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  • Consolidated Aircraft Corporation

    by Katrina Pescador, Mark Aldrich, San Diego Air and Space Museum ...
    Series series Images of America
    Founded by Reuben H. Fleet in 1923, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation (later Convair) became one of the most significant aircraft manufacturers in American history. For roughly 60 years, this prolific company was synonymous with San Diego. In fact, whole sections of the city were designed to provide homes for the Convair workers and their families. These men and women were responsible for building ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • San Diego's North Island

    1911-1941

    by Katrina Pescador, Mark Aldrich, San Diego Air and Space Museum ...
    Series series Images of Aviation
    San Diego�s North Island is one of the most significant venues of aviation in the world. Starting in 1911, it was the home to one of the nation�s first aviation schools, founded by Glenn Curtiss, who pioneered seaplane flight. He trained the nucleus of America�s future air forces there, including Lt. Theodore Ellyson, the first naval aviator. When the United States entered World War I, the ... Read more

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  • Let them all tell you what happened

    by Mercedes Pescador ...
    These pages have been written by authors from the five continents fro March to May 2020, and they make up an emotional X-ray of what they were thinking and feeling while faced by a threat to their own lives.Artists, teachers, mayors, pensioners, ambassadors, homemakers, diplomats, writers, jobless, nurses… of all ages and origins, they all string their words together and write about love, fear, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha

    by Juan Javier Pescador ...
    Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha journeys through the genesis, development, and various metamorphoses in the veneration of the Holy Child of Atocha, from its origins in Zacatecas in the late colonial period through its different transformations over the centuries, across lands and borders, and to the ultimate rising as a defining religious devotion for the Mexican/Chicano experience ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Aviation in San Diego

    by Katrina Pescador, Alan Renga, San Diego Air and Space Museum ...
    Series series Images of Aviation
    For nearly a century, San Diego has been a hub of aviation development, air power, and flying adventure. The city�s ideal weather and protected bay allowed San Diego to have an aviation history unrivaled by any local community. From the pioneering days of Glenn Curtiss and naval aviation at North Island to the present cutting-edge aerospace technology, Aviation in San Diego captures it all. With ... Read more

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  • Reflections through the Convex Mirror of Time / Reflexiones tras el Espejo Convexo del Tiempo

    Poems in Remembrance of the Spanish Civil War / Poemas en Recuerdo de la Guerra Civil Española

    by E.A. Mares ...
    Series series Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series
    In this poignant bilingual collection, preeminent New Mexican poet E. A. “Tony” Mares posthumously shares his passionate journey into the broken heart and glimmering shadows of the Spanish Civil War, whose shock waves still resonate with the political upheavals of our own times. Mares engages in dialogue with heroes and demons, anarchists and cardinals, and beggars and poets. He takes us through ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Spanish Short Stories For Beginners (Vol 1)

    Use short stories to learn Spanish the fun way with the bilingual reading natural method

    by Mobile Library ...
    Series series Foreign Language Learning Guides
    ¡Hola!Hello!Did you understand this first Spanish word?Yes, you did!Why?Because it was presented to you using a new technique that is making learning languages easier than ever – the Bilingual Reading.We created this book using this technique so that you can learn Spanish in a fast and fun way and whenever you want.How does this work?It is simple: Bilingual Reading works by reading two versions of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To the End of the Earth

    A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico

    by Stanley Hordes ...
    In 1981, while working as New Mexico State Historian, Stanley M. Hordes began to hear stories of Hispanos who lit candles on Friday night and abstained from eating pork. Puzzling over the matter, Hordes realized that these practices might very well have been passed down through the centuries from early crypto-Jewish settlers in New Spain. After extensive research and hundreds of interviews, Hordes ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Shaky Colonialism

    The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath

    by Charles F. Walker ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Contemporary natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are quickly followed by disagreements about whether and how communities should be rebuilt, whether political leaders represent the community’s best interests, and whether the devastation could have been prevented. Shaky Colonialism demonstrates that many of the same issues animated the aftermath of disasters more than 250 years ago. On ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego

    The Historical Evidence

    by Eduardo Chávez ...
    Series series Celebrating Faith: Explorations in Latino Spirituality and Theology
    In Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego, Eduardo Chávez presents the most important points of the Great Guadalupan Event: the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego, a recently converted indigenous man, in Mexico. Through a utilization of the numerous historical documents and investigations of this event, Chávez details the reality of what occurred in the cold winter of 1531. As ... Read more

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  • Easy Spanish Reader, Premium Fourth Edition

    by William T. Tardy ...
    Start Reading in Spanish Immediately and Build Your Language Skills in No Time!Whether you’re a brand-new beginner or an advanced-beginning learner, the new editions of these popular titles enable you to dive into the language with engaging readings that progress in difficulty to match your growing reading skills. This process will allow you to rapidly build comprehension and confidence as you ... Read more

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