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Latina Power, by Ana Nogales
Latina Power! shows Latinas how to recognize and maximize seven attributes they already possess to enhance their lives and bring them closer to their dreams. The uplifting message of this book encourages Latinas to move beyond expected roles and become the women they wish to be simply by embracing seven traits naturally ingrained into them by Latino culture.
Dr. Nogales incorporates an interactive, personal element into each chapter, including a self-assessment quiz to determine how strong or weak each attribute is in the Latina reader's own personality, and exercises to improve each trait. Also featured throughout the guide are personal stories exemplifying each strength, as told to the author by Latinas from a wide variety of backgrounds, including novelist Isabel Allende, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, and many others. Prescriptive and encouraging, Latina Power! is certain to benefit countless Latinas.
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Culture Shock: The Rise of Hispanic Immigrants in America, by Laura Drain
How Latinos Can Adapt Yet Preserve Their Heritage Cultural Shock: In her book Ms. Drain writes of the feelings and experiences that Hispanic immigrants endure when adapting to life in the United States.
Readers get to personally travel along as Laura adapts to learning a new language and new way of living in a foreign environment, yet focusing on ensuring that she and her children preserve their language and customs. Extra bonuses that make the book special include the recipes of famous Mexican dishes and margaritas and in depth description of Mexican holidays, which allow readers to experience some Mexican culture in their own home |
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Adriana Ocampo by Cynthia Guidici
Adriana is a planetary geologist. She studies the surfaces of planets and moons. When she and her team studied a crater (which is like an enormous dent on the surface of a planet or moon) in the Yucatan peninsula (located in Mexico), they found out something brand new. This crater--called the Chicxulub crater--was created when a meteorite fell into the earth's atmosphere and hit Earth!
In 1988, Adriana and her team figured out that this meteorite fell 65 million years ago--which is around the time dinosaurs lived on the earth. That means this meteorite is what killed the dinosaurs. In fact the meteorite killed half of all the living things on earth.
Adriana says that people had trouble believing in her team's discovery. "Even other scientists did not want to accept that a rock from space could impact the earth and cause global destruction," she says. |
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