Son Jarocho was born as the regional sound of Veracruz but over time became a Mexican national genre, even transnational, genre-a touchstone of Chicano identity in the United States. Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho traces a musical journey from the Gulf Coast to interior Mexico and across the border, describing the transformations of Son Jarocho along the way. This comprehensive cultural study pairs ethnographic and musicological insights with an oral history of the late Mario Barradas, one of Son Jarocho's preeminent modern musicians. Chicano musician Francisco Gonzalez offers an insider's account of Barradas's influence and Son Jarocho's musical qualities, while Rafael Figueroa Hernandez delves into Barradas's recordings and films. Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez examines the interplay between Son Jarocho's indigenous roots and contemporary role in Mexican and US society. The result is a nuanced portrait of a vital and evolving musical tradition.

Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate Plato's work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are central to Plato's understanding of the hierarchy between animals, humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education, sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive annotated index to Plato's bestiary in both Greek and English.

Readers of Plato have often neglected the Laws because of its length and density. In this set of interpretive essays, notable scholars of the Laws from the fields of classics, history, philosophy, and political science offer a collective close reading of the dialogue "book by book" and reflect on the work as a whole. In their introduction, editors Gregory Recco and Eric Sanday explore the connections among the essays and the dramatic and productive exchanges between the contributors. This volume fills a major gap in studies on Plato's dialogues by addressing the cultural and historical context of the Laws and highlighting their importance to contemporary scholarship. -- Indiana University Press

En la aurora del nuevo milenio, Francisco Gonzalez se vio involucrado en una aventura espiritual que cambaria su vida. Despues de 20 anos como mayordomo en una empresa de construccion, un grave problema de salud lo llevo a interpretar el simbolismo de cuatro suenos que se dieron durante esta crisis. Dicha busqueda culmino en su nueva ruta como sanador. Este es el primer volumen de una trilogia que narra los procesos personales, practicos y teoricos, que transformaron a Francisco de constructor urbano en curandero contemporaneo. El autor explica la diferencia entre las actitudes fragmentadas de la religion y de la medicina que solo ataca los sintomas fisicos, de las limitaciones de la psicologia, y la espiritualidad de las practicas de sanacion integral que se encuentran en la raiz de culturas milenarias. Con valor intelectual y claridad de cuentista, Francisco narra como camino por los sendero de la hip- noterapia convencional hacia los retos de la realidad de la espiritualidad de sus clientes, desarro- llando asi lo que vino a denominar la hipnoterapia evolutiva. "Que no esta enfocada unicamente en resolver algunos aspectos emocionales con objeto de que las personas tengan una mejor vida, sino que el propositos es guiarlas y ponerlas bajo el quicio de la puerta, ahi en donde se inicia la ruta de liberacion." P. 183-? Fusionando la tradicion judeocristiana con la sabiduria del Mexico antiguo, al enfocar el significado de los siete pecados capitales como la raiz psicologica de los males fisicos, mentales y espirituales, el metodo de Francisco Gonzalez a traves de la terapia hipnotica, permite al interesado transformar internamente, por si mismo, su energia de negativa a positiva. Por medio de amenos y poderoso relatos y parabolas originales, el lector se enterara de como el curandero creo un espacio y un metodo para conducir al individuo a la fuente interior. "El reino de Dios esta dentro de vosotros. San Lucas," 17:21 Guita Herman

Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate Plato's work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are central to Plato's understanding of the hierarchy between animals, humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education, sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive annotated index to Plato's bestiary in both Greek and English.

The candidacy of Barack Obama has energized millions of Americans who have turned out in record numbers to participate in the 2008 presidential primaries. Much of his candidacy's success has been built upon the support he has among the youth and other new voters. Obama has convinced them that he is the candidate of "change." This book, written by three young voters, seeks to expose Obama's background, his inexperience, his far left political agenda, and demonstrate that not all the youth are behind him. Through their leadership positions in national organizations, Bierfeldt, Gonzalez, and Steinhauser have had frequent contact with youth leaders on college campuses across the country. Through this book, they aim to challenge their peers (and others) to question their attraction to the Obama candidacy and his big government proposals - proposals which do not represent change, but simply the status quo. Real change would put power back in the people's hands, not more power concentrated in Washington. This is the biggest problem in our political system and Obama doesn't want to "change" this crisis, he only wants to exacerbate it. The rising generation today is fortunate enough to stand on the shoulders of the many generations before us that built America. Before this generation becomes responsible for handing over the sacred keys of the White House, we should ask, Who is the Real Barack Obama? This book arms voters with substantive research that they can use to learn more about where Obama stands on the important economic, national security, and social issues, and expose his background, character, and far left ideology. Whether or not you agree with his policies, after you examine the evidence that this book offers, you will begin to peel away the fiction, fizzle out the hype, and unmask the real Barack Obama.

A Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of essays on a broad range of themes and figures spanning the entire period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers. Rather than offering synoptic and summary treatments of preestablished positions and themes, these essays engage with the ancient texts directly, focusing attention on concepts that emerge as urgent in the readings themselves and then clarifying those concepts interpretively. Indeed, this is a companion volume that takes a very serious and considered approach to its designated task-accompanying readers as they move through the most crucial passages of the infinitely rich and compelling texts of the ancients. Each essay provides a tutorial in close reading and careful interpretation. Because it offers foundational treatments of the most important works of ancient philosophy and because it, precisely by doing so, arrives at numerous original interpretive insights and suggests new directions for research in ancient philosophy, this volume should be of great value both to students just starting off reading the ancients and to established scholars still fascinated by philosophy's deepest abiding questions.

En la aurora del nuevo milenio, Francisco Gonzalez se vio involucrado en una aventura espiritual que cambaria su vida. Despues de 20 anos como mayordomo en una empresa de construccion, un grave problema de salud lo llevo a interpretar el simbolismo de cuatro suenos que se dieron durante esta crisis. Dicha busqueda culmino en su nueva ruta como sanador. Este es el primer volumen de una trilogia que narra los procesos personales, practicos y teoricos, que transformaron a Francisco de constructor urbano en curandero contemporaneo. El autor explica la diferencia entre las actitudes fragmentadas de la religion y de la medicina que solo ataca los sintomas fisicos, de las limitaciones de la psicologia, y la espiritualidad de las practicas de sanacion integral que se encuentran en la raiz de culturas milenarias. Con valor intelectual y claridad de cuentista, Francisco narra como camino por los sendero de la hip- noterapia convencional hacia los retos de la realidad de la espiritualidad de sus clientes, desarro- llando asi lo que vino a denominar la hipnoterapia evolutiva. "Que no esta enfocada unicamente en resolver algunos aspectos emocionales con objeto de que las personas tengan una mejor vida, sino que el propositos es guiarlas y ponerlas bajo el quicio de la puerta, ahi en donde se inicia la ruta de liberacion." P. 183-? Fusionando la tradicion judeocristiana con la sabiduria del Mexico antiguo, al enfocar el significado de los siete pecados capitales como la raiz psicologica de los males fisicos, mentales y espirituales, el metodo de Francisco Gonzalez a traves de la terapia hipnotica, permite al interesado transformar internamente, por si mismo, su energia de negativa a positiva. Por medio de amenos y poderoso relatos y parabolas originales, el lector se enterara de como el curandero creo un espacio y un metodo para conducir al individuo a la fuente interior. "El reino de Dios esta dentro de vosotros. San Lucas," 17:21 Guita Herman"