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Presents a biography of twentieth-century social activist Cesar Chavez who became the leaders of the United Farm Workers and fought for the rights of Mexican laborers in the mid-1900s.

A comprehensive anthology of Fidel Castro's speeches, the first to be published since the 1960's.

Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI on April 19, 2005 , the first German pope in almost 500 years. A brilliant intellectual who speaks five languages and can read old Greek, Latin and classical Hebrew, he has a near-photographic memory. He is conservative, humble and reserved but also controversial because of his membership in the Hitler Youth and his former job as Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF), essentially making decisions every day on the Catholic way of doing things.

Thomas S. Monson, the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shares the story of the Christmas train from his childhood.

A biography of the Mexican American labor leader who worked to improve working conditions for migrant farm workers and to establish the United Farm Workers Union.

Profiles the lives and faith of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, and chronicles their childhoods, conflicts within the church, and the issues facing Pope Benedict XVI in the future.

The author's paintings of Canadian lumber camps accompany his first-hand observations of the life of a lumberjack.

A brief biography of Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American union leader who fought to get migrant farm workers better wages.

Examines the life of Cesar Chavez, the union activist who led the struggle of migrant farm workers for better working conditions in the mid-twentieth century.