This book provides a bi-national portrait of dementia in the rapidly aging Mexican-origin population in Mexico and the United States. It provides a comprehensive overview of critical conceptual and methodological issues in the study of cognitive aging and related mental and physical conditions. The book examines the sources of vulnerability and their consequences for Mexican-origin and for "aging in place". By providing a combination of new knowledge, empirical evidence, and fresh approaches of dementia support in later life, this book will contribute to moving the field of Mexican-origin aging and health forward. By focusing on the serious challenges in old-age support for older people with dementia and neurocognitive disorders in two different contexts, this book will deepen academics, researchers, students and young investigators understanding of what is necessary to achieve optional care.

Audio Education: Theory, Culture, and Practice is a groundbreaking volume of 16 chapters exploring the historical perspectives, methodologies, and theoretical underpinnings that shape audio in educational settings. Bringing together insights from a roster of international contributors, this book presents perspectives from researchers, practitioners, educators, and historians. Audio Education highlights a range of timely topics, including environmental sustainability, inclusivity, interaction with audio industries, critical listening, and student engagement, making it recommended reading for teachers, researchers, and practitioners engaging with the field of audio education.

Audio Education: Theory, Culture, and Practice is a groundbreaking volume of 16 chapters exploring the historical perspectives, methodologies, and theoretical underpinnings that shape audio in educational settings. Bringing together insights from a roster of international contributors, this book presents perspectives from researchers, practitioners, educators, and historians. Audio Education highlights a range of timely topics, including environmental sustainability, inclusivity, interaction with audio industries, critical listening, and student engagement, making it recommended reading for teachers, researchers, and practitioners engaging with the field of audio education.

This book provides a bi-national portrait of dementia in the rapidly aging Mexican-origin population in Mexico and the United States. It provides a comprehensive overview of critical conceptual and methodological issues in the study of cognitive aging and related mental and physical conditions. The book examines the sources of vulnerability and their consequences for Mexican-origin and for "aging in place". By providing a combination of new knowledge, empirical evidence, and fresh approaches of dementia support in later life, this book will contribute to moving the field of Mexican-origin aging and health forward. By focusing on the serious challenges in old-age support for older people with dementia and neurocognitive disorders in two different contexts, this book will deepen academics, researchers, students and young investigators understanding of what is necessary to achieve optional care.

More humans had been taken, now it wasn't just a matter of vengeance, it was a matter of justice. They had vowed to protect mankind, that's why they lived a life of feeding off animals, they never wanted to be the monsters that had created them. The Lopez clique were a family of nine vampires living there lives as humans, in peace and harmony, but now all that was being threatened as the humans were being dragged from their homes and experimented on. Ariana had lost everything, her children, her life, the only thing that kept her immortal existence going was the need to find her creator and destroy him. Her visions into the future lead her to a creature, neither human nor vampire. A creature experimented on, injected with a serum that makes humans obey their master, they become like zombies. His name is Greg, he too has lost everything at the hands of a vampire, all he wants now is to die. He is dying, when Ariana saves him, biting him she creates what she jokingly calls a...., part vampire, part zombie. In the process the serum in Greg's blood gives Ariana more powers making her a super vampire. They fall in love and begin their journey to stop any more humans being killed or experimented on. Ariana's family are wary of Greg they see him as a traitor; however in their quest to protect Ariana, they fail to notice the real traitor amongst them. On their way to stop one of the attacks they discover two more zombies, who later become part vampire part zombie after two members of the Lopez clique bite them. As Greg is kidnapped and tortured for information on Ariana, he comes face to face with her creator, Maxwell. With the help of the two newest members and the new super vampires Sebastian and Claudia, Ariana and the rest of her family set off to free Greg. They eventually rescue him and discover that he has information on the next location where humans will be taken. In their efforts to stop it they come face to face with the Lorwena tribe, the vampires behind the experiments. Ariana and Greg also find a little boy whose mother has been feed upon. Ariana can sense someone watching them. After getting Greg and the little boy to safety she sets off on her own in a quest that will lead her face to face with her creator, Maxwell. Will she finally discover the truth as to why he made her a vampire? Will she finally get her vengeance? And if she does, will they finally be able to live in peace, or is the war with the Lorwena tribe only just beginning?