Hector Balcazar

No Wonder! – The Art of Creating a New World is a memoir.

Throughout this storytelling narrative, the reader will be taken on a journey that is full of adventures and rich in serendipity. The author takes the reader on a journey through his academic experience in five US states and six universities.

The book has three sections.

Part 1 begins with the immigrant experience of the author’s family. Part 1 covers the author’s early years, growing up in Mexico City, including his college experience, and later his International Nutrition studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. In Part 1, the author shares his entry into his academic career where he discovers his passion for public health. He writes about his road to public health to seek a philosophy of scholarship bridging science with human justice.

Part 2 focuses on the author’s work with community health workers. In Part 2, the author sets the stage and explains ways to transform communities and to bring health justice.

Finally, in Part 3, the author presents a new vision with a new actor: the community spiritual worker.

The book is a vibrant and colorful tapestry, full of inspirational real-life stories, cultural foods, poems, songs, and many accounts of the author’s rich life experience, living in two cultures, Mexico and the US, and working in various universities.

The author sheds light on the people who have been in the shadows and who have been invisible within communities.

The book emphasizes that working with communities is an art.

Hector G. Balcazar’s first book, No Wonder! The Art of Creating a New World started a new dialogue for building a more hopeful future in which humanity cares for one another’s wellbeing using the Community Health Worker model.

In that first book, which took the form of a memoir, the author uses his work in public health to present his vision to build communities utilizing a bridge of human connection.

Utilizing a storytelling approach, Erasing Historical Invisibility: Creating a Compassionate World further elevates the concept of humanity caring for one another and building a more hopeful future. With themes such as erasing historical invisibility and creating a compassionate world, the author examines the story of our past and presents a positive framework for the future.

With Erasing Historical Invisibility, the author takes a historical perspective as to why humanity has not yet advanced to increase the human spirit. He suggests humanity has utilized an “old recipe” which distracts the collective maturity from evolving. The reader is invited to learn about the “old recipe,” the role of human invisibility, and what “new recipes” are needed.

In Erasing Historical Invisibility, the author describes humanity as a conqueror species and how humanity evolved to create human invisibility. Using the Roman Empire, Mexico, and the United States as examples, the author presents the need for dismantling the “old recipe.” 

Showcasing themes such as re-examining our human collective experience, moving towards regional and community life, and the concept of “antidotes” to build new model frameworks for creating a collective maturity and a safe world.

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