The icy waters of the northern seas hide a creature that is already a legend among all seafarers. The fearsome white leviathan, the chimera of all whalers, Moby Dick. The young Ishmael, along with his faithful friend Queequeg, will board the Pequod, to satisfy their craving for adventure. But soon, he will discover that his work goes beyond whaling, and that the whole crew is at the mercy of the mysterious Captain Ahab's thirst for revenge.

Most human beings don’t manage to achieve fame. Roy J. Glauber did so for two different reasons.Glauber was not only a Nobel-Prize winning physicist, but also one of the last surviving scientists who worked in Los Alamos in the Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project. He was a witness to all the events and knew all the scientists associated with the creation and launch of the first atomic bombs.This book is the product of a series of long interviews held with Roy over...

From Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world to the edges of the great Paraná river, and from the city of Buenos Aires to its fertile plains and the estuaries of northern Argentina, The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Argentinian Plays provides a unique insight into the preoccupations and the creative responses of one of the major theatre-producing countries in Latin America.Includes the plays:La vida extraordinaria (Extraordinary Life) by Mariano Tenconi Blanco, trans...

“Too bad 21st century telescopes were poorly designed & the supposedly habitable planets found were actually desolate.”Elton Cuauhtemoc John is taken hostage before he can start his dream job. Now, he & a multicultural science team are racing against humans’ inevitable self imposed demise to invent an Faster Than Light phone. After all, how useful is another Earth after civilization collapses?Civilization goes through cycles. Humanity’...

What do you get when you mix the grit of pulp fiction with the charm of a cozy mystery? A snarky private eye, a towering Tibetan Mastiff with a taste for mayhem, and a whirlwind of adventure that's as thrilling as it is downright fun!Step into a whirlwind of action, adventure, and intrigue with the debut installment of The Jonesy and Porkchop Chronicles. Private investigator Jonesy is anything but ordinary—he's sharp-tongued, quick-witted, and has a knack for finding trouble in the...

Project management tools can be used as an alternative to improve and strengthen a company’s position in the market. However, the management of projects has been in constant transformation. Elements such as time, cost, and scope, on which it is based, have been complemented with other trends, such as the project team, change management, knowledge management, good negotiation practices, management of stakeholders, sustainability, etc. In order to improve the competitiveness of their company...

The ultimate field guide to the birds of ArgentinaThis spectacular field guide is the ultimate reference to the birds of Argentina and the islands of the South-west Atlantic, essential for researchers, birders and conservationists alike. It covers Argentina and all Fuegian and Hornean islands south to the Diego Ramírez Islands and east to the Falklands.More than 2,300 images illustrate 1,075 species, including all residents, migrants and most vagrants acros...

Jake Tanner is a normal 12-year-old. Or so he thought. He watches as a fight ensues on the playground at Hampton High School and sees a bully change in appearance. He tries to tell his friend, Ben, but he won’t believe him. He goes home and tells his Gran. His Gran says 'I was wondering when it was going to happen. And so, begins the journey of Jakes discovery of what he is, what he can see, and his obligations of having the gift he has been given.

A voyage to a magical marine haven, the San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja, Mexico, where the connection between man and beast is like no other on Earth. Once a killing ground for whalers hunting a leviathan they called the "devilfish," the San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja, Mexico, is now an environmental and spiritual sanctuary—the only place in the world where animals in their natural aquatic environment routinely seek out human contact. A nursery for the gray whale since before recorded history, the ...

Carolina, driven by curiosity and the desire to experience something new, decides to enter the unknown world of a nightclub. She doesn't know what she's going to find, let alone what she'll see outside of her intrinsic world and the comfort that her comfort zone has brought her up to now.The bubble where Carolina has been living is about to burst and change forever.This is how in one night, Carolina decides to go out and change the course of her monotonous and routine life, a...

A nuanced account from a user perspective of what it’s like to live in a datafied world.We live in a media-saturated society that increasingly transforms our experiences, relations, and identities into data others can analyze and monetize. Algorithms are key to this process, surveilling our most mundane practices, and to many, their control over our lives seems absolute. In Living with Algorithms, Ignacio Siles critically challenges this view by surveying ...

Lope de Aguirre, Anti-imperialism, and the Latin American Left: The Wrath of Liberation examines why anti-imperialist projects have the tendency to become tyrannies, with a focus on Latin America. Alfredo Ignacio Poggi discusses the figure of Lope de Aguirre, the first modern revolutionary leader, and his various historical representations in literature, essays, theater, film, and comics as a vehicle to interrogate the Latin American anti-imperialist imagination. Poggi argues that the expe...