A daring collaboration among scholars, Black Sexual Economies challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. The essays highlight alternative and deviant gender and sexual identities, performances, and communities, and spotlights the sexual labor, sexual economy, and sexual agency to black social life. Throughout, the writers reveal the lives, everyday negotiations, and cultural or aesthetic interventions of black...

Developing applications for the Android mobile operating system can seem daunting, particularly if it requires learning a new programming language: Kotlin, now Androidâ??s officialdevelopment language. With this practical book, Android developers will learn how to make the transition from Java to Kotlin, including how Kotlin provides a true advantage for gaining control over asynchronous computations.Authors Pierre-Olivier Laurence, Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez, G. Blake Meike, and M...

Climate change is a key threat to agriculture. Modelling is fundamental to assessing its potential impacts. This collection summarises the wealth of research on improving climate impact models and their use in assessing impacts on different regions.Modelling climate change impacts on agricultural systems reviews research on developing models in areas such as improving data flows, incorporating genetic information and dealing with uncertainty. This collecti...

Los diarios que presentamos en este volumen cubren el período entre 1977 y 1984 de Ioanna Tsatsos, en donde la autora recogió la apasionada correspondencia que mantuvo con el poeta francés Pierre Emmanuel. A lo largo de estas cartas, publicadas por primera vez en nuestro país, se comprueba cómo el poeta consideraba a su compañera una completa igual con la que medir su inteligencia y sus sentimientos, y con la que desarrollar una relación de equidad y respeto más allá del m...

This book examines the major economic challenges associated with the sustainability of public pensions, specifically demographic change, labor-market relations, and risk sharing. The issue of public pensions occupies the political and economic agendas of many major governments in the world. International organizations such as the World Bank and the OECD warn that the economic changes driven by an aging society negatively affects the sustainability of pension systems. This book analyzes dif...

Aus einem archäologischen Institut in London wurde eine kostbare Statue gewaltsam entwendet. Der sogenannte "Dämonicus" gilt als einer der bedeutendsten wissenschaftlichen Funde überhaupt. Dabei konnte seine wahre Bedeutung bislang, trotz umfassender Untersuchungen, nicht enthüllt werden. Don Harris' Nachforschungen ergeben, dass von dem griechischen Artefakt eine tödliche Gefahr ausgeht. Der "Dämonicus" dient offenbar als eine Art Gefäß und enthält Blutreste der legendären Medusa…