San Antonio College Library

Studying Spanish? Spending a year-out in Spain? Or maybe going to work there? Then you"ll need this handbook to contemporary Spain and the Spanish language. Packed with essential infomation on politics, economy and institutions, it covers the basics that are taken for granted by most Spaniards. Intended for readers without specialist knowledge in any of the subjects concerned, this is a valuable handbook for English-speaking students of Spanish. Each...

"Lafayette County, Mississippi, was the primary inspiration for what is arguably the most famous place in American fiction: William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Falkner once explained that in his Yoknapatawpha stories he "sublimated the actual into the apocryphal." This history of Lafayette County reverses that notion, using Faulkner's rich fictional portrait of a place and its people to illuminate the past." "Drawing on both history and literature,...

Textbook on the historical development of international organizations and their aims and role in international relations - discusses their institutional framework, political power and economic role. References.

Illuminates the complex analogies between house and psyche, house and family, house and social environment, and house and text. This book traces a historical path from settlement to unsettledness in American culture and explores the rituals in between: of building, decorating, inhabiting, and abandoning houses.

Study of migration policy trends in the face of increasing numbers of irregular migrants to the USA - comments on legislation and public opinion esp. Regarding Mexican and other Latin American immigration; explains institutional framework problems in dealing with migration, immigration control, and the assignment of priorities to various groups of immigrants. Graphs, references.

"Hardy's Geography reconsiders a familiar element in Hardy's novels: their use of place and, specifically, of Dorset. Hardy said his Wessex was a 'partly real, partly dream-country'. This study examines how reality and dream interact in his work. Should we look for a real place corresponding to Casterbridge? What is the relation between one person's feelings for a place and society's view of it. He author concludes that Hardy addresses these issues...

"Work over Welfare presents the inside story of the legislation that ended "welfare as we know it" in America. As a key staffer on the House Ways an Means Committee, Ron Haskins was one of the principal architects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. Here, he vividly recounts the political battles and policy debates that produced the most dramatic overhaul of welfare since its creation as part of the New Deal."--Jacket....