Balancing her schoolwork, friends and budding relationships proves to be a difficult feat for Cassie Hawkins as she struggles to make it through her first year of high school in one piece. The Cassie Chronicles: Freshman Diaries is a comical, true to life depiction of high school from the eyes of an outcast. From bullies to bad grades, Cassie finds out how hard high school can really be.

Traces the tradition of Spanish women's writing from the end of the Romantic period until the present day. Professor Davies places the major authors within the changing political, cultural and economic context of women's lives over the past century-and-a-half with particular attention to women's accounts of female subjectivity in relation to the Spanish nation-state, government politics, and the women's liberation movement.

This tale of a slave's unrequited love for the woman who owns him is set in nineteenth-century colonial Cuba and was the only feminist-abolitionist novel published during the century in Spain or its colonies. This unique text raises important issues concerning power, race, gender and class in colonial societies, colonial and post-colonial subjectivity and identities, feminist appropriations of the abolitionist agenda, human rights discourse, and literary and philosophical issues associated with enlightenment thought. This new annotated critical edition is the first to provide the original Spanish text along with a substantial and authoritative introduction in English, as well as maps and tables relating to nineteenth-century Cuba, a vocabulary list, and suggestions for further reading. -- .

What is "Hispanic Studies"? This companion gives a concise and accessible overview of the discipline as taught today and suggests new directions for future developments. "Hispanic Studies" is broadly concerned with the languages and cultures of the vast "Hispanic" world, extending chronologically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from California in the North to Patagonia in the South, and from Majorca in the East to the Andes in the West. This essential book provides all the necessary introductory information on the subject and will be especially useful for students who have already started courses in Spanish / Hispanic Studies, or who are considering doing so in the future. Written by a team of leading scholars each with established teaching experience this collection of short essays explores topics as diverse as the history of the Spanish language, Islamic Andalusia, race and class in the Spanish Golden Age, Catalan nationalism, the Madrid "movida," Latin America cinema, tango in Argentina, Evita Peron, "testimonio" and the cultural significance of the US-Mexican border.

The focus of this book is two-fold. First it traces the expansive geographical spread of the language commonly referred to as Spanish. This has given rise to multiple hybrid formations over time emerging in the clash of multiple cultures, languages and religions within and between great empires (Roman, Islamic, Hispano-Catholic), each with expansionist policies leading to wars, huge territorial gains and population movements. This long history makes Hispanophone culture itself a supranational, trans-imperial one long before we witness its various national cultures being refashioned as a result of the transnational processes associated with globalization today. Indeed, the Spanish language we recognise today was 'transnational' long before it was ever the foundation of a single nation state. Secondly, it approaches the more recent post-national, translingual and inter-subjective 'border-crossings' that characterise the global world today with an eye to their unfolding within this long trans-imperial history of the Hispanophone world. In doing so, it maps out some of the contemporary post-colonial, decolonial and trans-Atlantic inflections of this trans-imperial history as manifest in literature, cinema, music and digital cultures. Contributors: Christopher J. Pountain, L.P. Harvey, James T. Monroe, Rosaleen Howard, Mark Thurner, Alexander Samson, Andrew Ginger, Samuel Llano, Philip Swanson, Claire Taylor, Emily Baker, Elzbieta Slodowska, Francisco-J. Hernandez Adrian, Henriette Partzsch, Helen Melling, Conrad James and Benjamin Quarshie.

The year 1873 was one of financial crisis. A boom in railway construction had spurred a bull market-but when the boom turned to bust, transatlantic panic quickly became a worldwide economic downturn. In Transatlantic Speculations, Hannah Catherine Davies offers a new lens on the panics of 1873 and nineteenth-century globalization by exploring the ways in which contemporaries experienced a tumultuous period that profoundly challenged notions of economic and moral order. Considering the financial crises of 1873 from the vantage points of Berlin, New York, and Vienna, Davies maps what she calls the dual "transatlantic speculations" of the 1870s: the financial speculation that led to these panics as well as the interpretative speculations that sprouted in their wake. Drawing on a wide variety of sources-including investment manuals, credit reports, business correspondence, newspapers, and legal treatises-she analyzes how investors were prompted to put their money into faraway enterprises, how journalists and bankers created and spread financial information and disinformation, how her subjects made and experienced financial flows, and how responses ranged from policy reform to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories when these flows suddenly were interrupted. Davies goes beyond national frames of analysis to explore international economic entanglement, using the panics' interconnectedness to shed light on contemporary notions of the world economy. Blending cultural, intellectual, and legal history, Transatlantic Speculations gives vital transnational and comparative perspective on a crucial moment for financial markets, globalization, and capitalism.

The twelve essays in this volume look at the work of some of Latin America's best-known and most promising women writers. Contributors include leading women academics from Latin America, the USA, and Europe. Their critical approaches reflect some of the most influential strands in contemporary feminist theory.

The Fight for Life is one woman's journey from abortion to fighter for life. In this book, noted activist Catherine Davis, explores aspects of abortion that few have been willing to touch until now: women's rights, civil rights, or ending poverty. She exposes the racial roots of abortion and eugenics, and how this has been sold to the black community. The Fight for Life is also a challenge to fight aggressively including personal action steps. This book will challenge what you think you know about abortion, and show you a new way forward.

Beyond the veil of this world there is a battle raging. You may not know it, but the battle is for you. Angels are assigned to protect our destinies, our lives, and God's purpose for them. But even angels can stumble in battle, and the effects can be cataclysmic. You are invited to journey with Gowy, one of the angelic generals assigned to help humans achieve God's purposes in the earth. Walk with him as he crosses America visiting with those called to have a supernatural impact on a nation founded 233 years ago.

Jessica lost her husband and the father of her children in one fell swoop. A faithful Christian woman's faith is tested as she is left alone with her two young daughters. She must find strength in herself to press on but try to keep faith in God that he has not left her.

Carl doesn't understand why he has been taken from his family so suddenly and so soon. He must now learn what lies ahead for him as he moves from life on Earth.