An ethnography focusing on a Pentecostal church community and their pursuit of healing marriages and prosperityPentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca is a timely feminist ethnography set in a Pentecostal church community in Oaxaca de Juarez. Based on extensive fieldwork, Michelle Ramirez skillfully melds medical anthropology with cultural analysis to reveal the Pentecostal movement’s dynamics in the contexts of faith healing, marital relations, and econom...

In the Philippines, the concept of Indigeneity is deeply intertwined with colonial history, a pattern echoed across the globe. Yet, its manifestation in the Philippines bears distinct features. The Philippine Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997 identifies as Indigenous groups who resisted colonization. Today the Philippines recognizes approximately 110 diverse Indigenous ethnic groups that are made up of fourteen to seventeen million people. This book aims to show how discussions of Indi...

A wife at his command...Anton Luis Scott-Lee has to marry the woman who so callously rejected him years ago. His revenge will be sweet....A mistress at his service...Cristina Marques will be totally at Luis's bidding--bought and paid for!A bride by blackmail!Cristina has no choice but to accept Luis's marriage demand. But Luis will find that his new bride can't or won't fulfill all of her wedding vow...

The Ramirez Brides Bundle from Harlequin Presents features The Ramirez Bride by Emma Darcy, The Brazilian's Blackmailed Bride by Michelle Reid and The Disobedient Virgin by Sandra Marton.

Latina Leadership focuses on the narratives, scholarly lives, pedagogies, and educational activism of established and emerging Latina leaders in K-16 educational environments. As the first edited collection foregrounding the voices of Latina educators who talk back to, with, and for themselves and the student communities with whom they work, this volume highlights the ways in which these leaders shape educational practices. Contributors illustrate, through their grounded stories, ...

Take a deep dive into the rise and fall of some of the most notorious serial killers of the '80s, including Jeffrey Dahmer, Joseph James DeAngelo, Dennis Lynn Rader, and the Night Stalker.Neon leg warmers, big hair, rock band T-shirts, and mix tapes — 1980s' nostalgia at its finest. But just below that saccharine facade lurked a seedy underbelly of inconceivable human monsters like no decade before had ever seen. The Golden Age of the Serial Killer brought a sharp increase in violent crime...

Abolishing Poverty argues for a project of relationality that refuses the whiteness of liberal poverty studies and instead centers critiques of the poverty relation and political futures disavowed under liberal governance. In disrupting poverty thinking, the author collective opens space for diverse frameworks for understanding impoverishment and articulating antiracist knowledges and political visions. The book explores new infrastructures of possibilities and political solidarities roote...

Teaching is an essential skill in becoming a faculty member in any institution of higher education. Yet how is that skill actually acquired by graduate students? Teaching as if Learning Matters collects first-person narratives from graduate students and new PhDs that explore how the skills required to teach at a college level are developed. It examines the key issues that graduate students face as they learn to teach effectively when in fact they are still learning and being taugh...

The book provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge about "wattles", a large clade of over 1000 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Acacia, most of which are native to Australia. It examines the biology, ecology, evolution, and biogeography of wattles in their native ranges, including the evolutionary forces that have driven past speciation and adaptation to diverse environments, the conservation status, uses and human perceptions of these species. It considers the differe...

This book highlights the latest advances in bioMEMS for biosensing applications. It comprehensively reviews different detection methods, including colorimetric, fluorescence, luminescence, bioluminescence, chemiluminescence, biochemiluminescence, and electrochemiluminescence, and presents various bioMEMS for each, together with recent examples. The book also offers an overview of the history of BioMEMS and the design and manufacture of the first bioMEMS-based devices.

« Si tu as besoin d’un homme riche, choisis-moi. » Cette offre ironique de son ex, Anton, brisa l’amour-propre de Cristina en mille morceaux. Elle était venue à cette soirée afin de trouver des investisseurs pour sa ferme en difficulté. Mais Anton, président d’une banque internationale, y est alors apparu pour lui faire cette offre condescendante. C’est sa façon de se venger d’elle. Les mots horribles qu’elle prononça six ans plus tôt lui revinrent en mémoire. Ainsi que la raison pour laqu...

Brasilianerens brudMiniserie: Ramirez Brides (1)Rigdom, berømmelse, hurtige biler - og alle de kvinder, han vil have! Nick Ramirez vil gøre op med fortiden, og nu er han parat til at opgive sine hensynsløse personlige fornøjelser - hvis han ønsker at gense sine brødre. Monogami, ægteskab, og en mor til hans barn. Nu vil Nick finde sig en kone og have et barn inden for et år. Selvom han har haft mange kvinder, er der kun én han vælger til at blive ha...