Líderes de la Comunidad

Voces ancestrales, campesinas, cefeticultoras, constructoras de identidad colectiva transgeneracional en Veracruz hablan de su combativa vida común en torno a agrupaciones políticas, instituciones extintas del Estado mexicano (INMECAFE), movilizaciones sociales de los ochenta del pasado siglo XX, el desarrollo comunitario, el aprendizaje y reforzamiento de conocimientos locales diversos. Episodios de tres municipios narrados históricamente en colectividad subjetiva: Ixhuatlán del Café, Cosautlán de Carvajal y Amatlán de los Reyes. Relatos micro y macro de VIDA A.C. y su transformar las ...

When Vladan Borojevic googles the name of his father Nedeljko, a former officer in the Yugoslav People's Army, supposedly killed in the civil war after the decay of Yugoslavia, he unexpectedly discovers a dark family secret which recollects the events of 1991. Seventeen years later, Vladan's discovery that he is the son of a fugitive war criminal sends him off on a journey around the Balkans to find his elusive father. The story of the Borojevic family strings and juxtaposes images of the Balkans past and present, but mainly deals with the tragic fates of people who managed to avoid the...

As a land that’s constantly in flux, Earth sometimes reveals clues about the plants, animals, and other organisms that lived long ago. Fossils teach us much about what life was like millions of years ago, answering the questions of how Earth changed and maybe even why it changed. This essential Earth science topic is thoroughly explained through manageable text, fact boxes, informational charts and diagrams, and a glossary and index. Readers will become young Earth detectives by the time they’re through with this text!

Families can be big or small, but all resemble each other in one aspect: they have a past and a present that, is also part of a broader history, that of a culture or race, or that of the world. The reader will see that family trees are used both by historians and everyday people who trace generations of relatives. Although family trees imply blood relations, the ties of love and friendship are often just as important.