¿Qué es la mediumnidad? ¿Qué es un médium? ¿Es posible que las almas de quienes ya no están en este plano se comuniquen con nosotros? ¿Cómo leer esas señales y percibir su presencia?Esta es la historia de un joven que, desde muy temprana edad, comenzó a intuir la presencia de seres que ya no están en este plano: voces, sombras, figuras humanas, palabras y hasta olores. Al principio, eso significó desconcierto y miedo, la perplejidad frente a una experiencia para la...

When a prideful and arrogant king gets his kingdom enslaved he must fight pirates, warriors, and monsters to find his people and set them free.

The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle explores the lived experiences of LGBT+ persons in an era of heightened visibility. Gay urban enclaves, known colloquially as gayborhoods, illustrate the evolution of LGBT+ political capacity building. Since their emergence after World War II, gayborhoods have homogenized at the expense of women, transgender, and nonwhite persons due to neoliberal policies promoted by urban planners. Thus, their popularization and economic vi...

This volume considers corruption as a multidimensional, complex phenomenon in which various forms of corruption may overlap at any given time. Extending the seemingly paradoxical notion of “legal corruption” to such settings as the USA, Spain, and the Czech Republic, the book seeks to augment our understanding of corruption in democracies by focusing on conduct that is considered by large segments of the population to be corrupt even though they are not explicitly defined as such by the la...

This book deals with large-scale, systemic corruption, a phenomenon that it identifies as part of the political landscape in most, if not all, societies of the contemporary world. While the analysis is grounded in the political thought of earlier thinkers, especially Edmund Burke, and integrates the insights of several modern analysts of corruption, the volume offers a new, updated theoretical perspective on the topic. This perspective reflects deep concerns with corruption in a world faci...

This book offers a comprehensive, academic and detailed study of the works of James Cameron, whose films include successful productions such as the first two Terminator films (1984-91), Aliens (1986), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009), but also lesser known films such as Piranha 2: The Spawning (1981), The Abyss (1989), and True Lies (1994), and a series of documentaries on the depths of the ocean or on the tomb of Christ. Cameron's major productions have an immense and enduring popularity...

Recognizing the urgent need for students to understand the emergence of the United States' power and prestige in relation to world events, Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson reframe the teaching of American history in a global context. Each essay covers a specific chronological period and approaches fundamental topics and events in United States history from an international perspective, emphasizing how the development of the United States has always depended on its transactions with other n...

México cuenta con una gran participación de empresas familiares, hoy en día tenemos contacto con la mayoría de estas, ya sea consumiendo algún bien o servicio, o desempeñando alguna función en dichas organizaciones. Sea cual sea su tamaño y sector de desempeño, invariablemente, representan la principal fuente de empleo de la población y son uno de los principales motores de la economía. La relevancia de su estudio es innegable y, más aún, frente a contextos de crisis como lo fue la pandemi...

Este libro ha sido pensado como una reconstrucción comparada de las trayectorias que ha tenido el pensamiento social latinoamericano, a través de los ensayistas, el surgimiento de la sociología, la institución de la crítica literaria y la trasformación de ciertos conceptos en relación con coyunturas de la historia social y política colombiana y latinoamericana. El objetivo de esta organización es que el lector pueda conocer el proceso a través del cual el pensamiento social se fue transfor...

The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated approach was tested in both the US and in Mexico. Two overview chapters cover related information on Cuba and on coastal zone management in Mexico. The comprehensive data on management pol...

The first comprehensive review of the causes and prevention of food losses and waste (FLW), bringing together leading experts from around the world.Multi-dimensional approach in addressing the problem of FLW from a range of perspectives: key stages in the supply chain, different types of commodity and different regions in the world.Valuable case studies from different regions on practical measures to tackle FLW.

En el contexto del marco de Guadalajara Capital Mundial del Libro, desde la División de Estudios Históricos y Humanos y el Departamento de Letras de la Universidad de Guadalajara, se lanzó la convocatoria al concurso de cuento: Guadalajara en el siglo XXI a través de sus jóvenes narradores, dirigida a los estudiantes de nivel superior de esta institución. Con el propósito de honrar el lema de esta celebración, que concibe al libro y la lectura como herramientas de construcción de paz y que...