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Henríquez attended Northwestern University; she majored in English, graduating in 1999. [8] She then earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. [9] She has described her time in the Iowa program as "a great experience", [10] highly valuable both for validating her writing as well as developing her skills: "I have all my notebooks...and I still open them every once in a while to find ...
The Book of Unknown Americans is a 2014 novel by Cristina Henríquez published by Knopf.The story is told from multiple first-person points of view, with the two main narrators being Alma Rivera, a roughly 30-year-old housewife from Pátzcuaro, Mexico, and Mayor Toro, a teenage social outcast and first-generation Hispanic and Latino American whose parents were originally from Panama.
The Helm Identification Guides are a series of books that identify groups of birds.The series include two types of guides, those that are: Taxonomic, dealing with a particular family of birds on a worldwide scale—most early Helm Guides were this type, as well as many more-recent ones, although some later books deal with identification of such groups on a regional scale only (e.g., The Gulls ...
Lynx Nature Books was founded as Lynx Edicions in Barcelona by Ramon Mascort Amigó , a lawyer and collector; Jordi Sargatal , a naturalist; and Josep del Hoyo , a medical doctor and writer. [1] Since 2002, the company has been based in the Bellaterra district of Cerdanyola del Vallès .
Van Grouw has continued to write, consult, give talks and demonstrations, and national media broadcasts about historical natural history art. Projects have included selecting images and writing text for the British Library's Turning the Pages virtual book of Audubon's The Birds of America; [8] appearing in Episode 1 of the BBC TV program The ...
Cristina Morales is a Spanish writer. She was born in Granada in 1985. She studied law, political science and international relations at university. Her books include Los combatientes - novel, winner of the INJUVE Prize for Narrative 2012; Malas palabras; Terroristas modernos; Lectura fácil - Herralde Novel Prize 2018 and National Narrative ...
The book explores birds as thinkers (contrary to the cliché "bird brain") in the context of observed behavior in the wild and brings to it the scientific findings from lab and field research. [2] New research suggests that some birds, such as those in the family corvidae, can rival primates and even humans in forms of intelligence.
Sinceramente (Spanish for 'sincerely') is the first book written by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, former President of Argentina and former Vice President.She announced the publication of the book by surprise on April 23, 2019 on her Twitter account. [1]