In the quaint English countryside, amidst rolling hills and whispering willows, a tale of forbidden love and societal constraints unfolds. "Mollie's Prince" introduces us to Mollie, a young woman of humble origins, whose heart yearns for a life beyond her station. When she encounters the enigmatic Prince Ferdinand, a forbidden passion ignites, threatening to shatter the rigid boundaries of their worlds. As their secret rendezvous become more daring, Mollie and Ferdinand must navigate the t...

The definitive guide to the birds of Chile.With its diverse range of habitats, Chile is one of the top birding destinations in South America and supports an interesting range of breeding and visiting birds, including the Chilean Tinamou, Juan Fernandez Firecrown and a number of other endemic species.This comprehensive field guide covers all of the species recorded in Chile, including vagrants; all are illustrated in superb detail, and feature every major pl...

The Mindset of a Street Cop: Lessons in Leadership, Survival, and Purpose from the Streets of L.A. takes you inside the demanding, dangerous, and deeply human world of frontline policing. Written with raw honesty and hard-earned wisdom, this book is more than a collection of street stories-it is a blueprint for resilience, leadership, and purpose in the face of chaos.Drawing from real experiences on the streets of Los Angeles, the author reveals what it truly takes to stay sharp un...

The story the left tells itself about the right’s success is wrong—and limits our ability to connect with people who can be won to liberatory politicsIn this timely and incisive book, Daniel Martínez HoSang challenges many of the dominant frameworks through which progressives have interpreted right-wing movements. Drawing on more than a decade of original research and on-the-ground reporting at conferences held by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups, Ho...

The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of TrumpThe profound concentration of economic power in the United States in recent decades has produced surprising new forms of racialization. In Producers, Parasites, Patriots, Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes show that while racial subordination is an enduring feature of U.S. political history, it continually changes in response to shifting economic and political conditions, interests, and st...

Mount Everest, and all it means to royalty, explorers, imperialists, and two sherpas, perched on a cliffside, waiting for a man on the ledge below to move.A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two sherpas kneel at the edge, stand, exchange the odd word, waiting for him to move, to make a decision, to descend. In those minutes, the world opens up to Kathmandu, a sun-bleached beach town on another continent, and the ...

Can the afraid-to-commit, city-entrenched ER doctor find love with the reclusive cowboy through an unexpected blind date?As a successful city-based ER doctor, Dr. Zoey Brown has always been too busy to focus on love, and after being burned one too many times, she's not sure she's ready to take the plunge again. But when her friend invites her to spend a relaxing two weeks in the picturesque western town of Dexin Valley, Zoey jumps at the chance for a much-needed br...

The “American Dream” means many things to many people, but in general it can be said that it connects the idea of freedom to the opportunity for prosperity and upward social mobility.Sandra L. Hanson and John K. White have joined together with a group of social scientists to explore the attitudes, experiences, and expectations of Latinos in their quest for the American Dream. The Latino/a American Dream asks many timely questions, including: how do Latino/as view the Ameri...

Mass deportation is at the forefront of political discourse in the United States. The Shadow of the Wall shows in tangible ways the migration experiences of hundreds of people, including their encounters with U.S. Border Patrol, cartels, detention facilities, and the deportation process. Deportees reveal in their heartwrenching stories the power of family separation and reunification and the cost of criminalization, and they call into question assumptions about human rights and fe...

Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant’s influential work, brings together fourteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, literature, anthropology and gender studies to consider the past, present and future of racial formation. The...

A sweeping history of transformative, radical, and abolitionist movements in the United States that places the struggle for racial justice at the center of universal liberation.In Where Do We Go From Here? (1967), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., described racism as "a philosophy based on a contempt for life," a totalizing social theory that could only be confronted with an equally massive response, by "restructuring the whole of American society." A Wider...

In recent years, we have witnessed significant advances in obstetric anesthesia, providing greater safety for the mother and the fetus, as well as an improvement in pain management procedures during labor.This volume presents updates in obstetrics and gynecology that are reflective of the changes in the demographics and associated clinical presentations of gynecological pathologies. It compiles state of the art information on the subject in 20 chapters contributed by more than 50 experts i...