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  • Modern Real Analysis

    by Monica Torres, William P. Ziemer ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This first year graduate text is a comprehensive resource in real analysis based on a modern treatment of measure and integration. Presented in a definitive and self-contained manner, it features a natural progression of concepts from simple to difficult. Several innovative topics are featured, including differentiation of measures, elements of Functional Analysis, the Riesz Representation Theorem ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Pearls for the Crown

    Art, Nature, and Race in the Age of Spanish Expansion

    by Mónica Domínguez Torres ...
    In the age of European expansion, pearls became potent symbols of imperial supremacy. Pearls for the Crown demonstrates how European art legitimated racialized hierarchies and inequitable notions about humanity and nature that still hold sway today.When Christopher Columbus encountered pristine pearl beds in southern Caribbean waters in 1498, he procured the first source of New World wealth for ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Feminista Frequencies

    Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley

    by Piya Chatterjee, Monica De La Torre ...
    Series series Decolonizing Feminisms
    How Chicana and Chicano community radio strengthened a movement and transformed the airwavesBeginning in the 1970s Chicana and Chicano organizers turned to community radio broadcasting to educate, entertain, and uplift Mexican American listeners across the United States. In rural areas, radio emerged as the most effective medium for reaching relatively isolated communities such as migrant ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Ellis Island

    by Georges Perec, Mónica de la Torre ...
    Translated by Harry Mathews ...
    A moving hybrid work about Ellis Island and immigration by the marvelous Georges PerecGeorges Perec, employing lyrical prose meditations, lists, and inventories, conjures up the sixteen million people who, between 1890 to 1954, arrived as foreigners and stayed on to become Americans. Perec (who by the age of nine was an orphan: his father was killed by a German bullet, and his mother perished in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Defensive Mutualism in Microbial Symbiosis

    Edited by James F. White Jr., Monica S. Torres ...
    Series series Mycology
    Anemones and fish, ants and acacia trees, fungus and trees, buffaloes and oxpeckers--each of these unlikely duos is an inimitable partnership in which the species' coexistence is mutually beneficial. More specifically, they represent examples of defensive mutualism, when one species receives protection against predators or parasites in exchange for ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Pause the Document

    by Mónica de la Torre ...
    Experimental poet and translator Mónica de la Torre’s new collection is a document of both the events of 2020 and the process of a poet rethinking artistic practice as she tracks subtle shifts in her experience during multiple global crises.As the world shuts down, Mónica de la Torre’s poems become gregarious sites of encounter—homages to connections lost and new bonds forged. Shuttling between ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Repetition Nineteen

    by Monica de la Torre ...
    At the heart of Repetition Nineteen are twenty-five unreliable translations of a poem in Mónica de la Torre’s first book, written in Spanish. She embarked on this new genre-defying project after realizing she had been living in New York for as long as she had lived in Mexico City, where she was born. The works here focus on translation as displacement, mediation, and a form of code-switching. In ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States

    by Paulina Alberto, Eddie Chambers, Monica Dominguez Torres, Colette Gaiter, Carla Guerron Montero, Carol E. Henderson, Camara Holloway, Wayne G. Marshall, Julie L. McGee, Robin D. Moore, Ifeoma Nwankwo, Phillip Penix-Tadsen, Lorrin Thomas ...
    Scholars of the African Americas are sometimes segregated from one another by region or period, by language, or by discipline. Bringing together essays on fashion, the visual arts, film, literature, and history, this volume shows how our understanding of the African diaspora in the Americas can be enriched by crossing disciplinary boundaries to recontextualize images, words, and thoughts as part ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

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    Translated by Roy Kesey ...
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  • Creepy Time

    Horror Stories (Volume 1)

    by Robinson Fowler ...
    Series Book 1 - Creepy Time
    Do you like short horror stories?If your answer is YES ... You are welcome. These stories are short, but I guarantee that you will immerse yourself in the deepest terror that you can know ...Stories and paranormal experiences that you will never want to happen to you. Welcome to these Creepypastas, to these paranormal experiences that could happen to anyone and that you would never want to be a ... Read more

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  • The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly by Luis de Sepúlveda (Book Analysis)

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    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly by Luis Sepúlveda, which tells the story of the unlikely relationship between an orphaned seagull and a group of cats, who raise her as one of ... Read more

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  • Encyclopedia of Lies

    by Christopher Gudgeon ...
    ”To give a feeling of Christopher Gudgeon’s new collection, let’s turn to the story that gives the book its name. In The Widow Soré, the title character finds among her deceased fiancé Guillermo’s papers what appears to be a stack of letters. Titled The Encyclopedia of Lies, the letters recount the romantic, outsized exploits of another Guillermo, or one whom Isabel takes to be another Guillermo, ... Read more

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