For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Editorial writers job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much s...

This book deals with a broad range of social issues facing Mexican-origin people in the United States. The studies presented in this volume are brought together by two main themes: (1) social inequalities-cultural, educational, and economic-endured by the Chicano/Mexicano community in the United States and (2) the community's efforts to eradicate the source of those inequalities.The second edition of Chicanas and Chicanos in Contemporary Society takes into consideration th...

The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has always been difficult and complex. In The Dictator Next Door Eric Paul Roorda focuses on the relations between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic following Rafael Trujillo’s seizure of power in 1930. Examining the transition from the noninterventionist policies of the Hoover administration to Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor policy, Roorda ble...

Una historia de violencia, amor, desarraigo y esperanza.Un audiolibro en el que participan varias voces de 4 países distintos, así como la propia Isabel Allende.Viena, 1938. Samuel Adler es un niño judío de seis años cuyo padre desaparece durante la Noche de los Cristales Rotos, en la que su familia lo pierde todo. Su madre, desesperada, le consigue una plaza en un tren que le llevará desde la Austria nazi hasta Inglaterra. Samuel ...

Before you can force yourself to put SKIN DEEP down, you will meet: -a preacher’s wife and tele-evangelist’s daughter who can cuss like a sailor and punch like Ali, -The Blue Lady, the Jelly Man, and the Atchafalaya Swamp Monster and her kid, -A junior psychopath who kills cats and collects their eyes, -A self-centered Jewish boy who grows up to be an anti-Semitic asshole, eschewing his heritage, his religion, and his people. A white singer/television personality, dubbed “America’s Sweethe...

Revenge is a dish best served… STEAMING HOT!!! After being beaten, clubbed, and stomped almost to death by two fag-bashing, jack-booted brothers on the darkened streets of Atchafalaya City, Louisiana, gourmet chef, Kenneth James Cunningham, wants revenge. But being dead, there’s nothing he can do about catching his killers so, two weeks after his death, he revives whole, solid, very human, and sexy as hell, in a most unusual vehicle, to solicit help in capturing the murderers. Kenny, as he...

Wayne Mallory is a news reporter for The Chicago News Register on vacation at his parents’ luxurious Louisiana enclave, a heaven for wealthy African-Americans in the racist south. While there, he learns of the murder of a white sheriff’s deputy in the nearby town and goes there to get the details. Also on his mind is finding his first true love, a swarthy, curly-haired Cajun boy with eyes the color of amethysts named Andy Bourgeois, whom he met when he was fifteen and Andy, thirteen. Both ...

This book gathers the joint proceedings of the VIII Latin American Conference on Biomedical Engineering (CLAIB 2019) and the XLII National Conference on Biomedical Engineering (CNIB 2019). It reports on the latest findings and technological outcomes in the biomedical engineering field. Topics include: biomedical signal and image processing; biosensors, bioinstrumentation and micro-nanotechnologies; biomaterials and tissue engineering. Advances in biomechanics, biorobotics, neurorehabilitat...

In the vast and unforgiving steppes of Central Asia, a legend was born. Genghis Khan, the enigmatic and ruthless conqueror, emerged from obscurity to forge an empire that would span continents and reshape the course of history. This captivating audiobook, meticulously researched and narrated with vivid detail, transports you to the heart of Genghis Khan's extraordinary life. From his humble beginnings as a nomadic chieftain to his rise as the undisputed master of the Mongol hordes, this au...