In the heart of Bantayan Island, Cebu, Magda's world shatters when her beloved husband, Berto, passes away. Seeking security for her children, she remarries Ricardo, a charming businessman who soon reveals his true nature a narcissist and an abuser. Trapped in a nightmare, Magda endures relentless torment, and her children suffer unimaginable cruelty, locked away in a dog cage.Every attempt to escape fails, until fate intervenes. When Ricardo's business partner, Allan, accidentally...

In the heart of Bantayan Island Cebu, Philippines, a brutal string of murders sends shockwaves through the community. All evidence points to Samuel Villaverde, a wealthy and enigmatic businessman accused of orchestrating the grisly deaths. As the trial unfolds, the courtroom becomes a battlefield where truth and deception collide.With the prosecution struggling to hold their case together, the victims' families watch in agony as justice slips through their fingers. A crucial piece ...

In the heart of Bantayan Island, a luxurious hotel becomes the stage for a chilling murder mystery. When wealthy businesswoman Olivia Montenegro DeWitt is found dead in her suite strangled with a man's belt the serene paradise turns into a web of deception, secrets, and hidden motives.Seasoned investigator Sgt. Alvaro Morales and forensic criminal profiler Dr. Ma. Jessie Quibot delve into the case, uncovering a tangled mess of lies, betrayals, and a suspect list that grows with eve...

Josh Fernandez is a community college professor who finds himself under investigation for 'soliciting students for potentially dangerous activities' after starting an antifascist club on campus. As Fernandez spends the year defending his job, he reflects on a life lived in protest of the status quo, swept up in chaos and rage, from his childhood in Boston dealing with a mentally ill father and a new family to growing up in Davis, California, in the basement shows of the early '90s when Naz...

A pioneering, one-stop manual which harvests the best proven approaches from physiotherapy research and practice to assist the busy clinician in real-life screening, diagnosis and management of patients with musculoskeletal pain across the whole body. Led by an experienced editorial team, the chapter authors have integrated both their clinical experience and expertise with reasoning based on a neurophysiologic rationale with the most updated evidence. The textbook is divided into eleven se...

No era un apócrifo más. Era una denuncia hecha por miembros de cuatro generaciones de la familia Barash que atestiguaba un gran engaño. Joshua, tío bisabuelo, había sido crucificado y convertido en el mesías. Dieciocho siglos mas tarde, los dignatarios de los cultos no se detendrán ante nada para que ese documento legal que haría temblar los fundamentos del Islam y del Cristianismo fuera destruido. La acción iniciada en Alejandría discurre imparable, involucrando a personalidades religiosa...

The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison-industrial complexes. Beyond Walls and Cages offers scholarly and activist perspectives on...

The first of its kind, Neck and Arm Pain Syndromes is a comprehensive evidence- and clinical-based book, covering research-based diagnosis, prognosis and management of neuromusculoskeletal pathologies and dysfunctions of the upper quadrant, including joint, muscle, myofascial and neural tissue approaches. It uniquely addresses the expanding role of the various health care professions which require increased knowledge and skills in screening for contra-indications and recognizing the need f...

Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth offers ecocritical and ecopoetic readings that focus on multispecies dwellings of enchantment and reenchant our rapport with the more-than-human world. It sheds light on the marvelous entanglements between humans and other life forms coexisting with us–entanglements that, when fully perceived, call onto humans to shift perspectives on both the causes and solutions to current ecological crises. Working against the disenchantment o...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State-it's clear that our journey t...

This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes in climate at global, regional and local scales relevant for ticks and tick-borne infections. It examines changes to tick distribution and the evidence that climate change is responsible. The eff...

Despite the significant presence of Cuban immigrants in the United States, current research on Cuban Spanish linguistics remains underexplored. This volume addresses this lacuna in Cuban Spanish research by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from a range of theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas, including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and heritage language acquisition. Given increasing interest in Cub...