The inspiring story of activist and poet Ian Manuel, who at the age of fourteen was sentenced to life in prison. He survived eighteen years in solitary confinement—through his own determination and dedication to art—until he was freed as part of an incredible crusade by the Equal Justice Initiative.“Ian is magic. His story is difficult and heartbreaking, but he takes us places we need to go to understand why we must do better. He survives by relying on a poetic spi...

“My story has been told many times and by highly regarded experts in their fields—judges, prosecutors, juvenile probation officers, sociologists, journalists. But I would like to try to tell it to you myself. I have reason to believe the experts may be wrong about me. You see, today, thirty years later, I am neither in prison nor dead.” —from My Time Will ComeThe United States is the only country in the world that sentences thirteen- and fourteen-year-old ...

Una guía original, entretenida y esclarecedora de un mundo completamente diferente: Inglaterra en la Edad Media. Una máquina del tiempo te acaba de transportar al siglo xiv. ¿Qué ves? ¿Cómo te vistes? ¿Cómo te ganas la vida y cuánto te pagan? ¿Qué tipo de comida te ofrecerá un campesino, un monje o un señor? Y lo que es más importante, ¿dónde te alojarás? La Guía para viajar en el tiempo a la Inglaterra medieval no es la típica mirada a un periodo histórico. Mortimer da un giro radical a n...

El libro asume de manera clara y directa que las ciencias sociales que recoge una tradición que ya, desde el informe de la Comisión Gulbenkian para la reestructuración de las ciencias sociales (Wallerstein, 1996), las caracterizan, a saber: su desprendimiento de la filosofía en el siglo XVII, su recorrido para posicionarse en el concierto del conocimiento académico, su centralidad en el conocimiento, la referencia que ellas hacen al mundo empírico, que puede ser indagado mediante el uso de...

Provides a comprehensive overview of the interventions available to optimise water management in agriculture, including rainwater harvesting and farm reservoirsConsiders the development and application of alternative irrigation techniques which carry a reduced environmental impact, such as solar powered irrigationAddresses the importance of diversification and collaboration in securing water resources for a rapidly growing population

Featuring all-new spoor drawings, some 200 new photographs and an extra 35 species, this fully revised and updated edition of the ever-popular Tracker Manual is packed with the latest on the art of tracking. Based on information developed by some of southern Africa’s best traditional trackers, Tracker Manual gives even more guidance on how to identify the spoor of some 190 animal species. Individual chapters cover carnivores, large mammals, antelopes, small mammals, primates, hares and rod...

Nobody hands you a guide for adulthood.You’re expected to know how to make the right decisions, manage pressure, stay disciplined, build relationships, navigate work, protect your mental wellbeing, and somehow still create a life that feels meaningful.But most people are building their lives with no real operating system.They’re reacting instead of choosing.Surviving instead of designing.Performing externally while quietly feeling disconnected intern...

This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on sustainable forest management.The first chapter discusses the varying definitions of sustainable forest management (SFM) in tropical landscapes, as well as the trade-offs associated with SFM. The chapter also reviews the spatial scales of assessing SFM and explores expanding the scope of SFM from individual strands to forested landscapes.The second chapter provides a comprehensive review of t...

The health crisis, the migration crisis, the humanitarian crisis, and the climate crisis. The repeating reference to the idea of crisis to label numerous social upheavals suggests that we now live in a world defined by crisis.Yet the urgency inherent in a crisis often leads to the normalization of rights violations and increased surveillance, profiling and arbitrary arrests, making visible the state’s control over bodies, and certain bodies, in particular.Migration and ...

“People faced with cancer take life seriously – very seriously. They want answers; they need to know what works. I know the feeling. For over twenty years now I have sat in groups with thousands of others going through cancer. Between us we have tried many things. We have worked out what works. My job has been to collect these experiences.”A revolutionary book when first published in 1984, You Can Conquer Cancer has sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide and it’s earlier editions ...

Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora.Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping the field, such as migration, ethnicity, post-colonialism and cosmopolitanism. It also examines key intersecting agendas and themes, including political economy, security, race, gender,...

Anatomía y fisiología para enfermeras es una exposición concisa, pero completa de la estructura y las funciones del cuerpo humano, con aplicaciones clínicas de todos los temas.Dentro de sus características se encuentran:• Consideraciones clínicas e “instantáneas” a todo lo largo de la obra, las cuales muestran cómo puede aplicarse el material a la práctica diaria.• Más de 300 ilustraciones de gran calidad a todo color.• La obra contiene recuadros de manejo d...