The Interior Circuit

Author : Francisco Goldman
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802122566
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Interior Circuit written by Francisco Goldman and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes and celebrates Mexico City, which had been set apart from the drug and organized crime violence plaguing the rest of the country until the summer of 2013.

Author : Francisco Goldman
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802192637
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Interior Circuit written by Francisco Goldman and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–finalist shares an intimate memoir of grieving his lost wife—and confronting the troubled Mexican city where she grew up. Five years after his wife’s untimely death, Francisco Goldman decided to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico City. The widower and award-winning writer wanted to fully embrace his late wife’s childhood home and the city that came to mean so much to them. In The Interior Circuit, Goldman chronicles his personal and political awakening to the nuances of this unique city as he learns to navigate the “circuito interior,” its crisscrossing network of highway-like roads. Many regard Mexico’s capital—then known as the “DF” or Distrito Federal—as a haven from the social ills that plague the rest of the country. Goldman’s account reveals a more complicated truth as he explores the effects of Mexico’s raging narco war, the resurgence of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (the PRI), and new eruptions of organized crime-related violence. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part political reportage, The Interior Circuit “is so sneakily brilliant it’s hard to put into words. . . . It is also, in the finest sense, a book that creates its own form” (Los Angeles Times).

Author : John Ross
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568586116
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Monstruo written by John Ross and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ross has been living in the old colonial quarter of Mexico City for the last three decades, a rebel journalist covering Mexico and the region from the bottom up. He is filled with a gnawing sense that his beloved Mexico City's days as the most gargantuan, chaotic, crime-ridden, toxically contaminated urban stain in the western world are doomed, and the monster he has grown to know and love through a quarter century of reporting on its foibles and tragedies and blight will be globalized into one more McCity. El Monstruo is a defense of place and the history of that place. No one has told the gritty, vibrant histories of this city of 23 million faceless souls from the ground up, listened to the stories of those who have not been crushed, deconstructed the Monstruo's very monstrousness, and lived to tell its secrets. In El Monstruo, Ross now does.

Author : Francisco Goldman
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802144608
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Night of White Chickens written by Francisco Goldman and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the story of Roger Graetz, raised in a Boston suburb by an aristocratic Guatemalan mother, and his relationship with Flor de Mayo, the beautiful young guatemalan orphn sent by his grandmother to live with family as a maid.

Author : Corky Binggeli
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119985080
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Systems for Interior Designers written by Corky Binggeli and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BUILDING SYSTEMS FOR INTERIOR DESIGNERS Make design decisions informed by technical and structural knowledge with this essential guide Professional interior design demands more than simply an understanding of aesthetic and artistic considerations; it also requires a detailed understanding of building systems and their interactions. Design decisions must account for mechanical and electrical equipment, building components, and structural elements, all of which can potentially shape a designer’s work. Building Systems for Interior Designers has long stood as the key to understanding and evaluating these elements, particularly key building systems like HVAC and plumbing, and their impacts on interior design. This Fourth Edition is fully updated to fit the needs of the CIDA certified interior design program and the NCIDQ exam. The fourth edition of Building Systems for Interior Designers also includes: Updated information on sustainable and energy-efficient design Detailed coverage of topics including security concerns, fire safety, and designing secure spaces Classroom supplements including sample construction documents, chapter specific discussion questions, and more Building Systems for Interior Designers is ideal for students in interior design courses and new professionals studying for NCIDQ exams.

Author : Canada. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Patent Office Record written by Canada. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francisco Goldman
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802157696
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monkey Boy written by Francisco Goldman and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guatemalan-American writer returns to the Boston suburb of his youth in this American Book Award–winning novel “full of rebellious comedy and vitality” (New Yorker). A 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist In Monkey Boy, Francisco Goldman’s “brilliantly constructed auto-fiction” (NPR), we meet Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer grappling with the challenges of family and love, legacies of violence and war, and growing up as the son of immigrants. Having fled Mexico after his journalism provokes the wrong people, Goldberg’s attempt to start fresh in New York. But even as he finds himself falling in love, he is drawn away yet again—back to his childhood home in the white, working-class suburbs of Boston. Frankie is beckoned there by a high school girlfriend who witnessed his youthful humiliations, and by his ailing mother, Yolanda, whose intermittent lucidity unearths forgotten pockets of the past. His brief trip is haunted by memories of his recently deceased father, the Guatemalan woman who helped raise him, and the high school bullies who called him “monkey boy.”

Author : USA Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1804 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office written by USA Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francisco Goldman
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555846408
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ordinary Seaman written by Francisco Goldman and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed novel, the Pulitzer Prize–finalist explores the perils, passions, and adventures of a young Nicaraguan immigrant trapped in Brooklyn. Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsday, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Publishers Weekly In the late 1980s, teenage Sandinista soldier and avowed communist Esteban Gaitán leaves Nicaragua to begin a new life in America. He soon arrives on a desolate Brooklyn pier with fourteen other men to form the crew of the ship Urus. Elias and Mark, the owners of the Urus, hold the men captive, forcing them to work in a vain attempt to make the rotting vessel seaworthy. Without the means to return home, Esteban remains a virtual prisoner, haunted by the loss of the woman he loved during the war. Eventually learning how to sneak off the ship, he makes nocturnal forays into Brooklyn, where he meets a Mexican immigrant named Joaquina, and begins to plot his permanent escape. Centering his novel around Esteban, but also telling the stories of his fellow landlocked sailors, Francisco Goldman proves once again that he is “a major talent of great style and soul” (The Miami Herald). “Often very funny . . . Here, a corner of Brooklyn becomes the exotic and foreign experience, and through Esteban’s eyes it is as mysterious and alluring as Tangiers.” —The Dallas Morning News

Author : Rhett C. Bruno
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1635764254
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Circuit written by Rhett C. Bruno and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today Bestseller Rhett C. Bruno's debut sci-fi series is a gritty, space-opera epic perfect for fans of The Expanse! Earth is a dying planet. To survive, humanity founds the Circuit, a string of colonies across the solar system, dedicated to mining resources vital to preserving what remains of mankind. Here there are no heroes or villains, only those willing to do what's necessary to survive. The New Earth Tribunal, a powerful religious faction, has risen to rule the Circuit. They believe a Spirit within the Earth will one day appear and welcome humanity back home. Following a string of seemingly random attacks, the Tribunal suspects its mortal enemy, the Ceresians, have again rallied to challenge their absolute rule. But a new, sinister threat has arisen--and it plans to bring down the Tribunal once and for all. Join an unlikely band of would-be saviors--the Tribunal's best spy, a roguish Ceresian mercenary, a subservient android and a disgraced general--as they are drawn into a conspiracy destined to change the Circuit forever. "Bruno has crafted a complex, multi-dimensional story that combines the best of his genre with age-old truths--and quandaries--about humanity, politics, religion, family, and, yes, love." --Portland Book Review