Traders and Merchants and Goods, Oh My!From families just trying to eke out a living in space to monsters lurking in the darkness of unlit cargo bays, come with us on a journey through a Baker's Dozen stories of the places and risks that cargo might take you.Boundary Shock Quarterly Issue 015: Cargo Wars

The Armaments Issue. The future isn’t just starships and galactic civilizations. Often, it will come down to the punk on the street with a knife in their hand. Or the soldier fighting for dirt. Ten stories of cybernetic shopkeepers, accidental diplomat warriors, and lost Electronic Beings facing the ultimate test.Cold Steel and Hot Blasters.

Not all the monsters you meet wear a terrible visage. Some of them might fit in on your block. Or in your boardroom. Dare you turn your back on them? Or go to sleep?Here are nine tales of quiet terror where the scourge sneaks up on you, subtle and snug. Let it fill you with cozy dread as you see the different type of monster who might wait in the basement, or your backyard.

Pirates!Space Pirates, Cyberpirates, Sea Pirates, Ice Pirates. Tales of adventure and derring-do as we stick it to the man.Join your rowdy crew on the high seas and cold spaceways for another,exciting adventure of Boundary Shock Quarterly.

Esta obra tiene como tema central el papel de las comunidades de aprendizaje y práctica (CAP) en cuanto estrategia para el desarrollo profesoral en la educación superior. Su objetivo es explorar, a partir de iniciativas institucionales y experiencias concretas, cómo las CAP contribuyen al fortalecimiento de la práctica docente, así como qué retos y oportunidades se abren para su surgimiento y consolidación en el ámbito universitario. Se dirige a profesores, gestores institucionales y a cua...

“I enjoyed this book. All chapters are authored by recognised experts from government, industry and academia and are generally well-written. Each chapter concludes with ‘Where to look for further information,’ which is distinct from the references. This was a useful touch which, as a biocontrol practitioner, I found myself using for follow up research. In summary, this book proves a valuable update to the biocontrol literature and should become a valuable addition to research libra...

For over sixty years, Selma James has been organizing from the perspective of unwaged women who, with their biological and caring work, reproduce the whole human race—along with whatever other labor they are performing. This work goes on almost unnoticed everywhere on the planet and in every culture. When this work is not economically prioritized, politically protected, or socially supported there are dire consequences for the whole of humanity, beginning with women and children.Th...

Across a spectrum of academic disciplines, the topic of globalization is at the forefront of contemporary efforts to understand a dynamically changing world society. How might critical social theory respond creatively to the challenge of thinking and theorizing globalization in its full complexity? Globalizing Critical Theory collects essays by scholars at the forefront of Critical Theory as they confront this timely topic. This book offers readers a chance to see contemporary Cri...

Seventeen storytellers take readers on a dark tour of the arty New Mexican city in this collection of crime tales.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.With stories by: Ana Castillo, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Byron F. Aspaas, Barbara Robidoux, Elizabeth Lee, Ana Ju...

El estudio de la biodiversidad marina se está convirtiendo no solo en una actividad académica que ayuda a conocer en mayor detalle las faunas y floras, sino en una urgencia social dada nuestra dependencia de los recursos naturales para poder mantener un nivel de vida aceptable. La llamada "crisis de la biodiversidad", que resulta del uso indiscriminado de los servicios ambientales que nos provee la naturaleza, en el fondo refleja la gran preocupación de múltiples sectores sobre el poco pro...

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:THE NEW YORK TIMES • NPR • THE GUARDIANFrom pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally...

Over the next several decades, as human populations grow and developing countries become more affluent, the demand for energy will soar. Parts of the energy sector are preparing to meet this demand by increasing renewable energy production, which is necessary to combat climate change. But many renewable energy sources have a large energy sprawl—the amount of land needed to produce energy—which can threaten biodiversity and conservation. Is it possible to meet this rise in energy demand, wh...