When Emilia Cruz, Acapulco’s first and only female police detective, dives into the investigation of a dirty cop’s death, she might just hit the rocks instead of the water. With hot nights on the beac
Fiction. A work of highly unconventional literary fiction, BIG MAN WITH A SHOVEL is a modern-day John-Henry fable in which a powerful laborer befriends a young worker only to find himself pitted again
The last thirty years have witnessed an enormous effort in the field of robust control of dynamical systems. The main objective of this book is that of presenting, in a unified framework, the main res
How is it possible that, with a glut of lawyers in America, so many of our country’s legal needs go unmet? In Liberated Lawyering, Theresa Amato, executive director of Citizen Works and founder of the
A failed professor, Samuel Taylor is haunted by the premonition that in attempting to write out of his system the circumstances surrounding his failure, he'll only find himself at the mercy of another
The current trend to shake up what many see as a moribund medium is exemplified by Amato, who calls for a gutsier approach to poetry, writing about his life and art in an iconoclastic style often remi
There is no greater loss than that of a child. It does not matter how old the child was or the circumstances of their death, a parent’s grief feels unbearable. Every year, in the US alone, 44,226 pare
Imagine if you were the first and only female police detective in Acapulco, investigating crime in a city both breathtaking and deadly. Mexican drug cartels battle for control and politicians are boug
Poetry. "Amato gives us irrepressible ruminations, flash narratives, verbal collages. At times they seem to be struggling to rise off the printed page into our simulated 3D, stereo, holograph wor
Fiction. Art. Film. "I can think of no other writer who can better express the ineffable sense of being born into the working poor before moving through different genres of living--hired factory hand,
