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Apex Magazine Issue 128
Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal. International futurists edition! Guest-edited by Francesco Verso. APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards. We publish every other month. Issue 128 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIAL From the Sense of Wonder to the Sense of Wander by Francesco Verso ORIGINAL FICTION Soil of Our Home, Storm of Our Lives by Renan Bernardo Robin's Last Song by Nina Munteanu Godmother by Cheryl S. Ntumy The synchronism of touch by Gabriela Damián Miravete Dreamp...
Cubism
This beautifully illustrated volume tells the story of Cubism through twenty-two essays that explore the most significant private holding of Cubist art in the world today, the Leonard A. Lauder Collection, now a promised gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The eighty works featured in this volume—by Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, and Pablo Picasso‐are among the most important and visually arresting in the movement’s history. These masterpieces, critical to the development of Cubism, include such groundbreaking paintings as Braque’s Trees at L’Estaque, considered one of the very first Cubist pictures; Picasso’s Still Life with Fan: “L’Indépendant,” one of th...
Japan in the 1960s
Eldridge and Morgan set a new paradigm for East Asian contemporary historiography by viewing the decade of the 1960s as hermeneutically powerful. From street battles over Japan’s security treaty with the United States, to a peace treaty with the former Japanese territory of South Korea, to Japan’s hosting the 1964 Summer Olympics, the 1960s in Japan was a decade of turning points. This book is the first to see the 1960s as a historical subject in its own right and argues that the specificity and internal complexity rooted in East Asia during this period showed how East Asians were dynamic agents in shaping the decade. In this volume, contributors consider Japanese responses to a 1961 cou...
Inventing the Indigenous
Drawing on cultural, social, and environmental history, as well as the histories of science and medicine, this book shows how, amidst a growing reaction against exotic imports -- whether medieval spices like cinnamon or new American arrivals like chocolate and tobacco -- early modern Europeans began to take inventory of their own "indigenous" natural worlds.
Racializing the Soldier
Racializing the Soldier explores the impact of racial beliefs on the formation and development of modern armed forces and the ways in which these forces have been presented and historicized from a global perspective. With a wide geographical and temporal spread, the collection looks at the disparate ways that race has influenced military development. In particular, it explores the extent to which ideas of racial hierarchy and type have conditioned thinking about what kinds of soldiers should be used and in what roles. This volume offers a highly original military, social and cultural history, questioning the borders both of racialization and of the military itself. It considers the extent to...
Joan Binimelis: Descripció particular de l'illa de Mallorca e viles
Aquest volum, escrit per l'eclesiàstic Joan Binimelis (1538/9-1616), constitueix la primera edició crítica del Llibre V de la Història general del Regne de Mallorca en la versió catalana que, com és sabut, és l'original. Sens dubte, aquesta part de l'obra, dedicada a la descripció geogràfica de Mallorca i de caràcter autònom respecte a la narració històrica i cronística, representa l'aportació més original de l'autor i la que manté més vigència i interès avui dia, tant per la modernitat del seu plantejament, com per la diversitat dels aspectes que són objecte de la seua metòdica atenció: situació geogràfica, afrontacions, proveïment d'aigua, cales i aptesa per a desembarcaments, cabuda i possibilitats d'ancoratge, demografia, dades econòmiques -produccions agrícoles i ramaderes--, dades històriques, règim jurídic, institucions, monuments i d'altres informacions rellevants de les poblacions illenques.
A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies
An exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies. From the scars left by Franco's dams and mines to the toxic waste dumped in Equatorial Guinea, from the cruelty of the modern pork industry to the ravages of mass tourism in the Balearic Islands, this book delves into the power relations, material practices and social imaginaries underpinning the global economic system to uncover its unaffordable human and non-human costs. Guiding the reader through the rapidly emerging field of Spanish environmental cultural studies, wit...
Popular Culture, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Catalonia
How does popular culture reflect and shape identity politics in the secessionist climate of contemporary Catalonia?
La Societat Obrera de Tivissa
Aquest llibre estudia els orígens de la Societat Obrera de Tivissa, tot intentant explicar les causes materials i ideològiques que van portar un grup de pagesos a unir-se, a principis del segle XX, per tal de millorar la seva precària existència i defensar els seus drets i interessos. Una associació d'aquest tipus, molt influenciada pel republicanisme i pel socialisme, va adquirir des de bon principi un caràcter reivindicatiu que no va tardar a entrar en conflicte amb les classes benestants de Tivissa i els seus defensors. L'enfrontament entre els pagesos organitzats en la Societat Obrera i els seus opositors serà constant i, en més d'una ocasió, esclatarà amb una violència extrema. Com a rerefons d'aquestes lluites, hi trobarem les transformacions que s'havien produït en l'estructura de la propietat agrícola, la lluita per les terres comunals i la crisi que patia el sistema polític de la Restauració. El treball, basat en la documentació que encara avui dia es conserva i en la recerca en diversos i variats arxius i biblioteques, s'inscriu dins els estudis de l'associacionisme agrari català de principis del segle XX.
Catalonia in Spain
This book explores the complex history of Catalonia in relation to Spain from an economic and political perspective. It begins in the Middle Ages and ends in the present day, analysing the intricate political problems of modern day Catalonia within a context of European integration and nationalism.
