THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY: When Nick Gonzalez was a medical student, he stood beside his father's deathbed and vowed that he would find a cure for cancer. Nick imagined his future as a researcher toiling away in a lab in Memorial Sloan Kettering, working on conventional approaches to the disease. Yet Gonzalez's life was anything but conventional. At the urging of Linus Pauling, he had already left an accomplished journalism career and entered Cornell Medical School....

From the creator of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the universe.Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s stories will make you laugh, weep, and shiver in uncomfortably delicious recognition. In “A Most Blessed and Auspicious Occasion,” a young couple engaged...

**An Instant USA Today bestseller!When school sweethearts reunite in an unexpectedly bumpy quest for the smoothest spirit, they’ll prove that nothing pairs better with tacos than tequila.**San Diego-based model and influencer Jaime Montez isn’t the heir—or even the spare—to his family’s Taco King fast-food empire. So after he’s asked to be the face of yet another non-Hispanic, celebrity-owned tequila company, Jaime decides to reinvent his role in the famil...

Dans un contexte d’accroissement de la vulnérabilité des êtres humains et des sociétés humaines face au dérèglement climatique et à l’effondrement de la biodiversité, il devient indispensable de mener une réflexion approfondie sur les liens complexes qu’entretiennent l’environnement et notre santé. Appréhender un sujet aussi multidimensionnel nécessite de s’ouvrir à différentes perspectives. En effet, si nous voulons apprendre à prendre soin et à soigner autrement, en tenant compte de ce q...

In one of his few moments of sincerity, the late leader of the Socialist Party of Venezuela, Aristóbulo Istúriz, recognized that if the regime of the lieutenant colonel (retired) eliminated exchange control, the source of the Boli bourgeoisie would be collapsed.By analogy, it can be stated that without torture, which is not temporary but a State policy, the narco-dictatorship would fade, since it would lose its basis of support if we take into account that this crime against humani...

Political Prisoners of Venezuela's dictator Nicolas Maduro is much more than a book: it is a harrowing and essential testimony about contemporary Venezuela, written with the precision and courage of journalist Rodulfo González. Its pages intertwine the stark reality with the power of denunciation, offering the reader a journey through the regime's prisons, the imposed silences, and the voices that refuse to be silenced.This book reveals how systematic repression has become a mechan...

I will not get tired of repeating it: the relations of Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Hugo Chávez and his pupil, the narco-dictator Nicolás Maduro, with the National Constitution have been incestuous.Article 68 of "La Bicha," as the former coup leader, who on February 4, 1992, led a failed coup d'état against then-President Carlos Andrés Pérez, scornfully referred to the Republic Constitution, establishes that "Citizens have the right to demonstrate, peacefully and without weapons, w...

As an integral part of the modern West, terrorism features prominently in the news, in film and television, even in video games and books. Packaged for public consumption, representations of terrorism and terrorists offer attempts to make sense of the contemporary experience. While terrorism is often treated as a topic of concern for mature audiences, this book focuses on media that are aimed at children and young adults. The contributors investigate the way terrorism is portrayed in movie...

This book addresses some essential topics in the science of energy converting devices emphasizing recent aspects of nano-derived materials in the application for the protection of the environment, storage, and energy conversion. The aim, therefore, is to provide the basic background knowledge. The electron transfer process and structure of the electric double layer and the interaction of species with surfaces and the interaction, reinforced by DFT theory for the current and incoming genera...

Decades of theory, research, and practice have singled out sense of belonging (in its many derivative forms) as a pivotal component of healthy development: psychologically, socially, culturally, academically. The human need for belonging, and therefore its essential nature, have been well established across multiple arenas. Despite growth in this field, answers to the barriers to belonging among marginalized groups and contexts remain especially elusive. For decades, this work was anchored...

This book is a collection of work on aging and development from authors from the global south. Aging is steadily evolving as a public health and social crisis for which countries of the global south are ill-prepared. The forces of development and improved public health services have ensured that human being live longer. But there is enough evidence that such longevity do not commensurate with good health. As such, many countries of the global south are seeing a booming population who are a...

Values-rich journeys can be described as pilgrimage, spiritual travel, personal heritage tourism, holistic tourism, and valuistic journeys. There are many motivations for undertaking these journeys; the most important being personal values, life experience, personal and social identity, lifestyle, social and cultural influence. This book presents contributions that address pilgrim motivation, identity and values as they are shaped by the broader sociological, psychological, cultural and en...