What happens when the work that supported you for years no longer pays the bills?When the phone stops ringing. When the job you knew changes beneath your feet. When a tool can do in minutes what once took you hours—and you begin to wonder whether you still have something to offer.The Strength That Remains is a brief, honest, and deeply human book for that moment.It does not promise that every disruption is an opportunity. It does not ask you to be grateful for losin...

The Element presents a Minskyan conceptualization to analyse the International Monetary and Financial Subordination (IMFS) of developing and emerging economies (DECs), with a focus on its transformations in the 21st century. We examine changes in external assets and liabilities of DECs, trace their implications in paradigmatic case studies, and derive consequences for macro-financial policy. As a novel contribution, we identify structural transformations in the external asset position of D...

In the Middle Ages, unexplained behavior was often blamed on demonic possession and witchcraft. Exorcisms were common, and evil was regarded as a real force that sought to corrupt the human soul. Modern society has largely dismissed those beliefs, yet the Catholic Church continues to receive requests for formal exorcisms from people convinced that something beyond science is at work.When a deeply disturbed child is admitted to Bellevue Hospital, renowned child psychiatrist Dr. Marc...

A Pura Belpré Award Honor, Young AdultA Robert F. Sibert Informational Book HonorA 2026 Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature WinnerIn this moving intergenerational tale perfect for fans of Messy Roots and Illegal, Eisner-nominated creator Pablo Leon combines historical research of the Guatemalan Civil War with his own experiences as a Guatemalan immigrant to depict a powerful story of family, sacrifice, su...

Chronological age alone does not explain why some individuals age in good health while others become increasingly vulnerable to disease, disability, and death. This book examines frailty as an expression of biological age and its relationship with chronic pain, one of the most common and complex conditions affecting older adults. Drawing on scientific evidence and clinical practice, it illustrates how biological vulnerability shapes the experience of pain and how both processes interact to...

An exhilarating graphic novel about courageous lab mice who embrace their newfound superpowers and work together to find their way back home from space. Perfect for fans of DOG MAN and CASTRONAUTS!Theodore, Dorothy, Jonas, Ursula, and Hugh were ordinary lab mice until the scientists at NASA turned them into GEMs (genetically engineered mice) and launched them to the International Space Station. Now that they’re free from the team of astronauts and floating in space...

This volume offers a new explanation as to why Latin American and Caribbean governments respond so differently to the growing presence in the Western Hemisphere of the People’s Republic of China. Rather than treating the region as a passive recipient of Chinese influence, this book demonstrates that domestic institutional conditions, state capacity, political stability and economic fundamentals systematically shape how governments interpret, negotiate and position themselves toward Chinese...

Would you board an airplane where you have to vote on who gets to land it?Probably not. Yet, this is exactly how modern democracy operates. We change the pilots every few years, but the plane, the cockpit instruments, and the catastrophic flight path remain entirely the same.In Democracy 2.0: A Citizen's Proposal, Pablo Guzmán cuts through the noise of political polarization to deliver a radical, clear-eyed diagnosis of why our ins...

**The Poetry of Pablo Neruda offers the most comprehensive English-language collection ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (**Gabriel García Márquez)."In his work a continent awakens to consciousness," wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers and political figures-a loyal member of...

The Price is a sequel to Angels Over Waslala and Angels in the Night. In Nicaragua, life is primitive. Drugs, alcohol, and thievery are a way of life. The Yoders experienced the dark side of life as they sought to share the Lord Jesus with these beautiful people trapped in the grip of vice and its consequences. They confronted this evil by demonstrating the love of Christ. Many times life after such experiences goes unrecorded. Not so with several of these thieves. In The Price Pablo graph...

An exceptionally unique look at the development of the Walt Disney Animation Studios film Strange World!The Art of Strange World highlights the stunning artwork from the film's creation—including character designs, storyboards, color scripts, and much more—and features exclusive interviews from the creative team along with behind-the-scenes details. The next in this fan-favorite, collectible series of Art Of titles, this book is the perfe...

A translation of Pablo Neruda's early collections of odes, this book features poems that are addressed to hope and to gloom, to numbers and to the atom, to blue flowers and to artichokes. Reflecting the lucent, candid vitality driving Neruda's charming accounts, these poems celebrate things big and the small: even lamentations become commemorations. Compassionately amused one moment then sobered by injustice and supportive of resistance the next, this bilingual compilation will appeal to f...