6 months after the violent death of Lucinda Regalia, Cameron Black is forced to take on another case in which a friends life hangs in the balance. There's a psychopathic monster on the loose killing off members of the magus class. Cameron must find not only the monster but also the man he works for...

An alcoholic Private eye, through an odd twist of fate and his own death, becomes humanity's last line of defense against a secret underworld cult bent on either the domination or destruction of our world. Something tells me he could use a drink...

There's no rest for the dead. Cameron has woken up in purgatory and must find his way back to the living world. How you ask? By solving the last case he took as a mortal investigator. Will he be able to answer the questions about Diana Valdez? Will he discover the circumstances around his first death? Will he return to the living world in time?

In 2015, the New Democratic Party won an unprecedented victory in Alberta. Unseating the Progressive Conservatives-who had won every provincial election since 1971-they formed an NDP government for the first time in the history of the province. Orange Chinook is the first scholarly analysis of this election. It examines the legacy of the Progressive Conservative dynasty, the PC and NDP campaigns, polling, and online politics, providing context and setting the stage. It highlights the impor...

¿Aplaudir o cuestionar a los poderosos? El corazón de las ciencias sociales late al ritmo de ese enigma todavía irresuelto. Las corrientes que se dedican a legitimar las injusticias "normales", aceptan solo una agenda de problemas, un repertorio limitado de categorías y una lista estricta de fuentes confiables. Con arrogancia, pretenden monopolizar el "pensamiento contemporáneo". Quienes no acepten trabajar para las grandes fundaciones y ONGs que inundan con dineros sucios nuestro campo cu...

Superheroes and Critical Animal Studies explores and puts into dialogue two growing field of studies, comic studies and critical animal studies. The book’s aim is to create a form of praxis that people can use to actualize many of the values superheroes strive to protect. To this end, contributor chapters are divided into sections on the foundation of superhero representation and how to teach it, criticisms of particular superheroes and how they fall short of truly protecting the planet, a...

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative futures, and in so doing reimagines relationships betwee...

Tenemos una gran meta y un gran ideal establecido por el Señor Jesús, que es el de llegar a ser como Él fue en esta tierra. Pero esto solamente podemos lograrlo si permitimos que el Espíritu Santo viva dentro de nosotros. Para lograrlo es fundamental retener Su unción en nuestros corazones, Jesús al respecto dijo: “Él me glorificará; porque tomará de lo mío, y os lo hará saber. Todo lo que tiene el Padre es mío; por eso dije que tomará de lo mío, y os lo hará saber” esto está en Juan 16:14...

Embedding climate resilient development principles in planning, urban design, and architecture means ensuring that transformation of the built environment helps achieve carbon neutrality, effective adaptation, and well-being for people and nature. Planners, urban designers, and architects are called to bridge the domains of research and practice and evolve their agency and capacity, developing methods and tools consistent across spatial scales to ensure the convergence of outcomes towards ...

El Comentario bíblico y exegético sobre el Espíritu Santo es hoy el compendio más exhaustivo sobre la persona del Espíritu Santo. De estilo ameno y formato práctico, es ideal tanto para pastores, eruditos y maestros, como para lectores laicos que desean conocer más acerca de Su poder y presencia. Desde la primera mención del Espíritu que 'iba y venía sobre la superficie de las aguas' en Génesis, hasta la invitación del Espíritu en Apocalipsis: '¡Ven!', el autor sigue el sendero de la terce...

Con una perspectiva interdisciplinaria, que combina análisis desde la sociología, la antropología, la geografía, la ciencia política y la economía agraria (entre otros campos del conocimiento), este libro propone estudiar los procesos de construcción de paz en las "fronteras internas". El concepto que aquí se plantea articula los estudios regionales previos para el caso de Colombia con las nuevas literaturas que hacen hincapié en los fenómenos de las fronteras. Esta mirada ayuda a analizar...

A family's epic origins in the hinterlands of Mexico that became Texas-and earlier, in IberiaIn his acclaimed 1999 memoir Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, John Phillip Santos told the story of one Mexican family- his father's-set within the larger story of Mexico itself. In this beautifully written new book, he tells of how another family-this time, his mother's-erased and forgot over time their ancient origins in Spain.Every family ...