In Pardon My Spanglish, stand-up comedian Bill Santiago chronicles the quintessentially American alegrías of his mother tongue: the quirky, hilariously improvisational fusion of inglés and español spoken by millions (even if they don't know or admit que están doing it). With crash-course efficiency, cada página de este libro empowers your every step toward Spanglish mastery. How can you not love Spanglish? Twice the vocabulary, half the grammar!
 
Readers will learn:
     •  The outlaw syntax of Spanglish (as observed by a comedian with no formal training in linguistics whatsoever)
     •  Advanced tricks of Spanglish conjugation (“to google”: Yo googleo, tú googleas, nosotros googleamos)
     •  The Top 10 Best Things About Being Latino (#6: Guaranteed part in high school production of “West Side Story”)
     •  Why “People en Español” should simply be called “Gente”
     •  Handy corporate Spanglish phrases, including “Feliz hump day”
     •  The secret Spanglish agenda of Dora the Explorer
     •  ¡And mucho más!
 
Full of dead-on observations about immigration paniqueo, “oprima el dos” backlash, and every politically incorrect sentiment in between, Pardon My Spanglish is essential reading for Latinos—and the Latino-curious.

This book represents the first-of-its-kind comprehensive discussion of the non-university higher education sector in Europe. Higher education throughout the world is facing rapid change. Despite the enormous attention devoted to that reality, this volume fills an important void. It describes and offers critical comparisons between the systems in 10 European countries.The book brings together the thinking of leading scholars on the non-university sectors in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom, with a chapter devoted to each country. National case studies are presented for the non-university sector in these countries that address issues such as historical developments, policy changes, governance structures, levels of institutional autonomy and future trends. The editors offer a critical comparative analysis of the systems in these countries followed by a probing look into the future of the non-university sector in Europe.The book is essential reading for those who want a comprehensive, timely and in-depth understanding of the European non-university sector. It will be informative to anyone involved in system or institutional governance, as well as those pursuing research. It should be a reference in every institutional library.

Un manuale che si rivolge a chi si prepara a gestire la comunicazione di diocesi, movimenti, Ong cattoliche, conferenze episcopali e ordini religiosi, nella consapevolezza che il suo lavoro non sempre sarà sereno e tranquillo. È la proposta di Santiago de la Cerva, che si occupa delle basi concettuali della comunicazione di crisi e in particolare analizza il modo in adattarla alla specificità dell'istituzione 'Chiesa cattolica'. La finalità accademica dell'opera ne giustifica la struttura classica (ricerca, programmazione, implementazione e valutazione) e l'uso di abbondanti esempi. Non si tratta quindi di un insieme di ricette per un fasfood informativo (cosa fare e cosa non fare), quanto piuttosto dei principi e delle best practices per uno slowfood di qualità, rivolto a chi vuole impostare la comunicazione durante una crisi in sintonia con l'identità istituzionale e in continuità con la comunicazione ordinaria.

Perù, la città di Ayacucho ha appena festeggiato l'ultimo giorno del Carnevale quando si levano le grida di terrore del contadino Mayta: nella stalla della sua fattoria c'è il cadavere di un uomo. Il corpo è deformato dal fuoco, ma sulla fronte si riconosce distintamente il segno di una croce. A indagare viene chiamato Félix Chacaltana Saldivar, pubblico ministero di Lima. Chacaltana è uomo ligio ai regolamenti e fiducioso nelle istituzioni ma, non appena inizia a investigare, si trova proiettato in una situazione oscura, che gli sfugge di mano. A comandare sono i capi militari determinati a chiudere il caso come un incidente, per non suscitare preoccupazioni in vista delle elezioni imminenti. Ma Chacaltana non può tirarsi indietro: a imporglielo è non solo la sua coscienza, ma un'ondata di morte che sembra non aver fine. Prima un detenuto di Sendero Luminoso, poi lo stesso Mayta, poi un sacerdote. Tutti uccisi orribilmente, seguendo un percorso ideale che lascia sui loro corpi simboli che riconducono alla Quaresima e alla settimana santa. Barcamenandosi tra potere militare e giudiziario, popolazione inerte e ostile, Chacaltana scaverà nel passato torbido della regione, svelando torture e atti di violenza. Fino alla inimmaginabile verità.

Though coming from different and distinct intellectual traditions, Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo are united in their criticism of the metaphysical tradition. The challenges they put forward extend beyond philosophy and entail a reconsideration of the foundations of belief in God and the religious life. They urge that the rejection of metaphysical truth does not necessitate the death of religion; instead it opens new ways of imagining what it is to be religious -- ways that emphasize charity, solidarity, and irony. This unique collaboration, which includes a dialogue between the two philosophers, is notable not only for its fusion of pragmatism (Rorty) and hermeneutics (Vattimo) but also for its recognition of the limits of both traditional religious belief and modern secularism.

In 'Anticlericalism and Atheism' Rorty discusses Vattimo's work Belief and argues that the end of metaphysics paves the way for an anti-essentialist religion. Rorty's conception of religion, determined by private motives, is designed to produce the gospel's promise that henceforth God will not consider humanity as a servant but as a friend. In 'The Age of Interpretation,' Vattimo, who is both a devout Catholic and a frequent critic of the church, explores the surprising congruence between Christianity and hermeneutics in light of the dissolution of metaphysical truth. As in hermeneutics, interpretation is central to Christianity, which introduced the world to the principle of interiority, dissolving the experience of objective reality into 'listening to and interpreting messages.'

The lively dialogue that concludes this volume, moderated and edited by Santiago Zabala, analyzes the future of religion together with the political, social, and historical aspects that characterize our contemporary postmodern, postmetaphysical, and post-Christian world.

A follow-up to Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande continues the poet's daily pilgrimages through the meadows, riverbanks, and bosques of the Rio Grande, where he finds reflections of his visions of love and loss, poverty and renewal, and redemption and war. Original.

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Hustlin' for life, or is life hustlin' her?

After partying and 'grindin'' in Las Vegas and clearing more than $100,000 and a bag of stolen diamonds, twenty-two-year-old Kennedy Sanchez, a beautiful, street-smart single mom, and her cousin Nina fly back home to New York. Later that night, Kennedy gets a call that Nina is being beaten up by her boyfriend -- again. Kennedy rushes over to help, but it's too late: Nina dies in Kennedy's arms after making her promise to take care of her children.

Stepping up to the plate, Kennedy becomes the mother of three more kids and moves them into a Harlem brownstone. She knows she needs to refocus her life, and gets her chance when she meets Chaz, a successful hip-hop artist who sees star quality written all over her. She's offered the chance to become a rapper and leave the streets behind -- or at least shift to another kind of grind. But once in the music world, Kennedy realizes that the setting may have changed, but the hustle remains the same.

After a successful life in the drug game, twenty-one-year-old Kisa Kane plans to retire -- settle down, find a good man, and raise a family of her own. Done with the thug life, she has everything a ghetto girl would want: plenty of money, drop-dead-gorgeous looks, and two thriving legitimate businesses. Until she falls in love with Sincere Montega, a powerful drug dealer whose down-and-dirty money pulls Kisa back into the world she is trying so hard to leave behind. With lies, cheating, and conflict, Kai, their newborn, may be the only reason for this couple to stay together, but their lives are inevitably changed in the most unexpected way, the only way the streets of Harlem can.

In 1997, Mexico launched a new incentive-based poverty reduction program to enhance the human capital of those living in extreme poverty. This book presents a case study of Progresa-Oportunidades, focusing on the main factors that have contributed to the program's sustainability, policies that have allowed it to operate at the national level, and future challenges.

Basta con le sapienti lettere a figli, nipoti, allievi e amici vicini o lontani. Non se ne può proprio più delle prediche dei grandi. Questa volta parla Santiago: 9 anni, una passione vera per il calcio-calcio e una gran voglia di parlarne. Santiago dice la sua ai coetanei, ma anche al padre giornalista. Darwin (il papà, autore di numerosi libri sullo sport), andrà pure in tv e conoscerà tuttto e tutti, ma a furia di parlare del football sembra quasi aver dimenticato che si tratta di un gioco; che per divertirsi bastano un pallone e un campetto; che nei giochi le regole non si discutono neppure, si applicano naturalmente: perché appunto fanno parte del gioco stesso. Santiago ha preso carta e penna e tutte queste cose le ha scritte lui, al suo papà. Età di lettura: da 8 anni.

In queste pagine, frutto di oltre dieci anni di attività pastorale con i giovani, l'autore si rivolge ai giovani che desiderano scoprire perché aspettare il matrimonio prima di avere rapporti sessuali. Con un linguaggio schietto e diretto, l'autore conduce a comprendere che l'amore tra due fidanzati si prova alla luce di un altro Amore: quello di Chi dona la Sua vita per l'altro.

'Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools is a must read. Tim Giago, who spent his childhood at one of these schools, examines the unholy alliance between church and state that tried to destroy the culture and spirituality of generations of Indian children. Provocative, riveting, chilling, persuasive, and original, this book leaves the reader overwhelmed. Describing almost inexpressible cruelties and triumphs, Giago pulls us into the boarding school experience. He challenges Indian Country to co-exist with the truth of what actually happened at these schools. Only then can we heal and avoid acquiescence to a system that has crushed so many souls. The book is a triumph, and a major event in Indian education.' Ryan Wilson, Oglala Lakota, President, National Indian Education Association 'Children Left Behind is a sad story of a nation's best intentions gone awry. Tim Giago's personal accounts reveal an untold tragedy of abuse of helpless children by those who had the responsibility to protect them. To fully understand the calamity, you need only to visit the graveyards of the old boarding schools and see the hundreds of graves of Indian children who did not survive the misguided assimilation efforts.' Richard B. Williams, Oglala Lakota, President & CEO, American Indian College Fund 'Children Left Behind, written by respected journalist Tim Giago, is a fascinating mix of personal stories and history about the role of government and mission boarding schools in the lives of Native people. The book provides the reader with the cultural and historical context for many of the problems encountered by Native American families in the early 21st century.' (Wilma Mankiller, Former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation)

An exploration of the social and environmental consequences of oil extraction in the tropical rainforest. Using northern Veracruz as a case study, the author argues that oil production generated major historical and environmental transformations in land tenure systems and uses, and social organisation. Such changes, furthermore, entailed effects, including the marginalisation of indigenes, environmental destruction, and tense labour relations. In the context of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), however, the results of oil development did not go unchallenged. Mexican oil workers responded to their experience by forging a politicised culture and a radical left militancy that turned 'oil country' into one of the most significant sites of class conflict in revolutionary Mexico. Ultimately, the book argues, Mexican oil workers deserve their share of credit for the 1938 decree nationalising the foreign oil industry - heretofore reserved for President Lazaro Cardenas - and thus changing the course of Mexican history.