San Antonio College Library

"Harvest of Hope is a story of farm family life through the words of those who live it. The saga of the generations who have lived and worked on Basin Spring farm in western Kentucky is the thread that binds together the stories of eighty other farm families. They talk about their family businesses, their way of life, and the forces reshaping their lives." "The challenges of making a living in farming either strengthen families or break them. Technology,...

The author explores the ethnic and racial identity formation among high school and college students of racially mixed heritage. The portraits in this book provide a thorough examination of the dynamic ethnic and racial lives of a multifaceted and growing segment of students. Unlike most recent projects on mixed heritage people which are narrow in scope and focus on one set of backgrounds (e.g., black and white or black and Japanese), the subjects...

In this work the author presents New Mexico as a microcosm of global ecological degradation. He states that the New Mexico environment is endangered by military, corporate, and urban polluters and consumers as hazerdous waste, munitions testing, radioactive emissions, and other issues affect the land, water and air. The author assembles his information in part from newspaper articles and government reports.

"In the past twenty years, economic policy in Latin America has veered toward neoliberalism, or market friendliness. State interventions in the economy have been cut back in many areas, including reductions in fiscal deficits, privatization of public enterprises, reductions of import quotas and tariffs and export subsidies, removal of barriers to foreign capital flow, and increased faith in the private sector and market processes." "This book offers...

A book written by and for patients with schizophrenia, with contributions by psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and psychiatric rehabilitation workers. "Diagnosis: Schizophrenia" is intended to develop and strengthen the understanding of this disease, and to offer tools for patients, their families, and those who provide treatment.

This book analyzes the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1999. In addition to the issues of financial system restructuring, export-led recovery, crony capitalism, and competitiveness in Asian manufacturing, it examines six key Asian economies--China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand. The book makes clear that there is little particularly Asian about the Asian financial crisis. The generic character of the crisis became clear during 1998,...

Mills portrays a grassroots endeavor spurred by some of our most creative thinkers. She visits Nina Leopold Bradley to learn the story of the regenerating Sand County Farm. She walks restored prairie in Chicago with Steve Packard, who leads a project involving hundreds of urban volunteers in work yielding rich new lodes of botanical, zoological, and geological knowledge. She chronicles both bioregionalists in northern California struggling in chilly...