Issue Nº15 features:A curated collection of short fiction including stories by Reed Farrel Coleman, Gene Breaznell, Mike Aaron, F. X. James, Tom Andes, Sean Marciniak, Allan Durand, and Robert HinderliterInterviews, Essay and Reviews by Tara Cheesman, Scott Adlerberg, and Paul Vidich.Art and Photography by Victor Trusov and more.This issue also features a preview of the new graphic novel BRZRKR Vol. 1 by Matt Kindt (Author), Keanu Reeves (Creator), and Ron G...

This issue, we begin a 6-week experiment, as we serialize all three volumes of an epic fantasy trilogy by Edmund Glasby. This week, we have the first half of Book 1, The Pale Galilean. As soon as this novel finishes, we’ll start the sequel. Let me know what you think of the idea.Of course, we also have our usual gourmet assortment of stories long and stories short. Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman has an original Shanks tale from modern master Robert Lopresti, and Acquiring Editor Mic...

La expansión de la producción de cultivos y otras tecnologías, los proyectos laborales basados en el parentesco, la construcción de montículos y el incremento demográ co formaron condiciones siempre cambiantes en los Andes. Por ello, el presente libro propone un nuevo y más complejo modelo para entender la transición de la caza y la recolección al cultivo, argumentando que tales desarrollos evolucionaron regionalmente, fueron fluidos y desiguales y estuvieron sujetos a reversión. Así, la o...

The book "Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel" is a novel by Victor Appleton and follows the adventures of Tom Swift, the protagonist. In this novel, Tom and his friends travel to South America in search of a hidden city of the Andes that is said to be rich in gold and other valuable resources. Along the way, they face many challenges and obstacles, including treacherous terrain and dangerous wild animals, but they persevere and eventually discover the hidden city. Despite the challenges they fac...

Archeologists have always considered the beginnings of Andean civilization from c.13,000 to 6,000 years ago to be important in terms of the appearance of domesticated plants and animals, social differentiation, and a sedentary lifestyle, but there is more to this period than just these developments. During this period, the spread of crop production and other technologies, kinship-based labor projects, mound-building, and population aggregation formed ever-changing conditions across the And...

In Beyond the Lettered City, the anthropologist Joanne Rappaport and the art historian Tom Cummins examine the colonial imposition of alphabetic and visual literacy on indigenous groups in the northern Andes. They consider how the Andean peoples received, maintained, and subverted the conventions of Spanish literacy, often combining them with their own traditions. Indigenous Andean communities neither used narrative pictorial representation nor had alphabetic or hieroglyphic liter...

Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel is the 19th book in the original Tom Swift series. "Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading." "These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good." This series of adve...

In this particular installment, Tom Swift is involved in the construction of a massive tunnel in the Andes Mountains. The plot revolves around the challenges and adventures he and his friends face as they work on this ambitious engineering project. Along the way, they discover a hidden city in the Andes, leading to further adventures and mysteries to unravel.As is typical in the "Tom Swift" series, the novel combines elements of adventure, science fiction, and exploration. Tom Swift's tech...

"En este libro Joanne Rappaport y el historiador Tom Cummins estudian la imposición colonial del letramiento alfabético y visual a los grupos indígenas en los Andes septentrionales. Los autores analizan con profundidad cómo los pueblos andinos recibieron y mantuvieron las convenciones del letramiento de España y se subvirtieron a ellas, muchas veces combinándolas con sus propias tradiciones. Las comunidades indígenas de los Andes ni usaban una representación narrativa pictórica ni tenían u...

On October 13, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the “Old Christians” rugby team—and many of their friends and family members—crashed into the Andes Mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world’s leading pediatric cardiologists.As he tended to his wounded teammates amid the devastating carnage of the wreck, rugby p...

El derecho constitucional latinoamericano ha vivido una profunda transformación durante los últimos veinticinco años. Por un lado, un número importante de países de la región reformaron o promulgaron nuevas constituciones, con el fin de consolidar o ampliar sus democracias liberales.1 Las transformaciones constitucionales realizadas en Brasil (1988), Colombia (1991), Paraguay (1992), Perú (1993), Argentina (1995), Ecuador (1998) y Chile (2005) tuvieron como objetivos, entre otros, relegiti...

According to Wikipedia: "Victor Appleton was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, most famous for being associated with the Tom Swift series of books. The following series have been published under the Victor Appleton name: Tom Swift, 19101941; Motion Picture Chums, 19131916; Moving Picture Boys, 19131922; Movie Boys, 19261927; Don Sturdy, 1925-1935; Tom Swift, Jr., 19541971 (technically, "Victor Appleton II"); Tom Swift (Third Series), 19811984; Tom Swift (Fourth Series), ...