Posted on April 18, 2007 - by admin
Book Review: Xochitl and the Flowers/Xochitl, La Nia de Las Flores by Jorge Argueta (Blogcritics.o
Book Review: Xochitl and the Flowers/Xochitl, La Nia de Las Flores by Jorge Argueta (Blogcritics.org)
Xochitl and her family have come from El Salvador and are missing home very much. They live in San Francisco’s Mission District and what they miss most of all are the flowers that they were surrounded with back home. Back in El Salvador, the Flores family was known for the flowers they provided. Xochitl’s mother dreams of owning a nursery filled with beautiful flowers and plants. She …
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Book World Live (Washington Post)
Whether having their mothers focused solely on them benefits children is a topic of interminable and sometimes nasty debate, but Leslie Bennetts makes it absolutely clear that abandoning the workplace is not good for women.– Review: Women’s Work (April 15, 2007).
Book Review: Survival of the Sickest – A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease by by Sharon Moalem and … (Blogcritics.org)
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease is a most fascinating and entertaining book. In it, Dr. Sharon Moalem looks at disease through the lens of evolution, asking, “if evolution is all about survival, why would it select for deadly diseases?” He answers the question in breezy and inviting prose with plenty of science to back up his claims. Dr. Moalem …
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