Roland goes to Fortress nightclub to disappear. The dancefloor takes his mind away from the hospital where he works, and he loses himself in the music. That night, he makes eye contact with Rick, a jet-setting stud who shares Roland's fetish for superheroes in bondage, for masks and rope, and the charged game of power between men in spandex.What begins as fantasy becomes a connection that cannot be severed. Roland submits to Rick's world of leather, dominance, and sexual slavery. B...

Sebastián Vega says Catalina Solís is beautiful, loving, unforgettable—and not serious enough for the future he wants.He ends their relationship during the rooftop anniversary dinner where Catalina planned to propose.Three days later, Catalina walks into Casa Aurelia determined to survive one ordinary job interview. Instead, a mysterious change sends her to the executive floor and into a conference room filled with candidates far more experienced than she is. Catalina shoul...

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...

Cervantine Futures places the writings of Miguel de Cervantes into conversation with some of the most pressing issues in cultural studies, critical theory, and sociopolitical discourse of the last decade. Assembling a diverse range of prominent and emerging scholars in the field, this volume stakes a claim for Hispanism’s place in the growing scholarly movement to vindicate pre- and early modernity for its incisive and often singular perspective on race, gender, ability, the body,...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM PABLO ESCOBAR’S SONUntil now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of the most infamous drug lord of all time, Pablo Escobar – from books to film to the cult series ‘Narcos’. But these versions have always been told from the outside, only capturing half the truth, and never from the intimacy of his own home. Now, more than two decades after the full-fledged manhunt finally caught up with Escobar, his so...

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...

Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is a child whose father is a drug baron on the verge of taking over a powerful cartel, and Tochtli is growing up in a luxury hideout that he shares with hit men, prostitutes, dealers, servants and the odd corrupt politician or two. Down the Rabbit Hole, a masterful and darkly comic fi...

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...

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 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...

**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...

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...