Authors:LASTKezar, Rozana Carducci, Melissa Contreras-McGavi
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: education, higher, ashe, report, aehe, series, research, word, revolution, rethinking, leadership
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-05-19
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0787986771
ISBN-13: 9780787986773

In these times of change and challenge in higher education, pleas for leadership have become frequent. However, the type of leadership required within this new context (of globalization, demographic changes, technological advancement, and questioning of social authority) may call for different skills, requiring a re-education among campus stakeholders if they want to be successful leaders. In the past twenty years, there has been a revolution in the way that leadership is conceptualized across most fields and disciplines. Leadership has moved away from being leader-centered, individuali

Author: Brett Contreras
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: vampire
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $20.49
ISBN-10: 1420865552
ISBN-13: 9781420865554

TELL YOUR FRIENDS! PARENT-FREE PARTYING IN MASSAPEQUA! It is August of 1989, and Mike Aufiero has just graduated high school. The annual summer escape to the Adirondacks is not the thrill he had hoped it would be, and he soon arranges to return to Long Island. There, he and his sister have run of the family’s house, and the freedom to live it up in his last summer before college! Unfortunately, a seemingly-harmless errand has brought a dark presence back to Massapequa, and Mike is not the only one with plans for the summer. It is not long before Mike and his friends find themselves embro

Author: Sheila Marie Contreras
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: chicana, literature, matters, indigenism, lines, myth, blood
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0292717970
ISBN-13: 9780292717978

Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature examines a broad array of texts that have contributed to the formation of an indigenous strand of Chicano cultural politics. In particular, this book exposes the ethnographic and poetic discourses that shaped the aesthetics and stylistics of Chicano nationalism and Chicana feminism. Contreras offers original perspectives on writers ranging from Alurista and Gloria Anzaldúa to Lorna Dee Cervantes and Alma Luz Villanueva, effectively marking the invocation of a Chicano indigeneity whose foundations and formulations can be linked to U.S. an

Authors:James A. Banks, Barry K. Beyer, Gloria Contreras, Jea
Publisher: Sra
Keywords: place, time, adventures, york, new
Published: 1998-01
List price: $65.84
ISBN-10: 0021491941
ISBN-13: 9780021491940

Authors:Alejandro G. Alonso, Pedro Contreras, Martino Fagiuo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: deco, havana
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-11-17
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0393732320
ISBN-13: 9780393732320

An unparalleled tour of the Art Deco-style architecture, interiors, decoration, and art objects of Havana, this colorful book shows the work of Cuban artists, open to the winds of change and to outside influences, who filtered the movement born in Paris through the dazzling beauty of Caribbean nature and made the art their own. Exteriors and interior spaces, the graphic artists who spearheaded Art Deco’s popularity, monumental sculpture, and the contributions of painters are explored here in rich detail. 300 color photographs

Authors:Melissa Rannels, Melissa Alvarado, Hope Meng,
Publisher: Taunton Press
Keywords: fabulous, fashionista, diy, dirty, subversive, amp, sew
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1561588091
ISBN-13: 9781561588091

Sew Subversive is about making fashion your own, whether it’s embellishing or customizing off-the-rack clothing or transforming clothes that have lost that loving feeling. The three twenty-something co-owners of Stitch Lounge, an urban sewing studio in San Francisco, teach you, in plain, fun language, how to do it, whether you’re hand sewing, machine sewing, or, in a few cases, simply wielding a pair of scissors. The first three chapters lay the ground work: Hand Sewing Basics, You and Your Machine, and Gearing Up, which includes Fabric 101, how to set up a sewing space, and a run-

Author: Melissa P.
Publisher: Grove Press/ Black Cat
Keywords: bed, brush, strokes
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-09-22
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802117813
ISBN-13: 9780802117816

An instant blockbuster in Italy where it has sold over 700,000 copies, and now an international literary phenomenon, 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed is the fictionalized memoir of Melissa P., a Sicilian teenager whose quest for love rapidly devolves into a shocking journey of sexual discovery. Melissa begins her diary a virgin, but a stormy affair at the age of fourteen leads her to regard sex as a means of self-discovery, and for the next two years she plunges into a succession of encounters with various partners, male and female, her age and much older, some met through schoolmates, oth