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Amid the flurry of debates about immigration, poverty, and education in the United States, the stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through American society. The fifteen Latino college student... More

Garrod (education, Dartmouth College), Kilkenny (social work, Simmons College, Boston), and Goméz (sociology and Latino studies, Northeastern Illinois U. , Chicago) present a collection of 15 first-person narratives by Latino college students, aged 18 to 22, who attended Dartmouth; all but one of th... More

Mixed presents engaging and incisive first-person experiences of what it is like to be multiracial in what is supposedly a postracial world. Bringing together twelve essays by college students who identify themselves as multiracial, this book considers what this identity means in a reality that occa... More

The famous Duke University basketball coach discusses his four-decade career, how he recruits and disciplines his players, the difference between college basketball and Olympic basketball, and how he views retirement.... More

"If you have many negative thoughts, most of the time, it's time to repossess your life. Dominate your thoughts with this book's help, to achieve an accomplished life. Simply perfect!" - Rafael Oliver (Amazon customer) Many Years ago, scientists foreseen that in a very near future, the depression, ... More

In "It all depends on how you see", the author brings a different way of seeing the world and the problems of everyday life. Based on theology and phenomenology, a famous line of philosophical thought, the reader can reprogram his mind to enjoy life in an uncomplicated way. Find in this book relate... More

This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art treatment of the acquisition of Indo- and Non-Indo-European languages in various contexts, such as L1, L2, L3/Ln, bi/multilingual, heritage languages, pathology as well as language impairment, and sign language acquisition. The book explores a bro... More

Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of vulnerability may problematize its visibilization from an ethical and aesthetic perspective. Recent technological and scientific developments have ac... More

Though the EU has tried to place human rights and democracy at the heart of its external action, there are serious concerns about its capacity to have a significant impact on the situation of human rights and human rights defenders as well as on the democratization processes taking place in differen... More

Elizabeth is a 16 years old orphan, that receives unusual new: she is the only inheritor of a mansion, situated in the Amazonian Rain Forest, belonging to an English nobleman. Together with her friend Fisto, that hides a secret she will take over the fortune, she will get involved in a series of str... More

A young woman is found, almost dying, near a hospital whose scientists, unknown to the society, were realizing all different kinds of experiments. Without any intentions of harming the girl's body, they test a new kind of regenerative product with the purpose of healing her; such perfection is not u... More

This book presents a peer reviewed selection of extended versions of ten original papers that were presented at the 15th International Symposium on Computers in Education (SIIE 2013) held in Viseu, Portugal. The book provide a representative view of current Information and Communications Technology... More

When Peace reigns and China is newly reformed, the Circle of Alchemy – the seven most powerful alchemists in the kingdom – are summoned by emperor Qin Shihuang and given the task of producing the elusive Elixir of Life. At fifteen, Liang was taken in by one of the alchemist after becoming an orphan... More

This book discusses how scientific and other types of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important and innovative changes in theories and concepts. Gathering revised contributions presented at the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning (... More

Since the discovery of X-rays and radioactivity, ionizing radiations have been widely applied in medicine both for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The risks associated with radiation exposure and handling led to the parallel development of the field of radiation protection. Pioneering experimen... More

This text explores a set of key concepts in Marxist theory as developed and read by Lacan, demonstrating links and connections between Marxist thought and Lacanian practice. The book examines the complexity of these encounters through the structure of a comprehensive vocabulary which covers diverse... More

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer of men and women in industrialized countries. In older age groups, CVD is also the most important cause for hospitalization, and, in many countries, it is the basis of early retirement from work. Thus, CVD is associated with enormous costs for ca... More

Building upon Feltham and Ohlson models, this book examines positive loss-earnings within the context of the dot. com bubble during the boom years of the late 1990s bull market. The strong demand for equity financing captured the imagination of investors from Europe and U. S. like never before. W... More

Not long ago, it was assumed that coronary heart disease mainly--or only--affected men. Now that CHD is recognized as a leading killer of women as well as men, numerous research studies have been made of its diverse presentations in women, causal factors, and possibilities for prevention and treatm... More

The issue of women's health has long been neglected. This applies to many medical areas, but it has become most evident in the field of cardiology. For a long time, cardiology has been a medical specialty which seemed to be created for men, by men--particularly in research, but also in intensive cli... More

Embrace the changing suburbs by changing your school! As your students evolve, has your school evolved with them? This unique book offers an explanation of the increasing diversity in student makeup and ideas for acting as an agent of positive change for your school. The authors offer tools and rec... More

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the First International Workshop on Smart Ultrasound Imaging, SUSI 2019, and the 4th International Workshop on Preterm, Perinatal and Paediatric Image Analysis, PIPPI 2019, held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Medical I... More

1968 and Global Cinema addresses a notable gap in film studies. Although scholarship exists on the late 1950s and 1960s New Wave films, research that puts cinemas on 1968 into dialogue with one another across national boundaries is surprisingly lacking. Only in recent years have histories of 1968 be... More

Canillejas (Madrid), 1978. El Botas tiene 16 años. Es huérfano de padre. El hígado de su progenitor dijo basta en la bodega del barrio. Su hermano murió tiempo atrás de hepatitis C por esa desafortunada costumbre de compartir las jeringuillas para chutarse. Su hermana se fue a una comuna jipi en Ibi... More