The Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world’s most pressing social problems and proposes international public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), chapters examine topics such as criminal justice, media concerns, environmental problems, economic problems, and issues concerning sexualities and gender. They offer recommendations fo...

What does it feel like to live with a mind that does not always follow the rules? In My Bipolar Shirt, [Roberto Benitez Aponte] opens the closet of his life and reveals the fabric of a story woven with mania, depression, hope, and survival. This deeply personal memoir takes readers behind the label of "bipolar disorder" and into the heart of a man who struggled, stumbled, and kept searching for meaning.From the early dreams of a young professional to the storm of r...

Hace ya veinte años que el Departamento de Derecho del Medio Ambiente de la Universidad Externado de Colombia inició la colección Lecturas sobre Derecho del Medio Ambiente. En esa época, su creador, Óscar Darío Amaya Navas, se preguntaba por el papel del derecho en la preservación de la naturaleza, indicando que debía consistir en evitar su deterioro, impulsar sanciones efectivas para contrarrestarlo y desarrollar incentivos eficaces enel marco de una política coherente con el medio ambien...

Despite the significant presence of Cuban immigrants in the United States, current research on Cuban Spanish linguistics remains underexplored. This volume addresses this lacuna in Cuban Spanish research by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from a range of theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas, including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and heritage language acquisition. Given increasing interest in Cub...