Martinez Books

This adorable book uses comparisons to explain complex infertility topics.

Most children understand ingredients are needed to bake a recipe and know where they come from (such as milk comes from the cow).

Using this concept, this book explains through illustrations the ingredients needed for making a baby. Plus signs connect cute drawings representing a male sperm and a female egg. The drawings conclude with an equal sign to an image of a baby making it very easy for children to understand.

The story quickly moves to what happens if an ingredient is missing, how the equation (so to speak) will change. A doctor, donors, and/or surrogates can help. Images and plus signs are adjusted respectively. What a wonderful way to show children that no matter how they came to be, families are treasured.

As a surrogate mom, this book would have helped immensely when explaining to my own children how the new twins would not be their brother or sister. I would recommend it to all families who want to teach their children that there are many ways to enter our world.

This is so far the best available written information about the "Refranes" y "Dichos" from Mexico. Any one addicted to the Mexican Literature will find a flavor of the Old Country, flavor very hard to be found in our everyday transit.

I recommend it to the Spanish Language Instructors.

Roque Dalton met Miguel Marmol in Prague in 1966. Marmol had survived a firing squad in 1930 after being arrested along with 18 other Communists suspected of organizing the rebellion of poor peasants in western El Salvador. Over ten thousand peasants were killed by the El Salvadoran military in putting down the uprising. One of the persons killed by the military was Farabundo Marti. A later group of rebel guerillas in El Salvador named itself after him. One of the government death squads during the civil conflict in El Salvador in the 1970s and 1980s named itself after the general who was president in 1932 directing the brutal reaction to the rebellion which became known as "Matanza," the massacre.

The three authors on university faculties investigate the development, use, and effects of political symbols in the historical events of El Salvador. The military which had seized power in El Salvador only two months before the uprising held on to its power for another fifty years. After the journalist and poet Dalton wrote a book on Marmol from a series on interviews, Marmol, along with the executed Marti, became a symbolic focal point for the domestic and the international opposition to the tyrannical military rule in El Salvador. Dalton's 500-page work on Marmol first published in Costa Rico in 1972 was "one of the earliest examples of testimonial literature, a genre of international proportions that emerged primarily out of Latin America during the civil conflicts of the 1970s and 1980s." Parts of Dalton's book based on the Marmol interviews, other writings of Dalton's, and documents from other authors and sources are recorded in the appendix of about 100 pages.

The work is not basically one of historical fact-finding. For the facts of the Matanza are well-known, and are not disputed by either side of the long-running civil conflict in El Salvador. The authors interest is how each side came to view the 1932 insurrection as it did. Each side developed opposing interpretations; which interpretations were rationales and justifications for its actions during the long conflict. The anti-government forces of the Communists and others found inspiration and encouragement in Marmol's story as written by Dalton. This especially calls for attention since it is not the "official" record. The government forces would as soon have had the rebellion and massacre covered up and forgotten about. But the memory was kept alive by survivors and strengthened years later when Marmol's memoir written by Dalton was published. Though the two met by chance in Prague, as these coauthors show, the resulting memoir along with the memory of the deadly events which had been kept mostly in silence played a key role in eventually ending El Salvador's military dictatorship.

This book is easy to understand, and it has everything in it that a retail person needs to know in order to reduce thefts and other kinds of losses in a store. I've looked at other books, but they're too complicated. This one lays the topics out in a logical way, and the writer doesn't try to impress you with big words--just the facts!

Exceptionally well written by Raymond J. Martinez (a direct descendant of Pierre George Rousseau), Rousseau: The Last Days Of Spanish New Orleans is the fascinating and informative historical chronicle of the daring man who led the Spanish campaign against the British in Louisiana and West Florida during the Revolutionary War. Painting a detailed canvas of human lives and power struggles in the era before the Louisiana purchase, Rousseau: The Last Days Of Spanish New Orleans is a unique and exciting introduction into a lesser known but absolutely fascinating aspect of American revolutionary history.

The Cabin Cookbook is straight-forward and fairly simple. Many of the recipes come with a number of different combinations that can be used to alter the flavors and ingredients used. There is also an emphasis on using seasonal produce, which I appreciate. One of the interesting parts of this book is that Marrone devotes a notable section of her book to describing the proper methods and means for a successful pig roast. I've never had something as complicated as a pig roast presented in such a methodical manner or as easily. Overall, I have found this cookbook to be most useful for beginning cooks that are looking for a wide-range of simple, versitle recipes.

Myers does a magnificant job of depicting the human mind, and the surroundings that affect are daily lives. He brins up theories and thoughts that most would have never considered. It is a bit of a Higher Level book. Recommended to anyone who has ever had in interest in psychology, or social psychology.

This is a little jewel of a book. Spanish teachers looking for "bell work" ideas or "sponge" activities will enjoy this extensive riddle collection featured along with their English translation. At the same time, anyone solely interested in the language or the culture will be entertained by this book in a charming way. Both adults and children will have lots fo fun solving the riddles together. The colcha designs add an extra cultural dimension to this entertaining book.

My son loves this book. He's a huge SpongeBob fan so these books make bedtime very easy!

Great company providing the book. This was a replacement for my son's lost school book. My faster, easier, and way cheaper than going through the school.