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Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing

Product Description: Immigration is the essential American story. From London or Lvov, Bombay or Beijing, Dublin or Dusseldorf, people have come to America to remake themselves, their lives, and their identities. Despite political obstacles, popular indifference, or hostility, they put down roots here, and their social, cultural, and entrepreneurial energies helped forge the open and diverse society we live in...read more

By Ilan Stavans (editor)

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9781598530513 | Library of America, October 15, 2009, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Immigration is the essential American story.

Health Care

Product Description: This work highlights the myriad problems Latinos face in becoming fully acculturated consumers of health care. Its series of chapters by expert contributors bridges the communication gap between mainstream medical professionals who need to understand the Latino worldview and Latinos that need to adapt to the puzzling complexity of providers and insurers that make up the American health care system...read more

By Ilan Stavans (editor)

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9780313364907 | Greenwood Pub Group, February 9, 2010, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This work highlights the myriad problems Latinos face in becoming fully acculturated consumers of health care.

Dance of the Demons

Product Description: “I do not know of a single woman in Yiddish literature who wrote better than she did.”—Isaac Bashevis Singer “A daring feat. . . . Recommended for all libraries.”—Library Journal, starred review “The reappearance of this novel will be welcomed by students of Jewish and Yiddish literature and 20th-century feminist writing...read more

By Maurice Carr (trans), Esther Singer Kreitman, Anita Noich (other contributor) and Ilan Stavans (introduced by)

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9781558615953 | Feminist Pr, May 1, 2009, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: “I do not know of a single woman in Yiddish literature who wrote better than she did.

Quinceanera/ Fifteenth Birthday

By Armando Ramirez

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9786074291902 | Random House Mondadori, February 1, 2009, cover price $17.95

Cesar Chavez: The Man Who Became the Legend

Product Description: Who was César Chávez? Here, an essay and photographs restore this man to his place in American history.The real César Chávez got lost in the hoopla. Many think he was a Mexican boxer. Young people think he’s that guy on the stamp or that statue in the park...read more

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9781933693224, titled "Cesar Chavez: A Photographic Essay" | 1 edition (Cinco Puntos Pr, May 1, 2010), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Who was César Chávez?

My Sax Life: A Memoir

Product Description: Since defecting from Cuba in 1980--and indeed long before that in his native land--Paquito D'Rivera has received glowing praise time and again. A best-selling artist with more than thirty solo albums to his credit, D'Rivera has performed at the White House and the Blue Note, and with orchestras, jazz ensembles, and chamber groups around the world...read more

By Paquito D'Rivera and Ilan Stavans (foreword by)

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9780810122185 | Northwestern Univ Pr, November 17, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Since defecting from Cuba in 1980--and indeed long before that in his native land--Paquito D'Rivera has received glowing praise time and again.

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9780810125247 | Northwestern Univ Pr, November 4, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Since defecting from Cuba in 1980--and indeed long before that in his native land--Paquito D'Rivera has received glowing praise time and again.

Love and Language

Product Description: Our understanding of love today is not the same as the one espoused by Plato in the fourth century BCE. Nor is it the same as the courtly love of the Renaissance, or love as defined by Stendhal or Proust or Freud. In this utterly original book, cultural critic Ilan Stavans engages in an exhilarating dialogue with Veronica Albin about love and its various manifestations...read more

By Veronica Albin and Ilan Stavans

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9780300118056, titled "Love & Language" | Yale Univ Pr, October 30, 2007, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Our understanding of love today is not the same as the one espoused by Plato in the fourth century BCE.

Spanglish

Product Description: Spanglish-a hybrid of Spanish and English-is intricately interwoven with the history and culture of Latinos, the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States. With deep roots that trace back to the U.S. annexation of Mexican territories in the early to mid-19th century, Spanglish can today be heard in as far-flung places as urban cities and rural communities, on playgrounds and in classrooms around the country...read more

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9780313348044 | Greenwood Pub Group, August 30, 2008, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Spanglish-a hybrid of Spanish and English-is intricately interwoven with the history and culture of Latinos, the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States.

Resurrecting Hebrew

Product Description: Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language...read more

By Ilan Stavans

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9780805242317 | Schocken Books, September 16, 2008, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation.

Immigration

Product Description: Immigration is a topic on the minds of a large portion of Americans. In 2006, a series of large marches and political debates shook the nation to the core. With the 2008 presidential campaign under way, the controversy is alive and well...read more

By Ilan Stavans (editor)

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9780313348020 | Greenwood Pub Group, August 30, 2008, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Immigration is a topic on the minds of a large portion of Americans.

The Disappearance: A Novella And Stories

Product Description: Hailed as one of the most important Hispanic writers of his generation, Ilan Stavans is a celebrated storyteller whose work has been translated into a dozen languages and has garnered numerous international awards.The Disappearance: A Novella and Storiescontains three masterful gems...read more

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9780810123748 | Triquarterly Books, September 13, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Hailed as one of the most important Hispanic writers of his generation, Ilan Stavans is mostly known for his penetrating essays on culture.

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9780810151925 | Triquarterly Books, April 30, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Hailed as one of the most important Hispanic writers of his generation, Ilan Stavans is a celebrated storyteller whose work has been translated into a dozen languages and has garnered numerous international awards.

Latina Writers

Product Description: Latina literature is one of the fastest growing areas of American literature today, and the impact Latina writers have had on the literary scene is undeniable. This volume features the most significant articles including peer-review essays, interviews, and reviews to bring together the best scholarship on Latina writers ever compiled...read more

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9780313348068 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 30, 2008, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Latina literature is one of the fastest growing areas of American literature today, and the impact Latina writers have had on the literary scene is undeniable.

On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language

Product Description: Yiddish, Spanish, Hebrew, and English-at various points in Ilan Stavans's life, each of these has been the prominent and controversial scholar's primary language. His family's immigrant experience took them from Eastern Europe to the Jewish ghetto of Mexico City, which Stavans abandoned for Israel and subsequently the United States...read more

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9780670877638 | Viking Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the author's life from his birth in the Jewish ghetto in Mexico City to Israel to the United States, discussing his days as a student activist, a theology student, and finally as a professor at Amherst College.

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9780142000946 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 1, 2002), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the author's life from his birth in the Jewish ghetto in Mexico City to Israel to the United States, discussing his days as a student activist, a theology student, and finally as a professor at Amherst College.

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9781435297135 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Yiddish, Spanish, Hebrew, and English-at various points in Ilan Stavans's life, each of these has been the prominent and controversial scholar's primary language.

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

A collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning author features translations, many of them specially commissioned, of almost six hundred works.

By Pablo Neruda and Ilan Stavans

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9780374299958 | Italian edition edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 2003), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning author features translations, many of them specially commissioned, of almost six hundred works.

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9780374529604 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2005), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning author features translations, many of them specially commissioned, of almost six hundred works.

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9781435292376 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $29.00

Mr. Spic Goes to Washington

Product Description: In the face of social inequalities, sometimes strength for mobilization can be found through laughter. It is this ethos that Ilan Stavans employs in this politically minded graphic novel. Weaving humor with social commentary, Stavans tells a tale of a Latino man taking Los Angeles' mayoral office by storm — and refusing to stop there...read more

By Ilan Stavans and Roberto Weil (illustrator)

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9781593761981 | Soft Skull Pr, August 1, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In the face of social inequalities, sometimes strength for mobilization can be found through laughter.

An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

Product Description: The first major collection of writings by civil rights leader Cesar Chavez One of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of nonviolence, and he effectively employed peaceful tactics to further his cause...read more

By Cesar Chavez and Ilan Stavans (editor)

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9780143105268 | Penguin Classics, April 29, 2008, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The first major collection of writings by civil rights leader Cesar Chavez One of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of nonviolence, and he effectively employed peaceful tactics to further his cause.

One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories

Product Description: The One-Handed Pianist was published to acclaim in the early 1990’s, with the two-part Spanish edition winning the Latino Literature Prize in 1989 and the Gamma Literature Prize in 1992. Its tales look at what it means to be Jewish in the Hispanic world—a world in which spirituality is often exercised outside the realm of orthodoxy...read more

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9780826316455 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 'Translations of eight stories and a novella from two books: La pianista manca (1991) and Talia y el cielo (1979; rev.

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9780810124608, titled "The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories" | Northwestern Univ Pr, October 30, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The One-Handed Pianist was published to acclaim in the early 1990’s, with the two-part Spanish edition winning the Latino Literature Prize in 1989 and the Gamma Literature Prize in 1992.

A Luis Leal Reader

Product Description: Since his first publication in 1942, Luis Leal has likely done more than any other writer or scholar to foster a critical appreciation of Mexican, Chicano, and Latin American literature and culture. This volume, bringing together a representative selection of Leal's writings from the past sixty years, is at once a wide-ranging introduction to the most influential scholar of Latino literature and a critical history of the field as it emerged and developed through the twentieth century...read more

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9780810124189 | Northwestern Univ Pr, September 11, 2007, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Since his first publication in 1942, Luis Leal has likely done more than any other writer or scholar to foster a critical appreciation of Mexican, Chicano, and Latin American literature and culture.

I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems

Product Description: "Laughter is the language of the soul," Pablo Neruda said. Among the most lasting voices of the most tumultuous (in his own words, "the saddest") century, a witness and a chronicler of its most decisive events, he is the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, the emblem of the engaged poet, an artist whose heart, always with the people, is literally consumed by passion...read more

By Pablo Neruda and Ilan Stavans (editor)

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9780374260798 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 2, 2007, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: "Laughter is the language of the soul," Pablo Neruda said.

Latino History and Culture: The Ultimate Question and Answer Book

Documents Latino cultural history in the United States from pre-Colonial times to the present, in a reference that is presented in an accessible question-and-answer format covering a wide range of topics, from immigration and literature to politics and the arts. Original. 35,000 first printing.

By Ilan Stavans

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9780060891237 | Harperreference, August 1, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Documents Latino cultural history in the United States from pre-Colonial times to the present, in a reference that is presented in a question-and-answer format covering a wide range of topics, from immigration and literature to politics and the arts.

American Visa

Product Description: “American Visa is beautifully written, atmospheric, and stylish in the manner of Chandler . . . a smart, exotic crime fiction offering.”—George Pelecanos, author of The Night Gardener"American Visa is a stunning literary achievement...read more

By Adrian Althoff (trans), Juan De Recacoechea and Ilan Stavans (other contributor)

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9781933354200 | Akashic Books, April 1, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: “American Visa is beautifully written, atmospheric, and stylish in the manner of Chandler .

Hurricanes and Carnivals: Essays by Chicanos, Pocjos, Pachucos, Mexicanos, and Expatriates

Product Description: “In Mexico,” writes Ilan Stavans in the introduction to this provocative new collection on Mexican culture and politics, “ [the essay] is embraced as passionately as a sport.” While the American essay may be personal and confessional or erudite and academic, it is presumed to be truthful...read more

By Lee Gutkind (editor) and Ilan Stavans (introduced by)

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9780816526253 | Univ of Arizona Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: “In Mexico,” writes Ilan Stavans in the introduction to this provocative new collection on Mexican culture and politics, “ [the essay] is embraced as passionately as a sport.

Lengua Fresca: Latinos Writing on the Edge

Product Description: Brazen, bold, edgy, and fresh: an unexpected take on Latino life, spotlighting some of the culture’s most exciting innovative and emerging voices. An entertaining, provocative and often exhilarating collection, Lengua Fresca celebrates some of the most original and cutting-edge work to emerge from the cultural collide that is Latino life in the United States...read more

By Harold Augenbraum (editor) and Ilan Stavans (editor)

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9780618656707 | Mariner Books, November 16, 2006, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Brazen, bold, edgy, and fresh: an unexpected take on Latino life, spotlighting some of the culture’s most exciting innovative and emerging voices.

Latin American Posters: Public Aesthetics And Mass Politics

Product Description: Illustrated with 100+ political posters made between 1960 and 1990, this book documents the sociopolitical history of Latin America during a period of intense radicalism and upheaval. Essays by leading Latin American scholars discuss how these icons of popular struggle united the masses and influenced political and social reform...read more

By David Craven, Russ Davidson (editor), Teresa Eckmann, Tere Romo and Ilan Stavans

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9780890134870 | Museum of New Mexico Pr, August 30, 2006, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Illustrated with 100+ political posters made between 1960 and 1990, this book documents the sociopolitical history of Latin America during a period of intense radicalism and upheaval.

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9780890134924 | Museum of New Mexico Pr, August 30, 2006, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Illustrated with 100+ political posters made between 1960 and 1990, this book documents the sociopolitical history of Latin America during a period of intense radicalism and upheaval.

The Entre Rios Trilogy: Three Novels

Product Description: The novels in this collection, written by Perla Suez in Spanish and expertly translated here to English by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan, take place in Entre Ríos, the Argentine province where thousands of Jewish immigrants settled at the end of the nineteenth century...read more

By Rhonda Lee Dahl Buchanan (trans), Ilan Stavans (introduced by) and Perla Suez

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9780826336163 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, March 16, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The novels in this collection, written by Perla Suez in Spanish and expertly translated here to English by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan, take place in Entre Ríos, the Argentine province where thousands of Jewish immigrants settled at the end of the nineteenth century.

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