Resultados para "Wild" en Culturales y regionales

The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of an exterminated tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. Ishi stumbled into the 20th century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and terrified of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughterhouse near Oroville, California.

"Auf nach Italien - Eine wilde Achterbahnfahrt der Auswanderung" von Stef Smulders ist eine fesselnde und aufschlussreiche Memoire, die den Leser auf eine Reise durch die Erfahrungen des Autors beim Umzug nach Italien mit seinem Partner Nico mitnimmt. Vom Navigieren durch die Komplexitäten der italienischen Bürokratie bis hin zur Anpassung an die lebhafte Kultur des Landes teilt Smulders seine ehrlichen Beobachtungen und amüsanten Anekdoten über das Leben als Expat in Italien.

Victor Villaseñor creates a powerful, moving protrait of his father's family - the Villaseñors - who in their courage and love of life represent the whole passionate history of Mexico. An epic portrait of Mexico is painted as this spellbinding story of madness and miracles, rage and redemption, unfolds.

“Enlightening, nuanced, and honest.”—Lisa See Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her...

Author Wanda Lee-Stevens was born in 1963, the same year Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech called for citizens of all colors to have the opportunity to pursue the American Dream. In 50 Years of Assimilation, she explores her own pursuit of The Dream in the form of an open letter to Dr. King. Her book chronicles her life, from her loving childhood home in Detroit during the turbulent ’60s and ’70s, all the way across the country to her adulthood in the progressive and multicultural San Francisco Bay area.