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Forever 13
Forever 13 is the true story of a married couple's ongoing journey of grief for their thirteen-year-old son as told through the eyes of the husband and father. Covering an eleven-year period of time from the moment of their son's death to the present, the author shares the emotional, physical, and social struggles they have encountered alongside their grief throughout the years since their son's passing. In sharing their grief, they reveal how it has affected them as individuals, as a couple, as parents, and the relationships with their family, friends, and with fellow grieving parents. As the passing of their son forces them to come to terms with their new normal, their lives continue to mo...
In Great Distance
For the first time ever, In Great Distance collects fifteen short stories and novellas ranging from the absurdly comical to the deeply personal, political, and spiritual. The first story, "Before the Moon," is without dialogue, meditative and playfully melancholic in its depiction of James - a World War II soldier - as he attempts to return to his wife, who still lives amongst the startling beauty of the Swiss Alps he once called home. Other stories include, "Loveless" (a retake on vampire lore), "Rita Repulsa's Last Laugh" (a semi-autobiographical account of two primary influences on any eleven year old boy - his father, and Power Rangers), "Pale Blue Iris" (the only science fiction piece h...
Probabilities
"Why is beauty created just to be destroyed? Tesla? Give me one really good answer that doesn't sound rehearsed or reiterated or quoted. Please, I beg you, give me one really good answer that sounds original, that sounds like it was conceived in a human being's soul," says Jason Warner to his obese cat in "Jason Warner's False Equanimity of Time," just one of twenty-three short stories/novellas in the aptly titled Probabilities. With a cast of characters that includes a futuristic dreamer, a thirty-six-year-old lost in time, a prodigious painter, a group of suppressed filmmakers forced underground, a skater girl falling in love in the early '90s, a reclusive children's author, Roger Federer beyond his prime, a Hopi couple in the 15th century, President Barack Obama, and nearly a hundred others, this is a kaleidoscope of what it means to be alive, what was, what is, and what could be.
The Alcalde
As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."
Mexican American Baseball in Houston and Southeast Texas
Mexican American Baseball in Houston and Southeast Texas pays tribute to the baseball and softball players and teams from Houston, Sugar Land, Texas City, Richmond, and other surrounding communities in the region. Since the early 1900s, this game has had an important role in the lives of area Mexican Americans. In the Houston barrios, when entrenched discriminatory practices obstructed city unity, the diamond brought people together. In the Sugar Land region, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and Anglos worked and played together, blurring racial lines. Baseball and softball built community pride and connected generations of Mexican American families. The wonderful stories and breathtaking images in this book help resurrect the rich and little-known history of Mexican American baseball and softball in this key part of Texas.
The Case of Rady Scott
Rady Scoot, young innocent where they are, suddenly he finds with the most disappointed in his existence because of his parents. They had promised him that if he passed the exams, they would give him a state-of-the-art sports car. Fruit of the disappointment and the anguish, Rady decides to leave his sweet home. He wants to travel to Mallorca and gets a large sum of money betting on the horses, which allows him to embark on a merchant whose captain tells him the story of his family. Already in Mallorca, Rady discovers values such as friendship, trust and kindness of people. But suddenly Rady's dream turns into a real nightmare. He suffers strange events that until they are not solved he will not be allow to be happy again.
Big Wonderful Thing
The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosp...
Artificial Intelligence Research and Development
Since it was formed in 1994, the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA) has been promoting cooperation between researchers in artificial intelligence within the Catalan speaking community. The association now holds an annual conference in the Catalan region, which aims to foster discussion of the latest developments in artificial intelligence within the community of Catalan countries, as well as amongst members of the wider AI community. This book presents the proceedings of the 18th International Conference (CCIA 2015), held in Valencia, Spain, in October 2015. It contains full versions of the peer reviewed papers presented at the conference, as well as shorter poster contributions. In addition to this year’s dominant research trends of classification, decision support systems and data mining, many other topics are covered, ranging from theoretical aspects to descriptions of real applications. This overview of current work in the Catalan artificial intelligence community and of the collaboration between ACIA members and the AI community worldwide will be of interest to all those working in the field of artificial intelligence.
Police Reform in Mexico
The urgent need to professionalize Mexican police has been recognized since the early 1990s, but despite even the most well-intentioned promises from elected officials and police chiefs, few gains have been made in improving police integrity. Why have reform efforts in Mexico been largely unsuccessful? This book seeks to answer the question by focusing on Mexico's municipal police, which make up the largest percentage of the country's police forces. Indeed, organized crime presents a major obstacle to institutional change, with criminal groups killing hundreds of local police in recent years. Nonetheless, Daniel Sabet argues that the problems of Mexican policing are really problems of govern...
