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This text tells the story of Alejandro Juarez Jr, a Mexican-American youth and his family, and their experiences in a bureaucratic and frustrating public school system. The book portrays the problems facing bilingual, bicultural children in the American school system.

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FICTION / General

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Drawing from his 'Speaking of Language' columns written for The Montreal Gazette, Howard Richler invites readers to enjoy the pleasures of exploring the English language -- which is rapidly becoming the world's lingua franca. Among other things, Richler traces how foreign words invaded the English language over the centuries, and how people's names came into existence. Richler completes his tour of English with a special section on Canadian En...

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This volume is a full report on three excavations carried out in Castletown: Castle Rushen (1989), Bank Street (1989), and Castle Rushen Stores (1992). The first (carried out by David Freke) is concerned with the medieval and post-medieval castle, the second (carried out by Andrew Johnson) and the third (carried out by David Higgins) reveal a developing urban archaeology in the sixteenth century and later. The Castle Rushen Stores excavation, ...

Why did late nineteenth-century African-American women novelist use idealized stories of bourgeois courtship and marriage to mount arguments of social reform during a time when resurgent racism conditioned the lives of all black Americans? This is the question at the center of Tate's examination of the novels of Pauline Hopkins, Emma Kelley, Amelia Johnson, Katherine Tillman, and Frances Harper.

How did advertising come to seem ordinary and even natural to turn-of-the-century magazine readers? The Adman in the Parlor explores readers' interactions with advertising during a period when not only consumption but advertising itself became established as a pleasure. Garvey's analysis interweaves such diverse texts and artifacts as advertising scrapbooks, chromolithographed trade cards and paper dolls, contest rules, and the advertising tra...

In a new third edition, Jamieson expands her authoritative analysis of political advertising, looking at the media campaigns of American presidents from the early days of the republic to the successful 1992 Clinton campaign, and focusing, appropriately, on the powerful media campaigns of the post-war period. 40 halftone illustrations.

One of Euripides' late plays, Ion tells the story of Kreousa, queen of Athens, and her son by the god Apollo. Apollo raped Kreousa, she secretly abandoned their child, assuming thereafter that the god had allowed him to die. Ion, however, is saved to become a ward of Apollo's temple at Delphi. In the play, Kreousa and her husband Xouthos go to Delphi to seek a remedy for their childlessness, Apollo, speaking through his oracle, gives Ion to Xo...

In 1932 security forces in El Salvador murdered 25, 000 peasants and workers. Between 1978 and 1991 the Salvadoran government killed an additional 50, 000 civilians. This work demonstrates that the Salvadoran military state was essentially a protection racket.

[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited, and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot." --The New York Times Book Review"YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW MORSE UNTIL YOU'VE READ HIM. . . . Viewers who have enjoyed British actor John Thaw as Morse in the PBS Mystery! Anthology series should welcome the deeper character development in Dexter's novels." --Chicago Sun-TimesBeautiful Sylvia Kaye and another young woman had been seen hitching a ride n...

This volume aims to present recent advances in database technology from the viewpoint of the novel database paradigms proposed in the last decade. It focuses on the theory of the extended relational model and an example of an extended relational database programming language, Algres, is described. A free copy of Algres complements this work, and is available on the Internet. Audience: This work will be of interest to graduate students follow...

In Gentle Birth Choices, Barbara Harper, a mid-wife, nurse, and mother, outlines the elements of gentle birthing and provides a new model of maternity care that reduces the need for high-tech crisis intervention, and focuses instead on preparation and good health for mother and child. More than 50 black-and-white photographs by Suzanne Arms capture the joy and intensity of birth.

The semiconductor industry is at the forefront of current tensions over international trade and investment in high technology industries. This book traces the struggle between U.S. and Japanese semiconductor producers from its origins in the 1950s to the novel experiment with "managed trade" embodied in the U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Trade Arrangements of 1986, and the current debate over continuation of elements of that agreement. Flamm provide...

Arthur's little sister, D.W., claims that she already knows how to read. Arthur promises to buy her some ice cream if she can read ten words, and the two of them race to the park, where D.W. is quick to recognize signs such as Zoo, Don't Walk, Police, and Ice Cream. When she recognizes Wet Paint before her big brother does, Arthur is in for a shocking surprise. Full color.

(Instructional). Scales and chord tones provide the basis for jazz improvisation and fill-ins. This book presents traditional scales and chords within the framework of a chord progression. Charts are included with the scales written in all keys and a list of chords which complement each scale. Over 160 music examples apply the scales and chord tones to jazz chord progressions. The keyboard player will gain new insights into the practical appli...

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An examination of Andres Bonifacio, the leader of the Philippine Revolution of 1896, uncovers a history of mythmaking. Distributed for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison