L. RODRIGUEZ

"Cuanto tenia 5 meses de embarazo supe que unas de mis mellizas venia con problemas, no sabíamos si iba a morir o vivir. Para desahogar mi pena y todo lo que viví desde ese momento , comencé a escribir, nunca pensé que lo que estaba escribiendo se iba a convertir en esto.. Un libro. Este libro contiene experiencias reales vividas en ese tiempo y...

In the title story, One Foot in the Door (the other one in the gutter) a young woman attributes the creation of her son to Alternative Music and other shenanigans of her youth.Other Stories are ""When all is said, it's done"", a letter from a runaway to her best friends; ""The Classic"", a love-lorn boy makes a discovery and finds that he is slo...

Luis J. Rodríguez's stunning memoir-a brave, unflinching account of life in a Los Angeles street gang Luis J. Rodríguez joined his first gang at age eleven. As a teenager, he witnessed the rise of some of the most notorious cliques and sets in Southern California and knew only a life of violence-one that revolved around drugs, gang wars, and pol...

El libro ofrece una novedosa mirada a la relación entre la historia y la crítica textual o la edición de textos, examinando cuestiones como el acceso a las fuentes, la informatividad y representación de los datos, etc.

Half-Cherokee Marquitta “Skeet” Bannion thought she was leaving her troubles behind when she fled the stress of being the highest-ranking woman in the Kansas City Police Department, a jealous cop ex-husband, and a disgraced alcoholic ex-cop father. Moving to a small town to be chief of a college’s campus police force, she builds a life outside o...