Sanchez: 472 books

The Ryukyuans as they were also called were not just mere people on a foreign shore. Their culture, customs and way of life, led me to always call them, "The Okinawans. Now in past remembrances and thoughts, I lay out my journey in that time.

After sixty-six years of marriage Libby found herself feeling lonely and without purpose after her husband, Ernest died. She began to write short stories as a way to remember the full life she had experienced. She began to share her stories while taking a writing class. Everyone seemed to enjoy her...

This comprehensive text analyzes the foreign policies of eighteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. First assessing the state of the discipline, the introduction develops a common framework that compares the relevant explanatory weight of foreign policy determinants at the individual,...

Seeking a Dwelling Beloved is about seeking the truth or is about entering in understanding or entering in true knowledge. Seeking a Dwelling Beloved is about rebirth in life or entering in truth again with all gladness and with all joy and with all abundance in the loving grace of the Father Creator.

Archbishop Romero and Spiritual Leadership in the Modern World presents a contemporary and integrated understanding of one of the most remarkable pastoral leaders of our time. This bishop, Oscar Romero of El Salvador, experienced deeply the overwhelming sufferings of the Salvadoran people, as well...

Portuguese Literature and the Environment explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from Medieval times to the present. From the centrality of nature in Medieval poetry, through the bucolic verse of the Renaissance, all the way to the Romantic and post-Romantic nostalgia...

The southernmost and poorest state of the Eurasian space, Tajikistan collapsed immediately upon the fall of the Soviet Union and plunged into a bloody five-year civil war (1992–1997) that left more than 50,000 people dead and more than half a million displaced. After the 1997 Peace Agreements, Tajikistan...

What is the meaning of life? What is consciousness? What is this reality? What is the kingdom of God? How do I get control of my life? What does it mean to be successful? These and many other questions will be found in this book, and the answers are not what you may think.

After years of anti-immigrant backlash, anger seethes in the nation's Latino communities. The crowded streets bristle with restless youth, idled by a deep recession. When undercover detectives in San Antonio accidentally kill a young Latina bystander during a botched drug bust, riots erupt across...

 What would you do if you had the cure for a terrible disease but you couldn’t get anyone to listen to you? Our expert team has obtained three U.S. patents and we firmly believe that we have the answer to the scourge of diabetes. Further, we have written to everyone from President Barack Obama...

How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and to consolidate the smaller victories? These questions need answers. Aid agencies have invested heavily in supporting civil...

With tourism accounting for approximately thirty percent of the Caribbean's GDP and twenty-four percent of employment, a link between the sex trade and the tourism industry has gained recent attention. Shifts in global production, an increase of disposable income for pleasure and recreation, and a...

The European Union clearly matters for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). EU officials and European political entrepreneurs has been crucial in the promotion of funding and access opportunities, but they have been proven to have little capacity to use CSOs for their own purposes.

Every year from April to October, the Sánchez family traveled—crowded in the back of trucks, camping in converted barns, tending and harvesting crops across the breadth of the United States. Although hoeing sugar beets with a short hoe was their specialty, they also picked oranges in California,...