A fresh, funny new voice, Meg Federico showcases her keen eye for the absurd in this poignant, hilarious, and timely account of one daughter’s tumultuous journey caring for her aging parents.When Meg Federico’s eighty-year-old mother and newly minted step-father were forced to accept full-time home care, she imagined them settling into a Norman-Rockwellian life of docile dependency. With a family of her own and a full time career in Nova Scotia – a thousand miles away from her pare...

In this audacious psychological thriller where nothing is what it seems, a man facing death makes a life-changing choice that puts him—and the people he loves—in serious trouble.Ted McKay had it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor he finds himself with a gun to his temple, ready to pull the trigger. Then the doorbell rings.A stranger makes him a proposition: why not kill two deservin...

The filmmakers who defy convention and validate the legitimacy of the auteur theory are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From foreign masters of direction and style Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini to champions of independent film Spike Lee and The Coen Brothers to the godfathers of the gangster movie Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, the visionaries to constantly push the boundaries of their medium and portray hu...

Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today. A physicist by education, he is the inventor of the microprocessor and the MOS silicon gate technology, both of which underlie the modern world's entire information technology. With the knowledge and experience of a lifetime in cutting-edge fields, Federico now turns his attention to consciousness and the nature of reality, sharing with us his profound insights on the classical and quantum worlds, artificial ...

Federico García Lorca es probablemente el escritor español más conocido del siglo XX. Aquí ofrecemos una edición total de toda su poesía, incluyendo las obras más conocidas como "Poeta en Nueva York" o el "Romancero Gitano". Una obra que todo buen lector debe tener en su biblioteca.

The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great ‘equaliser’, but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing.Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban processes around transportation, land use, planning policy, racism, and inequality. Case ...

GAY LOVE ROMANCE COLLEGE THE BEARDED PROFESSOR AND THE HOT TWINKAge is just a number. Attraction is undeniable.He's 20, curious, and unsure. His professor? Tall, bearded, experienced—and unexpectedly magnetic. What starts as admiration turns into something much more complicated when feelings begin to cross the line.Is it just a crush? Or is it the start of something neither of them expected?This steamy, emotional gay romance explores the thri...

Collects Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) #13-16 And Giant-Size Spider-Man (2024) #1. The Big Apple is under siege! As super villains and criminal gangs violently carve the city up like pie, it's Miles Morales' job to save all of Brooklyn from destruction! But between the Scorpion, the anti-super Cape Killers and the Hobgoblin making moves, there are too many fires for Miles to put out on his own. Maybe Ms. Marvel can lend a big hand? And when the Prowler enters the battlefield, whose side...

The Pandemials are the young people who will be between the ages of 10 and 26 after the pandemic is over. They will be faced with societies devastated by inequality, the end of meritocracy, loneliness, digital automation, the depletion of natural resources and a myriad of environmental crises that will deeply affect life on our planet. In addition to lacking the economic prosperity enjoyed by their parents –which for example granted them access to university educations or to more comfortab...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceFederico García Lorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression.When Bernarda's husband dies, she locks all the doors and windows. She tells her grown-up daughters to sew and be silent. 'There are eight years of mourning ahead of us. While it lasts not even the wind will get into this house.' But locks ...

This book provides both a broad overview of the forecasting process, covering technological and human aspects alike, and deep insights into algorithms and platform functionalities in the IBP toolbox required to maximize forecast accuracy. Rich in technical and business explanations, it addresses short-, medium- and long-term forecasting processes using functionalities available in demand planning and demand sensing.There are also several theoretical concepts underpinning the algori...

Moon Knight picks a new fight! Marc Spector's war with the vampires of the Structure must be fought on two fronts: one on the midnight streets, and the other within his own mind! Marc needs information, and he'll need to rely on some old allies to get it. And while secrets are ferreted out from the steamiest gutters to the highest seats of power, Moon Knight must reveal a hidden truth to those closest to him! Meanwhile, Hunter's Moon stalks the rooftops on his own, intent on his own defini...