New YorkTimes bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion bookto New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta ScottKing Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize. The audiobook was a 2020Audie Awards Finalist for Middle Grade and named an Audible Best Audiobook ofthe Year.This time,it’s Jordan’s friend Drew who takes center stage in another laugh-out...

Racism and Discourse in Latin America investigates how public discourse is involved in the daily reproduction of racism in Latin America. The essays examine political discourse, mass media discourse, textbooks and other forms of text, and talk by the white symbolic elites, looking at the ways these discourses express and confirm prejudices against indigenous people and against people from African descent. The essays show that ethnic and racial inequality in Latin America continue ...

Completely updated with new content and full-colour figures throughout, the second edition of this successful book continues to provide a comprehensive coverage of pineapple breeding, production and yield. Pineapple is an increasingly important crop and demand for fresh pineapple is steadily growing; stakeholders in the value chain are worldwide. The Pineapple: Botany, Production and Uses provides essential coverage from botany through to postharvest handling and provides the technical inf...

Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.) is a subtropical evergreen fruit tree indigenous to China. Records show it has been cultivated in China for over 2000 years. From this beginning, loquat has spread to more than 30 countries around the world. Grown in various regions of Asia, the Mediterranean and across the Americas, loquats suit both temperate and subtropical areas, sharing the same environmental conditions as citrus. Loquat is an increasingly commercial crop in some Asian and European ...

Despite the significant presence of Cuban immigrants in the United States, current research on Cuban Spanish linguistics remains underexplored. This volume addresses this lacuna in Cuban Spanish research by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from a range of theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas, including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and heritage language acquisition. Given increasing interest in Cub...

This book is contemporary, topical and global in its approach, and provides an essential, comprehensive treatise on bovine tuberculosis and the bacterium that causes it, Mycobacterium bovis. Bovine tuberculosis remains a major cause of economic loss in cattle industries worldwide, exacerbated in some countries by the presence of a substantial wildlife reservoir. It is a major zoonosis, causing human infection through consumption of unpasteurised milk or by close contact with infected anima...

What happens when the life you thought you had does a 180º turn? Everything, and yet…nothing.Us is Sara and Diana’s love story, as well as the story of Diana’s gender transition. Full of humor, heartache, and the everyday triumphs and struggles of identity, this graphic memoir speaks to changing conceptions of the world as well as the self, at the same time revealing that some things don’t really have to change.Written, drawn, and colored by Sara S...

The definitive work on Lacan's theory of the feminine.With exquisite prose and penetrating insights, Colette Soler shares her theoretical and clinical expertise in this vibrant new text. She spins out seductive explications of Lacan's thought on the controversial question of sexual difference. With the subtlety that these topics deserve, she takes up Lacan's conception of woman and her relation to masochism, femininity and hysteria, love and death, and the...

This book discusses Jacques Lacan’s contribution to understanding the life and work of James Joyce, introducing Colette Soler’s influential reading to English readers for the first time. Focusing on Lacan’s famous Seminar on Joyce, the reader will no doubt learn much from Lacan, but also, as Soler shows, what Lacan learned from Joyce and what perhaps, without him, he would not have approached with so much confidence.Le Sinthome. This is the title Jacques Lacan chose for his seminar...

**When Red and Blue started out on the road to being professional heroes, they didn’t expect it to be so…well, difficult.Written and drawn by celebrated comics creator Sara Soler (Us, Season of the Bruja), with English translation by Silvia Perea Labayen and letters by Joamette Gil, Red & Blue: Monster Hunters is a stand alone, action packed graphic novel full of humor and heartfelt adventure!**While Blue is feeling disheartened by what seems to b...

Descubre cómo los colores no solo embellecen el mundo, sino que también ejercen una influencia profunda y variada en nuestra psicología y comportamientos diarios. "El Poder Oculto de los Colores: Psicología y Usos Prácticos" es una exploración exhaustiva de la teoría del color y su aplicación en diversas disciplinas como el marketing, el diseño de interiores y la terapia. Este libro te guía a través de estudios científicos y ejemplos reales que revelan cómo los colores pueden manipular emo...

The digitalization of transport management is not an option; it's a fact. It is a factor embedded in strategic approaches and processes within companies. But how can it be made agile and successful? Where should one start? And how can it be sustained over time?This book reveals the keys to digital transformation through three vital areas for companies where logistics is an essential part of their activity: operations management, freight rate management, and...