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In this book, the renowned Mexican journalist, Le©đn Krauze presents a charming Mosaic: fifty stories of people, fifty lives that portray the experience of migrating to the United States and the battle to achieve a better life. Inspired by conversations, spontaneous and candid, in the successful television segment 'La Mesa,' which has broken ratings on Univisi©đn records, Krauze revives the tales of those who have had the courage to emigrate,...

Escrita en el espanol original, es la novela clasica escrita por Tomas Rivera. Se trata de una familia Mexicano-Americana como trabajadores imigrantes durante los 1950's vista por los ojos de un nino. Explotado por campesinos, propietarios y aun companeros mexicano-americanos el nino tiene que esforzarse por el mismo al encontratse con la cara de la explotacion la muerte y las enfermedades. (A Mexican-American family's life as migrant workers during...

"On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market the system that controls money in America plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working. People lost their jobs, their houses, or both and ended up in shantytowns called Hoovervilles named for the president at the time of the crash. By 1933, many banks had...

Describes the history, design and construction, components, and future of aircraft carriers, and discusses such famous ones as the USS "Saratoga" and "Enterprise."

This is a biography of the teacher and inventor best known for his work with the deaf and his invention of the telephone.

This book presents a description of and background information about the flowering plants that have been chosen to represent the fifty states and the District of Columbia.

A biography of the woman who founded Hull-House, one of the first settlement houses in the United States, and who later became involved in the international peace movement.

This is a biography of the sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, who led the country through the difficult times of the Civil War.

This is a biography of the slave who was taken in and educated by a Boston couple and became well-known because of the poetry she wrote.