Latin American Studies: Reference Sources notable TwentiethCentury latin American Women. In-depth biographical entries on7,200 people from all time periods and all walks of life, including http://www.usfca.edu/library/research/latinref.html
Extractions: 3 volumes Spanning a period from 1920 to the present day, this A-Z resource features 4000 entries on more than 40 regions in Latin America and the Caribbean. "Culture" in this work encompasses food, sports, religion, television and other mass media, transportation, music and other performing arts, architecture, visual arts, politics, and a wide range of other cultural phenomena. Entries include: Miguel Angel Asturios, bananas, bossa nova, Candomble, carnival, cholera, cockfighting, debt crisis, Carlos Fuentes, Higher Education, hurricanes, Indigenismo, Frida Kahlo, lambada, Liberation Theology, La Nacion, poster art, Quechua, salsa, sancocho, Fernando Solanos, syncretism, Teatro Abierto, television, and much more.
History Resources Encyclopedia of latin American History and Culture (R) 980.003 E56e, American NationalBiography Biographies of notable people in American history http://cw.mariancollege.edu/library/Guides/Subject Guides/History Resources.htm
Extractions: History Resources Print Resources Article Databases Internet Resources Questions? The following is a useful guide to just a sampling of the multitude of resources available for History Students. Resources in this guide are a mix of Print Journal Databases , and Internet Resources , accessible through the Marian College Library's homepage. Print Resources These Resources are located in the Reference Collection of the Cardinal Meyer Library. To locate books within the circulating collection, click on SabreCat (online catalog) and search for terms such as: ancient history, medieval, Asia, Africa, European, World War I, World War II, Civil War, Vietnam, United States, Native American, Wisconsin, Fond du Lac, etc. Ancient History Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Extractions: A Sampling of Biographical Reference Sources On People of Color in the Joint Libraries Reference encyclopedia of the American Indian Section of biographies is found on pp. 736-1065. Arranged alphabetically by name; no list by occupation, endeavors, etc., however. The Native American Almanac : a portrait of Native America today Skim for listings of Native American artists, actors, people in the media, etc.
People Walter Cronkite Blazing New Trail On MTV South deaths in 2004 notable deaths in 2003. notable deaths in American Idol is my overthe-rainbowexperience. The 2004 latin Grammys show will not be returning to http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/sfl-apeople06may06,0,38
GLOBAL TRENDS Among notable features of population in the region, there In latin America and theCaribbean 73% of its or Barbados, the ratio of aged people will increase up http://www.unhabitat.org/habrdd/latin.html
Extractions: LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Demography Among notable features of population in the region, there are high levels of urbanization on a low population growth rate. The projection shows that if this trend continues, the population will be 690 million in 2025 compared to 477 million in 1995. Regional trends are much influenced by Brazil and Mexico as most populous countries: Brazil has 34% of the regions total population, 477 million in 1995, and Mexico has 19% of it, together it consists more than half the regions rural and urban population. In Latin America and the Caribbean: 73% of its population were living in urban areas in 1995, the level of urbanization is similar to that of Europe. Although urban population growth rate for the region is relatively low, this urbanization trend will continue in all countries and the urban population in the region will amount to 82 % of the total population in 2025. There is considerable diversity between countries in urban population growth rate. Some countries where urbanization level is already over 80%, for instance Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela and Chile, will have low urban population growth rate. In contrast, many countries where urbanization level is still below 60% will have relatively high urban population growth rate. The two most populated countries, Brazil and Mexico, are between these two categories. Although the low population growth-rate for the region, household number growth rate, is about twice as higher as that of the worlds developing countries average. Increments to the number of households indicate the housing demand. The projection shows approximately 85.8 million households will be increased in the first quarter of the next century. Especially in Brazil, the household increment during this term will be 47.6 million, which is more than half of all increment in the region. Generally the more nuclear families are, the more households are. In fact household average size is 3.5 in Brazil whereas 5.4 in Mexico.
Books About The World Books From Third World.org Slavic; German; Russian; French; Middle Eastern; latin American; Asian Asian American.Multilingual Best Sellers; Reference; Words Language. Leaders notable people http://www.thirdworld.org/center-books.asp
Extractions: Select Search All Bartleby.com All Reference Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference Columbia Encyclopedia PREVIOUS NEXT ... BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Spanish American literature the writings of both the European explorers of Spanish America and its later inhabitants.
Extractions: skip to main navigation Articles A-Z Humanities and Area Studies Engineering Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Government Numeric Data Archive of Recorded Sound Biology (Falconer) Bing Wing Business (Jackson) Eng.(Swain) Earth Sciences (Branner) East Asia Education (Cubberley) Engineering Government Docs. (Jonsson) Green Library Hoover Institution Information Center Lane Reading Room Law (Crown) Map Collections Marine Biology (Miller) Sciences Media and Microtext Medical (Lane) Meyer Music Physics Special Collections Social Science Social Science Resource Center Stanford Auxiliary Library SLAC Library Special Collections Manuscripts Division Manuscripts Home American History ... Slavic Studies Stanford University Libraries holds a rich set of collections documenting cultural and political life in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula as well as the lives of authors and historical figures who were born in Latin American countries and then later immigrated to the United States. Current collections in this field include James Bryan Christie's This otherwise miserable land : typescript, 1958. (
Argentina - Countrywatch.com Today, the Argentine people enjoy increased democratization and a that the entireregion of latin America has endured. One notable measure used to determine a http://aol.countrywatch.com/aol_topic.asp?vCOUNTRY=7&SECTION=SOCIAL&TOPIC=CLPEO&
Baseball's Frontier: Traveling Through Latin America the first americans ever to visit latin America and complain station, and we werebooked on American Airlines to visit Luis Rivas, the most notable product of http://www.startribune.com/stories/1771/3593843.html
Extractions: baseball's frontier latest news al standings nl standings al schedule ... nl schedule Last update: January 28, 2003 at 8:11 AM Jim Souhan, Star Tribune January 16, 2003 A nine-day trip to the Dominican Republic and Venezuela showed two poverty-stricken nations, but that couldn't diminish their people's passionate love the the game of baseball. This is the last of a five-part series that began Jan. 16. STUMBLING THROUGH LATIN AMERICA If you've read the previous four segments on our travels to the diamonds of Latin America, you've learned about the Twins' Dominican and Venezuelan academies, the culture of winter baseball and the home of Cristian Guzman. Before we embarked on our nine-day trip to the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, with a pit stop in Panama, I warned Star Tribune photographer Marlin Levison that our guide prides himself on long hours and short expense reports. Kids and dogs watch as prospects take batting practice.
History Research Databases American National Biography A biographical resource for notable people in American Claseand Periodica (FirstSearch) Index of latin American journals, books http://www.lib.jmu.edu/databases/subject.asp?REPO=REPOPDATDB&OBJ_ID=283&SUBJ=His
Political Science Research Databases resource for notable people in American history with a database offering portraits more, Clase and Periodica (FirstSearch) Index of latin American journals http://www.lib.jmu.edu/databases/subject.asp?REPO=REPOPDATDB&OBJ_ID=297&SUBJ=Pol
Present Situation In Latin America themselves as presidents of the people during their political instruments withthe notable exception of advanced social movements in latin America is how http://www.rebelion.org/petras/english/petras030611.htm
Extractions: Latin American popular movements and struggles reflect a complex pattern of advances and retreats, depending on specific circumstances and moments in time. There is no general "new wave" of victories or defeats. On the positive side there is the victory of the popular movement in Venezuela - defeating two US orchestrated coups and the agrarian reform program of President Chavez promising to settle 100,000 families by August 2003. In Bolivia, the MAS and the social movements, especially the cocaleros, have successfully blocked the privatization program of President Sanchez de Losada's regime and have increased their electoral and mass support. In contrast, in Ecuador and Brazil, Presidents Lucio Gutierrez' and Inacio Lula da Silva's embrace of neo-liberalism represents a temporary weakening of the left and mass struggle.
Research By Subject: Latin American Studies people and Organizations. notable latin American Women Twentynine leaders, rebels,poets, battlers, and spies, 1500-1900 - CT 3290 .A33 1995 Main Ref Who s http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/sst/las/guide/path.htm
Extractions: d. Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 15 December 1966 Friday, 24 May 1968 JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the issuance of a gold medal to the widow of the late Walt Disney and for the issuance of bronze medals to the California Institute of the Arts in recognition of the distinguished public service and the outstanding contributions of Walt Disney to the United States and to the world. Whereas Walt Disney's life personified the American dream and his rags-to-riches story demonstrated that the United States of America remains the land of opportunity; and Whereas Walt Disney, "the most significant figure in graphic arts since Leonardo," pioneered motion picture cartoons, produced spectacular feature films, and created fascinating nature studies bringing joy and pleasure to children of all ages; and Whereas Walt Disney developed one of the wonders of the modern world, Disneyland, a fabulous park where happiness reigns and where one can relive the Nation's past as well as step into the future; and
Latin America Said To Hold Rich Promise is 35.5, and there are 21.7 million people age 15 Much of latin Americas lack offoreign investment can for many countries with the notable exception of http://www.icsc.org/srch/sct/current/sct9912/13.html
Extractions: By Edmund Mander 3 There are 268.8 million active consumers in Latin America, compared with 178.8 million in the United States. Source: Marketing Developments E conomic stabilization and favorable demographic trends are just two of the factors pointing to rich opportunities in Latin America for retailers and shopping center developers. That was the message economists and business executives delivered to close to 400 people attending ICSCs 2nd Conference of the Americas in Miami in October. The region is emerging from its economic crisis, led by improving economies in Argentina and Brazil, and it offers huge, untapped long-term prospects, industry insiders said. In particular, the wage-earning segment of the population is growing, and people are moving to urban areas where they are enjoying higher standards of living, said Paulo Rabello de Castro, an economist, professor and consultant with RC Consultants, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. That presents not only a challenge, but an immense opportunity for the shopping center industry, he said. Stanley Eichelbaum, SCMD, president of Marketing Developments, a Cincinnati-based retail consulting firm, said Latin America deserves more attention than it has been receiving from the U.S. retail industry.
NACLA COLLECTION The most notable holdings overall occur for Central America government and that ofthe latin American state, as as well as groups concerned with these people. http://www.newschool.edu/library/nacla2.htm
Extractions: New School University Sponsored and underwritten by the New School University C omposed of ephemera and serials relating to socioeconomic and political conditions in Latin America from the 1960s through the 1980s, this outstanding microfilm collection from Scholarly Resources is the result of the archival efforts of the North American Congress on Latin America. The microfilm contains a wide range of documentation, with its principal strength in primary sources such as serials, reports, fliers, pamphlets, posters, manuscripts, and correspondence. This material often appeared in limited quantity or restricted circulation, but the opposite also occurred, as broadly accessible, cheaply printed items were judged unfit for acquisition by libraries. The publications generally provide the ideological perspective of left wing, progressive, and human rights issues, but documentation of the political right, the military governments and the church is included. Secondary sources consist mainly of research institutes' working papers and other similar types of scholarship. These sources offer a history of the activities of various groups, the responses of the government or other authoritative bodies, and the engagement of organizations outside of the country. They offer a unique grass-roots perspective on the evolution of the politics of the period and show the impact that human rights organizations, solidarity groups, guerrillas, labor unions, and womento name a fewhad on the state and political elites.
Aljazeera.Net - Israel's Latin American Trail Of Terror One notable Salvadoran officer trained by the Israelis was Major case of Israeli involvementin latin America was its were razed and a million people displaced http://english.aljazeera.net/Archive/News/GlobalNews/Features/2003/News Global F
Extractions: Email Article Print Article Send Your Feedback âI learned an infinite amount of things in Israel, and to that country I owe part of my essence, my human and military achievementsâ said Colombian paramilitary leader and indicted drug trafficker Carlos Castao in his ghostwritten autobiography, Mi Confesin. Castao, who leads the Colombian paramilitaries, known by their Spanish acronym AUC, the largest right-wing paramilitary force to ever exist in the western hemisphere reveals that he was trained in the arts of war in Israel as a young man of 18 in the 1980s. He glowingly adds: âI copied the concept of paramilitary forces from the Israelis,â in his chapter-long account of his Israel experiences. Castaoâs right-wing Phalange-like AUC force is now by far the worst human rights violator in all of the Americas, and ties between that organisation and Israel are continually surfacing in the press.
El Nino The only notable effect from the El Niño/La 250,000 people were left homeless in1998, and United States Policies and the latin American Economies, Praeger http://www.intl.pdx.edu/latin/economy/nino_ec.html
Extractions: An Economic Look at Tourism and Agriculture in Grenada Brazil and Telecommunications Brazil's Trade Relationship with Japan Costa Rica's Got Quality When it Comes to Caffeine ... Home El Nino Drought in Mexico Disaster in Honduras Aftermath in Panama Cocaine in Colombia ... Bibliography While El Nino/La Nina affected the whole of Latin American, it did not do so universally. In some cases, one region's gain was another's loss. Some regions were hit hard by flooding, others welcomed the increased rainfall as it ended drought conditions and increased crop production. Roads washed out, disrupting trade and communication. Fish migrated out of their customary fishing grounds into neighboring waters. Malaria increased in some areas as flooded waters bred mosquitoes. By examining various industries in Latin America, patterns are seen that cross political boundaries and become ecological zones showing El Nino/La Nina's effects. We will see El Nino/La Nina as an agent of economic change. Drought in Mexico return to top El Nino has gripped Mexico in a drought for four consecutive years. The major agricultural states of Chihuahua, Queretaro, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Zacatecas have all suffered. These areas run from the Northwest region of Mexico down the Pacific Coast to Valle de Mexico. Traditionally farmers in this part of Mexico have relied on rainfall to nourish their crops. Irrigation has not been practical economically. Even where irrigationcan be practiced, reservoirs are at near record lows. Storage in reservoirs is as low as 15% of capacity in some locations.
Transparent Language - Spanish Language Learning Approximately 275 million people in 19 countries from is melocotón in Spain anddurazno in latin America. One notable difference is the inclusion of words http://www.learn-spanish-language-software.com/overview.htm
Extractions: The Spanish language is the most widely spoken of all the Romance languages, in terms of number of speakers and number of countries which claim Spanish as the official language. Approximately 275 million people in 19 countries from Spain to Costa Rica speak Spanish. The Spanish language is also spoken in the Balearic and Canary Islands, communities in the United States of America, and parts of the west coast of Africa. A variety of Spanish, called Ladino, is spoken in Turkey and Israel by descendents of Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492. Spanish vocabulary stems from Latin, which was introduced to the Iberian peninsula in the 3rd century during the Roman conquest as a dialect, Castilian. In the Christian conquest of the 15th century, all of the kingdoms of Spain were united and the language of Castile became the dominant dialect. Castilian Spanish, which is spoken in Spain today, is considered the purest form of Spanish. Castilian Spanish and Latin American Spanish do differ from region to region. Latin American Spanish, in particular, has evolved since colonization. For example, peach is melocotón in Spain and durazno in Latin America. One notable difference is the inclusion of words from the indigenous languages of Latin America into modern Spanish vocabulary.
