book makes it easy for all of us, wherever we are and whatever we like to do with our horses, to ensure our saddles are not the source of a problem, only an additional means of connection and communication. She empowers us by showing what is right, what is wrong, and what the next steps should be. And in the end, our horses are happier, healthier, and better able to do what we ask of them.
Whither the Waters: Mapping the Great Basin from Bernardo de Miera to John C. Frémont
by John L. KessellBernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785) is remembered today not only as colonial New Mexico&’s preeminent religious artist, but also as the cartographer who drew some of the most important early maps of the American West. His &“Plano Geographico&” of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin, revised by his hand in 1778, influenced other mapmakers for almost a century. This book places the man and the map in historical context, reminding readers of the enduring significance of Miera y Pacheco. Later Spanish cartographers, as well as Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Captain Zebulon Montgomery Pike, and Henry Schenck Tanner, projected or expanded upon the Santa Fe cartographer&’s imagery. By so doing, they perpetuated Miera y Pacheco&’s most notable hydrographic misinterpretations. Not until almost seventy years after Miera did John Charles Frémont take the field and see for himself whither the waters ran and whither they didn&’t.
Oy, My Buenos Aires: Jewish Immigrants and the Creation of Argentine National Identity
by Mollie Lewis NouwenBetween 1905 and 1930, more than one hundred thousand Jews left Central and Eastern Europe to settle permanently in Argentina. This book explores how these Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi immigrants helped to create a new urban strain of the Argentine national identity. Like other immigrants, Jews embraced Buenos Aires and Argentina while keeping ethnic identities—they spoke and produced new literary works in their native Yiddish and continued Jewish cultural traditions brought from Europe, from foodways to holidays. The author examines a variety of sources including Yiddish poems and songs, police records, and advertisements to focus on the intersection and shifting boundaries of ethnic and national identities.In addition to the interplay of national and ethnic identities, Nouwen illuminates the importance of gender roles, generation, and class, as well as relationships between Jews and non-Jews. She focuses on the daily lives of ordinary Jews in Buenos Aires. Most Jews were working class, though some did rise to become middleclass professionals. Some belonged to organizations that served the Jewish community, while others were more informally linked to their ethnic group through their family and friends. Jews were involved in leftist politics from anarchism to unionism, and also started Zionist organizations. By exploring the diversity of Jewish experiences in Buenos Aires, Nouwen shows how individuals articulated their multiple identities, as well as how those identities formed and overlapped.
Miss O'Keeffe
by Alvaro Cardona-Hine Christine Taylor PattenIn 1983, Christine Taylor Patten was hired as one of the people who took care of Georgia O&’Keeffe, then ninety-six. Also an artist, Patten served as nurse, cook, companion, and friend to the older woman. This intimate account of the year of Patten&’s employment offers a rare glimpse of O&’Keeffe&’s daily life when she could no longer see well enough to paint.
New Mexico's Quest for Statehood, 1846-1912
by Robert W. LarsonWhy did New Mexico remain so long in political limbo before being admitted to the Union as a state?Combining extensive research and a clear and well-organized style, Robert W. Larson provides the answers to this question in a thorough and comprehensive account of the territory&’s extraordinary six-decade struggle for statehood.This book is no mere chronology of political moves, however. It is the history of a turbulent frontier state, sweeping into the current almost every colorful character of the territory. Not only politicians but ranchers, outlaws, soldiers, newspapermen, Indians, merchants, lawyers, and people from every walk of life were involved. This is a book for the reader who is interested in any aspect of southwestern territorial history.