Sylvia Mark is a thirteen year-old girl who feels separated from her peers, but Sylvia doesn't know is that she's just one of one hundred girls bred as part of a genetics experiment that sought to give normal humans extraordinary powers. Thirteen years ago, four girls were kidnapped and sent to families around the country to be raised and Sylvia is determined to find out why...

The doctor asked, “Who is Andrew?” I said, “A boy that is tired of staying broken and feeling unloved for who he is.” Why do I go by the name Andrew? Because there was this boy in my first-grade class that I have always seen myself being if I were able to have expressed who I am without humiliation. Everything that he did was something I always admired and was inspired to someday become. I tried my best not to let people define me but rather let myself echo the truest parts of me out for t...

This publication, published by SamEnrico, covers How to Become a Rouge Sifter And Miller

A story told from the parents perspective of the process to adopt a little boy internationally. Lyrically written, with beautiful and colorful illustrations, this story is sure to be a family favorite.

The book is related to the feeling that the Heart has when it is in love, and how the mind and the Heart battle their own feelings. How the Heart with the body, mind and nature lives one life and at the same time is divided. You can feel the stages of how the Heart and mind are one and at the same time so far apart. It is published in English and Spanish.

This book reviews the fundamentals of screw theory concerned with velocity analysis of rigid-bodies, confirmed with detailed and explicit proofs. The author additionally investigates acceleration, jerk, and hyper-jerk analyses of rigid-bodies following the trend of the velocity analysis. With the material provided in this book, readers can extend the theory of screws into the kinematics of optional order of rigid-bodies. Illustrative examples and exercises to reinforce learning are provide...

This edited book examines modern foreign language teachers who research their own and others’ experiences of identity construction in the context of living and teaching in UK institutions, primarily in the Higher Education sector. The book offers an insight into a key element of the educational and socio-political debate surrounding MFL in the UK: the teachers’ voices and their sense of agency in constructing their professional identities. The contributors use a combination of empirical re...

Portfolio allocation in presidential systems is a central tool that presidents use to deal with changes in the political and economic environment. Yet, we still have much to learn about the process through which ministers are selected and the reasons why they are replaced in presidential systems.This book offers the most comprehensive, cross-national analysis of portfolio allocation in the Americas to date. In doing so, it contributes to the development of theories about portfolio ...

«This unique volume takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through flights of the political and social imagination across Iberia and Latin America from the conquest of the Americas, via insurgent and reactionary modern movements, to the Cold War and on to contemporary dreams and dystopias. The Western notion of utopia was born of Iberian imperialism in the Americas: Hispanic Utopias traces its complex, contradictory destinies from the origins of the Hispanic empire through w...

Plastic and reconstructive surgery represents one of the broadest and most extensive medical specialties, where the pathologies studied can range from head to toe. The abundance of information generated from established or new concepts, knowledge, and techniques are difficult to assimilate and apply in daily medical practice, so the reader may get lost on the journey from time to time.This up-to-date book provides key elements of plastic and reconstructive surgery in a practical an...

This book invites the reader to think about collaborative research differently. Using the concepts of ‘letting go’ (the recognition that research is always in a state of becoming) and 'poetics’ (using an approach that might interrupt and remake the conventions of research), it envisions collaborative research as a space where relationships are forged with the use of arts-based and multimodal ways of seeing, inquiring and representing ideas.The book's chapters are interwoven with ‘I...

An Island in the Stream, a collaboration between Cuban and American writers and scholars, is a diverse collection of ecocritical and literary responses to the natural environment in Cuba and to Cuban environmental culture. The chapters explore Cuba’s vibrant cultural history with particular attention to literature and the visual and performing arts, which are viewed through such lenses as ecofeminism, postcolonial ecocriticism, multiculturalism, and the nuclear imaginary, among others. Ame...