The Spanish cleric Bartolomé de Las Casas is a key figure in the history of Spain’s conquest of the Americas. Las Casas condemned the torture and murder of natives by the conquistadores in reports to the Spanish royal court and in tracts such as A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552). For his unrelenting denunciation of the colonialists’ atrocities, Las Casas has been revered as a noble protector of the Indians and as a pioneering anti-imperialist. He has...

Few publications cover the full span of the history of revolutionary movements in Latin America. In Revolution and Revolutionaries, editor Daniel Castro examines all aspects of guerrilla warfare-from revolutionary programs to the repressive tactics used by various governments to rid themselves of the threats presented by revolutionary movements. In addition to illustrating specific cases of guerrilla struggles, Revolution and Revolutionaries also analyzes the political and social condition...

YOUR EYES WILL BE SUDDENLY OPENED TO SOLUTIONS THAT ARE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU! “If you want to see the world through the eyes of a serial entrepreneur, read this book. It will open your eyes to see opportunities you never knew existed.” -Bob Fabbio, Founder of Tivoli Systems, Dazel Corporation, Ventix Systems, and WhiteGlove Health “Dan Castro knocks the cover off the ball. This book got me so stirred up I want to go out and do it all over again. Once you start reading it, you won’t put it...

A workbook filled with ideas and inspiration. A guide to the age of social media, social disruption and artificial intelligence. Written for large and small companies, those interested in communication and all the curious people out there. Explore the powerful changes coming to the social media landscape in 2024 as a result of artificial intelligence. Discover the augmented reality revolution in online shopping and the impact of platforms like TikTok. See how businesses are benefiting from...

Successfully Measure the Benefits of Green Design and ConstructionSustainability in Engineering Design and Constructionoutlines the sustainable practices used in engineering design and construction operations for all types of engineering and construction projects. Aimed at ushering the engineering and construction industry into embracing sustainable practices and green construction techniques, this book addresses sustainability in ...

This book offers an interdisciplinary overview of autonomy in artificial intelligence and robotics, positioning it as the central concept in the contemporary debate on AI’s societal integration. The term itself is dangerously ambiguous: its meaning shifts dramatically when applied to a machine versus a human. While there is consensus on machine agency (the capacity to act), attributing autonomy in the rich, normative sense we attribute it to humans is a far more controversial and complex a...

Modeling spatial and spatio-temporal continuous processes is an important and challenging problem in spatial statistics. Advanced Spatial Modeling with Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Using R and INLA describes in detail the stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) approach for modeling continuous spatial processes with a Matérn covariance, which has been implemented using the integrated nested Laplace approximation (INLA) in the R-INLA package. Key conce...

This book features selected papers from the International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies (ICOMTA 2023), jointly organized by the Colombian Association of Journalism and Science Communication (Colombia), and the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (Mexico); and as collaborators at the Universidad de Málaga (Spain), Universidade de Vigo (Spain), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela-Equipo de Investigaciones Políticas (Spain), Red Internacional de Gestión de la C...

Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, edited by Hugo and Wold Fantasy Award nominated editor Warren Lapine, brings you the very best in science fiction and fantasy. Join us as we explore strange new worlds. Original Flash Fiction: Night of Apophis by Brenda Kalt — Eat Drink and be Merry, for tomorrow we die. Short Story: Compassion by Alexandra Grunberg — Sometimes we all need compassion, or do we? Short Story: On the Last Night of the Festival of the Dead by Darrell Schweitzer — It was a ...

Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, edited by Hugo and Wold Fantasy Award nominated editor Warren Lapine, brings you the very best in science fiction and fantasy. Join us as we explore strange new worlds. This is the ebook edition of the Fantastic Stories webzine containing all content from the October 2014 issue, including: Original Short Story: Rope Burns by Kelly McCullough He had a secret to keep, but then don’t we all? Short Story: Locomotive Joe and the Wreck of Space Train No. 4 b...

Mapping Diversity in Latin America offers ample critical coverage of recent approaches to the historical study of race and ethnicity in Latin America since the arrival of Spanish and Portuguese colonizers to the present. Bringing together the work of leading scholars, this volume presents readers with a thorough and updated examination of the formation and evolution of ideas surrounding race and ethnicity, social movements, and political processes in Latin America that provides mu...

ePUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This book examines how and why experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Britain varied according to ethnicity.Drawing from the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS), the book compares the experiences of ethnic and religious minority groups and White British people in work and finances, housing and communities, health and wellbeing, policing and politics, and racism and discrimination in Britain. Using unri...