**“Morel’s Invention may be described, without exaggeration, as a perfect novel.” —Octavio PazA new translation of Adolfo Bioy Casares’s metaphysical masterpiece, a marvelously plotted story of a fugitive writer who discovers an uncanny phenomenon taking place on his island hideout.**Jorge Luis Borges declared Morel's Invention a masterpiece, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. When a fugitive washe...

A reimagining of Dracula's voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire.It's an ordinary assignment, nothing more. The cargo? Fifty boxes filled with Transylvanian soil. The route? From Varna to Whitby. The Demeter has made many trips like this. The captain has handled dozens of crews.He dreams familiar dreams: to taste the salt on the skin of his men, to run his hands across their chests. He longs for the warmth of a lover he cannot have, fantasizes about...

The award-winning memoir of life in an LA street gang from the acclaimed Chicano author and former Los Angeles Poet Laureate: "Fierce, and fearless" ( The New York Times).Luis J. Rodríguez joined his first gang at age eleven. As a teenager, he witnessed the rise of some of the most notorious cliques in Southern California. He grew up knowing only a life of violence—one that revolved around drugs, gang wars, and police brutality. But unlike most of those ar...

Six hundred years after nuclear fire erased the old world, mana has replaced technology and kingdoms rise from the ruins of forgotten cities.When King Sigmund of Zaiiahn is assassinated, four-year-old Renji Takasumi escapes with his life while his father is framed for the murder. Torn from his family and raised by mercenaries, Renji grows into a hardened fighter with one fragile hope left: that somewhere, his family still lives.But Zaiiahn has fallen to a tyrant.Kin...

The post-colonial birth, life, and death of the collective consciousness known as the Animal.Middle-aged streamer twins in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, are the first human beings to successfully connect—sharing their consciousness across 34 translucent cables. In that moment, the Animal is born, an intracerebral force that quickly grows to encompass anthills of synaptically entwined bodies, a floating library kitchen redolent of rice and beans far above the Mississippi ri...

You're not lazy. You're running different hardware.You can hold an entire system in your head and forget a conversation from yesterday. You can produce extraordinary work under deadline pressure and sit frozen in front of a twenty-minute task, knowing exactly what to do and unable to start.That gap - between what you're capable of and what you can reliably deliver - is not a character flaw. It's a Spiky Profile: a performance signature defined not by your average ability bu...

Sérgio survives an industrial accident that should have been nothing more than a frightening memory. He returns home, goes back to work, and tries to resume the life he has always known.But something is wrong.The apartment is the same. His job is the same. His memories are intact. Yet small details no longer fit: a familiar object in the wrong place, a photograph that feels subtly different, a neighbor who seems to belong to another version of the building. Even more distur...

Environmental Education in the Anthropocene explores how education can address the environmental crisis by combining theory, pedagogy, and practice. Organized into four sections, the book progresses from context to action: the foundations of the Anthropocene and its educational implications, the roles of institutions and actors in environmental education, innovative methodologies like experiential learning and transformative pedagogies, and practical tools for implementation. With...

Two Vatos Talk Pop Cultura brings a leading Latinx media studies scholar, Frederick Luis Aldama, together with an award-winning television writer and producer, Peter Murrieta, to examine how Latinx representation has evolved—and stagnated—across seven decades of American TV, film, and pop culture.

A heartwarming dog story like no other: Tuesday, a lovable golden retriever, changes a former soldier’s life forever.A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army, Luis Montalván never backed down from a challenge during his two tours of duty in Iraq. After returning home from combat, however, his physical wounds and crippling post-traumatic stress disorder began to take their toll. He wondered if he would ever recover.Then Luis met Tuesday, a sensitive golde...

Belly fat is not attractive, let us face that fact. Most people would kill for a well chiseled and athletic body. Belly fat may also result to be a loophole for the development of various health complications like diabetes. How do you get rid of that belly fat? The answers to this question are explained and in a detailed fashion in this book. This book aims to provide the most effective ways of losing belly fat. The ways provided do not have any serious side effects and will make losing be...

In the wake of the persecutions of the Church in Mexico, Archbishop Luis María Martínez, first Primate of Mexico, preached these encouraging sermons to the faithful gathered at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. These meditations speak to us all in an intimate voice of the most tender love of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who has been declared "Patroness of the Americas" by the Church. In these pages, you will learn more about the significance of Mary's apparition and her words at Tepeyac. In...