Jesse and the Climate Monster An Introduction for parents and teachers As the news of climate change and climate related disasters expands, our school age children are not immune to the feelings of fear and helplessness. Jesse and the Climate Monster, published as a bilingual (English/Spanish) book, allows young readers, their classmates and their families, an opportunity to begin to understand climate change as presented in an engaging tale. Within the story, early readers are exposed to many of the effects of climate change as Jesse relates the experiences of Jesse’s classmates. In addition to the story, the accompanying links, activities, and illustrated glossary allow younger students, their classmates and their families, further access to climate information in an age-appropriate format. This story provides a ray of optimism, and a feeling of empowerment to our young readers. Jesse y el Monstruo Climático Una introducción para padres y maestros Mientras que se difunden noticias de desastres relacionados con el clima, nuestros estudiantes jóvenes no son inmunes a sentimientos de miedo y desamparo. Jesse y el monstruo climático les brinda a los lectores jóvenes una oportunidad para empezar a entender el cambio climático a través de un cuento cautivador. Dentro del cuento, los lectores son expuestos a muchos de los efectos del cambio climático mientras Jesse relata las experiencias de sus compañeros de clase. Su uso de poderes recién descubiertos revela las múltiples posibles maneras de abordar el cambio climático. Además del cuento, los enlaces, actividades y glosario ilustrado les permiten a los estudiantes jóvenes profundizar su acceso a información climática en un formato apropiado para su edad. El cuento brinda un rayo de optimismo, citando evidencias de actividades respetuosas con el clima que todos pueden realizar.

This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the collection situates medicine as an important and largely overlooked discourse in these literatures, while also considering the social, political, religious, symbolic, and metaphysical dimensions underpinning illness. Investigating how Hispanic and Lusophone writers have reflected on the personal and cultural effects of illness, it raises central questions about how medical discourses, cultural pathologies, and the art of healing in general are represented. Essays pay particular attention to the ways in which these interdisciplinary dialogues chart new directions in the study of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures, and emerging disciplines such as the medical humanities. Addressing a wide range of themes and subjects including bioethics, neuroscience, psychosurgery, medical technologies, Darwinian evolution, indigenous herbal medicine, the rising genre of the pathography, and the ‘illness as metaphor’ trope, the collection engages with the discourses of cultural studies, gender studies, disability studies, comparative literature, and the medical humanities. This book enriches and stimulates scholarship in these areas by showing how much we still have to gain from interdisciplinary studies working at the intersections between the humanities and the sciences.

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pèrez and Norma Cantú. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experiences growing up near the U.S./Mexico border, BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remaps our understanding of borders as psychic, social, and cultural terrains that we inhabit and that inhabit us all. Drawing heavily on archival research and a comprehensive literature review while contextualizing the book within her theories and writings before and after its 1987 publication, this critical edition elucidates Anzaldúa's complex composition process and its centrality in the development of her philosophy. It opens with two introductory studies; offers a corrected text, explanatory footnotes, translations, and four archival appendices; and closes with an updated bibliography of Anzaldúa's works, an extensive scholarly bibliography on Borderlands, a brief biography, and a short discussion of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Papers. "Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pèrez's meticulous archival work and Norma Elia Cantú's life experience and expertise converge to offer a stunning resource for Anzaldúa scholars; for writers, artists, and activists inspired by her work; and for everyone. Hereafter, no study of Borderlands will be complete without this beautiful, essential reference."--Paola Bacchetta

The hilarious debut novel from one of the world's favourite children's authors. Benny Shaw, a young sporting fanatic, is forced to leave his beloved Wexford, home of all his heroes, and move with his family to Tunisia! How will he survive in a place like this? Then he teams up with Omar, and a madcap friendship between the two boys leads to trouble, crazy escapades, a unique way of communicating, and heartbreaking challenges.