Ray Rivera:Author-ccebook-Valuable English Books

Speak in a Week French Week 2: See, Hear, Say & Learn

Authors:Inc Penton Overseas, Scott Rivera, Donald S. Rivera,
Publisher: Penton Overseas
Keywords: week, learn, amp, french, speak
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2004-08
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1591254264
ISBN-13: 9781591254263

Each week presents 8 illustrated lessons, plus additional helpful resource material. Each illustrated lesson page shows objects and interactions, with French on one side and English on the other. Each lesson builds on the previous lessons and just one short week takes you from beginner to managing basic needs and conversation. Each additional week adds new grammar material, handy language and cultural information, plus useful quick reference material. Each package includes a 250 page spiral bound book and a 45-minute CD.

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WLP Scorecard: Why Learning Matters

Author: Ray Rivera
Publisher: ASTD Press
Keywords: matters, learning, scorecard, wlp
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2007-11-28
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1562864785
ISBN-13: 9781562864781

ASTD’s powerful new online tool, the WLP Scorecard, allows practitioners to directly link their initiatives and programs to organizational strategy, financial goals, and a range of other key business measures. This title coaches readers from initial understanding of the scorecard to direct application of this software tool. CLOs, training directors and mangers, as well as HRD professionals, will find this guide an invaluable resource.

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The Barefoot Shoeshine Boy

Author: Al Rivera
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: shoeshine, barefoot
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $22.49
ISBN-10: 1438921217
ISBN-13: 9781438921211

Child abuse is beyond the realm of reasonable people, yet it happens far too often. How does a child process abuse? What gives a child the courage to face daily humiliation, pain, and suffering? The damage for many children is beyond repair, and often opens up a lifetime of heartache and shame. As a child, Al Rivera endured the daily verbal and physical abuse of the one person who should have showered him with love: his mother, and from foster parents who took her place in raising him until he was eighteen. Despite daily abuse, however, Al Rivera faced each new day with a smile and with

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New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone

Author: Raquel Z. Rivera
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: hop, zone, hip, ricans, york, new
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-01-18
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1403960445
ISBN-13: 9781403960443

New York Puerto Ricans have been an integral part of hip hop culture since the very beginning: from 1970s pioneers like Rock Steady Crew’s Jo-Jo, to recent rap mega-stars Big Punisher and Angie Martinez. Yet, Puerto Rican participation and contributions to hip hop is frequently downplayed, if not completely ignored. When their presence has been acknowledged, it is usually misinterpreted as a defection from Puerto Rican culture and identity into the African American camp. But, Rivera argues, nothing could be further from the truth. Through hip hop, Puerto Ricans have simply stretched the

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Laboring to Learn: Women’s Literacy and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era

Author: Lorna Rivera
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: post, welfare, era, poverty, literacy, learn, women, laboring
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-08-22
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0252075552
ISBN-13: 9780252075551

The American adult education system has become an alternative for school dropouts, with some state welfare policies requiring teen mothers and women without high school diplomas to participate in adult education programs to receive aid. Very little has been published about women’s experiences in these mandatory programs and whether the programs reproduce the conditions that forced women to drop out in the first place. Lorna Rivera bridges the gap with this important study, the product of ten years’ active ethnographic research with formerly homeless women who participated in adult