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A great, informative look at a controversial saga........2000-10-26
In California, the battle for water between Los Angeles and the Owens Valley still rages to this day, and Professor Abraham Hoffman's scholarly work sheds some well-reseached light upon this 80-year old contest. Between 1905 and 1913, Los Angeles built the L.A.-Owens River Aqueduct, the largest public engineering project in the world, to divert the waters of Owens River to feed the rapidly-growing city of Los Angeles, 233 miles to the south. One man, William Mulholland, was the star in this drama, and to this day has taken the brunt of blame for the controversies involved. Was he really to blame, was it that simple, or were there other people and powerful forces exerting their influence on the events that shaped the California we know today? Expand your knowledge by reading this book! After you do, you may never feel the same about turning on the faucet. The only real flaw in this book is in the reproduction printing. Historic photos and images that were rich and vibrant in the original hardcover are blurry and scored with moire' patterns due to poor reproduction. Otherwise, it's a must for your bookshelf.
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Dallas Kessler
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This guide to the national parks of Yellowstone and Grand Teton will help readers explore the parks and the surrounding communities. Discover the many offerings for dining, shopping, and nightlife in this area.
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And you expect me to pay for this?.......2006-11-25
TERRIBLE!!!!
This insiders guide is less than you would expect in a free publication from the local chamber of commerce. Lists of motels and restaurants with pricing - YES. History of Yellowstone - YES. Real insight from someone who has actually been to Yellowstone would be a nice change from what is found in this book. The book provides 20-30 pages on the history of Yellowstone, the geological conditions, and some basic maps. Then it spends the rest of the entire book going through motels and restaurants in surrounding towns.
There are plenty of other publications available. Try them first as this book falls far short of the content provided through a basic web search and a visit to the National Park Service web site.
Avoid this Yellowstone guide--much better ones available.......2006-08-31
I got this book at the library and boy am I glad I didn't buy it. There are much better Yellowstone/Grand Teton books out there, so avoid this one.
If you want information on places to stay or eat around Yellowstone, this might be ok, but there seems to be little USEFUL information here. It lists a record store in Bozeman, MT, in case you want to know that, but it gives virtually no information on what to see in Yellowstone/Grand Teton. Of the 16 pages actually devoted to Yellowstone Park, for example, about 90% is devoted to places to stay or eat. In short, it's skewed toward the commercial aspects of the area, with very short shrift to the real attractions, the natural ones.
The first section of the book is a perfunctory photo section of dull black and white pictures from the National Park Service. One shows a view of some interesting geological feature from the air and the caption is, "An aerial view in Yellowstone National Park." Duh. Another shot of a hot spring is captioned "A thermal explosion in Yellowstone National Park." Huh? No explosion I can see. Haven't these guys done their homework? And can't they operate a camera to take better pictures? This shows the level of attention to detail in this book.
The Moon Handbook to Yellowstone by Don Pitcher is much, much better, as is the Frommer's Guide, and another Insiders' Guide called "Scenic Driving Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks" by Susan Butler is quite good, but doesn't cover dining and lodging.
Title misleading.......2006-07-11
If you are only going to Yellowstone and Grand Tetons this book is worthless. If you are going through the whole state and surrounding areas it might be o.k. There was ONE page each on hiking in Yellowstone and Tetons. If I had seen this book in the store, I would never have bought it. Lesson learned about on line buying.
essential for any visitor to the parks.......2001-08-21
i can't imagine not having had this guide on my recent trip. it enhanced the experience immeasurably with tips about what to see and how to see it. this is the best of the insider's guides i've ever read. a necessity on your trip - make sure you pack it and leave out the spare socks!
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- 50% POLISH; 50% CUBAN and 100% AMERICAN: IT'S ALL GOOD and SO IS THE BOOK!
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Cuba 15 (Readers Circle)
Nancy Osa
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Parrot in the Oven: Mi vida
ASIN: 0385732333
Release Date: 2005-03-08 |
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Violet Paz has just turned 15, a pivotal birthday in the eyes of her Cuban grandmother. Fifteen is the age when a girl enters womanhood, traditionally celebrating the occasion with a quinceañero. But while Violet is half Cuban, she’s also half Polish, and more importantly, she feels 100% American. Except for her zany family’s passion for playing dominoes, smoking cigars, and dancing to Latin music, Violet knows little about Cuban culture, nada about quinces, and only tidbits about the history of Cuba. So when Violet begrudgingly accepts Abuela’s plans for a quinceañero–and as she begins to ask questions about her Cuban roots–cultures and feelings collide. The mere mention of Cuba and Fidel Castro elicits her grandparents’sadness and her father’s anger. Only Violet’s aunt Luz remains open-minded. With so many divergent views, it’s not easy to know what to believe. All Violet knows is that she’s got to form her own opinions, even if this jolts her family into unwanted confrontations. After all, a quince girl is supposed to embrace responsibility–and to Violet that includes understanding the Cuban heritage that binds her to a homeland she’s never seen. This is Nancy Osa’s first novel.
From the Hardcover edition.
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50% POLISH; 50% CUBAN and 100% AMERICAN: IT'S ALL GOOD and SO IS THE BOOK! .......2007-10-03
Light hearted novel with the wonderful message of being proud of who you are and your family roots. This book is a great gift idea for Quincineros.
Interestingly enough, there is a wonderful little area of Chicago where many Polish and Cuban Catholics do live; and I hear from my Cuban friends that Cuban/Polish marriages are very common. I wonder if Osa based her story on this Polish/Cuban neighborhood. Whatever the case, this book is worth the read, as it brings people from different groups together too.i.e., we are all the same. Wonderful book!
Cuba 15.......2007-03-30
Violet's quinceanero, something she thought of as a humiliation, changed all her views and prompted an area of her life that changed everything that was anything, and with the party, anything was everything. A quinceanero is what fifteen year-olds of the Hispanic persuasion use as the show of changing from a girl to a woman, and Violet was far from happy about hers. Over a year, Violet competed on the speech team, from which she got a boyfriend, organized her quinceanero, and tried futilely to learn from her secretive family about Cuba, where her Dad was from. Violet got pumped for the party, lied to her parents, and nearly didn't get to have the traditional dance with her Dad. Luckily, every part of the quinceanera's party thudded into place with funny family and friends and an easy to read, quirky book that I would recommend to middle to early high school girls.
Violet, or Violeta, was not a perfect teenager, but she learned from her mistakes. For her school speech team, she was in Original Comedy, and she was not very skillful at first, but she figured out how to make something that would win awards. She also figured out that she liked being out on stage. She listened to part of a poem that her best friend Janell was dedicating to her, and got offended before she had the right to do so. Janell told her the rest, and she was flattered. Violeta's biggest mistake was most likely when she lied to her parents about where she was going with her second best friend Leda. They went to a rally for PEACE WITH CUBA, and her father believed that it was evil, especially since she didn't tell him that she was going. Violet did have some sort of reason to go -her father would never talk about Cuba- but she learned not to lie, but to talk.
Nancy Osa gave the characters all very different personalities, which kept things interesting. Violet's grandfather (Abuelo) was stubborn; he wouldn't talk about Cuba either, funny with his music and constantly unchanged clothes, and excellent at dominoes. Violet's boyfriend, Clarence, was easy-going, seeing as how he was wide open to playing dominoes with Violet's father and brother instead of being alone with her, caring with his phone calls and willingness to go to a Cuba rally with her and Leda, and sort of scandalous because of the fact that he called Violet's house to ask if she would be at the party and then flirted with Leda. Violet at first didn't think that she was too cool of a person, but learned that she was very unique as a Cuban Polish girl with the crazy family, which she used in her Original Comedy.
Cuba 15 brought you through ups and downs that made it really easy to read. As I said, Violet's first speech team performance brought her down for good reason, but after that she got better and started to figure out that a quinceanero is not that bad. She went to the Halloween party after hearing Janell's poem and taking offense to it only to feel bad about her costume and her "headless date." Of course, her friends explained and everything was better. The lowest point of the book was when Violeta's dad wouldn't even go to her quinceanero because of her lies, that is, before he came to his senses and gave in to talking about Cuba.
There were a lot of things in Cuba 15 that I could relate to, like unfair parents, stress about life in general like Violet had in her fifteenth year of life, or fights with friends as Violet did once, both friends at the same time. It left you with things to think about, but it didn't make it seem like a sequel would come because it would probably mess up the aura of the story, which I will add was fantastic.
-K. Carson
Courtesy of Teens Read Too.......2006-11-06
Violet Paz gives little thought to her ethnicity. She's half-Cuban and half-Polish, but all American. She takes for father's roots for granted, even if her crazy relatives are always visiting for mega-Domino tournaments and zany cookouts. But when her grandmother and parents insist that she participate in her "quince," she is forced into a reluctant and embarrassed embrace with an "old world" tradition.
This debut novel masterfully and subtly details the modernization of the quinceanero, a coming-of-age party for a Latina's fifteenth birthday, through the eyes of a clever and humorous teen living near Chicago. The author, Nancy Osa, accurately captures the resentment of parental influence some teens experience in their quest for their own identity. As Violet struggles with being forced to participate in her own quince, she seeks advice from other adult figures who help her balance parental expectations with her own need for independence. Osa pulls off this high-wire act masterfully, not going "over the top" in teen rebellion fashion, nor making Violet an unbelievably acquiescent parent-pleaser.
Osa weaves the subplot into the novel quite well, also. It makes Violet's self-discovery a double success story: not only does she make her quince relevant to her modern, American life, but she uses her zany family's exploits as fodder for her speech team event.
CUBA 15 has received considerable attention and been nominated for numerous awards. This is a likeable story from a "new" author I hope we hear from again! Five stars.
Reviewed by: Mark Frye, author and reviewer
Quience babe .......2006-10-25
In Cuba (Coo-ba) it's tradicional for a girl turning fifteen to have a quinceñero or a coming out party. But this is not the ideal birthday present for Violet Paz. Half Cuban on her father's side, and half Polish on her mothers but raised in America Violet doesn't really know what she is. One thing's for sure, she is having a quinceñero whether she wants one or not. This is due mainly to her grandmother who speaks a mixture of spanish and English when she's around violet. Violet only really knows what it was like in Cuba when her grandparents throw crazy domino parties while smoking and dancing the conga to loud Latin music. Coming up with the theme of the party, learning how to dance the waltz, trying to glean information abut Cuba from her father, practicing comedy speeches for the speech team, and schoolwork Violet has so much on her plate. But she still finds time for her boyfriend and her two best friends Leda and Janell.
Blending Spanish and English words may be confusing for some people but I thought that the author Nancy Osa did a great job of it. She also wrote in first person, it gave me an insight into violets life and made me feel sad or happy for her at times.
I really liked this book because I learned a lot about a different culture and what a quinceñero is. I thought that Violet was a very believable character and that she fitted in with the story perfectly. El Fin
Recurring Theme.......2006-09-01
This kind of book seems to be circulating a lot lately. Crazy ethnic family, a lot of Spanish. Not being a Spanish speaker, I didn't really want to read the spanish bits, although I find the quinceanera theme quite intriguing.
I read this book for a school book club, but I really liked it. However, there are quite a few books very similar to this one floating around out there.
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This volumes 2 fold purpose: to present and critically assess the changes that have taken place in Cuban society, economy, politics and culture as Cuba emerges from the crisis of the 1990's and to bring together contrasting perspectives marked by occassionally opposing views, ranging from theoretical discourses to empirical studies that bring together quite different experiences, from both within and outside the island.
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Nancy Osa
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A Pura Belpre Honor Book, An ALA Notable Book, An ALA Best Book for Young Adults, An Americas Award Honor Book, A Booklist Top Ten First Novel for Youth, A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
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Courtesy of Teens Read Too.......2007-01-17
Violet Paz gives little thought to her ethnicity. She's half-Cuban and half-Polish, but all American. She takes for father's roots for granted, even if her crazy relatives are always visiting for mega-Domino tournaments and zany cookouts. But when her grandmother and parents insist that she participate in her "quince," she is forced into a reluctant and embarrassed embrace with an "old world" tradition.
This debut novel masterfully and subtly details the modernization of the quinceanero, a coming-of-age party for a Latina's fifteenth birthday, through the eyes of a clever and humorous teen living near Chicago. The author, Nancy Osa, accurately captures the resentment of parental nfluence some teens experience in their quest for their own identity. As Violet struggles with being forced to participate in her own quince, she seeks advice from other adult figures who help her balance parental expectations with her own need for independence. Osa pulls off this high-wire act masterfully, not going "over the top" in teen rebellion fashion, nor making Violet an unbelievably acquiescent parent-pleaser.
Osa weaves the subplot into the novel quite well, also. It makes Violet's self-discovery a double success story: not only does she make her quince relevant to her modern, American life, but she uses her zany family's exploits as fodder for her speech team event.
CUBA 15 has received considerable attention and been nominated for numerous awards. This is a likeable story from a "new" author I hope we hear from again! Five stars.
Reviewed by: Mark Frye, author and reviewer
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Featuring: The first close look at the Cuban people since the country clamped down.
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"Learn One Thing Every Day". November 15, 1919. Illustrated booklet of travel in Cuba in 1919. Includes 6 loose gravures with photographs of wild Cuba, anniversary celebration of establishment of the Cuban Republic, Havana, street in Santiago, Morro Castle, and Cuban sugar plantation. Text of the topic on the back of each photograph. A bi-monthly publication with a Celtic design on covers.
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Message ... transmitting a Sanitary Convention signed ad referendum on October 15, 1905, by the delegates of the United States, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela.
Sanitary Convention.
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This digital document is an article from Business Mexico, published by American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico A.C. on June 1, 2004. The length of the article is 3015 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Andres Rozental: top Mexican diplomat discusses stalled migration accord, the row with Cuba and the danger of smear politics.(15 Minutes with)(Mexican Council on Foreign Relations)(Rozental & Asociados)(Interview)
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Date: June 1, 2004
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Biology: A Critical Thinking Approach is a concise and affordable textbook that introduces basic concepts and develops students' skills by calling on them to use and apply those concepts. It's relevant in any course where an emphasis on critical thinking is crucial.
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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on June 22, 1994. The length of the article is 489 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures.
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