In a rundown neighborhood in the heart of Las Vegas, the Alicia hotel awakens and beckons to the most vulnerable—those with something to hide.

After his parents are killed in a horrific roadside execution, Alvaro flees his home in Colombia and finds work as a line cook at the seedy hotel. Together with his sister, Carmen, he begins to make a new life in the desert, earning a promotion to management along with an irresistible offer to stay at the hotel rent-free. But as beloved photographs go missing, cockroaches seep from the walls, and grotesque strangers wander the corridors, the promise of the Alicia decays into nightmare. Alvaro discovers that the hotel is a small appendage of an enormous creature that feeds on guests and their secrets, one that will eventually bring him face-to-face with the memories he most wants to outrun. Alvaro, Carmen, and their friends decide to cooperate with the creature rather than fight it. But in their efforts to appease it, do they sacrifice too much of themselves?

Haunting and visceral, Extended Stay uses the language of body horror and the gothic to comment on the complicated relationship between the Latinx undocumented experience and capitalism, the erasure of those living and working on the margins, the heavy toll exacted by memory, and the queasy permeability of boundaries that separate the waking world from the world of dreams.

MENTAL SYSTEMS THEORY

This book offers a unique and extremely useful model of the mind mechanism and its connections with the soul and the body. It develops a set of concepts and laws that explain the mind phenomena and lay the foundations for a simple and highly effective method that improves the human systems' quality of life.

This model can be applied in several fields and disciplines such as Business Administration, Psychology, Sociology, Education, Communication, Sports, Medicine, and more.

This book not only presents essential material to understand fuzzy metric fixed point theory but also enables the readers to appreciate the recent advancements made in this direction. It contains seven chapters on different topics in fuzzy metric fixed point theory. These chapters cover a good range of interesting topics such as convergence problems in fuzzy metric, fixed figure problems and applications of fuzzy metrics. The main focus is to unpack a number of diverse aspects of fuzzy metric fixed point theory and its applications in an understandable way so that it could help and motivate young graduates to explore new avenues of research to extend this flourishing area in different directions. The discussion on fixed figure problems and fuzzy contractive fixed point theorems and its different generalizations invites active researchers in this field to develop a new branch of fixed point theory. Features: Explore the latest research and developments in fuzzy metric fixed point theory. Describes applications of fuzzy metrics to colour image processing. Covers new topics on fuzzy fixed figure problems. Filled with examples and open problems. This book serves as a reference book for scientific investigators who want to analyze a simple and direct presentation of the fundamentals of the theory of fuzzy metric fixed point and its applications. It may also be used as a textbook for postgraduate and research students who try to derive future research scope in this area.

Juan Martinez, the fiery prosecutor who convicted notorious murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.Through two trials, America watched with baited breath as Juan Martinez fought relentlessly to convict Jodi Arias of Murder One for viciously stabbing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander to death. What emerged was a story wrought with sex, manipulation, and deceit that stunned the public at every turn. Arias, always playing the wronged and innocent woman, changed her story continually as her bizarre behavior surrounding the crime and its aftermath came to light. Unwavering, Arias and her defense team continued to play off the salacious details of the case, until she was finally found guilty and--controversially--sentenced to life behind bars.Now, speaking openly for the first time, prosecutor Juan Martinez will unearth new details from the investigation that were never revealed at trial, exploring key facts from the case and the pieces of evidence he chose to keep close to the vest. Throughout the trials, his bullish and unfaltering prosecution strategy was both commended and criticized, and in his book, Martinez will illuminate the unique tactics he utilized in this case and how they lead to a successful conviction, and-for the first time-discuss how he felt losing the death penalty sentence he'd pursued for years.Going beyond the news reports, Martinez will explore the truth behind the multiple facades of Jodi Arias. Sparring with her from across the stand, Martinez came to know Arias like no one else could, dissecting what it took for a seemingly normal girl to become a deluded, cunning, and unrepentant murderer.With new stories from behind the scenes of the trial and Martinez's own take on his defendant, the book takes you inside the mind of Jodi Arias like never before. Complete with 16 pages of photos from the case and trial, this book is the definitive account of the case that shocked America.

Este libro consta de diferentes Decretos y Meditaciones en audio y escritas de tal forma que cuando se lee u oye, la energ a se integra en el cuerpo f sico.Conforme se van integrando las energ as se va elevando la vibraci n celular.Al elevar la vibraci n celular el cuerpo f sico se va sanando y regenerando.Este sistema 40 D as, est dise ado para poder detener, una vez finalizado, el proceso de envejecimiento y activar el Manantial de la Eterna Juventud.Cada d a hay m?'s personas en todo el mundo que lo est n experimentado en su propia piel, recobrando la vitalidad y la salud.Esto es ya, hoy en d a, una realidad Innegable. El que la experimente por s mismo depende solo y exclusivamente de usted. El sistema para poder lograrlo lo tiene ahora mismo en sus manos.40 D AS, primera parte del m todo Pempenides especial nominativo El Libro de la Vida, recoge el sistema completo de los 7 Chacras con sus 49 puertas, m?'s 46 meditaciones del rbol de la Vida de 10 s firas, y el Decreto para la erradicaci n del rbol de la Ciencia del Bien y del Mal (hormona de la muerte), am n de otros diversos Decretos.El M todo Pempenides especial nominativo El Libro de la Vida, consta de varias partes y ha sido escrito en esta poca por el actual Regente Planetario siguiendo las instrucciones del Logos Planetario.Este m todo ha sido transmitido directamente por Sanat Kumara "el iniciador nico planetario" como gu a precisa para alcanzar r pidamente la ascensi n.El M todo Pempenides al completo contiene la transmisi n de energ as de las 256 puertas del sistema de chacras de la QUINTA DIMENSI N, y las transmisiones del YO SOY EL ALPHA Y LA OMEGA: el primero y el ltimo, el que hab a de venir, El Todopoderoso.

Fear is a form of torment the enemy tries to plague people with in order to paralyze them, to steal their purpose and destiny from God's best. None of us is immune to these attacks. Jesus came to destroy fear and set the captives free.

Speaking as one whom Jesus Christ set free from the devil's grip, John Ramirez, once a satanic high priest, exposes the tormenting weapons of fear of our number one spiritual enemy, the devil, and equips and arms believers with the weapons of our warfare that God has given us through his Son, Jesus Christ, to abort the enemy's mission. In this book, Destroying Fear, you will learn how to get back your peace and purpose and walk fearless into your destiny by dismantling every stronghold and stopping the enemy's attacks once and for all, for a life of freedom!

In La Guitarra Flamenca, Juan Martin explains and demonstrates the essential techniques and rhythmic forms of Flamenco guitar playing in six progressive lessons now presented on two DVDs, with a total duration of three hours. The lessons show you in detail many varieties of the basic rhythms which form the foundation of Flamenco guitar styles. They also give you a wealth of traditional and modern Flamenco solos, accurately transcribed into music notation and easy-to-follow 'cifra' tablature. In this way you learn not only how to play but also what to play, as the lessons build into substantial repertoire of Flamenco music. The DVDs are designed for players of any level of ability.

The two-volume set LNAI 13612 and 13613 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2022, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in October 2022.The total of 63 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions. The first volume, Advances in Computational Intelligence, contains 34 papers structured into three sections: Machine and Deep Learning Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Evolutionary and Metaheuristic Algorithms The second volume contains 29 papers structured into two sections: Natural Language Processing Intelligent Applications and Robotics

The two-volume set LNAI 13612 and 13613 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2022, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in October 2022.The total of 63 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions. The first volume, Advances in Computational Intelligence, contains 34 papers structured into three sections: Machine and Deep Learning Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Evolutionary and Metaheuristic Algorithms The second volume contains 29 papers structured into two sections: Natural Language Processing Intelligent Applications and Robotics

As a boy, Miguel Angel Tobar fled a small town in El Salvador torn apart by warring guerrillas and US-backed death squads. As a teen in Los Angeles, he fought discrimination and beatings by joining a gang, MS-13. By the time the US deported him to San Salvador, the Hollywood Kid joined a wave of US-bred gangsters, whose violence-in concert with corrupt offiicals-have in turn helped propel new waves of refugees. The incomparable Salvadoran journalist Oscar Martinez got to know the Hollywood Kid and met with him as he first turned on MS-13, killing gang members, and then in turn was assassinated by other gang members. In intensely vivid scenes, Martinez and his anthropologist brother Juan tell the story of a violent life and death-and of the geopolitical forces that propelled a country into becoming one of the most violent on earth.