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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jose a quiroga”
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  • Tropics of Desire

    Interventions from Queer Latino America

    by Jose A. Quiroga ...
    Series Book 12 - Sexual Cultures
    From its sweaty beats to the pulsating music on the streets, Latin/o America is perceived in the United States as the land of heat, the toy store for Western sex. It is the territory of magical fantasy and of revolutionary threat, where topography is the travel guide of desire, directing imperial voyeurs to the exhibition of the flesh.Jose Quiroga flips the stereotype upside down: he shows how ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Law of Desire

    A Queer Film Classic

    by José Quiroga ...
    Series series Queer Film Classics
    José Quiroga is a Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Emory University in Atlanta. He has written extensively on Latin American and Latino popular culture, media, literature, and queer studies. His books include Cuban Palimpsests (University of Minnesota Press, 2005) and Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America (New York University Press, 2001). ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Ophthalmic Optics

    by José Alonso, José A. Gómez-Pedrero, Juan A. Quiroga ...
    This book is a comprehensive account of the most recent developments in modern ophthalmic optics. It makes use of the powerful matrix formalism to describe curvature and power, providing a unified view of the optical and geometrical properties of lenses. This unified approach is applicable to the design and properties of not only spectacle lenses, but also contact and intraocular lenses (IOL). The ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

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  • Orange County

    A Personal History

    by Gustavo Arellano ...
    Bestselling author of ¡Ask a Mexican! Gustavo Arellano returns with Orange County, a seamlessly woven history of California's Orange County with Gustavo's personal narrative of growing up within its neighborhoods.The story began in 1918, when Gustavo Arellano's great-grandfather and grandfather arrived in the United States, only to be met with flying potatoes. They ran, and hid, and then went to ... Read more

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  • Major Conflict

    One Gay Man's Life in the Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell Military

    by Jeffrey McGowan Maj USA ...
    A book that will move hearts and open minds, Jeffrey McGowan’s memoir is the first personal account of a gay man’s silent struggle in the don’t-ask-don’t-tell military, from a cadet who rose to the rank of major, left as a decorated Persian Gulf hero, and whose same-sex marriage was the first on the East Coast.Love of country and personal love combine in this groundbreaking memoir of one gay man’s ... Read more

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  • References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot and Other Plays

    by José Rivera ...
    Surrealism, magic realism and expressionism are the hallmarks of Jose Rivera’s influential body of work. This new volume collects the author’s plays written in the past five years, including References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot ("effortlessly melds otherworldly fantasy with gritty realism to make sparks fly onstage."—The Journal News), Sueño (a reworking for Pedro Calderón’s Life is a Dream) ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Outing Yourself

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    by Michelangelo Signorile ...
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    $7.99 CAD

  • The Mexican Cinema of Darkness

    A Critical Study of Six Landmark Horror and Exploitation Films, 1969-1988

    by Doyle Greene ...
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  • Why Marriage Matters

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    by Evan Wolfson ...
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