Product Description: How did an angel enter Victor Wolf's life? The answer was simple...at the hockey rink when a little schoolteacher asked a favor of him: to bring her the head of a poisonous snake when he went snake hunting. She didn't look like an angel...read more

What is a canon and why does it matter? In Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century, Joan L. Brown shows that a canon has the power to define a field and determine what is taught. She argues that it is both productive and necessary to confront our canons, to see what is actually in them and how these works and authors got there. Only then can educators take charge of their teaching canons and, by extension, their disciplines. Brown demonstrates that there is little agreement in the reported teaching canons in English and Spanish. Analyzing twentieth- and twenty-first-century required graduate reading lists in Spanish and Latin American literature in the United States, she finds that the core literary canon for graduate students is less comprehensive than the Spanish Advanced Placement reading list for high school students. She encourages the field of Hispanic studies—curators of the cultural patrimony of our country's second language—to take the lead in developing a diverse, flexible, shared foundational canon at the graduate level, before the arbiters of "best practices" do this for us.

Product Description: Book by Brown Jr., Victor C.

Product Description: This conversation text implements a dynamic, learner-centered approach that encourages students to use Spanish to resolve meaningful and emotionally charged conflicts. A carefully crafted pedagogical apparatus featuring Conversaciones creadora mini-dramas, written by renowned Spanish novelist Carmen Martin Gaite, challenges students to become active participants in the learning process...read more

Product Description: Jr. accepts the phrase, "A man alone on an island." Jr. is the man who pushes every living thing away from him. But, he picks the wrong island. Vietnam has too many things going in it. His hatred develops into love; the love evolves into damnation...read more

Product Description: A Native American boy loves to run, whether on an errand, escaping from the cops, competing against horses, or for the joy of it. Yet this race can't be won until he finds his identity. The ghetto streets, parental neglect and abuse, prejudice, and illiteracy prevent Jr...read more

Product Description: Do not judge a book by its cover. Evil may be good and good may be evil. A serial killer haunts St. Mary?s. Even the cops wonder if people go there to pray or to die.

Product Description: Book by Brown, Victor C. Jr., Brown, Joan L.

Product Description: Aiming to encourage students to use Spanish to resolve meaningful and emotionally charged conflicts, this conversation text implements learner-centred approach. This work includes a pedagogical apparatus that challenges students to become active participants in the learning process...read more