Retire Rich with Strategic Investments that Pay You BackTired of playing it safe with your retirement savings only to watch inflation slowly eat away at your nest egg? What if I told you the government has incentives in place that could turn even modest retirement contributions into a fortune with the right strategies?Through savvy structuring that taps layered tax incentives for things like real estate, businesses, renewable energy and permanent life insur...

When John Doe arrives at Emery Hospital with no memory and no identity, it falls to the chapel staff to try and identify this “Frenetic Doe” and find someone—anyone—who will grieve for him if the worst should happen. Leading the search is Chaplain Laura, but what starts as a routine “next-of-kin” investigation soon pulls Laura into an existential tailspin.Between combing through records and riding along on ambulance rescues, Laura finds her faith in free-fall. After countless trage...

Renewing Our Faith and Fortifying Our CommunityIn turbulent times, when societal forces threaten to pull us apart, people of conviction often feel called to rediscover the principles that unite us. This collection shares the inspiring stories of several faith communities that have answered that call by renewing their focus on values of justice, mercy and goodwill.Facing challenges from without and within, each group re-centered themselves on the eternal tru...

A critical look at the realities of community policing in South Los AngelesThe Limits of Community Policing addresses conflicts between police and communities. Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell depart from traditional conceptions, arguing that community policing—popularized for decades as a racial panacea—is not the solution it seems to be.Tracing this policy back to its origins, they focus on the Los Angeles Police Department, which first introduced co...

Freedom, truth, and justice are taken for granted in some countries. In others, they are aspirational. And yet in others, they are deemed justification for persecution, punishment, and silence.Through first-person essays and short stories, the contributors to The Uncaged Voice share their brutal yet heart-rending tales of fleeing the oppressive regimes of their homelands, where freedom of expression and the press is an ideal, not a reality, and where totalitarian forces at...

Mexican Food: The Ultimate Cookbook is a beautiful and thorough collection of recipes drawn from the many rich traditions of Mexican cuisine and inspired by contemporary influences.This comprehensive guide takes you on a tour of Mexican cuisine. From Indigenous traditions to colonial influence and beyond, Mexico has absorbed different local and foreign influences for generations, which is what makes the country’s food so delicious and varied. With these re...

A las y los integrantes del Colegio de Licenciados en Ciencias de la Comunicación de Baja California Sur nos enorgullece y nos causa una profunda satisfacción este logro editorial. Al inicio del confinamiento por la pandemia Covid-19 propusimos un libro colectivo donde las y los participantes escribiéramos de manera concisa nuestra experiencia laboral en nuestro estado: cómo pasamos de la teoría universitaria a la praxis del campo laboral. Esto es un libro testimonial que hablara más de có...

For four decades, Marc H. Ellis has sought to rethink the Jewish tradition in light of the prophetic imperative, especially with regard to the need for geopolitical justice in the context of Israel/Palestine. Here, twenty-two contributors offer intellectual, theological, political, and journalistic insight intoEllis’s work, connecting his theological scholarship to the particularities of their own contexts. Some contributors reflect specifically on Israel/Palestine while others transfer El...

El concepto de lo monstruoso revela las conductas, cualidades y pulsiones que una cultura tema y reprime porque vulnera la pervivencia de su sistema hegemónico. Ahora bien ¿de qué manera se ha configurado ese otro yo, doblemente degradado por su condición de mujer? ¿Cómo se ha representado lo monstruoso femenino en el arte y la literatura?Con base en este par de interrogantes, el presente libro explora las construcciones del sujeto monstruoso femenino desde la mirada de investigadores espe...

En un tiempo que parece anterior al recuerdo, Imilce abre los ojos bajo el resplandor de una Luna que no se apaga.El viento le guía de una forma antigua. Le dice que su nombre fue pronunciado antes del fuego, mucho antes de los hombres.Guiada por Nuba, una mujer a la que le gusta escuchar el pulso de la tierra, cruza desiertos, ríos y bosques que se mueven con su respiración. Cada paso es lo más parecido a una cicatriz del tiempo, una palabra borrada del origen del movimiento...

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to its knees. When we weren’t sheltering in place, we were advised to wear masks, wash our hands, and practice social distancing. We watched in horror as medical personnel worked around the clock to care for the sick and dying. Businesses were shuttered, travel stopped, workers were furloughed, and markets dropped. And people continued to die.Amid all this uncertainty, writers and artists from around the world continued to create com...

Between Norteño and Tejano Conjunto analyzes the origin, evolution, and dissemination of the norteño and tejano conjunto. This group represents a marginalized local identity that was transformed primarily into an identity of the northeast. It then gave way to the whole of northern México and the American Southwest, and was later assimilated internationally as a mainstream genre. This book provides a long-term historic vision of conjunto and the various musical forms it uses, such as polka,...