A new memoir by a California-based Professor of Women's Studies, Dr. Oliva Espín. Espín's life and work as a scholar and teacher moves between Cuba and the United States in a moving narrative authored by a feminist educator who left her mark in the United States and Latin America. Published by the oldest university press in the California State University system, San Diego State University Press.Advance Word on My Native Land is Memory“Reading My Native Land is Memory: Stories of a Cuban Childhood, through my own memories of my teacher, allowed me to discover a new story, something different from the person I knew as a teenager and her student, but fascinating and enriching at the same time. This book helped me discover the brave nakedness of her soul. It made me understand again that each human being can be a source of enlightenment for others if that person is able to write down dreams, losses, weaknesses, and triumph. In reading this book I discovered my own life anew, the life I left behind when I left Cuba and I understand.”Virginia Aponte | Theater Director and Professor Emerita | Universidad Católica | Andrés Bello, Caracas, Venezuela“Right from the beginning, My Native Land is a raw, compelling journey to a Cuba about to be changed forever. Oliva Espín’s unique perspective and powerful writing emotionally captures an immigrant’s story that resonates across countries and is relevant today.”Ronnie Ramos | Executive Editor - The Daily Memphian“Oliva Espín gives us a personal and moving view of her life as a girl looking for her identity and independence in those difficult days in Cuba. Beautifully written.”Teresita Yániz de Arias Movimiento de Mujeres | Secretaria Nacional del Plan Alimentario Nutricional Diputada de la República 1999-O4. 2004-O9 | Panama

My Native Land is Memory: Stories of a Cuban Childhood

Oliva Espín

San Diego State University Press

The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis, 10, by Ralph R. Greenson, and edited by Harry Polkinhorn, is the seventh issue in The Ralph R. Greenson Training Seminars: The Training Seminars, Notes, Miscellaneous Papers and is published by San Diego State University Press for their Psychoanalysis on the Couch series of books. See all the volumes in the series here: sdsupress.sdsu.edu/couch.html

The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis, 10 - The Ralph R. Greenson Training Seminars, Notes, Miscellaneous Papers (Psychoanalysis on the Couch Series)

Ralph R. Greenson

Harry Polkinhorn, Editor

In his latest book, Award-winning author Roger Rosenblatt charts a journey that is as visual as it is poetic. Cataract Blues, on the surface, is a collection of lyric fragments. A careful reading rewards bibliophiles (and optical aficionados) with a nuanced thoughtful machine that is about seeing, the eyes, eyesight, cataracts, the blues, and more. At once a masterpiece of prose writing and a poetic experiment, Cataract Blues invites readers to consider new approaches to the visual (and the literary).

Cataract Blues: Running the Keyboard

Jules Feiffer

Roger Rosenblatt

Since the paradisal yearnings of ancient Sumeria, the concept of utopia has persisted as a symbol of hope. These essays provide a broad spread of perspectives on the ways the utopian vision has appeared, ranging from the 'heavenly garden' of the ancient Near East, through Sir Thomas More's Utopia and the idealized societies of feminist science fiction, to the utopian/dystopian expressions of Kurt Vonnegut. The Utopian Vision is enhanced by a fully annotated bibliography of more than 500 works by utopian authors or on aspects of utopia. Originally published in 1983.

The Utopian Vision: Seven Essays on the Quincentennial of Sir Thomas Moore

E. D. S. Sullivan

Reference

Carlos Gagini's novel "El árbol enfermo" (here translated as "Redemptions") is a classic novel of Costa Rica, first published in 1918. This is the first English translation, and one of the few Central American novels available in English. Set in and around San José during the first years of the twentieth century, when the influence of the United States-economic, political, military, and cultural-was intensifying rapidly, "Redemptions" tells the story of the seduction and betrayal of a young Costa Rican woman (and symbolically of her country and region) by a North American entrepreneur. In the same genre as novels and essays by Uruguayan José Enrique Rodó and Mexican José Vasconcellos, "Redemptions" is a work of cultural nationalism which urges Costa Ricans to take pride in their traditions, to resist the encroachment of outside forces, and to recognize and solve their own problems. Originally published in 1985.

Redemptions: A Costa Rican Novel

Literature & Fiction

Gagini, Carlos

United States

The ancient poets tell us that in the year 776 B.C. a young cook from Elis won a great footrace in a meadow near the river Alpheus at Olympia. The youth, Coroebus, was crowned with a wreath of wild olive twigs and thus became the first recorded victor in the ancient Olympic Games. From this beginning there evolved an alliance of sport and the arts that no culture or civilization since the Greeks has been able to achieve. During the summer of 1984, a collection of scholars, athletes, and artists from various disciplines convened in Coroebus's honor to celebrate the alliance of sport and the arts with the formation of the Sport Literature Association. The papers in this volume, most of which were presented at the Coroebus Conference, are devoted to examining and furthering the understanding of that alliance. The Coroebus Conference, and particularly the resulting writings compiled in this volume, are a long overdue recognition of a neglected relationship. This book could well provide the impetus to recapture the alliance from which both sport and the arts benefitted so well in the past. Originally published in 1989.

Coroebus Triumphs: The Alliance of Sport and the Arts

The U.S.-Mexican Border Environment: A Road Map to a Sustainable 2020 brings together background papers and ancillary materials prepared for Border Institute I, held in December 1998. The briefing papers, as presented at Border Institute I and then revised, lay out basic information and analysis about the populaton, economy, enviroment, and governance of the border region. They provided the context for discussions of the enviromental sustainability of the region over the next twenty years or so. The purpose of Border Institute I was to encourage stakeholders in the region and elsewhere to redirect their focus from immediate and urgent current border enviromental issues to the steps that must be taken soon if the region is to arrive at 2020 with a healthy and sustainable enviroment. SCERP, and its partners in Border Institue I - the U.S. Enviromental Protection Agency and the Border Trade Alliance - will convene additional meetings approximately every year to continue the discussion of key aspects of the enviromental sustainablity of the border region.

The U.S.-Mexican Border Environment: A Road Map to a Sustainable 2020 (SCERP Monograph Series, No.1)

Octavo, [20cm/8in], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 117, indexed Fully illustrated with charts, maps, Ect

The U.S.-Mexican Border Environment: Water Issues Along the U.S.-Mexican Border (SCERP Monograph Series, no. 2)

The US and Mexico border region border enviroments-including the economy and enviroment for a sustainable border region-now and through the year 2020. Part of the SCERP Monograph Series, number 3.

The U.S.-Mexican border enviroment: economy and enviroment for a sustainable border region: Now and in 2020 (SCERP Monograph Series, Number 3)

The U.S. - Mexican Border Environment: Binotional Water Management Planning

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