This multidisciplinary collection investigates the ways in which marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny, and the site of sustained political interventions in several states around the world. Covering cases as varied as the United States, Canada, Japan, Iran, France, Belgium or the Netherlands, among others, contributors reveal how marriage and partner migration have become battlegrounds for political participation, control, and exclusion. Which fo...

‘I was four and three-quarters when I asked my mother if, from now on, I could please go to school as a girl instead of as a boy …’In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Sophie Grace Chappell combines personal memoir, philosophical reflection, open letters, science fiction writing, and poetry to help us all figure out transgender.What is it really like to be transgender?How can we as a society do better to accept the reality of trans lives and to welco...

Sam is given a medicine that will make him a woman, but it doesn't. The scientists of the institute have made an error, an error that will put Sam in charge of everything...the women, the men who were women, and the incredible DNA experiments! Soon mankind will be able to choose from a smorgasboard of DNA:XX is womanXY is manThen there are the variations:XXX is a manly manXXY is a man with breastsXYX is a man with two sets of sex organsYXX ...

The number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the student population. However, classroom material often does not include their version of the American experience. Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans was created to address this void. This resource guide provides interactive activities, assignments, and strategies for classrooms or workshops. Those new to the field of Asian Am...

Desde sus comienzos en 1997, Against Me! no solo ha sido una de las bandas de punk más influyentes del mundo, sino también una de las más polémicas. A lo largo de su carrera hacia el éxito, ha ido conquistando nuevos fans a la vez que ha levantado ampollas entre la vieja guardia que los apoyó desde el principio. Tuvieron problemas con la ley, cambiaron de batería en repetidas ocasiones y se enfrentaron a una furiosa horda de punks que los llamaban «vendidos» y se dedicaban a sabotear sus c...

**Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismA leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern period**In Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it has been experienced and represented in the modern period. Considering examples that range from the novels of George Eliot to the psychoanalytic practice of Sigmund Freud to marriage manuals by Marie Stopes, Laver...

Desde sus comienzos en 1997, Against Me! no solo ha sido una de las bandas de punk más influyentes del mundo, sino también una de las más polémicas. A lo largo de su carrera hacia el éxito, ha ido conquistando nuevos fans a la vez que ha levantado ampollas entre la vieja guardia que los apoyó desde el principio. Tuvieron problemas con la ley, cambiaron de batería en repetidas ocasiones y se enfrentaron a una furiosa horda de punks que los llamaban «vendidos» y se dedicaban a sabotear sus c...

The book compiles case studies regarding the biodiversity research and monitoring program of Andean species and habitats carefully chosen as indicators to assess the short- and long-term effects of a linear disturbance: the PERU LNG pipeline. Set in a scientifically unexplored region of the Andes, Monitoring Biodiversity clearly articulates the Smithsonian-led conceptual framework for the implementation in the field by scientists. It addresses scientific and conservation questions addresse...

Acclaimed civil rights icon, Ruby Bridges, shares the touching tale of reuniting with the first-grade teacher who changed her life, Mrs. Henry.Once again, you have shown me that you never get too old to learn. Teaching really is the noblest of professions.When Ruby Bridges was only six years old, she made history by being the first Black child to integrate William Frantz Elementary School. She became best friends with her teacher, Mrs. Henry. Excit...

Kính thưa quý bạn đọc,Cuốn sách “Lời Cuối Cùng Để Lại Cho Thế Gian” là tổng hợp các lời tâm tình, làm chứng từ các con dân Chúa giữa vòng dân tộc Việt Nam. Họ là những người đã tin nhận Tin Lành Cứu Rỗi của Đức Chúa Trời, được thuộc về Hội Thánh của Ngài.Tựa của cuốn sách hàm ý, đây là các lời tâm tình, làm chứng của họ để lại cho quý bạn, trước khi họ được Chúa đưa ra khỏi cuộc đời này. Chúa có thể đưa họ ra khỏi cuộc đời này hoặc là bằng sự chết, hoặc là bằng sự thân thể ...

We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existential piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature. The unnamed narrator is frequently named an anti-hero and is described by the note on the back of the Dover edition as a "profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values a...