Have you ever asked yourself the questions: Who am I? What makes me happy? Questions that we dare not even ask because we don't deem ourselves worthy or deserving. Maybe we were waiting for someone else's permission to do so-spouse, significant other, "friend" or family member. I was guilty! Those were questions I never really asked myself. I didn't know who I was, much less what I wanted. You only know what you know. Right? At some point in our lives those two questions often come at the ...

A lushly photographed cookbook featuring more than 40 recipes from tiny kitchens, The Tiny Mess is a whimsical combination of stories, recipes, culinary adventure, and of course, petite and inspiring cooking spaces that prove constraints are nothing but an invitation for creativity.From sailboats and trailers, to treehouses, cottages, and converted railcars, The Tiny Mess is alive with stories of tiny houses, the people who live in them, and the m...

THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY: When Nick Gonzalez was a medical student, he stood beside his father's deathbed and vowed that he would find a cure for cancer. Nick imagined his future as a researcher toiling away in a lab in Memorial Sloan Kettering, working on conventional approaches to the disease. Yet Gonzalez's life was anything but conventional. At the urging of Linus Pauling, he had already left an accomplished journalism career and entered Cornell Medical School....

During the coldest winter on record, an EMP attack wipes out the nation's power and cripples the country. As the city spirals into lawless chaos, an investigative journalist, twenty-six-year-old Cassandra Drews, is forced onto the dangerous streets of Portland to begin the long walk to her parents' home in Oregon. But hypothermia and starvation aren't the only dangers Cass and her rescue dog, Daisy, face on their perilous trek. Danger is stalking them, waiting for the perfect moment to str...

Os anos 1970, período que podemos identificar como o de formação das teorias feministas no Brasil, foi também o ponto de ebulição dos movimentos feministas no mundo. Se nesse momento, lá fora, as mulheres se uniam para lutar contra a discriminação sexual e pela igualdade de direitos, impulsionadas pelas utopias da década anterior, por aqui era preciso se posicionarem contra a ditadura militar e a censura, em um duro combate pela redemocratização do país, pela anistia e por condições básica...

¿Cuáles son las vinculaciones entre los feminismos y el derecho? ¿Qué entendemos por "feminismos jurídicos"? ¿Cuáles son las implicancias de pensar y hacer derecho desde este anclaje político? ¿Qué supone una lectura feminista jurídica situada? ¿Cómo se articulan las vías de recepción e inventiva feminista entre textos y problemas del Norte y Sur globales? Estas cuestiones, entre tantas otras, sustentan la arquitectura del libro. La traducción al castellano de cuatro artículos centrales de...

As societies grapple with an unprecedented refugee and migration crisis, child refugees and migrants—who constitute a particularly vulnerable immigrant category—have been surprisingly overlooked in immigration scholarship. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Migrants: Seen but Not Heard addresses this lapse by presenting analyses of child refugees and migrants. This comprehensive overview considers the challenges facing young migrants and refugees through richly varied academic perspec...

From the world’s leading economics podcast comes an irresistible guide to the hidden world of everyday economics.Hello, and welcome to Planet Money! Millions of listeners trust the world’s leading economics podcast to explain the mysterious inner workings of the global economy and the forces that affect nearly every decision we make. Through expert research and delightful stories the Planet Money hosts help everyone see the world like an economist...

The Agenda for Social Justice 3: Solutions for 2024 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems and proposes public policy responses to those problems.Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), the book offers recommendations for action by elected officials, policymakers and the public regarding key issues for social justice. Chapters include discussion of social problems rel...

This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary range of mentoring advice that speaks directly to the doctoral student. Each chapter addresses a professional or personal component of the doctoral process that represents how these exc...

El segundo volumen de la serie “Rescate arqueológico en la cuenca del Río Chixoy”, publicado en 1980 en el marco del proyecto RCP 500 del Centro Nacional de Investigación Científica de Francia, presenta la descripción del sitio más importantede esta zona : Cauinal (Capítulo 1), y de las excavaciones que fueron practicadas en el área, de noviembre de 1978 a mayo de 1979 (Capítulo 2). El Capítulo 3 es una amplia descripción de las estructuras encontradas en el grupo ceremonial A, que compren...

Discover the lost supernatural stories behind some of the most famous people and events in history.These Fantastic Tales explore the secret history that has been hidden in the shadows of the world, and even alternative histories from other worlds. Tales such as a young man seeking the secret of immortality from none other than Bela Lugosi. The tragic story of how the Titanic really sank. The horrifying lengths the people of New York city would go to raise above the...