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But Dan-el's courageous mother decided to stay and make a better life for her bright sons in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Without papers, she faced tremendous obstacles. While Dan-el was only in grade school, the family joined the ranks of the city's homeless. Dan-el, his mother, and brother lived in a downtown shelter where Dan-el's only refuge was the meager library. At another shelter he met Jeff, a young volunteer from a wealthy family. Jeff was immediately struck by Dan-el's passion for books and learning. With Jeff's help, Dan-el was accepted on scholarship to Collegiate, the oldest private school in the country.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e There, Dan-el thrived. Throughout his youth, Dan-el navigated two worlds: the rough streets of East Harlem, where he lived with his brother and his mother and tried to make friends, and the ultra-elite halls of a Manhattan private school, where he immersed himself in a world of books and rose to the top of his class.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From Collegiate, Dan-el went on to Princeton, where he made the momentous decision to come out as an undocumented student in a \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e profile a few months before he gave the salutatorian's traditional address in Latin at his commencement.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eUndocumented\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for the debate on immigration, but it is also an unforgettable tale of a passionate young scholar coming of age in two very different worlds.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eUndocumented\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eUndocumented\u003c\/i\u003e is an impassioned counterargument to those who feel, as did some of Peralta's more xenophobic classmates, that 'illegals' are good-for-nothings who take jobs from Americans and deserve to be kicked out of the country. No one who reads this story of a brilliant young man and his proud mother will automatically equate undocumented immigrant with idle parasite. That stereotype is something else we shouldn't take for granted.\" --\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Dan-el Padilla Peralta's story is as compulsively readable as a novel, an all-American tall tale that just happens to be true. From homeless shelter to Princeton, Oxford, and Stanford, through the grace not only of his own hard work but his mother's discipline and care, he documents the America we should still aspire to be.\" --Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, President of the New America Foundation","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49559512613137,"sku":"CIN0143109332A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50038846849297,"sku":"CIN0143109332G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50227249479953,"sku":"CIN0143109332VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51558266044689,"sku":"GOR014327583","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52266125590801,"sku":"NIN9780143109334","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0143109332.jpg?v=1751069471"},{"product_id":"divine-institutions-book-dan-el-padilla-peralta-9780691168678","title":"Divine Institutions","description":"How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman Republic  Many narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social change. Divine Institutions places religion at the heart of this transformation, showing how religious ritual and observance held the Roman Republic together during the fourth and third centuries BCE, a period when the Roman state significantly expanded and diversified.  Blending the latest advances in archaeology with innovative sociological and anthropological methods, Dan-el Padilla Peralta takes readers from the capitulation of Rome's neighbor and adversary Veii in 398 BCE to the end of the Second Punic War in 202 BCE, demonstrating how the Roman state was redefined through the twin pillars of temple construction and pilgrimage. He sheds light on how the proliferation of temples together with changes to Rome's calendar created new civic rhythms of festival celebration, and how pilgrimage to the city surged with the increase in the number and frequency of festivals attached to Rome's temple structures.  Divine Institutions overcomes many of the evidentiary hurdles that for so long have impeded research into this pivotal period in Rome's history. 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Throughout his youth Dan-el navigated these two worlds: the rough streets of East Harlem, where he lived with his brother and his mother and tried to make friends, and the ultra-elite halls of a Manhattan private school, where he could immerse himself in a world of books and where he soon rose to the top of his class. From Collegiate Dan-el went to Princeton, where he thrived and where he made the momentous decision to come out as an undocumented student in a \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e profile a few months before he gave the salutatorian's traditional address, in Latin, at his commencement. \u003ci\u003eUndocumented\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic story of the triumph of the human spirit. 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