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· Thinking about a motorcycle adventure? · Need to convince someone a long ride is a great idea? · Do you enjoy tales from the road and tips for your own trip? Crossing America is for every rider—or rider to be—who has thought about getting on a bike and heading across country. Based on three cross-country trips totaling almost 10,000 miles, Crossing America tells you about · The Trip: What it’s like to ride coast-to-coast, winter or summer · Preparation: What to take, how to pack, and where to put it · Equipment: How to pick raingear, luggage, GPS, a bike cover, and more · Techniques: How to ride safe, fast, and far—up to 1,000 miles a day · Organization: How to keep yourself and your gear organized enroute · Why We Ride: Thoughts from the road about life, work, and riding Most important, in Crossing America you’ll find encouragement to make your trip—and to do it soon! Turn your dream of riding across the U.S. into the memory of a lifetime. . Go now. Do it. Just ride!

Shimmering lines cut through and offer an eye-catching appeal in this contemporary bedroom furniture piece of a glamorous platform bed that beckons you to into a restful retreat. A straight, wood paneled headboard gives off an alluring sparkle with glitter-filled gaps in symmetrical and skewed lines. In addition, a lustrous high gloss finish lends an ultra-modern flair to this contemporary and clean-lined bedroom piece. Made from rubberwood, durable solid wood sourced from rubber plantations. After the sapwood is tapped for latex, the workable timber is harvested for furniture. Size: california king. Color: Black.

Shimmering lines cut through and offer an eye-catching appeal in this contemporary bedroom furniture piece of a glamorous platform bed that beckons you to into a restful retreat. A straight, wood paneled headboard gives off an alluring sparkle with glitter-filled gaps in symmetrical and skewed lines. In addition, a lustrous high gloss finish lends an ultra-modern flair to this contemporary and clean-lined bedroom piece. Made from rubberwood, durable solid wood sourced from rubber plantations. After the sapwood is tapped for latex, the workable timber is harvested for furniture. Size: california king. Color: White.

Shimmering lines cut through and offer an eye-catching appeal in this contemporary bedroom furniture piece of a glamorous platform bed that beckons you to into a restful retreat. A straight, wood paneled headboard gives off an alluring sparkle with glitter-filled gaps in symmetrical and skewed lines. In addition, a lustrous high gloss finish lends an ultra-modern flair to this contemporary and clean-lined bedroom piece. Made from rubberwood, durable solid wood sourced from rubber plantations. After the sapwood is tapped for latex, the workable timber is harvested for furniture. Color: White.

A thoroughly revised guide to more than 3,500 places to visit in and around America's interstate highways offers complete descriptions of the attractions, including national parks, major cities, scenic wonders, recreational facilities, and children's attractions, as well as sidebars on trivia, complete directions, and more. Original. 15,000 first printing

On assignment for Newsweek, noted photojournalist John Annerino journeyed deep into one of the least hospitable spots on the planet — the scorched 4,100-square-mile "empty quarter" that straddles Mexico and Arizona. There he met four Mexican nationals determined to cross a 130-mile trail illegally to find work to feed their families. Dead in Their Tracks is the record of their experience. Annerino’s unflinching camera and sensitive text capture the lives of these men, along with the ranchers, Border Patrol trackers, and drug runners whose livelihoods also depend on this grim realm. Dead in Their Tracks’ unforgettable images of anonymous travelers who may survive, and the bleached bones of those who did not, show the ultimate price sometimes exacted by an unforgiving nature — and by those who make policy in this area. 70 photographs and maps are featured in this harrowing chronicle of the dangers and struggles fought for a better way of life.

Collects writings by such top contributors as Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Richard Rodriguez, as well as a host of new writers, to present a history of modern immigration and reflections on the immigrant experience.

This outstanding collection captures the diverse voices of the new literature of American immigration. Bringing together beautiful writing from celebrated authors such as Sandra Cisneros, Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Chang-Rae Lee, Crossing into America fills the literary void in public discussion about immigration.Since the immigration reforms of 1965 removed many of the racial barriers in American immigration laws, a new wave of immigrants has visibly transformed a society that has long prided itself on being a nation of immigrants. Crossing into America includes stories and memoirs of writers born in Mexico, Kashmir, the Philippines, South Africa, and Romania, as well as poignant reflections on the immigrant experience by the children of immigrants. This book follows these newest arrivals―from their home countries through their engagement with America―and also includes an accessible history of immigration policy, cartoons, and newspaper stories, and a section of conversations with activists, journalists, and scholars working in the front lines of our immigration battles.

In one of the hottest, loneliest spots on earth, John Annerino hooked up with four Mexican nationals determined to cross the border illegally. Their choice was simple: risk their lives crossing the desert for a poorly paid job in El Norte or stay in Mexico and watch their families starve. Annerino and his companions would have died in that vast, unforgiving land had they not shared the water they had and helped one another with the encouragement that seemed pointless at the time. Dead in Their Tracks is the true story of a desperate human struggle in a bleak, beautiful wilderness.

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Contemporary drawings and paintings complement this account of the Lewis and Clark expedition

400 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.91 inches. This item is printed on demand.

"Schneider's thorough research and vivid writing create a fast-paced, moving story, one that is difficult to believe and impossible to forget." ―The New York Times Book ReviewA gripping survival epic, Brutal Journey tells the story of an army of would-be conquerors, bound for glory, who landed in Florida in 1528. But only four of the four hundred would survive: eight years and some five thousand miles later, three Spaniards and a black Moroccan wandered out of the wilderness to the north of the Rio Grande and into Cortes's gold-drenched Mexico. The survivors of the Narváez expedition brought nothing back other than their story, but what a tale it was. They had become killers and cannibals, torturers and torture victims, slavers and enslaved. They became faith healers, arms dealers, canoe thieves, spider eaters. They became, in other words, whatever it took to stay alive.

Signifying "others" or signs of life? This book critically examines the ways in which crossing sex and gender is imagined in key cultural texts from contemporary Latin America. Unlike previous studies, Crossing Sex and Gender in Latin America does not hold that sexually diverse figures are always and only performative or allegorical and instead places the accent on questions of the presence or absence of an account of subjectivity in contemporary representation. Via analysis of selected films and literary works of Reinaldo Arenas, Mayra Santos-Febres, Pedro Lemebel, among others, the author reflects on the political implications of recent visions (1985-2005).

Signifying "others" or signs of life? This book critically examines the ways in which crossing sex and gender is imagined in key cultural texts from contemporary Latin America. Unlike previous studies, Crossing Sex and Gender in Latin America does not hold that sexually diverse figures are always and only performative or allegorical and instead places the accent on questions of the presence or absence of an account of subjectivity in contemporary representation. Via analysis of selected films and literary works of Reinaldo Arenas, Mayra Santos-Febres, Pedro Lemebel, among others, the author reflects on the political implications of recent visions (1985-2005).

The United States has long been a model for accessible, affordable education, as exemplified by the country's public universities. And yet less than 60 percent of the students entering American universities today are graduating. Why is this happening, and what can be done? Crossing the Finish Line provides the most detailed exploration ever of college completion at America's public universities. This groundbreaking book sheds light on such serious issues as dropout rates linked to race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Probing graduation rates at twenty-one flagship public universities and four statewide systems of public higher education, the authors focus on the progress of students in the entering class of 1999--from entry to graduation, transfer, or withdrawal. They examine the effects of parental education, family income, race and gender, high school grades, test scores, financial aid, and characteristics of universities attended (especially their selectivity). The conclusions are compelling: minority students and students from poor families have markedly lower graduation rates--and take longer to earn degrees--even when other variables are taken into account. Noting the strong performance of transfer students and the effects of financial constraints on student retention, the authors call for improved transfer and financial aid policies, and suggest ways of improving the sorting processes that match students to institutions. An outstanding combination of evidence and analysis, Crossing the Finish Line should be read by everyone who cares about the nation's higher education system.

A collection of first-person narratives and anecdotes, close-up portrait photographs, and the author's personal and historical reflections capture the rich ethnic diversity of the people and landscapes of the borough of Queens in New York City, in a volume that comes complete with an audio rendition of the oral histories and music by composer Scott Johnson. Original.

The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual. Rethinking this interval in our culture, Neil Jumonville focuses on the group of writers and thinkers who founded, edited, and wrote for some of the most influential magazines in the country, including Partisan Review, Politics, Commentary, and Dissent. In their rejection of ideological, visionary, and romantic outlooks, reviewers and essayists such as Sidney Hook, Irving Howe, Lionel Trilling, Harold Rosenberg, and Daniel Bell adopted a pragmatic criticism that had a profound influence on the American intellectual community. By placing pragmatism at the center of intellectual activity, the New York Critics crossed from large belief systems to more tentative answers in the hope of redefining the proper function of the intellectual in the new postwar world.Because members of the New York group always valued being intellectuals more than being political leftists, they adopted a cultural elitism that opposed mass culture. Ready to combat any form of absolutist thought, they found themselves pitted against a series of antagonists, from the 1930s to the present, whom they considered insufficiently rational and analytical to be good intellectuals: the Communists and their sympathizers, the Beat writers, and the New Left. Jumonville tells the story of some of the paradoxes and dilemmas that confront all intellectuals. In this sense the book is as much about what it means to be an intellectual as it is about a specific group of thinkers.

A "Washington Post" staff writer describes his journeys through a Black world, evoking his efforts to cross over and engage Blacks in a way whites generally do not

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