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The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
A fantastic voyage through the early science fiction of Latin America Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science fiction has always been a global genre. She traces how and why the genre quickly reached Latin America and analyzes how writers in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico adapted science fiction to reflect their own realities. Among the texts discussed are one of the first defenses of Darwinism in Latin America, a tale of a time-traveling history book, and a Latin American Frankenstein. Latin American science fiction writers have long been active participants in the sf literary tradition, expanding the limits of the genre and deepening our perception of the role of science and technology in the Latin American imagination. The book includes a chronological bibliography of science fiction published from 1775 to 1920 in all Latin American countries.
Foundations of Despotism
This book explores the history of the Dominican Republic as it evolved from the first European colony in the Americas into a modern nation under the rule of Rafael Trujillo. It investigates the social foundations of Trujillo’s exceptionally enduring and brutal dictatorship (1930-1961) and, more broadly, the way power is sustained in such non-democratic regimes. The author reveals how the seemingly unilateral imposition of power by Trujillo in fact depended on the regime’s mediation of profound social and economic transformations, especially through agrarian policies that assisted the nation’s large independent peasantry. By promoting an alternative modernity that sustained peasants’ free access to land during a period of economic growth, the regime secured peasant support as well as backing from certain elite sectors. This book thus elucidates for the first time the hidden foundations of the Trujillo regime.
Cloud Services, Networking, and Management
Cloud Services, Networking and Management provides a comprehensive overview of the cloud infrastructure and services, as well as their underlying management mechanisms, including data center virtualization and networking, cloud security and reliability, big data analytics, scientific and commercial applications. Special features of the book include: State-of-the-art content Self-contained chapters for readers with specific interests Includes commercial applications on Cloud (video services and games)
The Rights of Nature
An important and timely recipe for hope for humans and all forms of life Palila v Hawaii. New ZealandÕs Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building Ñ in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to provide a powerful new approach to protecting the planet and the species with whom we share it. Lawyers from California to New York are fighting to gain legal rights for chimpanzees and killer whales, and lawmakers are ending the era of keeping these intelligent animals in c...
Latin American Literature at the Millennium
Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces analyzes literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid 2010s. In this astute study, Raynor reads work by Roberto Bolaño, Valeria Luiselli, Luiz Ruffato, Bernardo Carvalho, João Gilberto Noll, and Wilson Bueno to reveal representations of the human experience that unsettle conventionally understood links between locality and geographical place. The book raises vital considerations for understanding the region’s transition into the twenty-first century, and for evaluating Latin American authors’ representations of everyday place and modes of belonging.
Laicidad and Religious Diversity in Latin America
This book presents revealing reflections on historical, socio-political, and legal aspects, as well as their contexts, in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. Further, it includes theoretical and empirical analyses that identify the connections between religion and politics that characterize Latin American countries in general. The individual chapters are based on a dialogue between regional and international approaches, renewing them and taking them to their limits by incorporating the Latin American experience. The book reflects the current intensification of research on religion in Latin America, the resulting reassessment of previous approaches, and the strengthening of empirical studies. It provides vital insight into the ways in which politics regulates the religious sphere, as well as how religion modulates and intervenes in politics in Latin America. In doing so it builds a bridge between the findings of researchers in the region on the one hand and the English-speaking academic public on the other, contributing to a dialogue that enriches comparative perspectives.
O Eterno Maelstrom
A pequena aldeia de Chelsea viveu pacificamente durante muitas gerações. Poderia ser para sempre assim, não fosse a interrupção de comércio com a cidade de Tobrok. O jovem Shiron lidera seus mais fiéis amigos para encontrar a fonte do problema. Cada obstáculo superado revela uma nova e mais complicada solução. O que parecia ser apenas um capricho do barão vai tornando-se algo cada vez mais perigoso e misterioso. Envolvendo até mesmo o lendário e catastrófico evento conhecido como o Eterno Maelstrom. Apoiado do extrovertido Déris, da sábia Ágatha, do impulsivo Broxx e do prático Algol, Shiron vai em busca de uma solução para as dificuldades de sua aldeia em um mundo muito maior do que ele pode imaginar. O Eterno Maelstrom é uma jornada épica de grandes heróis que podem salvar sua amada aldeia, desde que primeiro consigam sobreviver ao lado um do outro.
Cerberus
Esse não é um bom lugar pra se viver,... não mais. Assim Renan define os últimos meses na Cerberus. Se não bastasse Amábili ter lhe abandonado, Caio e Mônica agora têm um filho e Izidro está desaparecido. Padre Francisco é o novo diretor e a vida na academia transforma-se do dia para a noite em um grande inferno. Alunos são chicoteados até a morte, na ala dos padres os estupros são rotina e a irmandade dos cães de guerra é proibida, passando a existir secretamente...É o ano em que os Águias sem Medo se formam caçadores e precisam enfrentar sua prova de ferro: ir à cidade Grito da Viúva, resgatar o antigo diretor e tirar Francisco do poder, mas para isso terão que se aliar a um demônio, o único que sabe do paradeiro de Izidro... se ainda estiver vivo. Só que tudo piora quando entram na cidade e descobrem uma população de asseclas que defendem Rulav, um governante mordecai que consome carne humana... e se quiserem destruí-lo terão que se juntar à Resistência, uma milícia liderada por um homem duro e cego pela vingança...A união dos Águias será testada pelo ferro, pelo fogo e pelo sangue.
