Author picture
4+ Works 175 Members 9 Reviews

About the Author

Includes the name: Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Works by Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Associated Works

Tagged

Common Knowledge

Gender
male
Organizations
Princeton University

Members

Reviews

Rarely ever modern academic books on the topic are as engaging and as well-written and readable as this one. This book is written in an engaging manner and sheds light on the topic concerned in a most masterful fashion, using various paradigmatic approaches, including modern statistical methods and Bayesian probability calculations with network visualization. It is critically cross-referencing with other disciplines of social and strict sciences . It fulfills its duty duly - exploring the stasis of temple institutions and sacred objects and their relation to the public strata at large of the given Roman Republican period. There are plenty of snippets, variete and interesting facts that are scattered across the book, while it performs a function of locatio and inaguaratio - like the processes of founding and launching sacred institutions - it names the genius loci and inaugurates the commitments it delivered. I'm wholly satisfied with carving out my time for reading it, and I was also inspired to read "Divine Qualities" by Anne J. Clark, that started off the author's escapade into writing this marvellous piece of research. Thank you.… (more)
 
Flagged
Saturnin.Ksawery | Jan 12, 2024 |
3.5 stars. Peralta's story is pretty remarkable. His writing is not bad. One of the most interesting parts of this book is the author's voice - how it changes as he writes about different times in his life.
 
Flagged
CarolHicksCase | 7 other reviews | Mar 12, 2023 |
memoirs/homeless immigrant to Princeton/Oxford/Stanford scholar.
 
Flagged
reader1009 | 7 other reviews | Jul 3, 2021 |
A wrenching memoir by a young man brought to the United States as a four-year-old. His story is moving and thought-provoking. Alas, the library copy was defaced by someone who had crossed out "Undocumented" and replaced it with "ILLEGAL" on the title page, in case you were wondering where we are as a country.
 
Flagged
GaylaBassham | 7 other reviews | May 27, 2018 |

Lists

Awards

You May Also Like

Associated Authors

Statistics

Works
4
Also by
4
Members
175
Popularity
#122,547
Rating
3.9
Reviews
9
ISBNs
13
Languages
1

Charts & Graphs