Cicely Saunders

“Mi Vida...en uniforme” in English means “My Life ...in uniform” and is a sequel to my first book titled “Mi Calle, Mi Barrio ,Mi Pueblo” which again translated to English means “My Street, My Neighborhood, My Town”. Each one of those books narrates a distinct phase of my life with all the anecdotes , persons , and situations that formed me as a person. Mi Vida starts where Mi Calle ends and walks the reader while having a conversation, as good friends do, through my life as a college student and then as a United States Army Officer for twenty one years which included a war ,...

An oral history of four generations of Hispanic women in New Mexico. Twenty-one Hispanas recall life experiences spanning a period from the time when New Mexico was a Spanish-speaking territory until today. Themes include: the shift from a rural to an urban environment ; the struggle to preserve culture and traditions ; efforts to cope with discrimination ; changes in family relations ; the striving for education, job, and careers ; service to family and community ; dedication to social change.

La capital del país es tan grande que puede albergar infinidad de historias ocultas en cada calle, en cada casa. Por ello, Héctor de Mauleón se ha dado a la tarea de capturar algunas de ellas, las más impactantes y entrañables, a través del poder de la crónica y a lo largo de la historia, en la colección La ciudad oculta. Apoyado en recursos gráficos como fotografías, croquis, anuncios de periódicos e ilustraciones, esta colección invita al lector a que se traslade en el tiempo y el espacio para situarse en cada época y que adopte esas otras calles y edificios como propias....

This book focuses on the cultural and political conditions of Columbia in relationship with their most notorious poet in its history. The relationship between Jose Asuncion Silva, the cultural institutions and the social and political environment at the end of the nineteenth century in Bogota is the main interest of this book. The poetic works of Silva are analyzed.