Medium Concetta Bertoldi answers all your questions about life after life. . . from the irreverent:(If the dead are always with us, do they have a XXX view of my bedroom?). . . to the poignant:(Will my deceased father be with me when I walk down the aisle on my wedding day?). . . to the heartfelt:(When loved ones leave this life too early or under tragic circumstances, are they eternally heartbroken or can they find peace in heaven?)Conc...

AfroLatinas as a subject of scholarship are woefully underrepresented, and this edited volume, AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective, offers an important and timely intervention. The consistent attention to AfroLatinas’ agency across all the chapters is empowering and attentive to the difficult circumstances of asserting that agency, and to the tremendous breadth of what agency can look like. The authors argue for the analytical powe...

In this play by Caryl Churchill, it's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Maggie Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate—she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests at Marlene's party are a collection of famous women from history. Soon, Marlene discovers that life above the glass ceiling is not all it's cracked up to be.An L.A. Theatre...

Tracing the emergence of autism in Portugal, from its early recognition in child psychiatry to the rise of parent-led advocacy and digital activism, this book examines how families confront inadequate services, challenge outdated paradigms and advocate for educational and social reforms. Drawing on ethnography and critical analysis, it defines advocacy as a transformative practice that reshapes parents’ identities and links care with politics, showing how digital infrastructures become a f...

Disorder, the newest collection of poetry from Concetta Principe, explores the metaphorical relationship between the home and the mind, where a home should be place of sanctuary but can have its safe borders destabilized by mental illness. The poems work through these questions with Principe's characteristic subtlety, intelligence – a nuanced and compassionate meditation on what it means to be at home.

This story reminds us of the ideals, dreams, and imaginations of children as they grow and enjoy exploring the world around them. In this case, a historical landmark, the Lion Bridge, serves as a springboard to high dreams and aspirations.

Get to grips with Microsoft Azure cost management and gain complete, reliable, and sustainable control of your cloud spend Key Features • Explore resource rightsizing and cleanup methods and their implementation • Learn key resource usage optimization concepts • Understand app optimization and plan for optimized and sustainable cloud native applications Book Description Cloud teams and ICT cost controllers working with Azure will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical g...

Stars Need Counting meditates on questions of suicide in the mode of A. Alvarez, when he says, in A Savage God, that there are no answers to these questions, because suicide is a “closed world” – so closed that it's not our place to judge or cast shame. These essays explore the quality of what is closed about this world, bring it close enough to scrape the shame off the act, and for both those who have passed and those who survive, offer peace.

The book offers an overview of credit risk modeling and management. A three-step approach is adopted with the contents, after introducing the essential concepts of both mathematics and finance.Initially the focus is on the modeling of credit risk parameters mainly at the level of individual debtor and transaction, after which the book delves into counterparty credit risk, thus providing the link between credit and market risks. The second part is aimed at the portfolio level when multiple ...

This edited collection examines the contemporary relevance of Lacan’s 1965 essay “Science and Truth” to debates on science, psychoanalysis, ethics and truth. In doing so, it re-considers the established understanding of its argument that psychoanalysis is the only science for the human subject.Over fifty years after Lacan attempted to formalize the relationship between science and psychoanalysis in “Science and Truth,” this volume returns to the categorically systematic yet deeply ...

"Man verse beast provides the strengths and weaknesses of finding your place on earth and gives meaning to the understanding of good verse evil." A sensational compilation of literary works that entice only the greatest readers who find the poetic messages in every poem. A fine work of art that keeps you wanting more.

Sometimes home is best understood from the other side of the world. It’s Chicago in 2012, and Matthew has three jobs, two degrees, and one relentless itch to return home to Ohio. Rather than drive 317 miles east to Columbus, he and his wife travel 6600 miles west to teach English in South Korea. Follow Matthew as he navigates living, working and traveling in the Land of the Morning Calm. Whether he’s plucking gray hairs for a co-teacher, visiting a toilet museum, or starring in a Johannes ...