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  • Hunger of Memory

    The Education of Richard Rodriguez

    by Richard Rodriguez ...
    Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum.Here is the poignant journey of a “minority student” who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation ... Read more

    Was $8.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Darling

    A Spiritual Autobiography

    by Richard Rodriguez ...
    An award–winning writer delivers a major reckoning with religion, place, and sexuality in the aftermath of 9/11Hailed in The Washington Post as “one of the most eloquent and probing public intellectuals in America,” Richard Rodriguez now considers religious violence worldwide, growing public atheism in the West, and his own mortality.Rodriguez’s stylish new memoir—the first book in a decade from ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Brown

    The Last Discovery of America

    by Richard Rodriguez ...
    In this dazzling memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book about race, Brown is about America in the broadest sense—a look at what our country is, full of ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • A Kiss across the Ocean

    Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad

    by Richard T. Rodríguez ...
    In A Kiss across the Ocean Richard T. Rodríguez examines the relationship between British post-punk musicians and their Latinx audiences in the United States since the 1980s. Melding memoir with cultural criticism, Rodríguez spotlights a host of influential bands and performers including Siouxsie and the Banshees, Adam Ant, Bauhaus, Soft Cell, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Pet Shop Boys. He ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Think and Grow Free

    by Richard Rodriguez ...
    A step by step guide to getting off pills once and for all. A Doctor should be consulted first, but this process has been used and reduces pain to almost nothing. This book is written by a man who used pills consistently for twenty years and learned the hard way. Cold Turkey is a sure fired way to die or create brain damage. Nice and easy with head held high you can do it. ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Hunger of Memory

    The Education of Richard Rodriguez

    by Richard Rodriguez ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Davis ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 10 min

    Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just fifty words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum.Here is the poignant journey of a "minority student" who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Zen: How Intelligence, Analysis, and Constant Thinking (How Intelligence, Analysis, and Constant Thinking Quietly Exhaust the Mind)

    by Richard Rodriguez ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Maxwell G ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 2 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This book has actionable information on how to achieve happiness, focus & mindfulness by the power of zen.Our core desire as humans is pretty simple; happiness. But in our quest to finding happiness, we must come to terms with this simple reality; life is full of suffering. In fact, many of the things we do, enjoy or think are a product of suffering. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perfume Dreams

    Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora

    by Andrew Lam ...
    "Much will be made—and rightly so—of the eloquent commentary [Lam's] essays provide on Vietnam and the Vietnamese . . . a fascinating and important book." —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorA PEN American Beyond Margins Award winnerIn his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Law of Eminent Domain

    50-State Survey, Second Edition

    by ABA Real Estate, Condemnation, & Trust Litigation Committee ...
    The new edition of this compendium provides succinct answers to fundamental questions in the area of eminent domain and condemnation procedure for practitioners, as well as a valuable resource for academic study and comparisons among jurisdictions. Each state chapter is written by experienced eminent domain practitioners in that jurisdiction, many of whom are recognized among the nation's leading ... Read more

    $202.99 CAD

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    Days of Obligation

    An Argument with My Mexican Father

    by Richard Rodriguez ...
    Narrated by Michael Anthony ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    A series of ten essays span the five centuries of history, from Hernan Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to San Francisco's AIDS epidemic.Richard Rodriguez explores the conflicts of race, religion, and cultural identity for Mexican-Americans across the landscape of his beloved California—as well as the impact this history had on him.Rodriguez positions Mexico and the United States as moral rivals—Mexico ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Preparing Mathematics and Science Teachers for Diverse Classrooms

    Promising Strategies for Transformative Pedagogy

    Edited by Alberto J. Rodriguez, Richard S. Kitchen ...
    This book provides a theoretical basis and practical strategies to counter resistance to learning to teach for diversity (in culturally and gender-inclusive ways), and resistance to teaching for understanding (using student-centered and inquiry-based pedagogical approaches). Teacher educators from across the United States present rich narratives of their experiences in helping prospective and ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World

    A Memoir Anthology

    by Maya Angelou, Russell Baker, Kim Barnes, Rick Bragg, Rosemary L. Bray, Mary Childers, Paul Clemens, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Vivian Gornick, Pete Hamill, E. Lynn Harris, Daisy Hernández, Oscar Hijuelos, Richard Hoffman, bell hooks, Mary Karr, Michael C. Keith, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Bich Minh Nguyen, Joe Queenan, Luis J. Rodriguez, Richard Rodriguez, Esmeralda Santiago, Sandra Scofield, Kate Simon, Brent Staples, Michelle Tea, Tobias Wolff, Monica Wood, Howard Zinn ...
    Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors—some eminent, some less well known—who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD