The Miracle of Mata Ortiz
Author | : Walter P. Parks |
Publisher | : Treasure Chest Books |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Walter P. Parks |
Publisher | : Treasure Chest Books |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John V. Bezy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Mata Ortiz (Mexico) |
ISBN | : 9781450720670 |
Author | : Bill Gilbert |
Publisher | : Triumph Books |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2000-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1623684919 |
It was a miracle worthy of the season. When Captain Leonard La Rue spied from his twelve-man merchant ship, the Meredith Victory, the throng of Korean refugees on the docks of a city in flames, he didn't hesitate to do what others would consider impossible. In December of 1950, La Rue and his skeleton crew rescued fourteen thousand Korean refugees from the hands of the rapidly-approaching Chinese army in the city of Hungnam. Through the night and next day, a seemingly endless succession of refugees boarded the Meredith, their will to live and strong spirit steeling them against the bitter cold and incredibly crowded conditions. Standing shoulder to shoulder for three days the refugees and crew stoically endured as La Rue steered the ship through sea battle, a thirty-mile web of sea mines, and enemy shelling. "Ship of Miracles" is the incredible story of what has been called "the greatest rescue operation by a single ship in the history of mankind." Against all odds, the little merchant vessel transported its precious cargo to the island of Koje-Do on Christmas Eve completely unharmed, all fourteen thousand refugees alive and well, including an additional five new lives begun on this incredible journey. As the fiftieth anniversary of this miraculous rescue approaches, "Ship of Miracles" is as touching today as it was then; a tale you'll hold close to your heart, and return to time and again. While the United States Navy prepares to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the perilous evacuation at Hungnam and honor the Meredith Victory's miraculous feat, read this never-before-told account from the crew themselves, as they relate the incredible and unbelievable details of their three-day journey from fear to freedom.
Author | : Margaret Moore Booker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Folk art |
ISBN | : 9781933855752 |
The traditional arts of the Southwest are brought together in one volume for the first time. Comprehensive descriptions of Native American and Hispano art are accompanied by full-color photographs of art from museums, galleries, and private collections.
Author | : Andrew M. Beresford |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2020-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004419381 |
Sacred Skin offers the first systematic evaluation of the cult of St. Bartholomew in Spain. Focusing primarily on flaying, its five chapters explore the paradoxes of hagiographic representation and their complex and ambivalent effect on the observer.
Author | : Daniel Hernandez |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011-02-08 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1451610181 |
MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion, and art, and a magnet for thrill-seeking expats from around the world. In 2002, Daniel Hernandez traveled to Mexico City, searching for his cultural roots. He encountered a city both chaotic and intoxicating, both underdeveloped and hypermodern. In 2007, after quitting a job, he moved back. With vivid, intimate storytelling, Hernandez visits slums populated by ex-punks; glittering, drug-fueled fashion parties; and pseudo-native rituals catering to new-age Mexicans. He takes readers into the world of youth subcultures, in a city where punk and emo stand for a whole way of life—and sometimes lead to rumbles on the streets. Surrounded by volcanoes, earthquake-prone, and shrouded in smog, the city that Hernandez lovingly chronicles is a place of astounding manifestations of danger, desire, humor, and beauty, a surreal landscape of “cosmic violence.” For those who care about one of the most electrifying cities on the planet, “Down & Delirious in Mexico City is essential reading” (David Lida, author of First Stop in the New World).
Author | : Brian R. Hamnett |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2006-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521852846 |
This updated edition offers an accessible and richly illustrated study of Mexico's political, social, economic and cultural history.
Author | : Thomas Cottam Romney |
Publisher | : University of Utah Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0874808383 |
Originally published in 1938, this important document chronicles a little-known chapter in Mormon history: the polygamous members in the 1880s who sought refuge from the U.S. federal marshals in Mexico.
Author | : Alcira Duenas |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1607320193 |
Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society. Scholars have long assumed that Spanish rule remained largely undisputed in Peru between the 1570s and 1780s, but educated elite Indians and mestizos challenged the legitimacy of Spanish rule, criticized colonial injustice and exclusion, and articulated the ideas that would later be embraced in the Great Rebellion in 1781. Their movement extended across the Atlantic as the scholars visited the seat of the Spanish empire to negotiate with the king and his advisors for social reform, lobbied diverse networks of supporters in Madrid and Peru, and struggled for admission to religious orders, schools and universities, and positions in ecclesiastic and civil administration. Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" explores how scholars contributed to social change and transformation of colonial culture through legal, cultural, and political activism, and how, ultimately, their significant colonial critiques and campaigns redefined colonial public life and discourse. It will be of interest to scholars and students of colonial history, colonial literature, Hispanic studies, and Latin American studies.
Author | : Daniel Lederman |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 146480012X |
Entrepreneurship -- manifested in the entry of new firms or products into new markets, or substantial improvements in technological capacity or process innovation by incumbent firms -- is widely considered to be an important ingredient for long term economic development. This report argues that entrepreneurship is also a source of employment generation, export growth, and resilience during economic downturns. Although the conventional wisdom suggests that Latin American and Caribbean countries underperform relative to China and other emerging markets in terms of its entrepreneurial dynamism, t.