Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories – spiralling from real events – that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These crónicas – a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative non-fiction and novelistic forms – probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them – a...

The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, Fernanda Melchor paints a moving portrait of lives governed by poverty and violence, machismo and misogyny, superstition and prejudice. Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane Season, ...

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor – an attractive married woman and mother – while Polo dreams about quitting his gruelling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mind...

Many estuaries are located in urbanized, highly engineered environments. Cohesive sediment plays an important role due to its link with estuarine health and ecology. An important ecological parameter is the suspended sediment concentration (SSC) translated into turbidity levels and sediment budget.This study contributes to investigate and forecast turbidity levels and sediment budget variability at San Francisco Bay-Delta system at a variety of spatial and temporal scales applying a...

“Enchanting . . . Bursting with talent and love of life,” said the Washington Post Book World of Fernanda Eberstadt’s extraordinary first novel, Low Tide. Now her exuberant gifts are even more abundantly evident on a larger scale.Isaac and His Devils tells the story of a boy who throws off sparks of what might be genius—and of his father, a man who has walked away from the possibilities of his own brilliance.Isaac Hooker, from birth to his twenty-se...

Inside every woman is a female powerhouse.The Female Collaborative speaks to young women, doers, believers, and dreamers who are looking for inspiration and a community. Explore the intersection of female empowerment as insights from Oprah Winfrey, Joan Rivers, Sophia Amoruso, and Michelle Obama show you the power of positivity.In this book you’ll learn about the ways that different women have made an impact and surpassed their own hurdles, so that you can be empowered to d...

The book provides an updated reading on the fortification of the city of Bosa, and the castle church, the Palatine chapel of the judges of Arborea, from an architectural and artistic perspective. Particular attention and emphasis have been placed on the presence inside the sacred building of a cycle almost entirely preserved, a unique example in Sardinia, of fourteenth century frescoes on the themes of Franciscan spirituality.

When Matisse falls deeply in love with Jacob Logan—a man her parents would never approve of—she must choose between the life her family expects and the future she wants for herself. When Jacob asks her to move in with him, Matisse decides it’s time to finally stand up for her own happiness.What begins as a simple family announcement quickly erupts into shock, confrontation, and emotions long buried beneath years of silence. And as tensions rise, secrets about love, identity, and fa...

Since 1960, an unequal international structure is recognized in terms of production and circulation of knowledge in the international science system. This phenomenon is called academic dependency and motivated actions towards promoting the education of scientist and stimulating the bond between institutions and scholars of the periphery. This, considering that the peripheral knowledge-production structures were compromised by colonialism and its lasting effects.

Mimi, an adopted child, made a profound discovery at the age of six when she questioned her parents about the difference in her skin tone. This moment triggered reflections on skin colors and a desire to be different. However, her journey took a special turn when she crossed paths with Olivia, a charming albino girl of the same age.In this context, this unique friendship between Mimi and Olivia holds valuable lessons for children. What will this unexpected connection reveal to youn...

Mimi was adopted when she was a baby, but she only finds this out when she is six years old. She asks her parents why she is diferent from them and why her skin is dark. Upon this realization, Mimi starts to question the diference in skin colors and wishes to have been born white. That's when she meets Olivia, a six-year-old girl who is an albino. She shows Mimi how good it is to be diferent and how all colors are beautiful and important. Mimi foi adotada ainda bebê, mas só descobre esse f...

The mainstream media in Brazil portrays favelas (unregulated low-income neighbourhoods) in a negative light. This has been the case since their emergence over a century ago. Voices from the Favelas navigates through the contemporary representation of the favelas in the established media, discussing how this partial representation impacts issues of identity and social segregation, the legitimation of structural violence in those sites, and providing an account of the recent emergen...