My Life's Story as a Caregiver"King Jesus Christ's Nursing Assistant" is a heartfelt memoir that offers an intimate look into the life of a certified nursing assistant (CNA) serving on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through vivid storytelling and deep reflection, the author shares the daily realities of working within an overwhelmed healthcare system-where short staffing, exhaustion, and heartbreak tested the limits of endurance and compassion.

This book is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice OODA, designed as a "dream state" inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice's work and exploring path from Porto to the world. Read together, these two parts are less about buildings than about a way of being in the world, offering an open narrative where architecture is presented as if in a chronicle, ...

Build, deploy, and monitor AI applications using Microsoft Foundry's unified portal, combining models, workflows, agents, and responsible AI practices into a single development experience. Key FeaturesBuild, evaluate, and deploy AI solutions using Microsoft Foundry’s unified portalImplement guardrails, evaluations, and monitoring for production-ready AI systemsIncludes real-world use cases integrating Azure OpenAI and DatabricksPurchas...

The scramble for distant riches has featured centrally in the history of the Global South—from the first forays of European imperialists to the recent fascination with emerging markets. In the mid-nineteenth century, fortune hunters turned their attention to Argentina, transforming it into a front line of an expanding West. While accounts of this period often emphasize impersonal economic flows, Emerging El Dorado demonstrates that this chase for wealth has a far more multifaceted...

This book showcases cutting-edge research on protest and mobilization dynamics during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic posed significant challenges for social movements while simultaneously triggering impactful mobilizations centered on the origins, policies, and politics of the pandemic.Through a rich analysis of social movement dynamics, the book offers insights into COVID-specific protests and explores how global crises can reshape mobilization at local, national, and ...

Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five cen...

Life does not need to feel harder than it already is. From messy mornings and overflowing inboxes to forgotten groceries and constant small frustrations, most daily stress comes from tiny problems that repeat over and over. This book is about fixing those problems once and for all. Daily life hacks is a practical, no-fluff guide to designing a smoother, more efficient everyday life. Instead of motivation or theory, it gives you simple systems and smart shortcuts you can apply immediately. ...

This volume describes the origin of the turkey (Meleagris spp.), its domestication and management through time and across the world. After a first chapter dedicated to the evolutionary history, the biology and the distribution of the genus Meleagris, the volume is divided into two parts. The first part explores the early cultural history of the turkey in North and Central America across eight chapters dedicated to the Great American Southwest, Northern Mexico, Mesoamerica, Central America ...

This is an interdisciplinary textbook that examines the relationship between globalization and social, political, economic, and environmental health determinants. This new edition of Global Health Governance and Policy: An Introduction provides a unique insight into the global systems and processes that ultimately affect peoples' health.Comprehensive and far-reaching, the book offers a concise overview of the structure, functioning, and the role of the main governmental, i...

"Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary political writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly records the lives of struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of unimaginable violence and extreme repression. Alternating between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews, travelogues, and folklore, and richly conveyed with anger, sadness, irony, and occasional humor, Galea...

Eduardo Halfon's The Polish Boxer is the sparkling English debut from one of Latin America's most exciting new voices. Blurring the boundary between fiction and memoir, the tales within all reach for the beautiful and fleeting, whether through humour, music, poetry, or unspoken words. Throughout his encounters with fascinating collection of characters, the narrator - a Guatemalan literature professor and writer named Eduardo Halfon - pursues his most enigmatic subject: himself. Translated ...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017A finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy ...