Tortillitas para Mamá and Other Nursery Rhymes (Bilingual Edition in Spanish and English)

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Young children will treasure this collection of Latin American nursery rhymes. Preserved through oral tradition, these rhymes have been passed on from generation to generation. They have been lovingly gathered and translated for this book and many are accompanied by instructions for finger play. Illuminated by the beautiful paintings of Barbara Cooney, they are now available for a whole new audience to enjoy.

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Let's be realistic here..........2007-07-23

It seems like many people reviewing this book have been offended by a few lines and are upset that the rhymes and songs in this book don't live up to our modern cultural expectations. One has to expect that folk songs and rhymes coming from a different time and culture are going to contain ideas that simply are not politically correct. However offensive to us, these traditional verses give us insight into the culture of that time and can provide a springboard for conversation about important issues. If you do not feel that your child is ready for this type of conversation, simply leave out the verses that offend you. I really think that there are only about two or three lines in the entire book that might cause offense.
Additionally, we have so many nursery rhymes and folk tales that we learned in our own childhood that do not align with our modern values and yet didn't seem to cause lifelong damage for most of us(think "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater" or any of the Uncle Remus stories).
Questionable lines aside, this book is beautifully illustrated and includes engaging rhymes that will help your child build vocabulary and phonemic awareness.

Has some beautiful, memorable verses - and I should know!.......2002-11-17

A few reviewers have blasted this book for a couple of verses that contain ideas no longer acceptable in our society- like the Dad getting the good tortillas and the Mother the burnt ones. I agree that this is something to consider. I want to add, though, that my Mother read to me from this book when I was a child and it in no way ingrained these ideas into my young mind. As a young girl, in fact, this was one of my favorite books. Many of the other verses in Tortillas para mama are so beautiful that I think it would be a shame not to recommend it. There is one about the moon eating prickly pears (ahi viene la luna comiendo tuna) and another about a mother being an angel that I can recite to this day. If you are concerned about the questionable lines (and I reiterate that there are only a couple!), I would suggest you either leave those poems out when you read or else talk to your children about what those lines mean and how things have changed since they were written. It might end up being very constructive!

Sorry I Bought This One.......2002-08-01

I won't be reading this book to my daughter. The idea of beating a child for getting her dress dirty is not one I want to impart to my child. Very sad!

A horrible, sexist book.......2001-04-13

I am an education student and a parent, I purchased this book for a school project on multi-cultural literature. When I received it I was horrified at some of the poems!!! Many of the poems in this book demean women. One poem entitled "Chiquita Bonita" says that if a girl gets her clothing dirty her mother will beat her, another poem "Little Tortillas" says that the good tortillas go to papa and the burnt ones go to mama. I am all for the concept of introducing small children to many cultures and having two languages in one book but there are many books out their that do it much better than this one. (May I suggest Salsa by Lillian Colon-Vila and Roberta Collier-Morales)

Tortillas Para Mama presents a very negative view of Hispanic culture and I am not quite sure how it ever got published reading it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Tortillas para mama.......2001-03-14

My three year old loves this book. We read it all the time and now she is reciting the rhymes to me! We are raising her bilingually and this book has helped a lot to introduce her to the Spanish language and culture.

Tortillitas Para Mama: And Other Nursery Rhymes (Owlet Book)

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Tortillitas Para Mama: And Other Nursery Rhymes (Owlet Book)
Margot Griego , Betsy L. Bucks , Sharon S. Gilbert , and Laurel H. Kimball
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Tortillitas Para Mama and Other Nursery Rhymes: Spanish and English

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Tortillitas Para Mama and Other Nursery Rhymes: Spanish and English
Margot C. Griego
Manufacturer: Holt Rinehart and Winston
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Lysette buried her face against Max's throat. "But he's going to take me away. Don't let him, don't -- "

"You're not going anywhere," Max interrupted. "Calm yourself, Lysette. It's not good for you to become excited." His possessiveness made her strangely giddy. As far as he was concerned, she was his, and no one was going to take her away from him.

Max stared at Etienne. His voice was soft, but it contained a note that chilled Lysette's blood. "If you so much as disarrange a hair on her head, I'll tear you apart."

Lysette couldn't believe it, but she didn't care about her ruined reputation. The only thing that mattered was that she wouldn't have to marry Etienne.

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Ravishing Lysette escapes an arranged marriage to seek sanctuary with a man she barely knows -- the dark and brooding Maximillian. In his arms, Lysette finds a passion she never expected.and secrets she can hardly believe. Can their love survive? Lysette buried her face against Max's throat. "But he's going to take me away. Don't let him, don't -- " "You're not going anywhere," Max interrupted. "Calm yourself, Lysette. It's not good for you to become excited." His possessiveness made her strangely giddy. As far as he was concerned, she was his, and no one was going to take her away from him. Max stared at Etienne. His voice was soft, but it contained a note that chilled Lysette's blood. "If you so much as disarrange a hair on her head, I'll tear you apart." Lysette couldn't believe it, but she didn't care about her ruined reputation. The only thing that mattered was that she wouldn't have to marry Etienne.

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GREAT GREAT GREAT!.......2007-07-16

I don't know why the reviews for this book are so mixed. I loved it...if fact this book is one of my favorite Lisa Kleypas books, only 2nd to "Dreaming of You". And I've read many many Kleypas books! The setting is a nice change from regency england. This book is very original in the plot and the characters have great chemistry. Great book!!!READ IT

strangers marry.......2007-06-27

This must have been one of the firsts of Kleypas' books. It wasn't bad, but I did think there were almost too many characters involved at one time. There was so much going on, you are trying not to lose what's going on between the main characters. It was enjoyable and her writing keeps getting better and better each book she writes. I wouldn't judge all her books by this one. If you like this one, anything else she wrote, you'll love ten times more.

Not a bad read.......2007-05-14

It wasn't the best Kleypas has done, but it wasn't a bad book either. I didn't have any trouble getting through the book without getting bored. I thought the plot was very interesting and I grew to like Lysette quite a bit. I'm not a big fan of the Creole way, but Kleypas did a great job researching that historical period of time.

The thing that ticked me off was how the brother who did commit the two murders, gets away without even a fraction of what Max suffered all those years. At the end Bernard sneaks onto a boat and is handed money to help his escape and nothing more is said about it. I thought Kleypas should have written an Epilogue or something saying he was later captured and hanged...something. I'm not going to give anything else away but if you want the book, I suggest buy it used. Don't pay full price.

Not up to Par.......2007-02-13

I agree with some of the reviews below about the difference in the to main character's ages. I know that marrying a 13-15 year old girl to a 30+ man was not uncommon in the time period that this book takes place, but to me, as a "modern" woman, it was almost obscene! Max has sons just about 2-3 years younger than Lysette, and after they marry the boys treat her like a mom?!? Also, there is a "big secret" about who killed Max's first wife. I figured out who the killer was right away, so the mystery wasn't interesting. Finally, at the biginning of the story, Lysette is running away from her arranged marraige because her betrothed is awful. Later in the story, she and Max deal with him and he does not come across as truly terrible. I did enjoy the romance part of this book, but I had to pretend Lysette as at least 19 years old. I am a huge fan of Klepas, but I am definately glad that I didn't read the original version of this story. This rewrite is not "up to par" with her other current efforts. If this is the only Klepas book you've read, I recommend you try another of her books. If you are a Klepas fan, you may enjoy this book, or you might just skip it altogether.

Can't Wait to Read More By This Author.......2007-01-15

I thought this book was really good, not the best I've ever read, but I definitely appreciated that there wasn't that usual "misunderstanding" that takes place in every other romance novel. The main characters are always keeping some deep, dark secret from each other that ends up being so ridiculous and you're wondering what took them so long to get that out in the open like normal people! Not in this book, though. I felt that there was great chemistry between Lysette and Max and thoroughly enjoyed reading When Strangers Marry. I just wasn't crazy about the ending. It seemed like the writer tried to tie up too many loose ends too quickly. I'd like to read more by Lisa Kleypas, though, since this was her first novel, to see how much she's improved over the years.

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When Strangers Marry

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4 Titles By Burchell - Unbidden Melody - Strangers May Marry - When Love Is Blind - Nightingales

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4 Titles By Burchell - Unbidden Melody - Strangers May Marry - When Love Is Blind - Nightingales
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When Strangers Marry
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When Strangers Marry: A Study of Marriage Breakdown in Ireland

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When Strangers Marry: A Study of Marriage Breakdown in Ireland
Albert Mcdonnell
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17 - LISA KLEYPAS - WORTH ANY PRICE - THEN CAME YOU - DEVIL IN WINTER - MIDNIGHT ANGEL - DREAMING OF YOU - BECAUSE YOU'RE MINE - PRINCE OF DREAMS - SUDDENLY YOU - SCANDAL IN SPRING - WHEN STRANGERS MARRY ++
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In a New York not unlike the one that exists today, is a Game Master, a designer of entertainment for people with no imaginations of their own. Robert Leal is dying and not doing it really well. Then a friend, Chris Kane, a singer who has been dead for many years, has a career revival. And Leal begins to hear and see hints and fragments of another world. It's called Capricorn. It flickers like candlelight, and it is haunting. Then Leal finds out that he is dying of cancer just as Chris Kane did. But as he dies here in Cancer, he takes on life in Capricorn. Where he is worshipped as a god. And hunted like a stag.

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Mercury levels and liver pathology in feral fish living in the vicinity of a mercury cell chlor-alkali factory [An article from: Chemosphere]

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Mercury levels and liver pathology in feral fish living in the vicinity of a mercury cell chlor-alkali factory [An article from: Chemosphere]
D. Raldua , S. Diez , J.M. Bayona , and D. Barcelo
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This digital document is a journal article from Chemosphere, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Twenty-three barbels (Barbus graellsii), 30 bleaks (Alburnus alburnus) and 4 sediment samples were collected from four areas of the Cinca River (NE Spain), upstream and downstream of a mercury cell chlor-alkali plant. Mercury concentration in sediments downstream of the plant was about 25 times higher than the concentration upstream. Mercury levels in the muscle and liver of barbels downstream of the chlor-alkali plant were 10 and 30 times higher than those upstream. The average mercury concentration in the muscle and liver of barbels downstream of the factory was 1.48 and 1.78mg/kgw.w., with maximal concentrations of 2.43 and 3.64mg/kgw.w, respectively. Liver/muscle ratio of mercury was significantly higher in barbels sampled downstream of the factory. Bleak showed a similar pattern, with a significantly higher whole-body mercury concentration downstream of the chlor-alkali plant. Nevertheless, a progressive decrease in mercury concentration downstream of the impact area was found in bleak, but not in barbel. Histopathological analysis showed that fish downstream of the factory had significantly higher prevalence of liver pathologies (p <0.05). Although there are no specific histopathological markers of mercury exposure, barbels with the highest Hg levels in the liver also showed the most severe pathologies, and the processes found in these barbels were consistent with the pro-oxidant effect of heavy metals.

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This "fresh, blunt, and highly persuasive account of how the West was won--for Jesus" (Newsweek) is now available in paperback. Stark's provocative report challenges conventional wisdom and finds that Christianity's astounding dominance of the Western world arose from its offer of a better, more secure way of life.

"Compelling reading" (Library Journal) that is sure to "generate spirited argument" (Publishers Weekly), this account of Christianity's remarkable growth within the Roman Empire is the subject of much fanfare. "Anyone who has puzzled over Christianity's rise to dominance...must read it." says Yale University's Wayne A. Meeks, for The Rise of Christianity makes a compelling case for startling conclusions. Combining his expertise in social science with historical evidence, and his insight into contemporary religion's appeal, Stark finds that early Christianity attracted the privileged rather than the poor, that most early converts were women or marginalized Jews--and ultimately "that Christianity was a success because it proved those who joined it with a more appealing, more assuring, happier, and perhaps longer life" (Andrew M. Greeley, University of Chicago).

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Not bad, but not new.......2007-07-13

Very readable, but was mainly a rehash of older materials. Did like some of the statistical data. There are similar books that give a more in depth look at the rise of Christianity, but this is an excellent source for those who are looking for a concise and readable source.

Purely secular analysis, showing how Christ transformed the West.......2007-06-18

Stark is a sociologist. His speciality is religion, and specifically why religions grow. He has done things like study the Mormons and the Unification Church (Moonies) to see why people convert to new religions. From this work, he has derived some general rules for understanding why religions rise or fall.

In this book, he applies the knowledge that he gained by studying modern religion to the rise of the early Christian Church. His method is 100% secular. He deliberately never asks whether was Christianity, or any other religion, teaches is true. Rather, he simply asks, why did the Church grow, how did it grow and what did it do in the secular world, which can be studied by science.

The result is a fascinating book. First, Stark writes well. He has a clear and simple prose style. He asks the big questions, which most of us want answers to, and he gives answers to them. He is the exact opposite of the ordinary social scientist, whose scope is narrow and language deliberately technical, boring and hard to read. Stark's scope is vast, his language simple and his conclusions very easy to follow.

He has a number of very interesting conclusions.

First, he stresses that conversion ordinarily takes place within social networks. While occasionally an isolated person will convert for his or her own reasons, more typically people convert when their friends, family or other people to whom they are close have converted. This is common sense. Stark backs it up with modern social science studies, and then applies it to the early Church. In that context, what it basically means is that the early Church primarily consisted of Hellenized Jews, for a long time. He argues that the Church was most successful, in the early years, in converting the Jews of the Diaspora, rather than gentiles.

Second, he slowly and carefully builds a rather remarkable message. He argues, in many different and very specific ways, that Christianity took over the ancient world, because it was simply superior to what came before. He argues that it transformed Roman society, for the better.

A very telling example of this that he gives relates to the horrifying plagues that afflicted the Roman Empire. When plague hit, the pagans ran away. They had no idea how to cure the sickness, they were terrified of death, so they scattered, leaving the sick and the weak to die in misery on their own. Christians, on the other hand, were not afraid of death, and had a religious duty to care, not only for each other, but for strangers. As a result, Christians stayed and nursed the sick. As Stark shows, modern medicine proves that if you give the simplest kind of care to victims of these diseases -- probably measles and smallpox -- that the survival rate went up by two-thirds. Thus, in a very simple and direct way, Christian morality was objectively superior to that of the pagans. Because Christians braved death to care for the sick, there were far fewer deaths among Christians. In totally non-religious terms, Christians had far greater group solidarity, and a far higher sense of ethics, that benefited the entire community.

Stark also shows how Christians treated women better, helped reduce class distinctions and combated the wantont cruely of the Roman world. He shows, in short, that Roman society was, in many ways, evil and self-destructive, and that the Church transformed it for the better.

As I was reading this, it struck me as relevant to our time for two reasons.

First, we are having a great plague recently of thinkers arguing that religion is evil and bad for mankind. There are certainly religions which have, and do, fit into that category. However, the idea that all religion is bad, and specifically that Christianity is bad, is based upon a great deal of ignorance. Before concluding that the West would be better off without the Church, I think we need to remember what life was like before the Church. Most of us forget that it was once considered light entertainment for the masses to have wild animals kill chained up prisoners. We now think that is cruel and barbaric, because the Church taught us that.

Second, Stark gives a long account of the suicidial self-destructiveness of the late Empire. He describes how pagan society was afflicted with population decline, because it had a very male-centered, anti-marriage culture. He describes how widespread abortion, contraceptives and sexual activities not leading to procreation afficted the late Empire, and lead into decline.

His description of the woes of the pagan world struck very close to home. Western Europe, and much of America, is now post-Christian. We generally call this new attitude secular progressives. A better label, however, is neo-pagan. As with the old pagans, the new neo-pagans do not believe in God, practice frequent abortion, and greatly value sexual practices which can not lead to children. And, as with the old pagans, the neo-pagans are experienced plunging birth rates and rapid population decline.

Can we be a prosperous, successful and humane civilization without the Church? So far, the answers is no.

How small faith groups grow........2007-06-02

How did the Christian faith grow from the eleven original disciples of Jesus to a major force in the Roman Empire in just three centuries? Rodney Stark wanted to know more than what we have in early sources--be they the Bible or other. These don't often give numbers and when they do, the numbers are hard to verify. To attempt to understand the phenomenal growth of Christian faith, therefore, Stark went in search of answers from a statistical and sociological perspective. His research is scholarly but this book is presented in an engaging and accessible style, for the general reader.

In order to begin, Stark finds as a starting year 40 AD and as a starting number, 1000 Christians. He says that he is aware that this number may be too small (perhaps the number would approach the 3000 converts of Acts Chapter Two?) but he feels that an estimate of 1000 is near enough to being correct, given the persecutions about and after 60 AD. For the number of Christian in the year 350 AD, Stark sets a total of 38,882,008.

Stark draws upon findings from his own early 1960s research into the growth of a fledgling Korean immigrant religious movement, the Unification church, to check his assumptions about how such small faith groups grow. He found that early converts were family members, pre-existing friends and neighbors, that is, growth occurred through the personal element of adherents as they reached out to those they knew. He says, "Keep in mind that becoming a Moonie may have been regarded as deviant by outsiders, but it was an act of conformity for those whose most significant attachments were to Moonies." (pages 17-18).

In just such a perceptive way, Stark offers insights about the factors of class and station (characterized by the "socially pretentious members section of the population of big cities" with enough freedom to make choices and better educated than the general population), of times of persecution and plague (the Christians were admired because they stood fast and nursed their stricken pagan neighbors when others fled). Also, Stark maintains that Paul's custom of preaching to the Jews first probably resulted in a greater degree of success that is commonly supposed. Those who did hear and who were dispersed due to persecutions or trade took their new faith with them to the limits of the Empire, and their message bought about a higher proportion of Jewish converts to Christianity than is usually assumed. Stark talks about the values of Christians that included a higher regard for women, which brought about greater numbers of females in their community than in the general population, resulting in higher Christian birthrates.

Reviewing the 22 largest cities of the Empire, Stark talks about the impact that urban living and the disorganization of cities had upon Christian growth, and how Christianity became a renewing impact upon cities beset by misery and brutality. Stark also cites the "Quo Vadis?" event in Peter's life and considers the impact that his and other martyrdoms had on those who remained.

All in all this is a through and well-written study of the elements that could have contributed to Christianity's growth. It is filled with facts and insights that are worth the reader's time and attention.

Stunningly interersting and overview.......2007-03-28

I have read four of Stark's books, and they have all been immensely insightful and interesting. He investigates matters that receive little discussion in semi-popular historical works (or even scholarly works in many cases). For example, his discussion of abortion and the treatment of women in Rome is very informative and helps to make sense of why so many women found Christianity attractive.

Stark is an exceptionally clear and engaging writer, in addition to his knack for finding interesting questions and clever ways of answering them.

I also especially highly recommend Stark's 'The Victory of Reason'. It was my favorite of the four I've read thus far. His 'Cities of God', while not as synoptic in scope as some of the others, is sure to become a classic in what I hope becomes a new wave of applying quantitative methods to historical questions.

Well written book about the rise of Christianity.......2007-01-06

A well written story about the first centuries of Christianity. The author is both a sociologist and an apologist of Christianity (a rare mixture). To me, among the minuses of the book was its obsession with quantitative stuff (the fact is, we have few reliable statistics about the Roman Empire, so does it make sense to try to get the r-statistic for a number of things?). The book is much more interesting when it tries to narrate how was that a very small, marginal sect by the late first century, turned out to be one of the world's major religions just 200 years later. Among the interesting stuff is how plagues cemented the rise of Christendom (pagans fled the crowded cities, while christians, who did not fear death, remained to attend the sick, rising the faith's reputation), the position of women in the christian movement (much more exalted than it was usually thought), the class basis of early christianity (not at all the province of the poorest men of the Roman Empire, according to Stark), the fearlessness of the christian martyrs, how hellenized jews were the bulk of converts to Christianity in its first centuries, in contrast with what is usually thought, etc.

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