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"Los poemas de Lo cortés y lo valiente son pacientes ejercicios de contemplación del mundo. La poesía de Julio Torres-Recinos lleva a su lector por los pasillos familiares del día a día y se asoma a las ventanas de nuestros espacios familiares, para intentar encontrar sentido a un mundo que, por momentos, parece que dejamos de comprender. Como todo buen libro de poemas, la lenta brevedad de este volumen hace contrapeso a un mundo que en su rápido tránsito parece diluir el mundo".Marco Ramírez Rojas, Lehman College/City University of New York"En este nuevo poemario, Julio Torres-Recinos nos ofrece una mirada sensata a los dominios del tiempo, el espacio y la memoria, desplazándose audazmente por sitios naturales, urbanos e imaginarios en momentos de amor y compasión, tanto para rememorar como para escapar a los recuerdos, sin olvidar a quienes viven tiempos difíciles. En una poesía cuyas iteraciones son bien intencionadas el verso abierto se presta fácilmente al ritmo, sin faltar ni la palabra seria ni el sentido del humor".David Rozotto, University of Waterloo, Canadá

Vitamina C is for Culture, a way to celebrate nuestra cultura. From the traditions, our language and the culture that brings families, friends and Latinos together, Vitamina C is one of the strongest ways we connect as a gente. Culture represents our people through quinceañeras, gritos de mariachis, marchas and how we use Spanglish in our communities.

In this second edition of Animals of My Land, the first trilingual book in English, Spanish and Nahuatl published in the United States, you will find more animals and the same important message: to nourish the important bond between language and culture. This book has been created with the intention of reconnecting with the ancient Mesoamerican civilization known today as Aztecs, and their language, while also cultivating both English and Spanish. With this book, children will be able to interact with Quetzali's friends in these three languages and learn to treasure animals as our friends. In this second edition of Animals of My Land, the first trilingual book in English, Spanish and Nahuatl published in the United States, you will find more animals and the same important message: to nourish the important bond between language and culture. This book has been created with the intention of reconnecting with the ancient Mesoamerican civilization known today as Aztecs, and their language, while also cultivating both English and Spanish.

Renata tiene un extraño problema. Su cabeza crece y crece de día en día. Sus papás hacen todo lo posible para sanar a su hija. Recurren a médicos, psicólogos y hasta brujos. Pero si no encuentran rápido una solución, ¿llegará a estallarle la cabeza a Renata? ¿Cómo se hace para que una cabeza pare de crecer?

Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream- How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business uncovers the buried story of how Harper created America's first retail franchise network, a radical new business model that encouraged women to own businesses, to enrich themselves spiritually and financially, and even to marry - all on their own terms. This biography captures the rags to riches true story of how a 19th century Canadian immigrant woman transforms her life and the lives of thousands of other poor women. The first 100 of her Harper shops went only to impoverished women. Harper, thereby, pioneered, modern franchising, social entrepreneurship and invented the reclining shampoo chair we use even today.Born in Ontario, Canada, Harper struggled for twenty-five years as a servant to change her life and that of other working-class women. Bound out into servitude at age seven, Harper was determined to find an alternative to her fate.In 1888, after immigrating to the United States, she pioneered the idea of a public hairdressing salon for women in Rochester, NY, based on health-conscious precepts. Within three years, both the social elite and suffragists enthusiastically embraced her concept across the country, including Susan B. Anthony, Mary Baker Eddy, Bertha Palmer and Mabel Alexander Graham Bell, wife of Alexander. Later British royalty, presidents of the U. S., the German Kaiser, George Bernard Shaw,Danny Kaye, Helen Hayes, the Kennedy clan, would become loyal customers. At its peak, the Harper franchise network spanned the world.Harper advocated practices that were progressive even by today's standards. She urged her franchisees to be accommodating to their customers and employees, to establish childcare centers in their shops, to use organic products, and to pursue principled endeavors. She fought an industry intent on encouraging the purchase of dangerous beauty aids and processes. Instead, Harper preached that people were naturally beautiful and her world-wide network of five hundred shops provided skin and scalp treatments to help release a customer's inner beauty. Her training schools assured skilled practitioners who followed her methods and her manufacturing centers delivered the required quality products.Ultimately, at age sixty-three, Harper married a much younger man and it changed the operation of her business.This book will be of interest to a general audience, business leaders, and historians with a special interest in women's accomplishments and movements, religious influences, and business breakthroughs.