What is a canon and why does it matter? In Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century, Joan L. Brown shows that a canon has the power to define a field and determine what is taught. She argues that it is both productive and necessary to confront our canons, to see what is actually in them and how these works and authors got there. Only then can educators take charge of their teaching canons and, by extension, their disciplines. Brown demonstrates that there is little agreement in the reported teaching canons in English ...

This is a collection of short stories and novel extracts all featuring trans* characters. Follow the adventures of Erica, Danielle, Onyx, Liam, Xuan Nu, Amber, Ruby, Saffron, Lucy and many more. These are just a few of the many thousands of trans characters that some people with erasure agendas would have you believe don't exist #EndTransErasure

In a swirling journey through six unique tales: Úath is an exploration of the uncanny and ethereal. In her first collection of short horror stories, Siân Posy weaves expertly crafted worlds that treads between primal fear and liberation.   A Visiting On the peak of a caliginous mountain, a climber receives tidings from an ethereal presence.   Water From The Well When a household's well runs dry and filthy, an investigation into the cause of the drought exposes an unnatural root.   Leviathan ...

Can love be measured in percentages? After her girlfriend leaves her for a man, broken-hearted novelist Charlie Cross moves from New York to Los Angeles to work on a TV show based on her books. Charlie vows to never date any woman who isn’t a hundred percent certain of being a lesbian. But when she is seduced by gorgeous bisexual cooking show host Ava Castaneda, whom she’s had a celebrity crush on for ages, Charlie is forced to review her belief in percentages because true love could very well be on the line. Release the Stars is a lighthearted ...

This research looks at the process of women's empowerment in post-1994 Rwanda, with special focus on twelve cooperatives working in Mayaga region and the way these cooperatives empower women, their households and the community at large. Traditional Rwandan society has been always bound by patriarchy which has not valued the reproductive roles of women as economically productive in their households and the society as a whole. On the one hand, this understanding was reversed in the post-1994 Rwanda by the commitment of the government to gender equality at the ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Storks: The False Prince is a novel written by Elizabeth Still Harrington and published in 1875. The story is set in medieval Europe and revolves around a young prince named Rudolph who is kidnapped by a group of storks. The storks take him to their secret kingdom where they have been raising human children as their own for centuries.Rudolph is quickly introduced to the other children in the stork kingdom, all of whom have been raised to believe that they are storks and have no knowledge of their human heritage. However, Rudolph's true identity is revealed ...

V rabote rassmatrivayutsya istoki vozniknoveniya i razvitie fenomena khudozhestvennogo i esteticheskogo plat'ya v kontekste izobrazitel'nogo iskusstva. Vtoraya polovina XIX veka v Anglii kharakterizuetsya poyavleniem kak novykh khudozhestvennykh techeniy, tak i razvitiem dvizheniya reformirovannogo kostyuma, kotoroe velo k otkazu ot korseta i karkasnoy odezhdy v tselom. V rabote proslezhivaetsya svyaz' etikh yavleniy i vyyavlyaetsya rol' khudozhnikov-zhivopistsev v fenomene khudozhestvennogo (pozzhe esteticheskoe) plat'ya.

In this thesis, we have analyzed the subcarrier fading characteristics of multicarrier modulation (MCM) schemes such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA), under generalized frequency-selective fading conditions. We have also developed several approaches to simplify the analytical expressions of bit error rate (BER) performance, as well as to enhance the performance of OFDM and MC-CDMA systems with various equalization and combining schemes. A wide variety of frequency-selective ...

Com o envelhecimento da população, melhorias na promoção saúde e o intenso processo de urbanização, fez com que houvesse a substituição das doenças infecciosas por doenças como as neoplasias malignas. Como tratamento das neoplasias malignas, a quimioterapia antineoplásica ainda é uma forma de tratamento largamente utilizada, ocasionando, em geral, uma gama de efeitos colaterais desagradáveis, como a mucosite oral. O conteúdo deste livro trata da produção ...