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Brave Crossing
This coming-of-age saga is told through the eyes of Ricardo, a young Spanish-Filipino, as he voyages to America in 1916. He embarked on his journey thinking he was leaving behind war, rampant disease, unspeakable deaths, and family secrets only to find a country on the cusp of race riots, World War I, and a global pandemic. He learns that each of these events has the power to define who he is and who he will become. To succeed, he'll need to face memories of his past life of privilege, grapple with his own culture, and come to peace with the loss of his parents. He'll also need to confront his many attackers. His future depends on it. In her ambitious debut novel, Maria Alvarez Stroud explores a never-ending question: How welcoming is America to the immigrants who leave everything from their previous lives behind? Richly imagined and vividly rendered, BRAVE CROSSING-A Journey In-Between offers a moving portrait of one man's search for home. This novel reminds us that historical fiction is not just a view into the past but, in many ways, a mirror to our present.
Kinds of Reasons
Understanding human beings and their distinctive rational and volitional capacities requires a clear account of such things as reasons, desires, emotions, and motives, and how they combine to produce and explain human behaviour. Maria Alvarez presents a fresh and incisive study of these concepts, centred on reasons and their role in human agency.
The Devil You Know
"What drives someone to commit an act of terrible violence? Drawing from her thirty years' experience in working with people who have committed serious offenses, Dr. Gwen Adshead provides fresh and surprising insights into violence and the mind. Through a collaboration with coauthor Eileen Horne, Dr. Adshead brings her extraordinary career to life in a series of unflinching portraits. In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure hospitals, an internationally renowned forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist demonstrates the remarkable human capacity for radical empathy, change, and redemption."--Provided by publisher.
Mirror, Mirror
Belle, restless and sleepless, is alone in her vast new house while her husband works abroad. Dangerously idle, she invites the alluring and damaged Tina, a local waitress with a violent boyfriend, to become her lodger � even though she barely knows her. Gradually Belle and Tina grow closer, sharing clothes, secrets, stories of their troubled pasts, and even their fantasies. But as Belle finds herself getting increasingly enmeshed with the younger woman, her presence becomes more and more unsettling. Soon Belle is drawn into a dark, erotically charged world of risk and transgression that she can�t � and doesn�t want to � control. What price will she pay for letting a stranger into her life?
Reasons for Action
This volume contains eleven essays on practical reason by leading and emerging philosophers.
The Poetics of Self-consciousness
"Twentieth-century poetry engages in a highly self-conscious meditation on the nature of poetic language. Spanish poetry, however, has sometimes been considered an exception to this tendency. This book, with its focus on linguistic self-reflexivity, refutes the notion that major Spanish poets such as Jorge Guillen and Vicente Aleixandre are theoretically naive creators. In a series of nuanced readings, Jonathan Mayhew demonstrates the extent to which modern Spanish poets are conscious of their linguistic medium." "Previous books on Spanish poetry published in English have been more limited in scope, usually including poets of a single "generation." The Poetics of Self-Consciousness is the fi...
Latinos in Science, Math, and Professions
Provides short biographies of more than 175 notable Hispanic American professionals in science, mathematics, medicine, and related fields.
Civil Litigation
Civil Litigation is a comprehensive text designed to familiarize the paralegal student with all aspects of the civil litigation process and the role of the paralegal in that process. It provides substantive legal principles and their practical applications in a realistic litigation practice. The book presents a chronological approach to litigation, starting with the opening stages of a lawsuit, progressing to the preparing of pleadings and motions, followed by discovery and concluding with pre-trial, trial and appellate proceedings. Litigation technology and relevant Internet sources are incorporated into each chapter. Projects and exercises at the end of each chapter also give the student opportunities to prepare litigation documents such as letter, pleadings, motion and discovery. Students not only read about the litigation process, but benefit from the practical experiential assignments.
