Roberto's Trip to the Top

Roberto's Trip to the Top
Title Roberto's Trip to the Top PDF eBook
Author John B. Paterson, Jr.
Publisher Candlewick Press
Pages 39
Release 2009-08-11
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0763627089

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Roberto's uncle Antonio takes him to the top of El âAvila, the mountain that overlooks all of Caracas, and wishes to take photographs of everything he has seen on his trip.

Roberto Walks Home

Roberto Walks Home
Title Roberto Walks Home PDF eBook
Author Janice N. Harrington
Publisher Viking Juvenile
Pages 0
Release 2008
Genre Brothers
ISBN 9780670063161

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Roberto is very angry when his older brother Miguel promises to walk him home from school and then forgets.

I Had to Survive

I Had to Survive
Title I Had to Survive PDF eBook
Author Roberto Canessa
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 304
Release 2016-03
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1476765448

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This is a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world's leading pediatric cardiologists. Canessa played a key role in safeguarding his fellow survivors, eventually trekking with a companion across the hostile mountain range for help. This fine line between life and death became the catalyst for the rest of his life. This uplifting tale of hope and determination, solidarity and ingenuity gives vivid insight into a world famous story. Canessa also draws a unique and fascinating parallel between his work as a doctor performing arduous heart surgeries on infants and unborn babies and the difficult life-changing decisions he was forced to make in the Andes. Print run 75,000.

Body Becoming

Body Becoming
Title Body Becoming PDF eBook
Author Robyn Henderson-Espinoza
Publisher Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Pages 257
Release 2022-03-29
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1506473571

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Activist and public theologian Robyn Henderson-Espinoza inhabits a trans, nonbinary, multiracial body--a body continually in discovery. Drawing from their own body story with the theory and practice of bodywork, they lead us to discover embodiment as the primary place of deep wisdom and a powerful tool to create lasting social change.

Roberto & Me

Roberto & Me
Title Roberto & Me PDF eBook
Author Dan Gutman
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 198
Release 2010-03-02
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0061986674

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Sometimes you can change history . . . and sometimes history can change you. When Stosh travels into the past to meet Roberto Clemente, a legendary ballplayer and a beloved humanitarian, he's got only one goal: warning Roberto not to get on the doomed plane that will end his life in a terrible crash. In the sixties, Stosh meets free-spirited Sunrise, and together they travel across the country to a ball game that leaves them breathless—and face-to-face with Roberto. But when the time comes for Stosh to return to the future, he finds that the adventure has only just begun. . . . Join Stosh and Sunrise on a journey that will take you into the past, from the excitement of Woodstock to a life-changing encounter with Roberto Clemente—and into a surprising future!

The Edge of the Sky

The Edge of the Sky
Title The Edge of the Sky PDF eBook
Author Roberto Trotta
Publisher Basic Books (AZ)
Pages 114
Release 2014-09-23
Genre Science
ISBN 0465044719

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From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology—with a twist. The book’s lexicon is limited to the thousand most common words in the English language, excluding physics, energy, galaxy, or even universe. Through the eyes of a fictional scientist (Student-People) hunting for dark matter with one of the biggest telescopes (Big-Seers) on Earth (Home-World), cosmologist Roberto Trotta explores the most important ideas about our universe (All-there-is) in language simple enough for anyone to understand. A unique blend of literary experimentation and science popularization, this delightful book is a perfect gift for any aspiring astronomer. The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the universe on a human scale, and the result is out of this world.

The Savage Detectives Reread

The Savage Detectives Reread
Title The Savage Detectives Reread PDF eBook
Author David Kurnick
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 151
Release 2022-02-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0231550650

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The Savage Detectives elicits mixed feelings. An instant classic in the Spanish-speaking world upon its 1998 publication, a critical and commercial smash on its 2007 translation into English, Roberto Bolaño’s novel has also been called an exercise in 1970s nostalgia, an escapist fantasy of a romanticized Latin America, and a publicity event propped up by the myth of the bad-boy artist. David Kurnick argues that the controversies surrounding Bolaño’s life and work have obscured his achievements—and that The Savage Detectives is still underappreciated for the subtlety and vitality of its portrait of collective life. Kurnick explores The Savage Detectives as an epic of social structure and its decomposition, a novel that restlessly moves between the big configurations—of states, continents, and generations—and the everyday stuff—parties, jobs, moods, sex, conversation—of which they’re made. For Kurnick, Bolaño’s book is a necromantic invocation of life in history, one that demands surrender as much as analysis. Kurnick alternates literary-critical arguments with explorations of the novel’s microclimates and neighborhoods—the little atmospheric zones where some of Bolaño’s most interesting rethinking of sexuality, politics, and literature takes place. He also claims that The Savage Detectives holds particular interest for U.S. readers: not because it panders to them but because it heralds the exhilarating prospect of a world in which American culture has lost its presumptive centrality.