This book is the outcome of a South-South conference jointly organized by the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA), the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal, May 2012. The conference was organised in response to the financial crisis of 2008 which started in the United States and Europe, with reverberating effects on a global scale. Economic problems e...

Wading through Many Voices brings together the voices of Latino/a, African American, Asian American, Native American, and Euro-American scholars to produce a dialogue of public theology: how faith-communities, divided by race, class, ethnicity, and gender, can find a common ground for life together. The authors articulate a multiethnic perspective on public theology that counters the divisive identity politics of U.S. public life with systematic thinking that strengthens the commi...

Song of Songs is one of the most poetic and unusual books of the Bible. Unlike many other biblical texts, it focuses on the celebration of love between two lovers. The work is written as a series of lyrical dialogues and poems in which a woman and her beloved express their admiration, longing, and devotion for one another. Through rich imagery drawn from nature, gardens, and the beauty of the human body, the poem portrays romantic love as something powerful, joyful, and deeply emotional. T...

Oníric Control - A Dream Traveler s Manual The sensations experienced by a dream traveler cannot be explained in words. Becoming lucid within your own dream means accessing a limitless universe where the mind shapes reality and everything becomes possible. Scientific studies prove that lucid dreaming can be trained, allowing the dreamer to transform scenarios, overcome nightmares, and consciously explore their subconscious. Techniques such as Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (MILD), Wake...

Digital technologies have changed how we shop, work, play, and communicate, reshaping our societies and economies. To understand digital capitalism, we need to grasp how advances in geospatial technologies underpin the construction, operation, and refinement of markets for digital goods and services. In The Map in the Machine, Luis F. Alvarez Leon examines these advances, from MapQuest and Google Maps to the rise of IP geolocation, ridesharing, and a new Earth Observation satellit...

The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez: Crossing Religious Borders maps and challenges many of the mythologies that surround the late iconic labor leader. Focusing on Chavez's own writings, León argues that La Causa can be fruitfully understood as a quasi-religious movement based on Chavez’s charismatic leadership, which he modeled after Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi. Chavez recognized that spiritual prophecy, or political spirituality, was the key to disrupting c...

The Art of Dream Control - A Beginner's Guide to Lucid Dreaming Every night, an entire universe unfolds within your mind—fluid, boundless, and shaped by your deepest thoughts. But what if you could step beyond the role of a passive observer and become the conscious architect of your dreams? The Art of Dream Control unveils the secrets of lucid dreaming, a scientifically validated phenomenon that allows you to awaken within your dreams, manipulate their landscapes, and explore the vast pote...

Written by the core Optimus team, this comprehensive guide will help you to understand how Optimus improves the whole data processing landscapeKey FeaturesLoad, merge, and save small and big data efficiently with OptimusLearn Optimus functions for data analytics, feature engineering, machine learning, cross-validation, and NLPDiscover how Optimus improves other data frame technologies and helps you speed up your data processing tasks

In Spain today, Fray Luis de León is esteemed every bit as highly as his “Golden Age” contemporary, St. John of the Cross, yet no complete edition of Fray Luis’s poems translated into English verse has appeared until now. Ensouled Region, Shining captures the intense reverence of poems that are backed by deep theological learning but charged with simple wonderment. These poems are the timeless testaments of a spiritual visionary.

This four-volume work provides a detailed, multicultural survey of established as well as "new" American religions and investigates the fascinating interactions between religion and ethnicity, gender, politics, regionalism, ethics, and popular culture.This revised and expanded edition of Religion and American Cultures: Tradition, Diversity, and Popular Expression presents more than 140 essays that address contemporary spiritual practice and culture with a ...

A reimagining of Dracula's voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire.It's an ordinary assignment, nothing more. The cargo? Fifty boxes filled with Transylvanian soil. The route? From Varna to Whitby. The Demeter has made many trips like this. The captain has handled dozens of crews.He dreams familiar dreams: to taste the salt on the skin of his men, to run his hands across their chests. He longs for the warmth of a lover he cannot have,...

Luis Tiant is one of the most charismatic and accomplished players in Boston Red Sox history—a cigar-chomping maestro who was the heart and soul of Boston's teams in the 1970s. In his white polyester uniform, with a paunch in his belly and a Fu Manchu mustache on his face, Tiant looked like a guy rolling out of bed for a Sunday-morning beer league. But nobody was a tougher competitor on the diamond, and few were as successful. There may be no more qualified pitcher not yet enshrined in the...