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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...

Original Short Story: Chocolateland by Shariann Lewitt —When they wanted to eat, to really enjoy a good pig out, they could go to Chocolateland Short Story:Sleepers by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam —Where did they come from? Where do we go from here? Short Story: Monitor Bot and the King of Pop by Jess Barber —When life gives you lemons… dance like Michael Jackson. Short Story: Floaters By Robert Lowell Russell — Darkness and light collide in an unlikely redemption. Reviews: The Fan: The beautiful...

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...

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 ...

"[A] stylishly presented collection of sewing patterns for 10 LBDs; O'Shea also shows how each pattern can be adapted to another look." — Publishers WeeklyCoco Chanel, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly . . . Each of these women had an influential take on the most classic wardrobe staple of all: the Little Black Dress. In this chic sewing book, patternmaker Dolin Bliss O'Shea pulls inspiration from famous LBDs throughout history—including Mary Quant's mod mini, a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

With this illustrated guide, discover what hand gestures can offend others around the world—and whether you avoid making them or not is up to you.A hand gesture is arguably the most effective form of expression, whether you're defaming a friend's mother or telling a perfect stranger to get lost. Learn how to go beyond just flipping the bird with this illustrated guide to rude hand gestures all around the world, from asking for sex in the Middle East to calling someo...

Together, the voices of early childhood educators, scholars, and professionals can sound the call to advance the profession toward more equitable educational experiences, systems, and practices for all children. This book showcases many of these voices from across the field of early childhood education and invites you to think about and discuss ways you can add your own voice to that call.Expanding on recommendations from NAEYC’s “Advancing Equity in Early Childhoo...