On Distant Worlds: The Prologues & Colibri

On Distant Worlds: The Prologues & Colibri
Author: Brian Gonzalez
Publisher: Brian L. Gonzalez
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2013-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0991108604

A thousand years ago the strange and mysterious Cataclysm raced through our area of space, devastating the Solar System and nearly extinguishing all life on Earth. In a desperate attempt to survive extinction, an enormous colony-spawning ship made of ice was sent to the stars, while the rest of humanity either dug deep below the surface of the Earth or died in the Cataclysm. Two hundred years after the disaster, humanity crawled out from underground and started rebuilding. A thousand years after the Cataclysm, a long-term expedition is launched to find the trail of the legendary Ice-ship and discover the fate of the human colonies it was tasked with founding. Ice-ship expert Dr. Tasaya Belocq and the rest of the crew of the Jumpship Emissary voyage to the stars to discover the many faces of humanity and the many faces of nature.

The Tides of Altamar

The Tides of Altamar
Author: Brian Gonzalez
Publisher: Brian L. Gonzalez
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2014-11-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0991108612

The Cataclysm which destroyed Earth catches up with the fleeing survivors aboard Interstellar Ship One, and a young Colonial Corps Governor struggles against a harsh planetary environment and political opposition to establish a new colony. Additionally, the first generation of humans born away from Earth starts looking for trouble, and a desperate woman fights against Ice-Ship law for her right to be a mother.

Constructing the Criollo Archive

Constructing the Criollo Archive
Author: Antony Higgins
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781557531988

Focusing on a period neglected by scholars, Higgins reconstructs how during the colonial period criollos - individuals identified as being of Spanish descent born in America - elaborated a body of knowledge, an "archive," in order to establish their intellectual autonomy within the Spanish colonial administrative structures." "This book opens up an important area of research that will be of interest to scholars and students of Spanish American colonial literature and history."--BOOK JACKET.

Writing New Worlds

Writing New Worlds
Author: MarĂ­lia dos Santos Lopes
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2016-05-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443894303

Writing New Worlds analyses the different ways in which travel literature constituted a fundamental pillar in the production of knowledge in the modern era. The impressive frequency of publication and the widespread circulation of translations and editions account for the leading and essential contribution of travel literature for a better understanding and awareness about the dynamics and practices associated with decoding and making sense of the prose of the world. These texts, in some cases accompanied by illustrations, covered a broad and extensive panoply of languages, grammars and ways of seeing, translating and writing new worlds. In drawing special attention to internationally less-studied sources from Portugal and Germany, the book shows how authors, scholars and artists between the 15th and 17th centuries responded to the challenges of modernity, and explores the cultural dynamics involved in grasping and understanding the New.

Research Methods for Cultural Studies

Research Methods for Cultural Studies
Author: Michael Pickering
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008-02-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0748631194

This new textbook addresses the neglect of practical research methods in cultural studies. It provides readers with clearly written overviews of research methods in cultural studies, along with guidelines on how to put these methods into operation. It advocates a multi-method approach, with students drawing from a pool of techniques and approaches suitable for their own topics of investigation.The book covers the following main areas:* Drawing on experience, and studying how narratives make sense of experience.* Investigating production processes in the cultural industries, and the consumption and assimilation of cultural products by audiences and fans.* Taking both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of cultural life.* Analysing visual images and both spoken and written forms of discourse.* Exploring cultural memory and historical representation.

Twisted Roots

Twisted Roots
Author: Carlos Alberto Montaner
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 0875862039

Examining the historical and cultural influences that have shaped Latin America, this syndicated international journalist and author suggests that they have made it into the most impoverished, unstable and backward region in the Western world.An indispen

Politics of Liberation

Politics of Liberation
Author: Enrique D. Dussel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Latin America
ISBN: 9780334041818

Offers a reading of the political history of the world as an against-story, a story of an anti-traditional tradition. This text presents an alternative reading of the history of the political world and the ideas that have inspired their political philosophy.

Moorings

Moorings
Author: Josiah Blackmore
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0816648328

Delving into the Portuguese imperial experience, 'Moorings' enriches our understanding of historical and literary imagination during a significant period of Western expansion.

The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean

The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean
Author: A. Bernard Knapp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1677
Release: 2015-01-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 131619406X

The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights into the material and social practices of many different Mediterranean peoples during the Bronze and Iron Ages, presenting in particular those features that both connect and distinguish them. Contributors discuss in depth a range of topics that motivate and structure Mediterranean archaeology today, including insularity and connectivity; mobility, migration, and colonization; hybridization and cultural encounters; materiality, memory, and identity; community and household; life and death; and ritual and ideology. The volume's broad coverage of different approaches and contemporary archaeological practices will help practitioners of Mediterranean archaeology to move the subject forward in new and dynamic ways. Together, the essays in this volume shed new light on the people, ideas, and materials that make up the world of Mediterranean archaeology today, beyond the borders that separate Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.