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A House Called Tomorrow

by Alberto Ríos ...

Illustrated by Ana Ramírez González ...

The gift for graduates—and anyone, of any age, destined for the great and the good—this lush inspirational poem-in-pictures celebrates the resilience and dignity of human decency and the potential in each of us.We are each made, fundamentally, from the good, and we exist in service to a simple idea: that we can be not only good, but better. That is the joyful premise of the poem at the heart of ... Read more

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The gift for graduates—and anyone, of any age, destined for the great and the good—this lush inspirational poem-in-pictures celebrates the resilience and dignity of human decency and the potential in each of us.We are each made, fundamentally, from the good, and we exist in service to a simple idea: that we can be not only good, but better. That is the joyful premise of the poem at the heart of
... Read more
Every Sound Is Not a Wolf

by Alberto Ríos ...

From backyard to Sonoran desert, Every Sound is Not a Wolf explores the tender connection between people, place, and the natural world.Alberto Ríos’ Every Sound is Not a Wolf evokes and awakens the senses—the smell of herbs, “the geckos at their mysterious work.” Even silence grows loud and expansive in its stillness. Told entirely in couplets, and with remarkable lucidity, Ríos balances the ... Read more

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From backyard to Sonoran desert, Every Sound is Not a Wolf explores the tender connection between people, place, and the natural world.Alberto Ríos’ Every Sound is Not a Wolf evokes and awakens the senses—the smell of herbs, “the geckos at their mysterious work.” Even silence grows loud and expansive in its stillness. Told entirely in couplets, and with remarkable lucidity, Ríos balances the
... Read more
Ploughshares Spring 2025 Guest-edited by Peggy Shumaker

by Peggy Shumaker, Naomi Shihab Nye, Felicia Zamora, Tim S. Seibles, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Lia Purpura, Sonja Livingston, Marjorie Sandor, Kelli Russell Agodon, William Archilla, Rick Barot, Lory Bedikian, Jocko Benoit, Fleda Brown, Susan Campbell, Jeanne E. Clark, Madelyn Chen, Kevin Clark, Lindsay D'Andrea, David Daniel, Oliver de la Paz, Mai Der Vang, Stuart Dybek, Leila Farjami, Kevin Goodan, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Sean Hill, Jane Hirshfield, Cynthia Hogue, Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Kimberly Johnson, L.A. Johnson, Brian Komei Dempster, Douglas Manuel, Chloe Martinez, Cleopatra Mathis, Jennifer Militello, Triin Paja, Susanna J. Mishler, Hilda Raz, James Richardson, Alberto Ríos, Nicholas Samaras, William Pitt Root, Lis Sanchez, Elaine Sexton, Maurya Simon, Frank Soos, Brian Tierney, Pamela Uschuk ...

The Spring 2025 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Spring 2025 Issue, edited by ... Read more

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The Spring 2025 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Spring 2025 Issue, edited by
... Read more
Capirotada

A Nogales Memoir

by Alberto Alvaro Ríos ...

Capirotada, Mexican bread pudding, is a mysterious mixture of prunes, peanuts, white bread, raisins, milk, quesadilla cheese, butter, cinnamon and cloves, Old World sugar--all this, writes Alberto Rios, and things people will not tell you.Like its Mexican namesake, this memoir is a rich melange, stirring together Rios's memories of family, neighbors, friends, and secrets from his youth in the two ... Read more

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Capirotada, Mexican bread pudding, is a mysterious mixture of prunes, peanuts, white bread, raisins, milk, quesadilla cheese, butter, cinnamon and cloves, Old World sugar--all this, writes Alberto Rios, and things people will not tell you.Like its Mexican namesake, this memoir is a rich melange, stirring together Rios's memories of family, neighbors, friends, and secrets from his youth in the two
... Read more
Moving Beyond Borders

Julian Samora and the Establishment of Latino Studies

by Alberto Lopez Pulido, Alberto Lopez Pulido, Barbara Driscoll de Alvarado, Carmen Samora, Teresita E Aguilar, Jorge A Bustamante, Gilberto Cárdenas, Miguel A Carranza0, Frank M Castillo1, Anthony J Cortese2, Lydia Espinosa Crafton3, Herman Gallegos4, Phillip Gallegos5, José R Hinojosa6, Delfina Landeros7, Paul López8, Sergio X Madrigal9, Ken Martínez0, Vilma Martínez1, Alberto Mata2, Amelia M Muñoz3, Richard A Navarro4, Jesus "Chuy" Negrete5, Julie Leininger Pycior6, Olga Villa Parra7, Ricardo Parra8, Victor Rios9, Marcos Ronquillo0, Rene Rosenbaum1, Rudy Sandoval2, Alfredo Rodriguez Santos3, Ciro Sepulveda4 ...

Series series Latinos in Chicago and Midwest
Moving Beyond Borders examines the life and accomplishments of Julian Samora, the first Mexican American sociologist in the United States and the founding father of the discipline of Latino studies. Detailing his distinguished career at the University of Notre Dame from 1959 to 1984, the book documents the history of the Mexican American Graduate Studies program that Samora established at Notre ... Read more

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Moving Beyond Borders examines the life and accomplishments of Julian Samora, the first Mexican American sociologist in the United States and the founding father of the discipline of Latino studies. Detailing his distinguished career at the University of Notre Dame from 1959 to 1984, the book documents the history of the Mexican American Graduate Studies program that Samora established at Notre
... Read more
A Good Map of All Things

A Picaresque Novel

by Alberto Álvaro Ríos ...

Series series Camino del Sol
In Alberto Álvaro Ríos’s new picaresque novel, momentous adventure and quiet connection brings twenty people to life in a small town in northern Mexico. A Good Map of All Things is home to characters whose lives are interwoven but whose stories are their own, adding warmth and humor to this continually surprising communal narrative. The stories take place in the mid-twentieth century, in the high ... Read more

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In Alberto Álvaro Ríos’s new picaresque novel, momentous adventure and quiet connection brings twenty people to life in a small town in northern Mexico. A Good Map of All Things is home to characters whose lives are interwoven but whose stories are their own, adding warmth and humor to this continually surprising communal narrative. The stories take place in the mid-twentieth century, in the high
... Read more
Not Go Away Is My Name

by Alberto Ríos ...

Resistance and persistence collide in Alberto Rios’s sixteenth book, Not Go Away Is My Name, a book about past and present, changing and unchanging, letting go and holding on. The borderline between Mexico and the U.S. looms large, and Ríos sheds light on and challenges our sensory experiences of everyday objects. At the same time, family memories and stories of the Sonoron desert weave throughout ... Read more

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Resistance and persistence collide in Alberto Rios’s sixteenth book, Not Go Away Is My Name, a book about past and present, changing and unchanging, letting go and holding on. The borderline between Mexico and the U.S. looms large, and Ríos sheds light on and challenges our sensory experiences of everyday objects. At the same time, family memories and stories of the Sonoron desert weave throughout
... Read more
Goodbye, Mexico

Poems of Remembrance

by Sarah Cortez, Paul David Adkins, Diane Anhalt, Jose Angel Araguz, Jack B. Bedell, Diane Gonzales Bertrand, Alan Birkelbach, David Bowels, Jerry Bradley, Augustin Caden0, Abigail Carl-Klassen1, Sherry Craven2, Carolyn Dahl3, Jim Daniels4, Margo Davis5, Martin Espada6, Maureen Tolman Flannery7, Christa Forster8, James Hoggard9, Ann Howells0, Elizabeth Humber1, Lois P. Jones2, Kate Kingston3, AM Krohn4, Peter Ludwin5, Tony Mares6, Paul Mariani7, Kathleen Markowitz8, C.M. Mayo9, Janet McCann0, Celeste Guzman Mendoza1, karla k. morton2, Erin O'Luanaigh3, Carol C. Reposa4, Alberto Rios5, Jan Seale6, Martha Serpas7, Seth Strickland8, Loueva Smith9, Sandi Stromberg0, Melissa Studdard1, Larry D. Thomas2, C. Derick Varn3, Randall Watson4, Germaine Welch5, Patrick Allen Wright6, Rebecca Young Eunn Yook7 ...

This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence.Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San MiguelYou see their silhouettes along the stone wallor arm in arm below the glow of ... Read more

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This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence.Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San MiguelYou see their silhouettes along the stone wallor arm in arm below the glow of
... Read more
The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body

by Alberto Ríos ...

National Book Award finalistAlberto Ríos explains the world not through reason but magic. These poems-set in a town that straddles Mexico and Arizona-are lyric adventures, crossing two and three boundaries as easily as one, between cultures, between languages, between senses. Drawing upon fable, parable, and family legend, Ríos utilizes the intense and supple imagination of childhood to find and ... Read more

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National Book Award finalistAlberto Ríos explains the world not through reason but magic. These poems-set in a town that straddles Mexico and Arizona-are lyric adventures, crossing two and three boundaries as easily as one, between cultures, between languages, between senses. Drawing upon fable, parable, and family legend, Ríos utilizes the intense and supple imagination of childhood to find and
... Read more
A Small Story about the Sky

by Alberto Ríos ...

"Rios evokes the mysterious and unexpected forces that dwell inside the familiar."-The Washington Post"Ríos delivers another stunning book of poems, rich in impeccable metaphors, that revel in the ordinariness of morning coffee and the crackle of thunderous desert storms. In one sonnet, Ríos addresses injustice in the borderlands, capturing with mathematical precision the everyday struggles that ... Read more

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"Rios evokes the mysterious and unexpected forces that dwell inside the familiar."-The Washington Post"Ríos delivers another stunning book of poems, rich in impeccable metaphors, that revel in the ordinariness of morning coffee and the crackle of thunderous desert storms. In one sonnet, Ríos addresses injustice in the borderlands, capturing with mathematical precision the everyday struggles that
... Read more
The Theater of Night

by Alberto Ríos ...

“In this rhapsodic series of poems, Ríos presents the story of Ventura and Clemente Ríos, a married couple living near the United States-Mexico border. . . . Ríos’s project [is] indebted to magic realism but rooted in naturalism.”—The New Yorker“Ríos creates the feeling of enchanted or intimate lore within a family [and] evokes the mysterious and unexpected forces that dwell inside the familiar.” ... Read more

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“In this rhapsodic series of poems, Ríos presents the story of Ventura and Clemente Ríos, a married couple living near the United States-Mexico border. . . . Ríos’s project [is] indebted to magic realism but rooted in naturalism.”—The New Yorker“Ríos creates the feeling of enchanted or intimate lore within a family [and] evokes the mysterious and unexpected forces that dwell inside the familiar.”
... Read more
3D Printed Bio-implants for Tissue Regeneration

by José Sánchez del Río Sáez, Ángela García de la Camacha Díaz, Luis Moraleda, María Valencia Mora, Alberto Losa Sánchez ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book highlights most advanced 3D printing techniques used for the manufacture of Bio-implants in regenerative medicine, the same behaviour these printed scaffolds have when they are biologically tested. For achieving scaffolds that can substitute the damaged tissue in order to heal the lesion and regenerate it at a speed compatible with the growth of the natural tissue, optimal 3D printing ... Read more

$152.99 USD

This book highlights most advanced 3D printing techniques used for the manufacture of Bio-implants in regenerative medicine, the same behaviour these printed scaffolds have when they are biologically tested. For achieving scaffolds that can substitute the damaged tissue in order to heal the lesion and regenerate it at a speed compatible with the growth of the natural tissue, optimal 3D printing
... Read more

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