Author: F.F. Centore
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: clarifications, confusions
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-12-18
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0761809686
ISBN-13: 9780761809685

This book brings together the chief elements of 3,000 years of philosophy as found mainly in Western thought in a highly readable form. The work concentrates on problems and issues much more than on names, dates and places. It begins with just those elements of logic needed to understand what follows in the rest of the book. It then explains why philosophy is a worthwhile and distinctive branch of knowledge relative to the other main areas of intellectual interest. Next, it deals with the central problem in philosophy insofar as philosophy is a speculative study. And finally, the text deals wi

Author: Javier O. Huerta
Publisher: Arte Publico Pre
Keywords: poemas, otros, clarifications
Number of Pages: 53
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1558855009
ISBN-13: 9781558855007

In his poem, Toward a Portrait of the Undocumented, Javier O. Huerta writes, "The economy is a puppeteer / manipulating my feet. / (Who’s in control when you dance?) / Pregnant with illegals, the Camaro / labors up the road; soon I will be born." Sharing similar experiences with the more than 11 million undocumented people who live in United States, Javier O. Huerta struggles with his own sense of loss, caught between his life here and his past in Mexico. "Soy nadiense," he writes in another poem--I am from nowhere. Fluent in English and Spanish, Huerta writes poems in both languages, an