3 comments about A Place in El Paso: A Mexican-American Childhood.

1. Great book, I read it for a Chicano Studies class but I enjoyed every moment of it. A good memoir for anyone interested in the daily life experiences of Chicanas in the U.S.



2. Beautifully told story of a young Mexican-American girl growing up in El Paso in the 1940s. Ms. Lopez-Stafford shares her recollections of her barrio and all it's colorful characters.



3. The author titles her story "A Place in El Paso." Nevertheless, any of the following titles, "A Place in My Heart," "A Place in the Sun," "A Place in my Life," would had been appropriate as well. To the careful reader the story will bloom like a flower in his or her heart and soul.
   
   Even though the characters, the places, and the events are necessary to complete the gestalt of the story, the characters, and the events are not restricted to any particular place or to anyone in particular. It can happen anywhere to anyone.
   
   The careful reader will examine the story "A Place in El Paso" by looking below the surface, below the gestalt of the story in order to reach the nuances of Gloria's coming of age and survival. Moreover, the grammatical structure of the story is, symbolically speaking, a ticket for the reader to shadow, follow, and observe her life, and in doing so experience her innocence and get involved in the vicissitudes in Gloria's existence. The reader will witness and feel not only the tragic sad and heartbreaking moments in her existence, but the events that made her strong to endure the various disappointments and disillusionments while trying to find the right place in her life.
   
   I highly recommend this book whether you are Anglo, Black, Hispanic, and so forth; this story can very well be your story as well.

No comments about The music of Spanish history to 1600, (Half title: Hispanic notes & monographs; essays, studies, and brief biographies issued by the Hispanic society of America).

No comments about Luis Munoz Marin (Raintree Hispanic Stories).

3 comments about Selena Perez: Queen of Tejano Music (Great Hispanics of Our Time).

1. This is a wonderful book for hispanic students or students learning about different cultures. It includes great pictures and factual information in a non-threatening way. Great addition to personal library.



2. Coming up on the 5th anniversary with Selena's death, we have time to reflect on her life and the story of her struggle. It is appropriate that her memory is still everywhere. Selena's trajectory and her impact in the Tex-Mex world is demonstrated in the interesting "Billboard Guide to Tejano and regional Mexican Music," on Billboard Books. Selena was only one of several rising stars which helped change the market



3. the reason i read the book because her life was a really bad and they event teake care ver well they even have security like all kind of artist right know i thikn if she you even die her concert will be continu thats my opinio so i miss her so much that was my fan.

No comments about Twice-Told Tales: Brunetto Latino and Dante Alighieri.

No comments about Severo Ochoa (Biografias Hispanoamericanas / Hispanic-American Biographies (Spanish)).

2 comments about Benito Juarez (Hispanic Heritage).

1. Carlos, Ramirez
   10/27/05 per.3
   
   These are the stories of Hispanic and Hispanic -American men and women who have shaped the way we live. These people have given of themselves, sometimes even given their lives, to bring us political freedom and social equality and to offer us their personal triumphs.



2. The cover of the book has a colorful picture of Benito Juarez. It's by Jan Gleiter and is illustrated by Francis Balistreri. It is published by the stek-Vaughn company in Austin Texas. Each page of the 32 pages has a picture about what the say on the reading.
   Benito Juarez fought for freedom, made laws, he had a goal. He did whatever was necessary to do this goal. He had the ability to change Mexico and make it a better place.
   He was a brilliant, stubborn, honest, and simple man who only wanted one thing. He wanted to improve the lives of the people of Mexico more than any person before or after he accomplished that goal. He can be your role model, so enjoy this book and learn from his examples.

No comments about It's about mission!: Ventures and views of a pilgrim in Hispanic ministry.

No comments about Hispanic American Biographies.

2 comments about Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla (Raintree Hispanic Stories).

1. Ms. Costantino has produced another well illustrated book on design; however, she strives to cover too much territory in the text while also trying to make the work accessible to those unfamiliar with Art Nouveau.

   Ms. Costantino covers Art Nouveau in two chapters: The Applied Arts and Architecture and Interior Design with a concluding chapter summarizing Art Nouveau's influence on contemporary design. In general, the two chapters are organized by treating separately the contributions to Art Nouveau of the major artists and designers of each country. Sometimes the transitions from one designer to the next are abrupt. Subchapter headings would help with these transitions.

   Also, Ms. Costantino occasionally references important works: e.g. August Endell's Elvira Studio or Arthur Mackmurdo's Wren's City Churches; without providing illustrations, so essential to understanding their significance. Or in the case of mentioning W. Benson's metalwork being exhibited at the opening of Siegfried Bing's newly renovated store without explaining the importance of Bing or his store, it is easy to see how the significance of the reference could be lost to readers unfamiliar with his role in Art Nouveau.

   The work does, however, contain crisp, clear color illustrations of major works of architecture, jewelry, metelwork, and furniture as well as outstanding pieces by lesser know Art Nouveau designers and for this reason alone is a valuable work.

   The book is written as an introductory work for those new to Art Nouveau yet Ms. Costantino's desire to be thorough results in occasional lapses to obscure and inadequately explained references which may at times confuse those not familiar with Art Nouveau.

   Despite these occasional lapses, Ms. Costantino provides us with excellent descriptions and explaination of the far-reaching influence and significance of the major works of the designers and artists of Art Nouveau. Particularily delightful is the treatment of lessor known though equally important artists and their works.




2. The term art Nouveau encompasses a style of architecture, figurative and applied arts that flourished in the last decades of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th. During the final decade of the 19th century Western society was being transformed radically. The automobile, photography and the rise of psychoanalysis were just three elements that contributed to this change.

   Costantino's book examines the sources of Art Nouveau in the English Arts & Crafts Movement, in Expressionist painting and in Symbolist poetry. These forms were themselves a reaction to rapid industrial development. Art Nouveau is seen by many as the expression of the last vestiges of a unity in European culture and the continuous interchange of ideas within it. It is a flowing style characterised by a love of detail, pattern and texture.

   This work profiles the remarkable figures that gave style and shape to the movement, including René Lalique, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Antonio Gaudí and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It is a dazzling visual record of the ebullience and breathtaking variety of the objets d'art produced in this lively and elegant era.

   My favourite plates here include Edvard Munch's painting Madonna, Fernand Khnopff's The Caresses Of The Sphinx, Gustave Klimt's Female Friends and Music plus a leaded glass window by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Aristide Maillol's tapestry Concert des Femmes and Jules Chéret's 1893 poster for the dancer Loïe Fuller at the Folies Bergère.

   The chapters are titled A Changing Society, Introducing A New Style, Graphic Design and Photography, Architecture and Interior design, The Applied Arts, Painting and Sculpture, a Far-Reaching Style. This beautiful book with its more than 300 illustrations concludes with a chronology, a bibliography and an index.