The essays in this collection reflect two of Martí’s key observations during his time in the United States: first, how did he, an exile living in New York, view and read his North American neighbors from a sociocultural, political and literary perspective? Second, how did his perception of the modern nation impact his own concepts of race, capital punishment, poetics, and nation building for Cuba? The overarching endeavor of this project is to view and read Martí with the same critical or ...

When I answered the first letter that Ofelia sent me in which she presented her problems and difficulties, I never imagined this might lead to a correspondence that would go on for close to six years. Nor did I imagine that it would offer me the opportunity of walking alongside a person through so many diverse experiences filled with conflict and pain." In this collection of letters between a troubled woman and her pastor, Ofelia Camacho de Martnez articulates her pain and distress to Past...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12fth International Conference on High Performance Computing in Computational Science,VECPAR 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2016.The 20 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applications; performance modeling and analysis; low level support; environments/libraries to support parallelization.